{"id":951,"date":"2015-01-05T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-01-05T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:00:52","slug":"exploring-the-confucius-collection-at-herrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2015\/01\/05\/exploring-the-confucius-collection-at-herrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Herrick&#039;s Confucius Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-954 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-top:0\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6424.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Fun Chinese for Kids\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When the <a title=\"Confucius Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/confucius.alfred.edu\/\">Confucius Institute<\/a> was established at Alfred University in 2008, Herrick Library received a collection of several thousand items about\u00a0Chinese language, history and culture.\u00a0The collection supports the Confucius Institute&#8217;s mission of teaching Chinese language and culture and furthering\u00a0understanding of China today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-953\" style=\"margin-right:12px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-top:20px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6418.jpg?w=113\" alt=\"Everyday Chinese\" width=\"141\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe collection is wide-ranging, including hundreds of Chinese films and television programs, books on Chinese philosophy and art, classics of Chinese literature, reference books\u00a0on Chinese medicine, travel guides, and, my personal favorite, cookbooks.<br \/>\nThere is extensive material for learning Chinese language, including textbooks, workbooks, CDs, software, and flashcards. Some language material is designed specifically for children.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can find the Confucius Collection on the lower level of Herrick Library. Materials may\u00a0be checked out of the library.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-957 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin-left:30px;margin-right:30px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6440.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"The Great Wall Revisited\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-955 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin-left:30px;margin-right:30px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6434.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"recipes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6428.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-970 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin-left:30px;margin-right:30px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/12\/img_6428.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Chinese Paintings\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Ellen Bahr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Confucius Institute was established at Alfred University in 2008, Herrick Library received a collection of several thousand items about\u00a0Chinese language, history and culture.\u00a0The collection supports the Confucius Institute&#8217;s mission of teaching Chinese language and culture and furthering\u00a0understanding of China today. The collection is wide-ranging, including hundreds of Chinese films and television programs, books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}