Resource Links:

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• Some Related Departments at Rice
• Some Helpful Search Engines
• Some General Asia-Oriented Sites
• Some University Asia Sites
• Some China-Oriented Sites
• Some Taiwan-Oriented Sites
• A Few Other Asian Country-Specific Sites
• Some Buddhism Sites
• Some Teaching Sites

Some Related Departments at Rice

• Transnational China Project - Baker Institute
• Anthropology
• Religious Studies
• History
• Center for the Study of Cultures
• Linguistics
• Center for the Study of Languages
• Political Science
• Language Resource Center

Some Helpful Search Engines

• College and University Home Pages: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
  
• Study Abroad Asia Website: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/stdyabrd/StdyabrdAsia.html
  
• Asian Studies WWW Monitor: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
  
• Bibliography of Asian Studies: http://bas.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/

  Some General Asia-Oriented Sites

• Annotated list of websites with e-texts on Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism:
  • http://www2.gol.com/users/acmuller/index.html#SecII (in Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
    
• Asia-Pacific Exchange Electronic Journal: http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/pub/apexj/
  
• Asian Art History: http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379
  
• Asian Consumer Studies: http://hkusuc.hku.hk/japanese/reseproj/consumas/canhome.htm
  
• Asian-American Center: http://www.qc.edu/Asian_American_Center/
  
• Asian Rare Books: www.asianrarebooks.net
• Asian Studies WWW Monitor: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

  Direct subscribers: asia-www-gopher-news-1@coombs.anu.edu.au

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
  
• Asiasoft (Asian-language materials): http://www.asiasoft.com/
  
• Association for Asian Studies: http://www.easc.indiana.edu/~aas
  
• East Asian Libraries Cooperative World-Wide Web http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu
  
• East Asian Languages and Literatures (Ohio State): http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/deall/default.htm
  
• H-ASIA web site:

  Home Page: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/

  Job Listings http://h-net.msu.edu/jobs.

• History of Asian Science Library: http://www.soas.ac.uk/Needham/library
  
• Library of Congress (Asia Division):
  • gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/00/research/reading.rooms/asian/about.asian.division
    
• National Library of Australia (Asia-related material): http://www.nla.gov.au/1/asian/
  
• Network Pacific Asia: http://law.rikkyo.ac.jp/npa/indx.htm
  
• Newsletter on Asia (Italy): http://www.unive.it/~dsie/passi/home.html
  
• Ohio State Library web page: http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/
  
• Shareware (NJWIN 1.0): http://www.njstar.com.au/njstar/
  
• Southeast Asia (bibliog.) http://members.aol.com/Kagillogly/index.html
  
• WWW virtual library (Asian Studies): http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
  
• WWW virtual library (China): http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
  
• WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter:
  • http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/asian-www-news.html

Some University Asia Sites

• Asia Pacific Research Center (Stanford): http://www-iis.stanford.edu/aparc/aparc
  
• Asia Research Centre (Murdoch University):

  Home Page: http://wwwhum.murdoch.edu.au/arc/wwwhp.htm]

  Links: http://wwwhum.murdoch.edu.au/arc/links.htm]

  Legal Resources: http://wwwhum.murdoch.edu.au/arc/legal.htm]

• Asian Studies (Rice University): http://humanities.rice.edu/asia/
  
• Australian National University (Asian Studies homepage): http://online.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/

  See also: http//www.coombs.anu.edu.au

• Cornell East Asia Collections: http://www.library.cornell.edu/Asia/AsiaKroch/asia_homepage.html
  
• Harvard-Yenching Library: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dellal/hylhome.html
  
• International Institute for Asian Studies home page: http://iias.leidenuniv.nl.
  • (Note: This Institute sells an IIAS Internet Guide to Asian Studies)
• NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies): http://nias.ku.dk
  
• Stanford University's Asia Pacific Research Center home page:
  • http://www-iis.stanford.edu/aparc/aparc
• University of Pennsylvania East Asia Home page:
  • http://www.sas.upenn.edu/penneast/index.html
• UT Asia Information Network Center: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic.html
  
• UT outreach: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/outreach/index.html
  
• Vienna University Asian Studies website: http://www.univie.ac.at/Sinologie/cn-wwwvl.htm

Some China-Oriented Sites

• Advanced Chinese (Harvard): http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~clp/China/harvard.htm
  
• Bibliography of Chinese history and culture (most references from 1983 onwards):
  • http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/bibtxt2.html
• CCNAA: http://www.houstoncul.org/
  
• China Bibliography: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FergAB/ChinaBib.htm
  
• China (Netscape listings): http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/
  
• China (CIA Factbook): http://wwwodci.gov/96fact/country/51.html
  
• China (Yahoo):

  http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/

  http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/Society_and_Culture/

• China and the World (e-magazine): http://www.chinabulletin.com
  
• China Books and Periodicals: http://www.chinabooks.com/
  
• China Business: http://www.tdc.org.hk/main/china.html
  
• China Daily: http://www.chinadaily.net
  
• China Development Briefing: http://www.hku.hk/cerc/china/cdb
  
• China Home Pages (miscellaneous):

  http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/China/homepage1.html

  http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~china/china.html

  http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/china.html

  http://www.jaring.my/at-asia/china_at_asia/html/foc_cult.html

  http://www.chinapages.com/

  http://www.chinapages.com/

  http://beloit.edu/~milleres

  http://www.ceas.rochester.edu:8080/ee/users/yeung/chinese.html

  http://www.mordor.com/pei/china-rm.html

  http://www.ima-art.org/collections/asianart.htm/

• China in Space and Time: http://citas.csde.washington.edu/
  
• China news sites: http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/News/
  
• China News Digest: http://www.cnd.org/
  
• Chinascape (web index): http://harmony.wit.com/chinascape/
  
• ChinaVista's new Hyper-C database: http://www.chinavista.com/hyper-c/hyper-c.html
  
• China WWW Virtual Library/ Internet Guide for Chinese Studies:
  
  • http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/index.html
    
• Chinese alchemy:

  http://vega.unive.it/~pregadio/jindan/index.html

  http://vega.unive.it/~pregadio/jindan/tools/biblio/biblio_0.html

• Chinese archaeology (tomb site): http//found.cs.nyu.edu/fox/ldt/tomb/html
  
• Chinese art ("Splendors of Imperial China" exhibit): http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379
  
• Chinese books:

  http://www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/hstbooks/

  http://asia1.aan.net/bookstore/
  

• Chinese cartography: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/sin/institut/hahn.htm
  
• Chinese cinema: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~shaoyis/
  
• Chinese culture (course materials): http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/
  
• Chinese cyberworld (Chinese-language materials): http://www.aan.net/library.htm
  
• Chinese divination: http://www.deltanet.com/users/wcassidy/a1.html
  
• Chinese etymology web dictionary: http://www.zhongwen.com
  
• Chinese gay website: http://www.usrs.dircon.co.uk/~silklink/LYC2.htm#Gay
  
• Chinese historical geography: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/sin/institut/hahn.htm
  
• Chinesev Historical Society of New England: http://yerkes.mit.edu//Chinatown/welcome.html
  
• Chinese historiography (Ben Elman): http://www.wesleyan.edu/phil/chinahistory/00conten.htm
  [N.B.: the 00 above is zerozero]
  
• Chinese history: http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/Society_and_Culture/History
  
• Chinese human rights: gopher://gopher.humanrights.org:5000/11/nat/hric
  
• Chinese language (basic): http://ir.ucdavis.edu/sitt/users/chinese/chn.htm
  
• Chinese language: http://www.hkstar.com/~winters/pinyin_master/pym1.html
  
• Chinese language (UCD): http://philo.ucdavis.edu/CHINESE
  
• Chinese language (Harvard): http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~clp/China/harvard.htm
  
• Chinese language (Patrick Moran): http://www.wfu.edu/~moran
  
• Chinese language and gender (Online Bibliography-Ohio State):
  • http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/g-bib.htm
• Chinese Legal Resources: http://www.siu.edu/offices/lawlib/chinalaw
  
• Chinese Linguistics Home Pages:

  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~whu/China/linguist.html

  http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/China/linguist.html
  

• Chinese music (links to movies): http://www.aweto.com/china#music
  
• Chinese news (in Chinese): http://www.cnd.org
  
• Chinese newspapers available on the net:

  Hong Kong Standard (English): http://www.hkstandard.com

  Mingpao (Chinese): http://www.cuhk.hk/mingpao/

• Chinese philosophy: http//www.monash.edu.au/cc/staff/sas/sab/WWW/index.html
  
• Chinese language filename: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tw/twinbrg/Chinese/patch/display/twin.11
  
• Chinese Mac On-line: http://www.jnw.com/mac/index.html
  
• Chinese Librarians (Chinese and English materials):http://www.lib.siu.edu/swen/iclc/chinnews.htm
  
• Chinese Resources Web Page: http://grafton.dartmouth.edu:8001/chinese/
  
• Chinese Rock Music:

  http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~jiangy/rock.html

  http://zero.com.hk/rock/history.html#early
  

• Chinese Student Association (Rice University): http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~csa/
  
• Chinese Students and Scholars Club (Rice University): http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hsong/
  
• Chinese Studies Data Bank: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/usc/usc.htm
  
• Chinese University of HK:
  • http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Hong_Kong/Education/Classical
• Chinese: http://www.cdn.org/Classics/Kong_Zi*.html
  
• Contemporary China Center (Australian National University):
  • http://online.anu.edu.au/RSPAS/ccc
• Daoism: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism
  
• Fairbank history website: http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/
  
• Fengshui homepage: http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/~frankz/paper/fengshui.html
  
• Finding News about China: http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cb863/china.html
  
• Gate of Heavenly Peace home page: http://www.nmis.org/Gate/
  
• Han-Shan Tang Books:

  Home Page: http://www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/hstbooks/
  

  Weekly list: http://www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/hstbooks/hsthome.html#THISWEEK
  

• Hong Kong: http://www.asia-travel.com/HongKongTravelGuide/quicktour.html
  
• Hong Kong (1997): http://www.scmp.com/1997
  
• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: http://www.univie.ac.at/Sinologie/netguide.htm
  
• Mac Chinese language page: http://grafton.dartmouth.edu:8001/chinese/computing/mac.html
  
• MacViewHz:
  • ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/LLTI-IALL/Chinese-Server/text-viewing-software/mvhz2.sea.hqx
    
• MacHanzi: ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/LLTI-IALL/Chinese-Server/text-viewing-software/machanzi.sea.hqx
  
• National Palace Museum travelling exhibit: http://www.taipei.org/npm/default.htm
  
• National Palace Museum:
  Home Page: http://www.npm.gov.tw/
  Chinese text: http://www.npm.gov.tw/big5/
  English text: http://www.npm.gov.tw/english/
  
• Neo-Confucian E-Text Project (organzied by Steve Angle):
  • http://www.wesleyan.edu/phil/etext/neochome.html
    
• National Central Library (Taiwan; Chinese and Western-language periodicals):
  • http://read.ncl.edu.tw/
    
• Olive Tree (Ganlan shu). [Published on the first of every month, Olive Tree features poems, essays and literary criticism, all in Chinese, by dozens of contributors from around the world]:
  • http://www.rpi.edu/~cheny6/ot.html
    http://www.geopages.com/Hollywood/1236/index.html
    http://www.ifcss.org/www/pub/org/ot/index.html
    http://www.mordor.com/pei/cpml.html
    
• Taoism: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism
  
• Tibet (contemporary events):

  http://www.phillynews.com/packages/tibet/index.htm

  http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html
  
• Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://ciolek.com?WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html 
  
• Transnational China Project homepage (Rice University): http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/
  
• TwinBridge: http://www.twinbridge.com
• WWW virtual library (China): http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/China.html

Some Taiwan-Oriented Sites  
URLs provided by Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Houston

General Information

• Background Notes (U.S. Department of State): http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm
• CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tw.html#Issues
• Country Study (Library of Congress): http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Taiwan.pdf
• Portal to the World (Library of congress): http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/taiwan/taiwan.html
• Taiwan Yearbook: http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/aboutroc/index.htm
• National Statistics: http://eng.stat.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=5
• Government Information Office: http://www.gio.gov.tw

Government and Politics

• E-Government: http://english.www.gov.tw/e-Gov/index.jsp
• Mainland Affairs Council: http://www.mac.gov.tw/english/index1-e.htm
• Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in the United States: http://www.tecro.org
• Political Parties: KMT: http://www.kmt.org.tw/category_1/index.asp, DPP: http://www.dpp.org.tw/, NP: http://www.np.org.tw/index.asp, TSU: http://www.tsu.org.tw/entrance.php

The Economy

• Ministry of Economic Affiars: http://www.moea.gov.tw/
• Taiwan External Trade Development Council: http://www.taitra.com.tw
• Bureau of Foreign Trade: http://eweb.trade.gov.tw
• Intellectual Property Office, Minister of Economic Affairs: http://www.taitra.com.tw
• Taipei World Trade Center: http://www.twtc.org.tw/
• American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei: www.amcham.com.tw

Education

• Study in Taiwan: http://www.studyintaiwan.org/why_studying_in_taiwan/why-study-in-taiwan.htm
• Ministry of Education: http://english.moe.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=1
• Global Chinese Language and Cultural Center: http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/home_en.htm
• Mandarin Training Center (National Taiwan Normal University): http://mtc.ntnu.edu.tw/indexe.html
• National Central Library-Online Catalog: http://lib.ncl.edu.tw/e_menu.htm
• Periodical Documents Information Net: http://www2.ncl.edu.tw/journal/journal%5Fdocu01.htm

Health Care

• Department of Health: http://www.doh.gov.tw/EN2006/index_EN.aspx
• Center for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov.tw/en/index.asp
• National Health Command Center: http://nhcc.cdc.gov.tw/en/e_index_about.asp
• Taiwan Think Tank Blog: http://nhcc.cdc.gov.tw/en/e_index_about.asp
• Association of Clinical Research Professional: http://www.acrpnet.org/about/index.html

Newspapers and Periodicals

• Central News Agency: http://www.cna.com.tw
• Taipei Times: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News
• The China Post: http://www.chinapost.com.tw
• Taiwan Journal: http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=2
• Taiwan Review: http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=1
• Taiwan Panorama: http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/index.php
• Taiwan Headline: http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp

Tourism

• Tourism Bureau: http://www.taiwan.net.tw
• Youth Travel in Taiwan: http://youthtravel.tw/web
• Information for Foreigners: http://iff.npa.gov.tw/enfront/index.php
• National Palace Museum: http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm

A Few Other Asian Country-Specific Sites

• Japan FAQ: Know Before You Go: http://thejapanfaq.cjb.net
  
• Japan Biker F.A.Q. at http://homepages.go.com/~nishijin/bikerfaq-toc.html
  
• Japan Foundation: http://www.jpf.go.jp/
  
• And also Japanese Manners & Etiquette at
  • http://members.wbs.net/homepages/m/a/i/maizuru/FAQ-Manners.html
• Japan Web Guide: http://www.gol.com/jguide/
  
• Korean history (bibliography): http://www2.hawaii.edu/shaps/index.htm
  

North Korean website: http://www.kcna.co.jp/

• Tibet (contemporary events):
  http://www.phillynews.com/packages/tibet/index.htm
  http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html/
• Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://ciolek.com?WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html 

Some Buddhism Sites

• Buddhist Data Base: http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter/
  
• Buddhist ethics http://www.psu.edu/jbe/jbe.html
  
• Buddhist Studies Virtual Library: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
  
• Buddhism (Zen) Virtual Library: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html

Some Teaching Sites

• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center):
  • gopher://gopher.ed.gov:70/11/programs/ERIC/searchs
• Evaluation of Information Sources (Victoria Univ., New Zealand):
  • http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
• Guide to film and video resources on the net: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/fvl/film.html
  
• H-GRAD (info. for graduate students and aspiring graduate students): http://h-net.msu.edu/~gra
  
• Infolist for teachers: http://www.electriciti.com/~rlakin/
  
• List of educational journals: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsalce/sed403/journals.htm
  
• Social studies resources: http://www.halcyon.com/howlevin/social.studies.html
  
• Syllabus magazine (on multimedia resources): http://www.syllabus.com/
  
• Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources:
  • http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm
• Teaching evaluation: http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Teaching/Evaluation/
  
• Testing: gopher://inet.ed.gov:12002/7waissrc%3A/Eric?testing
  
• UVA Teaching site: http://www.virginia.edu/-trc/home.htm
  
• Virtual classrooms: http://www.worlds.net/LGU
  
• Workshop on teaching and learning with the web (1994): http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-ws94/ws.htm
  
• World Lecture Hall (university-based curriculum-oriented websites):
  • http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
    
• WWW virtual library: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
  

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