Harvard-Yenching Library > The East Asian Library at Harvard University

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

New databases for the Harvard community:Collapse Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database, 1957-
Collapse Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, 1958-1962

Please check the following research guide for the link as it is “detected to be unsafe” by the Facebook system:

http://guides.library.harvard.edu/content.php?mode=preview&pid=182622&sid=1535833&gid=4877

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Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Around 1,000 photos shot by Dr. Joseph Needham during his visit to China in the 1940s are now available on the website The Needham Research Institute. (http://www.nri.org.uk/JN_wartime_photos/home.htm)

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Thursday, August 1st, 2013

Want to know how Japanese learn to practice surgery in the eighteenth century? Visit this database of the medical library at the University of Tokyo, and you’ll find out:

http://www.lib.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/digital/index.html

For more digital collections at the University of Tokyo:

http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/koho/guide/coll/index.html

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Manchu Rare Books Digitization Project

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

The Harvard-Yenching Library Manchu rare books digitization project has been completed. Some titles have already been uploaded to the Hollis. More items are on the way. Stay tuned!

http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/EQXKYKI6GKTGUGEGIPTPKLJ3JNJHU9XLYLV5TSAX8TS491RSDH-03889?func=find-b&find_code=WTN&request=Harvard-Yenching+Library+Manchu+rare+books+digitization+project&adjacent=1

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Mongolian rare books digitization project

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Items from Harvard-Yenching Library Mongolian rare books digitization project now can be found on the Hollis system. Check it out!

http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=%28Harvard-Yenching+Library+Mongolian+rare+books+digitization+project%29&adjacent=1

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Naxi Manuscipts

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Harvard-Yenching library holds a special collection of Naxi 纳西 manuscipts. The items are now accessible on the internet. You can explore the collection by following the link:http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hyl00002

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Da xue jiang yi 大學講義

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

A special collection of college textbooks from early twentieth-century China at Harvard-Yenching Library is now online. Check out the link: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?q=ex-Everything-1.0%3A%22Da+Xue+Jiang+Yi+digitization+project.%22+