A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies

Resources for Teaching About Asia

• artasiamerica, Asian American Arts Centre's digital archive of Asian/Asian American contemporary visual artists
• Asia for Educators, an Initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project & the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, Columbia University
• East-West Center, The Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP)
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, Australian National University
• Asia Society, AskAsia.org, "an educational website for students & teachers"
• Asian Music, Journal of the Society for Asian Music
• The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
• China Currents, a journal about contemporary greater China, published by the China Research Center, Atlanta, GA.
• China Research Center, .A Center for Collaborative Research and Education on greater China.
• China Source, Primary Source and Harvard University Asia Center's resource for teachers of Chinese history and culture (registration required)
• Early China Links, compiled by Jeff Richey, Berea College
• Early Japan Links, compiled by Jeff Richey, Berea College
• East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
• Columbia University, Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) Program
• Global Voices Online, "international, volunteer-led project that collects, summarizes, and gives context to some of the best self-published content" on the World Wide Web
• Hmong Cultural Center Inc. (HCC)
• Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center
• IDEAS: Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
• Japan Focus, peer-reviewed journal on Japan & the Asia-Pacific
• The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)
• Project South Asia, "a digital library of teaching resources"
• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, by Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University
• Columbia University Libraries, SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
• Northern Illinois University, SEAsite, "Interactive Learning Resources for Southeast Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"
• The Society for Asian & Comparative Philosophy (SACP)
• Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center
• Web Environments for Exploring Asia, presentation by Phyllis Larson & Craig Rice, St. Olaf College, 2006 ASIANetwork Conference
• WWW Hmong Homepage

Language Learning Resources

• Learning Chinese Online, compiled by Tianwei Xie, CSU Long Beach
• Marjorie Chan's China Links, "annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites"
• Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language & Gender On-Line Bibliography
• Japanese-Online.com: "free learning services to people who wish to study the Japanese language"
• Online Japanese Language Tutorials

ASIANetwork-funded Research Projects

• ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project
• David Del Testa & Cal Lutheran University students, Adieu Saigon, Au Revoir Hanoi: The 1943 Vacation Diary of Claudie Beaucarnot
• Cleveland Johnson & Depauw University students, The Madras Season of 2003/04: A Searchable Database of Featured Ragas, Composers, and Compositions
• John Schroeder & St. Mary.s of Maryland students, Engaged Buddhism Research Project
• Judy C. Voelker & Northern Kentucky University students, Pottery Manufacture in Prehistory: An Examination of Ceramics in the Mun Valley from the Neolithic to the Origins of Angkor
• Linda Patrik & Union College students, Gender Performance Japan
• Michael Leming, St. Olaf College, The Karen of Northern Thailand
• Steven Emmanuel, Virginia Wesleyan University, Making Peace with Vietnam (Documentary Film)
• Wah K. Cheng & Mills College students, China: The Metropolis as Icon of Modernity
• Yukiko Kawahara & University of Redlands students, Social & Cultural History of Japan Through Music Education

ASIANetwork Member Course Syllabi & Web Sites

• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Ancient Empires: China and Rome
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Buddhism
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Laozi and Its Legacies
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Religion in Early Japan
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Religions of India and Tibet
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Religions of China and Japan
• Jeff Richey, Berea College, Taoism and the Arts of China

ASIANetwork Conference Presentations

• Diane Clayton, Hamline University, Asian Culture Comes Home: Local Communities Teach Asian Cultures to the First Year Seminar (2004 Conference: PowerPoint)
• Charles Ess, Drury University, Teaching Philosophy of Religion: a Comparative Approach (2003 Conference: PowerPoint)

Grants/Resources to Support Teaching & Doing Research in Asian Studies

• Association for Asian Studies: Grants & Fellowships
• East-West Center Asian Studies Development Program
• Ford Foundation
• Fulbright Scholar Program
• Henry Luce Foundation Asia Program
• Japan Studies Association
• United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia

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