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.
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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). “Introduction to Part 3: Lexicography.” In Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues, ed. G. W. Most, D. Schäfer, and M. Söderblom Saarela, 229–239. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org…
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Most, Glenn W., Dagmar Schäfer, and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, eds. (2023). Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues. Ancient Languages and Civilizations 3. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org//10.1163/9789004527256.
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