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Resources in this category are:
- Asia Food
- http://www.AsiaFood.org/
- An online resource of Asian food terms and recipes from Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food. Search the glossary by keyword or browse through an alphabetical listing. Search the recipes by keyword, type of dish, and region. Includes information on tea classification.
- Author: Asia Society
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Ethnic
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Asian American Film (AAF)
- http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/
- "The purpose of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films." The site includes reviews, news, a film database, a collection of short Asian-American films online.
- Author: Greg Pak
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Movies
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Asian American Net
- http://www.asianamerican.net/
- "Asian American Net is the first and the only web site whose mission is to serve all Asian American communities and to promote and strengthen cultural, educational, and commercial ties between Asia and North America. The sitešs primary feature is the collection of regional and country-specific materials available on the Internet. Each country on the Asian continent is listed under one of the five regional groups, i.e., Central Asia, East Asia/Far East, Middle East/West Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia." Includes the address of the embassies for each nation, links to newspapers, Asian studies programs and centers, immigration resources, and Asian American organizations.
- Author:
- Subjects:
- Regional & Country Information--Asia
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: Asia
- Asian Film Connections
- http://www.asianfilms.org/
- Site dedicated to comtemporary cinema in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Each regional section consists of background and analysis, highlights from recent feature films, lists of award-winning films and leading directors, and articles about cultural context with suggestions for creating educational curricula.
- Author: University of Southern California. Asia Pacific Media Center (shaoyis@usc.edu)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Movies
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health
- http://www.apanet.org/~fdala/
- "This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients."
- Author: Food and Drug Administration, Los Angeles District (leu@ora.fda.gov)
- Subjects:
- Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: Korean; Chinese; Thai; Cambodian; Laotian; Samoan; Vietnamese; Breast Cancer; Cervical Cancer; Pap Smears; Mammograms
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
- http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
- Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this is a global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Areas covered are divided into: Middle East, Caucasus, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Pacific Ocean.
- Author: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
- Subjects:
- Arts & Humanities--History--Asia
- Regional & Country Information--Asia
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- AsiaRecipe.Com
- http://www.asiarecipe.com/
- An "everything you wanted to know" resource about Asian recipes and cooking. The highlights of the site are the country-specific areas, which provide a historical and cultural profile of each of 2 dozen Asian nations, followed by recipes for main dishes, vegetarian dishes, sauces, and desserts from each country. The site also includes general information on ingredients and cooking techniques and equipment. A separate section of site deals with herbs and contains a list of herbs, an herb glossary, herbal remedies and folklore.
- Author:
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Ethnic
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: Asian cooking; Herbs
- Japan Insight
- http://www.jinjapan.org/insight/
- "Obtain a deeper understanding of the country at JAPAN INSIGHT, presenting special data and factual essays. General trends and changes in Japanese society are spotlighted, and Key aspects of Japanese life. In the recent past and key influences for the future are explored."
- Author: Japan Information Center (jinmaster@jcic.or.jp)
- Subjects:
- Regional & Country Information--Asia--Japan
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: Asian Studies
- Japan of Today
- http://www.jinjapan.org/today/
- Includes substential Website resources related to Japan.
- Author: Japan Information Center (jinmaster@jcic.or.jp)
- Subjects:
- Regional & Country Information--Asia--Japan
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: Government; Politics; Diplomacy; Science; Technology; Education; Economy; Society; Culture; Japanese Studies
- Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India
- http://www.kamat.com/
- "A large searchable archive of documents, pictures, articles, and citations on the history, mystery, and diversity of India; includes a section on Gandhi, a photo archive and interesting trivia on the Indian subcontinent."
- Author: K. L Kamat, Jyotsna Kamat, Vikas Kamat, and Hiryoung Kim Kamat (kamats@kamat.com)
- Subjects:
- Regional & Country Information--Asia--India
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: India; Subcontinent; Art; Photographs; Timeline; Women; Mythology; Religion
- Martial-Way : the martial arts portal
- http://www.martial-way.com/
- Well-designed site that provides an introduction to many different martial arts. Also provides chat and forum functions.
- Author:
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Sports--Combat Sports
- Arts & Humanities--History--Asia
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Keywords: martial arts; fighting; training; Asia
- SAWNET Bookshelf
- http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/
- This is an excellent resource for books written by South Asian women. The site organizes books by category (fiction, non-fiction, anthology, cookbook, etc.), lists authors, and provides information on bookstores, book clubs, magazines and more. It also provides book reviews, interviews and other information for some books. It is put together by SAWNET, the South Asia Women's Network, "a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues." This site makes me want to go read a book!
- Author: SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) (sawweb@umiacs.umd.edu)
- Subjects:
- Arts & Humanities--Literature--Authors
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers
- Keywords: South Asia; Authors; Writers
- SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network
- http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
- SAWNET's website provides a comprehensive guide to resources and issues (on and off the Internet) pertaining to South Asian women. Topics range from career information to LGBT issues to a list of children's books to news articles from other sources. The site has several contributers from all over the world and, because of the diverse representation, serves as an excellent source of information.
- Author: SAWNET (sawweb@umiacs.umd.edu)
- Subjects:
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women
- Keywords: South Asia; health; literature; children; marriage; divorce; legal; careers; Southeast Asia; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Burma; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Pakistan
- South Asian Women's Network (sawnet)
- http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
- This site provides a wealth of information for Southern Asian women. There is information about jobs, domestic violence, women's organizations etc. all for Southern Asian women.
- Author: Susan Chacko (sawweb@umiacs.umd.edu)
- Subjects:
- Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American
- Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women
- Keywords: South East Asia; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Burma; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Pakistan
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