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 pleased to announce that we have now online access to the Chinese Cultural Revolution Database. This database is the first and the largest online database for study of the Cultural Revolution with:

• Original documents including CCP notices, instructions, proclamations, speeches and major media commentaries with detailed citations; 
• First hand sources to tally 35,000,000 words with nearly 20% increasing and collating compared with its CD-ROM edition in 2002; 
• Fully retrievable search-engine in both Chinese and English by “author,” “subjects,” “title,” “dates” and “keywords”.

For access, please see:

http://ccrd.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/Default.aspx

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that we now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to searchable full-text and page images of the Yomiuri shinbun from Meiji 7 (1874) to Showa 35 (1960).

For access, please see below:

URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/asrg/research_help/NERLyomiuri.html

It is my great pleasure to announce the Stanford East Asia Library has hired Frederic J. Kotas as Japanese Studies Librarian, who joins us on April 9, 2007. Fred received his Ph.D. in Japanese language and literature as well as his MLS from the University of Washington. He comes to Stanford from Cornell University where he was working since 1995 as Japanese Bibliographer and Assistant Curator for Wason Collection on East Asia. Dr. Kotas’ scholarly specialty is classical Japanese literature, and his addition to our staff will strengthen our ability to build the collection and serve Stanford faculty and students in Japanese studies area. Please join us in welcoming Fred Kotas to the Stanford East Asia Library.

SHAO Dongfang, Ph.D.
Curator and Head Librarian
East Asia Library

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:

Zhou Wanping, a member of the China Photographers Association, has been a long-time photographer of China’s Great Wall. He has published an album of photos, My Hometown – Gubeikou, Jinshanling, and Simatai Sections of the Great Wall. As a peasant photographer living near the Great Wall, his works have won many prizes at exhibitions both in China and abroad.

Liu Ti, a member of the China Artistic Photography Society, is an accomplished scholar of China’s borderland region. His major works include Research on Traditional Chinese Thinking on Borderland Administration and China’s Borderland Research in the 20^th Century. In addition to his research, he is a prolific photographer of China’s border area scenery.

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:
China has been experiencing a rapid economic growth and a dynamic transition from the central planning system to a marketing system since 1980s, which bring many opportunities and challenges to the U.S. as China is opening its door to the world. Established in 1997, the China Data Center at the University of Michigan is an international center for advancing the study and understanding of China. In partnership with several Chinese institutions and agencies, the Center has developed a series of unique data products, including China population data series, China economic census data series, and China GIS data series. The center provides various information services in English, including China Statistical Data Online, China Financial Data Online, China Spatial Data Online, and China Survey Data Network.

This presentation will give an introduction to the background of the China Data Center, some information sources of China, some China data projects, and various China data services. Some new developments and business applications (ChinaFinancedata.org, DemographicsChina.org) will be demonstrated for advanced financial data and spatial data analysis of China. Some future plans and directions on China data development will also be briefly discussed.