Notes from Asia Library

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Photograph of Professor Daniela Stockmann
  • Liangyu Fu
Daniela Stockmann, Professor of Digital Politics and Media at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, will be the next speaker in the Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies series, October 26-27.
Poster announcing the Ping-Pong Diplomacy Exhibit
  • Liangyu Fu
From September 19 to November 15, the Asia Library (Hatcher Graduate Library 4th Floor North) will be hosting an exhibit that commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M.
photo of Asian Publication Culture Information Center, Paju City, South Korea
  • Dawn Lawson
Approximately an hour away from Seoul, surprisingly close to the border with North Korea, there is a magical place where books are said to outnumber people at a ratio of 20:1.
Program poster for the Book Index conference
  • Liangyu Fu
A Chinese Studies Librarian travels to the UK to talk about books, the indexing of.
The home page of the Japanese text mining web site
  • Dawn Lawson
Last week a groundbreaking workshop on the topic of Japanese Text Mining was held at Emory University. U-M Japanese studies folks were a strong presence there.
Cover of Murakami's Kishidancho-gorōshi
  • Dawn Lawson
Looking for vacation reading? The popular Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki has published a new book.
Photo of exhibit curators Emily Wilcox and Liangyu Fu
  • Dawn Lawson
Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965, our exhibit on the history of Chinese dance, is receiving lots of media coverage.
Picture of Hongwei Xu's lecture
  • Dawn Lawson
Last year, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) and the Asia Library began co-sponsorship of a new series of guest lectures and workshops under the title Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods in Chinese Studies.
poster for chinese dance exhibit
  • Dawn Lawson
The Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are co-sponsoring a physical exhibit, a curator talk, a conference, and an online exhibit about the history of dance in China.