Albrecht Dürer (German painter) "The Great Piece of Turf", 1503

“Back to School in Babylonia” is officially open to the public and we would like to introduce you to a special friend of ours, Tuppi (pronounced toop-ee)!

Pachelbel's Canon in D, P 37 played by countless trains, the sounds of which were recorded and assembled by the Czech machinist Pavel Jirásek

As of the end of 2023, the FSN Library has newly digitized 47 valuable rare books, compiled and produced in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and made available on the “FSN Library Rare Books” database: dap.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/database/1/ For a bibliography: reurl.cc/yYEGxq

Sogdian mān wēč-, lit. 'mind/spirit/heart (Gharib 1995) move/stirs(s)', in sentence underlined below ‘[if] my mind stirs for (lit. towards) another man’ (VJ1050-1), parallels the Chinesee 心動/動心 'heart/mind move(s)'. Sog. mān = Ch. 心; circump. ku…sār = Ch. 對. ‘towards’.

西班牙人阿德里亚诺·德拉斯·科尔特斯（Adriano de las Cortes)的《中国行记》(Viaje de la China) 汉译版： 🔗:m.weibo.cn/status/4996879…

Ok she's still angry. 😂😂

A set of illustrations of Ming Dynasty collected by a British traveler, merchant Peter Mundy went to China(Macao) for business in 1637 一组1637年，一位英国旅行家彼得·蒙迪来華从商在其澳门游记中收录的明代中国插图

A beautiful 1944 Chinese translation of Rustaveli’s ვეფხისტყაოსანი ‘The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’, through Wardrop’s 1938 English version. One of the translators, 韓侍桁 Han Shiheng, was a member of the League of Left-Wing Writers, a dissenting voice in the Republic of China.

The Chinese depiction of an Englishman was printed in the Illustrated London News, 25/Apr/1857, which translates the Chinese text: "This creature appears in ... the capital of Che-keang. ... When it meets any one, it fortwith eats him. It is truly a wonderful monster."👹/

Drawings of whales in the log of the ship Indian Chief kept by Thomas R. Bloomfield (1842–1844).

The photo is actually of an ophthalmologist‘s in Tainan, Taiwan, 1962, taken by Wang Shuang-Ch‘üan 王雙全 (1920-1978). There’s another photo of the place by Chu I-wen 朱逸文 published in the Jp magazine フォトアート in 1963 that made an appearance in manga in 1968!

In both Chinese and Persian, ‘head’ can be used to mean both the starting and ending points. Ch. 頭 tóu: 頭尾 (head and tail) ‘beginning and end’, 到頭 (to reach head) ‘to reach the end’. Fa. سر sar: سر کردن (to do head) ‘to start’, سر آمدن (to come [to] head) ‘to end’. Which

Throughout the Edo Era (1600~1868,) criminals were executed by decapitation. With the birth of the Meiji govt in 1868 a police force was created, based on western systems including the ones used in Paris & London. They also changed the prison system and method of execution.

どこだったかな、と思いLady Macartneyを開いたら68頁と73頁にそれらしき記事があったが、思ったより淡々とした記事。あるいは別の記事だったか、それとも私の誤解か。時期的にもいささか早い20世紀初頭。

Drawing of a woman with a matchlock on a page with unrelated Persian and Urdu inscriptions, late 18th century, Mughal India, Collection of James Ivory (on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

1880年の植民地化以前のアフリカのかなり精度が高い地図を発見 どちらかというと知らない国の方が多い…

A copyright statement with a traditional design from the Republican period.

Finding treasures of the earth using star constellations in #Khotan (Yutianguo 于田國). Depiction in the Tiangong kaiwu 天工開物. #jade #chinesehistory #Technology #history #prints #historyoftechnology #earlyprints #eurasiamining #China #starconstellations