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Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works regarding China and Korea.
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75% off ebooks from Edinburgh University Press until September 30th. This includes wonderful books such as Petra Andreeva’s Fantastic Fauna and Stephenie Mulder‘s The Shrines of the ‘Aldids in Medieval Syria. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-fantastic-fauna-from-china-to-crimea.html

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

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Just discovered that the Proceedings of the Sixth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art, Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas, is available to read online or download at the National Museum of Asian Art's website. repository.si.edu/handle/10088...

Cover of Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas showing three sculptures showing left to right: Wood-core lacquer buddha, Walters Art Museum, 25.9; hollow-core lacquer buddha, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1944.46; hollow-core lacquer buddha, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 19.186
Table of Contents: 
Lacquer and Buddhist Sculpture in East Asia, Sixth-Eighth Centuries Denise Patry LEIDY

Plates

Exploring the Techniques of Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas Donna STRAHAN

Lacquer Analysis of Five Buddhist Sculptures Blythe MCCARTHY

Highlights of Chinese Lacquer Research at the Getty Michael R. SCHILLING, Arlen HEGINBOTHAM, Julie CHANG, and Jessica CHASEN

Chinese Texts on the Fabrication of Jiazhu Sculpture Julie CHANG
Sculptures by Anige and Liu Yuan at the Yuan Court Anning JING
Lacquered Bodies: Whole-Body Sarīra as Relic and Image Justin R. RITZINGER

Body Relics in Tibetan and Mongolian Traditions Chandra REEDY

Lacquer Sculptures in Japan: The Latest Scientific Report about the Seated Senju Kannon Bosatsu of Fujiidera Mai SARAI

Chinese Chronology, Warring States Period through the Republic of China
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The amazing ‘Schildbachsche Holzbibliothek’—more than 500 ‘tree books’ made c.1780 by Carl Schildbach for Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel to document the variety of trees (both native and imported) in the latter’s demesne. Now on display in the Natural History Museum (Ottoneum) #bookhistory

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I once read an older edition of an Edith Wharton work (the title escapes me) that used employée.

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The Department of History at the University of Washington (Seattle) seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor to specialize in the history of China before 1368 CE. ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

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Charles Randles
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Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works regarding China and Korea.
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