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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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”
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 augmentation 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. He also helped the Yale College Library to ship first acquisition of East Asian books from China in 1849 when he was a missionary printer in Canton.
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.
The East Asia Library is pleased to announce a new exhibit "Serve the people!: Yan Lianke and his works 《为人民服务》：阎连科作品展" in the East Asia Reading Room to welcome Mr. Yan's upcoming visit to Yale next Tuesday. Titles featured in the exhibit include Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, etc. Please come to take a look before you are gone for Easter holiday!
