Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
@behrwolf.bsky.social
Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
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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.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
📖 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...
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...
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
📖 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...
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...
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
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November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
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
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November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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...
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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November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Wonderful event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Association of/for Chinese Studies at the Collège de France yesterday. tinyurl.com/yp8nt3ws
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
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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
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.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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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,
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
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...
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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November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Nice blogpost on (Chinese) Missionary Linguistcs by Otto Zwartjes (Paris), "[Q]uand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens", tinyurl.com/yx9sttae.
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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November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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 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
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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/...
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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...
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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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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🎓The SERI awards up to 3 scholarships for PhDs at the European University Institute in Florence from 2026–2027
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🎓The SERI awards up to 3 scholarships for PhDs at the European University Institute in Florence from 2026–2027
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events
Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Interesting new paper on training an LLM to write Tang poetry (doi:10.1038/s40494-025-02087-x), including a Turing test to evaluate results, which concludes:
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Interesting new paper on training an LLM to write Tang poetry (doi:10.1038/s40494-025-02087-x), including a Turing test to evaluate results, which concludes:
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Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
Advice for students
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students The number of philosophy programs, graduate or undergraduate, where students can seriously study Indian philosophy is small, compared to even ancient Gr…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
malcolmkeatingsite.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
OTD in 1894 Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) passed away impoverished in London. To commemorate the extremely productive and pleasantly eccentric "Sino-Babylonian" scholar, I uploaded a little CV (to appear in shortened form in the ODNB) here: tinyurl.com/4nbf96bm.
October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
OTD in 1894 Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) passed away impoverished in London. To commemorate the extremely productive and pleasantly eccentric "Sino-Babylonian" scholar, I uploaded a little CV (to appear in shortened form in the ODNB) here: tinyurl.com/4nbf96bm.
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Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
Félicitations à @lxslcs.bsky.social on the occasion of his new OA volume "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois". Go to books.openedition.org/cdf/20307 for a table of contents and download links in different formats.
Documents géographiques de Dunhuang
La découverte au tournant du xxe siècle de milliers de documents dans l’oasis centrasiatique de Dunhuang fut comparable, par son retentissement scientifique, à celle des manuscrits de la mer Morte ou ...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Félicitations à @lxslcs.bsky.social on the occasion of his new OA volume "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois". Go to books.openedition.org/cdf/20307 for a table of contents and download links in different formats.
Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
Kidder Smith and John Holt, faculty · Bowdoin College Library Special Collections & Archives
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October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
Fascinating new article on "The Language of Teotihuacan Writing" as an Uto-Aztecan language immediately ancestral to Nahuatl, Cora, and Huichol using a logographic/rebus driven writing system: t.co/DLeIKK1VXJ.
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/737863?journalCode=ca
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October 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fascinating new article on "The Language of Teotihuacan Writing" as an Uto-Aztecan language immediately ancestral to Nahuatl, Cora, and Huichol using a logographic/rebus driven writing system: t.co/DLeIKK1VXJ.
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
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Did Chinese kiss?
Did Chinese Kiss?
It may seem like a silly question, but a new book by scholar Hu Wenhui tries to resolve the debate over whether kissing has always been a part of Chinese courtship.
www.sixthtone.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Did Chinese kiss?