Introduction
Through books, manuscripts, photographs, and other documents, the
exhibition highlights the culture and literature of countries including
China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and
the Philippines. For each area, works in both English and vernacular languages
are included. Highlights include palm leaf manuscripts, a wood model of
a Balinese festival village, the 15th century Chinese encyclopedia, and
17th century jade book, a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, travelogues and
sketchbooks from the 17th through 19th centuries, and a selection of materials
from the Maeda Collection which features rare early postwar Japanese publications
and translations of European literature. Also included are introductory
cases on the collections themselves and on Asian students at Cornell and
Cornellians in Asia.
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Copyright
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Collections
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