Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
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
Hand-copied maps of the world from eighteenth-century Korea.
Full version: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:3410848
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
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
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 from http://via.lib.harvard.edu/
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
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 broad theme of each lecture, along with links to five elements that will figure in that day’s presentation. We invite you to send us a short commentary (500 words or less) in prose or poetry, on any one of the three lecture themes. If you’d like to submit a short video presentation (3 minutes or less) on a theme, you can post it to a public site (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) and send us the link. The challenge is this: your submission must relate all five preview elements to that day’s theme.
You don’t need to be an East Asia specialist to participate. We are interested in exploring the diversity of reflections that can arise around a stimulating common theme and intriguing shared materials. We want to hear how you think the five preview elements could be related to the theme of the day (and perhaps to each other). In framing your account of relations, you are thus encouraged to incorporate links to additional text and other media sources drawn from your own interests or fields of expertise. You are also welcome to include preview elements from the other two themes.
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.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Please mark your calendar. The second round of blibiographic orientations at Harvard-Yenching Library is coming next week.
March 4(Mon) 3:00pm Chinese language resources, with Xiao-he Ma, Sharon Yang (Common room)
March 5(Tue) 3:00pm Japanese language resources, with Kuniko McVey (Common room)
March 7(Thu) 10:30am Korean language resources, with Mikyung Kang (Common room)
We are offering these bibliographic orientation sessions to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean respectively. These orientation sessions last about one hour. We look forward to seeing you there, and feel free to forward these messages to your friends and colleagues!
Photo: Itinerant barber from Edward Bangs Drew family album of photographs of China
