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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: Cameron Penwell
The Ainu and Ezochi Rare Collection makes numerous rare Japanese books about the Ainu people and their traditional homeland freely available in digital format.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
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
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog describes the digitized Chinese rare book “The Illustrated Album of the Kemeng Guyang Miao People,” an ethnographic work describing the indigenous Miao people of southwest China.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog introduces a faithful copy of the Mu family ancestors’ portraits from the first to the thirty-third generation in accordance with style of the original illustrations.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blog introduces the “Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture,” a collection of illustrated maps with detailed descriptions of regions in the Chinese prefecture of Yangzhou.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a cross-post by Neely Tucker, Writing-Editor in the Library’s Office of Communications. It originally appeared on the Library of Congress Blog.) The Black Ship scrolls are a genre of Japanese paintings that captured the historic meeting of two alien cultures: That 1854 moment when U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry barged into Edo Bay …
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Qi Qiu, Head of Scholarly Services, Asian Division.) To share the rich pre-modern Chinese resources of the Library of Congress with a wider audience, the Library has presented 1,000 rare books online. The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection includes the most valuable titles and editions housed in the Library’s Asian …
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia