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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
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Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 1d
My new paper on Kang Youwei's #康有為 interpretation of the Daxue #大學 was published just a few days ago. I first presented my research in Olomouc in 2022, so it has been a journey since then, but I am more than happy with the final result! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
Title and Abstract of my paper "On the Unity of Inner Sageliness and Outer Kingliness in Kang Youwei's Daxue zhu xu"

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 5d
Professorship in Indo-European Studies at Copenhagen U. (apply by 12 Jan 2026): jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
jobportal.ku.dk

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 6d
Call for applications for the
Friedrich Weller Prize 2026 (for works on Buddhism, China, India, published 2023--2025). For details, please see:
www.saw-leipzig.de/de/aktuelles...
Ausschreibung Friedrich-Weller-Preis 2026 — Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
www.saw-leipzig.de

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Geschichte der Gegenwart @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social · 7d
Korea hat Trump kürzlich die Reproduktion einer historischen goldenen Krone geschenkt. Verbirgt sich dahinter eine indirekte Kritik? Andrea Riemenschnitter über die Geschichte der Kronen aus dem Silla-Reich und die Kunst der versteckten Botschaften.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/eine-koreani...
Eine korea­ni­sche Krone für Donald Trump
Der koreanische Präsident Lee Jae Myung schenkte Trump die Replikation einer goldenen Krone. Auf den ersten Blick vielleicht eine Ehrerbietung an den Liebhaber von Glanz und Protz, zeigt aber ein Blic...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11d
Interested in the looong Chinese prehistory of the concept of "brainwashing" (xinao 洗腦) before its well-known appearance in the mid-20th century cold war story? Check out my article available in this volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11d
Congratulations @jim_bach_ and co-editors Brigit Knüsel Adamec and Justyna Jaguścik on the publication of the Festschrift Andrea Riemenschnitter,"Re-Thinking Literary China", available as the latest OA volume in our Worlds of East Asia Series here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...!

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Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 11d
Reposting due to faulty DOI

This issue has an open access article by Nicholas Sims-Williams on #Bactrian:

Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.

brill.com/view/journal...

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 11d
Dans 1 semaine, le 10 déc. à 17h au centre de colloques du Campus Condorcet, discussion (et pot) avec Romain Lefebvre (BNF) des documents géographiques de Dunhuang sur les questions de matérialité, d'histoire locale et d'organisation du savoir. all welcome

www.campus-condorcet.fr/fr/agenda/do...
Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois - Campus Condorcet
Le mercredi 10 décembre à 17h, l’Humathèque Condorcet organise une discussion autour du livre d'Alexis Lycas (EPHE-PSL) - "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographie...
www.campus-condorcet.fr

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 11d
#BOTD: Wang Guowei #王國維 (1877–1927). One of the most influential #classisicist scholars in #ModernChina, he drowned himself in Lake Kunming, which has been romanticised as a protest against #modernity and the death of traditional #ChineseCulture. #四大導師 #獨立之精神自由之思想

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Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social · 12d
Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊
www.cambridge.org

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John Benjamins Publishing Company @johnbenjamins.bsky.social · 13d
📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 17d
Jobs: Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews (apply by Jan 19, 2026): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/r...
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 at University of St Andrews
Recruiting now: Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
www.jobs.ac.uk

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French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) @cefc-fr.bsky.social · 17d
📖 Prix du mémoire sur la Chine contemporaine

Le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères organise la première édition du prix du mémoire sur la Chine contemporaine.

📅 Date limite de candidature : 15 janvier 2026

🔗 Plus d’infos : www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/le-minist...

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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · 18d
A 1842 French sinology article cover with 4 CN characters 其事好还” with Latin trans: “Quod ore prodit ad os revertitur. Prov.”
written by Guillaume Pauthier, who was comparing his own Dao De Jing道德经 trans with Stanislas Julien.
It’s one episode in longrunning debate between the two over trans of DDJ.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 20d
Summer school: Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy (Ljubljana), apply by 30 May 2026: as.ff.uni-lj.si/en/summer-sc...
Summer school: Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy | Oddelek za azijske študije | Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
as.ff.uni-lj.si

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 22d
Then off to the fantastic Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vitton today. (Mao, Davos, Graubünden, Vierwaldstättersee).

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 22d
Wonderful event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Association of/for Chinese Studies at the Collège de France yesterday. tinyurl.com/yp8nt3ws
European Association for Chinese Studies 50th Anniversary Event: The European Association for Chinese Studies and the Past, Present and Future of Chinese Studies in Europe – European Association for C...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
where he entertained us with fantastic stories and fine Belgian beer hidden "from the other missionaries" under his bed. May he continue to r.i.p.!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
For a nice obituary see W.S. Coblin in Monumenta Serica 47 (1999):505–514, summarized in the Wikipedia article on Serruys. I had the good fortune of visiting him in the retirement home of his congregation near Leuven shortly before his death with Bill Baxter (UMich.) 3/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
His work on the Fangyan 方言 and Old Chinese dialectology, on the syntax of oracle bone&bronze inscriptions and the Shangshu 尚書, or on children's riddles and ditties from Shanxi were pathbreaking achievements in their time and deserve to be read even today. 2/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
OTD in 1917, Paul Leo-Mary Serruys (d. 16.VIII.1999) was born in Flanders, who spent the first time of his life as a missionary of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae in China, the second as one of the leading scholars of Old Chinese philology in the US and Taiwan. 1/4

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
Meanwhile, here is Feng Shi 馮時's imaginative attempt to make sense of the markings on the ceramic supports: www.bilibili.com/opus/7985362...
馮時：華夏文明考源——柳林溪先民的宇宙觀 - 哔哩哔哩
www.bilibili.com

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25d
News about the 7000 year old "earliest Chinese script" from the Liulinxi 柳林溪 site which circulated on the Chinese internet in October are starting to reach English language media: tinyurl.com/dnwvsbyd.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Nov 12
Jobs: Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, requiring the ability to teach able to teach e.g. Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer. (apply by 12-Jan-2026), www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk

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Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social · Nov 12
Out now, #openaccess
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed

doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook
Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...
doi.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Nov 10
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Nov 10
Nice blogpost on (Chinese) Missionary Linguistcs by Otto Zwartjes (Paris), "[Q]uand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens", tinyurl.com/yx9sttae.
La linguistique missionnaire : quand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens
#LANGAGE EN COMMUN
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Nov 10
Postdoctoral position in global philology at U. Uppsala (apply by Nov. 26). Specialisations include: Comp./General Lx., Greek and Byzantine Studies, Indology, Iranian Languages, Latin, Semitic Languages, Sinology, and Turkic Languages. tinyurl.com/nhbk8fhh
Postdoctoral position in global philology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in global philology, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Nov 10
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, "historical linguistics pertaining to one or more language families of Africa, Oceania, and Eurasia" desired: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se

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Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social · Nov 8
Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition:

www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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