The Art and Images of China

A showcase of Chinese Art including architecture, caligraphy, photography, and history.

weichenx

1070

English

http://www.ibiblio.org/chineseart/

Bangladesh Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion

The cardinal mission of BAPSA is to improve the reproductive health care services through a community based social development approach. In this respect, the organization seeks to create an environment that would guarantee an improvement in the quality of life and health of those so long uncared for both in the urban and rural areas. As several actors would be involved in fulfilling the mission of BAPSA, the organization believes in an integrated approach towards solving the problems related to reproductive health services OBJECTIVES OF BAPSA * improve women's health by ensuring quality reproductive health care services; create awareness among the under served urban and rural citizenry about the reproductive rights; * establish a system for prevention of septic abortion by organizing training and services; * create a 'Center of Excellence' and maintain the standard of treatment for septic abortion cases; * create a database, organize training, and maintain information linkage on the latest developments related to M.R. and its providers in the country; * develop a surveillance system for monitoring the quality of M.R. services in the country; * and finally undertake research on reproductive health, incidence of septic abortion, and all relevant areas concerning women and health care providers.

jpolka

1045

http://www.ibiblio.org/bapsa/

World Tibet Day

Information about World Tibet Day - created to help restore freedom for those living in Tibet, to increase awareness of the genocidal threats, and to celebrate Tibetan culture and thought

dap

999

http://worldtibetday.org

Webwalker

Tibetian and Mongolian news

walker

993

http://webwalker.to

Shizutani School

Website for a Massachusetts based Japanese crafts school

hms

978

http://shizutanischool.org

KeliIndia.org

KELI is a Mumbai based organization dedicated to the preservation, development and propagation of the traditional classical art forms. Includes a performance gallery.

nachiar

946

English

http://keliindia.org

Online Burma/Myanmar Library

Classified and annotated links to more than 11,000 full text documents on Burma/Myanmar

867

English

http://www.burmalibrary.org/

World Student Christian Federation Asia-Pacific Publications Archive (1974-2003)

An online archive of a CD-ROM containing World Student Christian Federation Asia-Pacific Region (WSCF-AP) print publications on theology, history, geography and women's studies from 1974 to 2003, plus the WSCF-AP 2004 DVD Our Stories, Our Struggle.

WSCF is the parent body of Student Christian Movements (SCMs) around the world, each of which are an ecumenical group of students dedicated to social justice and progressive theology.

jonathan

778

English

http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/wscfap/

Gamelan Nyai Saraswati

Gamelan Nyai Saraswati is an ensemble of the Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina ? Chapel Hill. Gamelan is a Javanese/Indonesian word for ensemble. The word "gamel" means to hammer something in Javanese and , indeed, "hammering" or hitting is the way in which most of the different instruments in the ensemble are sounded with the exception of the two stringed instruments ? the bowed fiddle (rebab) and the plucked zither (siter) ? and the flute (suling), male chorus (gerong) and female soloists (pasindhen).

Western musicians who hear gamelan are struck both by the complexity of the relationships between the melody lines of the different instruments and, if they are aware of the "rules" of western harmony, by the almost "impressionistic" tone clusters that can be heard if the listener hears the music vertically, or tries to interpret it "harmonically". People without musical training often focus on the melifluousness of the sound and the soothing, meditative quality of some of the music. Others are excited by the multileveled interlockingness of the texture, comparing it to the experience of listening to several, incredibly good jazz solo players improvising together.

gadde

541

http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/