Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion
Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]
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A Schoolbook for Chinese Emperors
The fourth of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Charles Aylmer, Head of Chinese Collections:
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Treasures of the University Library: don’t miss out!
Would you like the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most precious items from Cambridge University Library’s collections? To celebrate our 600th anniversary, […]
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Exhibition of Chinese treasures
Treasures from our Chinese collections feature in a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases. The items, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth […]
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Cambridge Digital Library—June update
The June release of the Cambridge Digital Library sees the launch of our new Chinese collection. Our initial selection shows the temporal range, diversity of […]
Continue reading »In search of the erhu 尋覓二胡: an exhibition by Colin Huehns
The items described here are on display in the Anderson Room cases at Cambridge University Library until 10 May 2013 The erhu epitomises Chinese music; […]
Continue reading »History of Cartography online
Since the first volume appeared in 1987 the University of Chicago’s History of Cartography series of monographs has become a standard and authoritative reference work […]
Continue reading »What’s so special about Music?
Maybe surprisingly, the invitation to join this blog as a contributor made me re-consider what’s so special about Music. Of course, being employed within the […]
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