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We are very lucky @VVAK_nl and Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities that @CraigClunas is coming to Leiden, asking whether Great Ming is a dynasty, and lecturing on Freud. Come join us! free and open to all, but please register.

A moving portrait by director Jian Yi on Lu Liang, miner-turned-musician, at #Picun #MigrantWorkersHome, a Chinese NGO working on labor rights through cultural education. In 2002, the NGO established the New Workers’ Arts Troupe. Video now hosted UBLeiden edu.nl/969g3

Freud & China Though Sigmund Freud's passion for collecting antiquities is well-known, his Chinese collection is often overlooked. On 11 Nov @CraigClunas of University of Oxford discusses & contextualises his collection. @ACPA_leiden @VVAK_nl Asian Library Leiden ⬇️universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022…

Spoiler Alert! A selection of 150 new items from UBLeiden collection of Chinese unofficial poetry journals is in the making: individual collections, 今天丛书, 象罔, 剃须刀, 屏风, 橡皮, 新工人文学, 野草诗选 and many other gems soon available in #DigitalCollections #leidenunpo

This unique copy of the Yuan dynasty play: 'Record of the Celestial Book', a Warring States era story of betrayal and revenge, is held in the Asian Library Leiden Van Gulik Collection. Prof. Wilt Idema wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the volume: ➡️edu.nl/vbnbp

The Shengjing weichang quantu 盛京圍場全圖, or the “Complete illustrations of the Shengjing hunting grounds” 📌 A post from Colligere in English, the blog of the libraries and archives of Collège de France. 👉 archibibscdf.hypotheses.org/13375

From the De Grijs collection, UBLeiden , names of delegates at the Dutch-Chinese Treaty of Tianjin (1863), BPL 1782:24F (1-8). Koos Kuiper tells the story of the negotiations in Voyage of Discovery edu.nl/cfjvu

The 33 #Naxi manuscripts in Asian Library Leiden have been described thanks to the hard work of the Beijing Association of Dongba Culture and Arts (ADCA). They are available in our digital collection: edu.nl/cnag9

The final pages of this beautiful manuscript hold an account of an extraordinary journey: Magellan's first voyage around the globe. Last week, VLF 41 was granted #WorldHeritage status with an inscription in UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #MemoryOfTheWorld register. Learn more: ➡️edu.nl/3m4pk

De familie van diplomaat, sinoloog en schrijver Robert van Gulik heeft zijn archief en een deel van zijn collectie aan de Universiteit Leiden Asian Library Leiden geschonken en het Robert van Gulik Fonds ingesteld Leids Universiteits Fonds. Dank voor deze fantastische schenking! ➡️edu.nl/tnfm4

Sweet: in 2021 we worked with students on a translation and blog of a Ming edict addressed to Zhao Fan and acquired by Marc Gilbert Asian Library Leiden - we just received a picture from Zhangpu where Zhao Fan's tomb stele was dug up in 2019 leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/an-ed…

More than 30.000 pages of additional Chinese unofficial poetry has now been made available in the UBLeiden Universiteit Leiden #DigitalCollections! Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: ➡️edu.nl/ar9ya

More on #Naxi culture with exhibition co-organised with Beijing Association of Dongba Culture and Arts edu.nl/mcf6a, 2 documentaries: The Return of Dongba Manuscripts edu.nl/d3ahu, Traditional Naxi Papermaking and the Culture it... edu.nl/ev4hw.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday by Nikky Lin from the National Museum of #Taiwan Literature and Marco de Niet from UBLeiden. In the future, we plan to cooperate and exchange knowledge with regards to literature in the Netherlands and Taiwan.

This two-volume 'Miao album' depicts non-Han ethnic groups living in the Chinese Yunnan Province. The drawings reveal how officials viewed ethnic minorities in the Qing Empire. Qinxin He Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the albums: ➡️edu.nl/hjvtu