Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰
@medievalchina.bsky.social
Sinologist going medieval on State & Society of China・the China that interests me perished in 1912・Orientaliste en chambre・pron: 某/臣/佢
#BOTD: Zeng Guofan 曾國藩 (1811–1872), official and general of the Qing 清 (1644–1911). #Taiping #太平天國 #TongzhiRestoration #同治中興
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#BOTD: Zeng Guofan 曾國藩 (1811–1872), official and general of the Qing 清 (1644–1911). #Taiping #太平天國 #TongzhiRestoration #同治中興
#DOTD: Feng Youlan/Fung Yu-lan (1895–1990), Chinese philosopher, author of A History of #ChinesePhilosophy 中國哲學史 (1934, trans. by Derk Bodde). #ModernChina #諸子百家 #哲學 #Philosophy
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#DOTD: Feng Youlan/Fung Yu-lan (1895–1990), Chinese philosopher, author of A History of #ChinesePhilosophy 中國哲學史 (1934, trans. by Derk Bodde). #ModernChina #諸子百家 #哲學 #Philosophy
#DOTD: Hu Zongxian 胡宗憲 (1512–1565), Chinese Ming 明 military official, fighter of Japanese pirates 倭寇, and direct ancestor of former Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of China, Hu Jintao 胡錦濤. #籌海圖編 #EarlyModernChina
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#DOTD: Hu Zongxian 胡宗憲 (1512–1565), Chinese Ming 明 military official, fighter of Japanese pirates 倭寇, and direct ancestor of former Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of China, Hu Jintao 胡錦濤. #籌海圖編 #EarlyModernChina
#BOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese anarchist writer who also wrote in Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' 家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
#BOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese anarchist writer who also wrote in Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' 家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina
#DOTD age 38: Liu Boming #劉伯明 (1887–1923), first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in #philosophy, contributor to #CriticalReview #學衡 journal. Notable publication: Outline of Western #Ancient and #Medieval Philosophy 西洋 #古代 #中世 #哲學 史大綱. #ChinesePhilosophy #ModernChina
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
#DOTD age 38: Liu Boming #劉伯明 (1887–1923), first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in #philosophy, contributor to #CriticalReview #學衡 journal. Notable publication: Outline of Western #Ancient and #Medieval Philosophy 西洋 #古代 #中世 #哲學 史大綱. #ChinesePhilosophy #ModernChina
#DOTD: Xiang Da 向達 (1900–1966), #Chinese historian of the #MiddleAges, #Dunhuang #敦煌 scholar, translator, #bookhistorian. #MedievalChina #ModernChina #ChineseHistorians #Buddhism #EastWestExchanges #BertoldLaufer
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#DOTD: Xiang Da 向達 (1900–1966), #Chinese historian of the #MiddleAges, #Dunhuang #敦煌 scholar, translator, #bookhistorian. #MedievalChina #ModernChina #ChineseHistorians #Buddhism #EastWestExchanges #BertoldLaufer
#BOTD: Wen Yiduo 聞一多 (1899–1946), Chinese poet. #ModernChina
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
#BOTD: Wen Yiduo 聞一多 (1899–1946), Chinese poet. #ModernChina
#OTD in 1008, #Song #宋 Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 (r. 997–1022) performs the Feng Shan #封禪 sacrifice to Heaven & Earth on Mount Tai #泰山, one of five sacred mountains of #ImperialChina. Only six emperors personally performed these rites in #ChineseHistory, Zhenzong being the last.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#OTD in 1008, #Song #宋 Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 (r. 997–1022) performs the Feng Shan #封禪 sacrifice to Heaven & Earth on Mount Tai #泰山, one of five sacred mountains of #ImperialChina. Only six emperors personally performed these rites in #ChineseHistory, Zhenzong being the last.
I was today years old when I learned that Berlin has a Samurai Museum
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November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I was today years old when I learned that Berlin has a Samurai Museum
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Europe's one and only Samurai Museum in Berlin Mitte share.google/MLwMz2FecJnrvV���
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#ODT #ChineseHistory, we celebrate an imperial double-birthday: Li Ang 李昂 (809–840, r. 827–840), temple name (Tang #唐) Emperor Wenzong 文宗; and Zhao Jiong 趙炅 (aka Kuangyi 匡義 or Guangyi 光義, 939–997, r. 976–997), temple name (Song #宋) Taizong 太宗.#MedievalHistory #China
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#ODT #ChineseHistory, we celebrate an imperial double-birthday: Li Ang 李昂 (809–840, r. 827–840), temple name (Tang #唐) Emperor Wenzong 文宗; and Zhao Jiong 趙炅 (aka Kuangyi 匡義 or Guangyi 光義, 939–997, r. 976–997), temple name (Song #宋) Taizong 太宗.#MedievalHistory #China
A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
By Liu Zhiji
Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong
PUBLISHED: March 2023
SERIES: Classics of Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780295751061
Publisher: University of Washington Press
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
By Liu Zhiji
Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong
PUBLISHED: March 2023
SERIES: Classics of Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780295751061
Publisher: University of Washington Press
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
By Liu Zhiji
Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong
PUBLISHED: March 2023
SERIES: Classics of Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780295751061
Publisher: University of Washington Press
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
By Liu Zhiji
Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong
PUBLISHED: March 2023
SERIES: Classics of Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780295751061
Publisher: University of Washington Press
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
#DOTD: Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897–1931), one of the most influential poets of #ModernChinese. A student at King's College, Cambridge, his most famous poem is 'Once More Leaving Cambridge' #再別康橋. He tragically died in a plane crash in 1931.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhimo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhimo
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
#DOTD: Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897–1931), one of the most influential poets of #ModernChinese. A student at King's College, Cambridge, his most famous poem is 'Once More Leaving Cambridge' #再別康橋. He tragically died in a plane crash in 1931.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhimo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhimo
Works by #French #medievalist Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) in #Chinese translation, all published in recent years. #GlobalMiddleAges #medievalStudies #MedievalHistory #中古 #中世紀 #歐洲歷史
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Works by #French #medievalist Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) in #Chinese translation, all published in recent years. #GlobalMiddleAges #medievalStudies #MedievalHistory #中古 #中世紀 #歐洲歷史
#BOTD: Sima Guang #司馬光 (1019–86), Song #宋 (960–1279) statesman, compiler-in-chief of the monumental Mirror to Aid in Governance #資治通鑑, nemesis of Wang Anshi's #王安石 (1021–1086) New Policies #新法 and second-greatest #historian named Sima. #ChineseHistory #historiography
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#BOTD: Sima Guang #司馬光 (1019–86), Song #宋 (960–1279) statesman, compiler-in-chief of the monumental Mirror to Aid in Governance #資治通鑑, nemesis of Wang Anshi's #王安石 (1021–1086) New Policies #新法 and second-greatest #historian named Sima. #ChineseHistory #historiography
#OTD in 557: Chen Baxian 陳霸先 (503–559) deposes Xiao Fangzhi 蕭方智 (543–558), last ruler of the Liang 梁 dynasty, and establishes Chen 陳 (557–589), last of the Southern Dynasties 南朝—incidentally the only dyn. in #ChineseHistory that bears the same name as its ruling family.
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#OTD in 557: Chen Baxian 陳霸先 (503–559) deposes Xiao Fangzhi 蕭方智 (543–558), last ruler of the Liang 梁 dynasty, and establishes Chen 陳 (557–589), last of the Southern Dynasties 南朝—incidentally the only dyn. in #ChineseHistory that bears the same name as its ruling family.
#BOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), Chinese historian and classicist of Hakka 客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 中國科學院, often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao Zedong 毛澤東 and the CCP / CPC.
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
#BOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), Chinese historian and classicist of Hakka 客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 中國科學院, often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao Zedong 毛澤東 and the CCP / CPC.
#OTD 207 BCE in #ChineseHistory: Ziying #子嬰, last ruler of #Qin #秦, after being on the throne for only 46 days, submits to an army led by Liu Bang #劉邦, future Emperor Gao #高帝/#高祖 of #Han #漢 (r. 202–195). #ImperialChina's first dynasty thus ends after less than 15 years.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
#OTD 207 BCE in #ChineseHistory: Ziying #子嬰, last ruler of #Qin #秦, after being on the throne for only 46 days, submits to an army led by Liu Bang #劉邦, future Emperor Gao #高帝/#高祖 of #Han #漢 (r. 202–195). #ImperialChina's first dynasty thus ends after less than 15 years.
#OTD 180 BCE in #ChineseHistory: After wresting power from the clan of Empress Lü #呂后, the court of #Han #漢 enthrones Liu Heng #劉恆 (Wendi #文帝, r. 180–157), a son of Han founder Liu Bang #劉邦 and known for his frugality and the abolition of #corporalpunishments. #文景之治
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
#OTD 180 BCE in #ChineseHistory: After wresting power from the clan of Empress Lü #呂后, the court of #Han #漢 enthrones Liu Heng #劉恆 (Wendi #文帝, r. 180–157), a son of Han founder Liu Bang #劉邦 and known for his frugality and the abolition of #corporalpunishments. #文景之治
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Sun Wen #孫文 (1866–1925), courtesy name 字 Yixian #逸仙 (Yat-sen in #Cantonese), better known in the #Sinophone World as Zhongshan #中山, a name he adopted in exile in Japan. 1st (provisional) president of the Republic of China #中華民國 & Father of the Nation #國父.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Sun Wen #孫文 (1866–1925), courtesy name 字 Yixian #逸仙 (Yat-sen in #Cantonese), better known in the #Sinophone World as Zhongshan #中山, a name he adopted in exile in Japan. 1st (provisional) president of the Republic of China #中華民國 & Father of the Nation #國父.
Arnold Gehlen, Urmensch und Spätkultur. Philosophische Ergebnisse und Aussagen. #Philosophie #Anthropologie #Ethnologie #Soziologie #Sozialwissenschaft
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Arnold Gehlen, Urmensch und Spätkultur. Philosophische Ergebnisse und Aussagen. #Philosophie #Anthropologie #Ethnologie #Soziologie #Sozialwissenschaft
When in Hong Kong, maybe bc it's so hot and one happens to stand on escalators so often, I noticed that young people take great care in choosing T-shirts. Two of the more bad-ass slogans I saw read "Obey—extra bitter—since 1989" and "Rehab is for Quitters". Can't argue with that.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
When in Hong Kong, maybe bc it's so hot and one happens to stand on escalators so often, I noticed that young people take great care in choosing T-shirts. Two of the more bad-ass slogans I saw read "Obey—extra bitter—since 1989" and "Rehab is for Quitters". Can't argue with that.
Wang wrote one of the earliest accounts of a #European war in Chinese, the Pu-Fa zhanji #普法戰紀, about the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. Illustrations are from his 'Jottings and Drawings from Carefree Travel' 漫遊隨錄圖記 and show #Paris (left) and #Edinburgh (right).
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Wang wrote one of the earliest accounts of a #European war in Chinese, the Pu-Fa zhanji #普法戰紀, about the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. Illustrations are from his 'Jottings and Drawings from Carefree Travel' 漫遊隨錄圖記 and show #Paris (left) and #Edinburgh (right).
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.