“The Rise and Fall of the Printers’ International Specimen Exchange”, by Matthew McLennan Young (Oak Knoll Press, 2012). ISBN: 1584563095 www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/...

“The Glamour Zoo”, short story by Li Jingrui, tr. me, in yesterday’s @thedialmag.bsky.social Here’s the link: swe01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

September is World Kid Lit Month: a month for everyone of any age to explore the world through international children’s books. How to take part? Simply read a book for young people from another country. If you use social media, share what you’ve enjoyed with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth

The IBBY Regional Conference will be held in Boston November 7-9, 2025. Register at www.usbby.org/2025-ibby-re...

“Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, ed. by Alison E Martin and Susan Pickford (Routledge India, 2025) Open Access www.routledge.com/Translating-...

Laocoön and His Sons (Roman sculpture with reconstructed arm) inspires reconstruction and recreation of Boddhisattva sculpture www.artic.edu/articles/119...

“The use of scientific analysis to reconstruct archaeological textiles from Dunhuang” by D. Tamburini, J. Dyer, C. Cartwright, et al.., Heritage Science 13, 177 (2025) doi.org/10.1038/s404...

Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer - by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp in @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach？- by Tao Peng euppublishingblog.com/2025/01/20/u...

“Syon Abbey and the Book Trade” - seminar with Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library), Senate House, London, on 13 May 2025 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/syon-...

As a special edition of our Coins of the Month series to mark the occasion of the Papal Conclave, Luca Einaudi has written an essay on the history, architecture and coinage of the Conclave in Rome. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/coins_May202...

Monsieur Loo and Asian Art Collections: Life, Legacy and Ethics - event, 24 May 2025 www.kvvak.nl/en/agenda/20...

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

“The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art”, ed. by W. Rienjang and P. Stewart (Archaeopress, 2022) Open Access www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social

“A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires”, by G. Alfani, M. Bolla and W. Scheidel, in Nature Communications 16, 3248 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

“Kidarite Coinage in Bactria c.AD 335-467” - talk by Joe Cribb. Oriental Numismatic Society , Saturday, 12 April 2025, 16.00 UK time- on zoom only www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org #numismatics

The Bologna Ragazzi Awards - the 8 nominations from China in the sustainability category chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/1...

The Untold British Chinese History: Agency, Grassroots Activism, and State Intervention in the 20th Century - online event, 5 March 2025 - free, but must register www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Wang Binghua 王炳华 (1935-2025) - his archaeological work in Xinjiang is so important - www.souquee.com/news/67a6307...

“Type, technology and translation: A case study of Chinese metal type” - seminar with Xunchang Cheng, Univ of Reading & MS Teams, Wed 26 Feb 2025. Free, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Chinese children’s books in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Book Club - the full list (17 goals, 70 books) chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/1... #UNSDG

The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing - welcome to Bluesky! @writingchinese.bsky.social -

“Donkey Work: Animals and Racism on Victorian and Edwardian Geographical Expeditions” - talk by Ed Armston-Sheret, RGS Animal Geographies Working Group - online, 26 Feb 2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain” by John Beusterien and Stephen West (Cambridge UP, Jan 2025 - Elements in the Global Middle Ages series) ** Free online till 12 Feb 2025** www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Today is the first day of the year of the snake. Happy Chinese New Year!

“Writing Lives: from China in the 1930s to Britain in the 2020s” - talk on feminist author, Ling Shuhua 凌書華 (1900-1990) and Life-Writing masterclass led by @YanGeMay, 8 March 2025, Leeds University, UK. Event language English. FREE! Register here: writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/writi...

“The Avonmore Collection: Fred Catling and the First Major Private Collection of World Banknotes in the UK” by me, Numismatic Chronicle 184 (2024) Photo shows Fred Catling with Ming dynasty paper money www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...

“Voted Douban’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, Yang Suqiu’s Why Do We Need Libraries? chronicles the journey of a literature-professor-turned-government-official building a public library from scratch.” chinabooksreview.com/2025/01/14/w... @chinabooksreview.bsky.social

KFC celebrating #ChineseNewYear2025 with Chinese peasant painting 中国农民画IP跨界联名：新知造文化携手肯德基打造别样新春体验 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1MahNtFEre...

The 3rd bestselling Chinese children’s book in Dec 2024: “Backbone of the Nation” chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/1...

“Without Garnett’s work, Russian literature might have remained an obscure curiosity for English-speaking readers. Instead, it became a cornerstone of global literary canon, inspiring countless writers and translators” For a list of #WomenInTranslation see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“objets d’art on a human scale, meant to be handled, yet with more than a patina of erudition” - I wonder if the author saw Lyce Jankowski’s display “Chinese Coins from the Scholar’s Study” at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2017 chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/c...

CFP: “Chinese Export Art and the History of Science and Technology” symposium at Zhejiang University School of Art and Archaeology, Hangzhou, 7-8 June 2025. Apply by 1 March 2025. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CDafHKQq3b...

The Bestselling Children’s Books in China, December 2024 chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/1...

1. How seriously did late imperial China's rulers treat their pets and/or job of archiving their everyday lives? Here're 2 registers from the No. 1 Historical Archives of the Qing royal family's cats and dogs (with names & years of birth/death). Two cats died after 9 years & one dog after 15 years.

New digital collection launched: "Muslims in China," features 1,000+ images documenting the lives of Muslims and Christian missionaries in Western China from 1920s-1930s. #Sinology #OpenAccess curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/claude-l-pic...

Dunhuang: 燉煌...敦煌...焞煌...敦薨??? "In conclusion, the characters “燉煌” were the most commonly used to represent the oasis town’s name in Chinese in the 8th to the 10th century, the period best represented through the materials exhibited." idp.bl.uk/blog/the-mys...

Out now: new issue of Strenæ on "Children's Literature in Times of War" journals.openedition.org/strenae/11190 #openaccess #histchild

New book - Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan Natasha Heller reveals "how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults" uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera... #histed

In northern China, a traditional winter folk practice known as "Nine by Nine Dispersing Cold(九九消寒圖) " involves counting the days from the Winter Solstice to the arrival of spring. Participants draw one stroke each day, gradually completing a character over a nine-day cycle. This process 1/2

China’s Year of the Snake coins and banknotes 2025 english.news.cn/20250103/4b8...

Ben Bracken (single malt, Islay, 40%) - the person in front of me at the till seemed to be buying the entire stock … to ship to Mongolia, he said! www.lidl.co.uk/p/ben-bracke...

I received the printed edition of “China 1800s: Material and Visual Culture” today and it’s even more impressive than I expected - incl. an incredible no. of images, and price £40 (free online doi.org/10.48582/pma... )

Michael Loewe (1922-2025) www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-mich...

Jarrow, Lichfield and Southend - #SilkRoads www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

East Asian Studies at Sheffield under threat - please support www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...

New! The Baifang Schell China Books Prize New annual award to celebrate exceptional book-length works on or from China and the greater Sinophone world, published in English chinabooksreview.com/2025/01/09/p...

Welcome to Bluesky, Ancient India and Iran Trust! @indiairantrust.bsky.social www.indiran.org

“The cloth banknote of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government Workers’ and Peasants’ Bank” - talk by Paul Bevan at SOAS on 5 Feb 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Royal Society for Asian Affairs Travel Awards - for 21-28 year-olds, any nationality but normally resident in the UK - deadline is 31 Jan 2025 rsaa.org.uk/awards/the-r...