---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 08 Nov 1999 New in IGCS - Culture and Art: Written sources on Yao religion - A research project Ed./Corp.: Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Munich, Germany URL: http://www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/sin/projekte/yaoe.htm Language: English. Self description: "The Munich Yao project, initiated in Oct 1995, is based on a collection of more than 1000 Yao manuscripts, acquired by the Department for Rare Manuscripts of the Munich Bavarian State Library during the last few years. The manuscripts date from the beginning of the 18th to the eighties of the 20th century and originate from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and the southern provinces of China. The project aims at computer supported cataloguing, classifying, and analysing of the manuscripts with special regard to date, regional origin, and persons mentioned. The resulting catalogue will be published as part of the 'Index to Oriental Manuscripts in Germany' (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland). An exhibition of the most remarkable manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library from Nov 4th to Dec 22nd 1999 will conclude the project." Note also the press report on the exhibition at the Munich Bavarian State Library (http://www.bsb.badw-muenchen.de/english/yao_e.htm). Site contents: Institute; Address; Research Team; Scope of the Project; Exhibition; Publications; Lectures. Note: Frames capable browser needed! Resource suggested via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor (06 Nov 1999) by Lucia Obi ([log in to unmask]). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L