Letter about cotton prices and textiles from the Mogao caves near #Dunhuang - from a 9thC Christian monk named Sergius; there was a Christian bishop in China before there was one in Britain #SilkRoads. On display ⁦British Library⁩ #SilkRoadsOasis exhibition

Join us on 4 November for a curators' lunchtime lecture to have an inside look at the exhibition #ASilkRoadOasis at the British Library. Book now for this free event: bit.ly/3UucQbT

I am thrilled to have my paper published in the journal Historiographia Linguistica. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers for the quick turnaround!

The dean has decided to not endorse anyone for tenure.

Only 69 shopping days until merit review packets are due!

US vs UK Fanta

Nov 8 (19:30 IST/10:00AM EST), pls join @AdeanaMcN and I for our first event (register via QR code in poster) in the Buddhism and Caste Initiative Series: A lecture by Karthick Ram Manoharan NLSIU on the Buddhist Modernism of the Anti-Caste Reformer Periyar #BuddhismAndCaste

#OnThisDay 1 November 1647 at the Putney Debates between the Army radicals and its senior officers, the radicals called for an end to the monarchy. Oliver Cromwell, chairing the meeting, refused to countenance any such move. A year later he’d change his mind... #17thCentury #OTD

You’re invited to visit our newest exhibition “Porcelain Unearthed at the Sui-Tang Period Tombs in Anyang.” The numerous exquisite porcelain wares, mostly from Tomb YM243, were unearthed along with the IHP’s excavations of Yinxu from 1928-1937. Link: museum.sinica.edu.tw/en/exhibitions…

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CFP: East Asia and Economic Botany, 1800-1950 9-10 June 2025 Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew We welcome papers that consider ‘economic botany’ in its many forms and from various disciplinary perspectives. Please contact Weipin Tsai and Caroline Cornish by 30 December 2024

The British Sunday Express newspaper publishes a game that is new to British audiences: a crossword puzzle. Readers are puzzled at how to solve it, but it quickly becomes a hit.

Human figure diagrams with the twelve earthly branches combined with body parts to divine the fortune of childbirth 1) Qin, 睡虎地秦簡《日書甲》 2) Western Han, 周家寨漢簡《日書・禹湯生子》 3) Western Han, 北大漢簡《日書》 There are other ones, but they are damaged

I’d love to work on Japanese research literature into English and into modern Chinese machine translation next for our MITRA project. Are there folks here interested to look into this problem, maybe searching for an internship? Get in touch with me if this sounds interesting!

Dharmamitra Browser extension will drop soon!

"Our usual ritual upon meeting after some time apart was for him to look me up and down and pass withering judgments on the condition of my shoes, and to berate my obstinate reluctance to engage a proper tailor.” —a friend of Edward Said

14-year-old Nazmin Bandali, a Muslim who came to Canada from Tanzania two years ago, finishes up Christmas shopping at a mall in Toronto. Although Bandali is not Christian, she enjoys shopping for her friends.

Received the Chinese edition of Dr Michael Loewe’s final co-edited volume today and I cataloged and processed it right away, in honor of the most loyal reader of our Chinese collections and a remarkable Sinologist in Cambridge and beyond. RIP, Dr. Loewe (2 Nov 1922 – 1 Jan 2025).

It really annoys me when publisher come out with these beautifully printed punctuated editions of historical texts and somehow decide to print them in simplified Chinese