Somehow I doubt it's his. Do you have proof?

I was more thinking of a typo - but yes, the first part remains problematic!

-chiru instead of -keru?

Forms & Function

Last month, exhibition closes Dec.7. Open to all. Forms & Function: The Splendors of Global Book Making. Online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-forms) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-forms/about/downloadable-guide)

Forms & Function

Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)

Here's btw also an example of how to (better) not integrate vertically oriented (here: both Mongolian and Manchu) chunks of text into an otherwise horizontal text ... 😅

< Boller 1857 Nachweis dass das Japanische zum Ural-Altaischen Stamme gehört @ books.google.de/books?id=m4h...

Ok, I confess, had to look up Manzanar....

Not only students. It was thé song to celebrate sport victories too.

Digitized version available at catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9985.... It is included in the upcoming exhibition library.princeton.edu/formsandfunc...

新紐約 : First character means new, second read New: somehow double up

It's the image I always thought is too Chinese to be an accident

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Friends: I just received the terrible news that Andrew West, well known to all language and scripts aficionados, has passed away on July 10. May he rest in peace.

Anna Shields and I have organized the first China-Princeton Digital Humanities workshop! This week-long workshop on the digital humanities for Chinese studies will be held in person at Princeton University, June 16th to 20th!

chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu

Roberta Zollo (right) and Dr Rainer Hatoum (provenance researcher for the ethnological collections at Städtisches Museum Braunschweig) holding one of the Batak manuscripts, part of the collection of Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. Photo taken during the first survey of the museum collection.

Batak Manuscript, Inv. No. A II e 969. This image captures two pages of the manuscript, featuring several short sections of text alongside intricate illustrations. The lower page prominently displays the Bindu Matoga Matogu, one of the most renowned and powerful symbolic drawings, encircled by the mythological serpent Naga na Bolon. These visual elements accompany a divinatory text, which predicts the outcome of specific endeavors based on Pane na Bolon’s observed position throughout the year.

Batak bone inscription — once part of a series bound together like a belt. This artefact, complete with its original tag, offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of Batak script and material culture.

How did so many objects from Indonesia end up in the collections of museums in Lower Saxony? Roberta Zollo, an alumna of our Graduate School, is part of a team that seeks to find an answer to this question. ‘We need to revise our understanding of German colonial history,’ she says.
uhh.de/csmc-zollo

I see...

Why are you not there....?

Everyone in Japanese is familiar with different readings for the same characters "depending on the context." But what context makes clear how to read this place name 和坂, read Kanigasaka if it is the left ward, but Wasaka if it is the adjacent (!) right ward....

Cf. Engelbert Drerup: Die Schulaussprache des Griechischen von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart. Schöningh, Paderborn, 1930–1932, two fat volumes....

Looking forward to it!