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...walls of his office, pictures of plaster figures of dinosaurs found in Mongolia, a reproduction portrait of a Manchu by a Jesuit and a scroll written in Jurchen calligraphy, an extinct language from northern China. Then there are his bookshelves, where books about everything from Dharma art to Bronze Age transportation are written in languages including French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic...
...started studying Arabic, Russian and Chinese," recalls Di Cosmo, who now teaches Manchu, the language of the last imperial Chinese dynasty, along with his Inner Asian history classes. "But then I realized I couldn't study both Arabic and Chinese, so I dropped Arabic. I studied Chinese literature, language and history...
...Cosmo, who studies the premodern history of Chinese foreign relations, Harvard's offer in 1993 allowed him to teach both Inner Asian history and two rarely-studied languages, Manchu and Literary Mongolian...
...different historical sense, Deng replayed many aspects of the role of Chinese and Manchu statesmen during the waning years of China's last dynasty, the Qing, in the second half of the 19th century. Profoundly conscious of the advanced technological power of the West, these statesmen sought ways to graft elements of foreign technology and organizational skills onto their own economic and political infrastructure, so that they could achieve the delicate task of strengthening their country rather than undermining it from within. This selective and gradualist approach allowed China to keep at least a measure of faith that...
...college when politicians began to describe collegiate pot smoking as experimentation--saying, "I did experiment with marijuana." She says she did it "less than a handful of times." She says that "looking back on it, it was the wrong thing to do." Evidently the guy with the Fu Manchu mustache still hadn't graduated...