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Asia-Related Links

The links below cover Rice departments related to Asian Studies, search engines, general Asia sites, university-affiliated Asia sites, country-specific sites, sites on Buddhism, and sites providing teaching resources.

Resource Links:

If any of the links below do not work, please send an e-mail to asia@rice.edu. Thank you.

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

Related Departments at Rice

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

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

  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 Economic Database:
  http://ics.nccu.edu/tw/eced
  
• 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/
  
• Open Course Ware:
  http://ics.nccu.edu/tw/eced/eocw
  
• 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

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:
  http://www.erols.com/arbs/
  
• 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

Helpful Search Engines

• Asian Studies WWW Monitor:
  http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
  
• Bibliography of Asian Studies:
  http://bas.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/
  
• 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

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/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.html
• 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
• Ministry of Foreign Affiars:
  https://www.gio.gov
• International Participation:
  http://english.www.gov.tw/UN/index.jsp

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.tipo.gov.tw/eng/press.asp
• 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

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

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
• The NationalHealth Research Institutes:
  http://www.nhri.org/tw/index/eindex/php3
• 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/eng./
• 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
  
  Think Tanks

• Taiwan Foundation for Democracy:
  http://tfd.org.tw/english/index.php
• Taiwan Thinktank:
  http://www.taiwanthinktank.org/ttt/servlet/OpenBlock?Template=Home&Iam=en
• Chian Ching-Kuo Foundation for Interantional Scholarly Exchange:
  http://www.cckf.org/index-e.htm
• Taiwan Institute of Economic Research:
  http://www.tier.org.tw
• Chung Hua Institution of Economic Research:
  http://www.cier.edu.tw/kmportal-deluxe/fromt/bin/cglist.phtml?Category=10071
• Institute for National Policy Research:
  http://www.inpr.org.tw

Tourism

• Tourism Bureau:
  http://www.taiwan.net.tw
• Youth Travel in Taiwan:
  http://youthtravel.tw/web
• Information for Foreigners:
  http://www.moi.gov.tw/english/PolicyRelease_meat.asp?Newsid=146
• National Palace Museum:
  http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm

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

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://asia.rice.edu
  
• 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

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