Online Resources for Asia Scholars

The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 29 The Focus

Online resources for Asia scholars

Sonja Zweegers and Alessandra Barrow

During the past year not one of us has escaped the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; we were forced indoors, sequestered to our ‘home offices’ in order to work. Those of you used to being out in the field, roaming the earth, looking for the next research adventure, have now had to make do with Zoom meetings and Facebook groups and archival browsing. Those of us more accustomed to working out of a university building, chatting to colleagues during coffee breaks, and suffering our daily commutes, well, we too have now learned all about online meeting etiquette, and probably failing quite splendidly. The online world has become all too familiar to each and every one of us. And so, for this issue of The Newsletter, not a Focus section as you know it. Something a little bit different, designed specifically for the time in which we find ourselves: an exploration of online resources that may assist (or at least entertain) the Asia scholar.

o accomplish this, I reached out Throughout the collection we have added in mind, if you know of any online resources to IIAS alumni and fellows, and tidbits from the websites mentioned to that you would like to see added to this list, Tother friends made during the past provide some enjoyable reading in addition which we will be continuing to curate on our 10 years as Editor of this publication. to the more practical information. website, then please contact me with your Their (your) input led to the compilation of Finally, the pages of this Focus (and other ideas. You can find the ever-expanding list useful spaces with regard to Asia presented sections in this issue) were assembled with at www.iias.asia/resources. Key used throughout on the following pages. Whilst this list is far the outstanding help of Alessandra Barrow, this section: from comprehensive, and some regions are IIAS intern for the past few months. Alessandra Sonja Zweegers, CA Central Asia more widely represented than others, we is currently completing the Research Master Editor of The Newsletter [email protected] SA South Asia intend it to be a valuable start to a collection in Asian Studies at Leiden University. I am that we will continue to build upon on the IIAS extremely grateful to have received her SEA Southeast Asia Alessandra Barrow, website; hopefully with your help. The list is assistance for this issue, especially at EA East Asia Research MA Asian Studies student gathered by resource type, but we have tried, a time when we all might be feeling rather at Leiden University, and intern for MENA Middle East where possible and if relevant, to indicate disconnected. Let that be a reminder to The Newsletter. https://linkedin.com/in/ and North Africa to which region the resource most relates. reach out and work together! And with that alessandra-barrow-675297172 30 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources The Focus for Asia Scholars

Digital collections, databases and archives

Appraising Risk SA SEA Archnet CA SA SEA MENA scholarly activities. Artstor images come with Base Ulysse SEA high-quality metadata from the collection This is a historical database of climatic This website is a resource focused on catalogers, curators, institutions, and This is an online digital archive of crisis in the Indian Ocean World. On this site, the Built environment of Muslim societies. artists themselves. the National Overseas Archives in Aix-en- you can access articles, relevant maps, and Including architecture, urbanism, environ- Much of the site will require a subscription, Provence. It contains over 45,000 individual visualizations. The Appraising Risk Partnership mental and landscape design, visual culture, but check to see if your institute/library can photographs, albums, postcards, posters, is an international collaboration of scholars and conservation issues. It has a range of grant you access. In addition, Artstor’s ever- drawings and maps documenting aspects and researchers dedicated to exploring the collections and books, city records, maps, growing Public Collections offer approximately of the French colonial empire. critical role of climactic crisis in the past architecture plans and the like. 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, and future of the Indian Ocean World. The documents, and audio files from library special http://anom.archivesnationales.culture. partnership seeks to create a comprehensive http://archnet.org collections, faculty research, and institutional gouv.fr/ulysse spatial and temporal database of human- history materials, as well as hundreds of environment interaction and interdependence thousands of open access images from partner during periods of climactic change. museums. Anyone may view and download Arsip Nasional Republik these collections; no subscription or login Bichitra: Online Tagore https://www.appraisingrisk.com Indonesia SEA required. Variorum SA This website offers access to thousands https://www.artstor.org This resource contains nearly all of of unresearched documents about the history Tagore’s writings in Bengali and English, Archive of India Music SA of the Nusantara and its connections to the from manuscript to print. The website can world at large during the seventeenth and be navigated in English, Bengali and Hindi, This site is a repository of gramophone eighteenth centuries. This website also gives Asia Art Archive EA SA SEA and the search engine allows you to locate recordings of India set up in collaboration access to some older book publications of any word or phrase used in his works. with the Manipal University’s MCPH (Manipal the former ‘Landsarchief’, beginning with the Based in Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive Centre for Philosophy and Humanities). If you published Daily Journals of Batavia Castle is a catalyst for new ideas that enrich our http://bichitra.jdvu.ac.in/index.php wish to listen to the clips you may need to (1624-1682). understanding of the world through the contact the archive directly. collection, creation, and sharing of know- https://sejarah-nusantara.anri.go.id ledge around recent art in Asia. This website http://archiveofindianmusic.org hosts online modern Asian art and archives. Biodiversity Heritage Library It includes a range of articles and opinion pieces relating to modern art in East Asia, Not Asia-specific, this site is the largest ARTstor Southeast Asia and South Asia. open access digital library for biodiversity The Archive of the Institute literature and archives including books on for Taiwan History The Artstor Digital Library features a wide https://aaa.org.hk/en plant taxonomy and natural history texts. range of multidisciplinary content from some Most of the collection is public domain (ITH, Academia Sinica) EA of the world’s top museums, artists, libraries, content but the BHL works with rights holders scholars, and photo archives, including rare to obtain permission to make in-copyright This website was launched in 2008. It stores collections not accessible anywhere else. Atlas of Mutual Heritage SEA materials openly available under Creative personal papers and collections, family and New contributions are added regularly. Commons licenses. The library has texts folk papers and institutional archives that The Artstor Digital Library provides This website hosts an incredible database from 1450s to 2000s. have been collected by the Archives of ITH straightforward access to curated images from and atlas of information, maps, drawings, for more than 20 years. The website can be reliable sources that have been rights-cleared prints and paintings of locations significant https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org accessed in Chinese and English. for use in education and research. You are to the Dutch VOC (East Indies Company) and free to use them in classroom instruction and WIC (Dutch West India Company). https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other non-commercial educational and https://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl

The Database of Religious History: Pre-Buddhist cults

Entry by Anna Sehnalova

cross the large geographical space of the Tibetan Plateau and the AHimalayas, cultures and societies of Asia Art Archive: speakers of Tibetic and Qiangic languages share certain religious notions and similar ‘Art’ and ‘craft’ in Sri Lanka ritual practices which do not derive from Buddhism or Yungdrung Bön (g.Yung drung Bon) but rather relate to local natural environments and social structures. Annemari de Silva addresses the marketing them as ‘designer’? Perhaps it is Being very variable and difficult to gendered and postcolonial valuations the woman from a family of businesspeople subsume under one term, these localised of ‘art’ and ‘craft’ in Sri Lanka. heading one of the biggest handloom religious cults have been called ‘popular’ retailers in the country? (Bell 1931), ‘nameless’ (Stein 1972), ‘folk’ he word ‘entrepreneur’ can mean Handicrafts, or artisanal crafts, replete (Tucci 1980), often also ‘shamanism’ or such radically different things in with cultural significations and political uses, ‘bön’ (bon), and in specific cases ‘pagan’ Ta developing country. Who, for are not surprisingly a fairly nebulous public (Ramble 2008) and ‘mundane’ (Huber instance, is the woman entrepreneur policy concern: in some countries, handicrafts 2020). They are concerned with mundane in handicrafts in Sri Lanka? Is she the policy falls under the domain of creative aims of well-being and prosperity, fecundity woman in the north coast, widowed by industries, while in others it remains under and progeniture, health, protection and the tsunami with children to care for, the small industries or enterprise. Perhaps the warfare, and general worldly success; not beneficiary of a programme to encourage only tacit assumption is that it’s not quite mass with soteriology. They most likely represent entrepreneurialism as a poverty alleviation production, nor is it automatically counted indigenous, pre-Buddhist cults of Tibet and strategy? Or is she the woman at the as ‘fine art’. Read full article and more at: the Himalayas. Find full entry at: local fair, selling bags she designed and made herself but can sell at a premium by https://tinyurl.com/AAA-HK-DeSilva https://religiondatabase.org/browse/983 The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 31 for Asia Scholars The Focus

The East Asia Image Collection From the Richard Mammana Archive: Postcard ‘Calvary Charge’, published by the Tokyo Daily News Company, 1904-1907.

East Asian Scroll Paintings Section of ‘Bathing Horses’, Zhao Mengfu, late 13th century

British Empire and Digital Batavia SEA The East Asia Image Indiancine.ma SA Commonwealth Collection Collection EA Maintained by the National Archives of An annotated online archive of Indian film. SA SEA EA CA Indonesia, this website includes collections An open-access archive of digitised It is intended to serve as a shared resource of advertisements, film footage, newspaper photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books for film scholars and enthusiasts in India This unique resource includes objects, clippings, paintings, and maps about Batavia and slides, hosted at Lafayette College. and beyond. artworks, photographs, films, papers and (Jakarta), the chief port of the Netherlands’ sound archives. These were donated by British Asian trading empire. https://dss.lafayette.edu/collections/east- https://indiancine.ma people who lived and worked in many parts asia-image-collection of the former empire and Commonwealth and https://bataviadigital.perpusnas.go.id/ reflect their occupations and interests. tentang The International Dunhuang https://becc.bristol.gov.uk East Asian Scroll Paintings Project: The Silk Road Online (University of Chicago) EA Digital Himalaya SA EA This website is devoted to digitizing East Chinese Text Project EA The Digital Himalaya project was Asian scroll paintings. In collaboration with IDP is a ground-breaking international designed as a strategy for archiving and a number of museums including the Tokyo collaboration to make information and images This website is an open-access digital making available ethnographic materials national museum and the Beijing Palace of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and library of pre-modern Chinese texts. With from the Himalayan region. The site hosts Museum, here you can search for specific artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological over thirty thousand titles and more than five a large collection of maps, rare books and paintings, artists, theme, period or museum. sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available billion characters, the Chinese Text Project manuscripts, music and film related to on the Internet and to encourage their is also the largest database of pre-modern the region. https://scrolls.uchicago.edu use through educational and research Chinese texts in existence. programmes. http://www.digitalhimalaya.com https://ctext.org http://idp.bl.uk Filipinas Heritage Library (SEA)

Digital South Asia Library SA As a one-stop digital research centre on Cologne Digital Sanskrit the Philippines, its mission is to spark and The Internet Archive Dictionaries SA This website is based on a two-year pilot stoke interest in the visual, aural, and printed project funded by the Association of Research story of the Filipino. The website hosts a large A database of sources not covered by This website hosts lexicographic material Libraries' Global Resources Program that collection of sources focused on the formative copyright. The Internet Archive is building for Indologists including dictionaries and provides digital materials for reference and period of Philippine nationhood (1930-1950s). a digital library of Internet sites and other encyclopaedias. research on South Asia to scholars. It contains cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper a useful collection of resource links and other https://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph library, it provides free access to researchers, https://sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de websites to access for those with an interest in historians, scholars, the print disabled, and modern South Asian history. the general public. Its mission is to provide ‘Universal Access to All Knowledge’. Anyone https://dsal.uchicago.edu Hathi Trust Digital Library with a free account can access nearly 500 The Database of Religious billion web pages, 28 million books and other History EA SA SEA CA MENA The Hathi trust is a not-for-profit texts, 14 million audio recordings, 6 million collaborative of academic and research videos, 3.5 million images and over half a This is an excellent resource for anyone The Documentary Film libraries, based in the USA which began in million software programmes. studying the history of religion. The website Programme SA SEA 2008. So far, they have preserved 17+ million hosts a large database where you can search digitized items. The library is focused on https://archive.org by region, for specific religions or researchers. This project covers the colonial official film books, journals and long-form texts and It also includes an interactive map, breakdown in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Malaysia includes a substantial collection of US-Asia of beliefs and practises and sources. and India. The majority of the documents were and Asia related texts. written by government officials and deal with KITLV Digital Resources SEA https://religiondatabase.org the use of the official film in the South and https://www.hathitrust.org South-East Asia region over the period from The Royal Institute of Southeast Asian 1945 to the 1970s. These documents reveal and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) has entrusted the process of colonial withdrawal from the the care of its world-famous collections to Delpher SEA region, the project of nation building and The ‘Historical Photographs Leiden University Library, which makes it an the role played by the official film in that. As of China’ Project EA invaluable repository. The resources include, This is a Dutch-language site that has such, they offer insight into the region at the among others, the Digital Media Library, the digitised millions of texts from scientific, end of empire and during the first phase of The project locates, digitises, and publishes Chinese Indonesian Heritage Center project, library and private collections. The sources independence. online photographs of China held, largely, in and the Aceh Books collection. are books, newspapers, journals, magazines, private hands outside the country. The aim is radio bulletins. Most relevant for this list https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/ to help make this virtual photographic archive https://www.kitlv.nl/resources is that the site also has a large selection documentary-film/search.php of modern China publicly available, under a of sources from the Netherlands Indies. Creative Commons licence.

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Rare Books Society of India: A Zebra

A Zebra, by Mansur, opaque water- colour and gold on paper, Mughal, 1621. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

he zebra in this painting was presented to the Mughal emperor Jahangir T(r. 1605-1627) by Mir Ja'far who had acquired it from some Turks who had travelled to India from Africa. Jahangir wrote on the painting (in Persian, the court language) that it was: “A mule which the Turks in the company of Mir Ja'far had brought from Abyssinia in the year 1030 [1620-21], completed by Nader al-Asri The Public Domain Review: [Wonder of the Age], Ustad Mansur". When Jahangir had carefully examined Japanese Firemen’s Coats it, and ensured that it was not, as some thought, a horse on which someone had painted stripes, he decided to send it to Shah Abbas of Iran, with whom he often uring the Edo period in Japan Although experiments with wooden pumps and thoroughly soaked in water before the exchanged rare or exotic presents. (1615-1868), crowded living conditions were made, limited water supply rendered this firefighters entered the scene of the blaze. The painting is part of a group known as Dand wooden buildings gave rise to more modern firefighting method impractical. No doubt the men wore them this way round the Minto Album, now divided between the frequent fires – so frequent in fact it was Each firefighter in a given brigade was to protect the dyed images from damage, V&A and the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, said that “fires and quarrels were the outfitted with a special reversible coat but they were probably also concerned with all of which were done for Jahangir or his flowers of Edo”. The socially segregated (hikeshi banten), plain but for the name of protecting themselves, as they went about son, Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). brigades formed to combat these fires the brigade on one side and decorated with their dangerous work, through direct contact were made up of either samurais (buke richly symbolic imagery on the other. Made with the heroes and creatures represented https://tinyurl.com/RBSI-Zebra hikeshi) or commoners (machi hikeshi), but of several layers of quilted cotton fabric, on the insides of these beautiful garments. whatever their class, their methods were using a process called the sashiko technique, the same: they would destroy the buildings and resist-dyed using the tsutsugaki method, https://tinyurl.com/TPDR-JapaneseFirecoats surrounding the fire in an effort to contain it. these coats would be worn plain-side out

The Loewentheil Photography a host of services for the scholarly community. The Panjab Digital Library SA institutions and professional organisations. The of China Collection EA It is designed to enable people to learn and database allows users to easily locate abstracts, prepare from best practices from all over the This digital archive holds sources relating full journal articles, and research materials. This is the largest collection of early world and to facilitate researchers to perform to the Punjab area and Sikhs, including photography of China in the world. These inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers, https://ejournals.ph include a large collection of historical photographs and pamphlets. Some of the photographs taken Beijing and Shanghai https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in resources are limited to specific organisations taken from the 1850s through the 1930s, and registered users, registration is free. to access some of the collection you need PressReader.com to contact the organization directly. http://www.panjabdigilib.org New Silk Road (NSR) at IIAS Not Asia specific, but with a subscription https://loewentheilcollection.com EA CA SA to this all-you-can-read service you will gain access to thousands of newspapers and Based at IIAS in Leiden, the New Silk The 1947 Partition Archive SA magazines from more than 120 countries. Road project is dedicated to promoting PressReader’s proprietary technology makes it Malay Concordance Project evidence research and education on What began as an idea in 2008 to possible to process thousands of newspapers SEA national and international efforts to improve acknowledge and popularize the people's every single day, extracting text and images the infrastructure and connectivity among history of Partition has been accomplished and making articles instantly translatable, This website is a project that aims to the countries of Asia and Europe. It brings through the founding and building of ‘The searchable, and easy to read on mobile help scholars share resources for the study together over 750 teachers and researchers 1947 Partition Archive’, which has preserved devices. Many libraries across the globe have of classical Malay literature. It has a large from a wide range of disciplines and nearly 9,500 memories of Partition witnesses. a subscription to this site, granting library collection of pre-modern Malay written text working in over 80 countries. Membership Through the sharing of thousands of witness members access through their connection. and articles. is open to all. accounts millions of times over the last The site hosts eight different e-libraries, decade, the 'people's history' of Partition https://www.pressreader.com/catalog http://mcp.anu.edu.au/Q/mcp.html educational resources, with articles and has been established and is now a growing news related to China’s BRI, Youtube lectures and active area of research as well as new and podcasts. documentation efforts. The Public Domain Review The Museum of Material https://newsilkroads.info https://www.1947partitionarchive.org Memory SA Not Asia specific, but this informative and highly entertaining site includes nearly This is a digital repository that preserves 1000 annotated collections of images, books, a wide range of material culture, in the form The Open Heritage People’s Archive of Rural India and film from the public domain. You can of heirlooms, collectibles and antiques, from 3D Project CA SA EA SA also browse the current articles on themes the Indian subcontinent. The repository builds including art, film, music, philosophy, religion on posts from contributors from all over the As 3D data capture becomes an PARI is a living journal and an archive, and and legends, and science, among others. world, who share stories of the objects in increasingly common method for the they are currently creating a database of If you prefer print to digital, head to the site’s their collection. By tracing histories of objects documentation of cultural heritage there published stories, reports, videos and audio ‘shop’ and order one of the ‘Selected Essays’ and family histories, the site aims to explore has emerged a growing need to assist recordings. In addition, PARI hosts video, photo, printed volumes, public domain ‘fine art narratives of tradition, culture and society of with the distribution and open access audio and text archives on rural India. PARI’s prints’, or curated postcard packs. the subcontinent. of this growing library of 3D data while content comes under the Creative Commons maintaining scientific rigor, respecting and the site is free to access. PARI is also open https://publicdomainreview.org http://www.museumofmaterialmemory.com cultural and ethical sensitivities, enhancing to new contributors to write and record. discoverability, and addressing data longevity and archival standards. In response https://ruralindiaonline.org/en to these areas of need, the Open Heritage Rare Books Society of India SA National Digital Library 3D project was developed to make primary of India SA 3D cultural heritage data open and This site is a virtual space for rare book accessible and remove the barriers for Philippine E-Journals SEA collectors and history buffs to read, discuss, The NDLI is a virtual repository of learning content producers to publish their data. rediscover and download lost books, paintings, resources which is not just a repository This is an online collection of academic photographs and other objects. Importantly, with search/browse facilities but provides https://openheritage3d.org publications from various higher education it aims to highlight the understanding that The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 33 for Asia Scholars The Focus

there is always more than one truth in history! SEAlang projects SEA a vehicle for targeted research, and one which Wilson Center Digital Archive Sourcing from digital libraries such as The has been intelligently structured to ensure SEA EA Internet Archive, Google Books, Wikipedia This website hosts Southeast Asian efficient content discovery. The site is hosted and the online collections of various museums language reference materials. The by Routledge/Taylor&Francis, and you will The Digital Archive, overseen by the around the world, RBSI has curated these rare organization is focused on non-roman script need a subscription to access the content. Wilson Center's History and Public Policy books and images, and presented them in a languages, though more recently they have Program, contains once-secret documents context that gives them relevance and shows expanded their collection to include many https://www.southasiaarchive.com from governments all across the globe, each piece as a part of a grander whole. All languages of insular Southeast Asia, including uncovering new sources and providing fresh material posted on this site is sourced from the Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. insights into the history of international public domain and Rare Book Society of India The website contains a number of bilingual relations and diplomacy. The collection explicitly states that it does not hold copyrights and monolingual dictionaries, and tools for South Asia Open Archives contains newly declassified historical on any of this material. searching and displaying complex scripts. on JStor SA materials from archives around the world— much of it in translation and including https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org http://www.sealang.net This is a free open-access resource for diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, research and teaching on South Asia in meeting minutes and more. The website has English and other regional languages. SAOA's a particular focus on Southeast Asia, East collection contains a number of books, Asia, the Korean war, and the history of Reconnecting Asia The SOAS Digital Collections journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, Nuclear proliferation. EA SA SEA CA EA SA SEA CA and documents, with particular focus on social and economic history, literature, women and https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org Reconnecting Asia maps new linkages— SOAS digital collections include archives gender, and caste and social structure. roads, railways, and other infrastructure—that and manuscripts, photographs, maps, books are reshaping economic and geopolitical and journals, newspapers, oral histories, films https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia- realities across the continent. Through data and audio. Nearly all are available freely, open-archives World Digital Library curation and objective analysis, the project twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, aims to fill Asia’s infrastructure-information all year round. While some of this content is The World Digital Library (WDL) was gap, squaring lofty ambitions with facts on protected by copyright, all of it can be used launched by the U.S. Library of Congress the ground. The project site offers analyses, with attribution under Creative Commons TANAP Databases SEA and UNESCO, with contributions from maps and databases – and also provides licence CC BY-NC. You can browse according libraries, archives, museums, educational masterclasses in the topics. to discipline or geographic region, and among The archives of the VOC (Dutch East Indies institutions, and international organizations the archives and special collections. There is Company). The website is in Dutch and around the world. Its intent is to preserve https://reconnectingasia.csis.org also a large section of language resources English and contains an exhaustive list of and share some of the world’s most important (e.g., Swahili, Rawang, Telugu, Urdu, Pali, digitised VOC documents and descriptions. cultural objects, increasing access to cultural Buriat, Batak, etc.) treasures and significant historical documents http://databases.tanap.net/ead to enable discovery, scholarship, and use. Researching Colonial History https://digital.soas.ac.uk The materials collected by the WDL make of the Malay World like it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical a Millennial SEA Things That Talk documents including books, manuscripts, South Asia Archive SA maps, newspapers, journals, prints and This is a fabulous new resource and guide This platform explores the humanities photographs, sound recordings, and films. from the Cultural Centre of the University of The South Asia Archive provides an through the life of objects. This site is funded by Material on specific topics can be found Malaya. The focus of this resource guide is on extensive resource for students and scholars Leiden University and explores the context and by using the site’s search and filter features. digital resources that tell us something about across the humanities and social sciences. stories of objects old and new. They are open For example, you can search by region, the Malay Archipelago, stretching back to Focusing on South Asia, the Archive contains to new curators so if you have an object you topic and/or time period. the 17th century. The guide also offers tips both serial and non-serial materials, including would like to discuss you can contact them! and ideas on how to find materials online, reports, rare books, and journal runs from https://www.wdl.org an introduction to historical thinking, as well noteworthy, rare publications. The South https://thingsthattalk.net as a guide to various communities, projects Asia Archive is a specialist digital platform and initiatives related to the colonial history providing global electronic access to culturally of the Malay World. and historically significant literary material produced from within, and about, the South https://tinyurl.com/likeamillennial Asian region. It is not merely a repository, but

Reconnecting Asia: Belt, Road, and Beyond

World Digital Library: The CSIS Belt and Road Executive Course Ethnographical Turkestan he Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a $1 trillion flagship foreign policy effort of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Tcould reshape global networks of trade, transport, and political ties within and between countries for decades to come. But since its announcement, the BRI his photograph is from the has remained shrouded in confusion and controversy, ethnographical part of Turkestan and it now faces major challenges, including the Covid-19 TAlbum, a comprehensive visual survey pandemic. Drawing insights from leading experts and the of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Reconnecting Asia Project, the most extensive effort to Russia assumed control of the region in the map and analyze these developments to date, CSIS has 1860s. Commissioned by General Konstantin developed a Master’s-level introduction to China’s BRI. Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–82), the first This private, virtual course explains what the BRI is, what governor-general of Russian Turkestan, it is not, and how it is impacting commercial and strategic the album is in four parts spanning six realities on the ground. Check back for Fall 2021 course volumes: ‘Archaeological Part’ (two volumes); dates, coming soon! ‘Ethnographic Part’ (two volumes); ‘Trades Part’ (one volume); and ‘Historical https://tinyurl.com/CSIS-BRBcourse Part’ (one volume). The principal compiler was Russian Orientalist Aleksandr L. Kun, who was assisted by Nikolai V. Bogaevskii. The album contains some 1,200 photographs, along with architectural plans, watercolor drawings, and maps. The ‘Ethnographic Part’ includes 491 individual photographs on 163 plates. The photographs show individuals representing the different peoples of the region (Plates 1–33); daily life and rituals (Plates 34–91); and views of villages and cities, street vendors, and commercial activities (Plates 92–163). Above: ‘Syr Darya Oblast. City of Dzhizak and the Types https://tinyurl.com/WDL-SyrDaryaOblast of People Seen at the Market. Water Carrier’. Found by searching on ‘place’: Uzbekistan. 34 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources The Focus for Asia Scholars

OXUS Society for Central Asian Affairs CA The Oxus Society for Central Asian Institutes and organisations Affairs is a DC-based non-profit organization dedicated to fostering academic exchange between Central Asia and the rest of the world. Oxus provides a platform for early career researchers, practitioners and established academics by publishing research on the politics, economics, cultures, history The Ancient India & Iran Trust the pilot project that was based at the more than one million printed volumes and and societies of Central Asia. Oxus compiles SA CA MENA Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to expand the an equivalent number of audio-visual items, original datasets and develops analytical work of digitally documenting historical and including many posters. Users can browse tools to help advance understanding This organisation, in Cambridge (UK), archaeological sites across the broader region the institute’s thousands of datasets, which of the latest developments in the region. occupies a unique position as an independent of maritime Southern Asia, including new field include millions of records on demographics, Oxus organizes workshops focused on charity concerned with the study of early survey work in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brunei, inequality, prices, wages, national accounts, research ethics, methods, data analysis South Asia, Iran and Central Asia, promoting and Vietnam http://maritimeasiaheritage. labour relations, etc. IISH is one of the world’s and publishing for researchers working on both scholarly research and popular interest cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp. See the article by Michael main data hubs on socioeconomic history. Central Asia. Subscribe to their Newsletter in the area. Its primary focus is prehistory, Feener et al. on page 46 of this issue to read to stay updated. archaeology, art history, linguistics and more about this survey. https://iisg.amsterdam/en ancient languages, but this often extends https://oxussociety.org to more modern topics and other disciplines. https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp It has a library of over 50,000 items and organises a range of activities including ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute conferences, public lectures and visiting SEA Policy Forum SEA SA EA fellowships. The Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute is a research This is the website of the Asia and the https://www.indiran.org centre in Singapore, offering multiple projects, Pacific Policy Society based at the Australia in Heidelberg SA SEA EA publications, and online resources: such as National University. The Asia and the Pacific their commentaries at https://fulcrum.sg; Policy Society is a community of scholars, CATS is an Asia centre of a different or their analyses of current affairs, or more policymakers, researchers, students and the The Asia Research Institute kind. It is committed to studying Asia in a in-depth analyses of contemporary policy-engaged public. The Website hosts (ARI) SA EA SEA global context and through interdisciplinary geopolitical and socio-economic forces in episodes of 4 podcast series and publishes dialogue. In CATS, four institutes from the region - all to be found at: articles on topics such as national security, ARI, at the National University of Heidelberg University, whose regional focus arts and culture and the belt and road Singapore, engages the humanities and is Asia, are joined together. Scholars at CATS https://www.iseas.edu.sg/category/ initiative. social sciences broadly defined and are specialized in a variety of disciplines articles-commentaries especially interdisciplinary frontiers such as Anthropology, Geography, History, https://www.iseas.edu.sg https://www.policyforum.net between and beyond disciplines. As a Cultural Studies, Art History, Literary university-level institute, ARI brings together Studies, Musicology, Religious Studies, scholars from different departments, Politics, Sociology, among others. The centre schools and faculties across campus for maintains research projects, a media centre, The Kern Institute SA The Textile Research Centre seminars, conferences and collaborative a ‘digital humanities unit’, various BA and research projects. The institute hosts MA degree programmes, and has recently This organization supports and promotes Based in Leiden, the Netherlands, the basic visiting researchers, organises events inaugurated their Newsletter: CATSarena. the study of South Asia, in particular India and aim of the TRC is to give the study of textiles, and maintains an academic blog called Tibet. It organises lectures and excursions, clothing and accessories their proper place in ARIscope. Its publishing department https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/ provides subsidies for study trips, supports the field of the humanities and social sciences. produces working papers, manuscripts, media/catsarena.html the expansion and public use of its library The TRC does so by providing courses and a number of journals and a Newsletter. collections, and brings out a Newsletter and lectures, carrying out research and by the other publications. presentation of textiles and dress from all over https://ari.nus.edu.sg the world. The two main focal paints of the Clingendael Institute for https://www.instituutkern.nl TRC are (a) dress and identity: what people International Relations wear in order to say who they are and (b) pre-industrial textile technology. The TRC British Institute of Persian SA EA SEA CA has a large textile-based archive, much of Studies MENA SA Clingendael experts conduct policy- LeidenAsiaCentre EA which is now available online via their website. oriented analysis and research on strategic The British Institute of Persian Studies international issues. They offer policy The aim of the LeidenAsiaCentre is to https://www.trc-leiden.nl (BIPS) is the UK’s foremost learned society recommendations through our publications, generate academic knowledge on modern dedicated to promoting and supporting events and presence in the media. East Asia that can find societal applications scholarship and research excellence on all Clingendael Academy is one of the largest in the Netherlands. The LeidenAsiaCentre aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate international diplomatic training centres actively aims to expand its expertise and Tracing Patterns Foundation world, and to increasing public under- around the world. Every day, international to use this in collaboration with a growing SEA standing and knowledge of this region. professionals experience their unique training number of diverse societal partners, in The Persianate world includes territories philosophy. The institute organises numerous particular the business sector, the social Tracing Patterns Foundation (TPF) is a historically associated with Persian events and publishes prolifically, including midfield, the media, governments and community of international scholars and textile and Iranian culture and language: Iran, ‘The Clingendael Spectator’, the think tank’s academic and non-academic knowledge makers (weavers, dyers, craftspeople, textile Afghanistan, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, magazine, which is freely accessible for centres. Visit the site to find out more designers) who contribute towards building Iraq, the Persian Gulf littoral, and South all with an interest in current developments about their projects and publications. a body of research on both traditional and Asia. BIPS supports humanities and social concerning world politics. contemporary textiles around the world. TPF sciences research into this region. https://leidenasiacentre.nl/en is a collaboration of like-minded people who BIPS supports UK-based post-doctoral https://www.clingendael.org are passionate about textiles, production researchers and UK-based students to carry processes, weaving and dying techniques, out humanities and social science research symbols, patterns, cultural meanings, art, and into Iran and the Persianate world through history. TPF also provides an institutional home the award of research and travel grants. Institute for South Asia Studies for researchers seeking to conduct original field BIPS usually invites grant applications three UC Berkeley SA research. The foundation maintains a blog, times a year – in January, April and October. a mentorship program, a number of museum This site includes a large selection of online projects and also organises events. https://www.bips.ac.uk resources, produced by the institute and recommended by the institute, dedicated to https://tracingpatterns.org South Asia. Including a wide range of lecture Mercator Institute for China videos, podcasts, blog articles and interviews Studies (MERICS) (Berlin) EA Center for Southeast Asian with well-known South Asianists. Studies at Kyoto University MERICS has established itself as the https://southasia.berkeley.edu go-to European think tank on China. With (CSEAS) SEA about 20 full-time research staff from different disciplines, MERICS is currently the CSEAS offers a wide range of largest European research institute focusing resources, education and events, with International Institute solely on contemporary China studies. Based a focus on Southeast Asia. Find for of Social History in Berlin, MERICS plays an active role in TU Delft Spatial Planning example, their tremendous Newsletter here: informing European public debates on China https://newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp. The IISH is a distinctive institute, serving and in providing senior decision-makers Though not Asia specific, the website of the The Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia: science and society on a global scale. across Europe with in-depth China-related Spatial Planning & Strategy department at the https://kyotoreview.org; and the CSEAS At an international level, its research staff insights critical to their portfolios. Visit the Delft University of Technology presents their Online Movie Project: https://onlinemovie. generates and offers reliable information site to explore their policy briefs, briefings, international research, book updates, blog cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html. and insights about the (long-term) origins, analyses, opinion pieces, etc. posts and links to events. Also hosted at CSEAS is The Maritime Asia effects and consequences of social inequality. Heritage Survey (MAHS), which builds upon The institute holds nearly 5000 archives, https://merics.org/en http://www.spatialplanningtudelft.org The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 35 for Asia Scholars The Focus

Leiden University Libraries The Miguel de Cervantes Digital Collections SA SEA EA Virtual Library This website is the digitised and digital This site can be accessed in Spanish. Library collections born collections of Leiden University Libraries. It is a digital archive and library and includes A number of the collections are Asia specific, a history portal where you can find documents such as the ‘Balinese narrative drawings’, on Spanish colonialism. In addition, the site ‘Southeast Asian pop music’, ‘Colonial incorporates the archives of many Spanish sources’, ‘Japanese agriculture in the early libraries and museums. This site is connected 19th century’ and the ‘Kong Koan papers’. with the Spanish State Archives, accessible in both Spanish and English, which can be Bibliothèque nationale Endangered Archives https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl accessed here http://pares.culturaydeporte. de France Programme SA SEA gob.es/pares/en/inicio.html The national library of France. This This project of the British Library gives http://www.cervantesvirtual.com site gives access to a number of digitised grants to organisations to catalogue, collections and archives. The website is preserve, and digitize archives in danger accessible in both French and English, from across the world. Thanks to this scheme, although the English is poorly translated in over eight million images and 25 thousand Monash Collections Online places. The site also published a number of soundtracks have been digitized till date. SEA articles and free access to manuscripts. Collections span South Asia, Southeast Asia, and beyond. Monash University Library’s Special https://tinyurl.com/Gallica-BNF-EN Collections are an integral part of the Library, https://eap.bl.uk/search/site spanning multiple genres and mediums. Library of Congress The largest of the Special Collections held Chinese Rare Book Digital at the Matheson Library are the Rare Books, Bodleian Library Music and Multimedia, and Asian collections. Collection EA SA SEA EA Laures Kirishitan Bunko The Slavic, Asian, Yiddish language and Database EA Jewish studies collections are also among This library has almost a million images This is the website of the Chinese Rare the largest in Australasia. The collections of rare books, manuscripts, and other The materials contained in the Book Digital Collection which draws from include purchases, gifts, and donations, treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and database are collected and managed by 5,300 titles of Chinese rare books housed and are part of ongoing activities to promote Oxford college libraries. Specific South & Kirishitan Bunko Library of Sophia University. at the Asian Division of the Library of the University’s research outputs. We are Southeast Asia, and East Asia collections The focus of the collection is Japanese Congress. The collection brings together selectively digitising these collections to better are presented alongside a number of other missionary items. printed books, manuscripts, Buddhist sutras enable access to these unique and valuable regional collections. and local gazetteers among other items. research materials. Monash Collections https://digital-archives.sophia.ac.jp These materials encompass a wide array of Online is the new home for the discovery, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk disciplines and subjects in classics, history, access, and engagement with these digitised geography, philosophy, and literature. collections. Most items are available to download and reuse, unless otherwise stated. https://www.loc.gov/collections/chinese- rare-books https://repository.monash.edu

Endangered Archives Programme: Digitising Cirebon manuscripts

irebon was one of the important help to reconstruct how Islam spread Islamic Sultanates in Java, together in West Java in the period of the 15th Cwith Demak and Banten, and had century to the first half of the 20th century. been a centre for Islamic learning and the According to the latest survey, Cirebon dissemination of Islamic teachings in West manuscripts are mostly damaged because Java. Cirebon was also considered to be of inappropriate treatment and natural one of the cultural centres in the Indonesian causes. Others were neglected due to a archipelago, which can be seen in its lack of knowledge about the storage and manuscripts. handling of manuscripts. Read full text at: These Cirebon manuscripts will contribute towards the understanding of Islamic https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP211 intellectual and cultural heritages, and will

Monash Collections Online: Japanese Fairy Tales

ffectively ending their self-isolation among the Japanese, however, the series from the western world in 1853, became hugely popular in the West. The EJapan inevitably became the object influx of 'Yatoi' or foreigners employed by the of fascination for much of the English- Japanese government, saw Hasegawa develop speaking world. Innovative publisher and key relationships with Western intellectuals, book importer, Hasegawa Takejiro, took academics, and entrepreneurs. advantage of this interest, producing the Read full description and find all items attractive and collectable, Japanese Fairy in this collection at: Tale Series (1885 - 1925). Initially, these ‘fukuro toji’, or, bound-pocket books were https://repository.monash.edu/collections/ produced for improving English literacy show/108 36 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources The Focus for Asia Scholars

Qatar Digital Library: The use of ‘Islamic’ seals

‘Performing Authority: the ‘Islamic’ Seals of British Colonial Officers’, by Daniel A. Lowe

ultural appropriation was as much a part of empire as military force. CThe use of ‘Islamic’ seals by British colonial officials is one example of this. In his record of nineteenth century Egyptian society, Edward William Lane wrote that ‘[a]lmost every person who can afford it has a seal-ring, even though he be a servant’. The function of seals as symbols of textual authority and ownership National Library of Singapore BiblioAsia: is deeply rooted in the Islamic world, especially in Arabic and Persian-speaking ‘Let there be light’ societies. Historically, seals were used for authorising various documents, including letters and legal contracts, and for marking Below: Detail of a letter the ownership of books and manuscripts. from the Regency Council Read full entry at: (majlis al-wisāyah), Published on BiblioAsia: ‘Let There Be joined by gas-lit lamps in the second half of dated 30 January 1938, Light’, by Timothy Pwee, 1 January 2021. the 19th century. Even then, street lighting was bearing the seals of https://tinyurl.com/QDL-Lowe limited to major areas in town. Streetlamps Shaikh ‘Abdullah bin ‘Isa Al Khalifah (top), Shaikh imothy Pwee enlightens us about the running on electricity were introduced in the Salman bin Hamad Al history of street lighting in Singapore, early 20th century but there were not very Khalifah (middle) and starting with the first flickering oil many of these back then. It was only after Charles Dalrymple T Belgrave (bottom). lamps that were lit in 1824. World War II that the authorities came up with IOR/R/15/2/181, f. 39r. There is something special about plans to ensure that all of Singapore’s streets Singapore at night. The glittering skyline would be lit at night. Read full article at: of the Central Business District and Marina Bay is now an iconic image, while the https://tinyurl.com/BiblioAsia-Pwee annual festive light-ups of Orchard Road, Chinatown, Geylang Serai and Serangoon Road never fail to draw a crowd intent on Above: Lighted torches taking selfies and wefies. illuminating the evening sky as coolies transport Singapore did not always sparkle after coal to refuel a ship, c. dark though. The first streetlights relied 1876. This illustration first on feeble, flickering oil lamps, which were appeared in The Graphic on 4 November 1876. Courtesy of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board.

National Diet Library (NDL) National Library of Singapore Japan EA BiblioAsia EA SEA This library can be accessed in This site hosts the newsletter of the Japanese or English and is predominantly National Library of Singapore’s archive. text based but includes over 600 audio- BiblioAsia features articles on the history, visual recordings. The archive also publishes culture and heritage of Singapore within Österreichische Smithsonian Libraries the National Diet Library monthly bulletin the larger Asian context, and has a strong Nationalbibliothek each month, which provides comprehensive focus on the collections and services of the The network of 21 specialized research information about the NDL’s collection of National Library. The National Library of The Austrian National Archives can libraries that make up the Smithsonian books and its services: digitised versions Singapore also maintains a few YouTube be accessed in German and English. The Libraries provide the Institution’s museums of rare books, periodicals, dissertations, channels featuring a collection of lectures collection is being digitised in conjunction and research centers with resources and gazettes, political materials, music and talks across a wide range of topics with Google and includes titles from the services that are as diverse and deep as manuscripts, maps, and many more. including history, art, and current events. early 16th century up to the second half the collections, exhibits, and scholarship of the 19th century. From this site you can they support. They truly span the range of https://dl.ndl.go.jp https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg also access physical books and journals scientific and cultural pursuits of humanity https://www.youtube.com/NationalLibrarySG that can be picked up from the associated from aerospace, anthropology, and art Austrian libraries. history to business history and botany, cultural history, design, philately, zoology, https://tinyurl.com/ONB-ANA and much, much more. These websites OAPEN - Online library include a vast collection of public domain and publication platform books and images. The digital collections include over 35,000 digitised books and OAPEN promotes and supports the transition Qatar Digital Library manuscripts as well as digitised photo to open access for academic books by providing MENA CA SA collections, ephemera, and seed catalogs. open infrastructure services to stakeholders Many of the physical collections have not in scholarly communication. They work This website is an archive featuring the yet been digitised, but you can browse the with publishers to build a quality-controlled cultural and historical records of the Gulf physical inventories of those collections collection of open access books and provide and wider region. It is hosted in partnership on the website. services for publishers, libraries, and research with the British Library. The sources are freely funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, available online for the first time. The archives https://library.si.edu quality assurance, dissemination, and digital include maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, preservation. Browse by ‘subject’, ‘publisher’, photographs and much more, complete with ‘language’, or ‘collection’ – for example: ‘Asian contextualised explanatory notes and links, history’, which has about 250 titles included. in both English and Arabic.

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Museum digital collections

The British Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art consecutive Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (New York) (1644-1911) dynasties. The magnificent The British Museum’s website has a large architectural complex, also known as array of online resources, images of over Since 2017, the Met has made all images the Forbidden City, and the vast holdings two million records and artifacts. The site of public-domain works in its collection of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and also includes a large collection of articles and available under Creative Commons Zero antiquities of the imperial collections make explanation of artifacts (Collection Stories), (CC0), so around 406,000 images of it one of the most prestigious museums in with around 600,000 thousand records artworks are freely available for use. China and the world. Fun item on website: linked to Asia. download beautiful high-resolution images https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection for free to use as desktop ‘wallpaper’ https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection or to print out.

https://en.dpm.org.cn National Palace Museum Chester Beatty Museum (Taipei) EA More than a museum with outstanding Digital archives from the National Palace The Rijksmuseum collections, including those from Asia, Museum in Taipei. From 2015 the National Chester Beatty is also a research library for Palace Museum has made all images on the The National museum of the Netherlands, scholars from all over the world. Collections site free to download (CC BY 4.0). You can featuring not only the Dutch masters, but and exhibitions are displayed online, search by dynasty or category. Head to the a comprehensive and representative overview alongside a range of educational resources. tab ‘Open Data’ on the site. of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages onwards, and of major aspects of European https://chesterbeatty.ie https://theme.npm.edu.tw and Asian art. The museum’s website is a playground for art lovers and for those Above: One of the two impressive temple wanting to learn and discover. guardians of the Asian Pavilion in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (Kansas City) EA SEA SA The Nelson-Atkins Museum has various collections of images available online, some Shanghai Museum of which in the public domain. This includes (Shanghai) EA large East Asia, and South & Southeast Asia collections. With a focus on collecting, researching, Cleveland Museum of Art displaying and education of pre-modern EA SA SEA CA https://art.nelson-atkins.org/collections Chinese arts, the Museum has built up a collection of nearly 1,020,000 items. The Cleveland museum website contains Its multimedia section includes stunning a collection of their artifacts and records that videos introducing you to their exhibitions have been digitised including a number that The Palace Museum and collections. are linked to Asia. The museum particularly has (Beijing) EA a large collection of textile and art artifacts. https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/mu/ Established in 1925, the Palace Museum frontend/pg/en/collection/index https://www.clevelandart.org is located in the imperial palace of the

Above: Painting of a Travelling Monk, Sourced from The British Museum digital collection story ‘Exploring the Silk Roads’. Found at the Library Cave, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province, China, about 851-900. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Creative Commons license.

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Networking News sites

Asian Art Newspaper Eurasianet CA CA SA SEA EA MENA This is an independent news organization Academia This website focuses on what is new in that covers news from and about the South the world of Asian and Islamic art, including Caucasus and Central Asia, providing on- A networking website for academics, it can be used exhibitions, events, and auctions. It is free to the-ground reporting and critical perspectives to access and promote academic papers. Academia’s subscribe to their newsletter. The Newspaper on the most important developments in the goal is to ensure that every paper, ever written, is is available in both digital and print formats, region. Published in both English and Russian, on the internet, available for free. It aims to build the for a small price. Eurasianet strives to provide information fastest and most relevant paper distribution system useful to policymakers, scholars, and in the world. Today its algorithms make about https://asianartnewspaper.com interested citizens both in and outside 20 million paper recommendations a day. of Eurasia.

https://www.academia.edu https://eurasianet.org

CrossAsia-Repository JStor Daily CA SA SEA EA Occasionally Asia related, this interesting CrossAsia-Repository is the full-text server of online publication contextualizes current CrossAsia.org, the Specialised Information Service events with scholarship by drawing on for Asian Studies, and provides an opportunity for JSTOR’s digital library academic journals, publishing, indexing and long-term preservation of monographs, and other materials. The service documents on Asian Studies. CrossAsia-Repository also offers a number of newsletters. is a service of the University Library of Heidelberg, which within the scope of its special subject collection https://daily.jstor.org on Asian Studies offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their monographs, articles, lectures etc. in electronic format on the Internet at no charge.

http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de BBC Asia CA SA SEA EA

The British Broadcasting Company is a New Mandala SEA H-Net Asia long-established news broadcaster which is CA SA SEA EA principally funded through the licence fee New Mandala is an academic blog that paid by households in the UK. BBC Asia is the provides analysis and new perspectives on the Part of H-Net Humanities and Social sciences platform for the BBC’s news articles relating societies and politics of Southeast Asia. New online. The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable to Asia. The BBC also publishes their articles Mandala is hosted by the Australian National historians and other Asia scholars to easily in most Asian languages, for example, BBC University’s (ANU) Coral Bell School of Asia communicate current research and teaching interests; Telugu. The BBC operates a number of radio Pacific Affairs and is open to submissions to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, stations including BBC Asian Network, which is from the academically orientated. methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas focused on British-South Asian lifestyles. and share comments and tips on teaching. The site https://www.newmandala.org contains numerous articles, reviews, and an online https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/asia database of resources on the Asian regions that can https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/ be found on the second link given here. live:bbc_asian_network North Korea News EA https://networks.h-net.org/h-asia https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/links Every day, NK News gets you behind The Caravan SA the headlines with analysis from some of the world’s leading experts on North Korea, The Caravan is India’s first long-form insight from both North Korean and defector ResearchGate narrative journalism magazine. It was voices, and opinions from academics, former relaunched in 2010 as a journal of politics and residents and leading international observers. A professional networking site for scientists culture dedicated to meticulous reporting The site intends to bring authoritative news, and researchers. Share your publications, access and the art of narrative. The stories are opinion & analysis, research tools, data and millions more, and publish your data. Connect and based on months of reporting and research, subject specialists together in one convenient collaborate with colleagues, peers, co-authors, and and are crafted into dramatic narratives place. NK News also hosts a weekly podcast. specialists. Get stats and find out who's been reading that employ pace, colour, character and Much of the site is freely accessible, but and citing your work. Ask questions, get answers, literary style. They bring the excitement and a subscription will give access to many and solve research problems. Find the right job using readability of great fiction to stories with real more services. the research-focused job board. Share updates characters, real plots and real consequences. about your current project, and keep up with The magazine works with some of the finest https://www.nknews.org the latest research. reporters and writers in South Asia, and beyond, to tackle complex subjects at a depth https://www.researchgate.net which transcends that of the daily news. Articles are published in both English and Prachatai SEA Hindi; many can be accessed freely, but full access requires a subscription. Prachatai is an independent, non-profit, Vietnam Studies Group SEA daily web newspaper established to provide https://caravanmagazine.in reliable and relevant news and information The VSG website gives you access to a large to the Thai public, particularly with regard collection of Vietnam studies related resources to human rights and Thai civil society. It has (books, journals, scholar directory, library collections, separate news sites in both English and Thai. online guides, digital collections, and teaching Coconuts SEA EA materials). Significantly there is also a networking https://prachatai.com/english discussion board, which functions through an email Coconuts is an alternative online publisher list. The discussions are public, but you will have of news, culture and lifestyle commentary to join the group to participate. from Asia's cities. They also have a Youtube channel called Coconuts TV, which focuses on Radii EA https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/vietnamstudiesgroup the “weird and wondrous untold stories of Asia”. RADII (rā’dē-ī’) is an independent platform of artists, writers and creators dedicated https://coconuts.co to sharing vibrant stories from the rarely The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 39 for Asia Scholars The Focus

explored sides of new China. Founded in 2017, RADII creates multimedia content, events and interactive workshops that shine a light on the topics that connect the world’s young global thinkers together. This website publishes New mandala: Duterte’s opinion pieces, commentary, podcasts and video content on Chinese current affairs, Tight Grip over Local society, art, and technology. Politicians: Can It Endure? https://radiichina.com

Radio Free Asia SEA EA Weena Gera and Paul Hutchcroft, which had been eagerly supported by local New Mandala, 19 Feb 2021. government coalitions. In addition, the Radio Free Asia’s mission is to provide president backpedaled in delivering a financial accurate and timely news and information to he major trend in central-local relations windfall to local governments as promised in Asian countries whose governments prohibit in the Philippines under the regime of a landmark 2019 Supreme Court ruling on the access to a free press. RFA is a private, non- TPresident Rodrigo Duterte has been the primary national revenue sharing program. profit corporation, funded through an annual capacity of the presidential palace to exert a This decision, known as the Mandanas ruling, grant from the United States Agency for very tight grip over local politicians—arguably is the only major win for local politicians since Global Media. the tightest since the martial-law dictatorship Duterte came to power. Yet its implementation of Ferdinand Marcos (1972-1986). This trend has been conveniently pushed out to the very https://www.rfa.org/english has emerged even as Duterte has done end of his term in 2022. strikingly little to advance the reforms that If Duterte has failed to deliver, why do so many local politicians have been keen to many local politicians remain beholden to champion. He abandoned the federalism him? Read more at New Mandala: agenda which he had touted in the lead-up to his presidential campaign in 2016, and https://tinyurl.com/NewMandala-Duterte

Rice media SEA EA Prachatai: Protest at Government Article, 21 Feb 2021. This website publishes alternative House calls for justice for indigenous embers of the Bang Kloi indigenous commentary and opinion pieces on culture, Karen community and the activist current affairs, food, travel and video content Karen community MSave Bang Kloi Coalition have in contemporary Asia. Or in their own words: gathered at the Chamai Maruchet “Asia, Unfiltered. Rice is Asia’s alternative Bridge for the past three days to demand voice. From sex workers to politicians, protection for members of the Bang Kloi contemporary art to street food, we bring Community who returned to their ancestral fresh perspectives and bold commentary on home. everyday life in Asia”. In early January 2021, 60-70 people from the Bang Kloi community travelled https://www.ricemedia.co back to the former location of the Chai Phaen Din village, the community’s ancestral home in the Kaeng Krachan forest. The community was forcibly Southeast Asia Globe SEA evacuated from Chai Phaen Din in 1996, and for a second time in 2011, when park This website publishes daily in-depth officials burned down their houses and rice feature articles on power, money, culture, storage barns. art and the environment. Southeast Asia At the time, the authorities promised Globe is a space for some of the region’s best the community that each family would be writers and photographers to take readers allocated 7 rai of land in Pong Luek-Bang behind the headlines and into the stories that Kloi village, where they were relocated. shape people’s lives. The site is dedicated to However, they were not allocated the producing engaging stories that combine promised amount of land, and the world-class journalism with captivating land they were given is not suitable for art design. The Globe has a number of agriculture. The Covid-19 pandemic has newsletters you can subscribe to, and a also made their situation worse, as many selection of articles that are free to access, community members who leave the village but the site funds itself through subscribers. to work lost their income, leading to the decision to travel to Chai Phaen Din to live https://southeastasiaglobe.com according to their traditional ways. Read Rice Media: Lessons from full article at:

a circus performer about https://prachatai.com/english/node/9077 SupChina EA living with uncertainty “We help the west read China between the lines”. SupChina is a New York-based news platform, that informs and connects a global audience regarding the business, technology, politics, culture, and society of China. Article by Rice Media contributor SupChina publishes in a variety of mediums, Priyashini Segar organises large-scale events, and even hosts an extensive network of China-focused s a circus performer, 24-year-old podcasts. Jonathan comes face to face with risk on Aa daily basis. In striving to perfect stunts https://supchina.com like fire spinning and aerial performances, he has realized two things about life: one can never block out uncertainty, and it actually is possible to even appreciate life’s ambiguity. These days, Jonathan adopts what he calls a “philosophical” view of life. To him, challenges and risks exist to show him that the path to growth is through accepting that nothing in life can be set in stone. It was the attitude he adopted as 2020 drew to a close, and as he enters a new year where unpredictability will continue to define many of his experiences. Read full article at Rice Media:

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Open access blogs and journals

Allegra Laboratory British Library Cafe Dissensus SA Chopsticks Alley SEA Asia and Africa Studies Blog “Anthropology for Radical Optimism”. With a focus on Indian media, This website focuses on the Vietnamese Allegra Laboratory is a platform for a CA SA SEA EA MENA Cafe Dissensus (based in New York) is an and Southeast Asian diasporas in the USA. large number of anthropologists and other alternative magazine dealing in art, culture, The site hosts articles, podcast episodes academics to enliven the ‘dead space’ This blog site is written mostly by literature, and politics. The magazine also and videos on contemporary culture, between standard academic publication curators in Asia and African Studies runs a blog, Cafe Dissensus Everyday. society, politics. and fast-moving public debates. Allegra seeks (one of the ‘subjects’ at the British Library), “A very specific urge behind this magazine to provide its contributors with the chance to but also includes contributions from guest is to challenge the contemporary parochial https://www.chopsticksalley.com showcase their best critical thinking, replete contributors. The blog focuses on the attitude in Indian media. We want honest with the originality of their own perspectives, collections in ‘Asian and African Studies’ debate and discussion that should not be on issues affecting the world today. As such, that have their origins in the collections colored by any fear or favor. We are not Allegra welcomes contributions in different of the British Museum and in the Library of a magazine for news reporting. We want Competing Regional formats that speak to pressing socio-political the East India Company and its successor, to devote ourselves to analyzing issues Integrations in Southeast Asia issues, broadly informed by the beauty the India Office. Altogether more than that need to be discussed and debated.” of ethnography and the critical potential 65,000 manuscripts and over 900,000 (CRISEA) SEA of anthropology. printed books cover over 500 languages https://cafedissensus.com or language groups, ranging from Chinese, CRISEA is an interdisciplinary research https://allegralaboratory.net spoken by one-third of the world’s population, project funded by the European Union’s to languages of New Guinea spoken by The Calvert Journal CA Horizon 2020 Framework Programme that only a few hundred people. Additionally, studies multiple forces affecting regional the Visual Arts collection is made up of about This journal was launched by the Calvert 22 integration in Southeast Asia and the Asian Development Review 250,000 photographs, 12,000 drawings by Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which challenges they present to the peoples of CA SA SEA EA Indian artists, 16,000 drawings by European focuses on contemporary art and culture of the Southeast Asia and its regional institutional artists and a sizeable collection of paintings, New East (incorporating Central Asia, Eastern framework, ASEAN. The five main topics of The Asian Development Review (ADR) is the sculpture, furniture and ephemera. Europe, the Balkans and Russia). Today, the interest are the environment, the economy, journal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Journal is the world’s leading publication for the state, identity, and the region. Three and the Asian Development Bank Institute https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/ culture, innovation, photography and travel transversal themes – migration, gender and (ADBI), published by MIT Press. It publishes index.html in the New East. In its daily features, news, security – are examined within each Work research on development issues relevant to the photography and travel reports, The Calvert Package. Visit the site for an array of policy countries of the Asia and Pacific region. ADR is Journal stands apart for its wealth of original briefs, articles, working papers, and most Open Access. All content is freely available in research, striking photography, and clarity of interestingly: web documentaries. electronic format to readers across the globe. insight on a region that, despite its richness, often goes under-reported. http://crisea.eu https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/adev https://www.calvertjournal.com

Right: The Burning Kelin (Zhasau)/The Burning Daughter-in-law [Dowry] by Assel Kenzhetaeyva ‘By reimagining the national dress, one artist Below: ‘Washing-hands Guanyin’ designed by Hong Kong artist Tik Ka from East. shows what it really Image from the article ‘Why Was Thousand-hand Guanyin Late for the Meeting? means to be a woman Implications of Religious Humour During COVID19’, by Dean WANG, posted on in modern Kazakhstan’. CoronAsur, 18 June 2020. Read article at: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-19

The Calvert Journal: Assel Kenzhetaeyva

Post by Yuliya Khaimovich, The Calvert national Kazakh jewellery, skirts with ethnic Journal, 25 January 2021. prints from around the region, delicate straps, and lace tights. Each garment acts as a ssel Kenzhetaeyva began her career as symbol: despite having integrated certain a fashion designer. Then, she became Western norms into their lives, Kazakh women Aa mother, and began dedicating her still carry the load of ancient traditions. practice to womanhood in all its complexity Kenzhetaeyva’s works speak to the strength and diversity. “Art has always been around and difficulties faced by women who take on me,” says Kenzhetaeyva, whose lineage many diverse responsibilities, dictated both includes opera singers, actors, and writers. by her traditional role as a mother but also “So, it was only natural that I pursued an by the modern ideal to be successful and artistic profession.” But after giving birth good-looking. Or, to quote the phrase that to her first child in 2013, the new stage in accompanied one of her paintings at the life inspired her to pursue painting. “It was UN Exhibition #Artivism for Gender Equality, a period of emotional growth. I wasn’t a “A woman rocks the cradle with one hand and little girl anymore,” she says. Now working rules the world with the other”. Read from her home in Almaty, Kenzhetaeyva’s the full article at: paintings depict women in costumes which combine elements of traditional Central https://tinyurl.com/Calvert-Khaimovich Asian dress with modern clothing, including The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 41 for Asia Scholars The Focus

ow does the concept 퀴어 (queer) operate as a part of everyday life, Hwhen mainstream conception is QueerAsia: What is based upon the controversial Seoul pride? How are my experiences of using this word ‘Queer’ in Korean? academically in universities entangled Made in China: Doing time, with, and distance itself from this popular reception? So, it’s story time: I’d like tell you making money in Angola three brief tales to sketch my experience as a queer student activist. In their differences, ‘퀴어’가 한국말로 뭐에요? (What I explore the radical potential of the term is ‘Queer’ in Korean?): Reflections on ‘queer’ in South Korean context. Across these Navigating as Queer-identifying Student three stories of mine, one question never Activist, by Jessie Yoon. Part of the ‘Queer’ stopped haunting me. “What is 퀴어?” Read ‘Doing Time, Making Money at a criticised by suspicious observers as a form Asia 2020: Rethinking Radical Now Blog the full article at: Chinese State Firm in Angola’, by Cheryl of ‘new imperialism’, while Chinese and Series - Our blog series in lieu of cancelled Mei-Ting Schmitz. ‘Made in China’, volume Angolan state actors praised it as a pragmatic conference activities in 2020 https://tinyurl.com/QueerAsia-Yoon 5, issue 3 (Sept-Dec 2020). and mutually advantageous partnership. As an ethnographer, I was less interested n late 2013, I arrived in Luanda, the capital in casting moral judgement about ‘China of Angola, for a year of research on in Africa’ than in understanding how Ithe recent boom of Chinese investment China–Africa relations were experienced and labour migration in the region. An through everyday life. At one of our first acquaintance introduced me to Li Jun meetings, I relayed this vague anthropological (pseudonym), a 27-year-old manager at goal to manager Li. I wondered whether I a Chinese state-owned construction firm might conduct participant observation at that I will call ‘The Angola Company’. His his company’s base, which consisted of company, like many others, had come to dormitories and offices built on the corner of Angola in the early 2000s under the auspices a construction site. His response surprised me. of the massive National Reconstruction ‘I understand. You want to know not only how Program established at the end of the Chinese people work here, but also how they 27-year-long Angolan civil war. The Angolan live. But,’ he cautioned, ‘you should know one Government contracted Chinese companies thing: Chinese people do not live in Angola; to build infrastructure, paying for the projects we only work.’ Read full article at: with loans from Chinese financial institutions backed by Angolan oil. The arrangement was https://tinyurl.com/madeinchina-Schmitz

CoronAsur SA SEA EA Life as Art Asia SEA platform for queer activists, artists, and Servants’ Pasts SA This is a blog about art and artists academics is done in an entirely voluntary This is a research blog hosted by the based in Bali & Indonesia. capacity. They strive to build a global platform The blog focuses on the history of Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the from which to challenge dominant ideas, forms, domestic servants and service in South Asia. Asia Research Institute, National University https://lifeasartasia.art and representations of gender and sexuality. The project ‘Domestic Servants in Colonial of Singapore. Grounded in Asia, with The platform also has a YouTube channel. South Asia’ (DOS), which ran from 2015-2018, a global and comparative outlook, Religion is an attempt at two levels: one, to write the and COVID-19 curate reflections, analysis, https://queerasia.com history of the servant-subaltern, which is opinions, commentary pieces, photographic Made in China EA almost marginal in South Asian accounts, essays and multimedia contributions and second, through the history of servants written by scholars and practitioners at the The Made in China initiative rests on two rewrite the social, cultural and labour histories interface of the COVID-19 pandemic, religious pillars: the conviction that today more than Roadwork Asia CA EA of South Asia. The project’s temporal scope communities and their ritual practices. ever it is necessary to bridge the gap between is from the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth the scholarly community and the general Research project conducting ethnographic century. https://ari.nus.edu.sg/coronasur-home public, and the related belief that open fieldwork along roads that have been access is necessary to ethically reappropriate designated as key links at the Sino-Inner Asian https://servantspasts.wordpress.com academic research from commercial interface of the China-initiated Silk Road publishers who restrict the free circulation Economic Belt. The site tracks the project’s The Hatha Yoga Project SA of ideas. Starting as a monthly newsletter research, events, publications, social media in Italian aiming to spread awareness of the and even an online exhibition. The team The South Asia Multidisciplinary South Asia focused, hosted by SOAS, this complexities and nuances underpinning has also been maintaining a personal blog Academic Journal (SAMAJ) SA research project addresses the history of socioeconomic change in contemporary (Viral Infrastructure) during the pandemic Yoga. The site contains access to a number Chinese society, Made in China progressed with their thoughts and feelings: This website is a double-blind peer- of publications, a page devoted to resources into a quarterly journal with a specific focus “As anthropologists of infrastructure, we reviewed, open access, journal devoted to on the topic and a blog. on Chinese labour and civil society in English turn our gaze to infra-structures and objects research in the social sciences and humanities language. From that point on, the project in the time of COVID-19. To empty park benches, on South Asia. http://hyp.soas.ac.uk quickly developed in previously unforeseen closed borders and refrigerators exploding directions, including not only the journal, but with their contents. To letterboxes, face masks, https://journals.openedition.org/samaj also book series, summer schools, and other bottles of disinfectant, but also tractors, events. The Made in China journal that you aeroplanes, television screens, balconies, Himalaya: The Journal of see today is published in partnership with camper vans and credit cards. Confined to the Association for Nepal ANU Press and is freely accessible online. our home offices in countries under lockdown, we write, in a freestyle manner, about these and Himalayan Studies SA EA https://madeinchinajournal.com silent participants in our lives. And we marvel at how far humans can be called Homo HIMALAYA is a biannual, open access, infrastructuralis”. peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Modern Yoga Research SA https://roadworkasia.com On this website you can access the journal and its archive of articles. This website is focused on modern yoga and is a great resource for finding established https://himalayajournal.org and current research into modern yoga and, Sarai, Centre for the Study more generally, about some of the most of Developing Societies SA informative research on earlier forms of yoga. The website hosts a podcast, and provides Over the last two decades, the Sarai History of Science in access to a number of articles on the topic. programme at CSDS has arguably been South Asia Journal SA South Asia’s most prominent and productive South Asian American Digital http://www.modernyogaresearch.org platform for research and reflection on Archive SA The History of Science in South Asia the transformation of urban space and Journal, hosted by the University of Alberta, contemporary realities, especially with regard This archive is specifically focused on publishes the latest international research to cities, data and information, law, and the history of South Asian Americans and in the history of science in South Asia. QueerAsia SEA SA EA media infrastructures. The website includes includes 4,154 items ranging from journals, The journal provides open access to research on urbanity, media, and law and photographs to periodicals. 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Podcasts

The Asian Review of Books The China in Africa debates from the iconic Jaipur Literature New Books Network Podcast CA SA SEA EA MENA Podcast by SupChina EA Festival, setting off conversations even when CA SA SEA EA MENA away from the Pink City. Their website hosts The Asian Review of Books has an archive This podcast is “A weekly discussion a number of South Asia related podcast This is a podcast network for books, of more than two thousand book reviews. about China’s engagement across Africa episodes and they have a YouTube channel which you can search according to a number The ARB also features long-format essays by hosted by journalist Eric Olander in Hanoi where you can watch past events and talks. of topics and/or regions, such as South Asia, leading Asian writers and thinkers, excerpts and Asia-Africa scholar Cobus van Staden Southeast Asia, East Asia, Korea, Central Asia, from newly-published books and reviews of in Johannesburg”. If you are interested https://jlflitfest.org Indian Ocean World, Chinese, Asian-USA, etc. arts and culture. It provides an unparalleled in learning more about China’s investment https://www.youtube.com/user/JprLitFest There is also a section called Asian Review forum for discussion of key contemporary in Africa and about the newest develop- of Books. The podcasts are available on their issues by Asians for Asia and a vehicle of ments in China-Africa relations. It provides website but also on Spotify, Stitcher, and intellectual depth and breadth where leading interesting perspectives on China’s Apple podcasts. The network also accepts thinkers can write on the books, arts and presence in Africa. pitches if you have a book to discuss. ideas of the day. The site also hosts a weekly podcast featuring interviews with authors. https://supchina.com/series/the- https://newbooksnetwork.com china-in-africa-podcast https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/ category/podcast Jaipur Literature Festival SA Majlis Podcast CA The Belt and Road Podcast The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship CA SA SEA EA event of Teamwork Arts, which produces This podcast is hosted by Radio Free over 25 highly performing arts, visual arts Europe/Radio Liberty Central Asia Report. This is a highly informative podcast by and literary festivals across more than It hosts renowned speakers and experts Erik Myxter-iino and Juliet Lu. The podcast 40 cities globally. Every year, the Festival of the region who discuss the most pressing gives insight into various BRI projects from brings together a diverse mix of the world’s topics of Central Asia. an ‘on the ground’ perspective, providing greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, plenty of ethnographic details. politicians, business leaders, sports people https://www.rferl.org/majlis-talking- and entertainers on one stage to champion asia-podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/196316 the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The Jaipur Bytes podcast delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful

The China in Africa Podcast: ‘China and the geopolitics of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa’

Published 15 February 2021 jabs available in the coming months. Similarly, a new air bridge between the OVID-19 vaccines are finally two regions, to facilitate the transportation starting to make their way to and distribution of vaccines throughout Cthe world’s poorest countries Africa, is now operational. as production of Chinese, Russian, Nwachukwu Egbunike, the sub-Saharan and Indian jabs ramps up. But it’s the community manager for the independent large-scale distribution of Chinese journalism website Global Voices, says the vaccines that’s causing a lot of people West isn’t in a good position to complain around the world, particularly in about China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ given the U.S. and European countries, to how little it’s doing to help the situation. become increasingly worried about Nwachukwu joins Eric and Cobus to the geopolitical ramifications. discuss a two-part series he wrote on the In Africa, the Chinese have exported geopolitical ramifications of COVID-19 vaccines to half a dozen countries and vaccine distribution for China, Africa, The Asian Review of Books Podcast: are in talks with dozens more to make and Western countries. Three Asian Divas

ARB podcast with David Chaffetz, them to break free of the gender roles that author of “Three Asian Divas: Women, Art pervaded their societies. In "Three Asian and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou” Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou", David Chaffetz briefly he ‘diva’ is a common trope when we explores how these 'Asian divas' could talk about culture. We normally think be seen as some of the first recognizably Tof the diva as a Western construction: 'modern women'. Read more and listen the opera singer, the Broadway actress, to this podcast at: the movie star. A woman of outstanding talent, whose personality and ability are https://tinyurl.com/ARB-Chaffetz both larger-than-life. But the truth is that throughout history, Above: Gauhar Jân (1873-1930) was an Indian singer and dancer from Kolkata. She was one many cultures have featured spaces for of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm strong female artists, whose talent allows records in India. The Newsletter No. 88 Spring 2021 www.iias.asia/resources Online Resources 43 for Asia Scholars The Focus

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Webinars and MOOCS

Berkeley 2020 Conference IIAS Webinars Mouse and Manuscript SASNET SA on Post-Imperial Oceanics SA CA SA SEA EA CA MENA Swedish South Asian Studies Network Catch up on lectures from this 2-day The International Institute for Asian This website hosts lessons in codicology at Lund University - with a newsletter, virtual conference. The conference focused Studies hosts a series of Webinars and and palaeography based on manuscripts podcasts and webinars. on the fragmented, layered and linked other events. from the Middle East, Islamic Africa and oceanic imperial processes, to think with Asia. Lessons are based on manuscripts held https://www.sasnet.lu.se the creative tensions between sociocultural https://www.iias.asia/events predominantly by Leiden university. The https://www.youtube.com/ processes across oceanic surfaces, and https://www.youtube.com/AsianStudies project is the initiative of Dorrit van Dalen and SASNETLundUniversity the mysteries of the submarine. Peter Webb, but includes other contributors https://soundcloud.com/sasnetlund with backgrounds in manuscript traditions. https://southasia.berkeley.edu/pio-videos https://mouse.digitalscholarship.nl/lessons

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