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Digitizing rare books is no small feat! 📙🖥️ Explore the digitization process and some of the fantastical works of the Harvard-Yenching Library by revisiting our #NCCSpotlight by Japanese Collection Librarian Kuniko Yamada McVey! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

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Testing BlueSky’s capacity for historical threads! A thread about my recent paper on Ibn Fadlan, (not) the Vikings, & 10th c. Eurasian trade & diplomacy. Read if you like medieval history, Middle Eastern history, Iranian history, numismatics, economic history, & investigative historiography! 1/?

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For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

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New-ish here. Can someone point me to some starter packs for art history, museums, DH, book history, or Islamic and South Asian studies? Thanks!

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It’s been an honor contributing to the publication of The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, co-edited by @mcmullen.bsky.social & @jolyonbt.bsky.social. As Jolyon notes, this will b the field’s “new gold standard.” Check out the 🧵 to learn more abt the vision & content and order your copy now!

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Some new Middle East scholars and journalists have arrived on @bsky.app in the past few days! 🧵

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New Starter Pack: Historians of China!

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La hormigas ya nacen reinas, soldadas y obreras, pero cuándo empezarán a nacer archivistas y arqueólogas?

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Going down a research rabbit hole involving Chinese medicine bottles and I have to share this adorable snuff bottle shaped like a corncob. From The Met, 18th-19thC, China, 21.175.390a, b🏺🗃️

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I was getting jealous of the (European) Medievalists starter packs, so I made an attempt at a premodern/early modern one for Japan! We are few but mighty? 🥲 If I missed anyone it was unintentional, I promise. Happy to keep updating! go.bsky.app/AzGURTW

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New #AsiaNow post: Lawrence Zhang @historianzhang.bsky.social talks about his Harvard University Asia Center book, POWER FOR A PRICE: THE PURCHASE OF OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN QING CHINA, which received a Levenson Prize honorable mention this year.

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Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"

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"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

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Reminder! The deadline for our international symposium is in 3 weeks!🚨 As part of our mission to realize a more diverse & inclusive future for the Japanese humanities, we invite scholars around the world to contribute to our understanding of this global field. japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...

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Hay intelectuales que odian a Greta Thunberg de una manera muy chistosa: «Somos los que hemos vivido las contradicciones y complejidades de este mundo, y ella es solo una niña que despreciamos por hablar con el atrevimiento ignorante de la juventud», y proceden a estar menos en lo correcto que ella.

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¡Lanzamos nuestro sitio web! Visítanos y revisa nuestro primer número en asiamdo.com

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New issue of Japanese Religions focusing on the body with what looks like a lot of important new articles. Also includes a very thoughtful review of the award-winning book of my advisee, Mitsuhiro Kameyama. nccisjpnew.wixsite.com/nccisjp/%E8%...

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On Tuesday Oct. 15 the Dartmouth Conversations on South Asia series will host a conversation on my book, Pious Labor (@ucpress.bsky.social). I'll speak about the work, and Razak Khan and Douglas Haynes will offer insights, critiques and commentary. Registration link via QR code below! 🗃

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¿No has entrado a leer alguno de los artículos que publicamos en Asiática: Miscelánea de orientes? No importa, aún te esperamos. Entra a asiamdo.com para leerlos.

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Oct 3, 4PM CEST, my lecture (online or in-person) at Ghent Center for Buddhist Studies (email organizer for online link) This is part of my new historiography of #anarchist/ #Outcaste #Buddhism, in which I examine #Brahminization in ancient #India in light of #Fanon's #colonial #plantation state.

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¿No has entrado a leer alguno de los artículos que publicamos en Asiática: Miscelánea de orientes? No importa, aún te esperamos. Entra a asiamdo.com para leerlos.

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El primer número de Asiática: Miscelánea de orientes ya está en línea. Léelo en asiamdo.com, y sigue la revista aquí en Bluesky, en @asiaticamdo.bsky.social

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En «Asiática: Miscelánea de orientes» estamos a punto de publicar nuestro primer número. Síguenos en @asiaticamdo.bsky.social

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Volume 48 of the Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture is published and now available online on our website:

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🏝️ More summer reading for you! Brill's legal eagle Mieke de Vries Robbé recommends "Early Chinese Religion," which covers the history of religion in ancient China (ca. 1250 BC – 220 AD). Learn more about the book here: brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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For anyone else who was wondering, yes: cats in 12th century China also got the zoomies.

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#QPBibNote E-resource What is valuable about the MDGB dictionary is the ready references to all the various pronunciations (including Tang dysasty) and Ref's to standard dictionaries www.mdbg.net/chinese/dict... Here an eg for 心 Just pess 🔍 for all details

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Va subiendo la corriente, con chinchorro y atarraya y la canoa de bahareque, para llegar a la playa. Regresan los pescadores con su carga, pa' vendé, al puerto de sus amores, donde tienen su queré. (El pescador habla con la luna, habla con la playa, no tiene fortuna, solo su atarraya).

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My colleague, Tom Conlan, tells me that for the next month, the first chapter of his new book, Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ōuchi Rule in Japan, can be read free of charge. It discusses the Korean origins of the Ōuchi and how they emigrated to Japan. academic.oup.com/book/55771/c...

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Excited to look at this and other manuscripts in the Princeton Art Museum collection with my students today. This 8th-c. sutra on indigo paper and silver ink was burned in a fire in 1667. As Akiko Walley explains, it was later "cut, commodified, and (re)appreciated as a fragmented aesthetic object."

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Launching its 50th year of publication, the winter 2024 JJS is live online (also available in print) with articles by Youjia Li, Ben Whaley, Alexander Murphy, Aaron Jasny, Małgorzata Karolina Citko-DuPlantis, & Christopher Hughes—& reviews of new books. muse.jhu.edu/issue/51346

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