Harvard Yenching Library

The Harvard-Yenching Library Manchu rare books digitization project has been completed. Some titles have already been uploaded to the Hollis. More items are on the way. Stay tuned!

http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/EQXKYKI6GKTGUGEGIPTPKLJ3JNJHU9XLYLV5TSAX8TS491RSDH-03889?func=find-b&find_code=WTN&request=Harvard-Yenching+Library+Manchu+rare+books+digitization+project&adjacent=1

Items from Harvard-Yenching Library Mongolian rare books digitization project now can be found on the Hollis system. Check it out!

http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=%28Harvard-Yenching+Library+Mongolian+rare+books+digitization+project%29&adjacent=1

The first generation of Chinese students studying abroud in the U.S., supported by the late Qing government. Do you find any familar names?

最先留美同學錄 Zuixian liumei tongxuelu
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:3442771

This book comes from Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period (1911-1949) digitization project. More titiles can be found athttp://hollis.harvard.edu/?q=ex-Everything-1.0%3A%22Harvard+Yenching+Library+Chinese+Republican+Period+%281911-1949%29+digitization+project%22+

A book on Chinese martial arts in the early twentieth century, including the image of Huo Yuanjia, a celebrated martial artist.

香港精武体育会精武实錄 (Xianggang jing wu ti yu hui jing wu shi lu), 1920.
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14559996

Time to learn some Korean…

韓語教程 Hanŏ kyojŏng by 橋本彰美 Kyobon Chʻangmi, 1906.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:1581816

This book is part of National Library of Korea – Harvard Yenching Library Korean rare book digitization project. For more titles, please see: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?q=ex-Everything-1.0%3A%22National+Library+of+Korea+-+Harvard+Yenching+Library+Korean+rare+book+digitization+project.%22+

“La révolution en Chine: révoltés mis au pilori pour avoir attaqué des Européens.”

The news about 1898 Boxer Rebellion appeared on a French newspaper.

http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/chunkDisplay?_collection=via&inoID=21605&recordNumber=1&chunkNumber=1&method=view&image=full&startChunkNum=1&endChunkNum=1&totalChunkCount=1&offset=0

In the early nineteenth century, a Japanese writer decided to turn all the male heroes in the famous Chinese novel The Water Margin 水滸伝 into female figures.

Now you can find Harvard-Yenching library’s version of this entertaining, playful work Keisei suikoden 傾城水滸傳 on google books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=eC0ZAAAAYAAJ