PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the availability of a Mandarin Chinese version of the Chinese Collections brochure, produced this past spring as part of the Year of China initiative. The University Library’s first foreign language collections brochure, this publication is the result of collaborative efforts by Library and University staff, faculty, and students.

The brochure’s chief translator is Dong Li 11′, who received his A.B. (magna cum laude, with honors) in Comparative Literature (Literary Translation Track), and is currently a graduate student in Brown’s MFA program. Li has served as research assistant to author and Professor C.D.Wright, worked as a Chinese language teaching assistant under Prof. Longhua Hu in the East Asian Studies Department, and translated two academic essays in Professor Lingzhen Wang’s forthcoming film studies anthologies. Li grew up in Suzhou, China.

The Mandarin Chinese version of the Chinese Collections brochure is sponsored by the Library’s Richard and Edna Salomon Publications Fund. Most recently, the Salomon Fund also supported the print and digital publication of a revised Special Collections of the Brown University Library: A History and Guide, an English language brochure about Brown’s Chinese collections, and a publication about issues related to data description, management, and preservation, data visualization and the importance of data in research and teaching: Dealing with Data. These publications and more are available free online and in hard copy through the University Library.

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Contact: Jennifer Braga |  401-863-6913

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