Publications on missionary linguistics
Here I am gathering my publications on missionary linguistics in China in the late Qing and Republican periods. “The Taichung Polyglot,” Journal of East Asian Libraries no. 182 (2026).
Review of Jiani He
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.
Chapter on Language in Qing Gazetteers
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
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.