Highlighting Diverse Collections: Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year is on the 10th of February this year! Celebrate it with millions of people in different traditions worldwide with these books, music, and film from our collections. Flip through the gallery on the right to see each resource highlighted in the below Instagram reel, with links taking you to the UT Library catalog for checkout.
You can find this post, with the accompanying video reel, on the UT Libraries' Instagram here.
In a detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, the book explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese-business-community ties with American culture, business, and politics.
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades.
Mindy is excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Even though it’s the first one without her mom, Mindy is determined to enjoy the day. She decides to make traditional Korean New Year food, a rice cake soup that’s her favorite. But things aren’t going quite to plan, and the celebration doesn’t feel the same as before.
Performed by Heart of the Dragon Ensemble and Beijing National Traditional Music Orchestra (ARC Music Productions, 2007). This album contains popular and traditional Chinese New Year's music from different parts of mainland China as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong and overseas.
Rice Talks explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a market town in Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. The book takes the reader from the private setting of the family meal into the public realm of the festive, extraordinary, and unique.
Beginning in 1631 with the Board of Rites, and culminating with the first administrative code in 1690, Keliher shows that the Qing political environment was premised on sets of intertwined relationships performed through acts such as the New Year's Day ceremony.
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