SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

The Manchu language, long thought to have vanished, is alive and well in a village in Fuyu County, Heilongjiang Province. Sanjiazi Village is reportedly the only place in the world where the language ...

As I will explain in what follows, our book was translated by one Stepan Lipoftsoff and printed in Saint Petersburg in 1835. It was the product of a remarkable collaboration involving Russian Orthodox ...