My book, Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners, is now available for pre-order from Columbia University Press (as well as the usual array of online booksellers). The code CUP20 gives a 20% discount here: https://t.co/T4FCbWWdVS
We are excited to announce that De Gruyter and Brill have reached an agreement to join forces and form De Gruyter Brill, the leading academic publisher in the #Humanities - learn more in our joint press release: https://t.co/NPsUP9zIMr
New piece from me, written with love for everyone in grief right now.
It has a simple message:
"Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."
Moral consistency ≠ Moral equivalency. 💔
https://t.co/7D9B6S3P9j
I wrote a short article: "Chinese Lunar Stations and Indian Nakṣatras in the Sui and Tang Periods," for a special issue, "The Interaction of Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian Thinkers in the Sui and Early Tang Dynasty," edited by Friederike Assandri.
https://t.co/fAhLsojK7n
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NEW CALL: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge.
We invite scholars to come to Lund 8–19 April, 2024, to interact with other historians of knowledge. The last day of application is 1 November, 2023.
Read more: https://t.co/f9gN65wlpV
Great article from Dr Doris Jedamski, manuscript curator at the Leiden University Library @ubleiden, on traditional calendars of South and Southeast Asia! https://t.co/N2jDl0AS7j
Dorgi monggo goloi bithei kuren de asaraha manju hergen i julgei cagan i xoxohon hacin|何礪礱主編《內蒙古自治區圖書館滿文古籍圖書綜錄》廣西師範大學出版社,2022年.
#Manchu book
#滿文圖書#manju bithe
The Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw, Poland, holds about 200 manuscripts and printed books in Balinese, Batak, Burmese, Hebrew, Tibetan and Mongolian, and from India, Nepal and East Asia - all digitised, can be browsed here: https://t.co/fW2mh4Abke https://t.co/HQw8qbe5cq
Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/bDDmNfsSie
Excited for this new book from Matt Sommer! A “groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China.” Looks like a major contribution to Qing history. February 2024! https://t.co/Lu0648Xxqb
New blog post! Unveiling the V&A Chinese Export Watercolours (CEW) Collection: A Journey of Digitisation and Discovery 🖼️ it introduces the digitisation and image analysis works by the collaborative project @V_and_A@ChineseIcon@UCLDIS@UCLDH@Gaojin_
https://t.co/oEVOONR9e0
🇲🇳 🇫🇷 L’#expoGengisKhan, sous l’égide des deux présidents des républiques mongole et française, ouvrira ses portes au musée d’histoire à Nantes le 14 octobre 2023.
Un voyage inédit à travers plus de 450 œuvres d'art dans l’empire mongol des 13e et 14e siècles.