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Posted by: Ryan Wolfson-Ford
This blog highlights the Asian Division’s holdings illuminating the Asian origins and Eurasian spread of printing with a particular focus on its early spread from China to Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Allegedly created by astronomer-astrologers in the Tang dynasty (618-907), the book of prophecies known as “Tui bei tu” 推背圖 (“Back-pushing Pictures”) is the most renowned work of Chinese mysticism.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blog announces the release of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation’s (IPLC) Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive, which features contributions from the Asian Division’s South Asian and Southeast Asian librarians. This web archive boasts of over 4,000 websites from over 80 countries, with captures and new sites added continuously.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Cameron Penwell
A new digital collection provides access to materials from the Japanese Rare Book Collection at the Library of Congress. Topics range from classical literature to works on horses, bamboo, and more.
Posted in: Asian Division, East 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: Anchi Hoh
Learn more about a unique collection of 80 biographies of Soviet Korean leaders sent by the Soviet Communist Party to help establish North Korea’s government in the late 1940s.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia