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Marc Gilbert

@marcgilbert.bsky.social

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Curator and subject librarian, Leiden university libraries, Chinese collections

Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Interested in the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC) Engagement Award for Bachelor’s and Master’s students at Leiden University, or in updates on LCQC archival materials? Please click here edu.nl/3vbfj and here edu.nl/7d4yb.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (edu.nl/xbncw), the National Museum of Taiwan Literature donated 30 titles of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ literature: edu.nl/ntphq. To donate and support our project, please click here: edu.nl/fjg3u.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Dr. González Linaje, researcher with the ChEDiL project (edu.nl/j3xu4), contributed a post to our Special Collections blog, highlighting two 17th-century Chinese-Portuguese handwritten dictionaries: edu.nl/qqxd3. See Leiden University Libraries' Digital collections : edu.nl/8wway and edu.nl/7vx6k.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

With the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection event taking place next week (July 24–25), we are pleased to share that the physical archives received so far have been fully organized and described. Inventories are available online: edu.nl/93uk3. Donate here to support us : edu.nl/74kg7.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

To celebrate the formal launch of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, promote Chinese queer studies scholarship, and raise the visibility of Chinese queer history and culture, a workshop is held on 24-25 July 2025, at Leiden University Libraries. Program and registration: edu.nl/7nq67

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, to collect, preserve, and make accessible primary source material and scholarship on the Chinese queer experience, and to facilitate collaboration between academics, activists, and archivists. See edu.nl/qyewc for details.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship with effect from 2025, to support research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries. Details and application form available here: edu.nl/putg4 Deadline for submitting research proposals: 1 April 2025.

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

María Teresa González Linaje is an independent researcher and invited contributor to the Chinese European Dictionaries project (Lexicographical Manuscripts for the Historical Study of Exchanges between China and Europe). Read about her findings at Leiden University Libraries: edu.nl/kg9pv

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Should you like gastronomy, travels, unsolved cases, literature, and be in Utrecht or Rotterdam this weekend, come meet Taiwanese author Chang Kuo-Li: edu.nl/jfxtf

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

International workshop convened by the Chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University and IIAS, Prof. Tze-lan Sang, on December 3, 2024 (program: edu.nl/pbhhh). There will be a screening of Hu Tai-li's film 'Returning Souls' (2012) on December 2, followed by a discussion (registration: edu.nl/tmjau).

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Since 2019, Leiden University Libraries digitized 100.000 pages of Chinese unofficial poetry edu.nl/v3jwg. On November 22, at 3:15 PM (CET), a symposium will celebrate this milestone and the genre. Register to attend in person, or join the livestream on the day edu.nl/6q9jd. Details: edu.nl/mmka3.

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