Thanks to the Workshop of International and Area Studies Collections in the 21st Century (IASC21) held at Indiana University, Bloomington, November 8-9, 2018, we were able to welcome about thirty colleagues in Area Studies to the Bloomington campus. Among them, five colleagues took the tour to visit the East Asian Collection.

Take a look at the Tibetan Plateau, which is the tallest and largest plateau in the world, and is the home to the Tibetan people. Compare maps of the Tibetan Autonomous Region with the geographical size of their Plateau, and read about the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, and the capital city of Lhasa.

East Asian Collection poster outlining the Japanese Imperial transition, as the Heisei era (1989-2019) comes to an end and the Crown Prince rises to the Chrysanthemum Throne to take his father's place.

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One of the true gems of the collection is a 16mm Ciné-Kodak Model B in ostrich leather with matching case. In production from 1927-1931 the Model B was the Cadillac of amateur cameras. The 1928 edition of Amateur Movie Making lists the price of the ostrich leather option at an additional $75. The standard Model B retailed for about $225, bringing the total price of the ostrich edition to a cool $300.