East Asian News

Welcome back! Hope you all had a wonderful winter break.

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday break!

Curating the Cultural Revolution: The Rent Collection Courtyard Then and Now

When: Friday, October 28, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Where: Sterling Meomorial Library, Room 218

Speaker: Denise Ho, Assistant Professor, History Department

Lucky Dandelion: Reflections from the Educated Youth Generation on the “Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside” Movement (1968-1980)  幸运的蒲公英——中国文革五十周年祭暨知青上山下乡运动座谈会

When: Monday, October 31, 2016 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Where: Sterling Memorial Library, Room 218

Speaker: Wei Su (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Charles Lu (Yale School of Medicine) and Ping Zhang (Yale School of Medicine)

Systems of Writing Things Down: A Book Talk on Writing Technology in Meiji Japan

When: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Where: Sterling Memorial Library (SML), International Room (SML 177)

Speaker: Seth Jacobowitz, Assistant Professor Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a NEW exhibit entitled “From Propaganda Mobilization to Youth Demobilization: Selected Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Sources in the Yale University Library” has just been set up in the East Asian Reading Room (2nd floor of the Sterling Memorial Library). This exhibit is organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in China.

Hope you all had a great start of the new semester.

We are very delighted to announce that a NEW online booking system for our classrooms, SML 207 and SML 218 is now available for you to easily reserve a room with us. You can access it from here: http://schedule.yale.edu/booking/EAL.

The new booking system allows you to view the availability of both rooms and pick your desirable days and time slots to make a reservation. You will receive a confirmation shortly once you submit a request.  

We are pleased to announce that the database for Mainichi　毎日新聞 is available to Yale Community.

Maisaku 毎索 (https://dbs.g-search.or.jp/WMAI/WMAI_ipcu_login.html)

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that three NEW Korean databases, KSDC DB (Korean Statistical Database), eARticle, & New Nonmun, are now available to the Yale community.

Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US

Part IV. East Asia Library at Stanford University

Speaker: Dr. Jidong Yang, Director

Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Friday April 15

Place: Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library

Sponsored by the East Asia Library and Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. Light lunch will be provided.

Before you take off for spring break, please mark your calendar for three upcoming EAL events in April. All will take place in Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library.

Thursday, April 7, 2 PM

The Traditional Wisdom of the Chinese Ancient Calendar 從農曆看中國古代的生存智慧

Presented by Professor Ge Jianxiong 葛劍雄

Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University

Friday, April 8, noon

Know before You Go: C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley

Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US

Part II. C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University

Speakers: Dr. Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian; Dr. Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Studies Librarian

Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Thursday March 10

Place: Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library

Sponsored by the East Asia Library and Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. Light lunch will be provided.

We now have a trial of Koten Haibungaku Taikei (古典俳文学大系). It is new addition to the Nihon Bungaku Web Toshokan database we already have a subscription at Yale.   

http://kotenlibrary.com/weblibrary/toshokan

For those who have been using the Nihon Bungaku Web Toshokan database, you can just access the trial content by clicking “和歌＆俳諧ライブラリー” button, instead of  “和歌ライブラリー”.

For the first users of this database, please download the viewing application. (Please see below for the details)  

Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US

Part I. Harvard-Yenching Library

Speakers: Mr. Xiao-he Ma, Librarian for the Chinese Collection; Ms. Kuniko Yamada McVey, Librarian for the Japanese Collection

Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Thursday March 3

Place: Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library

Sponsored by the East Asia Library and Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. Light lunch will be provided.

The East Asia Library is delighted to announce a NEW workshop series, entitled “Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S.” that will be held at the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) in March and April. Librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. will be invited to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. at the workshops.

Are you looking for a better tool to incorporate citations to your research paper? Do you have questions about citation management tool(s) you are currently using? The Yale University Library is hosting a drop-in clinic for citation management programs such as RefWorks, Zotero and EndNote in the Bass Library L06-A from 2-5 pm on December 2. A group of librarians (including East Asian librarians) who are expert on citation management programs will be there to help you with any questions. All are welcome! We hope to see many of you there!

10/30   Chinese Christianity Sources from the Republican Period @ Yale: John Sung Papers and more!

Instructors
Tang Li, Public Services Librarian, East Asia Library
Martha Smalley, Special Collections Librarian, Divinity Library

Time and place
2:30 pm—3:30 pm, Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library

Yale University Library has recently acquired two Brill online reference tools related to Chinese studies: Chinese-English Dictionary Online and Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. The resources have been added to the Library’s Orbis online catalog and Chinese Studies subject guide-Reference.

We are pleased to announce that a NEW Korean statistical database, KSDC DB is available for trial now through November 30.

About KSDC DB

We are pleased to announce that the database for Mainichi Newspaper is available for trial now through October 30, 2015. We had this trial 4 years ago, but the search function has improved a bit.   

Maisaku 毎索 (https://dbs.g-search.or.jp/WMAI/WMAI_ipcu_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.