Acknowledgement
Eastern Culture NucleusChinese Rare Books in the USC Libraries
- Catherine Quinlan (Dean of USC Libraries) awarded the 2019 Dean’s Challenge Grant to support the “Exploring Chinese Rare Books at USC” project led by Tang Li (Chinese Studies Librarian), Ken Klein (Head Emeritus of East Asian Library), and Professor Bettine Birge (Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History). With the grant, we were able to invite Dr. Soren Edgren, the renowned Chinese Rare Book Specialist from Princeton University, to USC to review our rare book collection in November 2019 and to conduct, for the first time, a systematic review of Chinese rare book holdings at USC Libraries from September 2019 to March 2020.
- Sue Luftschein (Head of Special Collections), Masoud Farajpour (Library Manager of Special Collections), and other Special Collections staff members helped retrieve the Chinese rare books in the Special Collections and provided spaces and equipment to accomplish the 2019 Dean's Challenge Grant project.
- Zhaohui Chu (master student in Computer Engineering) and Zhijin Shen (master student in Architecture) assisted in the systematic review of the Chinese rare book collection, including checking physical holding and condition and scanning bibliographic pages from each Chinese rare book title. Zhijin also created the animated video for the landing page of the online exhibition.
- Curtis Fletcher (Director of the Ahmanson Lab) and Frank Pol (Web Developer of the Ahmanson Lab) provided technical and design support for the online exhibition.
- Soren Edgren (Chinese Rare Book Specialist, Princeton University), Jenny Lin (Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the Roski School of Art and Design), Dominic Cheung (Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature), Sonya Lee (Director of the USC East Asian Studies Center; Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Religion), and Mengxiao Wang (Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures) reviewed the content of the online exhibition.