Nikkei Telecom 21 Database Trial Announcement (October 1 to 31, 2013)

The University of Toronto Libraries currently has a trial subscription to Nikkei Telecom 21 database from October 1 to 31, 2013.

Established in 1876, the Nikkei Inc., Japan’s premier business media organization, is the publisher of the world’s largest business daily The Nikkei – Nihon Keizai Shinbun – with a daily circulation of more than 3 million. Although mainly a business-oriented resource, there are a number of articles relevant to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Nikkei Telecom 21 Database gives you access to numerous sources both in English and Japanese.  Sources include News Flash, Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei ; morning and evening editions), Article Archive Search (1975 to present), corporate profiles, and Nikkei Who’s Who.  You can also view images of earlier editions (September 1876-) of the Nihon Keizai Shinbun under the section “Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Meiji kara sengo made) [日本経済新聞(明治から戦後まで)] found on the left column of the page.

To access Nikkei Telecom, click on the link below:

https://www.nikkeiamerica.com/telecom21/iplogin/LoginG3.aspx

Please note that access to the Nikkei Telecom 21 during the trial period is only available on campus!

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have regarding the contents or ease of use of this resource. Please also let me know how important this resource is for your research purposes. If you have any questions or require any assistance using this database, feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian at 416-978-2300 or fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.

Full-text of Shipen Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū in Japan Knowledge

As of February 1, 2011, Japan Knowledge is pleased to announce that 23 titles from the 88 multi-volume set of the Shinpen Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 新編日本古典文学全集 published by Shogakukan are now available and searchable in full-text. Please see below the list of the titles currently available:


Nihon Ryōiki日本霊異記, Taketori Monogatari 竹取物語, Ise Monogatari 伊勢物語, Yamato Monogatari 大和物語, Heichū Monogatari 平中物語, Tosa Nikki 土佐日記, Kagerō Nikki 蜻蛉日記, Utsuho Monogatari うつほ物語
Ochikubo Monogatari 落窪物語, Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari 堤中納言物語, Makura no Sōshi 枕草子, Genji Monogatari 源氏物語, Izumi Shikibu Monogatari 和泉式部日記, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki 紫式部日記, Sarashina Nikki 更級日記, Sanukinosuke Nikki 讃岐典侍日記, Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari 浜松中納言物語, Yoru no Nezame 夜の寝覚, Sagoromo Monogatari 狭衣物語, Hōjōki 方丈記, Tsurezuregusa 徒然草, Zuimonki 隋聞記, Tannishō 歎異抄

Access to Japan Knowledge's contents is available on campus or off-campus by signing in with your UTORid. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at mailto:fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca

EAL Film Lecture Series: Richard Fung on December 1, 2010

2:30-5:00 P.M., Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Richard Fung on Two of His Films

Speaker: Richard Fung
Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu
Place: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
Room 8049, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto

Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and writer. His single channel and installation works have been widely presented internationally and his essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. He is the co-author, with Monika Kin Gagnon, of a book of interviews, 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics, published in English and French by Artexte. Richard teaches in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design. The films he will screen in the lecture are Rex vs. Singh (2008) and Sea in the Blood (2000).  

Rex vs. Singh (2008, 30 minutes)
A collaboration with John Greyson and Ali Kazimi, Rex vs. Singh re-examines a 1915 sodomy case involving two Sikh men entrapped by Vancouver police. Techniques from documentary, narrative and experimental cinema are brought together to mine the intersection of racism and homophobia a year after the notorious Komogata Maru incident.

Sea in the Blood (2000, 24 minutes)
Sea in the Blood is an autobiographical video about love and loss, intertwining two relationships (sister and lover) and two diseases of the blood (thallasemia and HIV/AIDS

EAL Lecture: Flexible Diplomacy of Taiwan and Its Relation to Cross-Strait Reconciliation

Poster URL: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0QyP8yesA5-NWYwZDNhNzktNjI0Ni00MWJkLTg5MDAtM2FmNTBhNGNmYjYx&hl=en&pli=1

Speaker: Dr. Francis Tsu-ching Hu (胡祖慶), Department of Political Science, Tung Hai University, Taiwan

Discussants: Dr. Victor Falkenheim and Dr. Helen Wu

1:00-3:00pm, Monday, November 15, 2010
Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto
Rm. 8049, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto

Free admission. Limited seats available, therefore please RSVP to Lucy Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone at 416-978-1025.

Dr. Francis Tsu-ching Hu is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. In June 2005, he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly (國民大會代表) and has since 2006 served as one of the twenty-one members of the Referendum Committee of the Executive Yuan (行政院公民投票審議委員). He has paid many trips to mainland China as a member of the People First Party (親民黨) delegation. His major fields of research include comparative politics, cross-Strait relations, and party coalition. His representative books published in Taiwan include Bijiao Zhengfu yu Zhengzhi《比較政府與政治》(Comparative Government and Politics) and Zhengdang Hezuo yu Jiemeng《政黨合作與結盟》(Cooperation and Coalition between Political Parties). James Soong (宋楚瑜) and Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) both wrote prefaces for Zhengdang Hezuo yu Jiemeng.

EAL Lecture: Hakka Castle Dwellings -- UNESCO World Heritage Site

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, & Global Asia Studies
@ UTSC jointly present

Hakka Castle Dwellings:

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Presented by Dr. Keith D. Lowe

Friday, July 9, 2010, at 2:30pm

Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

Speakers: Dr. Keith D. Lowe (羅金生)

Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu

Date & time: Friday, July 9, 2010 starting at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Location: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

(On the 8^th floor of the Robarts Library at 130 St. George Street, Toronto )

Registration: Seats are limited and registration is required. To register, contact Lucy

Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone 416-978-1025

Flyer: Downloadable

Language: All talks are in English

Abstract

Utilizing many photographs and diagrams, Dr. Keith Lowe presents a survey of Hakka castle dwellings. He focuses on the tulou (土樓), or round earth castles common to the mountainous Hakka heartland where eastern Fujian adjoins northwestern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi province. He shows how the architecture reflects various stages of Chinese and Hakka history and culture. In 2008, UNESCO declared a group of tolous in Fujian a world heritage site.

Bio of Dr. Keith D. Lowe

A graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude), Lowe gained the Ph.D. in modern English and American literature at Stanford University. He was a professor at Howard University, Washington DC, and at the University of California at San Diego. He is also an educator specializing in curriculum development and a consultant in multiculturalism.

Dr. Lowe is a descendant of the Lowe clan which devoted three generations to building Crane Lake New Residence near Longgang city in the Shenzhen region. This magnificent walled villa was completed in 1817. The villa is reputed to be the largest five-phoenix villa in GuangdongProvince and possibly in all of China. In 1996, the Shenzhen municipality converted the villa into the Museum of Hakka Customs.

A former president of the Ontario Multicultural Association, Dr. Lowe served two terms as a director of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. He headed the first and second Toronto Hakka Conference held at York University in December 2000 and December 2004.

EDUROAM: A New Service for UofT Faculty, Staff and Students

UofT has recently launched a new service, Eduroam (Education Roaming), which allows faculty, staff and students to use their UofT wireless login credentials to use wireless networks when they are visiting other participating universities (a list for Canadian universities, and some background information about Eduroam).

Technical support for eduroam will be provided by one's home institution. For UofT faculty, staff or students to visit another participating institution, they should contact the Information Commons Help Desk (help.desk@utoronto.ca, 416-978-4357)for technical support to configure their laptop BEFORE they go to another university.

Visitors from other participating universities should be able to use their own credentials to login to the wireless when at UofT libraries. Visitors to UofT should contact their home institution's IT support for assistance.

UofT faculty, staff and students can consult the Information Commons Help Desk for any questions about Eduroam.

Some UofT information pages about Eduroam:

UTL Computers & accessing eResources: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/computing-connecting

Gerstein's "All services" page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/services/all-services

Gerstein's Services to faculty page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/faculty/services-for-faculty





eduroam @ UofT: http://eduroam.utoronto.ca/

EAL Lecture -- Chinese North American Literature: Writings & Analysis

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Studies, & Chinese Language & Global Asia Studies at UTSC Jointly present:

Chinese North American Literature: Writings & Analysis


Speakers: Dr. Lien Chao ( 趙廉 ) & Prof. June Liu ( 劉俊 )

Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu

Date & time: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 starting at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Location: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
( On the 8th floor of the Robarts Library at 130 St. George Street, Toronto )

Registration: Seats are limited and registration is required. To register, contact Lucy Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone 416-978-1025

Flyer: Downloadable

Language: All talks are in English


Topics & Biographies of the Speakers

1. Writings about the in-between Cultures: The Chinese Knot and Other Stories, by Dr. Lien Chao

Award-winning author Lien Chao will talk about her new book that weaves together eight emotionally charged short stories of personal histories, politics, social relationships and cultural challenges into one tapestry of Toronto’s heterogeneous cultural landscape. Life in such an in-between cultural space means at once rooting and uprooting, belonging and non-belonging, dispossessing and acquiring. The protagonists of these stories find love, face loneliness, confront generational crises, and overcome racial stereotypes as they evolve and grow in this exciting, ever-changing multicultural society.

Dr. Lien Chao is an award-winning Canadian writer. She came to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies at York University. She completed her M.A. in 1986 and her Ph.D. in English in1995. Lien is a bilingual writer in English and Chinese. Her first book, Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997) won the 1997 Gabrielle Roy Award for Canadian Criticism. Lien is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada. Her volunteer work includes serving as the Vice President for the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ont.) Inc. and the Vice President for the Chinese Pen Society of Canada.

2. Comparative Studies on Two Groups of Chinese Writers in North American Literature, by Prof. Jun Liu (劉俊)

There are two groups of Chinese writers in North American literature. One consists of those writers who come from Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the other from Mainland China. Those two groups of Chinese writers play an important role in different historical periods of Chinese North American Literature, and show different themes, styles, and feelings of their creations respectively.
Prof. Jun Liu, Ph.D. in modern and contemporary Chinese literature from Nanjing University (1991), is a Professor in the Chinese Department at Nanjing University. He is currently the Director from China of the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo. His academic fields focus on Taiwan literature, Hong Kong literature, and overseas Chinese literature. His major published books are as follows: A Compassionate Mind: Biography of Kenneth H. Pai; From Taiwan & Hong Kong to Overseas: Multi-perspectives on Cross Regional Chinese Literature; An Overall View of World Chinese Literature, etc.

EAL Lecture -- Becoming American: Asian School Shooters, 1991 - 2007

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Studies,
& Chinese Language & Global Asia Studies at UTSC

Jointly present:

Becoming American:

Asian School Shooters, 1991 - 2007

A lecture by Prof. Tony Chan and Dr. Phillip C. Shon

Friday, May 21, 2010, at 2:30pm

Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

Speakers: Professor Anthony B. Chan and Dr. Phillip C. Shon

Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu

Date: Friday, May 21, 2010 starting at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Location: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (On the 8^th floor of the Robarts Library at 130 St. George Street, Toronto )

Registration: Seats are limited and registration is required. To register, contact Lucy Gan by email ( lucy.gan@utoronto.ca ) or by phone 416-978-1025.

Flyer: Downloadable

Language: All talks are in English

Topic & Biographies of the Speakers

Between 1966 and 2007, there were forty-four mass murder incidents across schools and universities in the United States. Three of those incidents involved Asian American school shooters. By using newspapers and government reports about the incidents, this paper examines the patterns of weapon acquisition, weapon deployment, and tactical deployment strategies of the three Asian American school shooters. The role of the mass media as sources of identification fantasies, legitimacy, and ideational structures for the planned attacks are considered. The meaning of being an Asian American and an Asian American school shooter in the United States are discussed.

Professor Anthony B. Chan, PhD in Chinese history from York University is noted for the following books: Arming the Chinese (1982), Gold Mountain (1982), and the biographies of Hong Kong Billionaire, Li Ka-shing (1996) and Chinese American movie icon, Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (2007). He has directed, produced, and/or anchored more than 100 films in Canada (CBC), Hong Kong (TVB) and the United States (Sun Riders Production); many are now available on the YouTube channel Comm2230U. Tony also worked for CBC television news as a street reporter. He is now a Professor of Communication at the University Of Ontario Institute Of Technology.

Dr. Phillip C. Shon is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University Of Ontario Institute Of Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, a master’s degree in linguistics, and a Ph.D. in criminal justice. His research examines the sociolinguistic organization of police-citizen encounters and nineteenth-century American parricides. His works have appeared in journals such as International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Critical Criminology, Discourse & Society, and Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.

Lectures: In an Alien Land & Voices Rising

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Studies,
& Chinese Language & Global Asia Studies at UTSC jointly present:

1. In an Alien Land: Fictional Works by Three Chinese-Canadian Women Writers of Different Generations

A lecture by Dr. Xueqing Xu (徐學清)

2. Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism

A lecture by Dr. Xiaoping Li (李小平)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at 2:30pm

Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

Date & time: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 starting at 2:30pm, light refreshments will be provided.

Location: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (On the 8^th floor of the Robarts Library at 130 St. George Street, Toronto)

Registration: Seats are limited and registration is required. To register, contact Lucy Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone 416-978-1025

Flyer: Downloadable

Language: All talks are in English

Biographies & Topics of the Speakers

1. In an Alien Land: Fictional Works by Three Chinese-Canadian Women Writers of Different Generations, by Dr. Xueqing Xu

Dr. Xueqing Xu will present on a comparative study of three fictional works by three Chinese-Canadian women, Edith Maud Eaton’s (1865-1914) The Wisdom of the New, which was written at the beginning of the last century, Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, published in 1990 and nominated for the Governor General's Award, and Zhang Ling’s Aftershock in 2007 that was ranked among the top ten novellas of the year.

Dr. Xueqing Xu (徐學清) holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese literature from Fudan University in Shanghai, and a Ph.D in Chinese literature from the University of Toronto (2000). She now is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University with her research interest in Chinese-Canadian literature and Chinese women fiction. Among her publications are a Life of Confucius (1990) and 10 articles on Chinese-Canadian literature during the past few years.

2. Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism, by Dr. Xiaoping Li

Since the early 1970s a unique landscape and mindscape that can be named as Asian Canadian cultural activism has been created by Asian Canadians who have attempted to affect the world through their cultural practices. The living embodiment of Asian Canadian cultural activism is a community consisting of scholars, university students, self-made or professionally trained artists, and community activists. Many of them consciously undertake a role similar to what Gramsci ascribed to “organic intellectuals”: they are grounded in the grassroots communities where they originally come from, they organize activities to undermine existing unjust social relations and power structures, and they are engaged in the production of new consciousness. Over the decades, they have addressed a broad range of issues concerning not simply racialized communities but also Canadian society at large, contributing to both their own community’s well-being and the democratic changes in Canadian society.

Dr. Xiaoping Li (李小平) received her Ph.D. in Sociology from York University. She currently teaches in the Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Okanagan College, British Columbia. Her main research interests include culture and globalization, cultural and community activism, immigration and multiculturalism, “race” and ethnicity, media and society. Her book, Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism, published by UBC Press in 2007, presents in-depth analysis of Asian Canadian artistic and cultural life.

2010 EAS Speaker Series: Kobayashi, History Dostoevsky

The East Asian Studies Department of the University of Toronto is glad to present the following lecture as part of its 2010 EAS Speaker Series:

Title:
Kobayashi, History, Dostoevsky

Speaker:
Hosea Hirata,
Professor of Japanese Literature and Chair
Dept. of German, Russian & Asian Languages and Literatures
Tufts University

Time:
2:30pm, Friday, March 19

Location:
Purple Lounge, 14th Fl. Robarts Library, Department of East Asian Studies

Lecture: Li Qingzhao -- The Eminent Scholar and Her Works

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is pleased to announce that we are going to have a lecture about Li Qingzhao, a prominent female poet of Song Dynasty,on Thursday, March 4. Below are event details:

Speaker: Professor Wei Djao (趙 瑋 教授)

Title: Li Qingzhao: The Eminent Scholar and Her Works (李清照：傑出的學者及其著作)

Time: Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:30pm

Place: Current Periodicals Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, 8th Floor, Robarts Library

The lecture is free and open to all, but pre-registration is needed because of a limited number of seats. Please contact Lucy @ lucy.gan@utoronto.ca, or, 416-978-1025 to register.

EAS Speaker Series -- on Tea Consumption in Medieval China

The East Asian Studies Dept. is officially launching the much-anticipated EAS Speaker Series. The first speaker, James A. Benn, will come in this Friday, January 29 to talk about tea consumption in medieval China.

Title: "Tea as Beverage and Ritual Offering in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Monasteries"
Speaker: James A. Benn (McMaster University)
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
Time: From 2:30pm
Place: the Purple Lounge, Department of East Asian Studies,
14th floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto

The following speakers are also planned for this semester's EAS Speaker Series:

1) Josea Hirata, Tufts University. (Mar 19 or Apr 2)
2) Viren Murthy, University of Ottawa (April)

Access is open to all. Please feel free to circulate the information among your students, colleagues or friends who might be interested in attending.

Full Access to Zassaku Plus!

We are pleased to announce that we now have the full subscription to Koseisha's Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Detabesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース ; Complete [Index] Database for Japanese Magazines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to Present). The database is based on 120 print volumes of the Cumulative Index to Magazines and Periodicals in the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods with over 11 million entries.

The Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Detabesu is available at the following URL:

http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=895671

If you have any questions or comments about this resource or would like some help with using it, please feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.