Resources in Hong Kong and in Taipei | Resources on the Internet

Resources in Hong Kong and in Taipei

1. Research department

The CEFC will be pleased to help researchers and doctoral students who may be passing through Hong Kong or Taiwan by offering them access to its various research tools. Both in Hong Kong and at its Taipei branch the CEFC can make available to them:

• A social sciences library, in French, English and Chinese, of more than 1000 books on the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macao (at the CEFC in Hong Kong), and on Taiwan (at the Taipei branch). In addition, we subscribe to forty or so periodicals and newspapers, most of them in English and Chinese.
• An archive of press cuttings (in French, English and Chinese) on more than 150 subjects, going back to 1995. To aid research, each subject is cross-referenced under chronological or thematic headings.

The Taipei branch also keeps a computerised database listing more than 600 articles on Taiwan, selected from the leading Taiwanese and Western social sciences journals. These articles are all available at the Centre.
Researchers may consult our documentation only within the Centre.

2. Doctoral studies

We organise regular seminars for doctoral students, both our own and those who are visiting. At such meetings, students can discuss their own thesis in progress, as well as articles in preparation for the CEFC's journal, China Perspectives.

We are able to put students in contact with local specialists in their field of research.


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3. Seminars and conferences

We organise regular seminars in co-operation with other local research centres:

• in Hong Kong mainly with the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong and with the Universities Service Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong;
  
  
• in Taiwan with the Sun Yat-sen Institute of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica.

Organisation of conferences, especially on the occasion of the visit of a researcher (whether established or a doctoral student) to Hong Kong or Taipei. If you wish to present your research or your work to the CEFC, we shall be happy to organise a conference of this kind for you.

See the list of seminars and conferences recently organised by the CEFC.

4. Accomodation

The CEFC can help researchers and doctoral students to find a place to stay in Hong Kong or Taiwan.

• In Hong Kong
  On the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin (New Territories). A very reasonable rate of HK$320 per night (HK$1 = EUR 0.1). Please contact us if this type of accommodation would suit you.
  On the University of Hong Kong campus, in Robert Black College, on Hong Kong Island (from HK$400 per night). Reserved for those researchers seeking to collaborate with one of the University of Hong Kong departments. Tel.: (852) 2549 3719 Fax: (852) 2559 4528.
  A wide selection of hotels, either in Kowloon or on Hong Kong Island. Prices for a standard double room from HK$350 per night. Contact May at the Shum Fa (HK) agency. Tel.: (852) 2783 0280. Fax: (852) 2783 0129. Reserving a hotel through a travel agency enables visitors to benefit from lower rates than by contacting hotels direct. We recommend the Bishop Lei International House, located close to the CEFC (4 Robinson Road, Mid-levels, HK$450 to 650 for a double room).
  
  
• In Taiwan
  We can arrange accommodation for you at the Academia Sinica (NT$600 or US$19 per night for a standard double room), or in the Institute of International Relations, Chengchi University, Mucha (US$31 approx. per night). Please contact the CEFC's Taipei branch for further information.

Resources on the Internet

• USC collection on-line catalogue

(in Chinese)

The Hong Kong Universities Service Centre, a research library on contemporary China, has reworked its web site: new search channels for books, journals and newspapers are now available on-line.

A 400-volume new book list, classified by subject, is updated every month. A bibliography of more than 300 research topics is available. Check-lists of books by topic and province are provided. More than 800 titles of yearbooks and statistical books can be checked by topic and province.

The web site also provides links to more than 300 newspapers as well as more than 500 web pages of government departments and research organisations in China, as well as information for visitors including on-campus accommodation and the services and research assistance that are provided with.

• Chinese Newspapers

(in Chinese)

The web site of the All-China Journalist Association Net News has been reworked. The download time, a big problem in the past, has been cut considerably. In addition to now accessing by place name and by type, one can now access by using the Morning, Daily and Evening buttons. New publications such as the Mianyang Daily at Mianyang, Sichuan, can now be viewed. The Military button at the bottom of the page opens up a much wider and better selection of military publications, Chinese and English, than in the past and should be a big hit with military researchers, particularly in the PRC. The PLA Pictorial is now on line, complete with music. One can not only view material from the present issue but can also view at least three back issues.

• AAS 2000 Panel Abstracts Online
  Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Supplied note: "Abstracts of the papers being presented at the 2000 AAS Annual Meeting (www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm), March 9-12, 2000, in San Diego, CA, are now available on the Association for Asian Studies website."

Site contents: Border-crossing Sessions; China & Inner Asia; Japan; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Korea; Interarea; Directory of Participants.

• Annotated bibliography on violence in Chinese culture
  Barend ter Haar, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Site contents: (0) General remarks; (1) Useful bibliographies and introductions; (2) Violence as an intrinsic part of Chinese culture; (3) Warfare, military technology; (4) Collective violence, riots, rebellions (traditional China); (5) Metadiscussions on violence in China; (more extended discussions on wen and wu); (traditional attitudes towards violence); (6) Crime, punishment (including death penalty) and torture; (7) Sacrifice; (8) Cannibalism; 9) Suicide; (10) Exorcist violence; (11) Language for/of violence; (12) Folktales / fairy tales; (13) Violence in post-1949 China; (14) Games and sports; (15) Violent subgroups/ subcultures; (16) The

state monopoly on violence; (17) Festivals, carnival and conflict/ resistance/ conflict etc.; (18) Buddhism and violence/war; (19) Abuse (within the family, of children); (20) Theory.

• Chinese Military Power
  Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

Self-description: "A compendium of online resources about Chinese military policy & capabilities: (1) A gateway to full-text online analyses and research tools essential to understanding China's military policy, capabilities and potential; (2) Access to the spectrum of U.S. opinion regarding China's strategic development; (3) Regularly updated links to online articles, reports and government documents assessing China's military modernization, relevant political and economic factors, the military balance in East Asia and U.S. policy toward China; (4) A bibliography of essential reading, links to online databases, leading area specialists and research sites."

• Chinese Cinema
  East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California, USA

This site is devoted to the studies and appreciation of Chinese cinema. Besides history, news, and visual materials about Chinese cinema, it also contains a bibliography of selected publications in English on Chinese cinema so as to further advance the studies of the subject. While the list of books tends to be as complete as possible, articles on Chinese cinema are selected to represent the following four topics: general, pre-1949 Chinese cinema, the Fifth Generation filmmakers, and Chinese ‘urban cinema’, which are the ones the Web author is currently working on. The term ‘Chinese Cinema’ used here only refers to films and the film industries of mainland China and Hong Kong. Because of "historical and political differences", Taiwan cinema is not included.

• China at the Crossroads: Energy, Transportation and the 21st Century
  Inform, Inc., USA

Inform, Inc.'s publication, ‘China at the Crossroads: Energy, Transportation and the 21st Century’, describes the implications–for the health of China's environment and population, for the energy security of China and the United States, and for global climate change–of the vast explosion in vehicle growth, and argues that the time is ripe for China to choose alternatives to petroleum-based transportation fuels and the vehicles that burn them. The publication is available for free in both English and Chinese on Inform, Inc.'s website.

• AsiaSource: AsiaEVENTS
  Asia Society, New York, USA

Search for Asia-related exhibitions, conferences, readings, screenings, performances and discussions happening around the world by choosing the desired dates and location or searching by keyword.

Coverage: Events for the current and past year in 10 regions of USA, 2 regions of Canada, AustralAsian region, Europe, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the South Asian region.

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