Publications on the Asian Collections
CHINESE
Chu, Shih-chia. A Catalog of Chinese Local Histories in
the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 1942. Dunn, Robert. Chinese-English and English-Chinese
Dictionaries in the Library of Congress. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1977.
Hu, Shu-chao. The Development of the Chinese Collection
in the Library of Congress. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,
1979.
Huang, Han-chu, and David Hsü. Chinese Periodicals
in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1988.
Huang, Han-chu, and Hseo-chin. Chinese Newspapers in the
Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1985.
Hummel, Arthur W. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912).
2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1943-1944.
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.
Library of Congress. Far Eastern Language Catalog.
22 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972.
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. "The Chinese Collection and Chinese Studies in the
Library of Congress," Proceedings of the International Association
of Orientalist Librarians, Ninth Meeting, Hong Kong, August 24-25,
1993. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 143-148.
Wang, Chi. The Chinese Collections in the Library of Congress:
A Brief Introduction. Taipei: National Central Library,
1983.
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, Chung-min. A Descriptive Catalog of Rare Chinese Books
in the Library of Congress. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, 1957.
Wiens, Mi Chu. "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.
Yü, Ping Kuen. Chinese Collections in the Library of
Congress: Excerpts from the Annual Reports of the Librarian
of Congress, 1898-1971. 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: Center
for Chinese Research Materials, Association of Research Libraries,
1974.
Zhu, Bao-Tian. A Research Guide to the Naxi Manuscripts in the
Library of Congress. In preparation.
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.
TIBETAN
"AskSam Tibetan Database." Southern Asian Section, Library of
Congress. Photocopy. (Records for nearly one thousand current
Tibetan-language publications from the People's Republic of China.)
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.)
Chhonzed, Alo. "Handlist of Tibetan Materials Presented to the
Library of Congress." (Titles of works donated to the Library
of Congress by the author in 1991.)
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. "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
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.
Nagao, Philip. Japanese Local Histories in the Library of
Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988.
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.
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 Micro film 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.
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.)
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. Philippine Holdings in the Library of Congress,
1960-1987: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 1992.
Rony, A. Kohar. Southeast Asia: Western-language Periodicals
in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1979. (A list of 2,293 titles indexed by country
or region and then by issuing institution and subject. Coverage
through December 1974.)
Rony, A. Kohar. Unveiling Indonesia, Indonesian Holdings
in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography. Washington,
D.C: Library of Congress, 1996.
Rony, A. Kohar. Vietnamese Holdings in the Library of Congress:
A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1982. (A list of monographs, periodical titles, and newspapers
in the Vietnamese language.)
Rony, A. Kohar. Vietnamese Holdings in the Library of Congress,
Supplement 1979-1985: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, 1987.
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.
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