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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Bibliography of Photo-albums and Materials related to the History of Photography in China and Tibet before 1949

http://gatheringmountains.net/Photoweb/index.html
14 Dec 2006

Thomas H. Hahn, Ithaca, NY, US

Self-description:
"Bibliography of Photo-albums and Materials related to the History of Photography in China and Tibet before 1949. Compiled by [Dr] Thomas H. Hahn. 299 annotated entries, file size now ca. 530kb. [Document created:] April 1997. Last update: November 22, 2006. Arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the author, publisher or editor. Note: a print-out of this bibliography will generate ca.110 pages of text (using regular fonts and 1" print margin settings)."

Site contents:
Bi-lingual (in English, with several elements in Chinese) entries describing: * Author, Editor Or Corporate Body; * Year Of Publication; * Title Of Item; * Subtitle; * Photographer(s); * Preface Or Epilogue; * Publisher/Place/Pages; * Format Of Items; * Details About Images; * Regions Or Provinces; * Cities; * Other Topics Covered; * Notes.

URL http://gatheringmountains.net/Photoweb/index.html

Internet Archive (www.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]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* 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 30


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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Savifa - The Virtual Library South Asia

http://www.savifa.de
10 Dec 2006

DFG-Projekt "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Suedasien", Suedasien-Institut / Bibliothek Im Neuenheimer, Heidelberg, Germany

Self-description:
"The information gateway for South Asia Studies, which offers you a comprehensive access to professionally selected and annotated internet resources as well as other scientific information."

Supplied note:
"Savifa offers access to information and literature from and about South Asia as a subject gateway within the broad range of the regional sciences. So far the following elements are available: * SavifaGuide: [...] Up to now 1300 resources have been catalogued and annotated in SavifaGuide; mostly in English, but also in many Indian languages, e.g. Urdu, Bengali/Assamese and Tamil. * SavifaDok: an [Open Access - ed.] electronic platform for publishing and archiving academic literature in the field of South Asian studies. [...] We publish books, articles and research papers as well as multi media documents. * OLC-SSG South Asia: a bibliographical article database which provides access to table of contents of about 220 journals relevant to the study and research on culture, politics and languages of South Asia. The journals are usually indexed back to the year 1993. [...] * Acquisition lists: our monthly lists inform you about new acquisitions of the South Asia Institute's library. [...] For all these and other services we offer to the South Asian research community, please visit our website at [the URL below] - nm &rg.]

Site contents:
* New (Newsletter, New Acquisitions); * Search (Metasearch, SavifaGuide, OLC-Article Databases, E-Journals, Document Server); * Interactive (Publishing, Directory of South Asian Scholars, Suggest a Website, Comments); * About Savifa (Special Subject Collection, Project Description, Publications).

URL http://www.savifa.de

[A bi-lingual (DE, EN) site - ed.]

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by:
Nicole Merkel (merkel--at--sai.uni-heidelberg.de) and Robby Geyer (geyer--at--sai.uni-heidelberg.de), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Online Guide
* 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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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/vk/
04 Dec 2006

Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925

Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, US

Supplied note: "'Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925,' is an exhibit of 39 compelling color images of rare colored lantern slides taken by two young American explorers, Janet E. and Frederick R. Wulsin, Jr., from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Janet was one of the first American women explorers to reach western China, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet. Together they produced this series of superb photographs of the Ta'er, Labuleng and Zhuoni lamaseries, religious ceremonies, and landscapes they encountered during their expedition for the National Geographic Society in 1923. Shown publicly for the first time, this traveling exhibit is organized by PEM in conjunction with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. The Silkroad Foundation is a co-sponsor of the exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 4, 2006-February 7, 2007. Further information may be found on the Burke Museum website [at the URL below].

Sacred Portraits from Tibet - Augmenting the photographs of Vanished Kingdoms through February 4, is 'Sacred Portraits from Tibet,' [www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/exhibits/sacred/ - ed.] a display of Burke Museum thangkas, large, delicately painted Tibetan religious paintings. Thangkas typically feature portraits of arhats or Buddhist saints and important lamas or Buddhist teachers. Paintings made between the 17th and early 20th centuries demonstrate not only the rich iconography of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but also the exquisite painterly skills in portraiture and illustration. - dcw."

Site contents: Exhibit; Events; Resources; Blog; Sponsors.

URL http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/vk/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]

Link reported by: Daniel C. Waugh (dwaugh--at--u.washington.edu),
forwarded by Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies (central-eurasia-L--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
* 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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