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A collection of the scribal feature to write the name of the devil/shaytan/diyablos upside down! We find this also in the Ethiopic and Eritrean tradition!

This is an excellent opportunity. Hope many of you apply! Teaching Associate in Modern Chinese History (Temporary Cover) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50752/

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DREAMSEA enters its 2nd phase! On 11 April, we share insights from 7 years of preserving Southeast Asia's rich manuscript heritage, with over 8,000 digitised works. What lessons have been learned and what are the avenues for future research? uhh.de/csmc-dreamsea

The Müteferrika Press Arabic Typography in an Ottoman Context By Orlin Sabev The story and activity of the first press in the Ottoman Empire (active 1726-47). Inc. images of opening and colophon pages of all 17 publications. De Gruyter (May 29, 2025) degruyter.com/document/isbn/…

My conversation with Alla Sizova about her research on Tibetan and Mongolian manuscripts from Kharakhoto and elsewhere. youtu.be/PulBkAB9O4U

Snake from a set of Zodiac Figures, earthenware with white slip and traces of pigment, originating from #China, dating to AD 618–907, currently in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

なぜ仏教は戦争に協力したのか？なぜ仏教は軍部の暴走を止められなかったのか？仏教の負の側面を直視することは現代において特に必要です。 鵜飼秀徳『仏教の大東亜戦争』（文春新書）をご一読ください。

Bei Shan Tang Theses Grant for Final-Year PhD Students in the Field of Chinese Art and Archaeology: mailchi.mp/beishantang.or…

31 girls and boys from Hamburg joined us today to see what it’s like to do research on written artefacts from the perspectives of Assyriology, Musicology, Computer Science, and the Natural Sciences. A big thanks to everyone who participated! #girlsday2025 #boysday2025

How did so many objects from Indonesia end up in the collections of museums in Lower Saxony? Roberta Zollo, alumna of our Grad School, is part of a team trying to find the answer. ‘We need to revise our understanding of German colonial history,’ she says uhh.de/csmc-zollo

Çin seddinin hemen yanında, 14. yüzyılın ortalarında yazılmış çok dilli, Yuan dönemine ait bir yazıt: Sanskritçe , Tibetçe , Çince , Tangutça, Moğolca (phagspa yazısı ile) ve Uygurca ; juyungguan.

Ratnasambhava, 12th/early 13th century, Tangut (Xixia) kingdom, Newark Museum of Art

Copied a couple of lines of Tibetan from a Dunhuang manuscript into ChatGPT, but it tells me it is a mathematical notation. It even tries to explain why the Tibetan text is not Tibetan.

Hybrid talk tomorrow: Zhenzhen Lu on the multiple layers in the manuscripts of Pu Songling, his insertions, deletions, the presence of other hands, and the unbindings and rebindings of the 20th century that have puzzled scholars to this day. All welcome! uhh.de/csmc-lu

Proofs 📝!

The ink bleeding through the paper creates this effect, which is hard on the eye but fascinating visually. (10th century booklet from Dunhuang, S.5432, The British Library).

Just one more week until this exciting event on contemporary #Arabic and #Persian #GraphicDesign we're having together with Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg! The workshops are almost booked out but registration for the conference is still open uhh.de/csmc-shifting-… You can also participate online!

Graffiti on a poster at the Hefang area in Hangzhou.

A blue bird with an attitude near the West Lake, Hangzhou