Publications on the Asian Collections
CHINESE
Chu, Mi. “LC’s Chinese Collection is Largest in
Western World: Growth Tied to Political Changes,” Library
of Congress Information Bulletin, v.53 (September 5, 1994): 16.
Chu, Mi. “World Digital Library and E-Resources in the
Asian Division, Library of Congress,” Journal of East Asian
Libraries. No 138 (February 2006): 1-4.
Hu, Shuzhao. The Development of the Chinese Collection in the
Library of Congress. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1979.
Huang, Hanzhu, and David Hsü. Chinese Periodicals in the
Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988.
Huang, Hanzhu, and Hseo-chin Jen. Chinese Newspapers in the
Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985.
Hummel, Arthur W. "The Growth of the Orientalia Collections," Library
of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, v. 11,
no. 2 (February 1954): 69-87.
Lee, Hwa-wei. “Sinological Resources in the Library of
Congress,” [Paper presented at] the International Conference
on Sinological Resourcesin the Digital Era, December 7-9, 2004.
Taipei: National Central Library, 2004.
Li, Xiaocong. Descriptive Catalogue of the Traditional Chinese
Maps in the Library of Congress [Meigua gua hui tu shu quan cang
Zhong wne gu di tu xu lu]. Beijing: Wen Wu Publishing Co., 2004.
Library of Congress, Asian Division. Commemorating the Two-Hundredth
Anniversary of Robert Morrison's Arrival in China (compiled by
Mi Chu and Man Shun Yeung, assisted by Ariele Bernard). Taipei:
eHanism Global, 2007.
Lu, Judy S. “The Contemporary China Collection in the
Asian Division, The Library of Congress,” Journal of East
Asian Libraries, no. 141 (Feb. 2007)), p. 19-28.
Lu, Judy S. and Meinheit, Harold. “Hong Kong: From Fishing
Village to Financial Center,” Library of Congress Information
Bulletin, v. 56 (1977): 272-275.
Soong, James Chu-yul. Chinese Materials on Microfilm Available
from the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Center for Chinese
Research Materials, Association of Research Libraries, 1971.
Wang, Chi. "Development of the Chinese Collection in the
Library of Congress and Its Utilization by Researchers," Proceedings
of the International Conference on National Libraries--Towards
the 21st Century. Taipei: National Central Library, 1993, pp.
645-653.
Wang, Zhongmin. A Descriptive Catalog of Rare Chinese Books
in the Library of Congress. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1957.
Zhu, Shijia. A Catalog of Chinese Local Histories in the Library
of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1942.
MANCHU
Matsumura, Jun. A Catalogue of the Manchu Materials in the
Library of Congress: Xylographs, Manuscripts, Archives. Tokyo:
Toyo Bunko, produced by the University of Tokyo Press Production
Center, 1999.
Matsumura, Jun. "A Catalogue of the Manchu Books in the Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C.," The Tokyo Gukuho, v.
57, nos. 1-2 (January 1976): 36-60.
MONGOLIAN
Farguhar, David M. "A Description of the Mongolian Manuscripts
and Xylographs in Washington, D.C.," Central Asiatic Journal,
v. 1, no. 3 (1955): 161-218.
Meinheit, Susan. “The Tibetan and Mongolian Collections
in the Asian Division, Library of Congress.” Journal of
East Asian Libraries, No. 139 (June 2006). pp. 27-35.
TIBETAN
Buescher, John B. "Tibetan Materials in the Asia Rare Book
Collection of the Library of Congress," Journal of the International
Association of Buddhist Studies, v. 13, no. 1 (1990). (Lists
xylographs and manuscripts acquired between 1900 and 1928 by
William Rockhill, Berthold Laufer, and Joseph Rock.)
Kapstein, Matthew. "Inventory of Tibetan Works Acquired
Under 0199431: The Acquisition of Tibetan Books Published in
the People's Republic of China, June 14-August 11, 1990; Report
Submitted to the Library of Congress. August 28, 1990." (Titles
and sometimes detailed contents of 340 volumes of current xylographs
acquired from Tibetan printers in the People's Republic of China.)
Maurer, Walter. "List of Tibetan Materials with Identification
Numbers, 1962(?)." (Lists works in Laufer collection and
other miscellaneous works, with occasional notes on the subject
matter of the text.)
Meinheit, Susan. “The Tibetan and Mongolian Collections
in the Asian Division, Library of Congress.” Journal of
East Asian Libraries, No. 139 (June 2006). pp. 27-35.
Meinheit, Susan. "Tibetan Classical Literature and the
U.S. Library of Congress: Preservation of Knowledge." Paper
presented at the First Beijing Tibetology Conference, Beijing,
September 13-16, 1991; in China Tibetology (Special Issue, 1992):
361-372.
Robinson, Hanna. First Cumulative Dictionary Catalog of Tibetan
Works in the Library of the Institute of Advanced Study of World
Religions. Stony Brook, N.Y.: IASWR, 1985. (Catalog of PL 480
Tibetan collections.)
Rockhill, William Woodville. "Catalogue of Tibetan Books
in the Library of Congress, 1902." (A handwritten list of
sixty-two titles in Tibetan script followed by transliteration,
with brief descriptive annotations as to subject matter and physical
features.)
Tachikawa, Murashi; Tshulkrim Kelsang; and Shunzo Onoda. A Catalogue
of the United States Library of Congress Collection of Tibetan
Literature in Microfiche. 2 vols. Tokyo: International Institute
for Buddhist Studies, 1983-1988 (Bibliographica Philologica Buddhica.
Series maior, III).
Woodblock to Laser: Library of Congress Tibetan Listings. Asian
Classics Input Project. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1993. cd-rom. (Available in Microform Reading Room.)
JAPANESE
Catalog of Japanese Rare Books in the Library of Congress [Beikoku
Gikai Toshokan zo Nihon Kotenseki Mokuroku]. Tokyo: Yagi Shoten,
2003.
Honda, Shojo. Pre-Meiji Works in the Library of Congress: Japanese
Literature, Performing Arts, and Reference Books. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1997.
Honda, Shojo. Pre-Meiji Works in the Library of Congress: Japanese
Mathematics. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.
Kuroda, Andrew. “A History of the Japanese Collection
in the Library of Congress, 1874-1941.” Senda Masao Kyoju
Koki Kinen Toshokan Shiryo Ronshu. Tenri, Senda Masao Kyoju Koki
Kinenkai, 1970. 281-327.
Nagao, Philip. Japanese Local Histories in the Library of Congress.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
/ Essays by Sandy Kita . . . [et.al]. New York: Abrams in association
with the Library of Congress, 2001.
The Noyes Collection of Japanese Prints, Drawings, Etc., Presented
by Crosby Stuart Noyes. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1906.
Ohta, Thaddeus. Japanese National Government Publications in
the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1980.
Tanaka, Hiromi. A Comprehensive Catalogue of Publications of
the Former Imperial Army and Navy. Tokyo: Toyo Shorin, 1995.
Tanpo, Keisuke and Yasuhiro Honda. Kyu Taiwan Sotokufu Kankei
Shiryo Mokuroku: Beikoku Gikai Toshokan Shozo = Bibliography
of Materials Related to the Taiwan Government General: Collection
at the Library of Congress in the United States. Naruto, Japan:
Yagi Insatsujo, 1996.
Uyehara, Cecil. Checklist of Archives in the Japanese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan, 1868-1945: Microfilmed for
the Library of Congress, 1949-1951. Washington, D.C.: Photoduplication
Service, Library of Congress, 1954.
Yoshimura, Yoshiko. Censored Japanese Serials of the Pre-1946
Period: A Checklist of the Microfilm Collection. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994.
Yoshimura, Yoshiko. Japanese Government Documents and Censored
Publications: A Checklist of the Microfilm Collection. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992.
Yoshimura, Yoshiko. Pre-1956 Japanese Documents and Censored
Materials: A Checklist of the Microfilm Collection of the Library
of Congress. Washington, D.C., 2002, 2006.
Young, John. Checklist of Microfilm Reproductions of Selected
Archives of the Japanese Army, Navy, and Other Government Agencies.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1959.
Young, John. The Research Activities of the South Manchurian
Railway Company, 1907-1945: A History and Bibliography. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1966.
KOREAN
Cho, Sung Yoon. Law and Legal Literature of North Korea: A Guide.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988.
Ch'on Hye-bong et al. Mi Uihoe Tosogwan sojang Han'gukpon Mongnok
(List of Korean Rare Books in the Library of Congress). Seoul:
Han'guk Soji Hakhoe, 1994.
"An Inventory of English-language Publications on Korea
in the Library of Congress as of 1994," Asian Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1997. Photocopy.
Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications in Far Eastern
Languages, comp. Edwin G.
Beal, Jr., and Robin L. Winkler. Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 1950.
Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications in the Russian
Language, comp. Albert Parry et al. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1950.
Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications in Western
Languages, comp. Helen D. Jones and Robin L. Winkler. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1950.
Yang, Key P. Ch'uryoso yokkun Miguk Kukhoe Tosogwan sojang Pukkoe
Charyo Mongnokchip (Selected North Korean Source Materials Held
in the Library of Congress). Seoul: Kukt'o T'ongirwon, 1970.
Yang, Key P. Korean War Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1990.
Yang, Key P. "Reference Guide to Korean Materials, 1945-1959." Master's
thesis, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1960.
SOUTH ASIAN
"
Archive of World Literature on Tape." Recorded Sound Section,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division,
Library of Congress. Audio recording. (Chiefly poets reading
selections
from their own work. Especially strong for Indian and Pakistani
poets.)
"Card Catalog of 466 South Asian Manuscripts in the Southern
Asia Section." Library of Congress. Handwritten. (Most of
the manuscripts are in Sanskrit. This catalog does not cover
approximately fifty other uncataloged South Asia manuscripts
in Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Oriya, Gujarati, and Urdu.)
"Card Catalog of the Holdings of the South Asia Microform
Project." Southern Asian Section, Library of Congress. (A
dictionary card catalog of the film and microfiche acquired by
the South Asia Microform Project, 1970- , and housed at the Center
for Research Libraries, Chicago. Issued in book format as SAMP
Catalog.)
"Card Catalog of the South Asia Microfiche Collection." Southern
Asian Section, Library of Congress. (A card catalog of titles
acquired on microfiche in the New Delhi South Asia Fiche Program
since its inception in 1981. Closed in 1994 when newly cataloged
microfiched serials began to be put on line on LOCIS. Microfiched
monographs already on line for several years.)
"Discovery and Exploration Footage in the Library of Congress." Motion
Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of
Congress, 1991 (?). Printout. (Lists video collections, films,
newsreels, short subjects, and television programs in the custody
of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Includes films of Tibet (1930, 1938-1939) and expeditions to
Himalayan sites, including Ladakh (1923), Hunza (n.d.), Kanchenjunga
(1930), Nanga Parbat (1934), Dhaulatagiri (1960), and the Everest
region (1953, 1955). Margaret Mead's films of Bali and New Guinea
and footage of Burma and the Indian Ocean are listed. Also includes
other films of New Guinea and several South Pacific islands.)
Korom, Frank J. "South Asian Recordings in the Archive
of Folk Culture." Library of Congress Folk Archive Finding
Aid: LCFAFA no. 5, August 1987. Typescript.
New Delhi Field Office, Library of Congress. Accessions List,
South Asia. 16 vols. New Delhi:
E.G. Smith, 1981-1996. (Combines earlier, separate Accessions
Lists for India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and
Afghanistan.)
Poleman, Horace I. A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United
States and Canada. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society,
1938. (Includes South and Southeast Asian manuscripts in the
LC collection acquired up to 1938.)
"Southern Asia Accessions List." 9 vols. Southern
Asian Section, Library of Congress, 1952-1960. Photocopy. Reprint,
New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Weber, Albrecht. Katalog der Bibliothek des verstorbenen Professors
des Sanskrit an der Universität zu Berlin. Gütersloh:
Gedruckt bei C. Bertelsmann, 1902. (Lists the titles in the Weber
Indological Library, now in LC. Includes sixty volumes of manuscripts,
many of which contain transcriptions of several texts, sometimes
in transliterated form. The originals of some no longer exist.
Texts are presented which are not identifled in other sources.)
SOUTHEAST ASIAN
"
Accessions List, Southeast Asia." 19 vols. Jakarta Field
Office, Library of Congress, January/March 1975-November- December
1993 (monthly). Photocopy. (Continues "Accessions List,
Indonesia" [1964-1970] and "Accessions List, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei" [1971-1974].)
Asma Ahmat. "Malay Manuscripts and Malay Nineteenth-century
Printed Books in the Library of Congress." Asian Division,
Library of Congress, 1990. Photocopy. (Describes fifteen Jawi
manuscripts, twenty-nine early printed books in Jawi, and a collection
of forty-six handwritten letters from local principates to the
British Resident of Singapore, 1819-1823, William Farquhar.)
Frederick, William H., and A. Kohar Rony. Indonesia: A Select
Reading Guide in English. New York: Festival of Indonesia Foundation,
1991. (A subject guide for the nonspecialist reader. Includes
books in English focused exclusively on Indonesia published within
the last thirty years.)
Gardner, Fletcher, and Ildefonso Maliwanag. Writings of the
Mindoro-Palawan Axis. 3 vols. San Antonio: Witte Memorial Museum,
1939-1940. (Transliterates and translates texts on bamboo strips.)
Harun Mat Piah. "Manuskrip-manuskrip Melayu dalam Koleksi
Library of Congress Amerika," Sari (1987): 3-15.
Hibler, Anita, and William P. Tuchrello. Burma: A Selective
Guide to Scholarly Resources. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, 1986.
Hibler, Anita, and William P. Tuchrello. Burma: A Study Guide.
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
1987.
Hobbs, Cecil C. Southeast Asia Subject Catalog, Library of Congress.
6 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972. (A record of twenty- five years
of LC acquisitions of Southeast Asian materials in the form of
photocopied catalog cards containing descriptions of books, periodical
titles, pamphlets, and other printed material.)
Indochina: A Bibliography of the Land and People. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1950, index, 367 pp.
"Indochina Studies Program Grants Collection: A Finding
Aid." Processing Section, Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, 1989- . Loose-leaf
binder. (Indexes contents of audio and video records of interviews
with recent immigrants from Indochina drawing upon their experiences
in their homelands and their cultural heritage. Studies were
sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Council beginning in
1983. Audio and video records are archived in the Library's Motion
Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.)
Johnson, Victoria E. "Vietnam on Film and Television: Documentaries
in the Library of Congress." Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, July 1989.
Printout. (About four hundred items, chiefly American television
programs and features. A few 1940 Nippon News programs from the
Japanese collection. Some material dates from as early as 1901.)
Meinheit, Harold E. “Unveiling Vietnam: The Maps of Alexandre
de Rhodes.” The Portolan, 65 (Spring 2006), 28-41.
Netherlands East Indies: A Bibliography of Books Published After
1930 and Periodical Articles After 1932. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1945, index, 208 pp.
Pruitt, William. "Addition to the Burmese Manuscripts in
the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.," Journal of the
Pali Text Society, v. 24 (1998): 171-183. (Lists and describes
an additional thirty-six manuscripts.)
Pruitt, William. "Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.," Journal of the Pali Text Society
(1989): 1-31. (Lists and describes 124 Burmese Pali manuscripts.)
Rony, A. Kohar. "Malay Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
at the Library of Congress,"
Indonesia (1991): 123-134.
Rony, A. Kohar, and Ieda Siqueira Wiarda. The Portuguese in
Asia: Malacca, Moluccas, East Timor. Hamburg: Abera Publishing
House, 1997.
Teeuw, A. "Korte Mededelingen: Malay Manuscripts in the
Library of Congress," Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en
volkenkunde (1967): 517-520.
Wellen, Kathryn Anderson. "Searching for the Malay World
at the Library of Congress." Unpublished paper presented
at an international colloquium ("Libraries and the Construction
of Knowledge about the Malay World"), National University
of Malaysia, August 2-3, 2004.
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