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Year of the Horse The Lunar New Year is one of the most significant cultural celebrations in East Asia, marking the beginning of the year based on the lunar calendar.

This and eight other items from Harvard-Yenching's collections are currently on display in our main reading room as part of our "Year of the Horse" exhibit. Check it out if you're around! library.harvard.edu/exhibits/yea...

Two horse illustrations from 北平箋谱 Beiping jian pu (1951), a renowned collection of polychrome woodblock-printed Chinese artworks. This 1951 edition was the first in the iterative series to include artworks of all twelve Chinese zodiacs.

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百美新詠圖傳 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Original images held by the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University Summary written by Benjamin Landauer (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Ci...

Check out a new blog post by Benjamin Landauer on the Chinese and Japanese editions of 百美新詠圖傳, a 18th-century pictorial catalogue of "poetry, painting, and historical anecdote for 103 women hailing from Chinese history and mythology." #bookhistory #womenshistory #sinology

Flyer for Chinese American Librarians Association's 2026 Best Book Award

Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) invites nominations for its annual Best Book Award. Titles eligible for nomination must be in Chinese, English, or French, authored by Chinese writers or those of Chinese descent, and published in 2025.

Nomination form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"Scriptures and Liturgy in Inner Asia: A Symposium on Religious Books & Manuscripts" (2/27, hybrid) @harvarddivinity.bsky.social @rarebookschool.bsky.social

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

@nature.com can we make obituaries like this open-access due to their educational value to the general public?

A screencap of the webpage "East Asia-related Job Market Data Report (2024–2025)" with a picture to the right of a map of the world with dots visualized and a bar chart of varying colors overlaid on top. The text reads: "This page compiles information and visualizations on academic-oriented job postings related to East Asia during the 2024–2025 hiring season (from approximately June 2024 to July 2025). This year also marks five years since I began collecting East Asia-related job data, so reflections on the five-year trends for each section and/or subsection will also appear. For more information on how and why I began this project, please see my first visualization page for the 2019–2020 academic job cycle. For the sake of convenience and to address any changes in my methods since last year, I will reproduce my explanations on data collection from previous cycles below, and mark new elements in bold and/or with a star ★. To jump directly to the visualizations, click here. I hope that the information provided on this page will facilitate further dialogue on current and future developments in the East Asian Studies fields and will be used by departments and individuals to advocate for this area of study at their institutions. If you have any questions about the data or would like to request specific visualizations for departmental reports, grant requests, or other proposals (or have used my work for this purpose already), please do not hesitate to contact me."

I am excited and exhausted to finally release my annual data report on job advertisements in East Asian Studies! 📊🌏 This marks 5 years of collecting job data, so it's possible to see changes over time. For interactive visualizations, view via browser rather than phone. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

This Saturday! #sinology #theater

Love notes like this left in books by earlier librarians. This profession runs on the hope of ever having time to love things as they deserve, and our archives are full of the epitaphs of good intentions.

Louder to all the angry bosses out there 🔊

(fortunatley not mine, they've been a great supporter)

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Photo of two women sitting at a table on which a large old book sits on foam rests, while a third woman leans over the book and points out details on the page. From B-10: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding, 2026 (Photo by Shane Lin). Text above the image reads, “Rare Book School 2026. First-Round Deadline: 17 February. Apply at rarebookschool.org/schedule.” A black medallion overlaid on the image reads “Applications now open!”

RBS is now accepting applications for our summer 2026 courses—including new course offerings & partner locations!

Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule

The first-round deadline is 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

#BookSky #RareBooks

Glad to have you last year! Thanks for spreading the word 😊

The Assault on the Capitol in Historical Perspective: Resources for Educators | American Historical Association We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021 presents a challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand current crises?

Teaching the events of January 6—which are not a “moment” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar yet urgent challenge: how can students use historical knowledge & thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help. 🗃️

New Yorkers! Sharing an exciting event in Flushing on 1/24 (Sat), featuring Stan Lai 賴聲川, Taiwanese-American playwright/theater director behind the blockbuster "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land 暗戀桃花源." Join us & plz spread the word

Happy new year! Our library travel grants are still open to applications until January 31.

She's a true icon. I especially love her quirky jazz album 絕世名伶.

A great article that emerged out of the @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social project: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Registration is now OPEN for #NEASpring26 in Portland, ME! Join us for three inspiring days of exciting virtual and in-person workshops, sessions, special events, and roundtable discussions by registering today! newenglandarchivists.org/spring-2026

Oof, spicy!

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#sinology

The Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for two-week virtual faculty residencies in June 2026, concentrating on topics at the intersection of East Asia Studies and Plant Humanities.

The Asian Division’s Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: Now Accepting Applications for 2026 | 4 Corners of the World The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's app...

The Library of Congress' Asian Division is now accepting applications for their 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: up to $3,000 to support travel, lodging, and research expenses. Due January 11, 2026. #sinology #libraries

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DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

Great points made, and not just about AI: "Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Salary range: $68,000-$145,250

I roll my eyes every time a library job includes a salary range as wide as this. This is not the actual salary range. The HR included this only so they can advertise it to job boards that requires a salary range. This is the opposite of the pay transparency that our field has been advocating for.

Periodicals and the World Since their inception, periodicals have travelled across regions, reporting on local and global events and developments, and shaping public discourse on wh...

CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”

9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels

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