(Peg Skorpinski photo)

Yeung's donation has been designated to support, in equal parts, the construction of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library and to establish a permanent Chinese Collections Endowment Fund to maintain and build the library's holdings. With the recent gift, fundraising for the library - which will be the first freestanding building entirely dedicated to East Asian collections in the United States - has reached $41.5 million out of an overall $42 million goal. Construction of the library, which is scheduled to begin next February and end in April 2007, is the first phase of the overall construction project.