Category Archives: History of scholarship

Aurel Stein’s visit to Japan

Posted on 03/30/2012 by imre

Galambos, Imre. “Sir Aurel Stein’s visit to Japan His diary and notebook.” In Helen Wang, ed., Sir Aurel Stein: Colleagues and collections. British Museum Research Publication 184 (2012): 1-9. This paper is based on Aurel Stein’s diary and notebook he kept while travelling in … Continue reading →

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An unrecognized photo of Aurel Stein

Posted on 01/14/2012 by imre

Last week we went down for a few days to the south of Hungary and while there I wanted to see at a village called Gádoros, near Orosháza, the “museum” of Zsigmond Justh (1863-1894), a talented Hungarian writer who died … Continue reading →

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Manuscripts of translations made from printed texts

Posted on 12/07/2011 by imre

Recently a 16-volume publication came out with “rare and precious” (guji zhenben 古籍珍本) travel manuscripts in the collection of the National Library of China (NLC). Having flipped through the volumes, I was surprised to find a text titled Xiongyali youji 匈牙利游記 (Record … Continue reading →

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The beginnings of Tibetan studies: Denison Ross and Alexander Csoma de Kőrös

Posted on 11/16/2011 by imre

This is an article of mine that has just come out: Imre Galambos. “‘Touched a nation’s heart’: Sir R. Denison Ross and Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 21, No. 3 (July 2011): 361-375. Read … Continue reading →

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The role of A. O. Hobbs in the third Otani expedition

Posted on 07/11/2011 by imre

Putting my earlier articles online: An English participant in the Japanese exploration of Central Asia: The role of A. O. Hobbs in the third Otani expedition (Imre Galambos) In I. F. Popova, ed., Russian Expeditions to Central Asia at the … Continue reading →

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A Hungarian Visitor Among the Ainu

Posted on 06/21/2011 by imre

Putting some of my older publications online: A Hungarian Visitor Among the Ainu: A Translation of Benedek Baráthosi-Balogh’s Travel Reports to Sakhalin and Hokkaido (Imre Galambos) Japanese Religions, Vol. 33, 1&2 (2008): 55-74 Benedek Baráthosi-Balogh (1870-1945) was a public school … Continue reading →

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Sir Aurel Stein, Lajos Ligeti and a case of mistaken identity

Posted on 06/21/2011 by imre

Putting online some of my older publications: Another Hungarian looting China’s treasures? Sir Aurel Stein, Lajos Ligeti and a case of mistaken identity (Imre Galambos) Tonkō shahon kenkyū nenpō 敦煌写本研究年報, no. 4 (March 2010): 195-207. The voluminous publication Zhonghua minguo … Continue reading →

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Chinese seals in Ireland

Posted on 06/21/2011 by imre

Putting online some of my older publications: The story of the Chinese seals found in Ireland (Imre Galambos) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 18, 4 (2008), pp. 465-479. In 1850, a paper was read before the Royal … Continue reading →

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Aurel Stein – Flowers to Lajos Lóczy

Posted on 04/19/2011 by imre

Last summer we were at Lake Balaton in western Hungary and decided to take a day trip to the Balatonarács cemetery to visit the grave of the famous Hungarian explorer and geologist Lajos Lóczy (1849-1920). In the West, he is … Continue reading →

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Denison Ross and the Tibetan monks in London

Posted on 11/19/2010 by imre

While in Shanghai, I also visited the Xujiahui branch of the Shanghai Library, where they have old western books and newspapers. This is the old Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei with an amazing architecture and equally impressive holdings of books. I spent some … Continue reading →

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