THE COLLECTIONS · TWO EXHIBITIONS
Manuscripts
& collections.
Look closely. A stitch, a script, a worn page.
Each offers a different way into the lives around an object.
化雨楼古籍专藏 · HUAYULOU
A catalogue you can explore.
203 scanned files, alongside an earlier register of 201 entries. Browse original titles, recorded classifications, and available reading copies.
EXHIBITION 01 · Manuscripts · Southeast Asia
A world in handwritten pages
Begin with manuscripts, then follow the questions of language, digitization, and access.
Enter the exhibition →
EXHIBITION 02 · Embroidered album · c. 1750
Wonders, stitched in silk
Enter an eighteenth-century album where pictures are made from thread.
Enter the exhibition →A COLLECTION IS A BEGINNING
Look. Read. Connect.
Meet the materials
Open the photographs at your own pace. Every image has a text description.
Stay with a question
Read the object’s context, then consider what the images can—and cannot—tell us.
Follow its afterlife
Continue into fieldwork, transcription, and the research built around these materials.