This project looks amazing! Thanks MartinH for noticing it.

Nice walk in Seattle after my panel #AAS2024 Association for Asian Studies

If you are coming to Seattle for #AAS2024 , please stop by our panel 'Non-Han Regimes and Middle Period China' featuring papers on Parhae, Heian Japan, Jurchen, Tangut and Dali states! Panel scheduled at 8:30am on Saturday! Association for Asian Studies

Thank you for the interest in my book!

IDP is finally back online!

We congratulate S. Naquin on being awarded the 2024 Levenson Prize (Pre-1900) for ‘Gods of Mount Tai’ by Association for Asian Studies. In her richly illustrated book, Naquin tells the story of the Lady of Mount Tai, North China’s most important female deity. brill.ws/naquin

Is the Silk Road a useful framework for understanding trans-Asian exchange?

Please join us on Feb 16 for a conversation with Xin Wen (Princeton), Supratik Baralay (Princeton), and Michael Frachetti (Wash. U. in St. Louis).

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Looking forward to this discussion with two colleagues about 'What Can the Silk Roads Be?' at U Chicago next week (Feb 16). Hope to see some Chicago area colleagues.
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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).

Can't wait to read Étienne de la Vaissière's new book!

Thrilled to announce the publication of my co-edited volume Brill Asian Studies with Ryan Overbey, _Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture_, featuring ten essays from an international cohort of scholars: brill.com/edcollbook/tit…

SLAVES OF THE EMPEROR

How the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: the more than two million members of the hereditary Eight Banner system.

December 2023
Columbia Univ Press
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Thanks for plugging this Princeton History :)

Following the IASSRT symposium, we are publishing a series of posts showcasing the papers most relevant to the Nara to Norwich project. This week’s paper, by Hiroya Himeka, is on Silk Road textiles in Japan and was translated by Melissa M. Rinne. 🔗⬇️

Enjoy this illuminating monograph detailing the envoy system of medieval Chinese and Inner Asian states from the journeys of diplomats.

'The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road' by Xin Wen

Book review by Tristan Kenderdine
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Posted Today: Assistant Professor of Labor History - Tenure-Track | University of Washington Tacoma dlvr.it/SytQw9

This baby rhino thought the vets were harming her mother. They were trying to heal her toe, but he kept charging at them to leave her mum alone

[📹 Richard Steyn]

Looking forward to reading this new book!

It was a great event! I learned a lot from the participants. Thanks for organizing Imre Galambos!