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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Very excited to receive the advance copy of my book from @PrincetonUPress . The book will be widely available starting Jan 24!

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@xwen0113

2 years

My book has a cover! Forthcoming Jan 2023. #silkroad #china #medieval #diplomacy

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@xwen0113

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Happy to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Princeton. I am tired but relieved. Thanks to all who supported me along the way!

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one of my favorite Dunhuang mural paintings - an exhausted horse groom (cave 431)

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@xwen0113

2 years

Today is the official publication date of my book The King's Road. It is widely available now, but if you order from PUP website , you can use the code P321 for 30% off!

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@xwen0113

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Seen at Yale. A passage from the Yan Family Shrine Stele (顏氏家廟碑) by Yan Zhenqing 顏真卿 (709–794) carved above the front door of the Sterling Library. The legacy of the Tang stone inscriptions lives on!

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@xwen0113

2 years

Table of Contents of my book, The King's Road. Forthcoming Jan 2023.

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@xwen0113

2 years

Will be giving a talk at The Dunhuang Foundation (June 9, Thursday, 7pm EST). The talk will be a preview of my book The King's Road (forthcoming Jan 2023, Princeton U Press). Looking forward to having some of you there!

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@xwen0113

1 year

Thrilled and humbled that my book The King's Road from @PrincetonUPress has been awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize from the @AHAhistorians .

American Historical Association

@AHAhistorians

1 year

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! #AHAPerspectives

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@xwen0113

2 years

Related to these amazing paper flowers from Dunhuang, I found an example to show how the flowers were made. One manuscript (Pelliot 4091), when placed above white light, clearly shows the traces of the square background and petals that were cut off from the paper.

China in Pictures

@tongbingxue

2 years

Paper flowers, excavated in Dunhuang, China, Tang Dynasty (618-907), maybe the earliest art of paper folding in the world. Collection of V&A.

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@xwen0113

3 years

Excited to see that the webpage for my first book is up. The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road is undergoing copy-editing now, and will see the world in Jan 2023!

The King’s Road

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade

press.princeton.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

obligatory author photo at the @PrincetonUPress booth @AASAsianStudies #AAS2023

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

6 months

My book is on sale with 50% off! Also, a paperback version will come out this December!

The King’s Road

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade

press.princeton.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

You can use the discount code P321 to order my book with a 30% discount. The discount will be applied when the order is processed :P

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Giving a talk tomorrow about old sites and ancient ghosts in Tang Chang'an. The yellow circles on this Southern Song map of Chang'an mark places where Han dynasty sites were still visible in Tang Chang'an—and some of these sites were still haunted by Han dynasty ghosts 👻👻👻

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@xwen0113

2 years

Looking forward to my talk (over zoom) at my alma mater Peking University, with my former advisor serving as the discussant, and co-sponsored by @PrincetonUPress 's China office. I always admire Beida's posters and this one is just as beautiful!

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@xwen0113

2 years

Very excited that my co-authored book (with Brian Lander and Ling Wenchao) on the Zoumalou documents—70,000 third-century administrative documents on bamboo and wood slips from South China—has a website now! Coming out at the end of August!

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

You can read the introduction of my forthcoming book online through the Princeton University Press website, if you are interested

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

will be giving a talk at Berkeley on Oct 27 on my book. Hope to see some of my Bay area friends.

The King’s Road

The King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a comm...

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Glad that our panel "Chang’an in the Longue Durée" was accepted by #AAS2023 ! Looking forward to discussing the deep history of Chang'an with Griet Vankeerberghen (on Han dynasty Chang'an), Debby Chih-Yen Huang (on Tang), Fei Huang (Tang through Qing) with Ari Levine as discussant

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

8 months

If you are coming to Seattle for #AAS2024 , please stop by our panel "Non-Han Regimes and Middle Period China" featuring papers on Parhae, Heian Japan, Jurchen, Tangut and Dali states! Panel scheduled at 8:30am on Saturday! @AASAsianStudies

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@xwen0113

2 years

Thanks to Harvard PhD student in Chinese history Julian Gee for this wonderful write-up of my lecture. This is a preview of parts of my ongoing project on the history of Chang'an after the Tang dynasty.

What a Museum of Tang Stones Says About How China Views its Past - Fairbank Center for Chinese...

A museum of Tang stelae in Xian shows how China rewrites its history.

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

A short interview about the process of writing my book is up on my department's website. Perhaps it will be of some interest.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

New article in Journal of Chinese history is "live," even though it is not officially published yet.

The Emperor of Dunhuang: Rethinking Political Regionalism in Tenth Century China | Journal of...

The Emperor of Dunhuang: Rethinking Political Regionalism in Tenth Century China - Volume 6 Issue 1

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@xwen0113

2 years

I am grateful that my article (drawn from my upcoming book The King's Road @PrincetonUPress ) will be published as the cover story of the Feb issue of @HistoryToday . Thanks for the excellent editorial work of @ellabrookmuir !

Secrets of the Silk Road

www.historytoday.com

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

Came to Cornell for a talk. Ithaca has to be one of the most beautiful place I have ever been in my life!

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

8 months

Nice walk in Seattle after my panel #AAS2024 @AASAsianStudies

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

An interview on my book is up today! Thanks to the wonderful host @nickrigordon . The interview is available here and through all the relevant "New Books" podcast channels.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

Two talks I gave last week at Sun Yat-sen University on the Silk Road and Chang'an respectively. The talks went very well and I learned a lot from the discussion. Here I am sharing them because I really appreciate these beautiful posters the organizers made for the events.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

If you are interested, there is a 50% off for all Princeton books, including my book

The King’s Road

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade

press.princeton.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Excited to talk at Harvard (Monday Feb 13, 4pm EST) about my new project on the metropolis Chang'an *after* the Tang dynasty. I will be specifically talking about the creation of what I call a medieval museum of stones. Available via Zoom too.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

New article just came out in Central Asiatic Journal which is on two very long Khotanese documents that shed light on the structure of a granary in a small village in the eight century. There are a ton of very interesting articles in the same issue.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Will be giving a book talk this Wednesday (March 8) at 4:30 pm EST at Rutgers University. Thanks to @TaoJiangScholar for the invitation!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

@PrincetonUPress

2 years

Please join @CCS_Rutgers and PUP author @xwen0113 for an in-person/virtual discussion of his new book, The King’s Road, on March 8 at 4:30 pm EST. Can't make it in person? Register for his book talk via Zoom: #Twitterstorians #BookEvent

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

Grateful for this review of my book. I really agree with the author that "the inner monologue could run a bit more freely"

More Silk than Road in Medieval Chinese History

The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road, by Xin Wen.

www.globalasia.org

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

4 years

Here is a video of my talk on the Chang'an project *at* UCLA. It's very long–an hour of the talk and 50 mins of Q&A, and my voice sounded raspy at the end. But it was a great experience hearing what people have to say about this project.

Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang'an,...

Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang'an, 900-1400 - Talk by Xin Wen, Princeton UniversityIn this talk, I examine the history of C...

www.youtube.com

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Looking forward to presenting my work on how the ruined medieval city of Chang’an was rebuilt at Indiana University

“Cities!” Colloquium Series: “Chang’an Reborn: The Transformation of China’s Medieval Capital City,...

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@xwen0113

1 year

Thanks for plugging this @PrincetonHist :)

Princeton History

@PrincetonHist

1 year

Cheers to Prof. Xin Wen @xwen0113 for receiving the American Historical Association’s @AHAhistorians 2023 James Henry Breasted Prize for “The King’s Road”! 🎉 The Prize honors the best book in English on any field of history before 1000 CE.

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@xwen0113

4 years

Big news. One of the most important journal in the field is now digitized.

中研院史語所 Institute of History and Philology

@ihptaiwan

4 years

Now available online… At the first 2019 editorial meeting, it was decided that full-text articles from the Bulletin of the IHP would be made available on the IHP website. All articles are now available to view and to download:

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

8 months

IDP is finally back online!

International Dunhuang Programme

@idp_uk

8 months

We are delighted to announce the launch of our redeveloped International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) website! It is now live with a refreshed visual identity, improved search capability, IIIF image viewer and new contextual resources.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Looking forward to this in-person book talk at Yale on Wednesday. Grateful for Valerie and Eric's invitation!

Valerie Hansen

@VHansenYear1000

2 years

Eric Greene and I are very pleased to host Wen Xin on at our Silk Road seminar where he will present on his forthcoming book, The King’s Road (pub date Jan. 2023). Public talk 4 pm, Nov. 2 in Sterling Library 218. In person only.

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

5 years

I am giving a talk at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World on Feb 27 (6-8pm) about my book project. The lecture is open to anyone interested. You just need to RSVP following the link. Hope to see some of you then!

Dunhuang Envoys:

isaw.nyu.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

Giving a talk titled "A Traveler's History of the Silk Road" in the Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series on Aug 11. Please register if you are interested.

British Library

@britishlibrary

3 years

11 August (10am PST/6pm BST) - Dr Xin Wen: ‘A Traveler’s History of the Silk Road: Revelations from Dunhuang Materials’ Register:

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

實至名歸

Princeton History

@PrincetonHist

3 years

Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. He Bian, whose book "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China" ( @PrincetonUPress 2020) won honorable mention for the @AASAsianStudies Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900 Chinese studies).

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Saw an old friend at Harvard 🤣

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

4 years

This Thursday (Feb 25), I will be talking "at" UCLA (via Zoom) about a new project "The Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang'an, 900-1400." 4 to 5:30pm Pacific time. Hope to see some of you there!

Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang’an, 900-1400

www.international.ucla.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

looking forward to the talk!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

@PrincetonUPress

2 years

. @PennCEAS welcomes Xin Wen for a discussion of his new book, The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road, on April 20 at 5:15 pm EDT in Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 231. Register for this free event today: @xwen0113

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@xwen0113

2 years

Thanks for @NewChinaBooks for plugging my book! The King’s Road will be available in less than a month. I look forward to hearing what you think!

China Books of The Year 📚

@NewChinaBooks

2 years

#ChinaBooks2023 3/3

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

New open-access article on using GIS to reconstruct China's medieval capital Chang'an out on Startwords from @PrincetonCDH

Startwords

A research periodical irregularly published by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton.

startwords.cdh.princeton.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

Incredible opportunity to study the British Library Dunhuang materials with two leading experts!

Michelle C. Wang 王慧兰

@asianartlibrary

3 years

Please apply! Several wonderful programs, including one based in London to study the Stein collections of paintings and manuscripts with @ImreGalambos and me

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

I will deliver another book talk at Oxford (via Zoom) on Thursday (June 8). 17:00 UK time (noon eastern US time). Would love to see some of you there. I would particularly appreciate some conversation with those of you who had already read the book!

The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85978530202?pwd=Z2JOV09yMEh1d0VLajVqQXB4cmd4Zz09

talks.ox.ac.uk

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

9 months

Looking forward to this discussion with two colleagues about "What Can the Silk Roads Be?" at U Chicago next week (Feb 16). Hope to see some Chicago area colleagues.

The Neubauer Collegium - The Neubauer Collegium

neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Exciting to get back to working on Turfan documents. Thanks @bryandaniellowe for taking the photo!

Bryan Lowe

@bryandaniellowe

2 years

Fantastic ⁦ @MARBASPrinceton ⁩ talk by ⁦ @xwen0113 ⁩ on Turfan documents in Princeton’s rare book collection. Tombs, bandits, and manuscripts—what else do you need, really?!

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

1 year

Very humbled to be included in this list.

ACLS

@ACLS1919

1 year

ACLS celebrates a selection of books released so far in 2023 by our fellows and grantees, including @car1ygoodman F'16, @Dr_ChadWilliams F'11, @JoelECorreia F'21, @ErikLinstrum F'20, @maliniranga F'17, @xwen0113 F'21, and more:

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

Giving a talk about the relation between human and non-human travelers on the Silk Road tomorrow at 5pm UK time (noon EST) *at* Cambridge. All is welcome! The zoom link:

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

4 years

Starting to build a infrastructure of #DH in #EastAsianStudies at Princeton with the generous support of @PrincetonDH . Looking forward to the new year!

Introducing the Spring 2020 CDH Seed Grant Projects

cdh.princeton.edu

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

Excited to be working on "deep map" of Chang'an with @PrincetonDH !

The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton

@PrincetonCDH

2 years

Meet our 2022–23 CDH Data Fellows! 🧑‍💻 These eight researchers are studying everything from the history of the Pindus mountain range, to eighteenth-century Asian paintings, to wills in the Cairo Geniza! Read about their projects:

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@xwen0113

7 months

This project looks amazing! Thanks @MartinH49009792 for noticing it.

Dunhuang Academy

@DunhuangAcademy

7 months

🎉The Digital Library Cave (English/French version), jointly launched by #Dunhuang Academy and Tencent, is officially online in Europe! Let's embark on an immersive journey through time to the #MogaoCaves !🙌 Link: #DigitalDunhuang #DunhuangConservation

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

3 years

My friend ZHANG Zhan gives a fascinating account of how manuscripts should be studied as more than just carriers of texts, including a summary of a part of my article that will (hopefully) appear in 2023 😅

invisible_east

@invisible_east

3 years

1/15 In manuscript studies, we do not treat manuscripts merely as texts, but also as objects. Non-textual or para-textual features can sometimes reveal a lot about the society that produced the manuscripts. Today, I (ZHANG Zhan) will talk about format

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@xwen0113

2 years

The talk will be virtual. Zoom registration:

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@xwen0113

2 years

"A granular (and readable) study of the working of communications in the first millennium based on documents from Dunhuang." - Just noticed that a review of my book from @BookReviewsAsia was published last week. Really appreciate the interest!

Asian Review of Books

@BookReviewsAsia

2 years

ARB review of “The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road” by Xin Wen: a granular (and readable) study of the working of communications in the last first millennium based on documents from Dunhuang

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@xwen0113

2 years

Excited to talk about how to start turning your dissertation into a book manuscript on Oct 26 with brilliant colleagues including @DGTam86 @SeijiShirane @Sonjamthomas_

Association for Asian Studies

@AASAsianStudies

2 years

AAS Members, mark your calendars for this upcoming #AASDigitalDialogues series, "From Dissertation to Book." Four sessions on a potentially intimidating process, with advice and encouragement from those who have gone through it, starting October 26!

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@xwen0113

8 months

Thank you for the interest in my book!

Medievalists.net

@Medievalists

8 months

New Medieval Books: The King’s Road by @xwen0113 #books #medieval #history

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Xin Wen

@xwen0113

2 years

West coast friends, I will be at Stanford next Friday (April 28) giving a public talk about my book at 4pm. Very much looking forward to the discussion!

Medieval Studies Workshop: Seminar with Xin Wen | Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

10:00am - 12:00pm: Seminar

dlcl.stanford.edu

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@xwen0113

10 months

Can't wait to read Étienne de la Vaissière's new book!

Florian Louis

@flr_louis

10 months

Étienne de la Vaissière - Asie centrale 300-850 Des routes et des royaumes À paraître aux Belles Lettres en février

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卿兄以人臣大節，獨制橫流。或俘其謀主；或斬其元惡。當以救兵懸絕，身陷賊庭，傍若無人，歷數其罪。手足寄於鋒刃，忠義形於顏色，古所未有，朕甚嘉之。This is the text.

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@xwen0113

2 years

Really enjoyed this panel, including the presentation of @hild_de

Fairbank Center, Harvard University

@FairbankCenter

2 years

Ending Day 1 of "Tools of the Trade" confab, Harvard Professor Peter Bol & Hsi-yuan Chen of Taiwan's Academia Sinica applaud 3 giants in China digital humanities: Hilde De Weerdt of Leiden, Christian Henriot of Aix-en-Provence, and Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen of Taiwan. Great 1st day!

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@xwen0113

2 years

Preparing for #AAS2023 next week. I will be presenting at two panels.

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@xwen0113

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These documents date to the Three Kingdoms 三國 period! So if you are fans of the Koei games (like I am), you will encounter some familiar names in these documents!

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@xwen0113

2 years

The second panel is on Saturday afternoon (2:00 to 3:30 pm, SHERATON, CONSTITUTION A), a panel that discusses the long history of Chang'an from the Han to the Qing dynasty.

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@xwen0113

2 years

The first is on Friday morning (9:00 to 10:30am, Hynes Room 101), a creative panel that reads and translates together a Song envoy report about the Kitan government and bureaucracy.

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@xwen0113

2 years

Job alert: Princeton’s Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies initiative (MARBAS), together with Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, is advertising a postdoc for a specialist in manuscripts (in any language) and digital humanities.

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@xwen0113

2 years

@jagevans I am from Wyoming 😆

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@xwen0113

3 years

@James_A_Benn You can encourage them to look into the programs at Princeton too.

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@xwen0113

3 years

Here is a talk I gave a few months ago, where I suggest that people in medieval Dunhuang would not be surprised by the idea of the "Silk Road"

International Dunhuang Programme

@idp_uk

3 years

The third lecture in Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series is now on YouTube! 📺 ‘A Traveler’s History of the Silk Road: Revelations from Dunhuang Materials’ was given by @xwen0113 . Watch it here:

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@iIlusionat Oh yes, much of the Han city were still visible. The Weiyang Palace was not only visible but was even rebuilt in the Tang. Other sites like the 圜丘, 太學, 靈台, 辟雍 were all visible, as were many Han and pre-Han burial mounds–these tends to be most often haunted by Han ghosts.

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@xwen0113

1 year

It was a great event! I learned a lot from the participants. Thanks for organizing @ImreGalambos !

Imre Galambos

@ImreGalambos

1 year

Our Crossing Boundaries Conference just ended. It was an exciting and stimulating two days, talking about manuscripts in a multilingual environment. Special thanks to the Eide Center for hosting the event.

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@xwen0113

2 years

What a lineup! Wish I could be there...

Collège de France

@cdf1530

2 years

#Histoire #Asie "Autour de l’ #exposition Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan : nouveaux terrains, nouvelles perspectives" 📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) et Rocco Rante (Louvre). ⏰ Les 16 et 17 janvier 2023. 👉

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@xwen0113

1 year

Congratulations on an important book!

Dai MATSUI

@dmatsui1217

1 year

Finally my author copy arrived! Thanks for the cooperation of @Brepols !

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@xwen0113

2 years

AND, I am especially honored that this book will be published in the legendary Sinica Leidensia series, a series that I always admired.

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@xwen0113

2 years

My own paper will be titled "Marco Polo's Twin Cities" and will explore the cultural cosmopolitanism in Chang’an under the Mongol Rule in the Yuan dynasty.

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@xwen0113

2 years

tomorrow!

GETSEA

@GETSEA_

2 years

Tomorrow, @AASAsianStudies holds the first of four upcoming sessions on turning your dissertation into a book! @SeijiShirane , @DGTam86 , @Sonjamthomas_ & @xwen0113 will speak on "Getting Started After You've Finished" What a lineup! Oct 26 @ 7:00p (EDT)

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Had a great time working on this piece with @asianartlibrary and @stowhitfield !

Michelle C. Wang 王慧兰

@asianartlibrary

4 years

So excited to see an article that I co-authored with @stowhitfield & @xwen0113 in print! Please check out "Buddhism and Silk: Reassessing a Painted Banner from Medieval Central Asia in The Met" that we wrote about this fascinating painting: .

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Giving a talk in an hour here. You can follow it on youtube if you want!

“Antecedents of BRI: Empires, Religion, Material Culture, and Economics of the Silk Road” Workshop...

www.uvachinabriproject.com

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Thank y'all! I am super happy right now :)

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@xwen0113

2 years

Thanks to @ACLS1919 for the generous support!

ACLS

@ACLS1919

2 years

Happy publication day to @xwen0113 F'21! "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" is out now from @PrincetonUPress :

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Extremely excited about this book!

Michael Weiss

@MWeissOHCGL

2 years

Cover ready. Final proofs turned in. Publication before AOS meeting (March 18-20)!

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@asianartlibrary @idp_uk Thanks Michelle for organizing these talks!

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@James_A_Benn @dtbyler @ACLS1919 Thanks James! Very honored to be among this stellar group of scholars!

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Looking forward to reading this new book!

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2 years

sorry, tweeted the wrong link earlier...

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3 years

@tommazanec @AOHSUsometimesY As for my paper from the conference (Toronto AAS!), I have condensed it into a section of an article "The Emperor of Dunhuang: Rethinking Political Regionalism in Tenth Century China" that will come out early next year in the Journal of Chinese History.

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Looking forward to our AAS panel: Stories of Stones in Middle Period China, where four scholars discuss four very different pieces (or groups) of stone inscriptions #AAS2022 - Sunday morning 🤪 at 9am!

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@hild_de Thanks for coming Hilde! And sorry for the technical problems with my talk.

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@siegeweather Not a real author but someone should do a 王梵志 poetry seminar.

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let me know if you want a copy and do not have access to jstor :p

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2 years

@iasann Justin Jacobs’ book on Dunhuang and other excavated materials is well worth reading

The Compensations of Plunder

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as stolen from their countries of origin,...

press.uchicago.edu

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@xwen0113

1 year

Thank you for reading and recommending!

Lina Benabdallah

@LBenabdallah

1 year

Our first highlight goes to Xin Wen ( @xwen0113 ) for The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road. It's an amazing read, can be assigned to courses on history of diplomacy, #SilkRoad , methodology (archival research), Central Asia, and more

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Great opportunity to learn more about DH method in Chinese studies from some of its best practitioners!

Hilde De Weerdt

@hild_de

3 years

In 2016 we held the first Chinese #DH summer school. We promised we'd be back; @ankeqiang helped ensure we are. The call for applications is now up: European Summer School in Chinese #DigitalHumanities 6/2022 @univamu report 2017:

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@jembenham @BenPJMorris @sottewillsoulsb I would love to hear what colleagues working on diplomacy in other parts of the medieval world have to say about this book!

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@mdesjardin @pvierth I am writing to our (Princeton) EAS students, many of whom will no doubt be interested. Thanks for offering this fantastic workshop!

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