News
Recent news and updates relating to Manchu Studies
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How much decline?
A recent article from PRI entitled “The Manchus ruled China into the 20th century, but their language is nearly extinct” describes the gradual decline of the Manchu language in China.…
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Back from Vacation
Greetings gucuse! MSG has returned from our summer hiatus. This autumn will be a period of major development. Back issues of Saksaha will finally arrive on the website and an…
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Summer Vacation
Now that summer is here, members of the Manchu Studies Group are scattering to the archives (or Rehe) for various research projects. This means that our blog will be on…
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April in Review
The end of the semester always makes April pass by too quickly. If you find yourself with any extra time, we hope you can peruse our blog offerings from the…
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MSG Interview: Stephen Wadley
Now that the last print issue of Saksaha has been released, MSG sat down (virtually) with its former editor, Stephen Wadley, Professor of Chinese at Portland State University, to learn about…
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Manchu Books Online: HYL
As previously announced, the Harvard-Yenching Library is currently digitizing many of the rare books in its Manchu and Mongolian collections. A few interesting books are already available. Of these eleven texts,…
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Saksaha Flies East
The final printed edition of Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies has arrived. With this final issue (No. 11) of Saksaha in print, we here at MSG are excited to inherit the…
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March in Review
It was a good month for MSG. In case you missed the news, we had a wonderful inaugural meeting at the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego. Please visit…
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We’re Official
We are proud to announce the official establishment of the Manchu Studies Group! On Thursday March 21, 2013 we held our inaugural meeting in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies annual…
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Traumatic Arts
The Asia Society is currently featuring a show entitled “The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China.” The show features paintings by Ming loyalists produced during the early…