Message from the Acting Head The Year 2020 marks the 60th anniversary of the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia. In East Asian culture, a 60th anniversary is a significant milestone. It represents the beginning of a new life cycle at the end of one full life cycle, a sexagenary cycle. In Chinese, jiazi (甲子) is the first term of a sexagenary cycle. In Japanese, the term Kanreki (還暦