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UC Irvine’s East Asian Collection celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020 and has extended its exhibition programming honoring the anniversary through November 2021.
A preview inside the largest collection of items in Orange County related to China, Japan and Korea are showcased in the
virtual exhibit “From I-Ching to Manga: UCI’s East Asian Collection Celebrating 30 Years.”
The collection was established in 1990 to serve on-campus research and teaching. Ying Zhang, exhibit curator and research librarian for Asian Studies, said East Asian studies were expanding in the U.S. at the time, and many students were coming from China.
In 2017, the Los Angeles Times described the campus as “located in what used to be a largely white Republican community, home now to so many Asians that people joke that UCI stands for ‘University of Chinese Immigrants.’”