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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
Posted by: Cameron Penwell
A new digital collection provides worldwide access to select titles from the Korean Rare Book Collection in the Asian Division at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
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
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
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
Posted by: Cameron Penwell
This post explores topics in prewar Japanese periodicals in the Asian Division at the Library of Congress, focusing on titles that deal with the emerging film industry in Japan.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, Junior Fellows
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
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