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 ...

No matter how beautiful or expensive the shell, the true value of a library resides on the shelves. The campus fanfare swirling around the opening today of UC Berkeley's new $46.4 million C.V. Starr ...

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 C.V. Starr East Asian Library opens today. (U. of California at Berkeley photos) A new library for East Asian collections opens today at the University of California at Berkeley. The $46.4-million ...

Guests gather for the dedication of Berkeley’s East Asian Library (U. of California at Berkeley photo by Peg Skorpinski) The University of California at Berkeley has dedicated a sleek new East Asian ...

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 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 ...

Today, Daybreak dove into the East Asian Library and the Gest Collection, which contains thousands of volumes of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Literature. We investigate its past, from the collection’s ...

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 ...

Berkeley's vast collection of East Asian manuscripts and artifacts — assembled over the past century — is housed in this library, the first freestanding structure at a U.S. university erected solely ...

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 ...