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1 Journal of East Asian Libraries Volume 1990 Number 89 Article Publications Lily Kecskes Edward Martinique Peter Getreuer Follow this and additional works at: BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Kecskes, Lily; Martinique, Edward; and Getreuer, Peter (1990) "Publications," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol : No. 89, Article 12. Available at: This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of East Asian Libraries by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact scholarsarchive@byu.edu, ellen_amatangelo@byu.edu.

2 PUBLICATIONS I. general Library Education in Japan, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: A Comparative Study. By Young Ai Urn, Ph.D. University of Technology, Loughborough (United Kingdom), pp. Available from University Microfilms International in association with The British Library, Order Number BRDX This study has compared the education for professional librarians in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, which shared similar cultural backgrounds while developing each its own distinct national culture and character. It was intended to draw out similarities and differences in the educational systems with interpretations in the light of the so cial and cultural backgrounds. The hypotheses the research tries to verify are as follows: (i) Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have shared a similar cultural background and have adopted the same American educational system for librarians, so there will be similarities in library education in the three countries; (ii) if differences exist, they will reveal the national characteristics including the priorities given to national development, economic development, and educational standards m each country; (iii) if the three countries share similarities in library education, they will also have similar trends, problems, and future prospects resulting from the similarities. The hypotheses have been verified as being true through the comparisons of such variables as the objectives of library education, teaching staff, students, curriculum, special requirements for the course, textbooks, research, facilities, relationships with outside libraries, and incorporation of information science. The social needs in li brary services, the trends, problems, and future of library education felt by library educators along with the employment of library school graduates have also been compared. Based on the findings and their interpretation, eight suggestions for bet ter library education in the region are recommended. (Dissertation Abstracts International 49, no. 08 (February 1989): 2008-A) II, China The David Eugene Smith Collection of Works in Chinese on Mathematics and Other Subjects. Compiled by Miwa Kai, assisted by John Meskill. New York, pp. David Eugene Smith ( ), a teacher of mathematics, first taught at the State Normal School in Cortland ( ) and for seven subsequent years at the Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti. After serving three years as principal of the New York State Normal School in Brockport, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he taught from 1901 until his retirement in In 1931 he gave Columbia University his library of some 20,000 items, most of which were on mathematics and related subjects, collected during the course of bis numer- 71

3 ous worldwide travels. The Japanese-language titles contained in this collection were cataloged, and a book-form catalog was made available in (For a description of this catalog see CEAL Bulletin, No. 81 (June 1987), p. 31.) The present work is a catalog of the Chinese-language materials in this collection. It lists 88 titles in 568 fascicles, published between 1311 and Of the 88 titles, 55 are on mathematics and such related subjects as the abacus, the calendar, and astronomy. The remainder of the works is on the Chinese classics, religion, education, language, and literature. Not included are 24 titles considered to be particularly rare and requiring separate handling at a later date. The catalog is arranged by subject with bibliographic data provided in romanized form followed by Chinese characters. Title and author indexes are appended. Additional information regarding the catalog or the collection may be obtained from Mr. Kenneth A. Lohf, Librarian, The Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library 6th Floor, Columbia University, New York, NY Phone: (212) (Lily Kecskes) shua iaminech'ien ti Chung-faw shu no wen tzu chihi 2?M*k&t>c? f 5C ii. By Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, revised and enlarged by Cheng Ju-ssu. Beijing: Yin shua kung yeh chn pan she, pp. This new edition of Dr. Tsien's Written on Bamboo and Silk, first published in 1962, can be regarded as the fourth edition of this work. The first edition, in English and published^by the University of Chicago Press, had its third impression in 1969 in order to satisfy the demand tor copies of this seminal work. As Cheng Ju-ssu remarks in his explanatory preface to this latest edition: "With penetrating scholarship Dr. Tsien amply filled the large void in this area [of pre-printing written records]" (p. The first Chinese-language edition, published by the Chinese University Press of Hong Kong in 1975, adds an afterword by Professor Lao Kan, the noted Chinese historian, and a table of prehistoric pottery markings that suggest written forms. The copious body of notes incorporates new citations and brings the bibliography at the end of the English edition into the footnote system. The Japanese-language edition, published by the Hosei University Press in 1980, further extends the work with twenty-three pages of indices of authors, written works, and subjects. It also contains a bibliography of Japanese-language works dealing with the topics covered in various chapters of the original work. Hiraokr. Takeo, Tang dynasty scholar, contributes an appraisal of Dr. Tsien's work. The 1988 Chinese edition, in simplified characters, while following the earlier 1975-version, augments much of the notes, bringing the work up to date. Hiraoka's preface, Lao's afterword, and translated reviews of the original work are appended. A remarkable printing history for an extraordinary book. (Edward Martinique) 72

4 Chinese Studies: Papers Presented at a Colloquium August Edited by Frances Wood. London: The British Library, (British Library Occasional Papers ; 10) 222 pp ISBN This volume contains twenty-five papers presented at an international colloquium sponsored jointly by the British Library, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the China Library Group in The sessions were devoted to three themes: resources for Chinese studies in the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, paper and the book in China, and automation and cooperation in librarianship. (Adapted from the British Library India Office Library and Records Collections Newsletter, no (September 1989): 14) Oriental The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward. Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene Wu. Cambridge, MA: The Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, pp. Paper, $ The editors of this work selected for translation into English nineteen of the more important speeches contained in the 23-volume compilation of unofficially published works of Mao. This latter work is offered for sale by the Center for Chinese Research Materials in its Supplement 8 (Fall 1989). The translations, which deal with events that took place in February, March, and April 1957 and January, August, and November 1958, were done rigorously by several experts on contemporary Chinese politics and are meticulously footnoted. The book is thoroughly critiqued in the New York Times Book Review of December 10,1989 on pages Five essays precede the translations, introducing them and providing background information. Among the essays is one by Dr. Eugene Wu, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, in which he discusses the question of sources for the study of contemporary China. He describes the efforts made by American libraries to collect the books, journals, and newspapers of the early postworld War II period and the materials available in Taiwan and from the United States government. He goes on to relate the effects of the Cultural Revolution of the sixties on collect ing mainland publications, most especially the Red Guard publications. Finally, he provides a detailed analysis of the current collecting situation and a cogent, factbased prognosis of the future of contemporary China scholarship and of collecting materials to support that scholarship. (Edward Martinique) HI- Japan Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schripums (Bibliography of Germanlanguage Materials on Japan ). Erstellt von Susanne Formanek und Peter Getreuer. Wien: Veriag der dsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, (Materialien zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; 1) 194 pp. Austrian Schilling Available directly from the publisher Veriag der dsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Piatz 2, A-1010 Wien, Austria. 73

5 For the past twenty years Japanese studies in the German language have risen to a remarkable level in quality and quantity. Consequently, both scholarly and popular writing on Japan has b e c o m e very complex. Nevertheless, a comprehensive bibliog raphy of German-language works on Japan after 1945 has been a long-lasting desideratum. The present bibliography, edited by the Forschuungsstelle fur Kulturund G e i s t e s g e s c h i c h t e Asiens of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, tries to remedy this lack to a certain decree and to provide a useful tool for all who are interested in the accomplishments of scholars of Japanese studies in German-speaking countries. It seemed most important to first fill the sap of the present decade, therefore, this volume contains alt German-language works on Japan from 1980 to 1987 that could be identified by the compilers. Approximately 4,400 entries cover books, smaller independent publications, and ar ticles and includes typescripts and other unpublished writings as well. Entries of translations from the Japanese include the title in the original language. The main list is arranged in alphabetic order of the names of the authors or editors responsi ble, each entry being numbered. An alphabetic name index lists publications with which the author is connected. A systematic key-word index, based on the Bibliography of Asian Studies, allows further access to the material in the bibliography. There are plans to continue this bibliographical task, publishing volumes of new publications annually as well as correcting and supplementing volumes published earlier. (Peter Getreuer) Japanese Book Illustration. By Yu-Ying Brown. London: The British Library, pp ISBN A profusely illustrated (forty color and thirty-five black-and-white pictures) guide to the art of the Japanese books of the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The author, Head of the British Library Oriental Collections Japanese Section, has taken care to include many less familiar works as well as the most renowned in the British Library's extensive collection of illustrated Japanese books. The text is the matic in approach with sections on romances and folktales, poetry and poets, guides and documentaries, nature and landscapes, women's world, the floating world, and on the golden age of book illustration (approximately 1780 to 1830). (Adapted from the British Library India Office Library and Records Collections Newsletter, no (September 1989): 14.) Oriental Union List of Japanese Periodicals in the East Asian Libraries of Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities. 2nd edition. Princeton: Gest Oriental Library, pp. A printed version of an online catalog, this volume is an updated edition of the umon list compiled and published by the four libraries in Included are trade periodicals and non-trade academic journals published in Japan in the fields of the humanities and social sciences; not covered are periodicals in the fields of science and technology. 74

6 The new and enlarged edition contains entries for 2,286 titles. Entries are arranged alphabetically by romanized title, followed by the title in Japanese script (and the ti tle in English, it it appears in the periodical). Each entry also includes the place of publication, frequency, and the holdings of each library, identified by standard National Union Catalog symbols. This latest union list was computer-prepared at Princeton University from an online catalog of Japanese serials holdings developed with support from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, a U.S. government foundation. It joins two other regional consortium union lists, also prepared with Friendship Commission support, in pro viding scholars and the general public with bibliographic and location information for a wide range of Japanese-language periodicals found in the major academic East Asian libraries in the United States and Canada. The two other lists are: Union List of Current Japanese-Language Journals in East Asian Libraries in the Midwest and Union List of Current Japanese Serials in Six East Asian Libraries of Western North America. (Adapted from LC Information Bulletin 48, no. 49 (December 4,1989): 428) Nihon kenkyu no tame no sanko tosho t\ 4 ~ # f ^ *> 3 % Guide to Reference Books for Japanese Studies. Tokyo: International House of Japan Library, This is an annotated and classified list of reference books on Japan (269 titles in English and 640 titles in Japanese), which is highly selective but includes essential works in all fields of Japanese studies. The part of the guide devoted to Englishlanguage reference works is particularly useful for persons who are not specialists on Japan and who lack expertise in the Japanese language but who seek information on Japan. It also contains a list of thirty white papers issued by various government agencies of Japan and translated into English in full or in summary; a list of sixty-one Englishlanguage journals on Japan; and a list of thirty-six online data bases which are bibli ographic reference tools. The latter include newspaper and journal indexes, Japan MARC (the automated national bibliography), and indexes to research reports and government documents, with the name of the online service company or organiza tion and updating frequency for each data base. The guide should prove useful, not only for students and researchers, but also for li brarians as a selection tool for building an essential reference collection on Japan. The address of the guide's publishers is Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan. (Adapted from LC Information Bulletin 48, no. 39 (September 25,1989): 337.) LC Science Tracer Bullet: Japanese Technology. Compiled by Hisako Halasz. Washington, D. C : Library of Congress, ISSN TO The Library of Congress now has available a bibliography on technology in Japan which updates an earlier one (TO 84-3) and provides English-language sources of in formation on recent technological developments in Japan. Copies may be obtained free on request from the Science Reference Section, Science and Technology Division, library of Congress, Washington, D. C Copies have also been pro vided to the U.S. Superintendent of Documents for distribution to depository libraries. (Adapted from LC Information Bulletin 48, no. 40 (October 2,1989): 342.) 75