Yale East Asia Library

[EAL Featured Book of the Month] Check out this book in April!🌷
The island of sea women : a novel
By See, Lisa https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/99140403343408651

[EAL Featured Book of the Month] Check out this book in March!
Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War by Kristin Roebuck https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/991011275308208651

[EAL News] Mondays at Beinecke: Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern !
https://youtu.be/EtFbkjIIaA0?si=DEI8i-DWg_I8HxeL
This special Mondays at Beinecke session will feature the co-curators of the new exhibition, “Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan,” Haruko Nakamura and Yosh*taka Yamamoto.

Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan: Mondays at Beinecke 10/6/25 This week, co-curators Haruko Nakamura and Yosh*taka Yamamoto discuss their new exhibition, "Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan." The exhib...

[EAL News] “Textured Stories: The Chrimen Books of Modern Japan” - New exhibitions open with fanfare and a flurry of media attention!

New exhibitions open with fanfare and a flurry of media attention | Yale Library The two new exhibitions that have just opened at Beinecke Library—“Textured Stories: The Chrimen Books of Modern Japan” and “Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books”—have already received extensive coverage in the media.

[EAL Featured Book of the Month] Check out this book in September!

Contested Environmentalisms: Trees And The Making Of Modern China
By Li, Cheng

https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/991010366354808651

A statue of Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was moved over the summer from Sterling Library's Memorabilia Room to the exhibition corridor. Yung, later an educator and diplomat, was the first Chinese person to graduate from an American university. The bronze statue was donated to Yale by Yung's hometown, Zhuhai, in 2004.

[Library News]ReCAP, a leading consortium of library research collections, welcomes Yale as newest member.

ReCAP, the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium, welcomed Yale University as its newest member this month, joining Columbia University, Harvard University, the New York Public Library research division, and Princeton University.

Yale will be making available 2.7 million unique titles from its general collections to the consortium and will gain access to 8.8 million unique titles owned by other consortium partners.

ReCAP, a leading consortium of library research collections, welcomes Yale as newest member | Yale Library ReCAP, the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium, welcomed Yale University as its newest member this month, joining Columbia University, Harvard University, the New York Public Library research division, and Princeton University.

📡[EAL Featured Book of the Month] Check out this book in May!

Art, war, and exile in modern Korea: rethinking the life and work of Lee Qoede / Jinyoung Anna Jin.
https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17631619

[EAL News] We are thrilled to share that Haruko Nakamura, Japanese Studies Librarian at Yale University Library, is leading a major upcoming exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library!

“TEXTURED STORIES: THE CHIRIMEN BOOKS OF MODERN JAPAN” will open on September 2, 2025, on the second floor of the Beinecke Library. This exhibit showcases Yale’s remarkable holdings of chirimen-bon (crêpe-paper books)—a unique form of illustrated book printed in Japan from the 1880s to the 1950s—and is co-curated by Yosh*taka Yamamoto, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL).

Haruko's work and Yale’s efforts have even caught the attention of NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster! A recent NHK program includes a segment introducing Yale’s preparation for the exhibit.

Stay tuned for more details—and mark your calendars for this beautiful celebration of Japanese book arts and Haruko’s extraordinary curatorial leadership!

Sterling Library plays “key” role in Yale presidential inauguration | Yale Library An ornate 94-year-old key to Sterling Memorial Library is one of a set of campus keys that will be presented to President Maurie McInnis during her April 6 inauguration as Yale’s 24th president.

Yale Library will be closed on Fri., April 18 | Yale Library The Classics Library will be open as study space for students with swipe access. Yale ID holders can also swipe into the 24-hour Young Family Study space at the Marx Science and Social Science Library on Friday.