BERKELEY — The UC Berkeley Library has backed off from a proposal to shut down the South/Southeast Asia Library after it received criticism from the campus community, in light of recent anti-Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ninik Lunde, a lecturer in the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, performs a traditional dance during an event in 2018 at the university’s South/Southeast Asia Library.

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 ...

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 diaries of Hisao Magario, in the collection of Stanford’s East Asian Library (Courtesy of Stanford News). Stanford’s East Asia Library recently received diaries from the early- and mid-20th ...

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 ...

Update 02/03/25: This article has been updated to reflect new information about the engineering and business library renovations. Hours at some campus libraries have been extended to accommodate the ...

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 ...

In 1996, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin put forward a five-point proposal to establish Sino-African relations. Since then, China’s economic influence in Africa has increased significantly and ...