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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
Create an origami shrimp from the Library’s collections. This blog shares about collections in the Library’s Asian Division and provides instructions for a paper-folding activity.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, Uncategorized
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
In conjunction with May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, a new display titled “Celebrating the Art and Literature of Jade Snow Wong (1922-2006)” is open to the public in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building until June 5, 2023. This blog introduces several display items that showcase the career of this pioneering Chinese American ceramist and author.
Posted in: Announcements, Asian American History, Asian Division
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blog celebrates the New Delhi Overseas Operations Field Office’s 60th anniversary, looking to the office’s past, present, and future operations of acquiring and processing library materials in multiple South Asian languages and formats.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia, Uncategorized
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blog post features the Asian Division's recently digitized Mangyan Bamboo Collection from Mindoro, Philippines, and a new research guide on the collection.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
(The following is a cross-post by Joshua Kueh, Southeast Asian Reference Librarian, Asian Division. It originally appeared in the blog, From the Catbird Seat.) On Saturday, December 3, 2022, the Library of Congress will host an evening with 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Maria Ressa. A journalist with extensive experience in Asia, Maria Ressa is …
Posted in: Announcements, Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
Part II of this post highlights aspects of language translation that attenuated Spanish aims in the Philippines: the persistence of local scripts and pronunciation, and pre-Hispanic cultural concepts.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
Part I of this post looks at how the establishment of a Spanish presence in the Philippines during the 16th-18th centuries was a collaborative enterprise that involved the interests of various actors: Chinese, prominent locals and Spanish.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blogpost looks at a newly digitized collection of 19th-century Malay letters from rulers to William Farquhar, Resident of Singapore, tracing its provenance to Alfred North and the Wilkes Expedition.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This piece, which is the second part of a two-part series on textiles and Asia, looks at story cloths in the context of the Hmong exodus from Laos at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia