East Asia Library

The East Asia Library is equipped with:

• Three Windows XP computers setup to be used as dedicated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean workstations which can be used for both CJK CD-ROM use and access to all library materials and resources on the Internet.
• One microfilm reader/scanner which can scan positive and negative microfilm that can be saved in PDF format or printed out.

Finding aids available for the Japanese collection include:

• "Chō kōken bunsho" mokuroku. (Tokyo: Ajia Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1986).
• China Watching by the Japanese : Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China under the Communist Party : A Checklist of Holdings in the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution / compiled by Michiko Kiyohara. (Hoover Institution Press, c1987).

The Hoover Institution Archives contain well over one hundred collections
of papers, photographs, posters, diaries, motion pictures, sound recordings,
and artifacts relevant to Japan. These collections, assembled by a wide
variety of ranking Japanese and foreign government officials, diplomats,
military personnel, businessmen, missionaries, journalists, scholars, and
private individuals, are an invaluable source of information on twentieth-century
Japan's social, economic, political, and military conditions and events.

Chinese Books
Currently Chinese books at the EAL have two different call number systems: Library of Congress Classification System (LC) and Harvard-Yenching Classification System. LC call number always starts with alphabetical letter, for example:

DS777.53 .L546 2005
PL2727 .S2 Z363 2005

Harvard-Yenching call number starts with numeric digits, such as:

4292.3 2135
9155 1143

• Food & Drink - No food or drinks are allowed in the library.
• Cell phones - Cell phones should be turned off in the library.
• Photographs - Taking pictures in the library is not allowed without permission from the University Librarian.

The Korean Collection at Stanford University Libraries began September 2005. The collection supports research, teaching, and learning on Korea related topics at Stanford University. The current emphases of the collection are in social sciences and history.

Resources about/from Korea, which are owned by Stanford University Libraries, can be searched in Socrates: Stanford's Online Catalog or SearchWorks.

The Japanese collection was launched with an intensive acquisition program in Japan during the early postwar years starting in 1945. Between 1945 and 1947, almost 300 boxes of Japanese materials were shipped to Stanford, including some 10,000 books and magazines, as well as newspapers, official documents, etc. One of the renowned special acquisition projects was the Prince Konoya documents on microfilm obtained in 1958. The original focus of the collection centered on the study of international relations, revolution, and the causes and effects of war.

中國明朝檔案總匯 / 中國第一歷史檔案館, 遼寧省檔案館編/桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版社, 2001/DS750.56 .Z467 2001
中國第一歷史檔案館藏清代官員履歷檔案全編 / [主編秦國經 ; 副主編唐益年, 葉秀雲]/上海 : 華東師范大學出版社, 1997/JQ1512 .C499 1997
宮中檔康熙朝奏摺/ [國立故宮博物院故宮文獻編輯委員會編輯]/台北: 國立故宮博物院, 民國65-66 [1976-1977] /DS754.6 .K86
宮中檔乾隆朝奏摺/ [編輯者國立故宮博物院]/臺北市士林區: 該院, 民國71 [1982]- /DS754.8 .K86 1982
宮中檔雍正朝奏摺／ ［編輯者國立故宮博物院］/臺北市： 國立故宮博物院， 民國66-69 [1977-1980]/DS754.2 .K87
宮中檔光緖朝奏摺/ ［國立故宮博物院故宮文獻編輯委員會編輯/台北 : 國立故宮博物院, 民國62-64 [1973-1975] /DS764 .K758
清末民初外國在華商號洋行檔案匯編 HF3833 .Q56 2009
國家圖書館藏清代稅收稅務檔案史料匯編/全國圖書館文獻縮微複製中心/北京 : 全国图书馆文献缩微复制中心 , 2008/ HJ2981 .G873 2008