Tag: Harvard-Yenching Library

  • Campus & Community

    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.

    2–3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Testament to Manchukuo

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

    5–8 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    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.

    4–5 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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    4–6 minutes