Resources on the Contemporary History of Asia

Contemporary South East Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs

2009-09-23T16:33:00.003+07:00

In the web page of Project Muse, you can find many journals and publications.
One of most interesting, from my point of view, is "Contemporary South East Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs" published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, from Singapur. The articles for this publication at Project Muse are in HTML and PDF format.
An intuitive search box in this web allow you to seek for tags related with the articles, and with the publications.

An essential resurse, and with an excellent layout, which can be useful for anyone interested in this geographic area.

Chinese Dynasty Guide

2009-09-14T17:47:00.006+07:00

Today we have something not strictly related only with contemporary history , buy a great resource for art lovers, students, and any person interested in Chinese Art.
Chinese Dynasty Guide allows you to know in a intuitive way, all data concerning the art of Chinese Dynasties in history. From Neolithic Era to the last Chinese Dynasty, the Ch'ing.

The whole site has interesting illustrations and is easy to use. The development of this page is provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Asia Portal at Wikipedia.

2009-09-10T16:49:00.003+07:00

Wikipedia, the "web-based collaborative multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Fundation" have a very interesting resource: The Asia Portal, an indispensable resource for all those students interested in Asian Studies, Economy, Geography, History, Anthropology, or Culture. The site is divided into geographic areas, and countries.

The content is updated constantly, and there is a community of developers, and people working to revise the articles and add new data, maps, and links.

In addition there are diferent portals for each Contry in the are with information, reviews, content and references. A very interesting and complete resource that should be taken into account.

Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam)

2009-09-09T14:53:00.000+07:00

The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is an organization whose main objective is to investigate the recent history of Cambodia, and recovery of historical memory of the victims of the dictatorship that plagued Cambodia under the command of the Khmer Rouge.

On their website you can find texts like this, in wich they show their objectives and purposes and the way they in they are working.

"DC-Cam has two main objectives. The first is to record and preserve the history of the Khmer Rouge regime for future generations. The second is to compile and organize information that can serve as potential evidence in a legal accounting for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. These objectives represent our promotion of memory and justice, both of which are critical foundations for the rule of law and genuine national reconciliation in Cambodia."

More Info at:
Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam).