==please add links and commentary as convenient== Recent links of interest to SAHALIYAN: GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP: The developing Qing Studies research portal at Dartmouth (currently based on the text of ECCP but expanding to unlimited commentary and annotation regions relating to all areas of Qing Studies): http://www.dartmouth.edu/~qing/ David Lurie's 2004 syllabus of his course on East Asian (actually Eastern Eur/Asian) writing systems: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:FZhofmHy8UMJ:www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/Lurie.EAwriting HISTORY: Recent research reports on the genetic profiling and reconstruction of the population and migration histories of Northeast Asia, Mongolia and northern China: http://vetinarilord.blogspot.com/2006/03/y-chromosomal-dna-variation-in-east.html LINGISTICS: For those interested in study or research on the Manchu language, the following list: [log in to unmask] (maintained by Gertraude Roth Li) The late S.A. Starostin's concept database of Tungusic lexicons: http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/query.cgi?basename=\data\alt\tunget&root=config&morpho=0 Xinhua description of Zhao Shengli's Manchu lexicon: http://english.people.com.cn/200506/08/eng20050608_189198.html Wu Paling's wonderful web device for generation of imaged Manchu script: http://wuzhenjun.com/ SOCIAL PROGRESS, CULTURAL PRESERVATION & ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE The Orochen Foundation, which Hing Chao's recent world-wide tour has brought to everyone's attention: http://www.orochenfoundation.org/ Homepage of the Aleut Foundation: http://www.thealeutfoundation.org/Cultural/index.html Information page (in English) on Republic of Yakutia http://www.yakutia.org/
