Jin Xu
@jin-xu.bsky.social
Art historian at Columbia University. Chinese art and architecture. Archaeology and art history of the Silk Road. Materials and techniques of art.
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Jin Xu
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· Nov 28
I hope my new article does justice to Dunhuang Cave 257, where narrative paintings, I argue, subvert traditional power dynamic between male viewers & female subjects. Here, male characters—young monk, beautiful stag, Buddha—are subject to the intense gaze of a female audience.
Virtual tour link↓
Virtual tour link↓
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This PDF of Les Sogdiens en Chine (2005) might be useful to someone.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This PDF of Les Sogdiens en Chine (2005) might be useful to someone.
journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/u...
journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/u...
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
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#photography
'Bringing home the goats"
August 1981
Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang.
© 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
'Bringing home the goats"
August 1981
Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang.
© 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#photography
'Bringing home the goats"
August 1981
Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang.
© 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
'Bringing home the goats"
August 1981
Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang.
© 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
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Just published: Part II of Zha Jianying's family memoir "Trains." This section tracks her grandfather from his student days in France through personal tragedy in Manchuria.
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Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival | ChinaFile
6.For educated Chinese people, the late 1910s and early 1920s was a period of intense ideological exploration and political agitation. Both inside and outside China, all sorts of groups were vying to influence the minds of China’s future élite. The Chinese student communities in France were no exception.The “Diligent Work and Frugal Study in France Movement” (留法勤工俭学运动), or
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December 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Just published: Part II of Zha Jianying's family memoir "Trains." This section tracks her grandfather from his student days in France through personal tragedy in Manchuria.
www.chinafile.com/re...
www.chinafile.com/re...
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Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅.
Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.
Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.
December 18, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅.
Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.
Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.
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Reading the beginning of this transcript, I realized that @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social at Peking U in 1984 must have met a bunch of students who were friends and acquaintances of mine. I never crossed paths with him however. My Beida days stretched from 1979 to 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoD...
December 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Reading the beginning of this transcript, I realized that @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social at Peking U in 1984 must have met a bunch of students who were friends and acquaintances of mine. I never crossed paths with him however. My Beida days stretched from 1979 to 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoD...
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This is a must read for anyone interested in the study of North China.
Congrats to the editor Wang Jinping and all contributors to the latest special issue of the Journal of Chinese history, on North China.
We welcome suggestions for future special issues. Thematic issues should cover a variety of periods of Chinese history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We welcome suggestions for future special issues. Thematic issues should cover a variety of periods of Chinese history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊: Volume 8 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 - Volume 8 - Issue 2
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December 5, 2024 at 8:52 PM
This is a must read for anyone interested in the study of North China.
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#ManchuOfTheDay
ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten)
1. the foot of a mountain (山根)
"juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)"
2. the hem of a garment (衣邊)
3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten
abkai buten: the horizon (天涯)
#Manchu #language #滿文
ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten)
1. the foot of a mountain (山根)
"juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)"
2. the hem of a garment (衣邊)
3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten
abkai buten: the horizon (天涯)
#Manchu #language #滿文
December 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
#ManchuOfTheDay
ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten)
1. the foot of a mountain (山根)
"juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)"
2. the hem of a garment (衣邊)
3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten
abkai buten: the horizon (天涯)
#Manchu #language #滿文
ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten)
1. the foot of a mountain (山根)
"juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)"
2. the hem of a garment (衣邊)
3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten
abkai buten: the horizon (天涯)
#Manchu #language #滿文
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Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935
December 4, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935
It's mind-boggling to stand in front of this monumental calligraphy piece in the grand entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum, created this year by Taipei-based artist Tong Yang-Tze, at her age of 82.
December 3, 2024 at 2:21 AM
It's mind-boggling to stand in front of this monumental calligraphy piece in the grand entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum, created this year by Taipei-based artist Tong Yang-Tze, at her age of 82.
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Sinology 🀄 time! OK, just for a change of pace, a thread about Northern Wei funerary gifts. I remember reading the biography of Xianbei elder statesman Qiumuling Liang 丘穆陵亮 and being struck by a list of imperial gifts to him at the time of his funeral in 502. (1/15)
November 14, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Sinology 🀄 time! OK, just for a change of pace, a thread about Northern Wei funerary gifts. I remember reading the biography of Xianbei elder statesman Qiumuling Liang 丘穆陵亮 and being struck by a list of imperial gifts to him at the time of his funeral in 502. (1/15)
I hope my new article does justice to Dunhuang Cave 257, where narrative paintings, I argue, subvert traditional power dynamic between male viewers & female subjects. Here, male characters—young monk, beautiful stag, Buddha—are subject to the intense gaze of a female audience.
Virtual tour link↓
Virtual tour link↓
November 28, 2024 at 6:20 AM
I hope my new article does justice to Dunhuang Cave 257, where narrative paintings, I argue, subvert traditional power dynamic between male viewers & female subjects. Here, male characters—young monk, beautiful stag, Buddha—are subject to the intense gaze of a female audience.
Virtual tour link↓
Virtual tour link↓
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Bluesky folks, sharing our website on primary sources on Taiwanese history. Consider including a few of these in your spring classes on colonialism, education, medicine, indigenous histories, and East Asian histories.
taiwanprimarysources.com
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Primary Sources on Taiwan
Visit the post for more.
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November 28, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Bluesky folks, sharing our website on primary sources on Taiwanese history. Consider including a few of these in your spring classes on colonialism, education, medicine, indigenous histories, and East Asian histories.
taiwanprimarysources.com
taiwanprimarysources.com
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Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!
On the latest episode of Barbarians at the Gate, MIT Professor Tristan Brown discusses his award-winning book on how feng shui in the Qing era had less to do with furniture placement than about power, belonging, and control of spaces in a rapidly evolving society.
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Laws of the Land: Feng Shui in Chinese History
Featuring MIT Professor Tristan Brown
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November 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!
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Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this!
Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first:
What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects
Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first:
What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects
November 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this!
Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first:
What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects
Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first:
What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects
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Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc...
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Learn about The Chinese Historical Review
Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc...
Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
The Art Bulletin editor Christy Anderson talks about “How to Publish Your First Peer-Reviewed Article.” Her suggestions apply to all academic writers:
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November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
The Art Bulletin editor Christy Anderson talks about “How to Publish Your First Peer-Reviewed Article.” Her suggestions apply to all academic writers:
ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/rec/share/Ml...
ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/rec/share/Ml...
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Scholars in this area can reply if interested in joining this list of "Late Imperial China," which will enable their accounts to show posts of all scholars on the list and is related the "Late Imperial China" Feed/Cluster. Nonspecialists can add this feed to their accounts.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Scholars in this area can reply if interested in joining this list of "Late Imperial China," which will enable their accounts to show posts of all scholars on the list and is related the "Late Imperial China" Feed/Cluster. Nonspecialists can add this feed to their accounts.
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Just out: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global #Medieval. This is a forum with 6 essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global medieval, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Tian Xiaofei. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2...
November 14, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Just out: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global #Medieval. This is a forum with 6 essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global medieval, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Tian Xiaofei. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2...
Here's the link to 50 free downloads of the full article: "Love, Luxury, and Live Spectacle: Narrative Paintings and Women’s Patronage under the Northern Wei"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BINBV...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BINBV...
Love, Luxury, and Live Spectacle: Narrative Paintings and Women’s Patronage under the Northern Wei
Mogao Cave 257 in Dunhuang, dating from the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) established by the nomadic Xianbei people in North China, is renowned for its vivid illustrations of scenes from two legen...
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November 16, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Here's the link to 50 free downloads of the full article: "Love, Luxury, and Live Spectacle: Narrative Paintings and Women’s Patronage under the Northern Wei"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BINBV...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BINBV...