Volker Scheid Max Planck Institute for the History of Science "Healing the World with Words: Fang Yizhi’s 方以智 (1611-1671) Pharmacologics and the Dawn of Science in 17th Century China" #MaKanwenMemorialLecture 4 p.m. Friday 2nd June, 2023 Hybrid event Needham Research Institute Zoom: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The FSN Library owns a copy of “Falü yixue” (Principles of Forensic Medicine) translated and published in the late Qing, which includes medical knowledge on toxicants, mental states, and causes of death. To read it online, see: reurl.cc/NqqpVQ

From the University Of Westminster Archive China Visual Arts Project Study hard and prepare to devote your efforts to socialist modernisation (1980) westminster-atom.arkivum.net/cpc-1-b-1

Book #22 The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf - ETC Werner’s Myths & Legends of China - here’s a rare 1922 1st edition - but fear not, it’s on Gutenberg & Internet archive - get your Gods, spirits, & lohans straight…. thechinaproject.com/2023/06/08/an-…

People's square, #Shanghai, 1980s.

🔍 Discover the captivating world of #ancient #Chinese🇨🇳 #tombs and their hidden treasures with Dame Jessica Rawson from University of Oxford!🏯✨ 📽️ We've now uploaded highlights of Dame Rawson's talk John Rylands Research Institute and Library on #MCI's #YouTube channel.🎞️ 👀 Watch here: bit.ly/jessica_rawson…

New #AsiaNow post: editor Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 马丽娜 interviews historian Ghassan Moazzin about his 2022 Cambridge University Press book, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China. asianstudies.org/historian-ghas…

Conference on Chinese art and literature in the Republican era: an event in honour of Paul Bevan Paul Bevan Oxford Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies - 14 June, 09:30-17:30. More details here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/de2c4…

Minghui Li (Institute of Modern Chinese History, Central China Normal University) "A Woman Doctor’s Story: The Medical and Missionary Work of Hilda Byles in China, 1907-1931" Fri. 16th June 3.30pm Needham Research Institute #NRIFridaySeminar

We are recruiting a Senior Library Assistant (Fixed Term, 3-years) at Chinese Section (Department of World Collections, Research Collections Directorate) at Cambridge University Library. Please help to spread the word or consider to apply by 20 August. lib.cam.ac.uk/job/senior-lib…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Vaughan Rapatahana reviews two Hong Kong books published in the first half of 2023: ❀ 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 ❀ 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒 chajournal.blog/2023/07/18/mak… ▞▞▞▞▞▞▞▞▞

We have a series of EXCELLENT book reviews on Modern China in Journal of Asian Studies 82.4! You can read all of these reviews in full (and more) here! read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asi…

Three books in one review! - “Dinner for Six” by Lu Min, tr Nicky Harman and me - “The Book of Goose” by Yiyun Li - “A Lover’s Discourse” by Xiaolu Guo … Thanks to reviewer Anjum Hasan in the Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/eating… 

Edited by our very own PhD candidate, Shi Bingbing 🔥🔥🔥

Just out: July 2023 issue of the Cambridge Chinese Studies Newsletter, with tributes to the late Dr Joseph ('Joe') P. McDermott intranet.ames.cam.ac.uk/public/files/C…

We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Classical Chinese and Middle-Period China, starting Sep. 1 2024, deadline for apps Dec. 8. Please RT! Full details here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41685/ Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge FAMES_Cambridge Cambridge University BACS 英国汉学协会 Association for Asian Studies