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Kevin Pham @kdpham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Critical Exchange between Nazmul Sultan and I where we review each other’s books (his on Indian anticolonialism and mine on Vietnamese anticolonialism) and respond to each other is now published in Perspectives on Politics! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. By Nazmul Sultan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024. 312p. | Perspectives on Politics | Cambr...

Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. By Nazmul Sultan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024. 312p. - Volume 24 Issue 3

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Dever cívico cumprido, pela primeira vez em Tóquio. Boa sorte, Brasil. 🇧🇷

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Massive new open access edited volume (1300p.!) just dropped featuring 10 state-of-the field pieces and 34 translations of Chinese-language scholarship spearheaded by Marc Matten and colleagues Erlangen-Nürnberg www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Orion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How many degrees of separation are there between Van Damme and Prince Shōtoku? My new article open access article explores how the ancient Japanese prince became a ninja ancestor, in a story spanning figures from prewar mind-cure movements and bubble-era tokusatsu actors. doi.org/10.1080/1869...

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/2 Tomorrow, 10 Sept, 17:00-18:30, @egasmb.bsky.social (Tohoku) will give a talk for us at PoETS @utokyoofficial.bsky.social on "Making sense of world politics through constitutions in nineteenth-century China" - abstract below. If you would like to join us in person or online, you are welcome!

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Among my favourite Japan-made kanji is 辷 (⿺辶一) for sube(ru), 'to glide, slide' (more commonly written as 滑る): A sliding stroke 一 over a 辶 representing motion, very evocative 🤩

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Highly unlikely. He probably didn't even speak English and he wasn't writing for English readers (and even if, English "pecking" is probably closer to the intended pronunciation than the usual English pronunciation of Peking as piː-king)

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

*Correction: It's 4 strokes in HK too. It's 3 strokes only in Taiwan!

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This is from a year earlier, 1654 (De bello Tartarico historia). It's interesting how he consistently capitalizes the K in PeKing, unlike for other toponyms like Leaotung (Liaodong)

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is among the first usages of the transcription 'Peking' for the Chinese capital, from Martino Martini and Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis (1655). 'Peking' is quite an accurate representation of the pronunciation in the era's prestige Nanjing Mandarin . 1/

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So the component 𠫓 was an inverted 子 (child) originally and written with a continuous stroke. Both the 3- and the 4- stroke varieties are attested in regular script, but the 4-stroke one was much more common, until TW decided to go back to the roots and make the 3-stroke one official in the 80s.

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I a lot of Mandarin varieties, you can say 1. jīnrge 今兒個 (today), 2. míngrge 明兒個 (tomorrow), 3. zuórge 昨兒個 (yesterday) (etc.), and I think that's beautiful😍

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Japan's highest mountain 富士山 is known as Fuji-san in Japanese, but historically/poetically, Fuji-no-yama was also common, as in Kobayashi Issa's (1763-1828) emblematic poem: "Snail / bit by bit ascend! / Mount Fuji" (transl. Kern). 🐌🗻

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There are always fun little details in Chinese characters. Many will be surprised that the top part of 育 (充, 流) is written with 3 strokes (𠫓) in Taiwan and HK, but 4 strokes everywhere else - such divergences have long histories of course 😀

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Fascinated by this photo of a late Daqing bycicle shop in Peking (1900-1912) 🤩

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The numeral "1" is usually written with the simplest possible Chinese character: 一. But in Warring States texts, there were some more super complex characters for 1, namely ⿱羽能 and 𫜢（⿰鼠一）. Why? Read Wolfgang Behr's mindblowing article 🤯 www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?

Der Artikel Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity? wurde am 1. Mai 2026 in der Zeitschrift Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques (Band 80, Heft 1) veröffentlicht.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 11/06/2025

OTOH Wolfgang Behr has a cool article on his Academia.edu page about mentions of translation in ancient texts, “‘To Translate’ is ‘To Exchange’ 譯者言易也 — Linguistic Diversity and the Terms for Translation in Ancient China,” that might be more helpful as a source of inspiration or point of comparison.

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Arabic script used to write 4 different language (sub)families: 1) Sinitic (Xiao'erjing for Mandarin Chinese); 2) Mongolic (Mogholi - Afghanistan); 3) Austronesian (Cham - Vietnam); 4. Tibetic (Balti - Pakistan)

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Up to the early 20th century, Spain was often yclept GREAT LUZON in Sinitic languages: Tōa-lū-sòng / Daai6leoi5sung3 大呂宋. A case of the colonial power being called after the colony, not the other way round😁

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A big part of why 星期 spread in the 20th century as the official term was probably to mask the religious origins of 禮拜.

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It‘s first attested in the first half of the 17th century in a Spanish-Chinese dictionary compiled by Dominkcan missionaries and Hokkien collaborators in the Philippines. 禮拜 is the day of worship, and that structures the 7-day cycle. /

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Bì 弼 is quite a cute character, innit? The word means 'to assist' - Chinese history aficionados might now it because it appeared in the name of the Privy Council instated at the very end of the Daqing Empire, the 'Court for Assisting with Virtue' (Bideyuan 弼德院) /

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In the earlier meaning as Qixi, 期 was ‘to meet,’ referring to the time when Zhinü 織女 and Niulang 牛郎 (both stars 星）met.

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The term xingqi 星期 ('star period') has been used to mean '7-day week' in Chinese since the 1890s. Before that, it was used as a poetical term for the Qixi 七夕 festival (plus, it also came to mean 'wedding day'). The locus classicus is Wang Bo's 王勃 (650-676) Qixi fu 七夕賦:

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‘Last, not least’ used to be more common than ‘last, but not least’ in German - going back to Shakespeare’s King Lear. Since the 1970s, the but-less form has declined: I guess read ppl less Shakespeare and more contemporary English…

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Thank you! Yes, will say hi to them! And hope you drop by Sendai again soon!

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I'm excited to share that I have started a new position as Associate Professor at Tohoku University.

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They are historical, but I think most are close enough in shape that they would be recognisable in context. 繖 has limited contemporary use as a plant name, and 人 over 十 is still used as a shorthand in Japan

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

傘 ('umbrella, parasol') is a fun pictograph. Among the many variants, there are some 'boring' phono-semantic compounds (繖、𢄻、𧝠), and a whole slew of funky ways to write the pictograph 😄

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Cartoon about the Russian Constitution of 1906: "When a crab sheds his shell (Absolutism) he retires into hiding ... as soon as he has grown a new one he returns."

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A new gem in our collection: a remarkable 1571 copy of Plantin’s Humanae salutis monumenta. Because text, borders and plates were printed separately, no two copies are alike. This one is beautifully bound in an exceptional French fanfare binding. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Shot of the early modern open book on a grey book pillow on a wooden table. Inside you see printed text on the verso page and an engraving within an engraved border on the facing recto page

Engraved title page of the book. Designer/Engraver: The title page bears the monogram of Pieter Huys (active 1550–1581), a noted Flemish designer and engraver.
Imagery: The design is highly architectural, featuring large, elaborate columns framing the text. In the background, it depicts a Renaissance palazzo or building, which serves as a metaphor for the book’s title, Monuments evoking human salvation.
Symbolism: The engraving shows people walking in a foreground square, suggesting the reader is on a balcony or podium overlooking the scene, inviting them to enter the "architectural" structure of the book's theological meditations.
Text: At the head of the title is the inscription: "Regi seculor immortali s.".

Early modern book in an elaborate French fanfare binding, featuring dark leather boards decorated with intricate gilt tooling, interlacing strapwork, floral ornaments, and small gold dots.

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Cartoon about the Russian Constitution of 1906: "When a crab sheds his shell (Absolutism) he retires into hiding ... as soon as he has grown a new one he returns."

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'Turkey today: A barely breathing sick man country'. Chinese reproduction of a Western cartoon on the Ottoman Empire, 1920. From Rudolf Wagner's essay on 'China "asleep" and "awakening" '

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The most common Chinese term for Chinatown is ‘Tang people street,’ 唐人街 hong3ngin3gai4/tong4jan4gaai1, but there is another interesting term: 華埠 va3feu5/waa4fau6 (‘Chinese city’), which can still be seen in various places.

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I love the Chinese translation of ‘government’ in Victoria China Town’s ‘Government Street’: 加富門 Gaa1fu3mun4/Ga1fu1mon3, WEALTH INCREASING GATE (or maybe even CANADA WEALTH PORTE?). The phono-semantic match also has a lovely Yue/Canto flavour to it 😁😁

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Yeay, excited that my chapter on the afterlives of the Greek War of Independence in Asia has been published 🤩

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Delighted that the third volume of our trilogy with Ivan Sablin exploring the origins of modern forms of government has seen the light of the world: From Empire to Federation in Eurasia Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management. Editing this trilogy was great fun! 😁

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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Just discovered the newly launched ANTE website on global legal history--looking forward to learning lots here!

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Lin, Chia-Wei @chiaweilin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The terrible colleague at UNIL using my name has published a new paper again.👀 I don’t particularly enjoy reading it, nor do I think that it will interest anyone. All errors are solely her responsibility, not mine. www.academia.edu/164750402/Th... glorisunglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/u...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 18/02/2026

📖 New book chapter "A kingdom 'one and indivisible'. A (non-)history of political decentralization in Thailand" by DIJ's David M. Malitz www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... In: From Empire to Federation in Eurasia @routledgebooks.bsky.social, eds. Ivan Sablin & @egasmb.bsky.social

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Barhebraeus in the 13th century on Uyghur script being adapted for Mongolian:

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When the Daqing Empire fell 114 years and 1 day ago, the Emperor's abdication edict was carried through the streets of Beijing in a sedan chair, informing the population of the end of the dynasty

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