Other Educational ResourcesUCLA Asia Institute
Asia via the Web:
What's New?
Our Center website has several new features, including a catalog of intensive language study programs and a catalog of Asian studies journals.
The U.S. Census Bureau (part of the Department of Commerce) website includes the International Data Base which provides information on 227 countries and regions. The database is searchable and the data can be downloaded.
Kathleen Wong's Social-Political Movements in 20th Century China website. A 1999 UCLA graduate, Kathleen has worked with the Center for the past two years. She recently co-wrote a play about the Tiananmen Square democracy protests and their impact on Chinese-Americans. It was performed at UCLA's Royce Hall on February 20, 1999.
The Asia Historical Statistics Project is a Japan-based effort to gather and share economic statistics on modern Asia (exclusive of Japan). At present, the only data available at the site pertain to China since 1952 and Taiwan. The site includes papers and lists of economics researchers.
Business Week recently published a special issue entitled "100 Years of Innovation." Heavily illustrated, the entire issue is now available on the web with video and other features not included in the print edition.
As Asia slowly rebounds from the economic crisis which exploded in 1997, it is useful to return to a September 1998 Washington Post series on people and institutions affected by the crisis. The site includes an extensive photo gallery.
UCLA's Tom Plate assesses the appointment of Admiral Joseph Prueher as United States Ambassador to China.
"A Right Choice, Even If It Looks Wrong," Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1999.
Brookings Institution "Research on China" webpages
These pages include op-ed pieces, articles on China's economic, political, and military development, as well as audio-video clips.
Three excellent sites to help one learn how to evaluate websites
Evaluating Web Sites (Widener University)
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htmThinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htmWhy We Need to Evaluate What We Find on the Internet (Purdue)
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.htmlUCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management's
Global Window: JapanArchie Kleingartner's site remains one of the best designed and implemented sites of any sort. It is remarkably detailed and clean and easy to use. Especially impressive is the readily accessed glossary and background information.
The Confusion Era -- Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation
This Smithsonian Institution site focuses on posters from American-occupied Japan (1945-52). It includes background readings and a fascinating poster gallery, including "Don't Sell Salt Illegally."
Imaging Meiji: Emperor and Era, 1868-1912
In spring 1997, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore colleges held an exhibition and symposium drawing on woodblock prints from the collection of Jean S. and Frederic A.Sharf. Fifty-two images are included in the on-line exhibition. Excellent resource.
Political posters from China are the subject of several excellent websites.
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Posters Pages
Landsberger provides several excellent examples of these posters in his pages, includes an extensive list of other poster sites, and includes a good bibliography. He contributed to the excellent virtual and real exhibition "The Chairman Smiles" at the Groninger Museum in Amsterdam.
Oliver Laude's Chinese Posters
Oliver Laude visited China between 1989 and 1992 and assembled a terrific collection of pop culture artifacts. Among these are posters and stamps. The translations of the captions are sometimes a little rough, but the images are extremely sharp and interesting.
The University of California, Davis's East Asia Center on Population Resources and Welfare has prepared an extensive and easy to access collection of graphs showing agricultural output by crop, region, and year. In addition, GIS agricultural maps of China are available.
The Asian Crisis -- NYU Prof. N. Roubini
Prof. Roubini, currently working with the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has written extensively on the crisis and this site includes his work and the work of many others on the causes, the course, and the consequences of the economic crisis in Asia.
This page and the others in this Asia via the Web series are maintained by Clayton Dube. Send comments and suggestions to him at the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center (cdube@isop.ucla.edu).
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