Golden Vision: 50 years of the University of Kansas East Asian Collection

This chapter is contained in the proceedings from the Over a Hundred Years of Collecting: The History of East Asian Collections in North America conference held on October 18-19, 2007 at the University of California, Berkeley.Contents: --Profile of the current collection --KU East Asian Studies program history --Collection support for the East Asian Studies program --Chinese collection --Japanese collection --Korean collection --Periodicals and Western language materials --Noted KU East Asian Librarians --East Asian collection patterns --Conclusion: challenges to East Asian collections --Referenc