AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:2 (June 1998)

Surveys, Guides, Reviews:

Internet Reference Tools for East Asian Studies

by Cathy Chiu (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Presented at the Council on East Asian Libraries Public Services Committee meeting during the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Washington, March, 1998.

The Essential Asian Studies Resources: June 1998

by T. Matthew Ciolek (Australian National University)

A regular AsianDOC column in which Matthew Ciolek collects the web resources in Asian Studies that he ranked as "essential" over the past three months.

Russian Internet Resources in Oriental Studies

Prepared by Rostislav B. Rybakov, Alexander A. Stolyarov, Dimitry D. Vasilyev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)

A convenient table listing web sites at the major Russian centers of Oriental studies or having resources of interest to specialists on Asia/EurAsia.

Publication Notices and Brief Reviews:

• KanaClassic, An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese kana Writing

  Author -- X. Jie YANG, Ph.D. (The University of Calgary)
  Co-authors -- Sadako OHKI, Ph.D. (The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University) and Sonja ARNTZEN, Ph.D. (The University of Alberta)
  Calligrapher -- E-mei WANG
  Programmer -- X. Jie YANG
  Copyright -- X. Jie YANG c1998
  

  Program Highlights

  • Full-motion animation and video representing the writing process of more than 200 classical kana characters.
  • Practice reading 20 Medieval and pre-modern masterpieces from The Spencer Collection, New York, and manuscripts from Hokyoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Hypergraphics create links between single kana characters and reading materials.
  • Produce your own classical kana work by typing and mouse "drag and drop."
  • and more.....

• Forthcoming in October 1998 from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc: Ken Lunde's CJKV Information Processing in two volumes.
  

  Ken Lunde has provided a spiral-bound draft of "CJKV Information Processing" to two bookstores in California:

  • Computer Literacy Bookstore (the main branch, which is on the corner of First and Trimble in San Jose)
  • Stacey's Bookstore on University Avenue in Palo Alto
  More information on the two volumes is at:
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cjkvip/
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cjkvrg/

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