The University's East Asian Library, located in the Frist Campus Center and Jones Hall, was built around the original Gest Oriental Library Collection. • The collection was founded by Guion Gest (1864 ...

When Ramzan Virani was a child in Karachi, Pakistan, he was a bookworm, using all of his spare time to read, he said. But when he reached the 10th grade, he stopped his education to enter the ...

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection and Dupont Underground will host the Asian American Literature Festival from Thursday to Saturday, July ...

BERKELEY – A treasure trove of East Asian scholarship will be moving from storage to center stage with the opening of a new library at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection includes ...

A new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens today at the University of California-Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and ...

In 2015, Thomas Conlan, a Princeton professor of East Asian studies and history who specializes in Japan, sought a set of “komonjo,” or Japanese medieval documents, for his graduate seminars in ...

Every bit as much as real estate, architecture is about location. Buildings must be judged by how they fit their surroundings. But they also must be judged by the spaces within their walls and the ...

In a tranquil, light-filled new building at UC Berkeley, East and West came a little closer on Saturday. "It is here that two worlds come together," said architect Billie Tsien, who co-designed UC ...

The new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens Monday at the University of California, Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars ...