East Asian Collection
The East Asian Collection was developed from the "Gardner Collection," a special collection of approx. 30,000 volumes of Chinese books donated by the noted Harvard Sinologist, Charles Sidney Gardner in the 1960s. As of June 30, 2023, the Collection holds 162,961 volumes in Chinese, 30,628 volumes in Japanese, and 10,047 volumes in Korean, in addition to a large number of print serials, electronic resources and other formats. The total C-J-K book holdings are 203,636 volumes in East Asian languages, plus a good number of Western language materials on East Asian studies. Brown's East Asian Collection has been noted as one the most distinguished mid-sized East Asian collections in North America
Subcollections (2)
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Historical Maps and Coins of China
This is a collection of distinctive and unusual historical scrolls, maps, and posters found in Brown University Rockefeller Library’s East Asian Collection. The collection includes the following:...- A set of undated historical maps produced in Taiwan, most likely created during …
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Imperial strategies for suppressing uprisings in seven provinces – in illustration = 钦定剿平七省方略图说
Photographs (albumen prints) of text and illustrations of the Qing government suppression of rebellions in China in the 19th century....
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