Alumni

Marten Söderblom Saarela

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2022-Aug 2022)

I am a historian of late imperial China with an interest in the cultural and intellectual history of language. I currently work as an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. From 2015–2018, I was a postdoc at the MPIWG, returning as a visitor from July to August 2022. My book The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (2020) is based on my dissertation and research carried out during my time in Berlin. I continue to work on the roles played by the Manchu language in the Qing empire.

Projekte

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Development of Phonology as a Field of Study in Late Imperial China, 1500–1900

MEHR

Language and Governance in Qing Inner Asia

MEHR

Manchu and the Study of Language in China

MEHR

Thinking in Many Tongues

MEHR

Selected Publications

Söderblom Saarela, Mårten (2024). The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor. Sinica Leidensia 162. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/69272.

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Söderblom Saarela, Mårten (2023). “An Essay on the Use of Chinese and Korean Language in Late 18th-Century CE Chosŏn: Yu Tŭkkong, ‘Hyang’ŏ pan, Hwaŏ pan.’” In Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues, ed. G. W…

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Söderblom Saarela, Mårten (2023). “A Dictionary of the Imperial Capital: Shen Qiliang‘s Da Qing quanshu (1683).” In Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues, ed. G. W. Most, D. Schäfer, and M. Söderblom Saarela,…

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Söderblom Saarela, Mårten (2023). “Plurilingualism in China and Inner Asia in the 12th Century CE: Khitan Reciting Poetry.” In Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues, ed. G. W. Most, D. Schäfer, and M…

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Past Events

Lesegruppe

Thinking in Many Tongues: Lexicography

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Lesegruppe

Thinking in Many Tongues: Etymology in Pre-Modern Traditions

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Kolloquium

The European Invention of the Manchu Alphabet

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