Dr. González Linaje, researcher with the ChEDiL project (edu.nl/j3xu4), contributed a post to our Special Collections blog, highlighting two 17th-century Chinese-Portuguese handwritten dictionaries: edu.nl/qqxd3. See Leiden University Libraries' Digital collections : edu.nl/8wway and edu.nl/7vx6k.

With the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection event taking place next week (July 24–25), we are pleased to share that the physical archives received so far have been fully organized and described. Inventories are available online: edu.nl/93uk3.
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The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

To celebrate the formal launch of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, promote Chinese queer studies scholarship, and raise the visibility of Chinese queer history and culture, a workshop is held on 24-25 July 2025, at Leiden University Libraries. Program and registration: edu.nl/7nq67

Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, to collect, preserve, and make accessible primary source material and scholarship on the Chinese queer experience, and to facilitate collaboration between academics, activists, and archivists. See edu.nl/qyewc for details.

The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship with effect from 2025, to support research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries.
Details and application form available here: edu.nl/putg4
Deadline for submitting research proposals: 1 April 2025.

María Teresa González Linaje is an independent researcher and invited contributor to the Chinese European Dictionaries project (Lexicographical Manuscripts for the Historical Study of Exchanges between China and Europe). Read about her findings at Leiden University Libraries: edu.nl/kg9pv

Should you like gastronomy, travels, unsolved cases, literature, and be in Utrecht or Rotterdam this weekend, come meet Taiwanese author Chang Kuo-Li: edu.nl/jfxtf

International workshop convened by the Chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University and IIAS, Prof. Tze-lan Sang, on December 3, 2024 (program: edu.nl/pbhhh).
There will be a screening of Hu Tai-li's film 'Returning Souls' (2012) on December 2, followed by a discussion (registration: edu.nl/tmjau).

Since 2019, Leiden University Libraries digitized 100.000 pages of Chinese unofficial poetry edu.nl/v3jwg. On November 22, at 3:15 PM (CET), a symposium will celebrate this milestone and the genre. Register to attend in person, or join the livestream on the day edu.nl/6q9jd. Details: edu.nl/mmka3.