Zhijia Shen (Director of the East Asia Library) and Paul Constantine (Associate Dean of University Libraries for Distinctive Collections) present Prof. Yao with a small token of our appreciation for all he’s done for the project.
Paul Constantine and Prof. Yao
The crowd listens attentively
Charlene Chou (Head of Technical Services at EAL) translates Prof. Yao’s talk for a group of non-Chinese speakers
Prof. Yao’s presentation style is warm and engaging
Awaiting the start of the reception
Charlene Chou and UW iSchool Ph.D student Wan-Chen Lee
The reception after the presentation was also very well attended
Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, starts off the meeting with greetings and a discussion of the importance of the project.
Professor Emeritus David Knechtges discusses the importance of UW’s hidden Chinese collections.
Zhijia Shen presents on the project overall, including progress, achievements, and what’s to come.
After the presentations, everyone was invited to tour the display of some of the discovered treasures.
The display included rare books dating from the early 17th through 20th centuries and a selection of rubbings. Professor Boyue Yao curated this display with much able assistance from Justin Johnson, Senior Conservator, and Kate Leonard of Preservation/Conservation.
Professor Yao presented about each of the individual pieces and their scholarly significance.
Professor Yao presented about each of the individual pieces and their scholarly significance.
Professor Yao presented about each of the individual pieces and their scholarly significance.
UW’s hidden treasures include a selection of rare and interesting rubbings from steles, tomb monuments, etc. In this rubbing (莫高窟六字真言碑), surrounding the four-armed Guanyin in the center is a six-syllable mantra in six languages/scripts.
One of the books on display: 全圖評註清朝三百年全史八卷八十回, translated as “A complete history of the three hundred years of the Qing dynasty with full illustrations and commentaries”.
Another of the books on display: 貴州百苗圖, translated as “Hundred figures of Miao minorities in Guizhou”.
Preservation/Conservation’s ingenious technique for securing the rubbings to the wall for display—it involved magnetic stripping and small, paper-wrapped magnets, to affix the rubbings securely without damaging them.
Pictured from left to right: Yufeng (Peter) Chu, project student worker; Emily Jantz, project cataloging specialist and administrative coordinator; Charlene Chou, project technical manager; Min-Yu (Erica) Ho, project student worker; Yingying Sun, PhD student in Asian L&L Department.
Group photo featuring the CLIR and UW-affiliated attendees.
