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Marc Gilbert
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Curator and subject librarian, Leiden university libraries, Chinese collections
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Jul 17
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 · Jul 15
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 · Jun 19
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 · Jun 17
Please consider supporting the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection!
Donations will be channeled toward
Acquisition, description, conservation
Digitization, storage, online access
Events related to the aims of the LCQC
Fellowships and internships
donate here edu.nl/yc7w8
Thank you for your support!
Steun de Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC)
Steun de Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC)Hier de link naar Simplified Chinese: 简体En hier de link naar full-form Chinese: 繁體De Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC) is een internationaal uniek p...
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Jun 12
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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Apr 2
Harvard University Press has just published the latest anthology of Chinese animal literature by Wilt Idema, this time focusing on talking birds 🦜🦚🐦 Includes fascinating stories of parrots chanting Buddhist sutras!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature — Harvard University Press
Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. These birds that can talk and interact intelligently with their owners were treasured as pets both in the palace a...
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Mar 5
Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection:
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 25
A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics
will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world.
Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.
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Announcement: The Chinese Queer Collection: A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025 Leiden University Libraries is home to a newly established...
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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · Mar 4
Our free and open access online resource, the Chinese Religious Text Authority 宗教書籍規範索引, has just passed 5000 entries! Each provides users with detailed bibliographic information about a text, often with a link to a digitized edition. crta.info/wiki/Main_Page
The name and logo of the Chinese Religious Text Authority
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Mar 4
Raw, defiant, and unflinchingly honest—Mu Cao’s poetry gives voice to those at the margins of China’s underclass. In our latest, @queercomrades.bsky.social and Maghiel Van Crevel explore how his work challenges mainstream narratives on queerness, class, and survival.
On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry
The Prince Claus Fund is a Netherlands-based independent organisation dedicated to the advancement of culture and development, particularly in places where culture is under pressure. Every two years, ...
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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · Mar 2
More from David Helliwell on an astrological calendar #sinology serica.blog/2025/03/02/a...
An astrological calendar
I’m not sure if it’s good (or at least acceptable) practice to rename and rewrite blog entries that have already been published, but I’ve just done so. So much information about t…
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Jan 20
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 · Feb 25
A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics
will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world.
Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.
Asian Library
Announcement: The Chinese Queer Collection: A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025 Leiden University Libraries is home to a newly established...
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 25
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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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · Feb 4
Leiden China Seminar: Oliver Moore 12th Feb 15.00 in-person
Oliver Moore will be delivering the first Leiden China Seminar of the semester. No need to signup; just turn up.
Event page: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Unfortunately we don't have the support to stream these.
Surface Knowledge: the roles and purposes of ink rubbings in- and outside China
Taken via a means of wet impress, paper/ink rubbings of live rock surfaces and other hard objects have long enabled visual and textual knowledge throughout (and from) China. Yet their formation, uses and marketing have been generally minimized in several dismissive arguments: rubbings arise from a secondary…
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Jan 20
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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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · Jan 9
The Taiwanese poet Ling Yü 零⾬ has won the 2025 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Here's her poem "Names Vanished from the Map," tr. Andrea Lingenfelter: www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe.... Here's four poems tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain: theoffendingadam.com/author/lingyu/ incl. the one below:
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Dec 19
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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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · Dec 5
Warm congratulations to Mu Cao 墓草 , a groundbreaking, dynamic, and immensely talented poet who has today won a Prince Klaus Impact Award. I first encountered Mu Cao when the translator Scott E. Myers sent me the following searing poem to publish in Epiphany Magazine:
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Dec 2
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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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · Nov 24
An afternoon with @queercomrades.bsky.social performing from his new book, The Passion of the Rabbit God, at Nowhere Netherlands
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Nov 25
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 · Nov 21
No, not yet. i was planning to look into it
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Nov 21
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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