Notes from Asia Library

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Poster for Accidental Photographer exhibition
  • Dawn Lawson
Asia Library has had a wonderful year already: on January 3 we received a donation of some 200 Kodachrome slides from Margaret Condon Taylor (Ph.D. psychology, 1983).

Anniversary program, folder, and tote bag
  • Dawn Lawson
Asia Library looks back on its December 6 anniversary event.
Asia Library anniversary motif, with images from China, Japan, and Korea
  • Dawn Lawson
Asia Library invites you to an event celebrating their 70th anniversary.
A montage of images related to the lecture and the workshop
  • Liangyu Fu
Scholars from Singapore and Taiwan to discuss the DocuSky platform (developed by National Taiwan University) and its use in research projects on Chinese religion.
Photo of Workshop, Commoners and Authority in Medieval Japan
  • Dawn Lawson
This summer Asia Library hosted a workshop and made plans to celebrate its 70-year history.
Poster for DHAsia 2018
  • Liangyu Fu
Discusses the close connection between DHAsia 2018 and our Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods in Chinese Studies
graphic announcing sutra-copying symposium
  • Dawn Lawson
On Friday, April 6, 2018, Asia Library, the University Library, and the Center of Japanese Studies presented a symposium, "Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-Copying Buddhist Texts in Japan."
Photograph of Charles Chang
  • Dawn Lawson
Charles Chang is the next guest speaker in our Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies series. He will introduce a computational method that overcomes the barriers of absent official urban statistics in studying modern China. He will also offer a workshop on geocoding Chinese addresses.
Map of Buddhist temples
  • Dawn Lawson
An Asia Library librarian is a member of an exciting Humanities Collaboratory project, Hyecho's Journey.
Map of world with data symbols
  • Dawn Lawson
Asia Library will hold a Korean Data Services Workshop in November.