Tag: Harvard-Yenching Library

  • Nation & World

    The Harvard-Yenching Library, by the numbers

    With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Along China’s keys

    On view at Loeb Music Library through Dec. 18, “One Hundred Years of Chinese Piano Music” sheds light on a robust tradition of song influenced by native folklore, poems, and philosophy, as well as Western compositional techniques.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Testament to Manchukuo

    A growing Harvard collection documents life and propaganda in the controversial, short-lived Asian state of Manchukuo.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The surprising origins of Europeans

    Geneticists David Reich and Nick Patterson detailed recent work on human migrations that led to the populations of today’s Europe.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Echoes of Tiananmen Square

    In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Snapshots of China

    Art historian Claire Roberts, a Radcliffe Institute fellow, discusses photography in China, and how it was used for varied goals over time.

    5 minutes