Campus treasures
Berkeley’s East Asian collection began in 1896 with John Fryer’s deposit of his personal library of 2,000 volumes. Today, it stands as one of the largest and richest collections of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials in the United States.
A sampling of this remarkably rich collection is now on display at Doe Library, in an exhibit entitled “Missionaries, Merchants, and Movable Type: Collectors and Collections of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library.” The exhibit includes Chinese woodblocks and manuscripts; Japanese woodblock maps and miniature editions; Meiji era frontispieces handprinted from woodblocks; early movable-type printing from Korea; handwritten sutras dating to the seventh century; and Tibetan and Mongolian manuscripts.
The exhibition runs through Feb. 21 at Doe Library’s Brown Gallery.
