The Grand Secretariat Archives, IHP, houses “Strategies for Pacifying the Sea Rebels” in Manchu and Chinese, the Qing conquest of Ming loyalists in Taiwan. Dr. Ling-Wei Kung and his team are translating and annotating these texts. Latest efforts: https://t.co/hSE2vXAsij
Mapping Xinjiang: A Mongol-Banner Cartographer and the Qing Geographic Knowledge of Central Eurasia in the Late Eighteenth Century https://t.co/cyGz15JIYg
The Archives of the Grand Secretariat possesses two documents, issued by the Qing court, that prohibited the illegal activities of “fake lamas” and forbade some interactions between Han and Tibetan Buddhists, thus demarcating the power wielded by the two communities.
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"Knowledge Formation, State Building, and Transregional Integration: Modern China's Understandings of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and AFRICA" https://t.co/lKpGnk5AGc
We are happy to announce that Waxing Moon: A Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies is calling for submissions this year. Any articles, research papers, book reviews in English, Tibetan, Chinese submitted by February 28, 2022 will be fully considered. https://t.co/rviBs0C9a2
Read an article on "OCR with the Deep CNN Model for Ligature Script-Based Languages like Manchu." Quite interesting, but I wonder whether the Chinese team can share the new tech. If not, hopefully we could have a group of scholars to do it in Taiwan.
Two new Apps about the conversion between the Gregorian and different Tibetan calendars, finally after Dieter Schuh's Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der tibetischen Kalenderrechnung published in 1973.【重磅】两款最权威的藏历APP已上线 https://t.co/AT7kfM5wlr
The newest volume of the “Bulletin of IHP,” titled “Dissemination of Knowledge and the History of Books,” is now available online! There are four articles related to medical texts, encyclopedias, authorship, and mapping. If interested, please visit: https://t.co/hkrQ8K5Yea
I am happy to share the good news that I recently started my new job as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. It is my pleasure to have this opportunity to work with the world-class research faculty based in Taiwan.
The IHP welcomes new assistant research fellow Dr. Ling-Wei Kung. Dr. Kung specializes in Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan studies, Qing history, as well as interactions between Inner Asia and Eurasia. To learn more about his research, visit: https://t.co/4XCm3C8s2N
Please join us for two upcoming events: "The Qing, Zunghar, Kazakh, and Özbek in Eighteenth-Century Central Eurasia: A Connected History" on June 28 and "Monastic Institutions and Social Networks in Late Imperial China and inner Asia" on June 30.
It is our pleasure to invite Mark Elliott to talk about the New Qing History and Joanna Waley-Cohen to be our moderator. Please join us on June 22, 10–11:30 AM EDT. Register for the Zoom link: https://t.co/6pFgwJ9uqY