Curator of Chinese Special Collections, Leiden University Libraries
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11 Sep 2024
An unpublished article written in 1941 by #RobertvanGulik to be read this week in T’oung-pao (Volume 110: Issue 3-4, DOI: edu.nl/ubq7n): The Life and Works of the Monk Donggao, a Chinese Chan Master in Japan.
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11 Sep 2024
More documents collected and produced by RvG about Donggao 東皋 are available @UniLeiden @AsianLibraryNL in the archive donated by the family.
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1 Jul 2024
As this year marks 400th anniversary of the historical connection between #Taiwan and the Netherlands. @UBLeiden digitized a letter to a Dutch admiral, written in 1664 by Zheng Jing 鄭經 , the son of Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功, aka. Koxinga: edu.nl/v8mpm
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1 Jul 2024
On the first section is a large red seal: “ Field Marshal of the Punitive Expedition” (招討大將軍印), the title conferred on Coxinga in 1646 by the Southern Ming.
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1 Jul 2024
This letter is currently exhibited at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan (with which Leiden University Libraries signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2023): Layers of Literature, City of Stories: Traversing 400 years of Literary History edu.nl/3bjdf
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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 @leidenhum wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the albums:
➡️edu.nl/hjvtu
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday by Nikky Lin from the National Museum of #Taiwan Literature and @marcodeniet from @UBLeiden.
In the future, we plan to cooperate and exchange knowledge with regards to literature in the Netherlands and Taiwan.
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More than 30.000 pages of additional Chinese unofficial poetry has now been made available in the @ubleiden @UniLeiden #DigitalCollections!
Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more:
➡️edu.nl/ar9ya
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13 Jun 2023
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.
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Marc Gilbert retweeted
13 Jun 2023
Sweet: in 2021 we worked with students on a translation and blog of a Ming edict addressed to Zhao Fan and acquired by @M__Gilbert @AsianLibraryNL - we just received a picture from Zhangpu where Zhao Fan's tomb stele was dug up in 2019
leidenspecialcollectionsblog…
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De familie van diplomaat, sinoloog en schrijver Robert van Gulik heeft zijn archief en een deel van zijn collectie aan de @UniLeiden @AsianLibraryNL geschonken en het Robert van Gulik Fonds ingesteld @LUF_Leiden.
Dank voor deze fantastische schenking!
➡️edu.nl/tnfm4
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2 May 2023
The 33 #Naxi manuscripts in @AsianLibraryNL 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
This picture-writing system was used by several tribes in China's Yunnan province in the 19th century, later named Naxi people.
Duncan Poupard @CUHKofficial wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about some remarkable #Naxi manuscripts in @AsianLibraryNL:
➡️edu.nl/nrkx7
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8 Apr 2023
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 business cards(ming tie名帖 or ming ci名刺) of Qing officials and gentry. Apparently Prince Gong 恭亲王 deserves the largest (16 x 29 cm)!The 2nd is that of high official Wenxiang 文祥(24.7X12cm).
The cards of 恭亲王and天津知县黄仲畬 are handwritten, the others are printed.
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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 @AsianLibraryNL Van Gulik Collection.
Prof. Wilt Idema wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the volume: ➡️edu.nl/vbnbp
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12 Jan 2023
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
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Marc Gilbert retweeted
8 Nov 2022
Freud & China
Though Sigmund Freud's passion for collecting antiquities is well-known, his Chinese collection is often overlooked. On 11 Nov @CraigClunas of @UniofOxford discusses & contextualises his collection.
@ACPA_leiden @VVAK_nl @AsianLibraryNL
⬇️universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
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10 Oct 2022
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
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Marc Gilbert retweeted
10 Oct 2022
We are very lucky @VVAK_nl and @LeidenHum 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.
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