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Last month, exhibition closes Dec.7. Open to all. Forms & Function: The Splendors of Global Book Making. Online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-forms) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-forms/about/downloadable-guide)
Forms & Function
dpul.princeton.edu
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)
Forms & Function
dpul.princeton.edu
September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Here's btw also an example of how to (better) not integrate vertically oriented (here: both Mongolian and Manchu) chunks of text into an otherwise horizontal text ... 😅

< Boller 1857 Nachweis dass das Japanische zum Ural-Altaischen Stamme gehört @ books.google.de/books?id=m4h...
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China in the Ming dynasty or of regions and periods connected to the Ming dynasty. Applications are due October 2, 2025. #AsianStudies cc: @asianstudies.org
Opportunities for Scholars Studying Ming Dynasty China and Its World | National Humanities Center
The NHC welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China and its world, during and adjacent to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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July 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Friends: I just received the terrible news that Andrew West, well known to all language and scripts aficionados, has passed away on July 10. May he rest in peace.
July 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Anna Shields and I have organized the first China-Princeton Digital Humanities workshop! This week-long workshop on the digital humanities for Chinese studies will be held in person at Princeton University, June 16th to 20th!

chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop 2025
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
April 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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How did so many objects from Indonesia end up in the collections of museums in Lower Saxony? Roberta Zollo, an alumna of our Graduate School, is part of a team that seeks to find an answer to this question. ‘We need to revise our understanding of German colonial history,’ she says.
uhh.de/csmc-zollo
April 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Everyone in Japanese is familiar with different readings for the same characters "depending on the context." But what context makes clear how to read this place name 和坂, read Kanigasaka if it is the left ward, but Wasaka if it is the adjacent (!) right ward....
March 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM