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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the RBSC contact form or by sending an email to rare.books@ubc.ca.

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Celebrate Diwali with the Asian Library!

Sponsored by the Associate University Librarian Research & Scholarship and the Hindi-Urdu Language Program

Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm
(Programming: 12:30pm to 1:00pm; Food & Mingling: 1:00pm to 1:30pm)
Location: Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall) (direction)

Program:
Welcome: Iori Khuhro
Land Acknowledgement & Introduction to the Asian Library: Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa
Introduction to the Hind-Urdu Program: Student from the Department of Asian Studies
Presentation on Diwali: Taran Dhillon
Performance: Sargam UBC

Followed by light Indian refreshments.

Diwali or Deepavali, which means “a row of lights”, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and throughout the Indian diaspora. It is celebrated on Amavasya (darkest night or no moon day), it usually takes place at the end of October or the first week of November. Diwali marks the victory of good over evil, and the beginning of the New Year in India. The festival celebration, which typically lasts from five to seven days, is celebrated by several South Asian Communities, and by the majority of Indians regardless of faith, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Christians. On Diwali, people decorate their houses with diyas, candles as well as colourful lights, and they share gifts and recite prayers.

UBC Asian Library invites students, staff and faculty members to experience the diversity of South Asian culture through music and delicious refreshments.

In addition, the Asian Library will be hosting a book display near the entrance of the Asian Centre from November 1 to 15, featuring our collection related to the festival. Please stop by and take a look!

All Diwali activities are free and no registration is required.

A Guide to the Asian Library New Exhibit, “Hidden Gems at Asian Library”


UBC Asian Library is known for its collection of Asian-language scholarly resources to support the research, teaching, and learning activities of scholars, students, and community members at UBC. Have you ever wondered what odd, unique, or wonderful items we have accumulated in the course of building our library collections for over 60 years? We are currently hosting a book exhibit, “Hidden Gems at Asian Library,” to show you some of these unusual and rather special materials usually stored away in our closed stacks.

The exhibit is spread out in two locations: the Asian Centre foyer and inside the Asian Library.

When you enter the Asian Centre, look on your left at the entrance. We have a book display case there showing smaller items of interest, from an otaku figurine to a beautiful replica of a painting depicting Chŏngjo, King of Korea’s visit to Hwasŏng in 1795.

Walk toward the back of the Asian Centre foyer, and you will see a large display case. Here, check out a replica of Hyakumantō Darani (“One Million Pagodas and Dharani Prayers”), Japan’s earliest extant printed material. Can you tell where the printed matter is hidden? There are many other gems displayed in this section, including a Sanskrit bījas and mantras reproduced by the Japanese monk Sō-gen who was active in the 19th century.

Inside the Asian Library, you will find items exhibited on each floor. On the Upper Floor, you will discover the lovely 1894 printed picture book on the Yangtze River Gorges, a set of Tibetan Buddhist text, a mid-20th century boxed set of kanji flash cards, a stunningly beautiful reproduction of Kang Youwei’s own manuscript copy of Da tong shu (“The book of great harmony”), and many others gems. Don’t forget to visit the Lower Floor to see a display of the Korean woodblock printed book, Oryun haengsilto (1859) on Confucian ethics, a replica of the Japanese novelist and poet Miyazawa Kenji’s notebook, and others. Finally, on the Main Floor, we have a display case containing a lovely book of rubbings, Xianxie gong jia zhuan, and others, including Specimen pages of Korean movable types. Collected & described by Melvin P. McGovern. The book is open to a page from the Man’guk Yusa [World History, 1896] in which the “great king of Majedon, Aregisanda” is introduced—Alexander the Great of Macedon.

­­We are pleased to be able to feature these gems in the display cases throughout the Library and look forward to welcoming you to our space! The exhibit will be on from now until December 9, 2023.

New books at the Asian Library (September 2023)

BL2225 I8 I8654 2023
伊勢神宮 : 東アジアのアマテラス / 千田稔 /東京都文京区 : 吉川弘文館

BQ680.S73 F85 2023
近代日本の国家と浄土真宗 : 戦争・ナショナリズム・ジェンダー / 福島栄寿著 /京都市 : 法藏館

D16.4 K6 Y365163 2023
現代韓国における歴史教育の立論と構想 / 梁豪煥著 ; 福田喜彦, 井上奈穂, 金聖[gen]訳 /東京 : 風間書房

DS822.2 .M568 2023
江戶から明治へ : 日本風俗史点描 / 光田憲雄著/東京 : 岩田書院

DS849.C6 M6845 2022
遣唐使と古代対外関係の行方 : 日唐・日宋の交流 / 森公章著/東京 : 吉川弘文館

HD914 S5635 2023
荘園研究の論点と展望 : 中世史を学ぶ人のために / 鎌倉佐保, 木村茂光, 高木徳郎編 /東京 : 吉川弘文館

HT725 J3 K8745 2023
近代部落史 : 明治から現代まで / 黒川みどり / 東京都千代田区 : 平凡社

HQ1236.5 J3 M58 2023
さらば, 男性政治 / 三浦まり/東京 : 株式会社岩波書店

JQ1631 U56 2023
日本の保守とリベラル : 思考の座標軸を立て直す / 宇野重規 /東京 : 中央公論新社

ND1053 K36 2023
若冲の歌を聴け : 美術論集成 / 狩野博幸 /東京 : 小学館

PL726.25 S94 Y36 2023
古典モノ語り / 山本淳子/東京 : 笠間書院

PL812 A8 Z74955 2022
旅する漱石と近代交通 : 鉄道・船・人力車 / 小島英俊 /東京 : Heibonsha

PL832.A9 Z868 2022
生命の谺 : 川端康成と「特攻」 / 多胡吉郎/東京 : 現代書館

PL872.5 Y6 K38 2023
語りと祈り / 姜信子/ 東京 : みすず書房

PN1998.3 O33 M33 2022
幻の小川紳介ノート : 1990年トリノ映画祭訪問記と最後の小川プロダクション / 著者小川紳介, 小川洋子 ; 編者景山理 /大阪市 : シネ・ヌーヴォ

WC11.JJ3 G66 2020
疫病の社会史 / 五味文彦 / 東京都千代田区 : KADOKAWA

DS736 W216125 2022
讲述中国历史 / (美)魏斐德 (Frederic Evans Wakeman)著 ; (美)梁禾主编 / 长沙 : 岳麓书社

HQ1767 M355125 2022
缀珍录 : 18世纪及其前后的中国妇女 / (美)曼素恩(Susan Mann)著 ; 定宜庄, 颜宜葳译 / 南京市 : 江苏人民出版社

PL2303 W3394 2022
人类神话 : 网络文学神话学研究 / 王祥著 / 宁波市 : 宁波出版社

PL2333 J53649 2022
诗画歌吟 : 现代中国诗歌创作与绘画关系研究 / 蒋霞著 / 北京市 : 人民出版社

PL2518 L3643 2023
朗读今晚消隐的星 / 张萌主编 / Kingsbury, Vic.: 澳大利亞原鄉出版社

PL2837 A35 Z9836 2022
张爱玲传 / 余娜著 / 北京市 : 文化发展出版社

PL2879 H774 N829 2022
女性的战争 / 刘醒龙著 / 桂林 : 广西师范大学出版社

PL2947.5 U326 Z48 2022
竹马来时 / 吕华信著 / Kingsbury, Vic.: Otherland Publishing

PL2951.5 Y8 X536 2023
像住在无名流星上一样陌生、遥远、孤独 / (澳大利亚)欧阳昱著 / Kingsbury, Vic.: Otherland Publishing

Z1029 C3853 2022
冊府千華 : 中國與亞洲 : 浙江大學藏中文珍貴古籍版本圖錄 / 浙江大學圖書館古籍碑帖研究與保護中心編 / 杭州 : 浙江古籍出版社

BR115.P7 S67 2023
서서 죽기 를 원한 사람들 : 한국 신학 대학 민주화 운동사 / 한국 신학 대학 민주화 운동 동지회 / 서울시 : 대한 기독교 서회

DS732 Y354164 2023
한국 화교사 / 楊昭全, 孙玉梅 지음 ; 조 영래 옮김 / 경기도 고양시: 學古房

DS907.18 M834 2022
물 아래 무안 에서 쏘아 올리는 문화 자치 시대 의 한국 지역학 / 무안 문화원 기획 ; 이 윤선 외 지음./ 서울시 : 다[hal] 미디어

DS916.594 J3 T66 2023
동 아시아 속 2.8 독립 선언, 그 역사적 의의 : 젊은이들 의 만남 과 꿈 / 재일 한인 역사 자료관 편 : 이 성시 감수 : 배 영미, 박 준형 번역 / 서울시 : 삼인

DS923.27 C488 2023
주요 국제 문제 와 한국 외교 전략 / 편집인 이 서항/ [서울] : 한국 외교 협회

E183.8 K6 O45 2022
한미 주둔군 지위 협정 (SOFA) 협상 / 엄 정식 / 경기도 파주시 : 경인 문화사

GV1100.81 K6 C4645 2023
무예 로 조선 을 꿈 꾸다 : 정조 의 리더십 과 무예 도보 통지 / 최 형국 지음/ 서울시 : 인물 과 사상사

HN730.5 Z9 M84476 2023
7가지 키워드, 시기별 로 이해 하는 한국 사회 의 다문화 현상 이해 / 권 오경 [and five others] 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 한국 학술 정보

JV8757 C47 2023
갈등 공화국 과 국제 이주민 : 한국인 은 국제 이주민 을 이웃 처럼 사랑 할 수 있을까 / 정 영태 지음 / 인천광역시 : 다인 아트

N7365 O166 2023
한국 미술 100년 : 1910년대 부터 2010년대 까지 / 오 광수, 이 호숙 지음 / 서울 특별시 : 한국 미술품 감정 연구 센터

PL945 C69 L5 2022
연변 지역어 의 접미 파생법 연구 / 이춘영 (李春英) 지음/ 경기도 성남시 : (학) 신구 학원 신구 문화사

PL955 C57135 2023
한국 문학 의 제 양상 / 최 태호 저/ 대전 광역시 : 문경 출판사

PL963.5 T44 K94 2023
K-webtoon, 원천 IP 스토리텔링 전환 전략 : IC-PBL 로 일구는 새로운 지평 / 한양 대학교 ERICA 문화 콘텐츠 학과 스토리텔링 연구팀 / 서울시 : 논형

PN1059 S96 C46 2023
현대시 의 형태 와 구조 / 최 석화 지음 / 서울 특별시: 경진 출판

PN1992.77 A1 H365 2023
2022 제 35회 한국 방송 작가상 수상 작품집 / 한국 방송 작가 협회 편 / 서울 특별시 : 경성 문화사

E for Energy: Asian language Reads for the Science Literacy Week 2023

Asian Library is happy to participate in the Science Literacy Week again this year, September 18 to 24! The Science Literacy Week is a Canada-wide annual celebration to highlight the ways to explore and enjoy the diversity of Canadian science. This year’s theme is energy.

Check out the list of great reads in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and South Asian languages on energy, especially in regard to ways we use it as an industrial and household power source. Come and view the book displays on the Upper Floor of our library as well!

We hope you will join us in reading and learning more about energy – how it’s generated, what technologies are used, how we use it daily, and how that impacts the world in which we live.