Rare sources from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
IDC Publishers has released a new microfiche collection of highly valuable primary sources on the history and culture of Korea. The present collection brings together three distinct groups of publications dating from this colonial period. It includes Japanese publications on Korea, Western (mostly English) early impressions of Korea, and Korean colonial-period literature. All materials included are drawn from the holdings of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, New York. Some of the materials included are exceptionally rare. Others are rapidly deteriorating due to age, poor quality paper, and other causes. All are highly valuable (primary) sources for scholars of Korea and things Korean. The collection is particularly important and timely because it preserves the intellectual content of publications which are at risk of disappearing for good - many of these volumes are unavailable anywhere else - and because it makes rare materials more readily accessible to a larger audience.
| Number of titles | 269 | | Number of microfiches | 1,013 |
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