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Ars Orientalis (AO) volume 55 is now live! The volume is available Open Access: asia.si.edu/research/pub...

This PDF of Les Sogdiens en Chine (2005) might be useful to someone. journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/u...

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

#photography 'Bringing home the goats" August 1981 Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang. © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social

Just published: Part II of Zha Jianying's family memoir "Trains." This section tracks her grandfather from his student days in France through personal tragedy in Manchuria. www.chinafile.com/re...

Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅. Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.

Reading the beginning of this transcript, I realized that @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social at Peking U in 1984 must have met a bunch of students who were friends and acquaintances of mine. I never crossed paths with him however. My Beida days stretched from 1979 to 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoD...

This is a must read for anyone interested in the study of North China.

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten) 1. the foot of a mountain (山根) "juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)" 2. the hem of a garment (衣邊) 3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten abkai buten: the horizon (天涯) #Manchu #language #滿文

Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935

It's mind-boggling to stand in front of this monumental calligraphy piece in the grand entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum, created this year by Taipei-based artist Tong Yang-Tze, at her age of 82.

Sinology 🀄 time! OK, just for a change of pace, a thread about Northern Wei funerary gifts. I remember reading the biography of Xianbei elder statesman Qiumuling Liang 丘穆陵亮 and being struck by a list of imperial gifts to him at the time of his funeral in 502. (1/15)

I hope my new article does justice to Dunhuang Cave 257, where narrative paintings, I argue, subvert traditional power dynamic between male viewers & female subjects. Here, male characters—young monk, beautiful stag, Buddha—are subject to the intense gaze of a female audience. Virtual tour link↓

Bluesky folks, sharing our website on primary sources on Taiwanese history. Consider including a few of these in your spring classes on colonialism, education, medicine, indigenous histories, and East Asian histories. taiwanprimarysources.com

Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc... Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

The Art Bulletin editor Christy Anderson talks about “How to Publish Your First Peer-Reviewed Article.” Her suggestions apply to all academic writers: ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/rec/share/Ml...

Scholars in this area can reply if interested in joining this list of "Late Imperial China," which will enable their accounts to show posts of all scholars on the list and is related the "Late Imperial China" Feed/Cluster. Nonspecialists can add this feed to their accounts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Just out: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global #Medieval. This is a forum with 6 essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global medieval, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Tian Xiaofei. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2...

Here's the link to 50 free downloads of the full article: "Love, Luxury, and Live Spectacle: Narrative Paintings and Women’s Patronage under the Northern Wei" www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BINBV...