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The Brown Bag Lunch Series, presented by the ABAA Gender Equity Initiative, is a series of short virtual talks covering various topics, from crash courses in areas of expertise to best business practices.
Please join the Gender Equity Initiative on Zoom on December 13th, 2023, at 2 PM ET for a Brown Bag Lunch Series with Megumi Hill and Mårten Söderblom Saarela from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
December 13th @ 2pm
Megumi Hill & Mårten Söderblom Saarela - Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
Manchu Books and Japanese Books
Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Mårten received his PhD from Princeton University and has worked at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, for the past four years, most recently as an associate research fellow. His research centered on the cultural and intellectual history of language in late imperial China. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and was trained in Sweden, France, the UK, South Korea, and China.
Mårten is the author of The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and the forthcoming The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (Leiden: Brill), and numerous articles. In addition to having co-edited two books, he is currently co-authoring a book manuscript with the working title "The Manchu Mirrors and the Language of Natural History in High Qing China."
Cover of Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.'s Catalog 240, "Japanese, Chinese, & Korean Books, Manuscripts & Scrolls."