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
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
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.
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
Two Short Essays on Manchu Books 2025-02-18 “Bilingual Manchu Language Pedagogy from the Polevoj Collection” and “Manchu Translations from the Moellendorff Collection: A Glimpse into the Plurilingual Culture of Qing Officialdom” in Sammellust und Wissensdrang: Vier Jahrhunderte Asiatica in Berlin, edited
Reviews of The Early Modern Travels of Manchu 2025-02-20 A list of reviews of The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020): Sarah Bramao-Ramos in Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu
