---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 31 May 2005, reviewed by Hanno E. Lecher New in IGCS - History - Overseas Chinese: Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource Ed./Corp.: Geoff Wade, Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, Singapore. URL: http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ Language: English. Self description: "The Ming Shi-lu (also known as the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China (1368-1644). [...] Among the unique materials contained within the Ming Shi-lu (MSL) are a wide range of references to polities and societies which today we consider to be parts of 'Southeast Asia'. Given the annalistic nature of the MSL and the difficulties of searching such a huge corpus, many of these have long remained unknown. This work identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia contained within the MSL and provides them to readers in English-language translation. In addition to the more obvious Southeast Asian polities of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, this database also includes references to the many Yunnan Tai polities which have subsequently been incorporated within the Chinese state. The fact that many of these references predate European sources on Southeast Asia underlines their importance to historians of the region. The collection can be browsed chronologically by Western date or by reign date, or searched by specific terms. To assist in searches, an index of personal and place names, with their Chinese equivalents appended, is provided separately." Site contents: (1) About this source; (2) Browse by year; (3) Browse by reign; (4) Search for place names; (5) Seafch for personal names; (6) Comments page; (7) Newsletter signup page. Resource suggested via Asian Studies WWW Monitor (15 Apr 2005) by Geoff Wade, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Resource suggested via Asian Studies WWW Monitor (15 Apr 2005) by Geoff Wade, National University of Singapore, Singapore. _______________________________________________________ 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