East Asian News

China and the Chinese Diaspora Open House: English-Language Primary Resources at Yale Libraries

Friday October 9
2:30 pm-4:00 pm
Beinecke Temporary Classroom 
(First Floor, Sterling Memorial Library)

Fragrance of the Past: Remembering Ch’ung-ho Chang Frankel (1913-2015)  

Friday October 2
1:45 — 3:45 PM
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a NEW exhibit, “Fragrance of the Past: Remembering Ch’ung-ho Chang Frankel (1913-2015)” has just been set up in the East Asian Reading Room. This special exhibit is to commemorateCh’ung-ho Chang Frankel 張充和 (1913-2015) who passed away on June 17, 2015, aged 102. Hailed as "the last talented woman of the Republic of China" (民國最後一位才女), Ch’ung-ho was a renowned poet, calligrapher, educator, and Kunqu expert.

Welcome (back) to Yale! Hope you all had a relaxing summer.

With the new semester starting, new things happen in the East Asia Library as well.

• Office move: Tang Li moved to SML 207A, nearby the elevator and next to the Men’s restroom on the 2nd floor of Sterling Memorial Library. The East Asia Library now has three offices, i.e. SML 213A (Haruko Nakamura), SML 213C (Michael Meng), and SML 207A (Tang).

Welcome back to campus! The East Asia Library is delighted to announce that we have online access to Japan Times Archives now.

Japan Times Archives 1897-2014
http://ipm-archives.japantimes.co.jp/

Yale University Library now has the subscription to the following three Chinese databases from East View:

1. China Statistical Yearbooks Database 中国经济社会发展统计数据库 (CSYD) is a leading resource of statistical data in China. CSYD serves the functions of full-text browsing and downloading of statistical yearbooks, statistical research, and personalized data mining and analysis. Access is provided through Chinese and English interfaces:

The Big Data of Chinese Biography: The CBDB project

Peter Bol, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning & Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Hongsu Wang, CBDB Project Manager, Harvard University

Wednesday April 22
1:30-3:30 pm
Room 218
Sterling Memorial Library

We are happy to announce about new ILL service for copies of articles from Ōya bunko. As you many of you know, the bunko holds many treasures of post war popular magazines which are rarely held in academic libraries and hard to access. If you can identify citations of articles fromWeb Oya database and send the citation to me, we will be happy to get the articles if the magazines and journals are not held at Yale.

We are delighted to announce a book talk by Janice Nimura, the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back on April 16th, Thursday from 2-3:00 PM in the Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Hall. Sponsored by the East Asia Library. Light refreshments will be provided after the talk.

Yale University Library has begun a trial of two Chinese newspaper databases: Central Daily News and Udndata.

We are delighted to announce that, a new exhibit “Henry C. Fenn: American Chinese Language Authority & Early Western Traveler to China” has just been installed in the East Asian Reading Room (2nd floor on the Sterling Memorial Library). Henry C. Fenn (1894-1978) was a noted American authority on the Chinese spoken language who taught at the Yale Institute of Far Eastern Languages from the late 1940s to early 1960s and was also the Director of the Institute from 1952 to 1962. Born in Peiping (present Beijing), he was son of the Reverend Dr.

Friday February 27
3:00-4:00 pm
Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library

Thomas Fenn, Director of the Center for the Study of Ancient Pyro-Technology

Chinese Language and Culture: Remembering Henry C. Fenn

Yale University Library has been offered trials for the following three Chinese studies databases from East View:

Thanks to all of you who supported the purchase of the database. We are happy to announce the new available databaseGunsho ruijū (群書類従) to Yale University community.

URL: http://japanknowledge.com/lib/shelf/gunshoruiju/?5

Time and Date: 3:00-4:00 pm, Friday February 6
Place: Room L01 A & B, Bass Library