@yunxie.bsky.social
Passion is a finite research resource. History is at once art and science. Art history and book history, history of knowledge. Hongkong Type matrices. Non Latin typography and typefoundery. PhDing @ UGent. ERC: PhiSci.
@yunxie.bsky.socialNew acquisition: Japanese Grammar, by Johann Hoffmann. English edition, 1876.
@jessesword.comReposted by @yunxie.bsky.socialAttention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.socialReposted by @yunxie.bsky.socialImPRESSed Yet?
I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
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@yunxie.bsky.socialFinally, my article on Java banknotes and 4 anti-counterfeiting scripts, especially Chinese font, has been published. "Printing Capital: Knowledge Networks, Typographic Innovation, and the Languages of Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies" in Philology in Europe before and after 1800 (2026).
@yunxie.bsky.socialNew acquisition: Geschiedenis van Baron Sakèndhèr een Javanese verhaal, by Cohen Stuart. 1850, Batavia. With the stamps of Batavian Genootschap and Natuurkundig Vereniging, and signature of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer（1860–1928), an expert of Javanese culture.
@chenchenzhang.netReposted by @yunxie.bsky.socialthe low-paid, gendered labour force behind China's AI industry: young mothers in county-level towns who are now "abandoned" as the models have been trained
theinitium.com/20260831-mai...
