Yan He
@yanhecul.bsky.social
Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Street art in the city centre: Let the sunshine in.
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Street art in the city centre: Let the sunshine in.
Today I discovered a 1903 brochure promoting the UL’s Chinese collection. It bears the names Professor Wade and Giles, the first two Chinese professors and honorary curators, whose selfless efforts built and preserved our collection, reminding me why safeguarding books matters. @theul.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Today I discovered a 1903 brochure promoting the UL’s Chinese collection. It bears the names Professor Wade and Giles, the first two Chinese professors and honorary curators, whose selfless efforts built and preserved our collection, reminding me why safeguarding books matters. @theul.bsky.social
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Attention current University of Cambridge students! Entries are welcome for this year's Rose Book Collecting Prize until 30 January. Your collection doesn't need to be large or valuable; just interesting.
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Attention current University of Cambridge students! Entries are welcome for this year's Rose Book Collecting Prize until 30 January. Your collection doesn't need to be large or valuable; just interesting.
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The old Cambridge University Library. @theul.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The old Cambridge University Library. @theul.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
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📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings!
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
January 14, 2026 at 10:45 AM
📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings!
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
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Fascinating to see this @theul.bsky.social today - Newton’s drawing of his reflecting telescope, made in 1668.
January 12, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Fascinating to see this @theul.bsky.social today - Newton’s drawing of his reflecting telescope, made in 1668.
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A nice record of 81 plants still in flower on 29 October 1800 around Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire by Revett Sheppard (1778-1830), then a student in his twenties at @caiuscollege.bsky.social, Cambridge.
From his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theul.bsky.social. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1/2
From his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theul.bsky.social. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1/2
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A nice record of 81 plants still in flower on 29 October 1800 around Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire by Revett Sheppard (1778-1830), then a student in his twenties at @caiuscollege.bsky.social, Cambridge.
From his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theul.bsky.social. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1/2
From his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, MS Add. 9839/22/1 @theul.bsky.social. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1/2
Had Hainanese chicken rice 海南雞飯 with my son for lunch near we live in Shanghai including Wuchang 五常 rice from Northeast China, free-range chicken 走地雞, a four-hour slow-cooked chicken broth, and blanched fresh lettuce. Very yummy and healthy but only about £5:-)
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Had Hainanese chicken rice 海南雞飯 with my son for lunch near we live in Shanghai including Wuchang 五常 rice from Northeast China, free-range chicken 走地雞, a four-hour slow-cooked chicken broth, and blanched fresh lettuce. Very yummy and healthy but only about £5:-)
My hands are completely dirty from handling old books almost every day this week. I truly believe that I have the best job in the world, and I work hard out of passion and genuine interest, not for promotion, money or fame. That is why I feel so fortunate：)
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My hands are completely dirty from handling old books almost every day this week. I truly believe that I have the best job in the world, and I work hard out of passion and genuine interest, not for promotion, money or fame. That is why I feel so fortunate：)
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🎄We have a special festive treat for you today!
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎄We have a special festive treat for you today!
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
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I still think this is my favourite wallpainting of a trip full of wallpaintings. From the tomb of Sennefer, Mayor of Thebes, so around 1400 BCE.
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I still think this is my favourite wallpainting of a trip full of wallpaintings. From the tomb of Sennefer, Mayor of Thebes, so around 1400 BCE.
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Check out our new video about what you can do on Art UK ✨
Art UK is a unique digital cultural space, giving everyone free access to the UK’s public art collections. This video showcases what you can do on our site.
👉 Discover extraordinary art from all over the UK at artuk.org
Art UK is a unique digital cultural space, giving everyone free access to the UK’s public art collections. This video showcases what you can do on our site.
👉 Discover extraordinary art from all over the UK at artuk.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out our new video about what you can do on Art UK ✨
Art UK is a unique digital cultural space, giving everyone free access to the UK’s public art collections. This video showcases what you can do on our site.
👉 Discover extraordinary art from all over the UK at artuk.org
Art UK is a unique digital cultural space, giving everyone free access to the UK’s public art collections. This video showcases what you can do on our site.
👉 Discover extraordinary art from all over the UK at artuk.org
「無事是貴人」 (ぶじこれきにん): The truly noble person is one who lives without entanglement or disturbance — one at peace in body and mind.
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
「無事是貴人」 (ぶじこれきにん): The truly noble person is one who lives without entanglement or disturbance — one at peace in body and mind.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Chinese Virginia creeper being spectacularly autumnal at 10 Brookside, Cambridge, former home of Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), Librarian @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Chinese Virginia creeper being spectacularly autumnal at 10 Brookside, Cambridge, former home of Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), Librarian @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography
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Helophilus pendulus hoverfly on Ivy in Ely at the weekend. #WildWebsWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Helophilus pendulus hoverfly on Ivy in Ely at the weekend. #WildWebsWednesday
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I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Andy West obituary
Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
My favorite line, in my calligraphy: 貧賤難移、威武不屈（Unshaken in poverty, unbowed by power).
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My favorite line, in my calligraphy: 貧賤難移、威武不屈（Unshaken in poverty, unbowed by power).
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
Amazing to see the chained books earlier this week. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues for making it possible.
September 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Amazing to see the chained books earlier this week. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues for making it possible.
Friendly reminder for Cambridge and UCSD PhD students in Chinese Studies: my colleague Amelie Roper (Head of Research), Xi Shi from UCSD Library, and I will be giving two information sessions on the fully funded exchange program. It’s not too late to register and join!
📣 Opportunity for University of Cambridge and UC San Diego postgrads
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s
September 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Friendly reminder for Cambridge and UCSD PhD students in Chinese Studies: my colleague Amelie Roper (Head of Research), Xi Shi from UCSD Library, and I will be giving two information sessions on the fully funded exchange program. It’s not too late to register and join!
My essay on the first Chinese book (1632) in Cambridge UL, tracing 17th-c. Chinese books in Europe, was just published. Grateful to Shuwen Cao and Martin Heijdra from Princeton, and Shaun Thompson, Paul Frank, Clarck Drieshen and Liam Sims in @theUL for their guidance & support.
September 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My essay on the first Chinese book (1632) in Cambridge UL, tracing 17th-c. Chinese books in Europe, was just published. Grateful to Shuwen Cao and Martin Heijdra from Princeton, and Shaun Thompson, Paul Frank, Clarck Drieshen and Liam Sims in @theUL for their guidance & support.
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📣 Opportunity for University of Cambridge and UC San Diego postgrads
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
📣 Opportunity for University of Cambridge and UC San Diego postgrads
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s
Apply for scholarship to spend 4-6 weeks at the partner institution researching its Chinese Collections.
Details for Cambridge students: https://loom.ly/rxIAcq8
Details for UCSD students: https://loom.ly/hwdVy9s