New Language Guide! Mandarin Chinese Language Guide

The purpose of the language guide is to provide supplemental readings and media for learning Mandarin Chinese that are either available through University of Kansas Libraries or online. There are many links, sample pages, and PDFs that are accessible to those outside the University of Kansas. 

This guide is visually appealing, user-friendly, and with the student's perspective in mind.

Includes materials like: textbooks, readers, dictionaries, comics, audio, video, HSK resources, a list of cultural differences, and character, pinyin, and tone/pronunciation tools. 

Materials are divided into levels to benefit the learner: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. 

Available at https://guides.lib.ku.edu/mandarin/home

Korean Librarians Visit KU Libraries and Museums!

A group of 17 librarians from Korea and the Emporia SLIM Dean Jeong came to visit KU libraries and museums on June 20, 2017.
They viewed art collections in Spencer Museum of Art, toured Watson Library and its East Asian Collection, and viewed several old manuscripts in Spencer Special Collections including a 14th century Korean Buddhist sutra, and a 19th century Korean Confucian woodblocks, the Book of Hours, a Ramayana palm leaf manuscript, the Book of the Dead Egyptian papyrus manuscript, and a Hebrew Torah scroll.

New Trials Available! Bookworld E-Book Database & Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)

The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have access to a trial of the following Chinese language databases at: https://lib.ku.edu/new-database-trials

Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)

• Online database
• Offers more than 1,200 full-text Taiwanese periodicals on various subjects
• Trial expiration: May 11, 2017
• Have comments? Provide feedback to Vickie Doll, vdoll@ku.edu

Database trial: Bookworld E-Book Database (Chaoxing) 超星書世界

The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have access to a trial of the following Chinese language databases at: https://lib.ku.edu/new-database-trials

Bookworld E-Book Database 超星書世界

• The biggest Chinese eBook database 
• Read in PDF or SSreader (超星阅读器) to view eBooks
• Trial expiration: May 31, 2017
• Have comments? Provide feedback to Vickie Doll, vdoll[at sign]ku.edu

New Interview! "Story of the Zhang Family: from the Middle Kingdom to the American Midwest"

In these videos, artist Zhang Chun Hong interviews her mother, Bai Yu Zhi, about growing up in China in the 1970s and 1980s and their family history.


The interview was conducted from March 4 to March 6, 2015, at the East Asian Library at the University of Kansas and is available for viewing on KU ScholarWorks https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/22712

New Tutorial! "How to Make an Otedama"

Lilly Tsubaki shows the world how to create Otedama - a bean bag from her childhood - for the purpose of passing down knowledge and fun.

Otedama (御手玉) ／beanbag Japanese beanbags are made of colorful scraps of cloth and usually are filled with red azuki beans or rice. They are round and small enough to fit into the palm of a child's hand; some have bells attached. The beanbag game, traditionally played by girls, uses a set of five, seven, or nine beanbags. The complexity of the game ranges from simply juggling to performing various maneuvers with one or more of the other bags while one bag is in midair. An ancient game originally played with pebbles, it assumed its present form around the 17th century. Source: Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (1983)  

Available on KU ScholarWorks: 

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24521

This is a part of a series of videos prepared by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas to make the teaching and learning of aspects of East Asian culture available to students, teachers and community organizations. Additional videos include lessons on brush calligraphy, furoshiki wrapping, elementary language, and samurai information for educators. 

To see all Center for East Asian Studies Outreach Teaching Videos: 
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/22720

New Tutorial! "Furoshiki: How to Wrap a Box/Present (K-12 Instructional Series)"

"Furoshiki: How to Wrap a Box/Present (K-12 Instructional Series)" is an instructional video on how to do two similar folds to wrap a present. Any fabric may be used to wrap boxes of different sizes and shapes.

This video is designed as hands-on instructional material for teaching Japanese culture to students from elementary to junior high school. This material was prepared by the East Asian Library at the University of Kansas.

Available on KU ScholarWorks at https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24601

For more information about furoshiki, please visit: http://guides.lib.ku.edu/content.php?pid=574816&hs=a