馬牛醫方(Mau ŭibang): A veterinary text by an Korean physician 趙浚 조준(1346~1405). Full version: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:3374616
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
天下輿地圖 Chʻŏnha yŏjido
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Hand-copied maps of the world from eighteenth-century Korea. Full version: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:3410848
La révolution en Chine
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
“La révolution en Chine: révoltés mis au pilori pour avoir attaqué des Européens.” The news about 1898 Boxer Rebellion appeared on a French newspaper. http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/chunkDisplay?_collection=via&inoID=21605&recordNumber=1&chunkNumber=1&method=view&image=full&startChunkNum=1&endChunkNum=1&totalChunkCount=1&offset=0
Keisei suikoden 傾城水滸傳
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
In the early nineteenth century, a Japanese writer decided to turn all the male heroes in the famous Chinese novel The Water Margin 水滸伝 into female figures. Now you can find Harvard-Yenching library’s version of this entertaining, playful work Keisei suikoden 傾城水滸傳 on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=eC0ZAAAAYAAJ
Three Kingdoms
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Meet heros from this nineteenth-century illustrated version of Three Kingdoms, one of the most celebrated novels in traditional China. Xiu xiang San guo zhi quan zhuan 繡像三國志全傳, 1802 http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/15003851
Can the Subaltern Bark?
Friday, March 15th, 2013
Today at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. March 15 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m. Porte Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St. “Can the Subaltern Bark? Dogs, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World” AARON SKABELUND, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University Moderator: David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University. Images […]
Life and Passion of Christ
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Image from an illustrated version of Life and Passion of Christ published in China. The author Giulio Alenio was a sixteenth-century Italian missionary, and, like the new pope, was a member of the Society of Jesus. The book is now in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/27496573?n=1&printThumbnails=true
Toward an Archaeology of Distraction
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
An invitation from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for this year’s Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/2013-reischauer-lectures Toward an Archaeology of Distraction Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University What is your take on distraction and what truly matters? On curiosity and distraction? On distraction as vice and enriching virtue? Here’s a fun challenge. Below are the title and […]
ChinaMaxx Digital Library
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Dear all, Yenching library has just subscribed to ChinaMaxx Digital Library 超星数字图书平台 (http://www.chinamaxx.net.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/) which contains more than seven hundred thousand Chinese books, including two special collections of Siku quanshu cunmu congshu 四库全书存目丛书 and Wenshi ziliao 文史资料. Please take a look and let us know if you have any questions.