Curator of Chinese Special Collections, Leiden University Libraries
Joined June 2017
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This two-volume 'Miao album' depicts non-Han ethnic groups living in the Chinese Yunnan Province. The drawings reveal how officials viewed ethnic minorities in the Qing Empire.
Qinxin He @leidenhum wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the albums:
➡️edu.nl/hjvtu
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday by Nikky Lin from the National Museum of #Taiwan Literature and @marcodeniet from @UBLeiden.
In the future, we plan to cooperate and exchange knowledge with regards to literature in the Netherlands and Taiwan.
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More than 30.000 pages of additional Chinese unofficial poetry has now been made available in the @ubleiden @UniLeiden #DigitalCollections!
Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more:
➡️edu.nl/ar9ya
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Sweet: in 2021 we worked with students on a translation and blog of a Ming edict addressed to Zhao Fan and acquired by @M__Gilbert @AsianLibraryNL - we just received a picture from Zhangpu where Zhao Fan's tomb stele was dug up in 2019
leidenspecialcollectionsblog…
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De familie van diplomaat, sinoloog en schrijver Robert van Gulik heeft zijn archief en een deel van zijn collectie aan de @UniLeiden @AsianLibraryNL geschonken en het Robert van Gulik Fonds ingesteld @LUF_Leiden.
Dank voor deze fantastische schenking!
➡️edu.nl/tnfm4
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The final pages of this beautiful manuscript hold an account of an extraordinary journey: Magellan's first voyage around the globe.
Last week, VLF 41 was granted #WorldHeritage status with an inscription in @UNESCO #MemoryOfTheWorld register.
Learn more:
➡️edu.nl/3m4pk
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The Shengjing weichang quantu 盛京圍場全圖, or the “Complete illustrations of the Shengjing hunting grounds”
📌 A post from Colligere in English, the blog of the libraries and archives of Collège de France.
👉 archibibscdf.hypotheses.org/…
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This unique copy of the Yuan dynasty play: 'Record of the Celestial Book', a Warring States era story of betrayal and revenge, is held in the @AsianLibraryNL Van Gulik Collection.
Prof. Wilt Idema wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about the volume: ➡️edu.nl/vbnbp
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Freud & China
Though Sigmund Freud's passion for collecting antiquities is well-known, his Chinese collection is often overlooked. On 11 Nov @CraigClunas of @UniofOxford discusses & contextualises his collection.
@ACPA_leiden @VVAK_nl @AsianLibraryNL
⬇️universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
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We are very lucky @VVAK_nl and @LeidenHum that @CraigClunas is coming to Leiden, asking whether Great Ming is a dynasty, and lecturing on Freud. Come join us! free and open to all, but please register.
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Van harte gefeliciteerd @KeijserA, @SilviaMarijnis1 en @aardsbevlogen met de Filter Vertaalprijs 2022 @ILFUtrecht voor jullie Nederlandse vertaling van de Chinese klassieker De Droom van de Rode kamer! Meer weten? Bekijk onze boekensalon met de vertalers: edu.nl/d8nqm.
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De Filter Vertaalprijs 2022 is voor Silvia Marijnissen, Mark Leenhouts en Anne Sytske Keijser voor hun fenomenale vertaling van de Chinese klassieker De Droom van de Rode Kamer 🎉❤️ @FilterVertalen @Klassieken @SilviaMarijnis1
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Thomas van Gulik, son of #RobertVanGulik, visited @ubleiden today on behalf of his family, to donate the last boxes of his father's #archives to the @AsianLibraryNL #SpecialCollections. These final boxes contained materials concerning Robert van Gulik's famous Judge Dee novels.
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We made the #Qing #maps downloadable: universiteitleiden.nl/en/new… Thank you #Manchu Foundation and @ubleiden! Together with Mario Cams and @LeidenHum’s @EijkJuul
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Three enormous maps of #China (one is 8m-10m!), created for three emperors of the Qing dynasty, are now available online in #OpenAccess (and downloadable) in @ubleiden @UniLeiden #DigitalCollections!
Learn more and discover the maps for yourself:
➡️edu.nl/mxjt6
#Manchu
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Prof. Maghiel van Crevel @UniLeiden spent decades collecting hard to find and rare Unofficial Poetry Journals in China.
In this video, he talks about this fascinating material and his experiences in the Chinese poetry scene.
➡️youtu.be/5YbU-mdWRbQ
#LeidenUNPO
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Why the online collection of Chinese Unofficial Poetry #LeidenUNPO @AsianLibraryNL is a blessing, and why you should visit @ubleiden to study the journals up-close.
@FedericoPicerni argues for the magic of materiality in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️edu.nl/u7ytp
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New Chinese Unofficial Poetry Journals #LeidenUNPO now available online in #DigitalCollections!
➡️edu.nl/bnxct
Prof. Maghiel van Crevel @UniLeiden reads 'My changing room' by Zhai Yongming, from 'Wings' and talks about women & marginalised groups in Chinese poetry.
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Almost 20.000 pages of new material from our Chinese Unofficial Poetry Journals #leidenunpo collection are now available online in #DigitalCollections!
Featuring the monumental 'New Tide Poetry' (新诗潮诗集) & various 'battler poetry' (打工诗歌) titles.
➡️edu.nl/bnxct
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Onlangs vierden we de instelling van het Rombouts Fonds voor de Chinese Bijzondere Collecties in de @ubleiden. Het fonds op naam maakte de aankoop van een prachtig tweedelig Miao-album mogelijk.
👉 bit.ly/3rnATKV
#landkaarten #zijde #fondsopnaam
