Woodblack print from Wan shou sheng dian chu ji 萬壽盛典初集 (Birthday celebrations of the Qing Imperial Household), edited by Wang Yuanqi(1642-1715). Peking: Nei fu, 1716. 40 volumes.From Harvard-Yenching Library Rare Book Collection
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Woodblack print from Wan shou sheng dian chu ji 萬壽盛典初集 (Birthday celebrations of the Qing Imperial Household), edited by Wang Yuanqi(1642-1715). Peking: Nei fu, 1716. 40 volumes.From Harvard-Yenching Library Rare Book Collection
Dduper Kiut’kiu(The White Garuda)The White Garuda sitting atop the wish-giving-tree, from a funeral scroll of the Naxi, an ethnic minority in China. From Naxi Manuscript Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library
New databases for the Harvard community:Collapse Chinese Cultural Revolution Database Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database, 1957- Collapse Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, 1958-1962 Please check the following research guide for the link as it is “detected to be unsafe” by the Facebook system: http://guides.library.harvard.edu/content.php?mode=preview&pid=182622&sid=1535833&gid=4877
Around 1,000 photos shot by Dr. Joseph Needham during his visit to China in the 1940s are now available on the website The Needham Research Institute. (http://www.nri.org.uk/JN_wartime_photos/home.htm)
A special collection of college textbooks from early twentieth-century China at Harvard-Yenching Library is now online. Check out the link: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?q=ex-Everything-1.0%3A%22Da+Xue+Jiang+Yi+digitization+project.%22+
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
“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
Meet heros from this nineteenth-century illustrated version of Three Kingdoms, one of the most celebrated novels in traditional China. Xiu xiang San guo zhi quan zhuan 繡像三國志全傳, 1802 http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/15003851
Image from an illustrated version of Life and Passion of Christ published in China. The author Giulio Alenio was a sixteenth-century Italian missionary, and, like the new pope, was a member of the Society of Jesus. The book is now in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/27496573?n=1&printThumbnails=true