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To mark the beginning of a new year, we have once again compiled a bibliography of English-language publications in Manchu studies from the last year.
We’re eager to learn of publications that have fallen off our radar, so please write to us at [email protected] to contribute to this bibliography-in-progress.
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Bian, He and Mårten Söderblom Saarela. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025.
He, Jiani. Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands. Routledge, 2025.
Articles
Issue 21 of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies
Bramao-Ramos, Sarah.” Leping’s Lessons: Considering Muwa Gisun.”
Zheng, Bingyu. “Parties and Scandals: State and Literary Discourse on the Lingguan Convent Case of 1838.”
Hong, Qi. Review of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor, by Mårten Söderblom Saarela.
Kim, Loretta. Review of The Tungusic Languages, edited by Alexander Vovin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente, and Juha Janhunen.
In Other Journals
Bartosch, David. “Alexandre de la Charme’s Chinese–Manchu Treatise Xingli zhenquan tigang (Sing lii jen ciyan bithei hešen) in the Early Entangled History of Christian, Neo-Confucian, and Manchu Shamanic Thought and Spirituality as Well as Early Sinology.” Religions 16, no. 7 (2025): 1–57.
Brophy, David. “‘The Boundary Disputes of Villagers’: the Qing Empire and the Micropolitics of the Pamirs.” Journal of Central Asian History 4, no. 1 (2025): 1–30.
Chia, Ning. “Language Translation and the Treaty of Nerchinsk: Linguistic Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Qing-Russian Diplomacy.” Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 6, no. 2 (2025): 5–49.
Corff, Oliver. “Comments on Origin and Structure of the Lexicon of an Untitled Manuscript Known as ‘Tetraglot Thematical Dictionary.’” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 78, no. 2 (2025): 277–290.
Deng, Ke and Lili Xiu. “Interpreting for Governance: The Manchu Conceptualization of ‘tongshi’ in Early Qing China.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 78, no. 1 (2025): 151–174.
Dong, Yue. “Sinologist Fuchs and His Early Manchu Language Studies.” Journal of Social Science and Cultural Development 2, no. 10 (2025).
Ge, Xiaopeng. “Familial Crime and Judicial Response in Qing Manchu-Mongol Marital Alliances: The Qianlong Reign.” Journal of Family History, Online First (2025).
Lkhagvasuren, Enkhsaruul. “On the Manchu Source Jun gar-i ba-be necihiyeme toktobuha bodogon-i bithe (Strategy Book for the Pacification of the Dzüüngarian Territory) (1770).” Mongolian Diaspora: Journal of Mongolian History and Culture 4, nos. 1–2 (2025): 97–126.
Meng, Elvin. “Three Manchu Manuscripts in the East Asian Collection of the University of Chicago Library.” East Asian Publishing and Society 15, no. 2 (2025): 193–212.
Walravens, Hartmut. “History of Manchu Studies from the German Language Area (part II: to the middle of the 20th century).” Письменные памятники Востока 22, no. 4 (2025): 89–100.
Wuyingga. “Remarks on the Trilingual Manuscript Sanhe Yulu (1830) Based on the Speech Act Theory.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 78, no. 2 (2025): 361–378.
Book Reviews
Atwood, Christopher. Review of Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners, by David C. Porter. Inner Asia 27, no. 1 (2025): 181–184.
Chung, Yan Hon Michael. Review of Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners, by David C. Porter. Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 1 (2025): 260–262.
Kung, Ling-Wei. Review of Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China’s Inner Asia, by Lan Wu. Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 2 (2025): 553–556.
Söderblom Saarela, Mårten. Review of Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands, by Jiani He. Journal of Chinese History, First View (2025): 1–11.
Wing-Lun, Joel. Review of Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners, by David C. Porter. Asian Studies Review, Online Publication (July 2025): 1–2.
Dissertations
Chung, Yan Hon Michael. “Ethnicizing Artillery Technology: The Formation of the Hanjun Eight Banners.” PhD dissertation. Emory University. 2025.
Autry, Robert. “The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu.” PhD dissertation. University of Arizona. 2025.