Notices by Hilde De Weerdt (hildedeweerdt@mastodon.social)

Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought by Mark Lewis, freely available until Feb 29
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/self-and-body-in-early-east-asian-thought/DBAAED6D23EBC9F02DFC582D2B399501?fbclid=IwY2xjawIIjmFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeNt4QCBVudyrik0S-59tGXGvGF786F1-M-mRxqN0imsFgBYtTj8cpKDCQ_aem_NGTQkDnHPrcr2X2xnQ0w7A

Just out in Early Medieval China: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global Medieval. This is a forum with six essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global #medieval, including Patricia Ebrey, Michael Puett, Lucas Bender, Nicolas Tackett, Stephen Owen and myself, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Xiaofei Tian.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2024/30

For anyone in and around Leiden (and beyond): Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar is organizing a retrospective of the work of my wonderful cousin:
Michaël Borremans – A Confrontation at the Zoo
November 30 2024 - March 23 2025. Highly recommended!
https://www.voorlinden.nl/tentoonstelling/michael-borremans/

The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is out. This issue features four contributions on early imperial, medieval, and twentieth political culture, two articles on Ming and Qing maritime history, and a host of book reviews.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/issue/4CF6E423A1BA093DAA3755244942CFA0

Happy celebrations and a wonderful new year to all!

(Card credit: @WarChildHolland)

RIP Merle Goldman, a burst of energy and a friendly presence to all at the Fairbank Center.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/world/asia/merle-goldman-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR2K7-9ccVuNlpCu7kXBCAGh8BktIa1m_1_KagG0w5PJPeuPwoq0_xCwfwA

Dear all,
We have an additional opening for a postdoctoral researcher in the social history of material infrastructures. This is a two-year position. The successful candidate will join Dr. Sander Molenaar and Dr. Taylor Zaneri (and myself) at the IISH and will also collaborate with students and postdoctoral researchers at KU Leuven.

Ad: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-a-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-social-history-of-material-infrastructures-IISG/961939555/

Deadline for applications is January 7, 2024

For more information about the project: https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/

Very excited to join "The International Travels of Chinese Texts" at the National Library of Latvia in Riga.
My talk "The Global Travels of Sinitic Political Advice Literature" will be Zoomed. Today 11:45 (09:45 GMT / 10:45 CET).
Register via e-mail to asiaresbibl@lnb.lv
Full program: t.ly/x4TbX

European and East-Asian Perspectives on the Soul, Self-Knowledge, and Consciousness (1450-1650) National Chengchi University (NCCU) • June 1-3, 2023 #medieval #earlymodern
Programme:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aiJHD0h57im2U0nh-P7A_YE1QImvT51n/view?usp=drivesdk

Sent off my review of Lamouroux's La dynastie des Song. Conclusion: "the best survey of Song history to date, a must read for any historian interested in Chinese, #medieval & #earlymodern world history...for the very democratic price of 35 €!" English translation in the making.

https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251451282/la-dynastie-des-song

Religion & Poetry in Medieval China, eds. Anna Shields & Gil Raz, featuring the work of many of the greats in Daoist Studies and poetry has a cover & ToC https://www.aup.nl/nl/book/9789463721172/religion-and-poetry-in-medieval-china#toc

- For more info on the Global Chinese Histories series https://www.aup.nl/nl/series/global-chinese-histories-250-1650 @histodons #medieval

Just opened at the BnF: possibly the first exhibition on "#Gutenberg's Europe" showing that metal type had been in use for almost a century in #EastAsia before his #printing of the bible in 1450s . #medieval #earlymodern #books
https://t.co/uoYKilaRlY
@histodons

My review of Charles Hartman's "The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE" is out in The Journal of Song Yuan Studies. In sum: a book no one interested in Song history can get around http://doi.org/10.1353/sys.2022.0013 #medieval @histodons

Great resource for anyone interested in the history of #education: dataset on Chinese #academies now freely available, nearly 3000 entries. collaboration between the CBDB team at Harvard & Yuelu Academy, Hunan University #DH
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/chinese-academies-data

Chuffed that three months after it went up, my essay on 18th C German adaptations of #medieval Chinese political advice literature is the second most read article in Global Intellectual History this year (and also entered the journal's list of 20 most read articles all time). #earlymodern
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2022.2104741?src=