A dynamic organization devoted to library services for the East Asian studies communities in North America since 1958.

Past Presidents of CEAL / CALFRE

Committee on American Library Resources on the Far East (CALFRE Chairs)

  • 1963-1966  Edwin G. Beal, Jr., Library of Congress
  • 1966-1968  T.H. Tsien, Univ. of Chicago

Committee on East Asian Libraries (CEAL Chairs)

  • 1968-1970  Yukihisa Suzuki, Michigan
  • 1970-1971  Weiying Wan, Michigan
  • 1971-1973  Raymond N. Tang, UC Berkeley
  • 1973-1974  Shih-Kang Tung, Princeton
  • 1974-1976  Thomas Kuo, Pittsburg
  • 1976-1979  Eugene Wu, Harvard
  • 1979-1982  Hideo Kaneko, Yale
  • 1982-1985  Richard C. Howard, Library of Congress
  • 1985-1988  Karl Lo, Washington
  • 1988-1991  Thomas Lee, Indiana
  • 1991-1994  Maureen Donovan, Ohio State

Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL Presidents)

  • 1994-1997  Ken Klein (University of Southern California)
  • 1997-1999  Tai-loi Ma (University of Hong Kong)
  • 1999-2003  Bill McCloy (University of Washington)
  • 2003-2006  Abraham J. Yu (University of California, Irvine)
  • 2006-2008  Philip Melzer (Library of Congress)
  • 2008-2010  Kristina Troost (Duke University)
  • 2010-2012  Joy Kim (University of Southern California)
  • 2012-2014  Peter Zhou (University of California, Berkeley)
  • 2014-2016  Ellen Hammond (Yale University)
  • 2016-2018  Jim Cheng (Columbia University)
  • 2018-2020 Zhijia Shen (University of Washington)
  • 2020-2022 Hana Kim (University of Toronto)
  • 2022-2024 Hong Cheng (University of California, Los Angeles)