Past Exhibitions

The exhibition shows the range of artistic production from 1949 to 2000 and thus paints a differentiated picture of these comics called lianhuanhua. The main themes presented are intended to encourage visitors to form their own impression of the representation of Chinese literature, experienced or desired reality and political vision in these comics. [More...]

The literary production of South and East Asian countries is extensive, diverse and characterized by linguistic richness. Nevertheless, it is hardly noticed on the international book market, and due to the lack of translations, it is little known outside expert circles.

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The exhibition contrasts the limits and freedoms imposed by the Chinese government on scientific work in the 1970s and the present, illustrated by a selection of propaganda posters from the CATS Library's Sinology Collection. [More...]

In four dislay cases, CATS Library presents a brief history of book printing in northern India (1800-1930) with exhibits from the holdings of the CATS Library and Heidelberg University Library. [More...]

Since February 2020, Thomas Laird's volume Murals of Tibet has been on display in the CATS Library foyer. The 23 kg volume features some 500 magnificently photographed murals from Tibet, which are explained in a scholarly companion volume also on display. [More...]

Exhibits from the CATS Library's collection of ritual manuscripts from the Southeast Asian Yao minority will be on display in the CATS Library foyer from May 11 to October 9, 2020. The manuscripts have a will of their own and can bring good or bad luck to their owners, depending on how they are treated... [More...]

The CHIME Collection is one of the most important collections of Chinese music in the world. From July 13, 2019 to April 4, 2020, key exhibits from the collection will be on display in the CATS Library foyer. [More...]

Documents on the relations between Germany and East Asia from 1931 to 1945, on India in the two world wars, and a portrait of the Heidelberg founding father of East Asian Art History in the German-speaking world, Dietrich Seckel (1910-2007), from the time of his stay in Japan between 1936 and 1942. [More...]

The exhibition looks at the collections of the library of the Institute for Japanese Studies as part of the East Asian Library with its other holdings on East Asian Art History and Chinese Studies. [More...]