Recent Posts
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The Cost of a Manchu Dictionary in the Guangxu Period
Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Princeton University Lacking good information on print runs, prices, and distribution channels, it is difficult today to estimate how widely Manchu dictionaries circulated in the Qing (1644–1911)…
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Living and Dying at Peking’s Russian Ecclesiastical Mission
Gregory Afinogenov Ph.D. Candidate Harvard University In the Archive of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg, there are two volumes of manuscript exercise books composed by…
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The Manchu-language conquest of Xinjiang
For some time anticipation has been building over the publication of a major collection of Manchu-language documents on Xinjiang, Qingdai Xinjiang Manwen dang’an huibian 《清代新疆满文档案汇编》. The good news is that…
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Turco-Manjurica Revisited: a Closer Look at Haenisch 1951
Eric T. Schluessel Ph.D. Candidate Harvard University Historical scholarship on Qing Xinjiang (East or Chinese Turkestan) has experienced something of a florescence in the Anglophone world since the publication of…
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Manchu as a tool language for European missionaries
Mario Cams Ph.D. Candidate KU Leuven Like some of the other missionaries at the Qing court in the early 18th century, the French Jesuit Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla (1669-1748) studied…
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Manchu Roots
On January 30, the LA Times reported on the reemergence of Manchu identities in the PRC. To read the full article visit their website.
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PRC Manchu studies at a turning point?
Two news items from the past year, linked below, suggest that with the oft-reported demise of the last “native speakers” of Manchu in Heilongjiang, new attention is being brought to…
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Zheng Tianting on Manchu
Zheng Tianting 关于学习满文的一封信 Zheng Tianting 鄭天挺 (1899-1981), one of the great 20th-c. historians of the Qing, was the author of a number of important early works on early Qing history,…
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Why the Manchus Matter
An excellent interview with Mark Elliott tells readers why the Manchus are so important for understanding Chinese history: “In the particular case of the Qing we can see pretty clearly…
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The New Norman
The publication of Jerry Norman’s A Comprehensive Manchu-English Dictionary — the long-awaited revision of his 1978 Manchu-English Lexicon — is at hand. Harvard Asia Center Publications announces that this title…