The latest issue of China Heritage Quarterly is online. This issue’s theme is explained by guest editor Duncan Campbell:
[D]edicated to the Heritage of Books, Collections, and Libraries … also occasioned by an event worthy of commemoration but one which seems likely to slip by with little note: the death in Shanghai in late December 1919 of the important Qing-dynasty historian, bibliographer and book collector, Miao Quansun 繆荃孫 (1844-1919).
Other highlights include:
• A poem and obituary for translator Yang Xianyi, who died in Beijing on November 23 this year, at the age of 94.
• An interview with a Han supremacist beggar by oral historian Sang Ye (author of the highly recommended China Candid.
• A gentleman is not a pot, a rare interview with polymath Sinologist polymath Pierre Ryckmans, perhaps better known by his pen name Simon Leys, about “on issues related to the teaching of Chinese and Asian languages in Australian schools”.