In November 2010, the Stanford East Asia Library received a donation of the diaries and personal documents of Pai-chuan Tao, a former advisor to the former Republic of China Presidents Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) and Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and member of the Control Yuan (監察院) (one of the five branches of the Republic of China government in Taiwan, an investigatory agency that monitors the other branches of government).
The EAL will hold a library instruction session on Tuesday, January 25, 12-1pm in the newspaper area of the EAL reading room.
Topics to be covered:
- introduction to Searchworks (new online catalog)
- searching EAL materials in the online catalog
- introduction to latest Chinese database acquisitions
For more information, please email: eastasialibrary@stanford.edu
Building Spatio-Temporal Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Studies at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th
Newspaper/public reading area
Open to the public
I-Chun Fan, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Institute of History and Philology
Executive Director, Center for Geographic Information Science, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Hsiung-Ming Liao, Ph.D.
The Stanford East Asia Library presents:
CHINA AND THE PERFORMING ARTS
OCTOBER 15, 2010 | 3:00PM—5:00PM
Place: Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall
Admission: Free and open to public
Stanford University is proud to host the visit by famous Chinese performing artists:
Mr. Shang Changrong - Peking Opera Performer
Ms. Mao Weitao - Shaoxing Opera Performer
Stanford researchers, instructors and students interested in Chinese classical texts will soon have convenient access to a vast number of Chinese rare books. The East Asia Library is only the second repository in North America of the Reproductions of Chinese Rare Editions Series (Zhonghua zaizao shanben), a series that reproduces hundreds of rare books titles printed in the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. In the U.S., only Harvard-Yenching Library houses this series other than Stanford.
The East Asia Library will begin to transfer select materials from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections beginning on July 8, 2010. The transfer will be on-going for approximately 8 weeks. All material transferred to SAL3 will be pageable from Socrates.
Please see the following lists for titles selected for transfer:
For questions or concerns regarding selected materials, please contact the collection bibliographer:
Do you want to learn how to search for Chinese records in Socrates?
Having trouble finding Chinese journal articles? Want to learn how to
find Chinese e-books and other e-resources in the East Asia Library? If
so, then you are welcome to the library instruction on Chinese
electronic resources!
The instruction session will be held at the East Asia Library on:
Thursday, May 6, 2-3pm
For more information about the session, please contact:
Charles Fosselman
“REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF ‘CIVIL LAW’ IN QING DYNASTY CHINA USING LOCAL COURT RECORDS”
A Talk by Prof. Deng Jianpeng 邓建鹏
Deng Jianpeng is Associate Professor at the Law School of the Chinese Central University of Nationalities (Zhongyang Minzu Daxue) in Beijing, PRC. He is a noted historian of Qing dynasty law, whose main research focuses on civil case records found in the archives of Qing dynasty county courts.
WHEN: Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:00-5:30 PM
WHERE: Building 200 (History Corner), room 307
Simon Shi from Superstar Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) will come to demonstrate some of the latest features of the Duxiu (读秀知识库) and Chinamaxx e-book databases and answer questions.
Location: East Asia Library, 4th floor Meyer Library
Date: February 9, 2010
Time: 12 - 1 pm
Chinamaxx
http://www.chinamaxx.net/
Chinamaxx is a full-text database of hundreds of thousands of books published in China since 1949 covering the social sciences and humanities, medical and biological sciences, engineering, and law among others.
Duxiu 读秀知识库
The East Asia Library of Stanford University Libraries invites a student assistant who can perform, under the supervision of the Korean collection staff, various library tasks relating to the acquisition and cataloging of Korean resources. The student will be working 10 hours per week. A candidate with a long-term commitment to the job is highly preferred.
Major tasks are as follows. All necessary training will be provided.
Responsibilities
Do you want to learn how to search for Chinese records in Socrates?
Having trouble finding Chinese journal articles? Want to learn how to
find Chinese e-books and other e-resources in the East Asia Library? If
so, then you are welcome to the library instruction on Chinese
electronic resources!
The instruction session will be held at the East Asia Library on
Tuesday, November 10, 12-1:30pm
For more information about the session, please contact:
Zhaohui Xue (zhxue@stanford.edu | 650 725-3439) or
Charles Fosselman (cfosselm@stanford.edu | 650 725-3438)
Workshop on statistics, Census Data and GIS for Chinese Studies
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM, Thursday, March 19, 2009
Place: Information Center classroom, Green Library
Program
1:00-1:15 An Overview of Digital Data Resources for Chinese Studies in East Asia Library
Zhaohui Xue, Chinese studies librarian, EAL
1:15-2:30 The Development and Application of China Data: Information, Technology and Methodology
The National Assembly Library (국회도서관) and the National Library of Korea (국립중앙도서관) provide many full-text e-resources in their online catalogs. Due to copyright issues, however, these full-text resources are available at three different levels.
- available to users worldwide who have access to their online catalogs
Date: 12 - 1, Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2008
Place: East Asia Library Reading Room
Do you want to learn how to search for Chinese records in Socrates? Having trouble finding Chinese journal articles? Want to learn how to find Chinese e-books and other e-resources in the East Asia Library? If so, then you are welcome to the library instruction on Chinese electronic resources: humanities focus.
The East Asia Library is holding the Special Exhibition of Hangul (Korean Alphabet) Calligraphy. The exhibition features Hangul calligraphy works donated by eleven established Korean female calligraphers.
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th Floor
October 9 - 31, 2008
Monday - Thursday: 8am - 9pm
Friday: 8am - 5 pm
Saturday: closed
Sunday: 1- 5 pm
Trial service for "e Korean Studies" and "e-article."
Both "e Korean Studies" and "e-article" cover all subjects/disciplines, not only Korean studies.
"e Korean Studies" <http://www.e-koreanstudies.com/> provides an integrated search interface for 11 databases from Korea.
- DBpia -- full-text articles from about 1,200 journals
- KISS -- full-text articles from about 6,000 journals
- KRpia -- full-text of various reference, primary, and secondary sources
- KoreaA2Z -- full-text of various reference, primary, and secondary sources
The East Asia Library has acquired the collection of "deep backfiles" of the China Academic Journals database. The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals which includes more than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals. This acquisition greatly expands our electronic journal holdings which before now only went back to 1994. The backfiles go back as early as 1906 and many of the titles cover from the mid-twentieth century through 1993.
The EAL has acquired the following Series:
We now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to the 2nd edition of the Nihon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典, published by Shoggakan in 2000-2002 . For access, please see below.
URL: http://nikkoku.jkn21.com/
Select "Roguin (Login Hojin [Corporation])"
The Duxiu e-resource (读秀知识库) is now available for trial use to the Stanford community. Duxiu provides full-text access to over 2 million core Chinese monographs and journals, as well as over 500 yearbooks published in mainland China.
Duxiu can be accessed via Stanford's Chinamaxx interface. The Duxiu search form is located at the lower portion of the Chinamaxx homepage.
For questions on how to use this resource or for comments, please send email to eastasialibrary@stanford.edu.
Please be advised that the Town Hall Meeting to discuss the relocation of the East Asia Library has been moved from the Law School Room 290 to Kresge Auditorium. Date and time remain unchanged: Wednesday, Nov. 28th, 5:00-6:30.
A Town Hall Meeting will be held to discuss preliminary plans for the relocation of the East Asia Library into Green Library after the demolition of the Meyer Library building. The University Librarian, Provost, and Academic Senate library committee chair will present the current plans in detail and listen to comments. Open to the public.
Date and Time: November 28 (Wednesday), 5:00 – 6:30PM
Place: Law School, Room 290.
The East Asia Library is holding a photo exhibition of China's Great Wall and border area landscapes, May 1-31, 2007.
This exhibition features the photographs of Zhou Wanping and his photographs of various sections of the Great Wall, and Liu Ti and his landscape photos of China's border areas (Yunnan and Inner Mongolia).
All are welcome to come by and take look.
Photographer Bios:
The East Asia Library will sponsor a presentation by Dr. Bao Shuming of the University of Michigan's China Data Center on Thursday, April 19, 2-3pm in the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) Seminar Room #121A in Green Library.
Topic: Exploring the Demographic and Business Information of China
Presentation Abstract:
The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that we now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to Yomidasu Bunshokan, which includes searchable full-text of Yomiuri shinbun from September 1986 to present, Daily Yomiuri from September 1989 to present, and biographical information on 22,000 Japanese people.
URL: http://ezproxy.stanford.edu:2048/login?url=https://db.yomiuri.co.jp/bunshokan/
The East Asia Library, with the support of the Korean Studies Program of Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Stanford University Libraries, will hold a reception in honor of Dr. Lee Mun-Woong. Dr. Lee, a professor emeritus of Seoul National University, has donated about 900 volumes of books from his personal collection and about 50 ceramic pieces of Korean traditional writing tools. Please join us in this event to appreciate Dr. Lee’s donation. Refreshments will be provided.
Time and Date: 4 P.M., February 23, 2007
The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that we now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to the Keijō nippō 京城日報 (Kyǒngsǒng ilbo), the largest and longest circulating Japanese-language newspaper published in colonial Korea from 1907 to 1945. The image files of the Keijo nippo, provided in PDF format, are not searchable but browsable by date. For details, please see below.
URL: http://www.kstudy.com/kyungsung/
Currently available:
June 1907-Feb. 1912 (scattered issues),
The East Asia Library has acquired Han’guk yoktae munjip ch’ongso (韓國歷代文集叢書), which is a reprint set of Korean prominent intellectuals and philosophers’ collected works originally written mostly in the Koryo and Choson period up to the early 20th century. This 3,000 physical volume set includes titles of 3,500 intellectuals’ collected works on philosophy, literature, civilization, intellectual history and cultural history of Korea. The titles have not been entered into Socrates yet.
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Meyer Library 40th Anniversary Open House
Friday, December 1, 2006
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Meyer Library, the East Asia
Library is holding an exhibition of works of the renowned calligrapher
C.C. Wang and stone carvings of Niu Kesi from November 16 to December
15, 2006.
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Full-text access to the TBRC Digital Library is now available to Stanford-affiliated users at tbrc.org.
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