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• The Diplomat: "Past History of Tibet-Ladakh relations as well as their Modern Implications" [7/11/20]
• Global Times: Chinese authorities try to protect artifacts from flood [7/11/20]
• Beijing 1920 films colorized [5/10/20]
• restoration of the Xumishan Grottoes [4/30/20]
• just to see what the public reads about this [4/30/20]
• Restoration of 18th century Shanghai shipping clug [12/25/19]
• JoongAng Daily: Korean royal hostages at the Qing courts. [12/16/19]
• overview of Ming Qing international trade dynamics [12/15/19]
• Puyi cousin Hengrong lived in Hainan until her death in 2003 [11/29/19]
• latest issue of Frontiers of History in China (14:3) --superb articles on plague and on Russian physicians in the Northeast, middle class Chinese women under Japanese occupation, Qian Mu's historiography, the CPI China station before the May Fourth movement, [11/13/19]
• Rules for Craftsmanship in Yuanmingyuan found [10/16/19]
• Amitav Ghosh on the non-conquest of Nepal [10/14/19]
• Miranda Brown's wonderful history of Chinese food blog [10/12/19]
• Asian Tribune --interesting Qing and Now perspective [10/6/19]
• Dorothy Ko, "Stone, Scissors, Paper: Thinking through Things in Chinese History" in Journal of Chinese History 2019:3:191-201. [9/28/19]
• interesting discussion of Bingxi Tu by Miao painter Xi Gui [9/21/19]
• Julia Ching's crisis of faith [9/21/19]
• 张段清,耶稣会士著作中的"辽东省 (古籍) --very interesting article arguing the construction of "Liaodong province" in Jesuit writing [9/12/19]
• Geiss Hsu Foundation for Ming studies seeking contributions [8/5/19]
• Frontiers of History in China TOC vol. 14 no. 1 --superb issue on information in the Qing period. This link is to the Brill portal. The HEP portal (.cn) is virtually impossible to reach. [7/17/19]
• banned operas, including Jingchai ji (荊釵記) -- banned during the Qing-- revived by Taipei kunqu troop. [7/4/19]
• Yingcong Dai, The White Lotus War: Rebellion & Suppression in Late Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2019) --instant classic [7/4/19]
• remnants of Dongning 東寧 history in Tainan [6/27/19]
• VIRTUAL SHANGHAI [6/15/19]
• video: making an ink brush [6/5/19]
• commemoration of Lin Zexu's opium destruction [6/5/19]
• Epoch Times newly unearthed Ming corpse
[6/5/19]
• Taipei Times on Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa [5/26/19]
• Fenlaijian paper making [5/25/19]
• Shaoxing and Sherry wines [4/30/19]
• Frontiers of History in China 14:1 [March 2019] [4/26/19]
• Sackler exhibit on Qing empresses' lives [3/30/19]
• Paula Campbell's SCMP review of Philip Bowring's Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia's Great Archipelago (I.B. Tauris, 2019) [3/20/19]
• Jenny Huangfu Day, Qing Traveler to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, 2018) [3/20/19]
• Pingyao Qing architecture [3/19/19]
• Strange World: Honglou Meng manuscript linked to Chinese migrants to rural Pennsylvania [3/18/19]
• Forbidden City open at night frist time since 1923 [2/19/19]
• Modern Manchu life in Hetu Ala [2/6/19]
• Jackie Chan as Pu Songling [1/22/19]
• Four excellent articles on the Qing period in Frontiers of History in China Jan 2019 [full downloads] [1/7/19]
• SCMP: Hongli's clocks still running [12/14/18]
• Lisbon exhibit on the maritime silk road [12/7/18]
• Rare photographs of 19th century China in Beijing [11/29/18]
• pretty good popular article on Jurchen-Manchu shamanism: "The Heavenly Legacy of the Ancient Manchu Shaman" [11/26/18]
• Serica: "Shen Fuzong and a Letter Writer" (1687) [11/12/18]
• China Daily "Collection by German advisors to Qing being sold" [11/7/18]
• David C. Porter, "Manchu Racial Identity on the Qing Fronter: Donjina and Early Twentieth-Century Ili" in Modern China (September 4, 2017) [9/17/18]
• New Straits Times' popular article on prominent Muslims in Ming Qing history [9/15/18]
• short Global TImes article on the Beijing Palace Museum exhibion on the Four Wangs [9/12/18]
• intercepted smuggling attempt recovers Qing account book among other historical items (ECNS) [9/8/18]
• Norman Kutcher's Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule (California, 2018) [8/28/18]
• photo essay on the current condition of the Western Tombs, Bishu shanzhuang and other sites. [8/19/18]
• Nice multimedia piece on the daily schedule of the Qing emperors [8/8/18]
• short article on Zeng Baosun, great-granddaughter of Zeng Guofan and one of the founders of Yifang school in Changsha [8/4/18]
• 2013 (vol. 7) edition of Crossroads - Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World now available for full download [8/2/18]
• QingMaps.org! [8/1/18]
• Frontiers of History in China --special issue on the literature of the Taiping Civil War [full text downloads] (Xiaowei Zheng, Huan Jin, Yao Dahui, Rania Huntington, Chuck Wooldridge, Christopher Reed, Chihyun Chang) [7/31/18]
• Ronald C. Po, The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire (Cambridge) 2018 [7/30/18]
• Jeremiah Jenne review of Bickers' Out of China [7/30/18]
• Scientists search for dinosaur footprints at Chengde [7/28/18]
• Ken Pomeranz, "Rethinking the Histories of War in Modern China" in Frontiers of History in China 13:1 [June 2018]:2-27. [6/26/18]
• new issue of Frontiers of History in China [6/26/18]
• Song-Chuan Chen, "The Power of Ancestors: Tombs and Death Practices in Late Qing China's Foreign Relations" in Past & Present 239:1 [May 2018] [6/14/18]
• Shanghai's Xuhui district and 海派 [5/21/18]
• Julian Gewirtz' Review of Stephen Platt, Imperial Twilight, in Wall Street Journal [5/17/2018] [5/21/18]
• Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding [CNN] [4/3/18]
• Dong Wang, "Between Tribute and Unequal Treaties: How China Saw the Sea World in the Early Nineteenth Century" in History: Journal of the Historical Association 103:355 [Mar 2018]:262-285. [4/3/18]
• Text and artifacts reflect Qing period Taipei basin [3/7/18]
• Minneapolis Institute of Art new exhibit on the Qing period [3/7/18]
• online Ming maps from Harvard [2/23/18]
• Spencer Chapman films of Tibet from 1936-7 [2/23/18]
• Chen Yin 陳尹 (early Qing, otherwise unknown) painting series "retirement" [2/3/18]
• Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, Vol. 14 (2016) [12/31/17]
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government and law
• Ching Chun Wang 王景春 (1882-1956) plea for recognition of the Chinese republic (The Altlantic, January 1913) [2/3/18]
• Daniel McMahon's "Were the Miao Kings 'Prophets of Renewal'? The Case of the 1795-1797 Hunan Miao Revolt" in Frontiers of History in China 12 [2017]:2:301-327 [Full Download] [11/13/17]
• Macabe Keliher's "The Problem of Imperial Relatives in Early Modern Empires and the Making of Qing China" in American Historical Review 122:4 [Oct 2017]:1001-1037. [10/21/17]
• Dai Yingcong, "Qing Military Institutions and their Effects on Government, Economy, and Society, 1640-1800" in Journal of Chinese History July 2017 [full download] [7/18/17]
• Di Wang, "Study on Family Rules in the Ming and Qing Dynasties," Open Journal of Social Sciences (2014) [6/23/17]
• Clunas, Harrison-Hall and Luk, eds., Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450 (full download) [6/15/17]
• Shiming Zhang, "Painting and Photography in Foreigners' Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law" in latest Frontiers of History in Chinaa [5/6/17]
• Jianfei Jia, "Horse Theft, Law and Punishment in Xinjiang during the Qianlong Reign" [4/11/17]
• Lung-Lung Hu, "Another Justice --Litigation Masters in thje Chinese Legal Story" [4/11/17]
• nice short feature on famous female pirate 鄭氏, d. 1844.
• Qing nationality laws as nonsensical as most nationality law today
• Bing Wang, "The Boxue Hongci Examinations, Literary Anthologies by Emperors and Literary Circles during the Kangxi and Qianlong Periods" [4/11/17]
society
• Xinhua coverage of the excavations of the greatest Daoist center of the imperial period, at Yingtan, Jiangxi [1/21/18]
• probable memorial structures to Xu Guangqi discovered in Shanghai [1/15/18]
• surviving Qing-era shop in Qianmen Avenue [12/8/17]
• Daniel McMahon's "Were the Miao Kings 'Prophets of Renewal'? The Case of the 1795-1797 Hunan Miao Revolt" in Frontiers of History in China 12 [2017]:2:301-327 [Full Download] [11/13/17]
• Peter Bol and Yu Wen interview Wang Hui on the role of intellectuals in China's history [7/14/17]
• Washington Post photo essay on the Mosuo [7/13/17]
• Di Wang, "Study on Family Rules in the Ming and Qing Dynasties," Open Journal of Social Sciences (2014) [6/23/17]
Aisin Gioro and Eight Banners
• Kangxi emperor's ink brush reconsructed (Taipei Times] [11/26/17]
• Qianlong-era Changyingge re-opens in Beijing [9/22/17]
• Bing Wang, "The Boxue Hongci Examinations, Literary Anthologies by Emperors and Literary Circles during the Kangxi and Qianlong Periods" [4/11/17]
• early-modern automata from Europe and Japan that fascinated Hongli
• Elena Suet-Ying Chiu's study of Bannerman Tales 子弟書
• Wilt Idema, Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
• genetic trail of Aisin Gioro migration --closer to Mongol and Da'ur than to Tungusic groups
• 邱仲麟 , 張繼瑩 and 陳熙遠 article on Puyi's wedding ceremony in Bulletin of the Institute of Modern (94), Academia Sinica
Northeast
• original stretch of Ming-era Great Wall at Shenyang found at recycling site [9/22/17]
• Seonmin Kim, Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 (University of California Press, 2017) [9/19/17]
• David Bellow review of Schlesinger and Kim borderlands books, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, n. 23 [full download] [8/19/17]
• Khabarovsk Museum artifacts (including Russian text of Treaty of Aigun) [7/2/17]
• NYT: China's Stone Age Skiers (cave paintings in the Altai range) [4/22/17]
Mongolia and Tibet
• Wei-chieh Tsai reviews Chinese translation of G.D. Gulati Central Asia under the Mongols [10/22/17]
• from the Lonestarstar blog: Li Jing 李静 paper on the "imperial turn" 帝国转向 in "New Qing" history [10/22/17]
• David Bellow review of Schlesinger and Kim borderlands books, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, n. 23 [full download] [8/19/17]
• Nehru in 1959 rejected Convention of 1890 on Qing/Sikkim/Tibet/India borders [7/4/17]
• China says part of Bhutan was Qing territory [6/30/17]
• Jon Schlesinger discussion of A World Trimmed with Fur [5/26/17]
• "Splendid Accessories of Nomadic Peoples: Mongolian, Muslim and Tibetan Artifacts of the Qing Dynasty from the Museum Collection, National Palace Museum, Taipei, March 3 - August 20, 2017 [4/7/17]
• Jiani He, "Late Qing Multilingualism and National Linguistic Practice in the Qing Borderlands" (February 2017), History Compass (open abstract, firewall text)
• Schorkowitz and Ning, eds., Managing Frontiers in Qing China: The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited (2016)
• Elliot Sperling's talk series on Tibetan history
• Elliott Sperling's talk on Tibetan armies of the Qing period
• Kwangmin Kim's Borderland Capitalism
• Qing and the Environment, NYT interview with Jon Schlesinger
• Schlesinger book summary from chinadialogue
• genetic trail of Aisin Gioro migration --closer to Mongol and Da'ur than to Tungusic groups
Xinjiang, Dzunghars, Hui
• Jianfei Jia, "Horse Theft, Law and Punishment in Xinjiang during the Qianlong Reign" [4/11/17]
• "Splendid Accessories of Nomadic Peoples: Mongolian, Muslim and Tibetan Artifacts of the Qing Dynasty from the Museum Collection, National Palace Museum, Taipei, March 3 - August 20, 2017 [4/7/17]
• Jiani He, "Late Qing Multilingualism and National Linguistic Practice in the Qing Borderlands" (February 2017),
Taiwan
• nice short feature on famous female pirate 鄭氏, d. 1844.
• video Katherine Alexander: Mothers, Maidens, and Ghosts: Afterlives of Qing Chastity Paragons on the Taiwan Frontier
foreign relations and trade
• Rudolf Wagner's "Dividing up the [Chinese[ Melon: The Fate of a Transcultural Metaphor in the Formation of a National Myth" in Transcultural Studies 2017:1:9-122 [direct download] [10/14/17]
• Seonmin Kim, Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 (University of California Press, 2017) [9/19/17]
• Nehru in 1959 rejected Convention of 1890 on Qing/Sikkim/Tibet/India borders [7/4/17]
• Full download of Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World (vol. 14, 2016) [7/3/17]
• Khabarovsk Museum artifacts (including Russian text of Treaty of Aigun) [7/2/17]
• looted Joseon gold seals returned to Moon Jae-in by USA [7/2/17]
• China says part of Bhutan was Qing territory [6/30/17]
• Huanhuan Yu, "On the Qing Tributary System from the Perspective of Transaction Cost," Theoretical Economics Letters (2016) [6/23/17]
• Clunas, Harrison-Hall and Luk, eds., Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450 (full download) [6/15/17]
• Shiming Zhang, "Painting and Photography in Foreigners' Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law" in latest Frontiers of History in Chinaa [5/6/17]
• Ian Gill's ancestors in late Qing Yantai (Chefoo) [4/11/17]
• early-modern automata from Europe and Japan that fascinated Hongli
• description of Ni Yuping, Customs duties in the Qing dynasty, ca.1644-1911 (Brill, 2017)
• auction provenance of the Wouthiers/Wautier portrait of Martini
• Michaela Wouthiers portrait in Amsterdam of Martino Martini (as if in Beijing) just sold in Zurich for 480,500 euros.
• R.J. Smith 2007 "Mapping China and the Question of a China-Centered Tributary System" from Asia-Pacific Journal/Japan Focus
• Joshua Van Lieu interview on late Qing-Joseon relations, excellent on the genealogy of the current IR mirage of the unitary "tributary system"
• SCMP on The Silver Way (the travels of Ruta de la Plata)
• Peter Gordon discussing The Silver Way (see recent reading links)
trade, economy and environment
• SCMP: hoard of Qing coins in Hongkong highlights role of coinage in 19th century economic troubles [10/22/17]
• Song to Qing period walls and artifacts discovered near Chongqing [10/14/17]
• David Bellow review of Schlesinger and Kim borderlands books, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, n. 23 [full download] [8/19/17]
• 徐毅 and Bas van Leeuwen, 19世纪中国大众识字率的再估计, 2011 [6/23/17]
• Jon Schlesinger discussion of A World Trimmed with Fur [5/26/17]
• Jichang Lulu's blog on China and the Arctic [4/14/17]
• Wang Yumeng review of 余新忠, 清代卫生防疫机制及其近代演变 (2016)
• Centre for Global Economic History: The Quantitative History of China, ca. 960-1949
• LSE citation of Ronald Po's new book on Qing camphor production
• 邱仲麟 , 張繼瑩 and 陳熙遠 articles on Qing coal, grain in Bulletin of the Institute of Modern (94), Academia Sinica
• SCMP on The Silver Way (the travels of Ruta de la Plata)
• David Bello comment on Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain
• Hešen and Song Shenzong named among richest people of all time
• Jiangsu land use c.1820 reconstructed
• Shijiazhuang 1736-1911 climate reconstruction
• Qing period North China preciptation reconstruction
• Kwangmin Kim's Borderland Capitalism
• Qing and the Environment, NYT interview with Jon Schlesinger
• Schlesinger book summary from chinadialogue
religion, philosophy and literature
• Xinhua coverage of the excavations of the greatest Daoist center of the imperial period, at Yingtan, Jiangxi [1/21/18]
• Peter Bol and Yu Wen interview Wang Hui on the role of intellectuals in China's history [7/14/17]
• Bing Wang, "The Boxue Hongci Examinations, Literary Anthologies by Emperors and Literary Circles during the Kangxi and Qianlong Periods" [4/11/17]
• Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson and Shih-pe Wang, eds., 1616 : Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China, Bloomsbury 2016.
• video Katherine Alexander: Mothers, Maidens, and Ghosts: Afterlives of Qing Chastity Paragons on the Taiwan Frontier
• Ian Johnston translation of 日知錄 and more
• China Using Shakespeare to Promote Tang Xianzu
• Elena Suet-Ying Chiu's study of Bannerman Tales 子弟書
• Wilt Idema, Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
military, technology and arts
• probable memorial structures to Xu Guangqi discovered in Shanghai [1/15/18]
• Kangxi emperor's ink brush reconsructed (Taipei Times] [11/26/17]
• Dai Yingcong, "Qing Military Institutions and their Effects on Government, Economy, and Society, 1640-1800" in Journal of Chinese History July 2017 [full download] [7/18/17]
• Peter Dekker's Manchu archery translations of Manchu texts and more
• newly digitized Getty images of Yuanmingyuan
• Hong Taiji's imperial antler throne on display at Shenyang
historiography
• 田彤: 章开沅与中国早期现代化 [10/28/17]
• Rudolf Wagner's "Dividing up the [Chinese[ Melon: The Fate of a Transcultural Metaphor in the Formation of a National Myth" in Transcultural Studies 2017:1:9-122 [direct download] [10/14/17]
• very interesting 2013 interview with Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光, Fudan University [10/2/17]
• Marilyn Bowman, James Legge and the Chinese Classics [full read] [7/8/17]
• Special issue of Études Chinoises, homage to Pierre-Étienne Wil [full download] [6/21/17]
• 李伯重, 中国学术史上一个时代的结束 --Li Bozhong on the historiography of Ho Ping-ti and the 西南联大 tradition [6/15/17]
general
• new issue of Saksaha [8/3/17]
• Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History 95 [full download] [7/20/17]
• latest Frontiers of History in China
• Ming Qing Yanjiu [4/11/17]
• Jiani He, "Late Qing Multilingualism and National Linguistic Practice in the Qing Borderlands" (February 2017), History Compass (open abstract, firewall text)
• latest edition of Ming Qing Studies 2017 synopses
• Le Minh Khai's blog entry, "The Problem of 'Textual Drift' in Studies on Premodern Vietnamese History --good reading for Ming and Qing specialists
• 明清研究
• Centre for Global Economic History: The Quantitative History of China, ca. 960-1949
• nice short feature on famous female pirate 鄭氏, d. 1844.
• Steven Miles, Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570-1850. HUP.
• magic wells and traditional population control by Dong minority in Guizhou
• alternate and unusual porcelain reign marks, c1800 to 1916
• evidently some student would pay money for this essay on the Qing "dynasty"
• Qing nationality laws as nonsensical as most nationality law today
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