Two Presentations Available on YouTube: 1) Manchu Movable Type 2) Sea Creatures2) Sea Creatures 2022-02-27 I recently gave two presentations for the Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies 臺灣內陸歐亞學會. They can be viewed on the society’s YouTube channel. The first
Summary of a Talk on Flora and Fauna in the Mirror of the Manchu Language 2021-06-11 A summary written by Xie Ren-yan 謝仁晏 of a talk I gave on March 18, 2021 has been published in the Academia Sinica Ming-Qing yanjiu tongxun 明清研究通訊
Encyclopedia Entry on the Manchu Language 2021-03-26 “Manchu Language,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History March 25, 2021. Abstract: In the 19th and 20th centuries, Manchu ceased to be a vernacular language in many areas where it had been previously spoken. It
Co-Edited Book on Language Diversity in the Sinophone World 2020-12-31 Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, eds., Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices (London: Routledge, 2020, copyright 2021) Abstract: Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers
Article on Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System 2020-12-22 “Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System in the Eighteenth Century,” Late Imperial China 41.2 (2020): 131–179. The article looks at the Qing dynastic language of Manchu as an issue of governance.
Article on Public Inscriptions and Manchu Language Reform 2020-03-23 An article was just published: “Public Inscriptions and Manchu Language Reform in the Early Qianlong Reign (1740s–60s),” Saksaha 16 (2019–2020): 31–53. Abstract Official signs and steles in the Qing empire were often at
The Early Modern Travels of Manchu 2020-03-15 The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) has been published. Right now (March 2020), at least, the promo code PP20
Book Chapter on Banihûn’s and Pu-gong’s Dictionary, the Manchu–Chinese Literary Ocean (1821) 2020-01-20 “Lexicography of the Entrenched Empire: Banihûn’s and Pu-gong’s Manchu–Chinese Literary Ocean (1821),” in The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran,
Book Chapter on the Lexicography of the Languages of the Chinese Periphery 2019-10-04 A book chapter recently came out: “The Chinese Periphery to c. 1800,” in The Cambridge World History of Lexicography, edited by John Considine, 202–22 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Errata 2025-02-18 “Introduction” (to the section on Lexicography), 229-39, in Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues, ed. by Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer, and Mårten Söderblom Saarela. p. 237: In the quote from Gaubil’s letter, I had written
