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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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!

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

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...

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...

Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection:

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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

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, ...

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.

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…

More from David Helliwell on an astrological calendar #sinology serica.blog/2025/03/02/a...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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…

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...
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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.

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:

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

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:

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

An afternoon with @queercomrades.bsky.social performing from his new book, The Passion of the Rabbit God, at Nowhere Netherlands

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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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.