Tom Mazanec

No, it was for the humanities generally.

Yeah, that was the first thing I did: go to site, change my settings. It's just now you know you're going to start seeing these translations in students' papers.

It also remains the case that the Trump NEH will not fund work that 'promotes' "gender ideology," "discriminatory equity ideology," "support for diversity, equity, and inclusion," "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility," or "environmental justice initiatives or activities"

Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚

Ryūchi Abé, Review of Kūkai: Japan’s First Vajrayāna Visionary by David Gardiner

William D. Fleming, Review of Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Peter Kornicki
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Luke Waring, Review of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations, vol. 2 by Edward Shaughnessy

Yuxuan Tay, Review of The World of Wu Zhao: Annotated Selections from Zhang Zhuo’s Court and Country by N. Harry Rothschild
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J. Michael Farmer, Review of A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms: Li Hao (351–417), Ruler of Western Liang by Dominic Declerq

Vincent Goossaert, Review of Kings of Oxen and Horses: Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion by Meir Shahar
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Quantifying Accomplishments, Rewarding Performance: Military Bounties in Early Imperial China by Wicky W. K. Tse

Romantic Entanglements: Occidentalism, Love, and Nanshoku in Mori Ōgai’s “Maihime” by James Reichert
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Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

Issue 146.1 of the Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA, formerly JAOS) has been published and can be found online at lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos. Here is the content of the East Asia section.
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home | Elling Eide Center Research We support research of premodern Asian Studies. Each year, we invite scholars from around the world to conduct research in our library, collaborate ...

Director of Scholarly Programs and Education (Senior Leadership Role) at the Elling Eide Center (ellingoeide.org). Ph.D. in Chinese Studies and proficiency in Classical Chinese required. (www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...).

Yeah, literally, "[if/when] the realm is drowning, rescue it with the Word" is how I'd parse it. What's tricky is that 7-character lines are usually 4+3 rather than 3+4 as they are here.

Yeah 道 is "logos" in most translations of John 1. I had to memorize 太初有道，道與神同在，道就是神 in Calvin College's 4th-year Chinese class way back when.

In any case, the two lines are parallel, so I'd translate both with the same grammatical construction.

I’ve definitely translated this before somewhere. But I don’t remember.

Bobson Dugnutt is a seriously good baseball name

An 8-vol translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏 (13th cent.) has been published & is available on Jstor. A milestone in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Translators include Carl Bielefeldt, William M. Bodiford, T. Griffith Foulk, and the late Stanley Weinstein.
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13...

Hot off the presses--and yes, this *is* open access! For those of you who want to know more about #milk and #medicine and #Chinesefood #TCM

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There are bunch of different #scholarships/#fellowships going in Cambridge at the Needham Research Institute and its East Asian History of Science library #historyofscience #科技史
Here are details:
www.nri.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Makes sense. Yeah, we usually only publish anything focused on the 20th century or later if it’s hardcore antiquarian

The repentance part of the text seems sincere, with some decent reflection on change in 心. And while his stated sins mostly reflect catalogs from that time, he does leave out drunkenness because he says he’s not a drinker by nature. So there’s some attempt to reflect reality

Journal of the American Oriental Society, it dates back to 1842 (recently rechristened as Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia). One of pillars of the field for premodern, up there with T’oung Pao, CLEAR, HJAS, JCLC, Asia Major, and the dynasty-specific journals

Shen Yue's confessions are particularly wild, ranging from stealing classical texts (性愛墳典, 苟得忘廉。取非其有, 卷將二百) to both hetero and homosexual love affairs (淇水上宮，誠無云幾；分桃斷袖，亦足稱多).

JAOS Early Chinese autobiographical writings tend to paint a still portrait of who the author is: his temperament, personality, and achievements. They operate on a model of being and, at best, of a continu...

At JAOS / JASPA, we recently published an essay by Tian Xiaofei on how the structure of the Buddhist confession / conversion narrative shaped autobiographical writing from the early medieval period on: lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...

My new piece on the history of the chickpea in premodern China just came out. Wishing you a health near year full of good food! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Haha, I have this on my syllabus for Classical Chinese! (This might actually be a screenshot of part of my syllabus?)

Arthur Waley's translation, from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, dating to the 1920s.

I love how commentators all agree that the Ganyu poems are allegories, but strongly disagree as to what they're allegories for.

I recently did an interview with the New Books Network about my book, Poet-Monks. I can't stand to hear my own voice, so I won't listen to it, but in case you wanted to, here it is: newbooksnetwork.com/poet-monks. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Review of Dictionary of Taoist Internal Alchemy by Fabrizio Pregadio
Tyler Feezell
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Review of Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Timothy Billings
Lucas Klein

Review of A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge. Selected Entries from the Ben Cao Gang Mu by Paul Unschuld
Yan Liu
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"Forming the Knowledge of Fragrance in Song Dynasty Catalogues of Incense"
Qian Jia

"The Travels of Tang Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–756)"
Paul W. Kroll

Review of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought by Wang Hui
Don J. Wyatt
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Here is the East Asia content, which I edited.
"The Final Part of the Mongol Text of the 1413 Tyr Trilingual Inscription"
Pavel Rykin

"The Reconstructed Morphology of Old Chinese and Word Classes in Warring States Chinese"
Lukáš Zádrapa
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