Books:
1. Morgan, David. The Mongols. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1990.
2. Kahn, Paul. The Secret History of the Mongols: the Origin of Chingis Khan. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998.
3. Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times. University of California Press, 1988.
4. Al-Din, Rasid. The Successors of Genghis Khan. Trans. J.A. Boyle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
5. Grousset, Rene. The Empire of the Steppes: a History of Central Asia. Translated by Naomi Walford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
6. Ruysbroek, Willem van. The mission of Friar William of Rubruck : his journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255. Translated by Peter Jackson; Hakluyt Society, 1990.
7. May, Timothy. The Mongol Art of War: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol military system. Yardley, Penn.: Westholme Publishing, 2007.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
1. Jackson, Peter. "The Crisis in the Holy Land in 1260". The English Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 376 (Jul., 1980), pp. 481-513. Deals with the Mongols in the Holy Land.
2. Kaszuba, Sophia. "Wounds in Medieval Mongol Warfare: Their Nature and Treatment in the Secret History, with some notes on the Mongolian Military Medicine and Hygiene." Mongolian Studies XIIX (1996), 59-67.
3. Elverskog, Johan "The Story of Zhu and the Mongols of the Seventeenth Century", in Sarah Schneewind (ed). Long Live the Emperor: Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History (Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008), pp. 211-244.
4. Conlan, Thomas, D. "Myth, Memory and The Mongol Invasions of Japan", in Reinventing the
Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture. Chicago: The Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2008
Websites:
The scrolls of the Mongol invasion are featured on the following website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/mongol-scrolls/
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Online Bibliographies
This will be an ongoing updated list of online bibliographies for diverse topics, as and when I come across them, again courtesy of H-Net Asia.
1. Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religions
1. Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religions
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Resource: Southeast Asia Visions – A Collection of Historic Travel Narratives from Cornell University
Note: Posted to H-ASIA on September 10, 2008
WWW Resource: Southeast Asia Visions (SAV) - a Collection of Historic Travel Narratives, Cornell University
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Southeast Asia Visions (SAV) - a Collection of Historic Travel Narratives
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, US.
Self-description: "The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color. [...] The Visions collection includes the written and photographed experiences of Europeans and Americans who traveled to Southeast Asia during the period of imperialism. The peoples of Southeast Asia experienced waves of colonization beginning in 1511 when the Portuguese took Melaka, a strategic and thriving port city on the Malay Peninsula. The Spanish established a colony in the Philippines which they ruled from the 1560s until 1899 when the United States ousted the Spanish and governed the colony until Philippine independence in 1946. The Dutch gradually conquered the areas known today as Indonesia beginning in 1596 and ending after WWII. The British Empire, centered in South Asia, moved into the Malay Peninsula and Burma by the early 1800s but did not withdraw from Burma until 1948 and Malaysia and Singapore until 1957. France established a foothold in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, an area grouped under the rubric of French Indochina and ruled by the French from the mid-to-late 1800s until after WWII."
Site contents:
* Search (Boolean, Proximity, Bibliographic, Search History)
* Browse (Author, Title [listed A to Z, i.e. FROM: # An account of an embassy to the kingdom of Ava, : sent by the Governor-General of India, in the year 1795 by Symes, Michael (1800), # An account of the wild tribes inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and a few neighbouring islands, with a journey in Johore and a journey in the Menangkabaw states of the Malayan Peninsula by Favre, Pierre Etienne Lazare (1865), # Acheen, and the ports on the north and east coasts of Sumatra : with incidental notices of the trade in the eastern seas, and the aggressions of the Dutch by Anderson, John (1840), # Across Chryse : being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the south China border lands from Canton to Mandalay, vol.1 by Colquhoun, Archibald R. (Archibald Ross) (1883) TO: # A yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma by Geil, William Edgar (1904), # A year on the Irrawaddy by E. M. P-B. (1911), # Yesterdays in the Philippines by Stevens, Joseph Earle (1899), # De Zieke reiziger, or, Rambles in Java and the Straits : in 1852 by Edwards, William (1853) - ed.], Date, Image Date, Image Ethnic Information, Image Format, Image Geographic Information, Image Keyword);
* Collection (Historical Context, Geographic Context, Significance of These Accounts, Bibliography);
* Project;
* Help.
URL http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/s/sea/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/s/sea/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100
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The e-journal [est. Apr 1994] provides free abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with the Asian Studies.
The email edition of this Journal has now over 7400 subscribers.
The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts.
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Resource: The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860 - 1940
Note: Posted to H-ASIA on September 8, 2008
WWW Resource: The Dutch East Indies in photographs, 1860-1940
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The Dutch East Indies in photographs, 1860-1940
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Self-description:
"The years around 1900 marked the heyday of Dutch colonial rule in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Territories outside Java were brought under Dutch rule and the economy was thoroughly modernized.
Thought was also given to the future of the indigenous population and its impact on the relations between the Dutch and the native people.
The collection consists of some 3000 photographs from the period between 1860 and 1940. Most of them were taken by professional photographers who took pictures of landscapes and street life, in addition to photographing houses and factories and taking portrait and group photos. Some of them even took to the road to record all the facets of the Dutch East Indies."
Site contents:
* Intro; * How to search; * Historical background; * About the collection; * KITLV; * Bibliography; * Colophon; * Search in collection; * Browse collection (by photographer, by location).
[At the time of this abstract the search & browse functions of the web site were behaving in a very erratic manner - ed.]
URL : http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/nederlands-indie_in_fotos,_1860-1940
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available, potentially a V.Useful site.
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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The email edition of this Journal has now over 7380 subscribers.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
In Memoriam: Catherine Bell (1953 - 2008)
The notice below is posted on Santa Clara University's website (http://cms.scu.edu/cas/religiousstudies/catherinebell.cfm):
Catherine M. Bell, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, an internationally renowned expert on ritual and Chinese religions, died on May 23, 2008, after a long illness. She was 55.
Professor Bell joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1985, and was named the Bernard Hanley Professor of Religious Studies in 1998. After serving as Chair of the Religious Studies Department from 2000 through 2005, she retired last year due to the burdens of illness.
A native of New York, Professor Bell was a 1975 graduate of Manhattanville College. After taking her Ph.D. at University of Chicago under Joseph Kitagawa, she taught in Japan and then took a post-doctoral fellowship for Chinese language study in Taiwan. She was also awarded fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she served as a Fellow of the Center for Chinese Studies at University of California, Berkeley, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Popular Culture Project at Berkeley. This activity led to Professor Bell's 1992 major work, _Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice_, which changed the framework for understanding the nature and function of ritual within religious and ethnographic structures. The book, which has become a classic in the field, won the 1994 American Academy of Religion Book Award in the History of Religions.
A legendary teacher and mentor of students, Professor Bell regularly taught introductory courses in the Religious Studies Department, as well as an array of courses on Asian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese and Japanese religions). Her seminar, "Magic, Science & Religion: The History of the Social Study of Religion," was much sought after among serious students. Many of Professor Bell's students, who benefitted from her careful and encouraging mentorship, have pursued academic careers in religious studies. Professor Bell was widely known and respected in the profession. At various times she had served on the editorial boards of major academic journals: Religion, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Chinese Religions, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
She was Editor of History of Religions, published by the University of Chicago Divinity School. In 2005 she was named Alumna of the Year by the University of Chicago Divinity School.
In addition to Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Professor Bell authored another book, Ritual: Dimensions and Perspectives, and edited Teaching Ritual for the American Academy of Religion series on teaching religion.
She was the author of several articles, some of which ventured from ritual studies into liturgical theory and practice, for which she was recognized by the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2007 she was awarded another NEH fellowship for her final, unfinished project,
"Believing: Assuming Universality, Describing Particularity in the Study of Religion."
At Santa Clara, Professor Bell was instrumental in the design and implementation of the faculty governance system that has distinguished the University for its degree of faculty participation in institutional governance. Her work on curricular innovation, which included a redesign of the structure of the Religious Studies department, was acknowledged in 1996 with the Brutocao Award for Excellence in Curriculum Innovation. In 1998 she received the College of Arts and Sciences Beyma Research Award, and in 2001, the President's Award for distinction.
Professor Bell is survived by her husband, Steven Gelber, Professor of History at Santa Clara, by her mother Blanche Coogan, and her siblings, James Bell, Linda Whalen, Daniel Bell, and Edward Bell. Memorials may be made to one of the following: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Northern California Chapter, 150 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612; National Breast Cancer Coalition, 1101 17th Street, NW, Suite 1300, Washington, DC 20036; or the Catherine Bell Award Fund, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053.
__________________________________________
Her Works:
Ritual theory, ritual practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
ISBN 0195069234 (alk. paper); 0195076133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Ritual : perspectives and dimensions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
ISBN 019511051X (cloth : alk. paper); 0195110528 (pbk.)
Teaching ritual, (editor). (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
[Series AAR teaching religious studies series]
ISBN 9780195176452 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195176456 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-13 9780195176469 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195176464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Catherine M. Bell, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, an internationally renowned expert on ritual and Chinese religions, died on May 23, 2008, after a long illness. She was 55.
Professor Bell joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1985, and was named the Bernard Hanley Professor of Religious Studies in 1998. After serving as Chair of the Religious Studies Department from 2000 through 2005, she retired last year due to the burdens of illness.
A native of New York, Professor Bell was a 1975 graduate of Manhattanville College. After taking her Ph.D. at University of Chicago under Joseph Kitagawa, she taught in Japan and then took a post-doctoral fellowship for Chinese language study in Taiwan. She was also awarded fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she served as a Fellow of the Center for Chinese Studies at University of California, Berkeley, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Popular Culture Project at Berkeley. This activity led to Professor Bell's 1992 major work, _Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice_, which changed the framework for understanding the nature and function of ritual within religious and ethnographic structures. The book, which has become a classic in the field, won the 1994 American Academy of Religion Book Award in the History of Religions.
A legendary teacher and mentor of students, Professor Bell regularly taught introductory courses in the Religious Studies Department, as well as an array of courses on Asian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese and Japanese religions). Her seminar, "Magic, Science & Religion: The History of the Social Study of Religion," was much sought after among serious students. Many of Professor Bell's students, who benefitted from her careful and encouraging mentorship, have pursued academic careers in religious studies. Professor Bell was widely known and respected in the profession. At various times she had served on the editorial boards of major academic journals: Religion, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Chinese Religions, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
She was Editor of History of Religions, published by the University of Chicago Divinity School. In 2005 she was named Alumna of the Year by the University of Chicago Divinity School.
In addition to Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Professor Bell authored another book, Ritual: Dimensions and Perspectives, and edited Teaching Ritual for the American Academy of Religion series on teaching religion.
She was the author of several articles, some of which ventured from ritual studies into liturgical theory and practice, for which she was recognized by the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2007 she was awarded another NEH fellowship for her final, unfinished project,
"Believing: Assuming Universality, Describing Particularity in the Study of Religion."
At Santa Clara, Professor Bell was instrumental in the design and implementation of the faculty governance system that has distinguished the University for its degree of faculty participation in institutional governance. Her work on curricular innovation, which included a redesign of the structure of the Religious Studies department, was acknowledged in 1996 with the Brutocao Award for Excellence in Curriculum Innovation. In 1998 she received the College of Arts and Sciences Beyma Research Award, and in 2001, the President's Award for distinction.
Professor Bell is survived by her husband, Steven Gelber, Professor of History at Santa Clara, by her mother Blanche Coogan, and her siblings, James Bell, Linda Whalen, Daniel Bell, and Edward Bell. Memorials may be made to one of the following: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Northern California Chapter, 150 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612; National Breast Cancer Coalition, 1101 17th Street, NW, Suite 1300, Washington, DC 20036; or the Catherine Bell Award Fund, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053.
__________________________________________
Her Works:
Ritual theory, ritual practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
ISBN 0195069234 (alk. paper); 0195076133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Ritual : perspectives and dimensions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
ISBN 019511051X (cloth : alk. paper); 0195110528 (pbk.)
Teaching ritual, (editor). (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
[Series AAR teaching religious studies series]
ISBN 9780195176452 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195176456 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-13 9780195176469 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195176464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Free GoogleEarth Data for Chinese History from CHGIS Website
Free GoogleEarth Data for Chinese History from CHGIS Website
We are pleased to announce the release of the GoogleEarth Versions of the China Historical GIS datasets. All historical layers in the Version 4 release have been converted to KML format files, which can be viewed, edited and saved using the free GoogleEarth software. Simply install GoogleEarth on your computer, download and unzip the KML files from CHGIS, and open any KML file.
Contents of the KML release include:
1) Time Series datasets (from 222 BCE to 1911 CE)
2) Qing Dynasty Datasets (circa 1911)
3) Qing Dynasty Datasets (circa 1820) for all of China.
4) ChinaW Dataset (produced by Regional Systems Analysis Project (G. W.
Skinner, Zumou Yue, Mark Henderson at UC Davis)
5) Ming Garrisions (circa 1368 to 1644) Edited by Prof. Michael Szonyi and John Wong with funding from the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation.
6) Buddhist Temples (circa 1820) derived from an index of Jiaqing Yitongzhi, by Yajima Genryo.
The complete contents of the datasets listed above are available for free download by registering your name, institution and email address at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
Editors:
Peter K. Bol (Harvard University)
Jianxiong Ge (Fudan University)
Executive Editors:
Merrick Lex Berman (Harvard University)
Zhimin Man (Fudan University)
Lex Berman
China Historical GIS
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N321
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-6222
Email: chgis@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
Received from H-Asia on 21st June 2008.
We are pleased to announce the release of the GoogleEarth Versions of the China Historical GIS datasets. All historical layers in the Version 4 release have been converted to KML format files, which can be viewed, edited and saved using the free GoogleEarth software. Simply install GoogleEarth on your computer, download and unzip the KML files from CHGIS, and open any KML file.
Contents of the KML release include:
1) Time Series datasets (from 222 BCE to 1911 CE)
2) Qing Dynasty Datasets (circa 1911)
3) Qing Dynasty Datasets (circa 1820) for all of China.
4) ChinaW Dataset (produced by Regional Systems Analysis Project (G. W.
Skinner, Zumou Yue, Mark Henderson at UC Davis)
5) Ming Garrisions (circa 1368 to 1644) Edited by Prof. Michael Szonyi and John Wong with funding from the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation.
6) Buddhist Temples (circa 1820) derived from an index of Jiaqing Yitongzhi, by Yajima Genryo.
The complete contents of the datasets listed above are available for free download by registering your name, institution and email address at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
Editors:
Peter K. Bol (Harvard University)
Jianxiong Ge (Fudan University)
Executive Editors:
Merrick Lex Berman (Harvard University)
Zhimin Man (Fudan University)
Lex Berman
China Historical GIS
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N321
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-6222
Email: chgis@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
Received from H-Asia on 21st June 2008.
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