Collecting Asia : East Asian libraries in North America, 1868-2008 / edited by Peter X. Zhou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Preface / Peter Zhou -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chronology -- East Asian history: a timeline -- 1. A history of the East Asia Library at Yale University / Ellen H. Hammond -- 2. A history of the East Asian collections in the Library of Congress: a bibliographic guide / Hwa-wei Lee -- 3. East meets east: the Harvard-Yenching Library / Raymond Lum -- 4. The McCartee Library and the East Asian Collection of the University of Pennsylvania / Jidong Yang -- 5. At the crossroads between east and west: the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley / Peter X. Zhou -- 6. A better understanding: the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University / Amy V. Heinrich -- 7. The Wason Collection on East Asia: a resonance of Cornell University's motto / Liren Zheng -- 8. A history of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa / Allen J Riedy in collaboration with Tokiko Y. Bazzell, Kuang-tien Yao and Daniel C. Kane -- 9. The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection at Princeton University / Martin J. Heijdra -- 10. The ever-beckoning horizon: the East Asia Collection at the University of Toronto / Anna Liang U. -- 11. Berthold Laufer, the Newberry Library, and the University of Chicago's East Asian Library / Yuan Zhou -- 12. Vista and vision: the East Asia Library of the University of Washington / Zhijia Shen -- 13. Growing amid challenges: Stanford University's East Asia Library / Dongfang Shao in collaboration with Qi Qiu -- 14. Sixty years of the East Asian Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles / Amy Tsiang -- 15. The Asia Library of the University of Michigan / Jidong Yang in collaboration with Jessie L. Mannisto -- 16. The East Asian Collection at Indiana University / Wen-ling Liu -- 17. The establishment and development of the East Asian Library at the University of Minnesota / Su Chen -- 18. Building an academic library at the heart of Pacific Canada: the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia / Eleanor Yuen -- 19. Fifty years of the East Asian Collection at the University of Kansas / Vickie Fu Doll -- 20. Global resource sharing and information services: the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh / Hong Xu. -- 21. A legacy of values to sustain and uphold: the East Asian Collection at the Ohio State University / Maureen H. Donovan -- 22. The East Asian Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Hsi-chu Bolick -- 23. Treasures in the cornfield: the East Asian Collection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Karen T. Wei -- 24. The East Asian Collection at Duke University: dynamics of change / Kristina Kade Troost -- 25. Past, present and future of the East Asia Collection at the University of California, San Diego / Jim Cheng -- Appendix A: (1) Major East Asian collections in North American institutions, (2) Ranking of major East Asian collections in North America -- Appendix B: Fiscal support for major East Asian collections in North America -- Index.

Today, more than eighty of North America's most prestigious institutions have established East Asian libraries or collections. Their combined holdings number in excess of 16 million books in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with more than 350,000 items being added every year. The wealth of this material provides an invaluable resource for the study of Asia. This history of acquisition provides remarkable insight into our cultural legacies. This book offers a vibrant and fascinating look at the development of twenty-five major East Asian libraries in North America and the pioneers who helped shape them.