Xin Wen
@xwen0113
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Associate Professor of Chinese History at Princeton University. Also works on pre-Islamic Central Asia and global history of the medieval world.
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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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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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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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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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Table of Contents of my book, The King's Road. Forthcoming Jan 2023.
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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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Thrilled and humbled that my book The King's Road from
@PrincetonUPress
has been awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize from the
@AHAhistorians
.
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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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.
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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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!
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My book is on sale with 50% off! Also, a paperback version will come out this December!
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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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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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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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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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You can read the introduction of my forthcoming book online through the Princeton University Press website, if you are interested
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will be giving a talk at Berkeley on Oct 27 on my book. Hope to see some of my Bay area friends.
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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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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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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.
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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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New article in Journal of Chinese history is "live," even though it is not officially published yet.
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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
!
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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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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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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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If you are interested, there is a 50% off for all Princeton books, including my book
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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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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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Will be giving a book talk this Wednesday (March 8) at 4:30 pm EST at Rutgers University. Thanks to
@TaoJiangScholar
for the invitation!
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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Grateful for this review of my book. I really agree with the author that "the inner monologue could run a bit more freely"
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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.
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Looking forward to presenting my work on how the ruined medieval city of Chang’an was rebuilt at Indiana University
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Thanks for plugging this
@PrincetonHist
:)
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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Big news. One of the most important journal in the field is now digitized.
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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IDP is finally back online!
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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Looking forward to this in-person book talk at Yale on Wednesday. Grateful for Valerie and Eric's invitation!
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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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!
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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.
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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實至名歸
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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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!
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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!
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New open-access article on using GIS to reconstruct China's medieval capital Chang'an out on Startwords from
@PrincetonCDH
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Incredible opportunity to study the British Library Dunhuang materials with two leading experts!
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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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!
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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.
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Exciting to get back to working on Turfan documents. Thanks
@bryandaniellowe
for taking the photo!
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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Very humbled to be included in this list.
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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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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Starting to build a infrastructure of
#DH
in
#EastAsianStudies
at Princeton with the generous support of
@PrincetonDH
. Looking forward to the new year!
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Excited to be working on "deep map" of Chang'an with
@PrincetonDH
!
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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This project looks amazing! Thanks
@MartinH49009792
for noticing it.
🎉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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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 😅
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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"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!
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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Excited to talk about how to start turning your dissertation into a book manuscript on Oct 26 with brilliant colleagues including
@DGTam86
@SeijiShirane
@Sonjamthomas_
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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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!
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Can't wait to read Étienne de la Vaissière's new book!
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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Really enjoyed this panel, including the presentation of
@hild_de
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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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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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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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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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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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"
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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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It was a great event! I learned a lot from the participants. Thanks for organizing
@ImreGalambos
!
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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What a lineup! Wish I could be there...
#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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Congratulations on an important book!
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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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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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tomorrow!
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
!
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!
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Thanks to
@ACLS1919
for the generous support!
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!
Cover ready. Final proofs turned in. Publication before AOS meeting (March 18-20)!
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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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@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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Thank you for reading and recommending!
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Great opportunity to learn more about DH method in Chinese studies from some of its best practitioners!
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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