The best museum of Tibetan Art outside Tibet will close this fall. What devastating news!

The table of contents for my forthcoming book, Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. It will be open access (free to download from the publisher).

Just published: ETIENNE DE LA VAISSIÈRE Asie centrale 300-850 Des routes et des royaumes lesbelleslettres.com/livre/97822514… youtube.com/watch?v=ga1kRv… And the price of the book is not meant for library shelves, but for yours!

Cover art finally unveiled for Hoof Beats - later this year from University of California Press (is on Bluesky)! Learn the origins of the human-horse story and the way horses shaped our lives around the globe through the lens of archaeology, history, and science🐎Preorders coming soon

New Blog post: 'Callout for Submissions for the Surya P. Subedi Prize 2024' now available: royalasiaticsociety.org/callout-for-su…. Also featuring a summary of @Visual_Cultures Dr Amy Matthewson's time with us as Collections Assistant.

#OpenAccess #SilkRoad #Maritime #Shipping #China #Ceramics #IndianOcean #TradeRoutes #Anthropology #SouthernAfrica The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities eds. Franck Billé et al. Amsterdam Univ Pr 2022 Direct PDF⬇️ library.oapen.org/viewer/web/vie…

🚨New publication: Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, vols 1 & 2. Edited by Matthew Kapstein, with articles by 20 contributors, and richly illustrated. Cornell University Press 🚨BDRC is working with Prof. Kapstein on a web companion for these books to be released in the fall.

Coming up this Friday, March 8. The Keynote Lecture by Christian Luczanits will be live streamed from 2-3.15 pm (ET). Details in the poster.

Really disturbed to read this. More than time for universities to have robust policies in place for dealing with this kind of challenge emanating from authoritarian states. #academicfreedom

Wed 13 Mar 5:15pm in School 3 St Salvator’s Quad, join Prof Gregory Lee for his inaugural lecture 'Contributions to Global Thinking from the Space We Have Imagined as China', open to the public and chaired by the Principal: ow.ly/SzU150QPWso

"The Stars along the Silk Roads: Astronomers from Central Asia in the Abbasid Court during the ninth century” Dr Razieh S. Mousavi will discuss it King's Silk Roads on Friday, 15 March, at 2 pm UK time All are welcome to join this Online Event Zoom Link us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

[Mar. 22nd] The Transmission of Writing Technology between Korea and Japan in the 8th Century | Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies rijs.fas.harvard.edu/events/transmi…

“Daughter of Dunhuang: A Memoir of a Mogao Grottoes Researcher” by Fan Jinshi, as told to Gu Chunfang, tr. Bruce Humes (Long River Press, 2024) bruce-humes.com/2024/03/17/new… International Dunhuang Programme #Dunhuang

#OpenAccess #Qarakhanid #China #LiaoDynasty #IslamicWorld #Gifts #Ghaznavid #Diplomacy #Trade #Turfan #Tibet #Seljuk #Anatolia #Byzantine #SilkRoad #CentralAsia Qarakhanid Roads to China A History of Sino-Turkic Relations Dilnoza Duturaeva BRill 2022 PDF🎯 library.oapen.org/viewer/web/vie…

New review article!! An Introduction and Recent Advances in the Analytical Study of Early Synthetic Dyes and Organic Pigments in Cultural Heritage mdpi.com/2732222 #mdpiheritage via Heritage MDPI

First Call for Papers: Indian Ocean World Archaeology conference, 12-13 December 2024. We are delighted to invite you to the Department of Archaeology, University of York, for the third instalment of the IOW-ARCH conference. Abstract deadline 1 June 2024. iow-arch.com/abstract-submi…

Nara to Norwich exhibition —all week at The Forum, Norwich.

Celebrating 25 years of the Sainsbury Institute - Nara to Norwich exhibition has started at The Forum Norwich! Here's a time lapse video of the installation of a 12m replica scroll from Hasedera in Nara: The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Japan Foundation UK

James Leibold introduces and analyzes new CCP textbook that codifies emerging racialized theory of Zhonghua-ness, erasing distinctive features of non-Han minzu (Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongol etc.) through spurious historical narrative: jamestown.org/program/new-te…