[Thread] Our website is now officially online! The website represents an interactive and searchable database encompassing travel narratives found within the biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns, spanning from the 5th to the 17th century CE. #Buddhism #DH . .

Jewellers carry on the Silk Road’s precious stone traditions - British Museum show traces the trade network for gems more than a thousand years ago ft.com/content/ea8206…

ORIENTAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY Quarterly Lecture Series (on Zoom only) Saturday 19 Oct 2024 Speaker: Matthias Naue “Madīnat Jayy - Numismatic history and its extraordinary minting peak in 162 h” orientalnumismaticsociety.org

“Saved from Desert Sands. Re-discovering Objects on the Silk Roads”, eds Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos (Brill: East and West series, Vol. 18, 2024)

In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024) universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/10…

NEW POST: Interview with Jennifer Bond (UCL) on the complex identities of Chinese girls who attended Western Christian missionary schools in Republican China …esebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/168… Thank you, Jenny!

“Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China: A Comparative Analysis” by Michael Loewe, co-ed. by Michael Nylan and Corey Brennan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) bloomsbury.com/ca/imperial-in…

Lost for centuries, Silk Road cities are revealed by drone technology - notably Tashbulak and Tugunbulak in Uzbekistan nbcnews.com/news/world/los… #SilkRoads

Ralph Jackson (1950-2024) theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

Some of the contributors to our Chiang Yee book will be gathering at SOAS to talk about their chapters on 4 December. Hope you can come. Information on the SOAS website. soas.ac.uk/about/event/ch…

“Seventeen thousand Chinese manuscripts and a dozen printed books - the Dunhuang collection in London” - talk by Frances Wood, at SOAS University of London, 19 Nov 2024 - free, must register soas.ac.uk/about/event/se…

The provenance of the Hong Kong type matrices at the Wereldmuseum (formerly Volkenkunde Museum) is finally out. This article focuses on the provenance, providing a detailed description by examining their physical characteristics, as well as their history and current state. 1)

Just arrived! Granta 169 has a China focus, including my translation of “Hai Shan Swimming Pool” by Yang Zhihan 杨知寒 (winner of the Blancpain-Imaginist Prize 2023) granta.com/shelfawareness/

For this week’s The Wire China, I spoke with @chinarhyming about his great new historical non-fiction book HER LOTUS YEAR. We also discuss the woes of the contemporary China book in an era of toxic relations. thewirechina.com/2024/11/03/pau…

The first ever exhibition to explore the influence of art from the Islamic world on William Morris, one of Britain’s most important nineteenth century designers and thinkers is opening on Saturday 9 November 2024 at WilliamMorrisGallery A thread on what to expect in the exhibition...

Today we publish Granta 169: China. Read the autumn edition online for free for the next ten days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive. granta.com/products/grant…

OCLC, the company behind WorldCat, is asking librarians if translations should be indexed (ie made visible on library catalogues) MARC record fields 041 & 546 already contain systematic info about translation. Pls ask your librarian to say yes to OCLC! linkedin.com/pulse/libraria…

Brilliant library cataloguers already enter data about translations in MARC fields 041 and 546. OCLC (the company behind WorldCat) is now asking librarians if 041 should be made visible Please ask your librarian to say yes! Please RT linkedin.com/pulse/libraria…