Cover of my forthcoming book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝑆𝑜𝑔𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎
Jin Xu
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Look forward to giving a talk on the Bamiyan Buddha and the Silk Road this Saturday in front of Tuan Andrew Nguyen's remarkable installation inspired by it at the High Line: www.thehighline.org/events/the-l...
Page proofs of my forthcoming book on Sogdian immigrants in China:
Schedule and Registration Link (in the reply) for the Upcoming Conference on Chinese Painting at Columbia University in April.
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Ars Orientalis (AO) volume 55 is now live! The volume is available Open Access: asia.si.edu/research/pub...
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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...
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6.For educated Chinese people, the late 1910s and early 1920s was a period of intense ideological exploration and political agitation. Both inside and outside China, all sorts of groups were vying to influence the minds of China’s future élite. The Chinese student communities in France were no exception.The “Diligent Work and Frugal Study in France Movement” (留法勤工俭学运动), or
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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...
Peking University March-April 1983 北大 1983年 3-4月
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Filip Noubel@nasredinhoja.bsky.social · 2y ago“As a foreign correspondent in #china, it was a weird feeling that you really need to be more of a sociologist/anthropologist rather than this hard-nosed driven journalist.” #wangxiaobo chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/10/p... @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social @vivianwu.bsky.social @heliuleo.bsky.social
This is a must read for anyone interested in the study of North China.
Hilde De Weerdt@hildedw.bsky.social · 2y agoCongrats to the editor Wang Jinping and all contributors to the latest special issue of the Journal of Chinese history, on North China. We welcome suggestions for future special issues. Thematic issues should cover a variety of periods of Chinese history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#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
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
Primary Sources on Taiwan
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Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!
Jeremiah Jenne@jeremiahjenne.com · 2y agoOn the latest episode of Barbarians at the Gate, MIT Professor Tristan Brown discusses his award-winning book on how feng shui in the Qing era had less to do with furniture placement than about power, belonging, and control of spaces in a rapidly evolving society. blubrry.com/barbarians/1...
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
Dr. Stephennie Mulder@stephenniem.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat is Islamic art? lol glad you asked my friend but guess what? It's almost impossible to define. Yet that semiotic fluidity is what makes it so endlessly fascinating. Every Monday, I'll post an object from my class History of the Medieval Islamic World in 100 Objects. It'll be funnn come along!
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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...
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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...
Love, Luxury, and Live Spectacle: Narrative Paintings and Women’s Patronage under the Northern Wei
Mogao Cave 257 in Dunhuang, dating from the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) established by the nomadic Xianbei people in North China, is renowned for its vivid illustrations of scenes from two legen...
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