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Andrew West
@BabelStone
The bird is gone, so am I.
Feb 24, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
The Tiānyīgé 天一閣 library in Níngbō holds two of the original three volumes (71 out of 108 folios) of the only surviving example of a woodblock printed edition of the Jurchen section of the Sino-Foreign Vocabularies 華夷譯語 produced during the Ming dynasty. Image The Tiānyīgé library holds nine volumes of the Ming dynasty woodblock printed edition of the Sino-Foreign Vocabularies 華夷譯語: Siamese 暹羅 1 vol., Qocho 髙昌 2 vols., 百夷 Xishuangbanna Dai 2 vols., Jurchen 女直 2 vols., and Tibetan 西番 2 vols. gj.tianyige.com.cn/SearchPage?tit… ImageImageImageImage
Feb 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Painted clay statues unearthed from Xianying Palace 显应宫 at the Ming dynasty (1475+) Qingping Fort site in Shaanxi (陕西靖边清平堡遗址) bjnews.com.cn/detail/1677038… Image The statues show two different styles: typical Ming dynasty style (like the one below) and Mongolian style, reflecting the mixture of Han and Mongolian populations in this border fort. Image
Apr 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
160 photographs by Joseph Needham taken during his Northwest journey in October 1943 at Jiāyùguān 嘉峪關, Qiānfódòng 千佛洞, and Dūnhuáng 敦煌 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-NRI-00…

Three stupas on the eastern bank of the Dàquán river at Qiānfódòng 大泉河东岸舍利塔 1/6 The grave and stupa of the Daoist monk Wáng Yuánlù 王圓籙 (1849–1931) who discovered the library cave at Qiānfódòng en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yuan… 2/6
Apr 6, 2022 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
I was shocked and dismayed to see this discussion of the Tangut name for the Tangut state by Prof. Shǐ Jīnbō 史金波 on pp. 434–435 of his "Tangut Language and Manuscripts" (2020; trans. by @Hansong_Li from his 2003 《西夏文教程》) . Egregiously incorrect parts are marked in red. Image And this on p. 6 of the same book. Image
Jul 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I love the colour scheme for the wooden enclosure for the famous Tangut dharani pillars at Baoding ... ... zooms in on the Tangut text 🎨🤦
Mar 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
BabelStone fonts support a wide range of the 5,930 characters added to #Unicode13 which is due to be released in a few days time ... babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/index.ht… ... including 2,447 out of the 4,939 characters added to CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G on the new Tertiary Ideographic Plane (TIP) ...
Nov 23, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Four important archaeological discoveries on the Silk Road in China announced yesterday:

1) In Qinghai, a royal tomb from the Tibetan Empire, circa 700, excavated Sept. 2018 to Sept. 2019; with murals, a gilt crown and a gold cup inlaid with turquoise. kaogu.cssn.cn/zwb/xccz/20191… 2) In Gansu, discovered on 25 September 2019, the tomb of Murong Zhi 慕容智, 3rd son of Murong Nuohebo, last khan of the Tuyuhun kingdom, who died in 691 aged 42. kaogu.cssn.cn/zwb/xccz/20191…
Sep 11, 2017 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tangut printed with moveable type — the same defective type sort (broken stroke) is used on two consecutive folios unicode.org/L2/L2017/17314… There are many examples of broken type pieces recurring multiple times in this text. For example the broken 𘞙 (U+18799) in the right image of the above tweet also occurs on folio 34B.