Yale East Asia Library

We're pleased to share the upcoming Japanese Book History and Digital Humanities Workshop, to be held at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, on August 20–21, 2026. The workshop features a keynote lecture by Professor Asanobu Kitamoto (National Institute of Informatics) and presentations by scholars from Japan and the United States, including our own Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for Japanese Studies at Yale University. Visit the workshop website for more information and the full program.https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2026-08-20/japanese-book-history-and-digital-humanities-workshop

We’re pleased to share news of the forthcoming book Refuge, Resilience, and Reinvention: A Memoir of Identity, Belonging, and Becoming by Kang-i Sun Chang, Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=1212

FORTHCOMING TITLE: Few memoirs offer such intimate access to the making of Chinese studies in America—or to the personal cost of building an intellectual life in the face of war, exile, migration, and loss. Through unforgettable encounters with major scholars and vivid reflections on Taiwan, China, Princeton, and Yale, Professor Kang-i Sun Chang gives readers rare entry into a hard-won intellectual and human journey where history, literature, and lived experience converge. https://www.cambriapress.com/KangiSunChang/

[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 !
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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.