COLUMBIA    LIBRARY   COLUMNS

Volume XLV   •   Spring 1996   •   Numbi:r i
Contents

Preface

Michael Stoller                                                                                        3

Pictured Fiction:

Popular Novels of Nineteenth-Century Japan

in the Starr East Asian Library

H K N R V  D. S M 1 I nil                                                                                                       5

Writing Places:

Chinese Local Histories

Robert Hvmf..s                                                                                             15

Labyrinths:

The Abe Kobo Collection

Amy Vladeck Heinrich                                                                         21

A Tree with Deep Roots:

The Starr Korean Rare Book Collection

Amy Vladeck Heinrich

AND Amy Hai Kyunc; Lee                                                                       27

Our Growing Colleclions                                                                                     31

Contributors to This Issue                                                                                   42
 

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