We are delighted to announce that in order to expedite ILL requests, the East Asia Library will be handling these requests for Japanese journal articles from Japan and U.S. Japanese collections outside of Yale. (Please note that the East Asia Library does not handle ILL requests for books.)

To request a journal article, you can simply email haruko.nakamura@yale.edu. Provide as much citation information as you can (title, author, ISSN, page number, etc), along with your contact information. For more information, please check the guide below.

http://guides.library.yale.edu/aecontent.php?pid=87561&sid=2266124

I am delighted to announce that library users can now access additional content of the Nikkei Telecom 21 database, which includes a variety of resources, such as current local newspaper articles (地方紙) like琉球新報, 大阪日日新聞and 福島民報, as well as specialized papers and journals like サンケイスポーツ, 観光経済新聞, 東洋経済会社四季報, etc.

Because of the complicated pricing structure, however, access to the database is limited to use by a librarian on behalf of Yale researchers. Please contact us for getting articles from this database.

To explore the vast number of the resources, please follow this link:
(http://t21.nikkei.co.jp/public/guide/article/price/index.html) and click on types of resources and services such as 雑誌, 海外情報, 企業検索, etc.

We are delighted to announce that the East Asia Library is now on Facebook! Here is the URL for our page: http://www.facebook.com/YaleEAL. You will find photos of our staff, the Reading Room and classrooms, as well as links to our special collection websites. We will continuously update our page with announcements for new resources and events.

Thanks to Haruko Nakamura and Tang Li for spearheading our arrival on Facebook!

Please like us at and stay tuned…

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a relaxing holiday break.

Our Spring reference hours at the reference desk in the East Asia Reading Room starts TODAY. The hours are 2-5 pm from Tuesday to Thursday, with the exception of a few University holidays. Please feel free to stop by and ask us any questions you may have on your study and research.

Also if you need assistance outside these hours, you are welcome to contact our librarians (Tang Li for general inquiries and China-related, tang.li@yale.edu; Haruko Nakamura for Japan-related, Haruko.nakamura@yale.edu; and Youngaie Kim for Korea-related, youngaie.kim@yale.edu), or come to our main office (SML 213) on workdays.

The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that the Japanese Film Ephemera Collection (http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=146609&sid=1815960) has been established in Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, and the finding aid for this collection is now available.

About the collection:

Japanese Film Ephemera Collection was initiated by Professor Aaron Gerow, a faculty member of the Film Studies Program and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, and the finding aid was compiled by Takuya Tsunoda, a PhD student at Yale University. The materials were collected by Aaron Gerow and also supported by donations. Its main contents are handbills (chirashi), press kits, theater pamphlets, and film newsletters, as well as catalogs, and date from approximately 1970 to the present. Most are in Japanese, with some English-language publicity materials. The collection, which is still expanding, currently covers over 600 contemporary Japanese directors and their films along with major film festivals and film events in Japan. It offers a comprehensive resource for researchers investigating the breadth of contemporary Japanese film and visual culture or those studying individual films and filmmakers.

The collected materials broadly document the great diversity in contemporary Japanese film and its culture and represent types of materials often overlooked by academic collections and archives. Therefore, researchers with a broad range of interests, especially Film and Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Journalism, Sociology, and Art History, may be interested in the collection.

How to search:

Go to the page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1905
Click "View: Full HTML" (upper right corner) to display the full view of the collection. Press Ctrl and "F" keys to search any keywords (director's names, film festivals etc.) which will appear highlighted to guide you to the folder and box numbers to look into.

For more information, please go to the following site:

Blog post of the collection description by Professor Gerow.
http://www.aarongerow.com/news/the-japanese-film-ephemera.html

Many thanks to Professor Aaron Gerow for initiating the idea as well as helping us collect materials, Takuya Tsunoda for hard work creating the detailed catalog of the collection, and Bill Landis and Mary Caldera in Manuscripts and Archives for their dedicated help putting the finding aid together.

Thursday, November 3, 2011
Managing citations in East Asian languages: RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero

Instructor:

Ms. Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for the Japanese Collection
Ms. Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Ms. Youngaie Kim, Visiting Korean Studies Librarian

Time and Place: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Room 207, Sterling Memorial Library (East Asia Library Classroom)

Are you looking for a better tool to incorporate citations to your research paper? This session will introduce to you three most popular citation management software RefWorks, EndNote and Zotero. It includes:

• Highlights and comparison of RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero
• Demonstrations of using these tools for citations in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• Tips and experiences

Please come to join us and learn more about it! This workshop is most valuable for those who are not familiar with citation management software and want to make use of them for their paper.

Please let us know if you cannot make to this particular time slot. Depending on the number of responses we get, we may consider offering another session later in November.

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Japanese collection we received in September 2011:

1. 悲田院長吏文書 (続) / 長吏文書研究会編.

2. 図説・和歌と歌人の歴史事典 / 井上辰雄著.

3. 日本映画年鑑 (戦前期映画資料コレクション) / [岩本憲児監修 ; アサヒグラフ編輯局編].　

4. コレクション・モダン都市文化 (series)

(v. 60 新劇と移動演劇 v. 61 旅行・鉄道・ホテルv. 62 京都とツーリズムv. 63 奈良とツーリズム v. 64 海港都市.横浜)

5. 江戸時代初期出版年表 : 天正 19年--明暦 4年 / 編者岡雅彦 ... [et al.].

6. 歴史人口学で読む江戸日本 / 浜野潔.

7. 緖方洪庵全集 (第1-2巻　経験遺訓) / 適塾記念会緖方洪庵全集編集委員会編集.

8. 古典籍・古文書料紙事典 / 宍倉佐敏編著.

9. A3 = エースリー / 森達也.

10. 菊池寬と大映 / 菊池夏樹.

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received in September 2011:

1. 秦简逐字索引 : 附原文及校釋 / 主編張顯成. 成都 : 四川大学出版社, 2010.
2. 新加坡华文文学编年书目 (1965-2009) / 庄致颖, 黄惠龄主编. 新加坡 : 新加坡国家图书馆, 2011.
3. 中國古代書畫鑑定實錄 / 勞繼雄著. 上海市 : 東方出版中心, 2011.
4. 中國國家圖書館藏清宮昇平署檔案集成 / 中國國家圖書館編纂. 北京市 : 中華書局, 2011.
5. 全唐詩作者小傳補正 / 陶敏. 沈陽市 : 遼海出版社, 2011.
6. 故宮博物院藏历代墓志汇编 / 故宮博物院编 ; 郭玉海, 方斌主编. 北京市 : 紫禁城出版社, 2010.
7. 徐光啓全集 / 朱維錚, 李天綱主編. 上海 : 上海古籍出版社, 2010.
8. 朱鎔基讲话实录 / [《朱鎔基讲话实录》编辑组编]. 北京 : 人民出版社, 2011.

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for September 2011
Japanese new book list for September 2011

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

We are pleased to announce that the new database for Mainichi Newspaper is available for trial now through October 31, 2011. Please access the database by clicking the blue “log-in” button on the first screen.

Maisaku 毎索 (http://mainichi.jp/contents/edu/maisaku/login.html)

The Maisaku database lets you search all the Mainichi Shinbun 毎日新聞 (formally Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun 東京日日新聞, Osaka Nippo 大阪日報, etc) from 1872 (Meiji 5) to present. The database also includes other functions likeヨミロンサーチ which provides newspaper research from October 1945 to June 2011 on public opinions, such as cabinet and political party approval ratings. The data can be searched by keyword and date with sorting functions for categories like gender and age.

If you find this database useful, please make sure to give us feedback.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese database, Xin fangzhi ku 新方志庫 (Local Gazetteers Database of China) is available for trial now through October 31, 2011.

About the Xin fangzhi ku:

The Xin fangzhi ku 新方志庫 (Local Gazetteers Database of China) includes more than 10,000 post-1949 local gazetteers of provinces, cities, counties and townships of China with a comprehensive coverage of subjects on general surveys, economy, public finance, governance, public security, urban and rural development, agriculture, industry, transportation, business, natural science, social science, education, culture and sport, and public health. Users can search the contents across the database or browse the gazetteers by books.

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://c.g.wanfangdata.com.cn/LocalChronicle.aspx
.
Please note that access to the trial Xin fangzhi ku is only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

Symposium on the Pre-Modern Japanese Collections at Yale University
Sponsored by the East Asia Library and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University

As part of a multi-year collaborative project with the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute to study the remarkable collection of pre-modern historical documents assembled at Yale by Professor Asakawa Kan’ichi in the first half of the 20th century, we are pleased to announce a special symposium to be held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library from 1-4pm on Friday, October 7, 2011.

In addition to four brief presentations by scholars working on different aspects of Edo period history and culture, members of a team of researchers from the Historiographical Institute, led by Professors Ebara Masaharu and Kondo Shigekazu, will speak about their work and recent findings in Yale's pre-modern document collections.

Please see below for more details regarding the presentations, which will be delivered in Japanese. Because seating is limited please be sure to email Haruko Nakamura <haruko.nakamura@yale.edu> if you are interested in attending.

Date: October 7th, 2011
Time: 1-4pm
Place: Beinecke Rare and Manuscripts Library (Rm. 38 & 39)

Presenters:
Tetsuya Sugimori, The Open University of Japan — Kyoto in the Edo period
Fumiko Sugimoto, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo—Edo period maps
Robert Goree, Columbia University—Illustrated Gazetteers
Fabian Drixler, Yale University—Infanticide and Demography

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Introducing China Geo-Explorer

Instructor: Dr. Shuming Bao, Senior Research Coordinator for China Initiatives, China Data Center, University of Michigan

Time and Place: 3:00 – 4:00 PM, Room 207, Sterling Memorial Library (East Asia Library Classroom)

Dr. Bao will introduce and demonstrate the content, features and functionalities of China Geo-Explorer (http://chinadataonline.org/cge/), a new online platform created by China Data Center at University of Michigan which is useful for spatial analysis and research on modern and contemporary China. Please come to join us and learn more about it!

Please note that this is an online presentation hosted by the East Asia Library. You won’t see the instructor’s face, but you can hear his voice from the speakers and ask questions during or after the presentation through a microphone.

About the China Geo-Explorer:

China Geo-Explorer is created by China Data Center at the University of Michigan (UMCDC) and the State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) of Wuhan University. With this spatial intelligence, you'll be able to make rapid, accurate spatial decisions with greater confidence for regional planning, business investment, population, housing, environmental assessment, public health and many other spatial applications. Data sources in this database includes demographic and business information for all PRC geographies, including 31 Provinces, 345 Prefecture Cities, 2,873 Counties, and over 50,000 Townships.

The East Asia Library is currently having a trial of this platform from September 12 till November 13, 2011. To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://chinadataonline.org/cge/. Please note that access to the trial China Geo-Explorer only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html).

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that our two classrooms, SML 207 and SML 218 are now open to the East Asian Studies community from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm on weekdays. We found that not many groups were making use of spaces and are hoping increased flexibility will increase use. You are welcome to use them for quiet study, group discussion, meeting, etc. We will put the class schedule outside both classrooms, so everyone will know when the room is reserved. Please kindly leave the door to both classrooms open if you are not in a discussion or meeting.

We recommend you to reserve a classroom with us if you plan to use it for a group discussion or meeting, so that your discussion or meeting won’t be interrupted when other people come to use the room. Also if you would like to use our classrooms after 5:00 pm on weekdays and on weekends, please contact us and we will make the arrangement for you. The main contacts for the EAL classroom inquires are Ms. Mary Bradway (mary.bradway@yale.edu; 203-432-1790) and Ms. Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu; 203-432-1794).

Below are some feature titles from Japanese collection. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed. I also have some pamphlets for series / sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by my office (SML 213).

1. 新国訳大蔵経. 中国撰述部/木村清孝監修.
東京 : 大蔵出版, 2011 –
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1)
2. 小説・芸能から見た海域交流 / 小島毅監修;勝山稔編 東京 : 汲古書院, 2010.
(東アジア海域叢書)
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1-4)
3. 図説平城京事典 / 国立文化財機構奈良文化財研究所編東京 : 柊風舎, 2010
4. 近世琵琶湖水運の研究 / 杉江進著. 京都 : 思文閣出版, 2011.
5. 日本文学図録事典, 東京 : 日本図書センター, 2011
6. 観客へのアプローチ / 藤木秀朗編, 東京 : 森話社, 2011
7. 昭和の流行歌物語 : 佐藤千夜子から笠置シズ子、美空ひばりへ / 塩沢実信著, 東京 : 展望社, 2011
8. 天皇の韓国併合 : 王公族の創設と帝国の葛藤 / 新城道彦著, 東京 : 法政大学出版局, 2011
9. 日本文学の「女性性」 / 増田裕美子, 佐伯順子, 京都市 : 思文閣出版, 2011
10. 日本古典文学研究の新展開 / 伊井春樹編, 東京 : 笠間書院 , 2011
11. 村上春樹と小説の現在 / 日本近代文学会関西支部編, 大阪 : 和泉書院, 2011
12. 在外日本重要絵卷集成 / 辻英子編著, 東京 : 笠間書院, 2011

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received in Summer 2011:

1. 中華民國史檔案資料匯編總目索引 / 中國第二歷史檔案館編. 南京市 : 鳳凰出版社, 2010
2. 清代詩文集彙編 / 《清代詩文集彙編》編纂委員會編. 上海 : 上海古籍出版社, 2010.
3. 殷墟甲骨文摹释全编 / 陳年福撰. 殷墟甲骨文摹释全编 / 陳年福撰.
4. 清代经世文全编 / 來新夏主編. 北京市 : 學院出版社, 2010.
5. 中國邊疆行紀調查記報告書等邊務資料叢編. 二編 / [邊丁編]. 香港九龍 : 蝠池書院出版有限公司, 2010.
6. 大連圖書館藏清代内務府檔案 / 大連圖書館編. 北京 : 国家图书馆出版社, 2010.
7. 民國時期物價生活費工資史料匯編 / 全國圖書館文獻縮微複製中心. 北京 : 全國圖書館文獻縮微複製中心, 2008
8. 中華道藏 / 主编張繼禹. 北京 : 華夏出版社, 2004.
9. 朱子全書 / 朱熹撰 ; 朱傑人, 嚴佐之, 劉永翔主編. 上海 : 上海古籍出版社 : 合肥市 : 安徽敎育出版社, 2010.
10. 准格尔旗扎萨克衙门档案基督宗教史料 / 苏德毕力格主编 ; 内蒙古大学蒙古学研究中心, 内蒙古自治区档案馆, 准格尔旗档案局合编. 桂林 : 广西师范大学出版社, 2011.

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for Summer (May-August) 2011
Japanese new book list for Summer (May-August) 2011

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese database, China Geo-Explorer is available for trial now through November 13, 2011.

About the China Geo-Explorer:

China Geo-Explorer is created by China Data Center of the University of Michigan (UMCDC) and the State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) of Wuhan University. With this spatial intelligence, you'll be able to make rapid, accurate spatial decisions with greater confidence for regional planning, business investment, population, housing, environmental assessment, public health and many other spatial applications. Data sources in this database includes demographic and business information for all PRC geographies, including 31 Provinces, 345 Prefecture Cities, 2,873 Counties, and over 50,000 Townships. For more information about this database, please go to http://141.211.142.26/presentation/cge.pptx.

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://chinadataonline.org/cge/

Please note that access to the trial China Geo-Explorer only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

I would also like to announce the new research guide “Resource Guide to Japanese Studies at Yale http://guides.library.yale.edu/japan.” The guide is intended to function two ways:

First, it provides information on how to find materials using reference sources or the latest databases. Below are some examples:

• Japanese Reference Materials for Japanese Cinema - Prof. Aaron Gerow’s “Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies,” tailored to resources in the Yale University Library.

• Japanese Studies Primary Sources in Western Languages - aims to provide an overview of English-language primary source materials in Yale's collections related to the study of Japan.

Second, the guide introduces not only Japanese rare books and manuscripts in the Beinecke, East Asia Library, and Manuscripts and Archive Collections, but also other special collections, such these, available through the Japanese Special Collections page at Yale.

• LGBTQ Collection – along with the strong LGBTQ collection at Yale, the library has been collecting materials on LGBTQ communities in Japan since 2006.

• Japanese film ephemera collection - printed materials on Japanese films include handbills (chirashi), press kits, theater pamphlets, film newsletters as well as catalogs, and date from approximately 1970 to the present.

• Masaki Motoi Ikebana collection - houses over 160 journal titles, exhibit catalogues, and monographs on ikebana.

• Japan related collections in Manuscripts and Archives, etc.

The pages will continue to be modified and grow in number. I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions for enhancing the guide.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that NEW updated and enhanced research guides for Chinese Studies and East Asian Studies are now available on the library website (www.library.yale.edu/eastasian). Links to both guides are available at the “Research Guides” section under the “Quick Tools” heading on the homepage. You can also access them by clicking on the following URLs respectively:

• Research Guide for Chinese Studies: http://guides.library.yale.edu/China
• Research Guide for East Asian Studies: http://guides.library.yale.edu/eastasia

Both guides feature primary, secondary and reference sources (in print and online) on China and East Asia-related topics available at and beyond Yale. Hope you will find them helpful to your study and research. Please feel free to send us your comments about both guides, so that we can improve them to better meet your needs. Particularly, if you find any errors in the guides, or think of any sources that should be added to the guides, please do not hesitate to send us a note and we will make changes accordingly. Thank you!

Our Fall reference hours at the reference desk in the East Asia Reading Room TODAY. The hours are 2-5 pm from Tuesday to Thursday, with the exception of a few University holidays. Please feel free to stop by and ask us any questions you may have on your study and research.

Also if you need assistance outside these hours, you are welcome to contact our librarians (Tang Li for general inquiries and China-related, tang.li@yale.edu; Haruko Nakamura for Japan-related, haruko.nakamura@yale.edu; and Youngaie Kim for Korea-related, youngaie.kim@yale.edu); or come to our main office (SML 213) on workdays.

The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that Taiwan Nichi Nichi Shinpō 臺灣日日新報 online (http://hunteq.com/ddnjp.htm) is available to us.

About Taiwan Nichi Nichi Shinpō 臺灣日日新報

Taiwan Nichi Nichi Shinpō is a newspaper published beginning in 1898, a result of the merger of Taiwan Shinpō and Taiwan Nippō. It consists of both a Japanese (1898.5-1944.3) and a Chinese language version (1905.7-1911.11), and covers legislation and news as well as cultural activities in Taiwan under Japanese occupation.

Since this is a bit complicated search function, if you have any questions how to search this database, please contact Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for the Japanese Collection.

I would like to inform you about a trial for the Web Library of Japanese Literature (日本文学Web図書館) database which provides access to contents from the CD-ROM version of Shinpen Kokka Taikan (新編国歌大観) as well as the Shinpen Shika Shūsei (新編私家集大成 - CD-ROM version of 私家集大成plus other added contents.) A major drawback of the database is a requirement for users to download the viewing software, and that software does not work on certain platforms, most notably Mac. The database also requires a login id and password. Please follow the attached instructions for the trial period.

1. Access to the website at http://kotenlibrary.com/weblibrary/kojin

2. Click the button “ダウンロードまたはアプリケーションの起動” to download the viewing software. Please contact Haruko Nakamura (haruko.nakamura@yale.edu) for ID and password

After downloading the viewing software, you can freely use the database. From the next time of login, you can start using the database by just clicking the same “ダウンロード…” button.

Along with their continuing database development, the company is planning to added other contents including Koten Haibungaku Taikei古典俳文学大系（集英社）next spring. For more information about contents, please go to the site below.

http://kotenlibrary.com/weblibrary/kojin (click 日本文学Web図書館についてin the upper right box.)

Please note that the requirement for downloading viewing software and login password make it difficult for the library to subscribe it in the future. However, I am in the middle of negotiation with the company about improvements and hopefully some of the steps can be removed. If you find this database useful, please make sure to give us feedback.

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Japanese collection during March and April. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed. Again, I have some pamphlets for those large sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by my office (SML 213).

新・日本文壇史
東京 : 岩波書店, 2010-
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1-4)

中世文学と隣接諸学
東京 : 竹林舎, 2010-
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1)

「新編」日本女性文学全集
東京 : 菁柿堂, 2007-<2011>
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1-3)

中国占領地の社会調査.
I.医療・衛生 (v. 1-8) 教育・文化 (v. 9-16)
東京 : 近現代資料刊行会, 2010

東アジア近現代通史
東京 : 岩波書店, 2010 –
(New series. Currently we have: volume 1-6)

藤岡屋日記
東京 : 三一書房, 1987-1995.
(v. 1-15)

And more are included in the list!

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received during March and April 2011:

1. 宋人生卒行年考 / 李裕民著. 北京 : 中華書局, 2010.
2. 千年丹青 : 細讀中日藏唐宋元繪畫珍品 / 上海博物馆编. 北京 :北京大学出版社, 2010.
3. 清華大學藏戰國竹簡 . 壹 / 清華大學出土文獻 研究與保 護中心編 ; 李學勤主編. 上海市 : 中西書局, 2010.
4. 傅惜华藏古典戏曲珍本丛刊 / 主编王文章 ; 副主編刘文 峰. 北京市 : 学苑出版社, 2010.
5. 中國稀見地方史料集成 / 董光和, 齊希編. 北京市 : 學苑出版社, 2010.
6. 北洋政府檔案 / 中國第二歷史檔案館編. [北京] : 中國檔案出版社, 2010.
7. 清代稿鈔本. 三編 / 廣東省立中山圖書館, 中山大學圖書 館編 . [廣州] : 廣東人民出版社, 2010.
8. 明代府县地图丛刊 / 盛博主编. 西安市 : 西安地图出版社, 2010.
9. 中国性别平等与妇女发展地图集 / 武汉大学, 青岛大学. 北京 : 中国地图出版社, 2010.

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list (March-April 2011)
Japanese new book list (March-April 2011)

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a NEW online resource, Qiushi English Online is now available to the Yale community. To access the resource, please go to http://www.sinoperi.com/qiushi.

As the main organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the PRC, Qiushi (求是 ‘Seeking truth’) Journal (1958- ) is an important ideological and theoretical front for the Central Committee to guide the work of the Party and the country. The English edition of Qiushi Journal was launched in late 2009. It selects and translates important articles from the Chinese edition and its affiliated publication Red Flag Manuscript, and abstracts of theoretical articles from other important Chinese periodicals. It is aimed to “promote the CPC and Chinese exchanges with foreign political parties and countries, and function as a platform for authoritative interpretations of the principles and strategies with which the CPC and the Chinese government run the country, as a top communication channel for publicizing China’s development theory, path and model and as an important window for political and academic circles and the people of foreign countries to learn about and study Chinese affairs.” The English edition of Qiushi Journal is published quarterly.

Please note that access to the Qiushi English Online is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received in February 2011:

1. 明代職官年表 / 張德信著. 合肥市 : 黄山書社, 2009.
2. 中國碑刻全集 / 《中國碑刻全集》編輯委員會編. 北京市 : 人民美術出版社, 2010.
3. 李贄全集注 / 张建业主编. 北京 : 社会科学文献出版社, 2010.
4. 南開大學圖書館藏稀見清人別集叢刊 / 南開大學圖書館編 ; 江曉敏主編. 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版社, 2010.
5. 民国珍稀专刊特刊增刊纪念号汇编. 增刊纪念号卷 / 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心. 北京 : 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心, 2010.
6. 民國珍稀專刊特刊增刊紀念號匯編. 專刊卷 / 全國圖書館文獻縮微復制中心. 北京 : 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心, 2010.
7. 亞洲視野 : 中國歷史的叙述 / 汪暉. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (China) Ltd., 2010.

And more are included in the list!

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Japanese collection in February. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed. Again, I have some pamphlets for those large sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by my office (SML 213).

古代の都 (吉川弘文館: new series)

日本 SF 全集 (出版芸術社: new series)

現代漫画大観　(Reprint by 大空社 : originally published by中央美術社, 1928)

時代が求めた「女性像」: 大正・戦中・戦後にみる「女の一生」(ゆまに書房)

シリーズ　親鸞 (筑摩書房: new series)

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list (February 2011)
Japanese new book list (February 2011)

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to offer three workshops on Chinese, Japanese and Korean resources in April. Please come to join us and learn more about it!

4/5 Japan Knowledge: Discover Hidden Treasures and Expand the Knowledge

Instructor: Mr. Yutaka Matsushita from the NetAdvance
Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 218

The East Asia Library has offered Japan Knowledge , a Japanese full-text database for a number of years (http://www.jkn21.com/top/corpdisplay). This workshop will be conducted by a representative from the database producer and will cover all aspects of content and database use. This workshop is most valuable for those who:

1) Are not familiar with the wealth of resources available in the online database (key dictionaries, reference books, periodicals, monograph series, etc.)
2) Would like to urge the producers to consider adding other key resources (this sort of feedback can be very influential in getting new content)

4/7 Know before You Go: Conducting Research in China (Mainland)

Instructor: Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Guest Speaker: Beatrice S. Bartlett, Emeritus Professor of History
Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Are you planning to travel to China (mainland) for your research this summer? This session will share with you tips and experiences before heading to the country. It includes:

- Overview of materials you can find at Yale and in the U.S.
- Locating archival materials in China
- Using archives, library collections, etc. in China
- and more!

We are honored to have Emeritus Professor Beatrice S. Bartlett from Department of History as our guest speaker, who often travels to China for research and recently spent about 6 weeks at the Number One Historical Archives in Beijing last October-November. She will discuss her experiences doing research in China, accessing and using archives and library collections there, and particularly using searchable digitized archives at the Number One.

This workshop is most valuable for those who are planning a research trip this summer or in the future.

4/14 Finding Full-text Journal Articles and Dissertations on Korea: KISS, DBpia, NADL, and More!

Instructor: Youngaie Kim, Visiting Korean Studies Librarian
Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

The East Asia Library has subscribed to a considerable number of Korean databases, including KISS, DBpia, NADL, etc. This session will give you an overview of these resources, and share with you search strategies, particularly on how to find full-text journal articles and dissertations. It will also show you some search tips on finding Korean books in Orbis, the Yale online library catalog.

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received from December 2010 to January 2011:

1. 中國館藏滿鐡資料聯合目錄 / 滿鐡資料編輯出版委員會 編. 上海市 : 東方出版中心, 2007.
SML East Asia Library Reference, HE3290.M5 Z466X 2007
2. 中国文物地图集. 浙江分册 / 国家文物局主编. 北京市 : 文物出版社, 2009.
SML Stacks, G2308.Z5E15 Z46 2009
3. 歷代戲曲目錄叢刊 / 吴平, 回達強主編. 揚州市 : 廣陵書社, 2009.
SML Stacks, PL2566 .L52 2009
4. 美國哈佛大學哈佛燕京圖書館藏明清婦女著述彙刊 / 方秀 潔 (Grace Fong), 伊維德 (Wilt L. Idema) 主编. 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版社, 2009.
SML Stacks, PL2515 .M465 2009
5. 天一閣藏明代政書珍本叢刊 / [主編虞浩旭 ; 副主編饒國 慶, 袁慧 ; 策劃王長林]. 北京市 : 綫裝書局, 2010.
LSF, DS753.2 .T536 2010
6. 叢書人物傳記資料類編. 仕宦卷 / 本社影印室編. 北京市 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2010.
SML, DS734 .C667 2010

And more are included in the list!

Along with the new book lists, below are some feature titles from Japanese collection in December – January, 2011. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed.

全国貸本新聞
全国貸本組合連合会　発行　1957（昭和32）年9月～1973（昭和48）年1月 第1号～第64号

朝日新聞外地版　第８回　1943（昭和18年）全９巻

Japan weekly mail : reprint series (85 volumes)

新・日本文壇史　（New series. Currently we have: volume 1-3）

岩波講座東アジア近現代通史 (new installment, we currently own v. 2-3)

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list (December 2010-January 2011)
Japanese new book list (December 2010-January 2011)

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

Japan Knowledge has added more full-text titles from Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshu. Below is the list of titles that are now available in this database. For directions on access and full-text searching of these titles, please watch to this nice web cast done by my colleague, Shirin Eshghi, at the University of British Columbia.

日本霊異記
竹取物語
伊勢物語
大和物語
平中物語
土佐日記
蜻蛉日記
うつほ物語
落窪物語
堤中納言物語
枕草子
源氏物語
和泉式部日記
紫式部日記
更級日記
讃岐典侍日記
浜松中納言物語
夜の寝覚
狭衣物語
方丈記
徒然草
正法眼蔵随聞記
歎異抄

Below are some feature titles from Japanese collection in November. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed.

ヨミダス新聞歴史館 https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/
(New Yomiuri Shinbun database start subscribing today!)

伝說の教授に学べ! : 本当の経済学がわかる本勝間和代が本気で勉強したかったとても大切なこと誰がデフレ不況を長引かせているのか / 浜田宏一;若田部昌澄;勝間和代著. (Professor Hamada’s new publication.)

<江戶>の人と身分（New series. Currently we have: volume 2 村の身分と由緖, 4 身分のなかの女性）

翻訳の不可能性 / ‡c 法政大学国際日本学研究所編集

大正期の家族問題 : 自由と抑圧に生きた人びと / 湯沢雍彦著.

朝鮮女性と植民地主義, 脫帝国のフェミニズムを求めて / 宋連玉.

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received in November 2010:

1. 四庫全書薈要總目提要 / 江慶柏等整理. 北京 : 人民文學出版社, 2009.
2. The modernization of Manchuria: an annotated bibliography / Ronald Suleski. Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 1994.
3. 近出殷周金文集錄. 二編 / 劉雨, 嚴誌斌編著. 北京市 : 中華書局, 2010.
4. 崇禎曆書 : 附西洋新法曆書增刊十種 / 徐光啓編纂 ; 潘鼐匯編. 上海 : 上海古籍出版社, 2009.
5. 颜李学派文库 / 陈山榜. 石家庄 : 河北教育出版社, 2009.
6. 民国二十三年新生活运动总报告. 北京 : 缩微中心, 2010.
7. 中国城市"十二五"核心问题研究报告/ 连玉明主编. 北京市 : 中国时代经济出版社, 2010.
8. 中华人民共和国人口与环境变迁地图集 / 中国科学院遥感 应用研究所/北京师范大学, 遥感科学国家重点实验室, 中 国科学院地球系统科学信息共享中心, 全极国际环境可持 续发展研究所. 北京 : 科学出版社, 2010.

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for November 2010
Japanese new book list for November 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The Yale Divinity School Library has scanned and posted online the following directories:

1904 Directory of Protestant Missionaries in China, Japan, and Corea:
http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/OneItem.aspx?qc=AdHoc&q=11995

1910 Directory of Protestant Missionaries in China, Japan, and Corea:
http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/OneItem.aspx?qc=AdHoc&q=11996

These PDF files are keyword searchable to the extent that our OCR software was able to decipher the text. We will post additional resources as they are scanned.

The fall issue of the East Asia Library newsletter covers news and noteworthy events since the summer, as well as announcements about collections & services. Please click here to download full text in PDF.

Inside This Issue:

* Folding Screen Returns to Japan for Conservation
* Chinese Collection History Revised
* Korean Film Council Donations Received
* Two Collections Donated to Japanese Collection
* “East Asian Thursdays” Summer Workshops Held
* Tibet Mirror Holdings Digitized
* Announcements

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a NEW Chinese database, China Yearbooks Full-text Database 中国年鉴全文数据库, is now available to the Yale community. You can find them from our Chinese database list (http://databases.library.yale.edu:8331/V?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&F-WRD=subcat_IntlAreaStudies_Chinese&restricted=all).

China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) 中国年鉴全文数据库 is a full-text searchable database consisting of over 1,900 yearbook titles. Yale subscribes to the Series J “Economics & Management” of the database which includes over 300 statistical yearbooks at national, provincial, city and county levels. A large number of the statistical yearbooks are dated back to 1980s.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the database. You are welcome to schedule an individual session with us to learn more about it.

Beginning Monday (Nov. 22) there will be a new exhibit featured in our cases in the East Asian Reading Room (SML 222):

“Chinese Rare Books in the Yale Collections”

It will feature some of the highlights of Chinese works in East Asia Library Special Collections. In addition, we will display a recent chance discovery, one volume of an edition of the Five Classics that entered the Yale College Library in 1849. While not a “rare” book, this volume is one of a group that were purchased for the Library in 1849, well before what has been considered the beginning of the Chinese Collection at Yale (the 1878 donation of Yung Wing’s personal collection.) Samuel Wells Williams, future Yale professor, was involved in organizing this shipment for Yale during the time he resided in the treaty port of Canton. This find allows us to document a much earlier start for the collecting of East Asian books at Yale and in North America in general and is therefore quite an exciting find!

Please also remember to take a look at the exhibit in the Sterling Memorial Library first floor corridor cases (extended to December 19):

“Scrolls to Cell Phones and Beyond: Publishing Technology and the Experience of the Written Text in Japan”

Below are some feature titles from Japanese collection in October. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed. Again, I have some pamphlets for those large sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by my office (SML 213).

日本外交文書 :　太平洋戦争 / [外務省編纂] 3 v.

自民党長期政権の政治経済学 : 利益誘導政治の自己矛盾 / 斉藤淳著 (Professor Saito's new publication!)

シリ－ズ日本映画は生きている（New series edited by Professor Aaron Gerow. Currently, we have: volume 1 and 6）

朝日新聞外地版　第7回　1942（昭和17年）全8巻
42. 台湾版 (1942) -- 43. 南鮮版 (1942) -- 44. 西鮮版 (1942) -- 45. 北鮮版 (1942) -- 46. 中鮮版 (1942) -- 47. 北支版・中支版・大陸版 (1942) -- 48. 北満洲版・満洲版1 (1942) -- 49. 南満洲版・満洲版2 (1942)

叢書・近代日本のデザイン　昭和篇　

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received in October:

1. 國家圖書館藏滿文文獻圖錄 / 黃潤華主編. 北京 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2010.
2. 海外上海研究书目(1845-2005) / 印永清, 胡小菁主编. 上海 : 上海辞书出版社, 2009.
3. 中國書畫全書 (第二版) / 盧輔聖主編. 上海市 : 上海書畫出版社, 2009.
4. 清文海 / 南開大學古籍與文化研究所編. 北京市 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2010.
5. 宋元珍稀地方志叢刊. 乙編 / 李勇先, 王會豪, 周斌等點校. 成都市 : 四川大學出版社, 2009.
6. 梵天佛地 / 图齐著 ; 魏正中, 萨尔吉主编. 上海 : 上海古籍出版社, 2009.
7. 清末法制变革史料 / 主编怀效锋 ; 点校李俊 ... [et al.]. 北京市 : 中国政法大学出版社, 2010.
8. "满映"与东北沦陷时期的日本殖民化电影研究 : 以导演和 作品为中心 / 王艳华著. 长春 : 吉林大学出版社, 2009.

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for October 2010
Japanese new book list for October 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

Please click here for the slides I presented at yesterday's workshop on Chinese primary sources. Please feel free to contact me (tang.li@yale.edu) if you have any questions.

Below are some feature titles from Japanese collection in September. Please note that some of titles below are series which just started or completed. Again, I have some pamphlets for those large sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by my office (SML 213).

雅楽 [video recording] : 重要無形文化財 (8 dvd)
女學世界（New series. Currently we have: volume 1-10）
新アジア仏教史（New series. Currently we have: volume 1,3,7,9,10,12）
日本の対外関係（New series. Currently we have: volume 1）
天平の渤海交流 : もうひとつの遣唐使

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received for September 2010:

1. 申报索引, 1919-1949 / [《申报索引》编辑委员会编]. 上海 : 上海书店出版社, 2008. SML East Asia Library Reference, AI21.S48 S482 2008 (LC)
2. 任伯年全集 / [人民美术出版社, 天津人民美术出版社编辑 ; 于瀛波 ... [et al.] 责任编辑]. 北京 : 人民美术出版社 ; [天津] : 天津人民美术出版社, 2010. SML stacks, NJ18.J42 A12 2010 (LC) Oversize
3. 陆俨少全集 / 《陆俨少全集》编辑委员会编. 杭州市 : 浙江人民美术出版社, 2008. SML stacks, NJ18.L9363 A12 2008 (LC) Oversize
4. 上海博物館藏甲骨文字 / 上海博物館編 ; 濮茅左編著 ; 謝海元裱搨. 上海 : 上海辭書出版社, 2009. SML stacks, Folio PL2456 .S443 2009
5. 北京師範大學圖書館藏明刻孤本秘笈叢刊 / 北京師範大學圖書館編. 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版社, 2010. SML stacks, AC149 .B455 2010 (LC)
6. 鄭振鐸藏古吳蓮勺廬抄本戲曲百種 / 殷梦霞選編. 北京 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2009. SML stacks, PL2567 .Z446 2009
7. 復旦大學圖書館藏稀見方志叢刊 / 復旦大學圖書館編. 北京市 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2010. SML stacks, DS737 .F8 2010
8. 中華民國史史料四編 / 主编周光培. 扬州市 : 廣陵書社, 2010. SML stacks, DS774 .Z46432 2010
9. 越南漢文燕行文献集成 (越南所藏編) / 中國復旦大學文史研究院, 越南漢喃研究院合編. 上海市 : 復旦大學出版社, 2010. SML stacks, DS706 .Y84 2010
10. 近代中国人口史料汇览 / 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心. 北京 : 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心, 2009. SML stacks, HB3654.A3 J56 2009 (LC)

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for September 2010
Japanese new book list for September 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a Chinese interface for Wanfang China online journals is now available to the Yale community. Please go to http://g.wanfangdata.com.cn/ to access the Chinese version.

The Chinese interface contains the same content as the English interface (http://www.wanfangdata.com/COJ/intr.asp), but search results may vary. Please note that you have to search in Chinese in the database, no matter what interface language is.

Please note that access to the Wanfang China online journals (in both English and Chinese interfaces) is only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html).

Please feel free to contact us if you have any question.

The East Asia Library is going to offer a workshop on Japan related primary resources in Western Languages. Please see the description below.

10/13 Introducing Japanese Primary Resources in Western Languages

Instructors: Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for Japanese Collection
Ellen Hammond, Curator of the East Asia Library

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

It is challenging to write a history paper which must include primary sources on Japan when you do not read Japanese. This session will introduce Japanese primary sources in Western languages, including unique archival and rare materials related to Japan at Yale, as well as other library resources such as newspapers and books. Tips on creative uses of primary sources will be provided as part of the session. At the end of session, if there are some interests, we will also provide a brief introduction to Japanese language primary sources including special collections at Yale.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese database, TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services) 薹灣電子期刊服務網 is available for trial now through December 31, 2010.

About the TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services):

TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services) 薹灣電子期刊服務網 is the largest online database for periodical articles published in Taiwan. It includes more than 900 Taiwan Periodicals in many disciplines such as arts and humanities, social sciences, natural and applied sciences, medicine, etc. Full texts can be downloaded in PDF format.

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://www.airiti.com/teps/ec_en/default.aspx.

Please note that access to the trial TEPS only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is pleased to offer three workshops on Chinese resources in October. Please come to join us and learn more about it!

10/14 Introducing Chinese Primary Resources @ Yale

Instructor: Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Time and Place: 4:30 –5:30 pm, SML 207

Are you looking for primary resources in Chinese for your senior essays, course projects, or research papers? This workshop will introduce Chinese primary resources from Yale library collections. It is intended for those working on China-related senior essays, but it would be also useful for many others who are interested in using Chinese primary resources for their study and research.

10/21 Introducing Chinese Reference Resources: Duxiu 读秀, Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库, and Guji tushu jicheng 古今图书集成

Instructor: Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Time and Place: 4:30 –5:30 pm, SML 207

Reference resources are always your first stop to start a research. This session will show you three important online Chinese reference resources that are available in the East Asia Library:

• Duxiu 读秀, also known as Chinese Google Scholar, a NEW huge content-based database consisting of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, journal and newspaper articles, theses, conference proceedings, etc.).
• Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库, a full-text database that includes essential Chinese reference titles such as Hanyu da cidian 汉语大词典, Ci hai 辞海 and Zhongguo dabaike quanshu 中国大百科全书, etc.
• Gujin tushu jicheng 古今图书集成, a major Chinese encyclopedia which is now available online.

10/28 Online Resources for Chinese Classical Texts

Instructor: Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Time and Place: 4:30 –5:30 pm, SML 207

Do you know that the East Asia Library owns a number of Chinese databases that include Chinese classical texts? This session will show you all the resources, including the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書, Scripta Sinica 漢藉電子文獻, etc., and share with you search tips in these databases.

Please click here for the slides I presented at the China Workshop on China-related English-language primary sources on 9/24. Please feel free to contact me (tang.li@yale.edu) if you have any questions.

Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database (TCSD) was established to preserve the official statistical data from the colonial period and to facilitate academic use of the data. It gathered original colonial statistics stored by the National Taiwan University Library and the National Taiwan Library. The database includes 684 books on colonial statistics, 195,513 digital image files, and 104,315 sets of metadata. TCSD is a free database open to the public, and users do not have to register as a member to access it. The website is: http://tcsd.lib.ntu.edu.tw/.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any question.

I would like to announce a new database trial for the journals Taiyō, Bungei Kurabu and Kōyukai Zasshi. Please go to Nihon Kindai bungakukan for the trial at http://yagi.jkn21.com/. The trial ends on October 14, 2010. Any feedback is welcome, and will be helpful for us to make a decision about purchasing. Please send your comments to Haruko Nakamura (haruko.nakamura@yale.edu).

Taiyō

Taiyō was a comprehensive journal published by Hakubunkan from Meiji 28 (1895) to Showa 3 (1928). The collection includes a total of 531 issues (175,000 pages), with contributions from approximately 6,500 authors. Fields covered are government, economics, society, general natural science, literature, and manners and customs. Because of its comprehensiveness, the online version of this journal provides plenty of useful features, including indexing with controlled vocabularies. All the colored illustrations are also included and indexed.

More information on Taiyō:
http://yagi.jkn21.com/kindai_world/taiyo/taiyo_world.html

Bungei Kurabu

The Bungei Kurabu is a representative literary magazine of the Meiji Era and it is a great resource on modern Japan, covering literature, the arts, theater, rakugo, customs, etc. This magazine was first published in 1895 as an amalgamation of a number of other journals, and immediately became a major venue for proponents promoting "pure literature" (Junbungaku) along with the Shin Shōsetsu from Shun'yōdō. Edited by such prominent intellectuals as Ishibashi Shian, Miyake Seiken, and Tamura Shōgi, the Bungei Kurabu was an enormously popular literary magazine at the time, with many loyal readers as well as contributors including Higuchi Ichiyō, Izumi Kyōka, Kunikida Doppo and Ozaki Kōyō. Some of these contributors' best known works, Ichiyō's "Takekurabe" (1895) and Doppo's "Genoji" (1897) just to name a few, first appeared in this magazine, and it remained one of the most dominant venues for Meiji literature until it gradually vulgarized to be a popular entertainment magazine toward the end of its publication in the Taishō period.

More information on Bungei Kurabu:
http://yagi.jkn21.com/kindai_world/bungeiclub/bungeiclub_world.html

Kōyukai Zasshi

This journal was published by First Higher School Alumni Association from November 1890 to June 1944, and is a valuable resource documenting the world of the illustrious alumni of First Higher School, one of the predecessors of Tokyo University. The articles of journal discusses the lives of leading figures in academia, the arts, and the business world.

More information on Kōyukai Zasshi :
http://yagi.jkn21.com/kindai_world/koyukai/koyukai_world.html

The exhibit, “Scrolls to Cell Phones and Beyond,” curated by Haruko Nakamura, Japanese Collection Librarian in the East Asia Library, officially opens today. It is displayed in the Sterling Memorial Library first floor corridor cases.

This exhibit showcases the evolution of Japanese publishing technology and the experience of the written text. It is organized in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS) to be held at Yale October 15-17. Exhibited here are items chosen with the theme of “technology” in mind, ranging from rare books to multimedia phenomena, all collected by the East Asia Library and other libraries at Yale.

Please remember to start at the far right, in keeping with Japanese reading style!

You can learn more information about the exhibit from the press release. Dates and times for “gallery” talks will be forthcoming.

Below are some feature titles from Japanese collection during the summer. Please note that many of titles below are series which just started or completed. Also, we have some pamphlets for those large sets. If you would like to know more about them, you are welcome to stop by our main office (SML 213).

1. 満鉄記錄映画集（12 DVDs）

2. 日本世相語資料事典 (明治、大正、昭和篇)

3. シリーズ日本のドキュメンタリー （New series. Currently we have: volume 1- 3 & 10 DVD）

4. 文学界 (文藝春秋社, 戦前版; New series. Currently we have: volume 1-3)

5. 貴女之友

6. 足尾銅山鉱毒事件関係資料（New series. Currently we have: volume 1-6）

7. コレクション・モダン都市文化　(第三期 - 新興写真、建築、ル・コルビユジヱ、デザインとバウハウス、機械と芸術、モダン都市と少女、女学校と女子教育、モダン都市と恋愛、美容・化粧・装身、舞踊とバレー、モダン都市の新形態美、軽井沢と避暑、モダン都市と結核、鎌倉と海水浴、病院と病気、モダン都市と少年、旧制高校と大学、モダン都市とマルクス主義、モダン都市とアナーキズム（近刊）、新劇と移動演劇（近刊）)

8. 時事通信占領期世論調査

9. 文藝時評大系 (We recently received 昭和篇 III, which completes the whole series including 明治篇、大正篇、昭和篇)

10. 占領期・琉球諸島新聞集成

And more are included in the list!

Below are some feature titles from Chinese collection we received during the summer (May-August 2010):

1. 中國第一歷史檔案館所藏中日關係檔案整理目錄. 清代硃批奏摺、錄副奏摺卷 / 中國第一歷史檔案館, 日本東京大學史料編纂所 ; [王道瑞, 保谷徹主編]. 北京 : 中國第一歷史檔案館, 2010. (East Asia Reading Room, DS754.18 .Z66 2010)

2. 中國法書全集 / 中國古代書畫鑒定組編. (SML, NK3634.A2 Z45528X 2009 (LC) Oversize)

3. 宋畫全集. 第二卷及第三卷 / 浙江大學中國古代書畫研究中心編. 杭州市 : 浙江大学出版社, 2008. (SML, Folio ND1043.4 .S654 2008 (LC))

4. 昆劇手抄曲本一百冊 / 本書編輯委員會, 中國昆曲博物館编. 揚州市 : 廣陵書社, 2009. (SML, M1805.4.K54 K825 2009 (LC))

5. 中國邊疆社會調查報告集成. 第1輯 / 王曉莉, 賈仲益主編. 桂林 : 广西师范大学出版社, 2010. (SML, HN733 . Z446 2010)

6. 中國邊境史料通編. 續 / 主編翟清福. 九龍 : 蝠池書院出版有限公司, 2009. (SML, DS737 .Z5642 2009)

7. 中國地方志集成. 雲南府縣志輯 / [鳳凰出版社編選]. 南京 : 鳳凰出版社, 2009. (SML, DS793.Y8 Z476 2009)

8. 四川大学图书馆馆藏珍稀四川地方志丛刊 / 主編姚樂野, 王曉波. 成都市 : 巴蜀书社, 2009. (SML, DS793.S8 S527 2009 Oversize)

9. 葡萄牙外交部藏葡國駐廣州總領事館檔案. 清代部分・中文/ 澳門基金會, 葡萄牙外交部檔案館, 廣東省立中山圖書館, 澳門大學圖書館編 ; [主編吳志良 ... [et al.]] 廣州市 : 廣東教育出版社, 2009. (SML, JZ1644.A57 C5 2009 (LC))

10. 滿鐡調查報告. 第四辑 / 黑龍江省檔案館編. 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版社, 2009. (SML, HE3290.M5 M26 2005 (LC))

And more are included in the list!

Chinese new book list for Summer 2010 (May-August)
Japanese new book list for Summer 2010 (May-August)

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

Our Fall reference hours at the reference desk in the East Asia Reading Room TODAY. The hours are 2-5 pm from Tuesday to Thursday, with the exception of a few University holidays. Please feel free to stop by and ask us any questions you may have on your study and research.

Also if you need assistance outside these hours, you are welcome to contact our librarians (Tang Li for general inquiries and China-related, tang.li@yale.edu; and Haruko Nakamura for Japan-related, haruko.nakamura@yale.edu), or come to our main office (SML 213) on workdays.

We are starting out the year with a new exhibit in the East Asian Reading Room (SML 222):

The Study of East Asia at Yale: 19th Century Pioneers

It features works related to the beginnings of academic study of East Asia and its languages, pioneered at Yale in the 1870s. Some of those featured are:

Addison Van Name
Yale Librarian and man of many “firsts,” he was the first to teach Chinese and Japanese in an American university.

Yung Wing
Yale Class of 1854, the first Chinese graduate of an American college, his influence resulted in the creation of the Chinese collection at Yale.

Samuel Wells Williams
Missionary, diplomat, scholar, and linguist, he came to Yale in 1877 as Professor of Chinese Language & Literature.

Asakawa Kan’ichi
Yale Professor of Japanese history from 1907, he was also the first Curator of the East Asian collections.

Please come around to learn more about the long tradition of East Asian studies at Yale.

We are able to sign up again for trial of newer version of Yomiuri Shinbun which lets you search all the Yomiuri Shinbun more effectively! It is similar to the library's current offering which provides Yomiuri newspaper articles from 1874 to 1980, but this new version allows access to articles from 1874 to the present, plus the English-language Daily Yomiuri, starting in 1989. (The Daily Yomiuri is also available through the online journals section of the library's front door).

Most importantly, this new electronic version provides some special search functions; it is possible to search advertisements in the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa periods and the interface is much easier to navigate.

The trial ends September 15th, but we hope to subscribe to the database this time.

Yomidasu Rekishikan
https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/

The Visual Resources Collection is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital image collection, the Yale Silk Road Database http://library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/yalesilkroad/index.html

The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 6,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2009. The collection serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.

The collection currently features original photographs taken by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Koichi Shinohara (Senior Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University), and Abbey Newman (Executive Director, Council on East Asian Studies). Photographs included in this collection were taken during faculty site seminars in Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang Provinces in 2006, seminars in Sichuan and Yunnan during the summer of 2007, visits to Liao Dynasty sites in Shanxi, Liaoning, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia during the summer of 2008, and a program along the Tarim Basin and in northern Xinjiang during the summer of 2009. The coordinators and contributors to the Yale Silk Road Database hope that the resource will encourage new ways of exploring and learning about the visual and material cultures of the Silk Road regions.

Access to the Yale Silk Road Database collection has been made possible through the courtesy of the Council on East Asian Studies’ Silk Road Studies Project, activities of which have been supported by the Council's National Resource Center Title VI Grant from the United States Department of Education. The Yale Silk Road Database was conceived and developed by Professor Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (History of Art, Yale University) and Pam Patterson (Senior Instructional Technologist, Instructional Technology Group), in conjunction with the Visual Resources Collection.

Special thanks to the following for their efforts in making the Yale Silk Road Database possible: Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art), Abbey Newman (Executive Director, Council on East Asian Studies), Pam Patterson from the Instructional Technology Group; Karen Kupiec, Mike Friscia, and Scott Matheson from Library Access Integration Services, and my colleagues at the VRC, Robert Carlucci and Carolyn Caizzi.

We welcome your comments and feedback.

Chinese new book list for April 2010
Japanese new book list for April 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that TBRC (Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center) core text collection #7 is available online now. You can follow this URL http://tbrc.org/#library_GlobalNavigation to browse the new collection under the "Works" section. Please note that access to the TBRC only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html).

The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that we now have access to the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa periods of Asahi Shinbun in addition to current articles via the Kikuzo II Visual database. Upon entering the database, please click the “Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban –朝日新聞縮刷版” tab to search in order to search newspaper articles and advertisements in these periods.

Kikuzo II Visual (http://database.asahi.com/library2e/)

Full-text database of Asahi newspapers from 1879 to the present, including local issues (1998 and later ), and Historical Photo Archives between 1931and 1945. The database also includes full-text articles of AERA (1988.5 - present), Shukan Asahi (2004- present) and the newest edition of Chiezo.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce a new exhibit “China and Expo: Historical Records and the Shanghai Expo 2010” in East Asian Reading Room (SML222) to celebrate the upcoming Shanghai Expo 2010 in May.

China has been participating in World’s Fairs ever since the first Expo was held in London in 1851. The East Asia Library contains a wealth of sources for the study of China and World’s Fairs. The upcoming Expo 2010 in Shanghai provided the East Asia Library with an opportunity to extend its collections in this area. This exhibit features published archives on World’s Fairs from the Qing imperial court, catalogues of items exhibited at Chinese Pavilion during the early 20th century, historical records and anecdotes of China’s participation with past fairs, selected monographs on the Shanghai Expo 2010, and the Shanghai Expo souvenirs.

Chinese new book list for March 2010
Japanese new book list for March 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online; http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/) is a union database for Japanese Institutional repositories which serves as an electronic archive system for research institutions. Through the database scholars can access some full-text journal articles, theses, dissertations, departmental bulletins, research papers, etc. from academic institutions such as universities and research institutes. The National Institute of Informatics (NII) provides this service and most of the full-text articles are free to the public. Please note, however, this database does not encompass commercial journals. For these kinds of materials we still have to use citation databases like Magazine Plus, and then check to see if the library owns a particular publication.

Chinese new book list for February 2010
Japanese new book list for February 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce the new exhibit in East Asian Reading Room (SML222) in conjunction with the Japanese “Silents”: Benshi Film Narration by Raiko Sakamoto presented by The Film Studies Program and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University on February 12th, 2010.

Visual materials on display have been selected from the Japanese Film Ephemera Collection, as well as other library collections. They includeThe Benshi: Japanese silent film narrators ; Katsudō benshi sekai o kakeru (the autobiography of Sawato Midori, another active silent film narrator in Japan); a handbill for a silent film screening event featuring Sakamoto Raiko; Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema, a DVD-ROM database containing data on 12,000 titles, footage from 45 films, and biographies of key silent movie figures. The exhibit was prepared with the valuable assistance of Takuya Tsunoda, a PhD student in Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literature, Yale University. The East Asia Library at Yale University is committed to acquiring a variety of unique resources on Japanese film studies and visual culture.

The Japan Knowledge database is now providing the electronic version of the Genji Monogari, with searchable text, from the Shinpen Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshu (SNKBZ) edition (http://www.jkn21.com/top/corpdisplay).

This is the first work from the SNKBZ collection to be released in this new format. Two more works will be released very soon.

Japan Knowledge also provides access to the full-text collection of Toyo Bunko 東洋文庫 (in PDF format).

In order to search those collections separately, please go to Japan Knowledge and scroll down the home page until you find the “叢書・ＵＲＬ” section, at the right-hand side of the screen, and click the "個別" button.

The Freer Gallery of Art is pleased to announce the launch of an online resource of eighty-five works from the collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy dating to the period of the Song and Yuan dynasties (10th–14th centuries). This launch is the culmination of years of careful research and preparation, and will offer unprecedented worldwide access to a remarkable amount of important information—never before assembled or published—about these treasured works of art.

Each of the eighty-five works is presented in images and text. The photography section contains all currently available images for each work, while the documentation section consists of punctuated transcriptions and identifications of all Chinese texts associated with each object—including labels, frontispieces, inscriptions, colophons, and seals—together with numerous explanatory comments and a wide selection of annotated English translations. Each document is presented in PDF format, with an individual table of contents in the Bookmarks tab to facilitate navigation within the text.

The great advantage to this web-format is that, in subsequent years, the resource can easily expand to incorporate new content and scholarship, and both documentation and photography can be periodically updated. Our present aim is to gather feedback from peers in the field and use that feedback to continue developing a robust presence for our collections online.

To view the website, please go to: http://www.asia.si.edu/SongYuan/default.asp

To improve the quality of our presentation and better serve the users of this website, the museum cordially invites colleagues in the field to send us your comments, suggestions, and emendations at the following email address: FreerSongYuan@si.edu

We look forward to hearing from you.

The East Asia Library is once again offering a series of workshops on Chinese, Japanese and Korean resources throughout the Spring. Please come to join us and learn more about it! For more information, please contact Tang Li (email: tang.li@yale.edu; tel.: 203-432-1794), the East Asia Library’s Public Services Librarian.

2/25 Introducing Chinese Reference Resources: Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库, Duxiu 读秀, and Guji tushu jicheng 古今图书集成

Instructor: Tang Li, Public Services Librarian
Time and Place: 4:30 –5:30 pm, SML 207

Reference resources are always your first stop to start a research. This session will show you three important online Chinese reference resources that are available in the East Asia Library:

• Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库, a new database that includes essential Chinese reference titles such as Hanyu da cidian 汉语大词典, Ci hai 辞海 and Zhongguo dabaike quanshu 中国大百科全书, etc.
• Duxiu 读秀, also known as Chinese Google Scholar, a huge content-based database consisting of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). It is currently on trial till 5/31/2010.
• Gujin tushu jicheng 古今图书集成, a major Chinese encyclopedia which is now available online.

3/23 Introducing eKorean Studies Databases & Internet Resources

Instructor: Youngaie Kim, Visiting Korean Studies Librarian
Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Korean collections at Yale are strong in humanities and have substantial holdings in history, literature, language, folklore, religion, arts, films etc. In addition, the East Asia Library has subscribed to a considerable number of Korean databases. This session will introduce to you the most essential eKorean DB, as well as internet resources that are useful for study and research on Korea.

4/8 Know before You Go: Conducting Research in Japan

Instructor: Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for the Japanese Collection
Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Are you planning to travel to Japan for your research this summer? This session will show you things you need to know before heading to Japan. It includes:

- Obtaining materials without going to Japan.
- Preparations before you go to Japan.
- Locating archival materials in Japan.
- and more!

Any faculty and students planning a research trip to Japan this summer (or farther out) are welcomed for the purpose of exchanging information about using a range of libraries and research facilities in Japan.

Chinese new book list for Winter 2010
Japanese new book list for Winter 2010

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that Apabi Chinese Reference Book Database is now available to the Yale community. You can find it from our Chinese database list (http://databases.library.yale.edu:8331/V?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&F-WRD=subcat_IntlAreaStudies_Chinese&restricted=all)

The Apabi Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库 contains full-text articles and pictures from hundreds of authoritative Chinese reference books. Currently, we have acquired 157 titles (319 volumes), including 汉语大词典, 辞海, 中国大百科全书, 佛教大辞典, 道藏书目提要, 中国古代科技史论文索引, 现代汉语大词典, etc. For a complete listing, please go to http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/quicktools/databases/Apabi_reference_list.pdf. The database also allows you to view scanned pages of the print edition. To use the “翻阅原书” function, please download Apabi e-book reader (http://www.idoican.com.cn/Reader/UnicodeReaderSetup.exe) first. IE recommended.

The newly installed exhibit in the East Asian Reading Room (SML second floor) features resources for the study of Korean film. Please come and take a look!

All of the visually exciting books and journals on display are recent donations from the Korean Film Council (Seoul), part of a shipment of 80 volumes of print materials in English and Korean and over 300 feature films on DVD that came to Yale under the terms of a grant. Yale’s successful application for status as a Korean Film Council “hub” library was organized by the Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, and the East Asia Library. This status allows us to request additional books and DVDs annually. The materials will support the academic study of East Asian film in the program at Yale.

Thanks to Youngaie Kim for masterminding the exhibit and Tang Li for logistical support. The exhibit will be on view until mid-February.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that two NEW Chinese databases, The Grand Council Archives and Soshoo, are now available to the Yale community. You can find them from our Chinese database list (http://databases.library.yale.edu:8331/V?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&F-WRD=subcat_IntlAreaStudies_Chinese&restricted=all).

The Grand Council Archives, known as 清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件全文影像資料庫, provides metadata searching and full image reproductions of Qing Palace Memorials and Archives of the Grand Council held in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Searchable fields include the document number 文獻編號, document date 具奏日期, author 具奏人, official position 官職, topic 事由, keyword 關鍵詞, date of response 硃批日期, and response 硃批. To view the original images, please install a special application from this URL: http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/tifsetupeng.exe. If you want to print out the images, please contact the East Asia Library staff. Windows and IE are recommended. Please email east.asia.library@yale.edu or call 203-432-1794 for username and password.

SOSHOO 搜数is a new platform which was developed on the basis of statistics from China INFOBANK 中國資訊行. It covers yearly and monthly statistical data on the socio-economic situation and external trade performance of China sourced from national and provincial statistical yearbooks, China latest economic indicators, the People's Bank of China Quarterly Statistical Bulletin, custom statistics, etc. since 1995 with some dated back to 1949. It also includes statistical data from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Users can download the results into Excel spreadsheets.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the two new databases. You are welcome to schedule an individual session with us to learn more about them.

Announcing a new online resource: Chinese Names of Western Scholars: a directory
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~clartp/ChineseNamesWesternScholars.htm

This listing aims to facilitate communication between Western and Asian China-scholars. As anyone who has attended a bi- or multilingual conference can attest, some amount of confusion is occasioned by the fact that Western sinologists are usually known in Chinese-speaking academia primarily by their Chinese names. As the latter, however, are not in common use in Western academic circles, it often takes a while to figure out that, for example, the professor Du Zanqi, whom a Chinese conference participant keeps citing, is in fact better known in the English-speaking world as Prasenjit Duara.

With a view towards tackling this particular barrier to scholarly communication, Philip Clart, Professor of Chinese Studies from University of Leipzig has compiled a preliminary list of several hundred Chinese names of Western scholars. "Western" here does not refer to any sort of ethnic identity, but merely indicates that the person in question publishes (or published) on some aspect of Chinese culture in a Western language. Thus, the list also includes, for example, Chinese, Taiwanese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Japanese, and Korean scholars whose names typically only appear in transcription in their publications.

No particular search criteria were applied in compiling this list so that the result is a somewhat heterogeneous mix of scholars from all over the world, most of them alive, some already deceased. It is hoped that the publication of the list will result in submission of additional entries by scholars the world over. Entries, comments and corrections can be submitted by email to clart@uni-leipzig.de.

Chinese new book list for November 2009
Japanese new book list for November 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The trial period of the Duxiu 读秀 database is now extended till 5/31/2010. We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

About the Duxiu:
Duxiu, also known as Chinese Google Scholar, is a huge content-based database consisting of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). It is a useful reference tool for discovering bibliographic information; for locating particular search terms within a text; and for getting a preview of a text. IE recommended.

Access information:
Duxiu is available at www.duxiu.com for the trial.

Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

Some of you may have noticed that the database People’s Daily Full Text had been down for a short while because of the server problem. We just replaced the server with a new machine, in order to continue the access to the database. The new URL for the database is: http://biscuit.library.yale.edu. Please bookmark the address for your future reference.

Please note that access to People’s Daily Full Text is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network or with off-campus access. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Chinese new book list for October 2009
Japanese new book list for October 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

Chinese new book list for September 2009
Japanese new book list for September 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce another new Chinese database, Duxiu 读秀, is available for trial now through Feb.14, 2010.

About the Duxiu:

Duxiu, also known as Chinese Google Scholar, is a huge content-based database consisting of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). It is a useful reference tool for discovering bibliographic information; for locating particular search terms within a text; and for getting a preview of a text. IE recommended.

Access information:

Duxiu is available at www.duxiu.com for the trial.

Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new database, National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件全文影像資料庫, is available for trial now through Oct.30, 2009.

About the National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives:

The National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives provides metadata searching and full image reproductions of Qing dynasty archival materials held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Searchable fields include the document number 文獻編號, document date 具奏日期, author 具奏人, official position 官職, topic 事由, keyword 關鍵詞, date of response 硃批日期, and response 硃批. Content from the Qianlong 乾隆 reign is still being entered. To view the original images, please install a special application from this URL: http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/tifsetupeng.exe. IE recommended.

Access information:

The National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives is available at http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/GC/indexcg.html for the trial. You need to use the following log-on info to get into the database:
• 群組 (Group): ft2009
• 帳號 (ID): Yale2009
• 密碼 (password): Yale20090928

Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new database, Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库 , is available for trial now through Nov.1, 2009.

About the Chinese Reference Book Database:

The Chinese Reference Book Database contains full-text articles and pictures from nearly 2000 authoritative Chinese reference books, including Ci Hai 辞海 and Han Yu Da Ci Dian 汉语大词典. It consists of almost all types of reference books, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies and indexes, to name a few. The Chinese Reference Book Database allows users to search both texts and pictures, and view original pages using the “翻阅原书” function from the printed version. Please note that it may take a while to download the file when you use the “翻阅原书” function. IE recommended.

Access information:

The Chinese Reference Book Database is available at http://reference.apabi.com/overseas for the trial. Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is once again offering a series of workshops on both Chinese and Japanese resources throughout the Fall. We will introduce you to databases and resources that are useful for finding full-text journal and newspaper articles, authoritative data, archives, and classical texts. Please come to join us and learn more about it! For more information, please contact Tang Li (email: tang.li@yale.edu; tel.: 203-432-1794), the East Asia Library’s Public Services Librarian.

9/30 Finding Full-Text Journal Articles: Chinese Academic Journals, Wanfang China Online Journals, and More!

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Do you know that the East Asia Library owns a number of Chinese databases that include full-text journal articles? This session will show you all the resources, such as Chinese Academic Journals and Wanfang China Online Journals, to name a few! This will be particularly helpful to those do research for their senior essays.

10/7 Chinese Archives @ Yale: Online Databases, Microfilms, Reprints, and More!

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Archives play a key role in conducting a research on Chinese history. This session will introduce you to a newly acquired database The Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案, which features approximately 310,000 documents originally collected by the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty. In addition, we will give you an overview of the reproductions from Chinese archives in our collections, including microfilms, reprints, and other formats.

10/9 Japanese Database Clinic

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Electronic resources for Japanese studies offer useful tools for tracking down journals articles, newspapers, statistics and visual images. Yale also has excellent databases for searching obscure Japanese terms, places names, author names and techniques to search most effectively. This workshop will introduce to these tools, orient users to the landscape of Japanese electronic materials, and help participants find the resources that fit their research needs.

The session will alter depending on participants requests, but some of databases most we will likely discuss are: JapanKnowledge (including Nihon Koten Daijiten, Nihon Chimei Rekishi Taikei, Jitsu and Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan), Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (both NDL and Koseisha), Factiva, Kikuzo II Visual and Yomiuri Shinbun Online. If needed, we will introduce tools to obtain Japanese resources from Japan which are not held in any universities in the North America. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to the session.

10/28 Getting Authoritative Data about China: China Data Online and China INFOBANK

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Data has become increasingly important for conducting a research, and finding authoritative data can be difficult. This session will introduce you to two major online China data resources: China Data Online and China INFOBANK. China Data Online provides access to economic statistics, census data, county statistics, and more from 1949 to present. China INFOBANK provides access to statistics, business reports, economic news, and legal regulations from contemporary China.

11/5 Online resources for Chinese Classical Texts

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Are you looking for Chinese classical texts for your coursework and research? This session will introduce you to a number of databases and resources that can help you to locate full-text Chinese classical texts, including the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書, Scripta Sinica 漢藉電子文獻, and more!

Chinese new book list for Summer 2009
Japanese new book list for Summer 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese database, China Yearbooks Full-text Database 中国年鉴全文数据库, is available for trial now through October 18, 2009.

About the China Yearbooks Full-text Database :

"China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) is a database consisting of over 1,800 yearbook titles and over 13,000 volumes (as of mid-2009). Most of the yearbooks date back to the 1980s. Being As part of the CNKI project, CYFD has the capacity to cross database searching with other CNKI products, such as journals, dissertations, reference works, newspapers, conference proceedings and other databases. CYFD consists of more than 300 statistical yearbooks, including all the central and provincial yearbooks, over 90% of city or county level yearbooks and 80% of industrial yearbook from both national and local levels. It also includes yearbooks from research institutions and corporations."

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://china.eastview.com/kns50/Navigator.aspx?ID=CYFD

Please note that access to the trial China Yearbooks Full-text Database only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database (http://zassaku-plus.com/advanced.php) combines content already previously available in other Zasshi Kiji Sakuin databases such as MagazinePLUS with indices of journals published in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods, and is notable because it also indexes minor journals that were published in local prefectures and cities.

Among several major journal index databases available for Japanese journals, Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database by Kōseisha is the only database that provides an index of journal articles published in the Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa to present. It also contains many important local journals that were published in prefectures and cities that are not in the NDL journal index. The search function enables users to search terms in modern language for words that were changed historically. In addition, each search provides information about which university library in Japan holds the specific journal where the desired article appears.

For more information, please go to http://www.annex-net.jp/ks1/

Please note that access to the Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database is only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access.

A new exhibit is just set up in the East Asia Reading Room. It features tips of searching original Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts in the Orbis, presented by the East Asia Library cataloging staff. Please stop by and take a look. The exhibit will be on till 9/30.

"The Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840). The cultural contacts comprise documents in the various fields of cultural interaction: religion, philosophy, science, art, etc."

To access this database, please follow this URL: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sinology/cct/index.htm. This is a free web resource developed by Ad Dudink & Nicolas, Dept. of Sinology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese statistical database, SOSHOO (搜數網), is available for trial now through October 31, 2009.

About the SOSHOO:

SOSHOO is a new platform which was developed on the basis of statistics from China INFOBANK 中國資訊行. It covers yearly and monthly statistical data on the socio-economic situation and external trade performance of China sourced from national and provincial statistical yearbooks, China latest economic indicators, the People's Bank of China Quarterly Statistical Bulletin, custom statistics, etc. since 1995 with some dated back to 1949. It also includes statistical data from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Users can download the results into Excel spreadsheets.

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: www.soshoo.com

Please note that access to the trial SOSHOO only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

Chinese new book list for May 2009
Japanese new book list for May 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

This Chinese podcast tour was produced by Tang Li, the Public Services Librarian with the East Asia Library. It introduces the Library's history, resources and services. You can access the recording here or on Yale University on iTunes U.

Please go to this site http://www.e-koreanstudies.com/ for the trial Korean databases.

Issue 3: 100th Anniversary (download full text in PDF)

Inside This Issue:

* Exhibit Celebrates History of East Asia Library
* Recent Acquisitions of Chinese Digital Resources
* Komonjo/Kuzushiji Workshop at Yale
* 2007 Tenri Antiquarian Materials Workshop
* Chinese Acquisitions Highlights
* New Visiting Librarians
* Japanese Acquisitions Highlights

Issue 2: 100th Anniversary (download full text in PDF)

Inside This Issue:

* East Asia Library re-opening
* Chinese Collection adds digital resources
* Japanese rare book workshop
* Reference notes: one stop shopping for articles?
* Building a world-class collection
* Staff profile: acquisitions staff
* Curatorial notes

Issue 1: Renovation (download full text in PDF)

Inside This Issue:

* Renovation Begins
* Librarians Attend IFLA
* Future East Asia Library Floor Plan
* New Chinese Acquisition Highlights
* New Japanese Acquisition Highlights
* Periodicals Survey Results
* Collection Notes