By phchow on January 16, 2023
Women, Life, Freedom provides a glimpse into the historical movements leading up to today’s protests in Iran. From the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the subsequent introduction of the morality police, to the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, learn about the human rights concerns and the culture of resistance that have put Iranian women at the forefront of the protests. Made possible through the contributions of UBC students and employees.
The display is located on the Asian Library upper floor and ground floor from now until February 7, 2023.
Posted in Displays, Featured, Library display | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on December 13, 2022
Librarians at Asian Library have compiled recommendations for you to read while you relax during the upcoming winter holiday break. You are welcome to visit the Asian Library and check them out.
Call number: PL2822 T7 A6 2016
Book title: 人间草木 : 汪曾祺谈草木虫鱼散文42篇
Author: 汪曾祺
The pace of life is sometimes too fast to recall how we want to live our lives. Wang Zengqi has experienced the flood of the times, but still lives with grace and ease. He was obsessed with having fun and eating, but people said he was a funny old man. Most of the things in the world are not as they should be, so why not face life head on, get involved, listen to the stories of the grass, the wood, the insects and the fish, taste tea and one’s meals, feel everyday life, in order to understand the recklessness of life in the world.
Call number: PL2921.N5 Z43 2011
Book title: 这些人,那些事
Author: 吴念真
This book chronicles director Wu Nian-zhen’s life after experiencing the storms and the greatest lows of his life. He writes about the family he misses the most, the hometown he misses day and night, the friends he has fought for his whole life, and the most real touches in every corner of Taiwan. These people and events, through his heartfelt words, live so vividly in front of you and me, laughing and crying at the same time. It is a beautiful microcosm of this era that is burned in our hearts.
Call number: PL758.885 N57 2010
Book title: ダイオウイカは知らないでしょう
Author: 西加奈子, せきしろ
In Daiōika wa shiranai de shō [The giant squid does not know], two amazing writers learn to compose waka poems by carrying out regular utakai [poetry reading party] get-togethers for a year and a half. One of the authors, Nishi Kanako, visited UBC this past year, and you may already have enjoyed her essays and novels. As Nishi is joined by others in this book, the tremendous joy you receive when you read her prose is doubled and tripled as you read her interactions with others in this book. A wonderful read to involve all your senses — you will smile, cry, and laugh as you observe the process and appreciate the creations.
Call number: PN6790.J33 E888 2016 v.1-3
Book title: いいね!光源氏くん
Author:えすと えむ
The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) is perhaps the best known of all the Japanese literary classics, written by Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu) in the early 11th century. Since the Edo period (1603-1868) there has been a massive number of contemporary translations, adaptations, and parodies created of this work. A 2016 reworking, Iine! Hikaru Genji kun [Like! for Hikaru Genji] is a delightful manga series in which the handsome but quirky Heian aristocrat inadvertently time-travels to the present-day Tokyo. As he encounters the delights Tokyo offers (female roommates, smart phones, specialty coffee drinks), he composes one waka poem after another as the spirit moves him. There is a TV adaptation of this manga by Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK.
Call number: ND1069 C54 A4 2019
Book title: 그날들 이 참 좋았습니다 : 따뜻한 아랫목 같은 기억들
Author/Illustrator: 초록담쟁이 그리고 쓰다
Nostalgia for an idealized childhood in the countryside. A little girl with braided pigtails and her black cat live through four seasons together. The author/illustrator draws heartwarming moments from their life in rural Korea in pastel colored pencils, accompanied by short paragraphs of text. It is the perfect coffee table book; you can flip though it casually, read bits of it out of order, or spend a whole afternoon on reading it through. This one is soft and fuzzy.
Call number: PL994.38 C44 S27
Book title: 살인자 의 쇼핑 목록
Author: 강 지영 소설
A collection of seven short stories that focus on a moment of splintering truth. In the titular story, “The Murderer’s Shopping List,” your friendly neighborhood cashier is the protagonist. Their hobby is to deduce the lives of customers from their items of purchase: the slender young lady who buys the same amount of nipple patches, cabbage and chicken breasts every week, is she a model or a sex worker? The well-to-do lady who bought candles, fish and yakkwa, she must be preparing for a chesa tonight, etc. When the cashier sees a news report of a murder which could have been committed with items bought by a customer, they are intrigued…살인자의 쇼핑목록 has also been made into a tv drama series and a webtoon. This one is bright and sharp.
Call Number: PK2098.32.A82 H57 2017
Book title: Hīrā pherī हीरा फेरी
Author: Surendra Mohana Pāṭhaka
Language: Hindi
Taxi driver Jeet Singh is cruising for fare when a man being tailed by a bunch of goons blocks his way. Entrusting him with a briefcase full of secret, classified government documents to be delivered in lieu of a huge sum to a girl in Jogeshwari, he jumps off the moving taxi. His dead body is found by the railway track in a Mumbai suburb the next morning, while Jeet Singh finds he has nobody to give the briefcase to – the girl died mysteriously the previous night. He opens the briefcase, and discovers diamonds worth millions….
Call Number: PK2659.A44 P5 2013
Book title: Piñjara: nāwala पिंजर
Author: Amaritā Pritama
Language: Punjabi
The word Pinjar (Piñjara) means skeleton. It has no shape, no appearance, no mind, no will, just skeleton. ‘Pinjar’ is the story of India of the post-independence era. That part, which became Pakistan after being cut off from India. In the cage, there is pain of the woman, there is anger, there is sacrifice, and there is motherhood. At the same time, there are crimes of men and also repentance. There are Hindus, there are Muslims. The bite of division. Standing against bigotry are human values, and after finally accepting the reality of the present, the heroine of the novel forgives all the sins and rises again, with infinite possibilities for the future.
Posted in Carousel, Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, Festivals, Japanese language, Korean language, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on December 1, 2022
B5254 Y484 K366 2022
퇴계 이 황 의 리 철학 : 지선 실현 과 자기 완성 / 강 경현 지음 / 서울시 : 혜안
BL2240 C673 K556 2022
증산 사상 과 한국 종교 / 김 탁 / 서울시 : 민속원
DS913.25 H327 2022
조선 시대 공주 와 부마 / 한 형주 지음 / 경기도 고양시 : 국학 자료원
DS913.26 P38 2022
正史 를 버무려 쓴 조선 왕조 야사 / 박 홍갑 지음 / 서울 특별시 : 주류성
DS925 S8 K547 2022
정조 시대 화성 행궁 연구 / 김 선희 지음 / 경기도 성남시 : 신구 문화사
HQ73.3 K6 S85 2021
퀴어돌로지 : 전복 과 교란, 욕망 의 놀이 / 스[k’wip], 마노, 상근 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 오월 의 봄
HV415.5 P38 2022
시시 콜콜 조선 복지 실록 : 단 한 명 의 백성 도 굶어 죽지 않게 하라 / 박 영서 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 들녘
JQ1725 A55 I62425 2022
5공 남산 의 부장들 / 김 충식 / 서울 특별시 : 블루 엘리펀트
ML3502 K6 H564 2022
한국 팝 의 고고학. 1980, 욕망 의 장소 / 신 현준, 최 지선 지음 / 서울시 : 을유 문화사
ND1063.4 P353 2022
조선 시대 사가 기록화, 옛 그림 에 담긴 조선 양반가 의 특별한 순간들 / 박 정혜 지음 / 서울시 : 혜화 1117
PL907 Y56 2022
국어학사 : 시대 와 학문 / 이 병근 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 태학사
PL930 H355 2022
한국어 신어 형성 연구 / 최 형용 / 서울시 : 역락
PL967.6 K65 2022
일제 강점기 민족 문학 작가 와의 대화 : 염 상섭, 채 만식, 김 사량 / 공 종구 / 서울시 : 역락
PL998 C6 C473278 2022
조선족 소설사 / 최 병우 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 푸른 사상사
QA27 K6 K545 2022
한국 수학 문명사 / 김 영욱, 이 장주, 장 혜원 지음 / 경기도 파주시 : 들녘
BF175.5 D74 S25 2021
夢語り・夢解きの中世 / 酒井紀美/東京都文京区 : 吉川弘文館
DS740.5 J3 S536 2021
マオとミカド : 日中関係史の中の「天皇」 / 城山英巳 / 東京都千代田区 : 白水社
DS894.69 O829 Z46 2021
大阪の選択 : なぜ都構想は再び否決されたのか / 善教将大著 / 東京都千代田区 : 有斐閣
E175.5 A72 Y335 2021
天皇制と日本史 : 朝河貫一から学ぶ / 矢吹晋著 / 福岡市 : 集広舎
HG3328 N48 H37 2021
戦後日本経済と政策金融 : 日本政策投資銀行を事例にして / 原田輝彦著 / 吹田市 : 関西大学出版部
LC2362 H36 2021
花ひらく女学校 : 女子教育史散策. 明治後期編 / 神辺靖光, 長本裕子著 / 東京 : 成文堂
ND1059 A56 A4 2021
洛中洛外. 春夏編 / 安野光雅 / 東京都千代田区 : 産経新聞出版, 令和3
PL533 Y765 2021
ことばの「省略」とは何か / 尹盛熙著 / 東京都文京区 : 大修館書店
PL719 K616 2021
講義日本文学 : 〈共同性〉からの視界 / 東京大学文学部国文学研究室編 / 東京 : 東京大学出版会
PL726.35 H38 2021
これからの古典の伝え方 : 西鶴「男色大鑑」から考える / 畑中千晶, 敬愛大学教授 / 東京 : 文学通信
PL856 U673 N455 2020
猫を棄てる : 父親について語るとき / 村上春樹 ; 絵, 高妍 / 東京 : 文藝春秋
PL862 O38 Z89 2021
富岡多惠子論集「はぐれもの」の思想と語り / 水田宗子編 ; 水田宗子, 北田幸恵, 長谷川啓, 与那覇恵子, デイヴィッド・ホロウェイ, リー・エヴァンス・フリードリック / 東京都千代田区 : めるくまーる
PL876 O764 N3 2022
N/A = エヌエー / 年森瑛 / 東京 : 文藝春秋
PN1993.5 J3 E425 2021
映画人が語る, 日本映画史の舞台裏. 撮影現場編 / 東京 : 森話社
PN6790 J33 T3558 2021
扉はひらくいくたびも : 時代の証言者 / 竹宮惠子 ; 知野恵子聞き手 / 東京 : 中央公論新社
PK2098.16 A53 U73 2021
5उड़ान : उपन्यास / लेखक, रुपसिंह चंदेल / कानपुर : अमन प्रकाशन
PK2659 O84 K53 2022
ਖ਼ਾਲਸ : ਕਹਾਣੀ-ਸੰਗ੍ਰਹਿ / ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਓਠੀ / ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ : ਚੇਤਨਾ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਨ
PK2658.2 H5 K57 2021
Kisānī jīvana kī Pañjābī kahānī / sampādaka, Ḍô. Ravi Ravindara ; anuvāda, Ḍ̂o. Prīta Aroṛā, Navajota Kaura Māna / Naī Dillī : Rāshṭrīya Pustaka Nyāsa, Bhārata
Posted in Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, Japanese language, Korean language, New Books, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on November 21, 2022
The year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China. In the last ten years, it has become a place filled with more and more rebellious voices. Whether you are researching Hong Kong’s political and social changes, or whether you are just curious about what has been happening in this past quarter century, we invite you to visit the Asian Library and browse the Hong Kong books we have recently acquired. These Chinese titles are typically found in the call number sections DS796 H757, HN752.5 and JQ1539.5.
Below are some of our highlights:
B29 Z5683 2017a
小王子的領悟 = Notes philosophiques sur le petit prince
周保松 著 ; 區華欣 繪
新北市 : 大家出版, 2017
DS796 H745 L79228 2018
我迷失在這場殖民遊戲
盧斯達 著
香港 : 釀字工房, 2018
DS796 H75 C4335 2012
下一個十年: 香港的光榮年代?
陳冠中 著
[香港] : 牛津大學出版社, 2012
DS796 H757 L498725 2015
最壞的時代 最好的時代
李怡 著
香港 : 廣宇出版社, 2015
DS796 H757 Z44 2017
走過20年:香港回歸20年故事
明報編輯部 製作
香港 : 明報出版社有限公司, 2017
HN747.5 H426 2019
為什麼要佔領街頭? : 從太陽花, 雨傘, 到反送中運動 = Taking to the streets does not mean that demonstrators think they can realize the movement goals, but rather that they are afraid of losing something more important
何明修 著
新北市 : 左岸文化 : 遠足文化事業股份有限公司, 2019
HN752.5 J5294 2020
記者上返行人路 : 14個網媒的採訪反修例運動手記
責任編輯 鄧雅凝
香港 : 有種文化, 2020
HN752.5 K87 2020
哭泣的城市 : 香港修例風波實錄 = City in tears : a historical account of Hongkong’s extradition turmoil
于世俊, 吳明 主編
[香港] : 大公報出版有限公司, 2020
HN752.5 T5364 2020
抗命歧途 : 香港修例與兩制激變
田飛龍 著
香港 : 新民主出版社有限公司, 2020
JQ1539.5.A58 L583527 2017
思考香港一國兩制的未來
劉兆佳 著
香港 : 商務印書館(香港)有限公司, 2017
PL2878.N137 P56 2021
拼命無恙 : 你的日子如何, 你的力量也必如何
林夕 著
香港 : 亮光文化, 2021
Posted in Carousel, Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, New Books | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on November 1, 2022
PK2659 B347 A64 2021
Achhe dina di udeek / Master Harpal Singh Baronga / Mohali-Chandigarh, India : Lokgeet Parkashan
PK2658 M35 2021
Mana dā mausama / sampādaka, Simarana Dhālīwāla / Samana : Nawaraṅga Pabalīkeshanaza
PK2659 S7224 N34 2020
ਨਹਿਰੀ ਪਾਣੀ / ਮਨਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੋਮਲ / ਬਰਨਾਲਾ : ਤਾਲਿਫ਼ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਨ
PK2659 G4612 B34 2021
Bagiyan de rah : a novel / Jeet Gharangna / Patiala : The Kitab Art Publication
Posted in Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, Japanese language, Korean language, New Books, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on October 12, 2022
Small Business Month 2022: Celebrating Entrepreneurial Diversity Part 3
amber
Wed, 10/12/2022 - 11:24
Posted in Uncategorized | Read More | No Comments
By feedwordpress on October 12, 2022
Small Business Month 2022: Celebrating Entrepreneurial Diversity Part 2
amber
Wed, 10/12/2022 - 10:26
Posted in Uncategorized | Read More | No Comments