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 20th Century. In addition to his research, he is a prolific photographer of China’s border area scenery.
