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2026

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Publications on missionary linguistics

Hans Marten Soderblom Saarela September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 2026

Here I am gathering my publications on missionary linguistics in China in the late Qing and Republican periods. “Willem A. Grootaers’s Training in Chinese Language and Linguistics, with a Brief Discussion of his Early Publications on Chinese Dialectology,” Histoire Épistémologie

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Reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy

Eduards Tomas September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 2026

Reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor 2026-4-10 A list of reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (Leiden: Brill, 2024): Elvin Meng in Journal of the

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Contribution to an online class

Hans Marten Soderblom Saarela September 1, 2026September 1, 2026 2026

Some time ago I was interviewed by Nicolas Standaert for his online class (MOOC) titled “Writing Intercultural History: The Art of In‑Betweenness,” offered through KU Leuven. The segment in which I participated concerned Manchu books in Qing China and can

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CV

2026

  • Publications on missionary linguistics
  • Reviews of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy
  • Contribution to an online class

2025

  • Review of Jiani He
  • Chapter on Language in Qing Gazetteers
  • Book on Manchu Lexicography and Qing Knowledge of Plants and Animals
  • A Cultural and Political History of Spoken Chinese in the Late Imperial Period
  • Two Short Essays on Manchu Books
  • Reviews of The Early Modern Travels of Manchu

2024

  • Review of Vedal
  • Book on the Manchu Language under Qianlong

2023

  • Talk on Manchu Books (YouTube)
  • Article on the Quantification and Reform of the Chinese Writing System
  • Chapter on Manchu Insect Names
  • Co-Edited Book on Plurilingualism in Eurasian Scholarship
  • Chapter on Late-Qing and Republican Manchu Studies

2022

  • Talk on Manchu philology at the Qianlong court (YouTube)
  • Presentations on Manchu Movable Type and Sea Creatures (YouTube)

2021

  • Summary of a Talk on Flora and Fauna in the Mirror of the Manchu Language
  • Encyclopedia Entry on the Manchu Language

2020

  • Co-Edited Book on Language Diversity in the Sinophone World
  • Article on Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System
  • Article on Public Inscriptions and Manchu Language Reform
  • Book on the Transnational History of Manchu Studies
  • Chapter on Banihûn’s and Pu-gong’s Manchu–Chinese Literary Ocean (1821)

2019

  • Chapter on the Lexicography of the Languages of the Chinese Periphery
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