Inside the world's major East Asian collections : one belt, one road, and beyond / Allan Cho, Patrick Lo, Dickson K. W. Chiu.

Author
Cho, Allan [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Chandos Publishing, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
1 online resource (468 pages).

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 26, 2017).
Contents
  • Front Cover
  • Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections
  • Series Page
  • Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections: One Belt, One Road, and Beyond
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Interviewees
  • Authors' Biographies
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Aims of this book
  • Knowledge exchange and research
  • Career guide
  • Digitisation and digital access and exchange
  • Cultural and knowledge exchanges between the east and west
  • Research method
  • Interviews via Skype and email
  • Interviews and afterthoughts
  • 1 - Inside the Vatican Apostolic Library
  • 2 - A Library of the Venice and the Giorgio Cini Foundation's Far East Centre for Comparative Studies of Cultures and Spiritualities
  • 3 - From the Shang to the Qing at the British Library
  • Further Reading
  • 4 - A Combined Library, Archive, and Museum - Exploring the British Library
  • 5 - How Popular Books From Ancient China Were Rescued by Sir Thomas Bodley: A Tale of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University
  • 6 - Preserving the Ewenki and Orochen People at the University of Cambridge
  • 7 - Worldwide and Cost-Free Access to the Geographically Scattered Materials From Dunhuang and Other Sites in Chinese Central Asia
  • 8 - Propaganda Art as a Powerful Weapon for Promoting Nationalism, Patriotism and Hatred Towards the Enemy
  • 9 - There's No Other Way but to Use the Berlin State Library
  • 10 - Opening up the Bavarian State Library's East Asian Collections to the World
  • 11 - A History That Dates Back to the 13th Century in Switzerland's Zurich Central Library
  • 12 - Collecting Asia at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • 13 - Documenting the Cultural Exchange of Czechoslovak-Chinese Relations
  • 14 - From Collection Building to Web Development and Network Building in the Nordic Asian Studies Community.
  • 15 - A Royal Library That Is Open to Everyone in Denmark and Worldwide
  • 16 - Exploring the Hidden Treasures
  • 17 - The Most Royal of Museums in Belgium
  • 18 - A Unique Chinese Collection for the General Public at the Lyon Public Library in France
  • 19 - The Kingdom of Naxi Manuscript Collections at the French School of the Far East
  • 20 - A Library That Reflects the History of French Interest in China and East Asia
  • 21 - The Most Comprehensive Collection of Asian Art at the Guimet Museum (National Museum of Asian Art), Paris
  • 22 - Collecting the Orient and Eastern Collections at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France)
  • 23 - The Knowledge of Digital Archives and History in Japan
  • 24 - A Contemporary Russian Museum Combining the Traditions of Ethnography and Western Anthropology
  • 25 - Imperial China's Collections at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan
  • 26 - Witnessing the Birth of Asian Hollywood Through the Hong Kong Film Archive*
  • 27 - Documenting Traditional Chinese Medicine Library Collections at Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 28 - The Politics Behind the Olympics and Sports Intelligence
  • 29 - Asia Art Archive: Archiving Contemporary Art in Asia as Practice
  • 30 - Archiving and Annotating Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts as a Living Archive
  • 31 - Establishing a Permanent Kung Fu Museum in Hong Kong
  • 32 - There Is No Truth: There Are Only Stories
  • 33 - The Legend Continues: How Bruce Lee's Legacy Contributes to Our Shared Understanding of Libraries, Archives and Museums
  • 34 - Collecting Memories of Hong Kong in the Canadian Context
  • 35 - The Rise of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • 36 - The Birth and Creation of a Leading Collection of Asian Materials at Princeton University
  • Bringing It All Together.
  • Digital repositories and impacts on the evolution of scholarly activities worldwide
  • Historical myths versus historical facts: digital archives for historic research and international understanding
  • Technical challenges faced by library, archive and museum professionals
  • Concluding remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z
  • Back Cover.
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