Celebrating East Asian Studies Scholarship

Electro-plating with a hand generator, owing to absence of mains current, at the Scientific Apparatus Supply Service factory, Chengdu, Sichuan, 1943. Used by permission.

A newspaper on popular science displayed outside the Kansu Science Education Institute. Photographer: Joseph Needham, 1943. (photo provided by NRI) Used by permission.

Science for Youth one year anniversary issue reprinted in Minguo zhen xi duan kan duan kan (Short-lived and Ceased Periodicals from the Republic Era in Chongqing). Beijng. 2006. V. 4, p. 1923.

I earned a B.A. at Gettysburg College in History in 1972, having started my study of Japanese at Middlebury Summer School in 1971 and attended Princeton University to study Japanese language, history, and literature and Chinese Art History as a…

Scenes from the illustrated hand scroll of The Tale of Genji