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• April 14, 2024

  Summer 2024 Online Manchu Courses

  We are pleased to announce the return of summer online Manchu courses offered by Manchu Studies Group members. Three courses will be offered this summer: a beginner course, a review/intermediate…

• April 8, 2024

  Stuck in the Middle: An Example of Ephemera in a Rebound Manchu book

  Sarah Bramao-Ramos is a Research Assistant Professor at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. If you go to any library and ask to…

• February 25, 2024

  Qingwen buhui 清文補匯 and the Evolution of Women-Related Manchu Words

  By Annie Zhanling Wang, Harvard University[1]       How might a person living during the Qing talk about women? One way to approach this question is to think about women-related vocabulary.…

• February 20, 2024

  Manchu Studies at AAS 2024 – Seattle

  The Manchu Studies Group will once again be holding a social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies conference, which takes place next month in Seattle. Our…

• February 12, 2024

  Manchu Studies Annual Bibliography: 2023

  Dear gucuse: ice aniya amba urgun sebjen okini! To mark the beginning of a new year, the Manchu Studies Group has compiled a bibliography of English-language publications in Manchu studies…

• December 7, 2023

  The Manchu Script and the Endangered Alphabets Project

  

  A guest post by Tim Brookes, executive director of the Endangered Alphabets Project.

• November 12, 2023

  Volume 19 of Saksaha

  In case you missed it, Volume 19 of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies was published earlier this year, available open-access at https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/saksaha/. The table of contents is as follows:…

• October 5, 2023

  Autumn 2023 Spoken Sibe Courses

  On behalf of Veronika Zikmundová: Dear Colleagues, I would like to share the information about the online courses of spoken Sibe (online via Zoom) taught by Kicengge and myself, which…

• April 28, 2023

  Call for Contributions: Overlapping Borderlands

  Seeking Contributions for Overlapping Borderlands: Sources and Translations from Inner Northeast Asia The editorial board for Overlapping Borderlands invites contributions from scholars working on topics related to Inner Northeast Asia…

• March 15, 2023

  Manchu Studies at AAS 2023 – Boston

  The Manchu Studies Group will be holding a business/social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies meeting. If you’re attending AAS, come the Dalton Room on the…