Looking toward the opening of the Asian Research Library, U-PARL has been collecting new Asian research resources. These resources, which had been temporarily accessible in the stacks of the General Library, have been available on the third floor of the main building since May 22, 2018.
Opening of Temporary Access to Asian Research Library Resources!
A user guide for the Digital Chinese Rare Book Collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library.
Associate Professor Yuto KITAMURA contributed a commentary on the literacy education materials donated by ACCU.
Professor Yusuke NAKAMURA contributed a commentary on the literacy education materials donated by ACCU.
We invite Prof. Ferdinando Sardella to hear about an archiving project he is undertaking in Kolkata. Through the lecture and the discussion with the commentators, we would like to think about the present and the future of archiving as well as study of and in Asia.
Japanese Looking over al-Maqrīzī’s Shoulder: The Working Method of a Medieval Egyptian Historian I am happy to
Yumio SAKURAI (桜井由躬雄1945-2012) was a prominent scholar of history and area studies and a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Letters. His collection consists of an estimated 1000 Vietnamese books and 50 books in Western languages.
The collection has been developed by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) since the 1970s. It contains about 2,300 items of “non-formal” literacy education materials for adults, which have been prepared by local governments and NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region. The texts are in 28 languages and have been published in 25 countries.
