Boston’s Most Overlooked Library: Inside the Ricci Institute’s East–West Cultural Treasures

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Let's explore Ricci Institute at Boston College, a research center dedicated to East–West cultural exchange. It houses a rare-book library with manuscripts, maps, art, and archival collections that document centuries of interaction between China, Japan, Korea, and Europe.
And if you want the full story, there’s also a Part II video where I sit down with the librarians behind these collections. • Guardians of Rare Books: How Archival Libr...

0:00 Intro
1:57 Library Stacks
4:35 Gallery art collections
14:57 Special collections
24:00 Story of the grand credenza
28:01 Rare orihon books
29:07 About Part-II