Interesting and Useful Web Sites

 CHINA PAGES

  1. Council on East Asian Libraries
    (http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/ceal/) 
    This is a nearly comprehensive list of academically oriented sites on China. You will find a number of useful charts and maps in the History section. This sites is a good starting point from which to beginning browsing.
  2. Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliography
    (http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/chinbib.html)
    This is a useful on-line bibliography with several direct links to on-line texts.
  3. W3C/ANU/Vienna University- Internet Guide for China Studies
    (http://www.univie.ac.at/Sinologie/netguide.htm)
    This web site, maintained by Australia National University and Vienna University, contains an enormous amount of material on China and Chinese studies. I must provide a word of warning, however, for those persons accessing this site on slower connections. The search engine for this site is slow and often inaccurate. Trying the U.O. "darkwing" sites first might be your best bet.
  4. Classical Historiography for Chinese History
    (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib)
    This site was started by Benjamin Elman, a professor of Chinese intellectual history at UCLA. It is the most useful research-oriented sites on Chinese History available on the Web today . Unfortunately, the text requires a Chinese text reader (Big5 code) to be legible.
  5. Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page
    (http://mars.superLInk.net/user/fsu/index.html)
    This site contains a number of useful sources, translated texts, and links to sites concerned with Chinese philosophy.

    VIET NAM PAGES

    A quick note: When searching for materials on Viet Nam, the majority of materials you will come across on the Web are concerned with the Viet Nam War (ca. 1954-1975). However, with some persistent searching, you will be able to track down some very useful pre-modern sources. Highly polemical sites also abound. Surf carefully!

    1. WC3/ANU- Vietnam WWW VL ( http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Vietnam.html ) This is an extremely useful, and nearly comprehensive list of resources pertaining to the study of Viet Nam. The home site for this page is Australia National University in Canberra, AU. A search of these resources will turn up practically anything you could want to find.

    2. Viet Nam (http://www.viettouch.com) This site is designed and maintained by Chi D. Nguyen, who has included a number of very interesting essays on Vietnamese history, the arts, architecture, poetry and culture. It is a visually stunning site that may not translate well on text-only browsers.

    3. Buddhism in Vietnam (http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/) This site is maintained by Suzanne Brown and Laura Clark, who both seem to take great care in presenting these resources for public use. This is a good place to start any search for materials concerned with Buddhism's spread in Viet Nam.

    4. Vietgate: Gateway to the On-line Vietnamese Community (http://www.vietgate.net) This is a colorful and well-designed site for resources pertaining to modern-day Viet Nam, as well as various overseas Vietnamese communities world-wide.

    Asian Media:

    Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Newsfeeds (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAsiaNewsfeeds.html) This site has something for news junkies everywhere!

INDIA PAGES

1. South Asia Resources Pages- UC Berkeley Library Collection (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/wsaresou.html) This is the site to turn to for information on South Asia. Click on the South Asia Web Links icon, and you will have plenty of information at your fingertips.

2. The Internet Indian History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html) This site is an amazing resource for materials regarding South Asian history and culture. Take some time to explore.

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM PAGES

    1. The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning Brunei (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/brunei-info.html)
    2. US State Department web site for information, regarding Brunei (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2700.htm)

BURMA PAGES

1. The SUNSITE Southeast Asia focus Burma-Info web-site at the National University of Singapore (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/burma-info.html) This site contains a number of interesting links, along with some basic information regarding Burma's geography and society.

 2. Online Burma/Myanmar Library from the WWW Virtual Library (http://www.burmalibrary.org/index.php)
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CAMBODIA PAGES

1. History of Cambodia (http://www.iias.nl/wwwvl/southeas/cambodia.html) This site is maintained by Leiden University (The Netherlands) for the WWW Virtual Library, a system of pages providing resources on-line. Some materials pertaining to our course may be found here.

2. The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning the Kingdom of Cambodia (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/cambodia-info.html) This site contains several sites pertaining to the Kingdoms of Cambodia. It is useful if one is looking for quick facts.

INDONESIA PAGES

1. The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning Indonesia (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/indonesia-info.html) This site contains a wealth of information; however, most of this information refers to modern-day Indonesia. For historical materials, one should start elsewhere.

2. TimorNet (http://www.uc.pt/timor/) This site prepares links to materials on East Timor. Including the history of the region and accounts of the various disturbance brought on by the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975.

LAOS PAGES

1. Laos Infosite (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kongsab/) This site contains links to some intersting material, concerning Laos, Loatian hsitory, and Loatian music.

2. LAOS - A Country Study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/latoc.html) This site refers to the on-line guide produed by the Federal REsearch Divsiion of the LIbrary of Congress. A loiok at this encyclopedic source of information should lead you off in a productive direction.

 3. Vientiane Times (http://www.vientianetimes.com/Headlines.html) This on-line version of the Vientiane Times is full of interesting stuff.

MALAYSIA PAGES

1. The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning Malaysia (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/malaysia-info.html) This site primarily contains links to universities and other institutions in Malaysia. From these other sites, one can continue the search for more information.

2. National Archives of Malaysia (http://arkib.gov.my/) While the on-line exhibits do not contain much explanatory text, the illustrations, maps, and photos included are impressive reminders of Malaysia's ancient history and turbulent resent past.

THE PHILIPPINES PAGES

1. History of the Philippines (http://www.ualberta.ca/~vmitchel/).

2. Philippine Culture and History (http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/culhist.htm)

SINGAPORE PAGES

The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning Singapore (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/singapore-info.html) This site is useful for current information, although it contains very few resources of historical value. However, it quickly become clear to even the casual browser that Singapore is rapidly becoming one of the most "on-line" nations in the world. Explore the sites listed here to find out why.

 

THAILAND PAGES

1.The SUNSITE Web-site for Resources Concerning Thailand (http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/SEAlinks/thailand-info.html) This is a useful site for those persons interested in current governmental or commercial information.

2.Bangkok Post- Internet Edition (http://www.bangkokpost.net/) This is another good source for today's news.

GENERAL SOUTHEAST ASIA PAGES

1. Southeast Asia Web: General Resources on Southeast Asia (http://www.gunung.com/seasiaweb/general.html) This site is a good place to look for general information on a variety of Southeast Asian topics. Here you will also find links to research collections around the world. Such information is not too useful for our intensive course (you won't have enough time to borrow many of these materials). However, for those of you who are interested in continuing your study of Southeast Asia, this site will point in the direction of good universities and other institutions to visit. Our own growing SEA collection, maintained by Judith Henchy, receives mention.
3. 2004 World Factbook (CIA) (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) Not surprisingly, the CIA maintains a web-site containing current facts on countries around the globe. Check here for current information on SEA nations.

ASEAN's official website (http://www.aseansec.org/home.htm)