---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 02 May 2004, by Matthias Arnold New in IGCS - Archaeology (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/archaeology/): Maritime Asia Ed./Corp.: Sten Sjostrand, Roxanna Brown, Dato' Dr Adi Taha, Claire Barnes; Kuala Lumpur, Malysia. URL.: http://maritimeasia.ws/ Language: English. Description: A website devoted to trade-ships that came from China to Malaysia. One part contains the online exhibition of 7 wrecks, "Discovering Asia's ceramic development over half a millennium - through shipwrecks of the 14th to 19th centuries" (part of the exhibition "Maritime archaeology Malaysia" which opened in November 2001 at Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). The website also includes all the content of an article by Sten Sjostrand and Claire Barnes: Turiang - a fourteenth century Chinese shipwreck, upsetting Southeast Asian ceramic history (http://maritimeasia.ws/turiang/index.html), that has been published in: Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol LXXIV part 1 (no. 280), 2001, p. 71-109. Topic pages are supplementary to the principal sections of the site: the Chronology provides an overview of Asian maritime trade up to 1700, drawing on historical sources from many countries and new archaeological evidence. 'Malaysia at the crossroads' explains the wealth of historic shipwrecks around the country. Site Contents: (1) Exhibition: 7 shipwrecks; (2) Specific ships (Tg.Simpang; Turiang; Desaru); (3) Topic pages (Chronology; Malaysia; Ship types; Iron; Compass; Soundings; Tioman); (4) What's new; (5) People/contacts. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno E. Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html