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Asian Studies Resources
Asia
Insights: Tsunami Disaster (http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/Asia_insights/Tsunami_disaster.asp)
Includes information about General Tsunami Summit, Conferences,
Regional responses and analyses, International responses and analyses,
and relevant books about Tsunami.
Electranic
Reserves (http://testweb1.wpunj.edu/library/reserves/)
Includes "Confucius and the analects", "Satyagraha: Gandhi's approach
to peacemaking", and"Moksha, the fourth end of man."
Resources
on Asia (http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Resource.htm)
This website of the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies provides
comprehensive resources on Asian, including Statistical
Information on Asia, Asian
Studies Journals, Asia
via the Web, etc.
Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)
The web site offers comprehensive online information sources about
Asia and individual regions and countries of Asia.
Online
World Atlas (http://www.maps.com/explore/atlas/)
Consists of political and physical world atlas.
Library
of Congress Country Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of
the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and
national security systems and institutions of countries throughout
the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and
the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Please note that some
information contained in the Country Studies is rather dated.
New York
Times - Asia Section (http://nytimes.com/pages/world/asia/index.html)
Covers news on Asia Pacific area.
Washington
Post - Asia/Pacific Section (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/)
Time Asia
(http://www.time.com/time/asia/)
The web site of the magazine Time devoted to Asia.
Far Eastern Economic
Review (http://www.feer.com/)
Asia Society
(http://www.asiasociety.org/)
Provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty
countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region - the area
from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia
and the Pacific Islands.
Asia Times (http://atimes.com/)
A resourceful web site in Thailand.
AsiaSource
(http://www.asiasource.org/)
AsiaSource is an online resource developed by the Asia Society to
provide information about the cultural, economic, social, historical,
and political dimensions of Asia.
AskAsia (http://www.askasia.org/)
A web site of the Asian Society.
Fellowships in Language and Foreign Travel
Fulbright-Hays application links (http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/natrajanb/FHApplication.htm)
The Worlds of Work in a Global Age: Meeting Challenges of Teaching India for the 21st Century -
A Fulbright-Hays Group Travel Abroad Program, 2005-2006
William Paterson University of New Jersey
National Security Fellowships
(http://www.iie.org/nsep/)
The National Security Agency sponsors a program that provides up
to
$8000 per year for college students at all levels to travel abroad
and study
foreign languages, especially non-European languages. Students who
are
interested in learning Asian languages by studying in an Asian country
can apply for the grant.
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