Review of Jiani He 2025-10-08 My review of Jiani He’s Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025) is now out on the Journal of Chinese History‘s 中國歷史學刊 FirstView platform.
Highlights from the Ricci Institute Library Collection 2025-09-30 I’ve written the following essays for the Ricci Institute library’s website: “The Taichung Polyglot.” 2025-09-19. “The New Testament in Manchu.” 2025-02-24. The link above takes you to the most recent essay. A
Chapter on Language in Qing Gazetteers 2025-09-30 I paper I wrote a long time ago has been published (open access): “Local Linguistic Knowledge in Qing Gazetteers,” in Knowing an Empire: Imperial Science in the Chinese and Spanish Empires, 1500–1800, edited
Book on Manchu Lexicography and Qing Knowledge of Plants and Animals 2025-07-11 He Bian and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Asia Center, 2025) has been published.
