Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
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Gregory Scott on Buddhist Mass Media in Modern China [MCI Talk]
YouTube video by Manchester China Institute
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The Manchester China Institute put together an outstanding recording of my public talk from 15th October, now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CO...
Keeping my #proofofcat up to date with Ness
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Keeping my #proofofcat up to date with Ness
全世界機器人聯合起來
China’s top economic-planning agency warns of the risk of a bubble forming in humanoid robotics – Bloomberg: ‘Humanoid robotics is one of the six industries named by the ruling Communist Party as new economic growth drivers for the future’
China Warns of Bubble Risk in Booming Humanoid Robotics Industry
China’s powerful economic-planning agency warned of the risks of a bubble forming in the country’s humanoid robotics industry, issuing a rare official expression of concern about a pivotal sphere of t...
www.bloomberg.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
全世界機器人聯合起來
Something was subtly bothering me on this train and I think I figured out what it is
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Something was subtly bothering me on this train and I think I figured out what it is
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Three village headmen, Shandong province, c.1910
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Three village headmen, Shandong province, c.1910
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Sitting on the south bank of the river Loire, construction finished at the Château de Chanteloup in 1778 on an imposing new edifice, a seven-story Chinese-style pagoda.
Built by a once-exiled French army officer, the pagoda at Chanteloup remains one of the few remnants of the palace.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #France
Built by a once-exiled French army officer, the pagoda at Chanteloup remains one of the few remnants of the palace.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #France
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sitting on the south bank of the river Loire, construction finished at the Château de Chanteloup in 1778 on an imposing new edifice, a seven-story Chinese-style pagoda.
Built by a once-exiled French army officer, the pagoda at Chanteloup remains one of the few remnants of the palace.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #France
Built by a once-exiled French army officer, the pagoda at Chanteloup remains one of the few remnants of the palace.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #France
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Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
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November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
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天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
China is making trade impossible – Robin Harding in FT: ‘There is nothing that China wants to import, nothing it does not believe it can make better and cheaper, nothing for which it wants to rely on foreigners a single day longer than it has to.’ www.ft.com/content/f294...
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
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A large Chinese junk style rudder, photographed c.1920 - large rudders like this - up to 120ft - were developed long before western style rudders came into widespread use.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A large Chinese junk style rudder, photographed c.1920 - large rudders like this - up to 120ft - were developed long before western style rudders came into widespread use.
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Please share: 2 fully funded 4 year PhD studentships for autumn 2026 entry at the Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social here at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰:
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𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰:
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November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Please share: 2 fully funded 4 year PhD studentships for autumn 2026 entry at the Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social here at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
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These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
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'Go Cats' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt #Monday
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
'Go Cats' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt #Monday
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From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
I think that's this battleship completed. Speedpaints really brought out the detail here #BattlefleetGothic #warhammer
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I think that's this battleship completed. Speedpaints really brought out the detail here #BattlefleetGothic #warhammer
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The Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library yielded a delight: Lady Mountbatten’s lingerie, sewn from old Italian campaign maps. Austerity at its most intimate. 👙
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library yielded a delight: Lady Mountbatten’s lingerie, sewn from old Italian campaign maps. Austerity at its most intimate. 👙
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My new article on the Consecration Sūtra (T no. 1331) and the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon is out. It rethinks canonization in medieval China and shows how so-called apocrypha shaped practice and authority on the ground. "From heresy to orthodoxy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From heresy to orthodoxy: apocrypha and canonization in Chinese Buddhism – the case of the Consecration Sūtra (Guanding jing 灌頂經)
This article re-examines canon and canonization in Chinese Buddhism through a focused case study of the Consecration Sūtra (Guanding jing 灌頂經, T no. 1331). The opening section treats ‘canon’ and ‘c...
www.tandfonline.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My new article on the Consecration Sūtra (T no. 1331) and the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon is out. It rethinks canonization in medieval China and shows how so-called apocrypha shaped practice and authority on the ground. "From heresy to orthodoxy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Two more images by Sha Fei (沙飞) - early 1940s. Sha Fei was one of the first Chinese photojournalists. Working with the Eighth Route Army in the late 1930s and 1940s, he produced some of the earliest frontline images of the Communist war against Japan.
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Two more images by Sha Fei (沙飞) - early 1940s. Sha Fei was one of the first Chinese photojournalists. Working with the Eighth Route Army in the late 1930s and 1940s, he produced some of the earliest frontline images of the Communist war against Japan.
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On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
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Fishing junk on the West River (Xijiang), southwestern China, c.1935 by TC Lau. The “stone island” behind was created by the fishermen to attract fish swimming upstream. They stand on the island casting their nets to catch the loitering fish.
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Fishing junk on the West River (Xijiang), southwestern China, c.1935 by TC Lau. The “stone island” behind was created by the fishermen to attract fish swimming upstream. They stand on the island casting their nets to catch the loitering fish.
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John Shiwak was an Inuk soldier with the Newfoundland Regiment (later Royal Newfoundland Regiment).
Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
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Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
🧵 1/6
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
John Shiwak was an Inuk soldier with the Newfoundland Regiment (later Royal Newfoundland Regiment).
Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
🧵 1/6
Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
🧵 1/6
JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219,
School of Modern Languages
Salary: Reader Grade 8 £59,967 - £67,469 per annum / Professor Grade 9 by negotiation
Start Date: August 2026
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
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For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
Sans serif fonts leave me wondering who Al is and why everyone is so concerned about him
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Sans serif fonts leave me wondering who Al is and why everyone is so concerned about him
And it's often the best students who are most afraid to fail
“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.”
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And it's often the best students who are most afraid to fail