Blog
The Manchu Studies Blog is an informal place to share short write-ups related to Manchu Studies: conference reports, brief introduction to materials, translation, think-pieces, travelogues, or anything else too short or informal for the Saksaha journal but is nevertheless interesting and worth sharing.
To submit a piece of writing for the blog, please reach out to the web editor at [email protected].
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Highlights of Manchu and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton, Part II: Printed Books
By Elvin Meng, the University of Chicago Generally speaking, it is far more likely for a manuscript to be one-of-a-kind than it is for a printed book, which by definition…
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Highlights of Manchu and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton, Part I: Manuscripts
By Elvin Meng, the University of Chicago In January 2025, through a Friends of the Princeton University Library Grant, I had spent around three weeks at Princeton University examining its…
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The Manchu Script and the Endangered Alphabets Project
A guest post by Tim Brookes, executive director of the Endangered Alphabets Project.
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A Manchu Folk Song Revival?
Chao Lang Chao Lang is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University To date, few Manchu folk songs have attracted the attention…
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On the Source Text of Ši ging ni bithe (1654)
Chenyu Tu (涂辰宇) Chenyu Tu 涂辰宇 is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He works primarily on early modern European literature and is also…