Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars:
a Dictionary

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

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CA&CC	Central Asia and the Caucasus Press	body	Institute for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies	Sweden
CAAC	Chaire ASIE / ASIA Chair: Canada Chair of Asian Research	body	U. de Montreal	Canada
CAAKS	Central Asian Association for Korean Studies	body	---	---
CAALS	Circle for Asian American Literary Studies	group	American Literature Association (ALA)	US
CAAPR / APR	Central Asia Agency of Political Research	body	---	Kazakhstan
CAAS	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	body	---	China
CAAS	Centre for Arabic and African Studies	body	Jawarhal Nehru U.	India
CAAS	Center for Asian American Studies	body	U. of Texas at Austin	US
CAB	Centre for Asian Business	body	U. of South Australia	Australia
CACI	Central Asia-Caucasus Institute	body	SAIS	US
CACSA	Central Asia Crafts Support Association	group	---	Kyrgyzstan
CACSA	Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia	body	---	Australia
CAD	Caucasus Analytical Digest	periodical	Heinrich Boell Foundation in Tbilisi, the University of Bremen, the Jefferson Institute in Washington, DC and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich	Switzerland
CAD	Center for Asian Democracy	body	U. of Louisville, KY	US
CAD	Chicago Assyrian Dictionary	resource	OI	US
CADAL	China-America Digital Academic Library	project / resource	Zhejiang University Libraries, Hangzhou	China
CADAP	EU Central Asia Drug Action Programme	program	---	Kyrgystan
CAEC	Council for Asia Europe Cooperation	group	---	---
CAEG	China Agricultural Economics Group	group	The U. of Queensland	Australia
CAFDP	Central Asian Faculty Development Programme	program	U. of Central Asia	Kyrgyzstan
CAFHOV	Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria	group	---	Australia
CAG	Central Asian Gateway	resource	UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS	---
CAHS	Chinese Australian Historical Society	group	---	Australia
CAI-APS	Central American Institute of Asia Pacific Studies	body	International U. of Humanities and Social Sciences	Costa Rica
CAIS	Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies	body	ANU	Australia
CAIS	Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies	group	SOAS	UK
CAITEC	Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation	body	---	China
CAJ	China Academic Journals Full-text Database	resource	CNKI	China
CAJ	China Academic Journals	resource	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Germany
CAJ	Communication Association of Japan	group	---	Japan
CAJLE	Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education	group	---	Canada
CALE	Center for Asian Legal Exchange	body	Nagoya U.	Japan
CALES	Centre for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies	body	---	Yemen
CALI	Central Asia Law Initiative	project	U. of Montana	US
CALS	Centre for Asian Legal Studies	body	U. of British Columbia	Canada
CALSC	Central Asian Languages Studies Center	body	IUCA	Kyrgyzstan
CAMEL	Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes	project	OI	US
CAMERA	Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America	body	---	US
CAMMIC	Central Asian Migration Management and International Cooperation	project	U. of Toyama	Japan
CAN	Chechnya Advocacy Network	group	---	US
CANELA	Confederacion Academica Nipona, Espanola, Latinoamericana	group	---	Spain
CANMES	Canadian Committee of the Middle East Studies Association	group	MESA	Canada
CANSS	Center for Australia, Zealand and South Pacific Studies	---	IAPS	China
CAORC	Council of American Overseas Research Centers	group	---	US
CAP	El Centro de Asia-Pacifico / Asia Pacific Center	body	Universidad de Chile	Chile
CAPA	Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation	body	---	Australia
CAPART	Council for the Advancement of People's Action & Rural Technology	group	---	India
CAPAS	Center for Asia Pacific Area Studies	body	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
CAPDTC	China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture	body	---	China
CAPI	Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives	body	U. of Victoria, Victoria, BC	Canada
CAPI	Council of Asian Press Institutes	group	---	---
CAPLUS	Centre for Asian and Pacific Law in the University of Sydney	body	U. of Sydney	Australia
CAPP	Center for Asian Politics and Policy	body	---	US
CAPP	Center for Asia Pacific Policy	body	RAND	US
CAPRN	Canada-Asia Pacific Research Network	group	Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada	Canada
CAPS	Center for Advanced Philippine Studies	---	--	Philippines
CAPS	Center for Asian and Pacific Studies	---	U. of Oregon	US
CAPS	Center for Asian and Pacific Studies	---	U. of Iowa	US
CAPS	Centre for Asian Pacific Studies	body	Lingnan U., HK	China
CAPS	China and Asia-Pacific Studies	---	Cornell U.	US
CAPS	Center for Asian and Pacific Studies	---	Seikei U.	Japan
CAPS	Certificate in Asia Pacific Studies	program	U. of San Francisco	US
CAPSA	Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops' Development in Asia and the Pacific	body	ESCAP	Indonesia
CAPSEA	South East Asian Cooperative Acquisitions Program	program	Library of Congress - Southeast Asia Region	Indonesia
CAPSTRANS	Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies	body	U. of Wollongong	Australia
CAPWIP	Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics	body	---	Philippines
CARC	Central Asian Resource Centre	body	Corporate Educational Foundation "Bilim-Central Asia", Almaty	Kazakhstan
CARI	Central Asia Research Initiative	project	Open Society Institute	Hungary
CARN	Central Asia Research Network	group	---	---
CARRE	Central Asia Research and Remediation Exchange	---	San Diego State U.	US
CARS	Center for Asian Regional Studies	body	Chungnam National U.	South Korea
CARTI	Central Asia Research and Training Initiative	project	Open Society Institute	Hungary
CAS	Centre of Asian Studies	body	U. of Hong Kong	HK
CAS	Centre for Asian Studies	body	U. of of Kelaniya	Sri Lanka
CAS	Center for Asian Studies	body	U. of Colorado at Boulder	US
CAS	Central Asian Survey	---	Routledge	UK
CASA	Canadian Asian Studies Association	group	Concordia U.	Canada
CASA-CCSEAS	Canadian Asian Studies Association's Southeast Asia Council (aka Canadian Council of Southeast Asia Studies, CCSEAS)	group	CASA	Canada
CASA-EAC	Canadian Asian Studies Association's East Asia Council (aka East Asia Council, EAC)	group	CASA	Canada
CASA-SAC	Canadian Asian Studies Association's South Asia Council (aka South Asia Council, SAC)	group	CASA	Canada
CASA	Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam	body	U. of Amsterdam	The Netherlands
CASAAP	Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific	body	Curtin U.	Australia
CASAS	Chinese Association for South Asian Studies	group	IAPS	China
CASAS	Centre for Applied South Asian Studies	body	U. of Manchester	UK
CASBAH	Caribbean Studies and Black and Asian History	body	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	UK
CASC	Central Asia and South Caucasus Social Development Network	group	LSE	UK
CASC	Central Asian Studies Conference	meeting	---	---
CASE	Centre Asie du Sud-Est	body	Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)	France
CASE-Kyrgyzstan	Center for Social and Economic Research in Kyrgyzstan	body	---	Kyrgyzstan
CASG	Central Asian Studies Group	resource	U. of Washington	US
CASH	Centre for Asian Societies and Histories	body	ANU	Australia
CASI	Center for the Advanced Study of India	body	U. of Pennsylvania	US
CASP	Central Asian Studies Program	program	U. of Washington	US
CASS	Center for Asian Security Studies	body	NBR	US
CASS	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	body	---	China
CASWW	Central Asian Studies World Wide, now CESWW	---	Harvard U.	US
CAUS	Centre for Arab Unity Studies	body	---	Lebanon
CAYN	Central Asian Youth Network	group	Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)	Uzbekistan
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CBAP	Centrum Badan Azji i Pacyfiku / Centre for Asia Pacific Studies	body	Polska Akademia Nauk	Poland
CBD	Chinese Biographical Database	resource	Lewis-Clark State College	US
CBDB	China Biographical Database Project	resource	Harvard U.	US
CBETA	Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association	group	---	Taiwan
CBJ	Caspian Business Journal	periodical	---	US
CBRL	Council for British Research in the Levant	group	---	UK
CBS	Center for Buddhist Studies	body	Columbia U.	US
CBS	Centre for Bhutan Studies	body	---	Bhutan
CBSR	Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region	body	U. of Georgia, Tbilisi	Georgia
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CCA	Chinese Communication Association	group	---	US/Singapore
CCA	Christian Conferences of Asia	---	---	Hong Kong
CCALT	Center for Central Asian Literatures in Translation	---	U. of Washington	US
CCAS	Center for Contemporary Arab Studies	---	Georgetown U.	US
CCASLS	Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies	group	---	Canada
CCAsP	Caucasus and Central Asia Program	program	U. of California, Berkeley	US
CCBD	Centre for Chinese Business and Development	body	U. of Leeds	UK
CCC	Contemporary China Centre	body	RSPAS	Australia
CCC	Chinese Commercial Code aka Chinese Telegraph Code (CTC)	resource	www.njstar.com	Australia
CCCAC	Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus	body	SOAS	UK
CCCM	Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau	---	---	Portugal
CCCS	Chennai Centre for China Studies	body	---	India
CCD	China Citation Database	resource	CNKI	China
CCEIL	Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law	body	SOAS	UK
CCER	China Center for Economic Research	body	Peking U.	China
CCHSBC	Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia	group	--	Canada
CCIM	Chinese Christian Internet Mission	body	---	US
CCJR	Columbia Center for Japanese Religion	body	---	US
CCKF	Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange	body	--	Taiwan
CCK-ISC	Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Centre	body	---	Taiwan / Czech Republic
CCND	China Core Newspapers Full-text Database	resource	CNKI	China
CCP	Centre for the Contemporary Pacific	body	RSPAS	Australia
CCPD	Center for Communication and Policy Development	---	Yonsei U.	South Korea
CCPR	Center for Contemporary Political Research	---	National U. of Mongolia	Mongolia
CCR	Centre for Chinese Research	body	IAR	Canada
CCRC	Caucasus Research Resource Centers	body	---	Georgia
CCS	Centre of Chinese Studies	body	SOAS	UK
CCS	Center for Chinese Studies	body	National Central Library	Taiwan
CCS	Center for Chinese Studies	body	U. of California, Berkeley	US
CCS	Center for Chinese Studies	body	U. of Hawaii	US
CCS	Centre for Chinese Studies	body	Victoria U. of Manchester	UK
CCSAS	Canadian Center for South Asian Studies	body	U. of Ontario Institute of Technology	Canada
CCSBS	Center for Contemporary Shin Buddhist Studies	body	IBS	US
CCSEAS	Canadian Council of Southeast Asia Studies (aka Canadian Asian Studies Association's Southeast Asia Council, CASA-CCSEAS)	group	CASA	Canada
CCSL	Center for Chinese Studies Library	---	U. of California, Berkeley	US
CCSMSC	Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures	body	Simon Fraser U.	Canada
CCT	Classical Chinese Texts	project	Warring States Project	US
CCTS	Chinese Civilization in Time and Space	project	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
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CDI	China Development Institute	---	---	China
CDLI	Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative	project	UCLA/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science	US/Germany
CDMD	China Doctor/Master Dissertation Full-text Database	resource	CNKI	China
CDPSP	Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press Digital Archive	resource	U. zu Koeln	US
CDRI	Cambodia Development Resource Institute	body	---	Cambodia
CDS	China aktuell - Data Supplement	resource	GIGA	Germany
CDS	Centre for Development Studies	body	Trivandrum, Kerala	India
CDSL	Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon	resource	U. zu Koeln	Germany
CDT	China Digital Times	resource	---	---
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CEA	Centro de Estudos Asiaticos	body	Univeridade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brasil
CEAL	Centre of East Asian Law	body	SOAS	UK
CEAL	Council on East Asian Libraries	group	AAS	US
CEAA	Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos	body	U. Candido Mendez	Brasil
CEAA	Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa / Center for Asian and African Studies	body	El Colegio de Mexico	Mexico
CEAA	Centro de Estudios de Asia, africa y Diasporas Latinoamericanas y Caribenas	body	Universidad de Los Andes, Merida	Venezuela
CEAD	Centre d'Etudes Arabes pour le Developpement	body	---	Canada
CEAO	Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental	body	U. Autonoma Madrid	Spain
CEAR	Centro de Estudios Arabes	body	U. Playa Ancha	Chile
CEAS	Center for East Asian Studies	body	Monterey Institute of International Studies	US
CEAS	Centre for Asian Studies	body	U. Goeteborg	Sweden
CEAS	Centre for East Asian Studies	body	U. of Turku	Finland
CEAS	Centre for East Asian Studies	body	U. of Bristol	UK
CEAS	Centre for Euro-Asian Studies	body	U. of Reading	UK
CEAS	Center for East Asian Studies	body	Stanford U.	US
CEAS	Center for East Asian Studies	body	U. Pennsylvania	US
CEAS	Center for East Asian Studies	body	U. of Chicago	US
CEC	Carrie Eurasia Collection	resource	European U. Institute, Florence	Italy
CEC	Center for Economic Catch-up	body	Seoul National U.	South Korea
CECA	Centro de Estudios Corea	body	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina
CECC	Congressional-Executive Commission on China	body	---	US
CECHIMEX	Centro de Estudios China-Mexico	body	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Mexico
CECM	Centre d'Etudes sur la Chine Moderne et Contemporaine	body	L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales	France
CED	Centre for Education & Documentation	body	Mumbai	India
CED	China Economic Databases Project	---	National Chengchi U.	Taiwan
CeDAAME	Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East	body	SOAS	UK
CEDIMES	Centre d' Etudes sur le Developpement International et les Mouvements Economiques et Sociaux	body	---	France
CEEAS	Center for East-European and Asian Studies / Centrul di Studii Est-Europene si Asiatice	body	---	Romania
CEELI	Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative	project	American Bar Association	US
CEENIS	Central & Eastern European Network of Indian Studies	group	---	European Union
CEERES	Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies	body	U. of Chicago	US
CEEVN	Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam	body	American Council of Learned Societies	US
CEF	China and Eurasia Forum	periodical	Johns Hopkins U.	US
CEFAS	Centre Francais d'Archeologie et de Sciences Sociales	body	---	Yemen
CEFC	Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine / French Centre for Research on Contemporary China	body	---	HK
CEG	Calligraphy Education Group	group	CLTA	US
CEG	China Elections & Governance Website	resource	The Carter Center	US
CEH	Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes	body	---	France
CEI	China-Europe Institute Cultural Centre	body	Catholic U. of Leuven	Belgium
CEIAS	Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud	body	---	France
CEIBS	China Europe International Business School	body	---	China
CEIC	Centro Espanol de Investigaciones Coreanas	body	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha	Spain
CEJAP	Centro de Estudos Japoneses	body	Universidade de Sao Paulo	Brasil
CEL	Central-Eurasia-L mailing list	resource	Harvard U.	China
CELA	Central Eurasia Leadership Academy	body	---	China
CeLCAR	Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region	body	Indiana U.	US
CEMOC	Centro de Estudios del Medio Oriente Contemporaneo	body	---	Argentina
CEMOTI	Cahiers d. Etudes sur la Mediterranee Orientale et le Monde Turco-Iranien	periodical	---	France
CENS	Centre of Excellence for National Security	body	RSIS	Singapore
CEO	Centro de Estudios Orientales	body	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru	Peru
CEP	Central Eurasia Project	project	US
CEPESA	Centro Portugues de Estudos do Sudeste Asiatico	body	---	Portugal
CEPII	Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales	body	---	France
CER	China Economic Review	periodical	---	China
CER	Center for Economic Research	body	---	Uzbekistan
CERAMOC	Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain	body	---	Lebanon
CERAW / ZEFAW	Centre for Research on the Arab World / Zentrum fuer Forschung zur Arabischen Welt	body	Universitaet Mainz	Germany
CERC	Chinese Economies Research Centre	body	U. of Adelaide	Australia
CERCEC	Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-europeen	body	Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)	France
CERES	Center for Eurasian, Russian, East European Studies	body	Georgetown U.	US
CERES	Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies	body	U. of Toronto	Canada
CERF	Central Eurasia Research Fund	body	ASPS	US
CERIS	Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies	group	U. of Pittsburgh	US
CERS	China Exploration & Research Society	group	---	China
CES / OSW	Centre for Eastern Studies / Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich	body	---	Poland
CESN	Central Eurasian Scholars Network	resource	Harvard U.	US
CESNUR	Center for Studies on New Religions	resource	---	Italy
CESR	Central Eurasian Studies Review	periodical	Harvard U.	US
CESRAN/ SARAM	Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis/ Stratejik Arastirmalar ve Analiz Merkezi	body	---	Turkey
CESS	Centrum for Sydostasiatiska Studier	body	Abo Akademi U.	Finland
CESS	Centre for Central Eurasian Studies	body	U. of Mumbai	India
CESS	Central Eurasian Studies Society	group	Harvard U.	US
CESWW	Central Eurasian Studies World Wide	---	Harvard U.	US
CETASE	Centre d'Etudes de l'Asie de l'Est	body	U. de Montreal	Canada
CETIM	Centre Europe - Tiers Monde	---	---	Switzerland
CETOBAC	Centre d'Etudes Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques	body	Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)	France
CEUS	Department of Central Eurasian Studies	body	Indiana U.	US
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CFAS	Center for Foreign Affairs and Security	body	Chungang U.	South Korea
CFAU	China Foreign Affairs University	body	---	China
C-FES	Center for Far Eastern Studies	body	U. of Toyama	Japan
CFS	Center for Filipino Studies	body	California State U., East Bay	US
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CGCS	Conference Group on China Studies	group	GFCPS	US
CGP	Cambodian Genocide Program	project	Yale U.	US
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CHAC	Cambridge History of Ancient China	resource	U. of Cambridge	UK
CHAF	Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Project	project	---	Australia
CHAM	Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar	body	New U. of Lisbon	Portugal
CHAMPSEA	Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia	project	National U. of Singapore	Portugal
CHANT	Chinese Ancient Texts Database	project	Chinese U. of Hong Kong	China
CHART	Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor 1974-1999	project	---	Australia
CHATSEA	Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia	project	U. of Montreal	Canada
CHC	Chinese Heritage Centre	body	---	Singapore
CHCAP	Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific	body	Deakin U.	Australia
CHCP	Chinese Historical and Cultural Project	group	---	US
CHD	Chicago Hittite Dictionary	resource	OI	US
CHDR	Chinese History Dissertation Reviews	resource	Stanford U.	US
CHERISH	Center for History and Heritage Studies	body	Macau Inter-University Institute	Macau/China
CHGIS	China Historical GIS	project	Harvard U.	US
CHIA	Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia	resource	---	Australia
ChiMed	History of Chinese Medicine	resource	---	US
CHIME	European Foundation for Chinese Music Research	body	---	The Netherlands
CHR	Chinese Historical Review	periodical	Indiana U. of Pennsylvania	US
CHRO	Chin Human Rights Organization	body	---	Canada
CHRSD	Center for Human Rights Studies and Social Development	body	Mahidol U.	Thailand
CHS	Centre for Historical Studies	body	Jawaharlal Nehru U.	India
CHSA	Chinese Historical Society of America	group	---	US
CHSSC	Chinese Historical Society of Southern California	group	---	US
CHT	Catalog of Hittite Texts	resource	ASOR	US
CHUS	Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc.	group	---	US
CHWH	The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century	group	U. of Vienna	Austria
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CICA	Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia	meeting	---	---
CIDASIA	Culture: Industries and Diversity in Asia	program	CSCS	India
CIDFA	China Independent Documentary Film Archive	body	---	Canada
CIRA	Cook Islands Research Association	group	---	Cook Islands
CIRDIS	The Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History	body	U. of Vienna	Austria
CIRU	Confucius Institute at Rutgers University	body	Rutgers U.	USA
CIS	Centre for Iranian Studies	body	LMEI	UK
CISS	Centre for Islamic Shi'a Studies	body	---	UK
CIUA	China Institute at the University of Alberta	body	U. of Alberta	Canada
CIW	Australian Centre on China in the World	body	ANU	Australia

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