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Charles Randles

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Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.

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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 19h
New open access book on Buddhist architecture, iconography, and ritual in maritime Southeast Asia from the 8th to the 14th centuries. brill.com/display/titl...
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From the Periphery to the Centre
"From the Periphery to the Centre" published on 01 Sep 2026 by Brill.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/10/2026
Yay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!
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Translator Anton Hur Wins New Park Kyung-ni Prize Special Award
Translator Anton Hur is the first winner of the Woori Eum Award, a one-time Park Kyung-ni Prize special award with 10 million won.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy to *finally* be able to say that I've AT LONG LAST totally revamped, updated, and "modernized" the trusty ol' Wordpress site... I'm sure you'll agree that it desperately needed it & hope you think it looks as good now as I do! thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com
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The History of China
The Official Site of The History of China Podcast
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake" is a new #OpenAccess volume of essays containing lots of good stuff on this culturally significant Chinese spot #Hangzhou #WestLake #西湖 @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social brill.com/edcollbook-o...
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Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake
"Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake" published on 23 Jun 2026 by Brill.
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Early Medieval China Group @earlymedievalchina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new book #newbook on early medieval China: Ruan Ji, Ji Kang: Écrits sur la musique de la Chine médiévale. Textes introduits, traduits et annotés par Julie Gary-Bonte. Les belles lettres, 2026. www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/978225... #music #chinesehistory #china #medieval #earlymedieval
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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just saw that this book on the Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s has been published fully open access, with contributions from many top scholars in the field. I look forward to reading! brill.com/display/titl...
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The Aftermath of the Imjin War in Early Modern East Asia
"The Aftermath of the Imjin War in Early Modern East Asia" published on 29 Sep 2026 by Brill.
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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For #NationalYearOfReading2026 we are giving away free eBooks of our Little Histories each month. This month it's John Carey's A Little History of Poetry. Get your free eBook: yalebooks.co.uk/landing-page... #GoAllIn #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading @readingagency.bsky.social
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Une somme appelée à faire référence sur l’histoire de la Chine impériale. À paraître en octobre chez CNRS Éditions.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@yalepress.bsky.social Have you announced September’s title? I think I missed it.
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BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France @labnf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Les conférences Léopold Delisle, organisées avec le soutien du bibliophile et collectionneur Henri Schiller, offrent à un public de curieux et d’amateurs éclairés des synthèses inédites et érudites autour de l’univers du livre. Rdv les 1 et 2 octobre www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/le...
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A two-venue exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the traditional painter Bada Shanren (1626-1705) has found unanticipated resonance with young audiences in China. buff.ly/HFvqsHR
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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New from Jonathan Karam Skaff whose previous Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors threw a new light on things ... about entanglements, cultural and political, and getting into the nitty-gritty of case study. This look grounded, too, in material history press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Silk Roads, Steppe Roads
An innovative study of medieval Chinese tombs that provides new insights into the history of Eurasian cultural contact and exchange
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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Book> Vincent Goossaert, Des dieux qui parlent: Subjectivités invisibles en Chine (Vues de l’esprit, 2026) www.vuesdelesprit.org/publication/...
Light orange cover of the book with the title and author
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bhagavadajjuka - La Courtisane chauve Deuxième volume de la nouvelle Bibliothèque indienne des Belles Lettres À paraître en novembre
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shen Gua - Conversations avec mon pinceau au ruisseau des rêves 沈括 夢溪筆談 Textes introduits, traduits et annotés par Christian Lamouroux et Pierre-Étienne Will À paraître en novembre aux Belles Lettres
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fan Chuo - Le Livre des barbares 樊綽《蠻書》 Texte introduit, traduit et annoté par Alexis Lycas À paraître en novembre aux Belles Lettres
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book alert: A Space of the Mind: The Literati Studio in Song Dynasty Literary Culture by Yunzhuang Zhang. Description in the alt text. Cornell University Press cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The cover of A Space of the Mind. The cover has a green border on the right hand side. The background is a traditional painting in color and ink with two white bands going horizontally across. The first white band has the title of the book. The second white band, underneath the first, carries the subtitle and the author’s name. 
The publisher’s description of the book. “A Space of the Mind offers a guided tour through the history of the literati studio in Song dynasty China.
More than just a space for reading, writing, and art, the studio became the central locus for literary production and a core part of literati identity. Yunshuang Zhang shows how the studio emerged as a haven for self-cultivation and scholarly pursuits, allowing Song literati to develop and affirm their status as members of the cultural and intellectual elite.
An exclusive and deeply personal space, the studio was both a physical site and a mental environment for literati to inhabit and fashion themselves as exemplars of moral refinement and elegance. While private, the studio could also be opened up for select social interactions and could provide the studio owner with a sobriquet—a widely circulated name by which both the studio and its owner came to be known. In this way, the studio became not only a space in the mind, but also a space of the mind, such that the studio and the self were intertwined.”
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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
front and back cover of a forthcoming (November 2026) translation of Fan Chuo's 樊綽 Manshu 蠻書 (Book of the [Southern] Barbarians), to be published with @lesbelleslettres.bsky.social
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
La table des matières
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
François-Xavier Fauvelle et Jean-Loïc Le Quellec (eds.) - The Oxford History of the Sahara Volume I: From Prehistory to 650 CE À paraître en mai
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exhibition at Princeton University Library — with online content too! The Art of Japanese Publishing A Selection of Japanese Illustrated Books from the Marquand Library Collection, 1660-1960 dpul.princeton.edu/japanese2026
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New book coming from Reaktion in July 2027 The Shoguns at War: The Rise and Fall of the Ashikaga Dynasty reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-sho...
Book cover with a black upper section and a Japanese woodblock battle scene below. The title, “The Shoguns at War,” appears in large white capital letters, centered in three lines in the upper black section. Beneath it, the subtitle, “The Rise and Fall of the Ashikaga Dynasty,” appears in smaller gold lettering, centered in three lines. The author’s name, “Frederik Cryns,” appears in white capital letters centered below the subtitle. The lower portion shows a detail from Utagawa Yoshitsuru's Ashikaga Takauji at the Battle of Hyōgo.Publisher's description of the book: **A sweeping history of the shoguns who shaped medieval Japan**

For more than two centuries, the Ashikaga shoguns stood at the centre of Japan’s political and cultural life. Founded by the rebel warrior Ashikaga Takauji in 1335, the dynasty oversaw periods of military conflict, political intrigue and extraordinary artistic achievement before its eventual collapse in the age of Oda Nobunaga. *The Shoguns at War* is the first comprehensive account in English of all fifteen Ashikaga shoguns, tracing their struggles to gain, wield and retain power in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Frederik Cryns brings to life the personalities, ambitions and rivalries that shaped medieval Japan, while showing how the dynasty fostered enduring cultural achievements. It is a story of power won and lost, and of a cultural legacy that outlasted the rulers who created it.
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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Issue 146:3 of JASPA is out online www.lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...: preface as genre, king Wen the parricide, insolvent debtors in Babylonia, infanticide ca. 600, Sanskrit grammar on 'and', oral sex in Sanskrit erotics, Hebrew & Egyptian soldiers as lions, & diverse accounts of Shimr
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Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
SSJR will be hosting a virtual book talk with @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social later this month. Open to the public, so please come join us! Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
Poster for Dr. Bryan Lowe's talk for the Society for the Study of Japanese Religions, entitled "How to Know How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650-850."
Abstract: In my new book, I argue that between 650 and 850 CE, Japan changed from a land largely without Buddhism to a country where Buddhist ideas, images, and practices were everywhere in what was arguably the most dramatic religious transformation in the country’s history. In this talk, I turn to sources and methods to introduce how we can know that this transformation took place. I introduce archaeological and manuscript evidence that have received virtually no attention in English that, in my view, allow for a radically new understanding of early Japanese religion, politics, and culture. The talk will look under the hood to show how scholars can combine material culture and texts to access forms of Buddhism otherwise lost in the historical record and tell new stories about the past.
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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
forthcoming in November 2026, the next issue of EOEO on "Nomadic and sedentary mobilities on China's margins", co-edited with Aurore Dumont: 8 papers (in English) to rethink the dichotomy between nomadic and sedentary from a historical, archaeological and anthropological point of view
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CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just in case anyone's interested, Smithsonian Folkways set up this 'learning through music' program for elementary kids and one of them is Music of the Asian Court. You may enjoy the section on Korea. folkways.si.edu/music-pathwa...
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May it Please Your Highness: Music of the Asian Courts | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Travel through Asia learning about traditional instruments and how they're played, who played them, and for whom. Listen to sounds that accompanied rituals and ceremonies. Create music that echoes sou...
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
SOAS only has access to the bibliographies for Islamic Studies. No African or Chinese Studies, Buddhism, or Hinduism. Seems like a place called SOAS would have them.
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Translated by Patrick Hanan as The Carnal Prayer Mat.
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New book from Shane McCausland on the cultural history of the nomadic peoples along Chinese northern border and how their arts and lifestyles shaped the rise of the Mongol empire. Reaktion Books. January 2027. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/arts-al...
Alt text: The cover of Shane McCausland’s *Arts Along the Great Wall: A Cultural History of the Mongol Rise*. The cover shows a detail from The top portion of the cover is a reddish color with the title, subtitle, and author's name. The bottom portion is a detail from the painting 'Stag Hunt' by the Northern Song painter Huang Zongdao. Against a brownish background it shows a mounted archer racing, presumably, after a stag.
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There's an Open Access PDF of The Power of the Brush. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For Chosǒn Korea: The Power of the Brush by Hwisang Cho. University of Washington Press. 2020 (the ebook is free on Amazon. Epistolary Korea. Edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush. Columbia University Press. 2009. and for Japan: Letters from Japan's 16th and 17th Centuries. IEAS Publication. 2022
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just now reading proofs of an excellent forthcoming work on the multilingual #Ming www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067..., so here's the 1409 Galle trilingual (Chinese, Persian, Tamil) inscription for #EpigraphyTuesday www.unesco.org/en/memory-wo...
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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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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lü Pengzhi has been awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien for his work on medieval Daoist liturgy, 唐前道教儀式史綱 .
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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.org · 30/07/2026
My book has a webpage now @degruyterbrill.bsky.social The Provenance of Monumental Vases: Chinese Porcelain, German Curators, and Global Art History in Dresden since 1700 (De Gruyter, Dec. 2026) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#histbookchat #sinology new release!! Laughter, Humor (spelt wrong), & Comedy in Middle Period China, 600-1300 ed. by Alexei K. Ditter & Xiao Rao (2026) open access which is great coz £155 😬 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Clad in the elegant form of a Penguin Classic, Wen Zhenheng's late Ming treatise on how to be 雅 now greets the modern world; translation by Tony Blishen, proud to contribute an intro #earlymodern #skystorians
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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The interdisciplinary volume "Microhistories Retold. Insects in the Premodern World" has published! My study is on insects (esp. locusts) in the 2nd c. Lunheng 論衡. It discusses human agency faced with natural calamities and negotiates human-animal relations. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📢 Ebook sale! We've dropped the price of our ebooks to £9.99/$14.95 for this week only. Yes, that's right: ALL of them! 😍 So if you've had your eye on something, now's your chance. Happy shopping: edin.ac/3m0FGgU
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When will you announce the July volume?
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Along the Silk Roads, between Western and Eastern Asia / Edited by Andrea Balbo & Chiara Ombretta Tommasi www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social #openaccess
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Beth's obituary in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Beth McKillop obituary
Museum curator and scholar with a special focus on Korean art
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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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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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Came across The Sasanians in Context: Art, History and Archaeology (ed. Catanzariti & Daryaee). Just out and available for download from the Smithsonian. Essays on royal iconography, silverware, hydraulics, and post-Sasanian material culture across Eurasia.. smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
Black book cover. The title "The Sasanians in Context: Art, History and Archaeology," is above a round silver-gilt Sasanian vessel lid decorated with scrollwork, animals, and a central medallion of a duck. Under the lid is the subtitle "Art, History and Archaeology." Edited by Antonietta Catanzariti and Touraj Daryaee.Table of Contents, page 1:
Foreword — Chase F. Robinson

Introduction: Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology — Antonietta Catanzariti and Touraj Daryaee

The Sasanians: Answers and Questions from the Last Half Century — Prudence O. Harper

The Power of the Royal Image and Sasanian Iconography — Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

The Sasanian Bullae Collection in the Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran — Negin Miri, Cyrus Nasrollahzadeh, and Hamidreza Mazaheri

A Flaming Bust on a New Clay Bulla from Takht-e Solaymān: An Epigraphic and Iconographic Analysis — Yousef Moradi and Almut Hintze

Theologia Symbolica: Dream, Allegory, and Imagining the Afterlife in Sasanian Art and Ideology — Shervin Farridnejad

A Fragrance for Every Woman, Man, and Child: The Smell of the Sasanian Empire — Touraj Daryaee

A Remote Sensing Perspective on the Sasanian Hydraulic Projects: Reexamining the Irrigation Discourse — Mehrnoush Soroush

There Is Blood on the Ẓarbāft Silk: To Belong to Erānshahr according to Syriac and Armenian Sources — Ani Honarchian

More than Connected Histories: Sasanian Erānshahr, Rome, and Armenia, 364–387 CE — Giusto Traina

Central Asian Silverware in Sasanian Times: The Freer "Bactrian" Bowl and the Myth of Bellerophon, Grandfather of Sarpedon — Anca Dan and Frantz GrenetTable of Contents, continued:

Through the Turanian Lands: Post-Sasanian Tang Aesthetics of Early Tibetan Material Culture — Mariachiara Gasparini

Transitions in the Visual Culture of Iranshahr: Some Features of "Post-Sasanian" Metalwork, with a Postscript on the Griffin Plate in Berlin — Judith A. Lerner

Reviving the Concept of the Sasanian Kingdom in Qajar Rock Reliefs — Kianoosh Motaghedi

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨 EVENT ALARM 🚨 The Connoisseur - Peter Burke in Conversation 🎟️ Monday 6 July, 5.30pm The Warburg Institute buff.ly/PGMi29a
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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am very happy that the new issue of Oriens Extremus will be coming out soon, which includes a 10-article special section Exploring Revenge Across Chinese History that I edited. We cover #ChinesePhilosophy, #ChineseHistory, literature, and law. #Sinology (1/2)
Announcement on the journal's website
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
On a personal note, meeting Beth in 2019 changed my life. Although in my late fifties, she encouraged me to return to grad school (overseas no less), warmly welcomed me when I arrived in London, and offered guidance along the way.
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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm sad to share that Beth McKillop died at the end of May. In 1990 she established London's first museum gallery for Korean art. She had decades-long careers at the British Library and the V&A. She recently published the first comprehensive survey of Korean ceramics in English in over 60 years.
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