My colleagues at Conservation and Collection Care helped to repaired and put eight fragmented pieces into one almost perfect one: A Chinese Trade Circular by Thomas Barlow & Bro Manchester (its agency in Shanghai was founded in 1882 (Qing) -Barlow & Co. Shanghai 上海泰隆洋行).

Who really financed #Japan’s wartime expansion? In the second installment of his series, Brian Wong uses tools like NDL database to develop our understanding of wartime business and capital networks. #digitalhumanities #history #prewar #ww2 #japanese digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/20/une…

Love the way London is written here: 龍動 (dragon moving). Was it also written like this in China at some point? The phonetics seem to indicate that it was, but I have not seen it. (This is a Japanese translation of John Murray's _Handbook to London as it is_.)

Ayman Abuawwad, from the Near and Middle Eastern Department, has curated a new display in the East Asian Reading Room at the UL. It features the 2025 International Prize for International Prize for Arabic Fiction, including the winning novel Salat al-Qalaq (The Prayer of Anxiety).

The Society's historical membership archive is now searchable in our online catalogue - check out our latest blogpost to find out more about the collection! royalasiaticsociety.org/the-ras-member…

In 2021 the contents of Hawking's Cambridge University office became part of the Science Museum Group Collection.

Manchester is one of the most multicultural cities in the UK, with nearly 200 languages spoken. It’s easy to find elements that reflect our own ethnicity and cultural heritage.

Drawn by René Georges Hermann-Paul in 1899, it remains depressingly relevant

Qingyang Bai, co-founder of Jianqiao Wenyi 劍橋文藝 and currently a PhD student in FAMES, stopped by our office today to share complimentary copies of the inaugural issue. So proud of him and all the FAMES students who turned what once seemed impossible into reality.

Cambridge University Library offers a variety of study spaces for students and library users. This video shows you what to expect in each space. For more information on finding your perfect study space: loom.ly/uKMLcus.

《劍河風》(Jianhe Feng) is a literary magazine founded in 2001 by the local Chinese community. Recently, they published a bilingual edited volume in English and Chinese, featuring selected articles from past issues. Our library holds the inaugural issue and a few other issues.

I always appreciate visits from scholars—not only because they use our collections, but also because they, in turn, help us evaluate materials and share valuable knowledge with us. For instance, I would never have known that Manchu also uses Pinyin-like transliteration systems.

Greetings linguists and language lovers! Check out the Language & Rhythm podcast from MMLL Cambridge. You can hear our Assistant Librarian, Ahmed Elmi, reading from the famed poet, al-Ma'arri, 30 seconds into Episode 2! shows.acast.com/language-and-r… via Acast

Last minute reminder for tomorrow's conference on #AI and the #DigitalHumanites in Asian, African, and Oceanic Studies. From 09.30am CEST on May 31. Schedule and sign up here: digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/16/ai-…

📚 Take a peek at a rare 1891 edition of Water Margin (水浒传)! This treasured volume is part of our library’s Mu Collection of rare books, over a century old. #uoft #rarebooks #uoftlibrary #chinesestudies #水浒传 🌐 Explore these historic works online: archive.org/details/ealmuc…

Unbelievable and unforgettable! Congratulations, Carlos!

some special moments with some special people ✨

Prof. Joachim Gentz is giving a talk on oracle bones at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University.