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List of contents
Preface
Jidong Yang
1. Missionary Families and the China Connection: An
Introduction to the R. Stuart Hummel Family Papers
Zhaohui Xue
2. Gaihōzu, Maps of Areas Outside the Japanese Territories
Prepared by the Former Japanese Army in Libraries in the
United States: Discovery and Processing
Azusa Tanaka and Shigeru Kobayashi
3. The First Korean Rare Manuscript in Canada: The Min Family
Correspondence Collection at the University of Toronto
Hana Kim and Hye-Eun Lee
4. Preserving the Growing Collection of Japanese Canadian Redress
Materials at the University of Toronto Libraries
Fabiano Takashi Rocha
5. Making the Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Digital Collection
Luo Zhou
6. The Chalfant/Britton Collection at Columbia’s C.V. Starr
East Asian Library
Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn
7. Introduction to the Conant Collection at Columbia’s C.V. Starr
East Asian Library
Hee-sook Shin
8. The Alfred Rodman Hussey Papers (1945–1948) at the
University of Michigan Library
Keiko Yokota-Carter
9. The Earliest Recordings of Korean Music (1896)
Robert C. Provine
10. The Kan’ichi Asakawa Epistolary Network Project and
Its Case Studies
Haruko Nakamura
11. By Accident and Design: Some Provenance Stories behind
Interesting and Curious Japanese Materials at the
Harvard-Yenching Library
Kuniko Yamada McVey
12. The James H. Hausman Archive
Mikyung Kang
13. Revealing the Hidden: Uncataloged Japanese Manuscripts
at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of
California, Berkeley
Toshie Marra
14. The Significance of the Korean Materials in the William Elliot Griffis
Collection at Rutgers University
Young-mee Yu Cho and Sungmin Park
15. Fissures in the Terrain: Revisiting the Cold War in East Asia in the
Hoover Archives
Hsiao-ting Lin
16. Primary Sources for the Study of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
in the Library of Congress
Yuwu Song
17. East Meets West: Digital Humanities at the University
of Pittsburgh
Michael J. Dabrishus and Haihui Zhan
About the author
JIDONG YANG is Head of the East Asia Library at Stanford University.
Summary
Beyond the Book is the first ever volume dedicated to the studies of rare East Asian materials collected by individuals and institutions in North America, including those currently held at University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; Duke University; Harvard University; Hoover Institution; Library of Congress; University of Michigan; University of Pittsburgh; Rutgers University; Stanford University; University of Toronto; University of Washington; and Yale University.
Most of the materials discussed are in a non-book format, such as archives, maps, prints, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, diaries, correspondence, posters, and unofficial publications.
Beyond the Book not only reveals many interesting and forgotten stories in the two centuries of cultural exchanges between East Asia and North America, it also provides fresh clues for East Asian studies scholars in their search for important research materials.
