Interesting and Useful Web
Sites
1. Noodle Tools
(http://www.noodletools.com/) Here are useful on-line tool to assist with
your bibliographies.
SILK ROAD PAGES
1.
The Silk Road Foundation (http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html)
Here is an excerpt from the web site’s own introduction. “The Silkroad Foundation
is a non-profit organization, established in 1996, to promote the study and
preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road. The Silkroad
Foundation provides resources, information, and interactive exchange toward the
pursuit of educating the Bay Area community about Inner Asia and the Silk Road.
The Silkroad Foundation operates from private funding and donations and has its
headquarters in Saratoga, California.”
2.
Silk Road Seattle
(http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/index.shtml)
This extremely useful (for our purposes) web site is supported principally by
the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. Its director is Professor
Daniel Waugh, who teaches a number of courses on the Silk Road and Central
Asian history at the University of Washington.
3.
The Silk Road and Central Asia On the World Wide Web (http://depts.washington.edu/reecas/outreach/silklink.htm)
Here is another site maintained by Professor Waugh for one of his lecture
courses at the UW.
CHINA PAGES
1.
The Council on East Asian Libraries Homepage
(http://purl.oclc.org/net/ceal)
This is a nearly comprehensive list of academically oriented sites on East
Asia. This site is a good starting
point from which to beginning browsing. The University of Washington hosts the
site at this time; however, the University of Oregon still maintains this link.
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://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
)
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.
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.
The Golden Elixir Home Page
(http://www.unive.it/~dsie/pregadio/index.html)
This is a web site dedicated to the study of Chinese alchemy and that
practice's connections to Taoist Philosophy. This site is both a good source of
cultural history and a fun forum through which to explore the lesser-known
worlds of Chinese alchemists and magicians.
6.
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.
INDIA PAGES
1. South Asia Resources Pages- UC Berkeley Library Collection (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia.
) 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.
1.
Brunei Darussalam Homepage (http://www.brunet.bn/)
This is the Sultanate's own site for news and information from Brunei. You can
look here for the official perspective on events in Brunei.
1. Online Burma Library (http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/show.php?cat=-1&lo=&sl=)
This site contains a number of interesting links, along with some basic
information regarding Burma's geography and society.
1. Timor Net (http://www.uc.pt/Timor/TimorNet.html)
This site prepares links to materials on East Timor. Including the history of the
region and accounts of the various disturbances brought on by the Indonesian
invasion of East Timor in December 1975.
1. Laos Infosite (http://users.vmicro.com/laosinfosite/
) This site contains links to nearly every site concerning Laos and Laotian
history that one can currently find on the Internet. A search here will involve
wading through personal homepages and on-line journals; however this variety of
information should lead you off in a productive direction.
2. Vientiane Times (http://www.vientianetimes.com/Headlines.html)
This on-line version of the Vientiane Times is full of interesting stuff.
1. The SUNSITE Web site for Resources Concerning Malaysia (http://sunsite.nus.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.
1. European Philippines Services (http://www.philippine.org/phhist.html
) The material in this web site is fairly extensive. I am very impressed by
the link, which gives detailed information on all 76 Philippine provinces.
Please note that the history resources include both official (government
sponsored) and unofficial version of Philippine history. Try comparing sites
from both categories to search for discrepancies. The Malacanang Palace web
site is quite colorful.
2. Journal
Online (Manila, The Philippines) (http://www.skyinet.net/journal/)
The company profile states that this web site strives to be "an
honest-to-goodness newspaper not beholden to the dictum of vested interests and
powerful blocs. A paper whose only covenant is the truth." For that
reason, it appears to be a good balanced source for information on current
events in the Philippines.
1. The SUNSITE Web site for Resources Concerning Singapore (http://sunsite.nus.sg/SEAlinks/singapore-info.html)
This site is useful for current information, although it contains very few
resour4csa 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.
2. Evolution of Singapore: a Digital Journal (http://library.advanced.org/12405/)
This site appears to a student-developed visual history of Singapore. The
exhibits contain short texts and rather interesting illustrations. Advanced
Network & Services, Inc., a US nonprofit corporation formed in 1990
developed the site. This group, now largely owned by AOL, describes itself as
"dedicated to advancing education by accelerating the use of computer
networking applications and technology."
3. Yahoo Search: Singapore History (http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Singapore/Arts_and_Humanities/History/)
For a set of interesting history-oriented web sites, please take a look at the
resources the search-engine "Yahoo" locates.
1.The SUNSITE Web site for Resources Concerning Thailand (http://sunsite.nus.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.
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/WWWVLPages/VietPages/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://ssd1.cas.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/index.htm)
This site is maintained by Suzanne and Laura Clark, who both seem to take great
acre 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.
However, at some point, the researcher may wish to access the meta-list, Buddhist
Resources File' HTML Version, at http://www.io.com/~cin/bibliography.html. This site has it
all!
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.
5. Vietnam War (1961-1975) (http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/viet.html)
This site is maintained by the Information Resources Center of the Canadian
Forces College. It contains an excellent list of resources on the US and Canadian
involvement in the Viet Nam Conflict, following the withdrawal of the French.
6. The SUNSITE Web site for Resources Concerning Viet Nam (http://sunsite.nus.sg/SEAlinks/vietnam-info.html)
This site contains a great array of useful links, as well as basic information
concerning the country and its people.
1. The South China Morning Post Internet Edition (http://www.scmp.com/http://www.scmp.com/news/index.idc)
The SCMP is one of the best sources of up-to-date news and information for both
East Asia and Southeast Asia. For the purposes of our class, this site offers
very little historical information. However, for anyone curious about current
affairs in the region, this on-line newspaper offers news and analysis to
quench one's thirst for facts and background. Information on the Asian Monetary
Crisis can be found at the frequently up-dated site; (http://www.scmp.com/news/special/AsianCrisis)
2. 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.Southeast Asia Online (http://www.wisc.edu/ctrseasia/online.html)
This web-site is maintained by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is another important resource for
information of all kinds.
4.1997 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.