Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)

jobs.uzh.chUZH: Cultural History of IndiaThe University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in cultural history of India (open rank) starting on 1 August 2028. Candidates are expected to have produced excellent, internationall...

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Come work with us at AOI Zurich: Open Rank Professorship in Indology (Cultural History of India, specialisation open; apply by 7 Dec 26): jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

jobs.unige.chBibliothécaire documentaliste archiviste spécialiste (7107)

Offre d'emploi: Bibliothécaires spécialistes de discipline (Langues, littératures et cultures est-asiatiques : japonais et coréen; Langues, littératures et cultures est-asiatiques : chinois; 40%), UNIGE: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Philosophy Postgraduate Conference 2027: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (Aberdeen), call for abstracts.

cam.ac.ukAssistant Professor in Modern Chinese HistoryThe Department of East Asian Studies, within the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, wishes to appoint to an Assistant Professorship in Modern Chinese History from 1 October 2027.

Assistant Professorship in Modern Chinese History at Cambridge, apply by Dec 15, 2027: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Upcoming conference "Oikoumene -- Contacts across civilizations, beyond the boundaries of Eurasia", 25-27 October 2026, Villa Falconieri, Frascati (online participation possible: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...).

tinyurl.comAnne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the windThis is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

Reading -- "aus gegebenem Anlass" -- Anne Carson's great essay on the importance of handwriting and the agony of loosing the capacity to control it, suffering from Parkinsons'. Never mind the wrong Confucius attribution which gives the essay its title or the misdating of the Ayurveda

by almost a millennium -- this is a wise and beautiful text, which I will recommend to all those students who just sit in class tapping away at their keyboards without realising what they are missing out on. tinyurl.com/mrb7wcry

medieval-english.ruhr-uni-bochum.demedieval-english.ruhr-uni-bochum.deEnglish Medieval Studies:

Upcoming conferene on esoteric and politicl dimensions of writing systems at RUB: www.medieval-english.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ems/events.h...

tinyurl.comW2 Professorship in SinologyW2 Professorship

Follow in the footsteps of Kauz, Kubin, Trauzettel and Olbricht -- professorship (W2) in Sinology (history, history of ideas and cultures, or literature ...) at U. Bonn: apply by Nov. 30: tinyurl.com/ynjcm3nn

OTD in 1865, Édouard Chavannes was born. As Berthold Laufer said in his obituary in 1918, Chavannes "was not merely a sinologue in the narrow, old-fashioned sense of this misused word, but an orientalist and historian of eminent learning and insight, (1/3)

prosopo.ephe.psl.euEdouard Chavannes | Dictionnaire prosopographique de l'EPHE

with a broad-minded vision, and unusual intellectual powers coupled with almost superhuman activity and unbounded capacity for research." Few works have stood the test of time as well as those of Chavannes. prosopo.ephe.psl.eu/edouard-chav... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89d... (2/3)

If you have the patience to engage with his erudite French, you are still guaranteed to make fantastic discoveries in his work, even more than a century after his death on Jan. 19, 1918. (3/3)

derstandard.atDer vergessene Judenretter aus ChinaDer chinesische Generalkonsul Feng Shan Ho rettet während der NS-Zeit tausende Jüdinnen und Juden aus Wien vor dem Holocaust

Interessanter Beitrag über den "chinesischen Oskar Schindler" und "Gerechtem unter den Völkern" (חסיד אומות העולם), Ho Feng Shan (何鳳山) im gestrigen Standard:　www.derstandard.at/story/300000....

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Monika Dommann

@modomodo.bsky.social

19 Sept

We are hiring www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet... Wir suchen eine:n neue Kollegin! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-frueheren-mittelalters-mit-dem-schwerpunkt-materielle-kulturen/3cc74484-cc11-4da3-9b3c-076558ad09a5

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jobs.unige.chProfesseur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle (7055)en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine)

9 Sept

Job announcement: Assistant professorship in contemporary China studies at the University of Geneva, apply by Oct 31: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

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9 Sept

Just out in our "Worlds of East Asia" series, Lionel Fothergill's wonderful book (OA) on contemporay uses of the 四大奇書 in other media, available for download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Lameen Souag

@lameensouag.bsky.social

24 Aug

Apparently, Germaine Tillion wrote a note in Chaoui describing the person who had betrayed her Resistance cell to the Nazis and disguised it as part of her field notes. www.inumiden.com/germaine-til...

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24 Aug

"Zeus's law" as 仁 and 義? A Sino-Hellenic reading of Nolan's Odyssey by Stelios Virvidakis: www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/....

tinyurl.comWere these ancient rock images painted with human blood?Macabre ingredient may have helped murals on Chinese cliffs survive nearly 2000 years of weathering

Probably a lot of back-projections about the anyway ill-defined notion of "雒越 Luoye/Lạc Việt peoples" involved, but looking forward to learning more about the Zuojiang Huashan 左江花山 petroglyphs, whether painted with menstrual or other blood: tinyurl.com/2n5d2hp8.

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Here's the underlying article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

tinyurl.comRoger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track)The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured hire (open rank) t...

Job announcement: Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track), Indiana University, Bloomington, Dep't. of Central Eurasian Studies (apply by Sep 30): tinyurl.com/4vyc836e

10 Aug

Celebrating the birthday of the doyen of 20th c. Chinese linguistics Wang Li 王力 (10.8.1900-3.5.1986) with a picture of the "artist as a young man" in Paris and a poem lamenting his mentor Luo Changpei 羅常培, born a day before him (9.8.1899-13.12.1958).

@hiphilangsci.bsky.social

9 Aug

Happy birthday Zheng-Zhang Shangfang 郑张尚芳 (9.8.1933-19.5.2018), “urbling” 癡情 linguist and most passionate and kind scholar of OC ever. m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f..., view.inews.qq.com/k/20231116A0...

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HiPhiLangSci

7 Aug

To mark Hermann Paul's birthday, we recommend Episode 9, on the Neogrammarians, and Episode 45, on the Neogrammarian networks 🎉 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/10/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/04/01/p... #Histlx

hiphilangsci.netPodcast episode 9: The NeogrammariansIn this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social

#OTD 180 years ago, Hermann Paul (1846–1921) was born 🎂 A medievalist focusing on Middle High German, lexicologist, lexicographer, and member of the Neogrammarian school, he is probably best known as the author of "Principien der Sprachgeschichte", published in 1880. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

7 Aug

Lighting a candle for Ted Pulleyblank, who was born OTDT in 1922. asia.ubc.ca/profile/edwi..., www.jstor.org/stable/23753.... Although we only met a few times, we corresponded extensively in the 80ies and 90ies and he helped me develop research interests (1/2)

7 Aug

in Old Chinese ablaut and affixal morphology, early contacts of the Chinese and Indo-European worlds or the historiography of the Xiongnu. He also had fascinating stories to tell about his time at Bletchley Park or in immediate postwar Japan. R.i.p.! (2/2)

uni-freiburg.deFRIAS Fellowship Programmes – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

6 Aug

FRIAS fellowship call (within 8 ys after Ph.D.) opened (apply by 18 September 2026): uni-freiburg.de/frias/fundin...

snf.chAmbizioneYour first step towards scientific independence!

6 Aug

The call for Ambizione grants of the SNSF has opened (appl. deadline 3 Nov 26): www.snf.ch/en/N18L3oGWo.... Interested PostDocs within 4 ys after PhD working on Early & Medieval China, early silk road or premodern Ch. linguistics, feel free to contact me.

29 July

Returning from the Bernhard Führer Festspiele through the gardens at Clare College, Cambridge, finally a Confucius Statue I like by Wu Weishan 吴为山 (zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%...).

29 July

Fits well with Christoph Harbsmeier's "Confucius ridens" (www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...) or Li Ling's 李零 depiction of "the sage" as a "stray dog".

sites.google.comD.E. Mungello ObituaryPersonal Obituary Dr. David Emil Mungello died on July 4, 2026, after a prolonged battle with kidney disease. He was born on November 20, 1943, in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania to Lois Louise Dittmar Mun...

25 July

R.i.p., David Mungello (20.XI.1945-4.VII.26): sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

berggruen.orgCompete in the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition | $50,000 PrizeSubmit your essay for a chance to win $50,000 and be published by Berggruen Press. Explore fundamental questions and bridge cultural perspectives. Make your mark on the future of philosophy and cultur...

25 July

2026 Berggreun Prize Essay Competition Open (Theme: "A new Axial Age"?): berggruen.org/essay-compet.... Submit your essay (10k words in English or 15k chars. in Chinese) by August 17th

Just ordered a new item for the Terrien de Lacouperie redivivus drawer: The "Master of Longlu Hall" (龍路堂主人, @Kidai_000) unfolds his theory of a "Sumer-Shang Continuum" in Chinese and English here: tinyurl.com/mtky7bz3. Turns out that Yu 禹 the Great was actually Gilgamesh after all ;-)

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And the self-proclaimed guardians of Huaxia culture are, predictably, going ballistic (www.wyzxwk.com/Article/yulu...), taking a jab at Olga Gorodetskaya (郭靜云) in passing, too.

tinyurl.comSpatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage - npj Heritage Sciencenpj Heritage Science - Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage

Interesting forthcoming quantitative analysis of Hou Hanshu 後漢書 toponymy, stressing fixed naming practices, some local autonomy and exceptions in in western frontier geography, despite "a spatial epistemology oriented toward administrative legibility" tinyurl.com/28aw5eje.

Also includes some useful comparative notes on Aztec (Nahuatl) toponymy.

staatsbibliothek-berlin.deScholarship Program | Staatsbibliothek zu BerlinHomepage der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

7 July

2027 scholarship program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin hosting Germany's largest Asian Tectual Collections announced (Annual Theme "Material Textuality", apply by Sep 30): staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/sp...

tinyurl.com秦刻石学术钩探｜新见秦刻石与上古知识流动这场争鸣，恰恰为我们反思上古时期知识生成、传播与共享的机制提供了契机。它使我们反思：我们究竟在多大程度上了解古人的知识世界？当考古实物“溢出”过去文献构筑的认知边界时，我们应如何调整自身的认知框架？

3 July

Programmatic Guangming ribao article by Yang Bo 楊博 on the rewriting of Early Chinese knowledge circulation and the Zhonghua 中華 construct, prompted by recent archaeological finds, including the Qinghai Qin inscription find: tinyurl.com/5ekmtsxz

tagesschau.deHessen: Uni Gießen streicht Turkologie: Fach in Hessen vor dem Aus?Mark Kirchner ist der einzige Professor für Turkologie am einzigen Studien-Standort für dieses Fach in Hessen. Bald geht er in den Ruhestand, die Stelle soll nicht nachbesetzt werden. Studierende fürc...

2 July

And another victim of the shortsighted trend to discontinue "small" subjects at universities in the German speaking world: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio.... Condolences to my colleague and friend Mark Kirchner who always tried to cover the 200+ mio Turkic speaking people in teaching and research.

adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.deStellenausschreibungen an der Universität HeidelbergInfosystem der ZUV

2 July

Follow in the footsteps of Dietrich Seckel and Lothar Ledderose: Professorship in “East Asian Art History (W1-W3) at Heidelberg University (apply by Aug. 15), www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...,

shorturl.atLanguage Log » Victor Mair RIP

1 July

As many of you will have learned with sadness these last days, Victor H. Mair passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. Here are some websites with reminiscences and tributes by colleagues, friends and family members.: shorturl.at/KmuFm, shorturl.at/dVAyV, shorturl.at/soSQK, shorturl.at/LyuZp. (1/2)

sino-platonic.orgSino-Platonic Papers

1 July

A full overview of his academic work up to 2014 is available in his Asia Major Festschrift (19.1/2), the giant list of all the SPP volumes he enabled and edited here: www.sino-platonic.org (2/2)

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Michael Höckelmann

@medievalchina.bsky.social

27 June

Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukMiddle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1The periodization of Chinese history has been a thorny issue since the late nineteenth century, when European period labels or chronotypes such as ancient, medieval, and modern entered East Asian historiographic discourses together with notions of ...