Notes from Asia Library

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  • Dawn Lawson
In the wake of the deplorable rise in violence against Asians and Asian Americans, there has been an outpouring of support and sharing of information about resources to help those affected by this. Here we repost and link to messages shared within the University of Michigan.
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  • Liangyu Fu
Our next Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies will take place in Friday, March 12, 2021, from 11 am to noon. The presenter will be Haihui Zhang, Head of the East Asian Library an Chinese Studies Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh.
Open Access Publishing in Asian Studies poster, with U-M Press and LSA logos
  • Dawn Lawson
Several centers at the U-M International Institute have collaborated with University of Michigan Press and the U-M Asia Library received a Humanities Open Book program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, enabling them to make 100 important backlist books broadly available again.
Poster for film Last Train Home
  • Dawn Lawson
The next entry in the CHOP Film Series is Last Train Home, a 2009 film that documents a couple embarking on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers.
photograph of Seohyun Kim
  • Dawn Lawson
Thanks to a generous Korea Foundation program, Asia Library is able to welcome a full-time intern from Korea to its staff every year. These bright, motivated young people learn many facets of library work while here, making this a win-win situation for both parties. This year's intern, Seohyun Kim, kindly joined me via Zoom to talk about her experience, which appears below. She was a trooper in every sense of the word because she had been in the US for just one month when the pandemic hit. Fortunately for us, the Korea Foundation decided to leave the interns in place, even though they had to experience the internship remotely. Seohyun made the best of a very disappointing situation, doing library work that we were able to teach her via Zoom and email. She participated in our meetings fully and always appeared cheerful and upbeat, even though she must have been quite lonely at times in an off-campus rooming house and knowing that her parents were sick with worry. We look forward to welcoming her back sometime in the future, when no pandemic restrictions apply.
Photograph of the two main characters in Please Remember Me
  • Dawn Lawson
The next Zoom film showing in the CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) series, Please Remember Me, will be held on Wednesday, December 2, at 7:45 PM.
Picture of poster for the film Long Time No See Wuhan
  • Dawn Lawson
The China Ongoing Perspectives (CHOP) film series, co-sponsored by the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) and Asia Library, entered its second year in the midst of a pandemic.
Photograph of new arrivals bookshelf at Asia Library
  • Dawn Lawson
Asia Library, which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2017, recently logged another very meaningful milestone: the number of volumes we hold has surpassed the one million mark. To be precise (we think), our collection now contains 1,006,553 volumes.
Photograph of Professor Peter Bol, Harvard University
  • Liangyu Fu
Professor Peter Bol of Harvard University leads the next Deep Dive into Data and Digital Methods for Chinese Studies
Photograph of the three stars of the  Chinese film The Way Out
  • Liangyu Fu
The CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) series will be showing Zheng Qiong's 2016 film A Way Out on February 12 at 5:30 pm in Weiser Hall's 10th floor event space.