UC Berkeley C.V. Starr East Asian Library
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
UC Berkeley
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Phone: (510) 642-2556
- Email: eal-library@berkeley.edu
- Website: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/east-asian
Berkeley’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library contains one of the most comprehensive collections of materials in East Asian languages in the United States. Its combined holdings, totaling over one million volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian languages, make it one of the top two such collections in the United States outside of the Library of Congress.
Collections at this institution
Chinese Political Posters
The Ann Tompkins (Tang Fandi) and Lincoln Cushing Chinese Poster Collection preserves a genre of art that was known to and accepted by hundreds of millions of Chinese during the years of the Cultural Revolution. These posters were everywhere in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Institution: UC Berkeley, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
455 Items
Chinese Stone Rubbings Collection
The East Asian Library’s collection of Chinese rubbings is second in number, outside of East Asia, only to that of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The nucleus of the collection, over 1,500 items, was acquired in 1950 from the estate of Mitsui Soken, a wealthy Japanese bibliophile, and includes albums of rubbings once owned by noted Chinese connoisseurs of the nineteenth century. Other important acquisitions were made through purchase from Chinese scholars and dealers and through the bequest of Professor Woodbridge Bingham’s collection.
Institution: UC Berkeley, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
3 Items
Sugoroku
Sugoroku Collection (ca. 150 sugoroku sheets): Some with the original wrappers in which they were marked, collected by Mitsui Takakata 三井高堅 (1867-1945). Most date to the Meiji era and are secular in content.
Institution: UC Berkeley, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
155 Items
