130 St. George Street
8th Floor, Robarts Library
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
RL | Building #006
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is proud to be the intellectual and cultural centre of the academic community for East Asian and Asian Canadian-related studies and programs at U of T. Working with our collections and communities, our librarians and library staff continue to work to support research, teaching, and learning at the university and beyond.
The library’s story begins with a collection of rare materials acquired from China in the 1930s, now known as the Mu Collection (慕氏藏書). Since then, the East Asian Library has grown to become home to some 700,000 volumes of materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan, with additional limited resources in Mongolian, Manchu, and Uighur. It is a major research collection on East Asian Studies in North America.