Errata 2025-07-31 The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (Leiden: Brill, 2024). p. 158: Zhang Xuecheng 張學成 should read Zhang Xuecheng 章學誠. I thank Chen Kuan-chieh 陳冠傑 for this correction. He Bian and Mårten
Reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor 2025-07-30 A list of reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (Leiden: Brill, 2024): Hartmut Walravens in Journal of Asian
Research Project:A Cultural and Political History of Spoken Chinese in the Late Imperial Period 2020-10-16 This ongoing research project was previously titled “A Cultural and Political History of Language in Qing China,” but (as of September 2020) I think that
Review of Vedal, The Culture of Language in Ming China 2024-08-02 My book review of The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge, by Nathan Vedal has been published.
Book on the Manchu Language under Qianlong 2024-02-22 The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (Leiden: Brill, 2024) has been published. Here is the description of the book from the publisher’s website: This is the first
Talk on Manchu Books (YouTube) 2023-12-14 Megumi Hill and I gave a presentation on Japanese and Manchu books for the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. The presentation can be seen on YouTube.
Article on the Quantification and Reform of the Chinese Writing System 2023-09-12 “Yi bu wan-Qing qiren shougao zhong de Hanzi lianghua yu gaige yanjiu” 一部晚清旗人手稿中的漢字量化與改革研究, in the Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History 中央研究院近代史研究所集刊 119 (2023): 1-37. The Institute of Oriental
Chapter on Manchu Insect Names 2023-06-27 “Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Insect Histories of East Asia, edited by David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose (Seattle: University of Washington Press,
Co-Edited Book on Plurilingualism in Eurasian Scholarship 2023-04-20 Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer, and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, eds., Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues (Leiden: Brill, 2023) Abstract: Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship?
Chapter on Late-Qing and Republican Manchu Studies 2023-03-28 “A Guangxu Renaissance? Manchu Language Studies in the Late Qing and Their Republican Afterlife,” in Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, edited by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, and Joshua A. Fogel
