Charles Randles
@randlesc.bsky.social
Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.
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Our #StAndrewsDay sale is live!
We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend!
Enjoy!
https://edin.ac/32O7hNr
We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend!
Enjoy!
https://edin.ac/32O7hNr
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our #StAndrewsDay sale is live!
We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend!
Enjoy!
https://edin.ac/32O7hNr
We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend!
Enjoy!
https://edin.ac/32O7hNr
Just a heads up, especially to those in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Edinburgh University Press will once again have its St. Andrew’s Day sale. 50% off all books. November 29th and 30th.
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just a heads up, especially to those in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Edinburgh University Press will once again have its St. Andrew’s Day sale. 50% off all books. November 29th and 30th.
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Excited to say that my article on horse names in China's ancient postal system has been published with Early China! 🐎✉️🌿 Meet Skittish Fish, Calm at the Carriage, and, my personal fave, Cinnamon Stick, at the link below:
#animalhistory
#animalhistory
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November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Excited to say that my article on horse names in China's ancient postal system has been published with Early China! 🐎✉️🌿 Meet Skittish Fish, Calm at the Carriage, and, my personal fave, Cinnamon Stick, at the link below:
#animalhistory
#animalhistory
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Have you started making holiday gift lists? Find books for all the readers in your life, and mark your calendars for our first ever sitewide sale, taking place November 26-December 3!
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Have you started making holiday gift lists? Find books for all the readers in your life, and mark your calendars for our first ever sitewide sale, taking place November 26-December 3!
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BDG news: Buddhist Heritage: South Korea to Designate Two Goryeo-Era Pagodas as National Treasures
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4bswskf5
#Buddhism #BuddhistTemple #SouthKorea #Korea #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistHistory #Seon #Zen #Seosan #Yecheon #BuddhistCulture #Pagoda
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#Buddhism #BuddhistTemple #SouthKorea #Korea #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistHistory #Seon #Zen #Seosan #Yecheon #BuddhistCulture #Pagoda
Buddhist Heritage: South Korea to Designate Two Goryeo-Era Pagodas as National Treasures - Buddhistdoor Global
The Korea Heritage Service said on Thursday that two Buddhist stone pagodas dated to the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) are to be designated National Treasures.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
BDG news: Buddhist Heritage: South Korea to Designate Two Goryeo-Era Pagodas as National Treasures
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4bswskf5
#Buddhism #BuddhistTemple #SouthKorea #Korea #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistHistory #Seon #Zen #Seosan #Yecheon #BuddhistCulture #Pagoda
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4bswskf5
#Buddhism #BuddhistTemple #SouthKorea #Korea #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistHistory #Seon #Zen #Seosan #Yecheon #BuddhistCulture #Pagoda
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Found this great illustrated edition of 子不語 (What the Master Didn't Say) from 1914. Printed using lithography, each volume has a few illustrations followed by the text in a compact font. All four volumes are on the @wikimediafoundation.org Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS...
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Found this great illustrated edition of 子不語 (What the Master Didn't Say) from 1914. Printed using lithography, each volume has a few illustrations followed by the text in a compact font. All four volumes are on the @wikimediafoundation.org Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS...
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New publication:
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October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New publication:
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The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong
www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong
www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Coming (quite) soon
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September 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Coming (quite) soon
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September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Great news for the field!
Those interested in Japanese Studies librarianship will be delighted to learn that University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hamilton Library has established a new training program for mentoring Japan subject librarians! Learn about this exciting new opportunity: www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/09...
Hamilton Library launches Japanese studies librarianship training program | University of Hawaiʻi System News
The Uehiro Foundation gift makes the new training program possible.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Great news for the field!
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Pascal Quignard looks as surprised as anyone that he won this year's prix Jean Monnet de littérature européenne (beating out books by Josef Winkler and Mircea Cărtărescu). litteratures-europeennes.com/les-prix-lit...
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Pascal Quignard looks as surprised as anyone that he won this year's prix Jean Monnet de littérature européenne (beating out books by Josef Winkler and Mircea Cărtărescu). litteratures-europeennes.com/les-prix-lit...
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Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)
Forms & Function
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September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)
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Seems like a good reason to return to social media. Happy to share my article in NYT books featuring some of my favorite fantasy authors, including works by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Rebecca Roanhorse, John Wiswell and more. #fantasybooks
Great Fantasy Novels With Unlikely Heroes
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September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Seems like a good reason to return to social media. Happy to share my article in NYT books featuring some of my favorite fantasy authors, including works by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Rebecca Roanhorse, John Wiswell and more. #fantasybooks
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"Echoes of Great Brightness" conference will be live-streamed, on 16 and 17 September, and you can watch a great roster of speakers on art of the Ming and art of the non-Ming, online: the link is here: web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...
Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond.
An International Conference in Honour of Craig Clunas.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Echoes of Great Brightness" conference will be live-streamed, on 16 and 17 September, and you can watch a great roster of speakers on art of the Ming and art of the non-Ming, online: the link is here: web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...
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New documentary out now!
Around Luang Prabang is one of the world’s few regions where traditional manuscript culture still thrives. Researchers Agnieszka Helman-Wazny & Volker Grabowsky spent years capturing the voices of those keeping this legacy alive.
🎞️Watch the full film here: uhh.de/csmc-laos
Around Luang Prabang is one of the world’s few regions where traditional manuscript culture still thrives. Researchers Agnieszka Helman-Wazny & Volker Grabowsky spent years capturing the voices of those keeping this legacy alive.
🎞️Watch the full film here: uhh.de/csmc-laos
July 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New documentary out now!
Around Luang Prabang is one of the world’s few regions where traditional manuscript culture still thrives. Researchers Agnieszka Helman-Wazny & Volker Grabowsky spent years capturing the voices of those keeping this legacy alive.
🎞️Watch the full film here: uhh.de/csmc-laos
Around Luang Prabang is one of the world’s few regions where traditional manuscript culture still thrives. Researchers Agnieszka Helman-Wazny & Volker Grabowsky spent years capturing the voices of those keeping this legacy alive.
🎞️Watch the full film here: uhh.de/csmc-laos
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Are you in the Seattle area? Come see me at Third Place Books in Ravenna on Sept 16, 7pm. I'll be talking about and reading from my new book, followed by Q&A and a book-signing session. Would love to see you there.
Check out the link for more info, to RSVP, and to pre-order a book for signing.
Check out the link for more info, to RSVP, and to pre-order a book for signing.
www.thirdplacebooks.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Are you in the Seattle area? Come see me at Third Place Books in Ravenna on Sept 16, 7pm. I'll be talking about and reading from my new book, followed by Q&A and a book-signing session. Would love to see you there.
Check out the link for more info, to RSVP, and to pre-order a book for signing.
Check out the link for more info, to RSVP, and to pre-order a book for signing.
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My Journey through Japan’s Printing & Script Museums
I spent eleven days in Japan traveling with my elderly parents. In between “babysitting duties,” I managed to slip away to three museums devoted to printing and writing.🧵:
I spent eleven days in Japan traveling with my elderly parents. In between “babysitting duties,” I managed to slip away to three museums devoted to printing and writing.🧵:
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My Journey through Japan’s Printing & Script Museums
I spent eleven days in Japan traveling with my elderly parents. In between “babysitting duties,” I managed to slip away to three museums devoted to printing and writing.🧵:
I spent eleven days in Japan traveling with my elderly parents. In between “babysitting duties,” I managed to slip away to three museums devoted to printing and writing.🧵:
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WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot!
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
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Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
August 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot!
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
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With free access to Roel Sterckx on "Fish-Farming in Pre-Modern China" (As he reminds us, "If not for Yu, we would all be fish" 微禹，吾其魚乎)
The latest T’oung Pao issue is out:
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August 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
With free access to Roel Sterckx on "Fish-Farming in Pre-Modern China" (As he reminds us, "If not for Yu, we would all be fish" 微禹，吾其魚乎)
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My review of Catherine Despeux’s translation of the Classic of Tea 茶經 appears in the new issue of T’oung Pao brill.com/view/journal...
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August 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My review of Catherine Despeux’s translation of the Classic of Tea 茶經 appears in the new issue of T’oung Pao brill.com/view/journal...
I've been wanting to get @rachelschine.bsky.social 's book, Black Knights, for a while now and just realized it's from the University of Chicago Press and they're having a 75% off ebook sale ending 8/17. Discount code ebook75 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I've been wanting to get @rachelschine.bsky.social 's book, Black Knights, for a while now and just realized it's from the University of Chicago Press and they're having a 75% off ebook sale ending 8/17. Discount code ebook75 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The former head of the school of tea ceremony Urasenke, Sen Genshitsu, had passed away at 102.
August 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The former head of the school of tea ceremony Urasenke, Sen Genshitsu, had passed away at 102.
During lockdown I watched a performance on YouTube that was a mashup of Noh and pansori. I have no idea who performed it and can't find mention of it. I was wondering if someone out there might know it.
@thekpopprof.bsky.social, does it ring any bells with you?
#Noh #pansori #Asiantheatre
@thekpopprof.bsky.social, does it ring any bells with you?
#Noh #pansori #Asiantheatre
August 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
During lockdown I watched a performance on YouTube that was a mashup of Noh and pansori. I have no idea who performed it and can't find mention of it. I was wondering if someone out there might know it.
@thekpopprof.bsky.social, does it ring any bells with you?
#Noh #pansori #Asiantheatre
@thekpopprof.bsky.social, does it ring any bells with you?
#Noh #pansori #Asiantheatre