New Harvard-Yenching Publications
The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce the publication of two works in its publication series.
Choong Nam Yoon 尹忠男 and Soung Hwaon Kim 金成煥's The Annotated Catalogue of Korean Rare Books at the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University 하바드 燕京圖書館韓國貴重本解題 details almost 4,000 titles held by the library's Korean Rare Books Collection. Volumes 1 through 4 organize the texts by subject and provide detailed annotations on each work. Volume 5 indexes the texts by title and author. Funded through the generosity of NRC, the Korea Institute, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the catalogue is the culmination of four years of work by both library staff and several visiting scholars from Korea. Dr. Soon Gu Lee, a specialist in Choson dynasty materials, and Dr. Mi-Kyung Han, whose research focused on bibliography and annotation, each spent a year working with the collection. Dr. Soung Hwaon Kim, an authority on the history of the book, gave two years and innumerable hours of painstaking scholarship to the creation of the catalogue. Finally, it represents the vision of Choong Nam Yoon, who designed and shepherded the project prior to his retirement from the library this past August following its publication. It may be ordered directly from the Harvard-Yenching Library for $100 per set, plus shipping and handling. This is a significant savings over the publisher price, and we hope this will enable more institutions to acquire this important work.
In Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong: Photographs and Impressions 1946-1947 逝影留踪: 香港一九四六－四七, Edward Stokes presents the striking visual record created by the noted photographer during her brief sojourn in post-war Hong Kong. He contextualizes the images with bilingual (English and Chinese) essays on the places and societies Morrison captured on film. Most of the photographs, which are among the few extensive collections documenting Hong Kong in this period, have never before been published. The volume includes introductions by Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Great Fire, and Dr. Raymond Lum 林希文, who oversees the photographic holdings of the Harvard-Yenching Library. The project originated with the Hongkong Conservation Photography Foundation, which published it with the help of project sponsors including The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, Jebson & Co Ltd., KPMG and the Shum family. It may be ordered from the library for $39.95 plus shipping and handling.
Detailed publication and ordering information may be found on the library website:
The library is grateful to the scholars and librarians whose hard work and dedication creates these volumes, and to the foundations, institutions, and people that make their publication possible.
