Month: April 2013
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Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of the Manchu Language
Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Princeton University As a friend recently pointed out to me, Manchu translations of Chinese from the Qing period often seem to adhere to a method in which…
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MSG Interview: Stephen Wadley
Now that the last print issue of Saksaha has been released, MSG sat down (virtually) with its former editor, Stephen Wadley, Professor of Chinese at Portland State University, to learn about…
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A Hard-won Work
A Hard-won Work: A. O. Ivanovskii’s Manchzhurskaia khrestomatiia Gregory Afinogenov, Harvard University Aleksei Osipovich Ivanovskii’s academic career was not exactly an unqualified success. In1885, at the age of 22, he…
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Manchu Books Online: HYL
As previously announced, the Harvard-Yenching Library is currently digitizing many of the rare books in its Manchu and Mongolian collections. A few interesting books are already available. Of these eleven texts,…
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The Journey of a Manchu Map
Mario Cams, KU Leuven The Département des cartes et plans of the French National Archives preserves a Latin version of the map that is included in the Lakcaha jecen de…
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Saksaha Flies East
The final printed edition of Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies has arrived. With this final issue (No. 11) of Saksaha in print, we here at MSG are excited to inherit the…
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A Tatar among the Tartars
David Brophy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre on China in the World Between 1915 and 1917, the Tatar journalist Nushirvan Yavshef undertook a trip to Xinjiang, or Chinese Turkistan (Chīnī Türkistān)…
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March in Review
It was a good month for MSG. In case you missed the news, we had a wonderful inaugural meeting at the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego. Please visit…