The Tale of Two Thangkas: A Digital Journey
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Two rare Tibetan traditional hand-painted scrolls called thangkas have been digitized by the Library of Congress. This blog tells their interconnected story.
Posted in: Asian Division
Category: Asian Division
A 19th-Century Chinese Emperor’s Pilgrimage to a Buddhist Mountain: Jiaqing’s Pilgrimage to Mount Wutai
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blog introduces a traditional 19th-century Chinese map with colored illustrations showing the last imperial pilgrimage to Mount Wutai in Chinese history made by the Qing emperor Jiaqing in 1811.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
A Summer Walk. Mumford. International Collections.
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The 11th Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford was instrumental in the early development of the international collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Escaping the Heat: The Kangxi Emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Summer Resort”
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This post introduces the 18th-century Chinese poetry compilation “Imperial Poems on the Summer Resort,” written by the Kangxi emperor.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Asia, Texts, and Textiles at the Library of Congress, Part I: An Urdu Women’s Magazine from during Partition
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This piece, which is the first of a two-part blog on textiles and Asia, examines the Urdu women’s magazine “Jauhar-i nisvān̲” from the South Asian Rare Book Collection and what can be gleaned from the magazine about the importance of embroidery to women refugees during the 1947 Partition of South Asia.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia
Now Online: North Korean Serials Digital Collection at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
With the launch of the North Korean Serials digital collection, some of the most sought-after materials about the country’s economics, law, politics, military affairs, society, history, agriculture, and education are freely online.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia