Collecting China in Russian and other Eastern European Languages at the University of California, Berkeley.

Liladhar R. Pendse, PhD

Librarian for Russian, Central Asian and East European Collections

Lpendse@library.berkeley.edu

And

Jianye He

Librarian for Chinese Collections

jhe@library.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley Library

Some photos of UC Berkeley and Library

A brief history of UC Berkeley and Doe Library

The University of California at Berkeley was established as the flagship campus of the Campus in 1868.

The Doe Memorial Library building was completed in 1911and holds our major portion of Russian, Central Asian and Eastern European

collections in both Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines.

The other important repository of materials related to Russia and the Far East are the East Asian and Biosciences libraries.

Currently, there are more than 10 million books in the UC Berkeley Library. In Doe Library, we have 5,500 current periodicals titles from all regions of the world.

History of Russian Collections

• The major impetus to the development of Russian collections came after the World War II as the Area Studies librarianship evolved.

• Initially the focus was to acquire the printed books and periodicals from the Soviet Union and the other Soviet bloc countries. However, as the collection grew, the focus also shifted on acquiring materials that were published in the 19th century Russian Empire.

• The interest in the Far East of Russia, Siberia, Central Asia and China has been always at the heart of the collection development at UC Berkeley due to its location on the Pacific Rim of the United States.

• The current focus is also on collecting comprehensively materials that are published in Russia on China and Sino-Russian, Sino-Soviet relations.

• I also focus on collecting Russian Émigré publications from Chinese cities such as Harbin, Shanghai, etc.

• I plan to collect extensively Uighur language materials in future.

Russian language collections

• As of June 1, 2013, we have in our holdings a total of 237,098 monographic titles and 6,867 serial titles in Russian.

Electronic Databases in Russian Collection at UC Berkeley

• At UC Berkeley, as a part of Russian collections, I subscribe to various online full-text article databases. Some important examples are Izvestiia Archive (1917-2012), Literaturnaia Gazeta Archive (1929-2011), Pravda Digital Archive (1912-2011).

• The Stalin Digital Archive is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP) to create an electronic database of finding aids, to digitize documents and images, and to publish in different forms and media materials from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.

Russian Materials Acquisitions

• Vendors of Russian Materials in Russia, Europe and the United States- MIPP Books, East View, RUSKNIGA, RUDOMINO, BENRAN, etc.

• Russian Book Exchanges at UC Berkeley account for 40% of acquisitions activity. Exchanges include serials exchanges and barter monographic exchanges with institutions in the Russian Federation. For example, Russian State Library, ANSO (Academy of Sciences-Sibirksoe Otdelenie).

• Exchanges with the other US and Canadian Institutions through SLAVIC Librarians group.

China related materials in Russian Collections at UC Berkeley.

Items by keyword="China". 1700-1900 1901-2000

2000-2013 Total

All Materials 109 1741 258 2108Books 104 1604 258 1966Periodicals 5 131 0 136Other formats 0 6 0 6Total 109 1741 258 2108Items by keyword="Chinese".

1700-1900 1901-2000

2000-2013 Total

All Materials 21 499 65 585Book 21 486 0 507Periodicals 0 12 0 12Other formats 0 1 0 1Total 21 499 65 585

Some examples of Chinese materials on Russia in UC Berkeley collections.

History of Soviet Union

紅档杂志有关中国交涉史料选譯 / 張蓉初譯.

北京 : 生活。讀書。新知三联書店, 1957.

DS754.18 .H86 1957

Chiefly translated from Russian (sources were from the Soviet Union’s journal Krasnyĭ arkhiv.);

China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources -- Translations into Chinese.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China -- Sources -- Translations into Chinese.

Added Title--Krasnyĭ arkhiv.

苏联历史档案选编 = Arkhiv istorii SSSR / 执行总主编沈志华.

北京 : 社会科学文献出版社, 2002-2003.

Library Has v.1-34(2002-2003)

Sinology

俄罗斯汉学史 (History of Sinology in Russia)/ 斯卡奇科夫 (Константин Андрионович Скачков，1821-1883).北京 : 社会科学文献出版社, 2011.East Asian PL3148.R8 S56 2011 Series: Guo jia Qing shi bian zuan wei yuan hui bian yi cong kan 国家清史编纂委员会编译丛刊 俄羅斯國立艾爾米塔什博物館藏敦煌藝術品 / 俄羅斯國立艾爾米塔什博物館Corporate Author Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) 上海 : 上海古籍出版社, 1997-<1998 >Art, Chinese -- China -- Dunhuang Caves -- Catalogs. Buddhist art -- China -- Dunhuang Caves -- Catalogs. Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Catalogs.

Some examples of Russian language books published in China.

Some examples of Russian language books published in China.

Collaborative collection development for Russian and other Eastern European materials

• UC Berkeley – Stanford Collaborative Collection Development for Russian and East European Collection.

Reasons:

Geographical proximity,

Non-duplication of academic research level publication,

Dedicated budgets for each country of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Ability to provide regional focus. For example, UC Berkeley Library focuses on collecting anything published on China, Japan and Korea in Russia and the former Eastern bloc countries. Stanford focuses on collecting the Caucasus related materials.

PACSLAV and Center for Research Libraries

• The Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV) was formed to promote the development of Slavic Studies resources in this region of the United States and Canada

• It includes UC Berkeley, and Arizona State University, University of Arizona, University of Hawaii, University of Oregon Stanford, and University of Washington.

• PACSLAV Duplicate Books Exchange Program among the participating institutions.

• PACSLAV also negotiates consortial electronic database purchases.

PACSLAV and Center for Research Libraries

• The Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV) was formed to promote the development of Slavic Studies resources in this region of the United States and Canada

• It includes UC Berkeley, and Arizona State University, University of Arizona, University of Hawaii, University of Oregon Stanford, and University of Washington.

• PACSLAV Duplicate Books Exchange Program among the participating institutions.

• PACSLAV also negotiates consortial electronic database purchases.

The Center for Research Libraries (www.crl.edu)

• The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source material critical to those disciplines (source: about the CRL).

• CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most materials acquired are from outside the United States, and many are from five “emerging” regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America (source: about CRL).

Importance of Chinese collections in Russia.

Importance of Chinese language in Russian Federation.

Major Chinese Collections in Russian Federation

• The Russian National Library (http://www.nlr.ru/fonds/vostok/)

Russian National Library (Digital component): Kitaiiskii Blagovestnik, 1904-1918. (source: http://goo.gl/CJYTN)

Other Russian Institutions with significant collection of Chinese print materials.

• Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.ivran.ru). • Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies (http://

www.msu.ru/en/info/struct/depts/isaa.html).• Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg aka Leningradskoe otdelenie Instituta

vostokovedeniia (http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?option=com_publications&Itemid=75&pub=1074).

• Институт восточных рукописей РАН (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts) (http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ )

• Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (http://english.mgimo.ru/about-mgimo)

• Institute of Chinese Studies, St. Petersburg (http://sinologica.orientalstudies.ru/ )

Some examples of Chinese publications on Russia and the Soviet Union at UC Berkeley

Sources

• Кузнецова Н.А., Кулагина Л.М. Из истории советского востоковедения. М., 1970• Азиатский музей – Ленинградское отделение Института востоковедения. М., 1972• Базиянц А.П. Лазаревский институт в истории отечественного востоковедения. М., 1973• Бартольд В.В. История изучения Востока в Европе и России. Сочинения. Т. IХ. М., 1977• Куликова А.М. Становление университетского востоковедения в Петербурге. М., 1982• Оружием слова (1941–1945). М., 1985• Шаститко П.М. События и судьбы (Из истории становления советского востоковедения). М., 1985• История отечественного востоковедения до середины ХIХ века. М., 1990• История отечественного востоковедения с середины ХIХ в. до 1917 г. М., 1997• 斯卡奇科夫 . 俄国汉学史 . 北京 : 社会科学文献出版社， 2011.• 阎国栋 . 俄罗斯汉学三百年 . 北京 : 学苑出版社， 2007. •  • 曹景文 . “ 中国学在俄国 .” 燕山大学学报（哲学社会科学版） 8.3 (2007): 137-141. •  • 孟长勇 . “ 中亚汉学研究的历史与现状 .” 唐都学刊 27.1 (2011): 74-78.•  • 任莉，廖其发 . “20 世纪俄苏中国学研究综述 .” 重庆理工大学学报（社会科学） 24.6 (2010): 128-132.•  • 江宏伟 . “20 世纪 90 年代以来俄罗斯的中国政治研究概述” 国外社会科学 4 (2010) : 40-48.•  • ——. “1990-2010 年俄罗斯的中国经济研究 .” 国外社会科学 4 (2011): 73-81.•  • 乌索夫 , 慕丹 , 李俊升 . “ 俄罗斯学术界最近十年对新中国历史的研究 .” 当代中国史研究 17.2 (2010): 106-112. •  • 于文兰 . “ 从成果统计看俄罗斯中国学研究的主要方向和特点 .” 国外社会科学 3 (2004): 53-58.•  • 段洁滨 . “ 国家图书馆俄文‘中国学’（汉学）书刊的国际交换回顾与展望 .” 四川图书馆学报 4 (2009): 22-25.•  • 程真，李滋媛 . “ 国图藏俄国东正教北京教士团文献考略 .” 国家图书馆学刊 2(2008): 84-88.