Martin J. Heijdra *95 EAS
Librarian, Scholar, Cosmopolite
Director, East Asian Library, Princeton University Library
Martin Heijdra studied sinology and Japanology in Leiden, Beijing and Kyōto before receiving a Ph.D. in Ming history at Princeton, with its thesis partly published in “The Cambridge History of China” (2008). In 1988, he became the Chinese bibliographer at Princeton’s East Asian Library and was named its director in 2015. In those capacities, he published on various aspects of the history of the East Asian book and non-Western typography. He is the book review editor for the East Asian Publishing and Society journal, treasurer of the Society for Ming Studies and advisory board member for the Bibliography of Asian Studies. For 20 years, he was a board member of the Geiss Hsu Foundation, which has become a major sponsor for activities in the field of late imperial China. In 2024, he co-taught a course at Princeton titled “The Book in Ming China: History & Analysis” under the auspices of the Rare Book School.