Asian & Pacific/Asian-American

Sub-headings:

Chinese

Indian

Cultural aspects of life in the country of India.

Japanese

Korean

Resources in this category:

About.com: Indian Food
http://indianfood.about.com/

An Internet guide for the food of the people of India, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include cooking help, festivals, desserts, seafood, rice, barbeque, and Fusion & Sri Lankan cuisines.

Arirang: An Interactive Classroom on the Korean American Experience
http://arirangeducation.com/main/

This resource presents an overview of the history of Korean Americans. It includes a timeline and lesson plans suitable for high school students.

Asia Food
http://www.AsiaFood.org/

An online resource of Asian food terms and recipes from Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food. Search the glossary by keyword or browse through an alphabetical listing. Search the recipes by keyword, type of dish, and region. Includes information on tea classification.

Asian American Film
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/

"The purpose of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films." The site includes reviews, news, a film database, a collection of short Asian-American films online.

Asian American Net
http://www.asianamerican.net/

"Asian American Net is the first and the only web site whose mission is to serve all Asian American communities and to promote and strengthen cultural, educational, and commercial ties between Asia and North America. The site¹s primary feature is the collection of regional and country-specific materials available on the Internet. Each country on the Asian continent is listed under one of the five regional groups, i.e., Central Asia, East Asia/Far East, Middle East/West Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia." Includes the address of the embassies for each nation, links to newspapers, Asian studies programs and centers, immigration resources, and Asian American organizations.

Asian Film Connections
http://www.asianfilms.org/

Site dedicated to comtemporary cinema in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Each regional section consists of background and analysis, highlights from recent feature films, lists of award-winning films and leading directors, and articles about cultural context with suggestions for creating educational curricula.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this is a global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Areas covered are divided into: Middle East, Caucasus, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Pacific Ocean.

Asian-Nation
http://www.asian-nation.org/

This site dedicates itself to "Exploring the historical, political, social, economic, and cultural elements and issues that make up today's Asian American community, 'Asian-Nation' provides provocative, useful, and interactive content about the Asian American community, concisely but comprehensively -- in-depth research, a few statistics, and a casual, personal style. You can think of it as an online version of 'Asian Americans 101' -- something that everyone can learn from and use."

AsianInfo.org
http://www.asianinfo.org/

"AsianInfo.org is a site designed to give you information on the many countries in Asia, as well as, links to sites in those countries."

AsiaRecipe.Com
http://www.asiarecipe.com/

An "everything you wanted to know" resource about Asian recipes and cooking. The highlights of the site are the country-specific areas, which provide a historical and cultural profile of each of 2 dozen Asian nations, followed by recipes for main dishes, vegetarian dishes, sauces, and desserts from each country. The site also includes general information on ingredients and cooking techniques and equipment. A separate section of site deals with herbs and contains a list of herbs, an herb glossary, herbal remedies and folklore.

AsiaSource
http://www.asiasource.org/

"AsiaSource is an online resource developed by the Asia Society to meet the need for timely, reliable, unbiased information and assistance regarding the cultural, economic, social, historical, and political dimensions of Asia."

Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India
http://www.kamat.com/

"A large searchable archive of documents, pictures, articles, and citations on the history, mystery, and diversity of India; includes a section on Gandhi, a photo archive and interesting trivia on the Indian subcontinent."

Martial-Way : the martial arts portal
http://www.martial-way.com/

Well-designed site that provides an introduction to many different martial arts. Also provides chat and forum functions.

RootsWorld: They Call Themselves Roma
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/gypsypage.html

At this site you’ll find answers to questions including: Roma: Who are they? What is Gypsy music? You’ll also find listening examples of works by the Karandila Brass Orchestra and saxophonist Yuri Yunakov.

SAWNET Bookshelf
http://www.sawnet.org/books

This is an excellent resource for books written by South Asian women. The site organizes books by category (fiction, non-fiction, anthology, cookbook, etc.), lists authors, and provides information on bookstores, book clubs, magazines and more. It also provides book reviews, interviews and other information for some books. It is put together by SAWNET, the South Asia Women's Network, "a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues." This site makes me want to go read a book!

SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network
http://www.sawnet.org/

SAWNET's website provides a comprehensive guide to resources and issues (on and off the Internet) pertaining to South Asian women. Topics range from career information to LGBT issues to a list of children's books to news articles from other sources. The site has several contributers from all over the world and, because of the diverse representation, serves as an excellent source of information.

The Musical Nomad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nomad/

A documentary of a journey through Central Asia with both audio and video clips. "Click on About Central Asia and get background on the region plus video and navigable panoramas or go to the Central Asian Music and get detail about the musical instruments, the styles of the countries and construct your own music using our mixer and simulated instruments."