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Yale Gets $1M for China Series
-- 8/31/98
In what is said to be the largest single grant ever awarded to a university press, Yale University Press has received $1 million from the Starr Foundation to support its ongoing, multivolume work on Chinese culture.
YUP spokesperson Alison Pratt told PW the grant will be the "cornerstone" of the press's effort to raise $5 million to support the Culture and Civilization of China, a mammoth, 75-volume series covering every aspect of Chinese culture. The first volume in the series, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, was released in 1997. Pratt said the funds will be used to support the more than 150 scholars, curators, translators and editors from China and around the world working on the project. Subsequent volumes will focus on Chinese history, Buddhism, classical writings and much more.

The Starr Foundation was founded in 1955 by insurance magnate Cornelius Vander Starr. With this grant the project has raised $1.5 million, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation and others.
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