---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 28 Dec 2000 New in IGCS - Dictionaries: Glossary of Chinese Islamic Terms Ed./Corp.: Jianping WANG, Curzon Press 2001 URL: http://130.225.203.37/gems/Titles127001/Wang_Glossary.pdf). Language: English. Supplied note: "NIAS is on the point of sending to press a long-awaited 'Glossary of Chinese Islam' by Jianping Wang. This deals primarily but not exclusively with the Hui and readers will find a wealth of information on not only the religion but also the social life and organization of Muslims in China." Self description: "This work focusses on Islamic terms of Middle Eastern origin and is the most comprehensive glossary of its kind to date, taking terms from a wide variety of local gazetteers and archives, newspapers, books and periodicals. It is also the first to fully match the Chinese term (stated in Chinese script and pinyin) to its Arabic or Persian counterpart (stated in Arabic script with Latin transcription)." Description: A searchable PDF-file of the book to be published by Curzon Press in 2001 (ISBN: 0-7007-0620-8). Currently (Jan. 2001) only the glossary is available on-line, but the other parts will follow as soon as available. Site contents: (1) Preface; (2) Introduction (an overview of Islam in China); (3) Glossary; (4) Chinese index; (5) Arabic index. Note: The file is in PDF-format, has a size of 1015K, and is not printable. Resource suggested via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor (22 Dec 2000) by Gerald Jackson (NIAS, Copenhagen, Denmark). __________________________________________________________ Hanno Lecher http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/lecher/ Librarian Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University Akademiestr. 4-8, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany Tel.: (+49-6221) 54 76 34 Fax: (+49-6221) 54 76 39 http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/ Editor China WWW Virtual Library: Internet Guide for China Studies http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _________________________________________________________