Update for Chinese Studies


A Lecture: Re-examining Relations between Hu Shih & TV Soong as Top Chinese Diplomats

10.12.23 Re-examining Relations_flyer

Columbia educated Hu Shih, Wellington Koo and T.V. Soong served as leading Chinese diplomats during WWII. Based on studying Koo, Soong and Hu Papers, Prof. Wu Jingping reports his research findings on Chinese special diplomacy in wartime and re-examines Hu vs. Soong in representing Chinese interests and seeking American aid in different ways.

Prof. Wu Jingping, former chair of History Department, Fudan University serves as the Director of the Center for Modern China Leadership and Archival Documents and the Director of the Center for China Financial History, Fudan University. As a leading expert on the history of Sino-American economic relations in modern China, he has authored many books, including a seminal biography of Finance Minister T.V. Soong. He is the principal investigator for a number of research grants on history of Republican China sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China.

Prof. Junyan Jiang is the discussant and Chengzhi Wang is the moderator for the event. 

Registration is required to attend the event.

(10/06/2023)


Important Regular and Special Collections Received

The following relatively important collections have been received recently:

  • Jnigling quan shu (金陵全书), about 300 volumes, donated by the Nanjing Publishing Media Group (Nanjing Press)
  • Over 450 titles of publications published in Shanghai, donated through the "Window of Shanghai" program
  • The Collection on Pandemic Response and Public Health of China, a special collection containing hundreds of books, booklets, photo albums, etc. published and created from the late Qing Dynasty, Republican China to the 1990s
  • Wu Dizhou Papers (吴迪舟档案), a special collection of 9 boxes, donated by Fai Ng
  • Ho Mang Hang's Collection of Historiographic Materials Concerning Wang Jingwei (汪精卫研究资料), a special collection of 5 boxes, donated by Cindy Ho and Kevin Chiang of the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust
  • "Tu yi ji yong" (荼飴集詠), a special handscroll containing calligraphic and art works of over 20 leading Chinese scholars and artists, donated by Nicholas Wong, to supplement the Yin Pu Huang Collection.

(09/19/2023)

 


“Chinese Regulatory Actions to Impact Access” to CNKI Databases

In middle March 2023, CNKI databases vendor East View shared that the Cybersecurity Administration of China had imposed new oversight requirements on specific content types appearing in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). Details of impacts may be found in the vendor’s announcement.

The CNKI databases to which Columbia has licensed access (on the same platform of China Academic Journals) are:

  • China Academic Journals
  • Century Journal Project (earlier time journals, almost all are integrated into China Academic Journals)
  • China Monographic Serials (thematic journal-like continuous publications without ISSN but ISBN)
  • China Core Newspapers
  • China Statistical Yearbooks
  • CNKI E-books (a limited number of titles)

Columbia does not subscribe to CNKI's other databases such as China Doctoral Dissertations / Master's Theses, Conference Proceedings, or National Population Census of China.

For Columbia, right now only “China Statistical Yearbooks” cannot be accessed; the access to other subscribed CNKI databases is little impacted.

When “China Statistical Yearbooks” cannot be accessed, some statistical yearbooks and census may be accessed in other subscribed databases such as Michigan-based China Data Online and Hong-Kong-based Soshoo instead.

Without CNKI Dissertations/Theses, our subscribed Wanfang Data's Dissertation of China, also covering master’s theses, can be used. The same Wanfang Data platform also holds other subscribed databases such as Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Policies and Laws, and Contemporary Local Gazetteers.

(03/30/2023)


Chinese Connections at Columbia: Untangling Mysterious “Dean Lung” Stories and Century-long Chinese Imagination, APRIL 26, 2023

The zoom lecture in Chinese language is intended to untangle the mysterious “Dean Lung” stories and examine century-long Chinese imagination in a larger backdrop of China-U.S. relations. The clarification and demystification of “Dean Lung” Chinese identity and stories through anthropological and sociological approach will shed light on intriguing pioneers and complicated histories related to Columbia Chinese studies in the early years.

Speaker:

  • Wu Huanyu, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University
  • Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

Moderator: Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian.

Brief registration is required to attend the zoom lecture.

(03/10/2023)


"Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema" February 15-17, 2023

CUL ADEI Program

The Columbia University Libraries has initiated and developed a series of ADEI (Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs. As part of the ADEI program series, "Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema" features independent films of such representative filmmakers as Zi'en Cui, Popo Fan and Zero Chou through film screening, panel discussions and roundtable dialogues with the directors. 

The events are jointly sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries, the School of the Arts, the Film and Media Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Global Center Beijing, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and the Starr Library Dragon Summit Culture Endowment Fund. 

More information and registration are available at  "Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema."

(01/18/2023)


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Chengzhi Wang, Ph.D.
Chinese Studies Librarian
307M Kent Hall
(212) 854-3721
cw2165@columbia.edu