Recent Posts
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The Journey of a Manchu Map
Mario Cams, KU Leuven The Département des cartes et plans of the French National Archives preserves a Latin version of the map that is included in the Lakcaha jecen de…
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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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A Tatar among the Tartars
David Brophy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre on China in the World Between 1915 and 1917, the Tatar journalist Nushirvan Yavshef undertook a trip to Xinjiang, or Chinese Turkistan (Chīnī Türkistān)…
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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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“Learning Manchu” through Comedy
Lei Lin, AM Candidate Harvard University Xiangsheng 相聲, commonly referred to as “crosstalk”, is a traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a solo monologue (dankou 單口), a dialogue…
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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…
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Young Manchus Online
Everyone is aware of the considerable volume of material pertaining to Manchu studies and Manchu culture that is available online, including a number of sites that aim to increase popular…
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Gun Control, Qing Style
David Porter PhD Candidate Harvard University In February of 2012, Hing Chao, the Hong Kong founder of the Orochen Foundation — an “NGO dedicated to the cultural survival of numerically…
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February in Review
Dear friends and members, This February saw a flurry of activity at MSG. We are happy to report that the blog is expanding rapidly, and our goal is to post…