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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My new article, "Prayer Hall Under the Imperial Gaze: The Qianlong Emperor (1711–99) and the Huiziying Mosque", in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. It discusses arguably the only mosque in Chinese history commissioned directly by an emperor. Download link:

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Cover of my forthcoming book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝑆𝑜𝑔𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Look forward to giving a talk on the Bamiyan Buddha and the Silk Road this Saturday in front of Tuan Andrew Nguyen's remarkable installation inspired by it at the High Line: www.thehighline.org/events/the-l...

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Page proofs of my forthcoming book on Sogdian immigrants in China:

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Schedule with presentation titles:

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Schedule and Registration Link (in the reply) for the Upcoming Conference on Chinese Painting at Columbia University in April.

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Upcoming conference on Chinese painting at Columbia in April

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Ars Orientalis is open access and welcomes individual submissions. It’s one of the leading journals for publishing research on Asian art. Please spread the word and consider submitting your work!

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Journey to the West Research @jttwresearch.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This PDF of Les Sogdiens en Chine (2005) might be useful to someone. journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/u...

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#photography 'Bringing home the goats" August 1981 Emin Minaret, Uyghur mosque, Turfan, #Xinjiang. © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅. Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.

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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Reading the beginning of this transcript, I realized that @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social at Peking U in 1984 must have met a bunch of students who were friends and acquaintances of mine. I never crossed paths with him however. My Beida days stretched from 1979 to 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoD...

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Peking University March-April 1983 北大 1983年 3-4月

YouTube video by The G. B. Lee Archive

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Ya Zuo 左娅 @zuoya.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is a must read for anyone interested in the study of North China.

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Jaymin Kim 金載民 @manjurambi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten) 1. the foot of a mountain (山根) "juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)" 2. the hem of a garment (衣邊) 3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten abkai buten: the horizon (天涯) #Manchu #language #滿文

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935

Cover of the current issue of Journal of Chinese Religions

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's mind-boggling to stand in front of this monumental calligraphy piece in the grand entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum, created this year by Taipei-based artist Tong Yang-Tze, at her age of 82.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sinology 🀄 time! OK, just for a change of pace, a thread about Northern Wei funerary gifts. I remember reading the biography of Xianbei elder statesman Qiumuling Liang 丘穆陵亮 and being struck by a list of imperial gifts to him at the time of his funeral in 502. (1/15)

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Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I hope my new article does justice to Dunhuang Cave 257, where narrative paintings, I argue, subvert traditional power dynamic between male viewers & female subjects. Here, male characters—young monk, beautiful stag, Buddha—are subject to the intense gaze of a female audience. Virtual tour link↓

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Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bluesky folks, sharing our website on primary sources on Taiwanese history. Consider including a few of these in your spring classes on colonialism, education, medicine, indigenous histories, and East Asian histories. taiwanprimarysources.com

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Primary Sources on Taiwan

Visit the post for more.

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Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

A horizontally-aligned panel consisting of four images of works of Islamic art: a page of black calligraphy on a peach-colored ground, a red and gold textile with a pattern of wavy vines and leaves, a manuscript painting featuring birds in a blue, green, and gold landscape with a gold sky, and a manuscript page with a central radiating medallion painted in intricate geometric and floral patterns in blue, gold, and red. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art

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YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc... Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

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Learn about The Chinese Historical Review

Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Scholars in this area can reply if interested in joining this list of "Late Imperial China," which will enable their accounts to show posts of all scholars on the list and is related the "Late Imperial China" Feed/Cluster. Nonspecialists can add this feed to their accounts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just out: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global #Medieval. This is a forum with 6 essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global medieval, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Tian Xiaofei. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2...

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