Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD
@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social
Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Photos taken by pioneering Chinese photographer Lai Afong (1838/39–1890). Held by the Getty Museum.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Photos taken by pioneering Chinese photographer Lai Afong (1838/39–1890). Held by the Getty Museum.
#photofriday
#photofriday
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Where would you stand to see this view?
That is the puzzle at the heart of Drawing from the Crowd—a citizen science project exploring how Edo-period Japanese prints depicted landscapes.
We'd love your help solving it 🧵
That is the puzzle at the heart of Drawing from the Crowd—a citizen science project exploring how Edo-period Japanese prints depicted landscapes.
We'd love your help solving it 🧵
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Where would you stand to see this view?
That is the puzzle at the heart of Drawing from the Crowd—a citizen science project exploring how Edo-period Japanese prints depicted landscapes.
We'd love your help solving it 🧵
That is the puzzle at the heart of Drawing from the Crowd—a citizen science project exploring how Edo-period Japanese prints depicted landscapes.
We'd love your help solving it 🧵
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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity
Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
hyperallergic.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity
The missionary exhibition, the World in Boston, took place in the spring of 1911 before moving to Cincinnati.
Here is a souvenir postcard showing the Japan Scene in Boston, below is the same display in Cincinnati a year later. The exhibit continued to Baltimore and then Chicago in 1913.
Here is a souvenir postcard showing the Japan Scene in Boston, below is the same display in Cincinnati a year later. The exhibit continued to Baltimore and then Chicago in 1913.
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The missionary exhibition, the World in Boston, took place in the spring of 1911 before moving to Cincinnati.
Here is a souvenir postcard showing the Japan Scene in Boston, below is the same display in Cincinnati a year later. The exhibit continued to Baltimore and then Chicago in 1913.
Here is a souvenir postcard showing the Japan Scene in Boston, below is the same display in Cincinnati a year later. The exhibit continued to Baltimore and then Chicago in 1913.
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Issue 145:4 of the JAOS is out online doi.org/10.7817/jaos... , with articles on: Yahwists in Elephantine, oracular law in Assyria, syntax in Qur'anic interpretation, r vs rr in Khotan, Mongol text of the 1413 Tyr stele, Old Chinese parts of speech, Song dynasty incense trade, and more!
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Issue 145:4 of the JAOS is out online doi.org/10.7817/jaos... , with articles on: Yahwists in Elephantine, oracular law in Assyria, syntax in Qur'anic interpretation, r vs rr in Khotan, Mongol text of the 1413 Tyr stele, Old Chinese parts of speech, Song dynasty incense trade, and more!
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while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
Raphael Tuck’s complete 6 card “Oilette” set for Tibet with cover, circa 1905.
Early 20th century postcards were one of the main ways images of Buddhist material culture circulated in Europe/US.
Early 20th century postcards were one of the main ways images of Buddhist material culture circulated in Europe/US.
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Raphael Tuck’s complete 6 card “Oilette” set for Tibet with cover, circa 1905.
Early 20th century postcards were one of the main ways images of Buddhist material culture circulated in Europe/US.
Early 20th century postcards were one of the main ways images of Buddhist material culture circulated in Europe/US.
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Photographs of Japan taken by Wilhelm Burger as member of the Imperial Austrian Expedition to East Asia in 1870. Held by the British Library.
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Photographs of Japan taken by Wilhelm Burger as member of the Imperial Austrian Expedition to East Asia in 1870. Held by the British Library.
Photographs of Japan taken by Wilhelm Burger as member of the Imperial Austrian Expedition to East Asia in 1870. Held by the British Library.
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Photographs of Japan taken by Wilhelm Burger as member of the Imperial Austrian Expedition to East Asia in 1870. Held by the British Library.
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Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
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Reposted by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD
The Library of Congress' Asian Division is now accepting applications for their 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: up to $3,000 to support travel, lodging, and research expenses. Due January 11, 2026. #sinology #libraries
blogs.loc.gov/internationa...
blogs.loc.gov/internationa...
The Asian Division’s Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: Now Accepting Applications for 2026 | 4 Corners of the World
The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's app...
blogs.loc.gov
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Library of Congress' Asian Division is now accepting applications for their 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: up to $3,000 to support travel, lodging, and research expenses. Due January 11, 2026. #sinology #libraries
blogs.loc.gov/internationa...
blogs.loc.gov/internationa...
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Giant pair of 19th c. Japanese prayer beads with baseball-sized bead-shrines housing tiny Buddhist icons. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Giant pair of 19th c. Japanese prayer beads with baseball-sized bead-shrines housing tiny Buddhist icons. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
Giant pair of 19th c. Japanese prayer beads with baseball-sized bead-shrines housing tiny Buddhist icons. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Giant pair of 19th c. Japanese prayer beads with baseball-sized bead-shrines housing tiny Buddhist icons. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
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We are very excited to announce the launch of our new digital library platform which will host all of our digital content, including curated exhibitions and featured collections. Find out more here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/?cid= #EYADigital
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are very excited to announce the launch of our new digital library platform which will host all of our digital content, including curated exhibitions and featured collections. Find out more here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/?cid= #EYADigital
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Laughing Buddha teapot and tea canister. Chelsea, England, c. 1745-1749. Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Laughing Buddha teapot and tea canister. Chelsea, England, c. 1745-1749. Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
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Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
Cultural tribute or Asian stereotype? Salem roiled by dispute over city seal. - The Boston Globe
To one side, the seal contains an anachronistic, racial caricature of a 19th-century Asian merchant. To the other, it honors a progressive, cross-cultural commerce that benefited peoples a world apart...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
Laughing Buddha teapot and tea canister. Chelsea, England, c. 1745-1749. Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Laughing Buddha teapot and tea canister. Chelsea, England, c. 1745-1749. Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
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Jessica Taggart, Andrew Kennedy, and I have a new piece out that's about UVA's Faculty AI Guides program, but it's really about how centers for teaching and learning can be key players in an institution's response to disruption. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Responding to Disruption? Consult a Center for Teaching and Learning
A guest post by Derek Bruff, Andrew Kennedy and Jess Taggart.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Jessica Taggart, Andrew Kennedy, and I have a new piece out that's about UVA's Faculty AI Guides program, but it's really about how centers for teaching and learning can be key players in an institution's response to disruption. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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What links Sherlock Holmes, the British invasion of Tibet, and a royal gambling scandal? Andrew Glazzard investigates the domestic and imperial subterfuge beneath the surface of Holmes’ 1903 return to Baker Street in Conan Doyle’s “The Empty House” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What links Sherlock Holmes, the British invasion of Tibet, and a royal gambling scandal? Andrew Glazzard investigates the domestic and imperial subterfuge beneath the surface of Holmes’ 1903 return to Baker Street in Conan Doyle’s “The Empty House” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...
Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Laughing Buddha Smoking a Pipe, made in Delft, Netherlands between 1700-1725 with Qing era Buddha in white porcelain from 1740. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
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Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
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The first 108 Buddhas in the West posts are now archived, tagged, and easy to browse! 🔍 🗺
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The first 108 Buddhas in the West posts are now archived, tagged, and easy to browse! 🔍 🗺
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Thank you to everyone for the support! 🙏
👉 tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai depicts cats as furry saints!
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday
Current show "Altarpiece of Cat Adoration" in Tokyo now: tinyurl.com/2ew694rh
#caturday