Recent Posts
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Summer Vacation
Now that summer is here, members of the Manchu Studies Group are scattering to the archives (or Rehe) for various research projects. This means that our blog will be on…
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Webmaster’s Notes: Trends from the Blog
Over this past semester, MSG has featured fourteen blog posts by scholars actively using Manchu materials in their work. It is occasionally tempting to dismiss blogs as nothing more than…
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Manchu Folklore: Tales Told by a Bewitched Being
Hanung Kim, Harvard University The genre of folklore is a constituent part of Manchu literature, but has attracted less scholarly attention than other types of literature, perhaps because the strong…
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April in Review
The end of the semester always makes April pass by too quickly. If you find yourself with any extra time, we hope you can peruse our blog offerings from the…
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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…