• 2012-11-02

NCL promoted book room services at Taiwan Academy for over one year. In early November the “Chinese Studies Lectures Series” was held at the universities near Taiwan Academy in New York City, Houston, and Los Angeles to extend cultural perception, and therefore, write a new page for Taiwan Academy. On November 5, Professor Fang-mei Chen of the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan University spoke on the topic of “Temple Style and Immigrant Identity: A Look at the Stylistic Features of the Yinshan Temple in Tamshi, Taiwan during the Early 1800s” at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Hunter College, the City University of New York on November 7. Professor Chen’s speech based her points on the exquisite handcrafts in temple architecture and human spirit in ethnic group to explain how the native people of Ding County in the Western Fujian Province moved to Taiwan, re-established their old religion beliefs on this new land, and made the temple as a meeting and networking place for immigrants. On November 9, Professor emeritus Mei-hwa Yang of the Graduate Institute of Library, Information, and Archival Studies at National Chengchi University gave two addresses on the topic of “Voyage of Discovery: Electronic Resources on Sinology in Taiwan.” Professor Yang commended the interaction of Sinology studies with electronic resources as a “pretty encounter” between traditional culture and modern technology. Professor Yang introduced that the electronic resources once owned by the National Central Library, Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, and National Palace Museum have now been downloaded to Taiwan Academy and National Digital Archives Program Website, and they are available to the public for retrieval on line across nations in the world any time. In cooperation with this “Chinese Studies Lecture Series” and help it out to reach the American campus, NCL will hold “Erudition: An Exhibition on Reading the Ancient Aesthetics of Living” at Taiwan Academy in Houston from June to July and at the Fine Arts Library of the University of Texas at Austin from November 5 to December 20. NCL has donated arts history and related books with 83 subjects in total of 203 volumes as a gift to the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas at Austin, with the purpose of pronouncing the results of academic research done in the Republic of China, and promoting scholarly communication and publications exchange between domestic and abroad institutions.