By phoebe chan on April 1, 2025
Rise up! Sights, sounds and spaces of protest at the Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre focuses on the subject of protest and highlights materials from the MAA Library collection, along with select items from Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives.
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By phchow on February 19, 2025
The Asian Library exhibit Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture showcases the visionary universe of the diasporic Japanese illustrator Nagaoka Shusei through album covers, interviews, artworks, and books highlighting his legacy in Japan. This exhibit, which notably includes the first known example of Afrofuturistic artwork attributed to Nagaoka, will run from February […]
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By Tianyi Fei on February 18, 2025
What can poetry reveal about history, mythology, and cultural memory? In the Tang dynasty, poets not only expressed personal emotions but also engaged with historical events, folklore, and timeless legends. In our previous blog post, we explored themes of frontier life, parting, and nostalgia in Tang quatrains (read Part 1 here). This week, we continue […]
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By phchow on February 4, 2025
The Asian Library is excited to welcome you and your family to campus on Sunday, February 16, from 10 am to 4 pm! This year’s theme is “Bridge Across Time, Culture, and Seasons in Asia“, which is a collaboration between Asian Library, The Chung | Lind Gallery and the Nitobe Garden. Explore the magic at […]
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By phchow on February 4, 2025
Chinese
Japanese
South Asian
Korean
B126 G942 2024
清代粤西诸子学研究 / 郭玉贤著 / 广州 : 暨南大学出版社, 2024
DS715 H86 2024
望长安 : 海外博物馆收藏的中国故事 / 霍宏伟著 / 北京市 : 生活, 读书, 新知三联书店, 2024
DS751.6 S78 Z436 2024
宽容与执拗 : 迂夫司马光和北宋政治 / 赵冬梅著 / 北京 : 中信出版社, 2024
DS777.15 L8 A4 2024
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By phchow on January 31, 2025
河原典史教授 (Professor Norifumi Kawahara), award-winning researcher and professor of human geography at the College of Letters at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University, will deliver a public lecture titled 幻の新渡戸庭園―『大陸日報』の分析から― (The Phantom Nitobe Garden: An Analysis of Tairiku Nippō). The lecture and discussion will be conducted in Japanese, with no live translation provided. However, a video recording with […]
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