Celebrating 30 Years of East Asian Studies Collections @Duke

Celebrating 30 Years of East Asian Studies Collections @Duke

This exhibit, talk, and reception celebrate the creation of the East Asian Collection at Duke University Libraries.

By Asian/Pacific Studies Institute

Date and time

Friday, November 19, 2021 · 2:30 - 5pm EST

Location

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library

411 Chapel Drive Durham, NC 27705

About this event

This exhibit celebrates the creation of the East Asian Collection at Duke University Libraries.

Although informal collecting had always occurred, the Libraries began a distinct focus on East Asian collecting in 1990 with the hiring of the first Japanese Studies Librarian, Kristina Troost, followed by a Chinese Studies Librarian in 1996, and a Korean Studies Librarian in 2007.

The collection has grown from 20,000 volumes to over 200,000, and the Libraries now have the largest Japanese collection south of Washington, D.C.

Join us on Friday, November 19, for guided tours of the exhibition (led by Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian, and Matthew Hayes, Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies Librarian), some remarks by key faculty at Duke, and a reception to celebrate the opening of this special exhibition.

Tickets are free, but we ask that you register for each portion you plan to attend. Multiple tickets may be selected at once. Please sign up by Thursday, November 18.

Additional information (including a detailed schedule of events) can be found at the APSI website.

Organized by

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) is the focal point of research and teaching on the Asia Pacific region at Duke University.

Since 1981, APSI has been supporting a dynamic group of faculty with a broad range of interdisciplinary expertise in the humanities, social sciences and medicine.

APSI fosters an active community of scholars of East and Southeast Asia, promotes the highest standards of undergraduate and graduate education in Asian Studies, enhances awareness of Asian cultures at Duke and across the Triangle, and provides academic and cultural resources about Asia to schools, colleges and universities in the southeastern United States.

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