The Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 further reformulates this into a practical principle: 正本而末應，正內而外應 Correct the root and the branches respond; correct the inner and the outer responds

My book for the holidays: Zhao Lu‘s Weird #Confucius Let’s see what this got in store for me and my dissertation! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology

CfP: Third Forum on Dialogue of World Civilizations - #Astronomy, Science and Technology on the Ancient #SilkRoad Lanzhou University invites paper submissions for a conference on May 29-31, 2026 with an optional trip to #Dunhuang on June 1-3. More information in the pictures. #Sinology #China

New article by 謝詩楨 on Confucian #resentment 怨 was just published on 哲學評鑒. The piece examines whether Confucianism can withstand Nietzschean challenges and emphasizes the element of care in Confucianism. Fun read! #ComparativePhilosophy #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ptp1BDmXdd...

My copy of Ling Shu‘s #凌曙 complete works has finally arrived and it looks awesome. For the first time, all his works are collected in one place and the biographical studies already look very promising. Just in time to still be included in my dissertation! #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy #Philology #清代

On the weekend, I had the chance to teach a two-day course on ritual propriety 禮 in the Lunyu #論語 for @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. Great discussions during our exploration of what li actually is and how it could translate into our contemporary socio-political realities. #ChinesePhilosophy

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

Took over my supervisor's History of Chinese Philosophy class this week to introduce the students to contemporary #ChinesePhilosophy. It was a fun lecture followed by a really fruitful discussion. Now, I'm looking forward to a weekend of teaching #Confucianism for @lmumuenchen.bsky.social! #China

The Four Books App offers good translations of Confucian Classics and is now in public beta. Been testing it and have to say that I’m impressed by the translations already available and the additional tools. Will suggest using the app to my students! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology t.co/gJTodVI6EX

New Article: A (Very Short) Queer History of China open.substack.com/pub/dougroon...

At the airport to fly back from #廈門. Spent the last day climbing #大王峰 with my Sinology friends. Sad to leave this beautiful place but created many great memories and I hope to come back sometime in the future. #China

Had the chance to visit the #tea trade route and the Zou 鄒 family mansion at #萬里茶道 today. Later, we also went to pick some tea ourselves in the #武夷山 region. I could finally see where and how my tea is made - what an interesting experience! #China

Today, I had the opportunity to present my transcription of and research on long-lost letters from the first Danish Sinologist, Mourier, to Julius Klaproth right next to #武夷山, where #朱熹 built his study. Great atmosphere! #Sinology #ChineseHistory

Trip to Gulang Island #鼓浪嶼 today for a lecture in the Old Japanese Consulate. Great views on an architecturally stunning island. European style villas standing side by side, and trees that look ancient seaming the paths with not a single car in sight.

Made my way to Xiamen University 廈門大學 for a Sinology workshop on German-Chinese relations throughout history and had the chance to visit Lu Xun‘s #魯迅 study room where he often stayed over night to keep using the library during his time here. Looking forward to a great workshop! #ChineseHsitory

This Open Access volume might be interested for some Sinology scholars and historians on here! #lateimperialchina #chinesehistory link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

As the lack of English secondary literature specifically dedicated to Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 makes this School of Chinese Philosophy and #Confucianism rather inaccessible, I have decided that it is time for a bibliography post including introductory and more specific works on Gongyang thinkers.

Received a few books from China a few days ago and am super excited for some more #公羊學. Especially interested in what seems to be the only other monograph ever written on #劉逢祿 besides 吳龍川‘s 劉逢祿《公羊》學研究 (2008). And 曾亦 is usually a safe bet for good research on Chinese Philosophy! #Sinology

Yesterday, I presented part of my research on Gongyang Confucian revenge at the Qing Intellectual History Network. Great session with lots of interested questions and nice discussion afterwards. Thanks to everyone who joined us! #公羊學 #Confucianism

I was invited to present some of my research on #Revenge in Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 at the Qing Intellectual History Network next week. Feel free to join us at the link below on November 10! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology

This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.

Wow, this is super interesting! I‘m always fascinated by different annotation systems people come up with. While my annotations are rather tame (lines, brackets, circles, notes, some “code” letters here and there,…) I’ve come across some WILD note-taking!

If you are interested in #Yinyang philosophy or new to Chinese thought overall, definitely check out this episode of HoPWaG featuring Robin R. Wang! Meeting her in Beijing in 2015 had a great impact on how I understand Yinyang and the five phases today.

Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities

Today, I have finally received my author copy of Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers to which I contributed a 15-page chapter on Li Zhi #李贄 and the thinkers surrounding him together with Phillip Grimberg. #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology

Lots of engaged questions and helpful criticism for what was possibly my last conference presentation as a PhD. Thanks to all who joined my talk on Kang Youwei's #康有為 notion of inner sageliness and outer kingliness #內聖外王 as presented in the preface to his lost 大學注!

Had the chance to present my analysis of Jiang Qing's #蔣慶 notion of revenge and its roots in Kang Youwei's #康有為, Liao Ping's #廖平, and Chen Zhu's #陳柱 ideas at FAU Erlangen's #DeutscherOrientalistentag yesterday. Thanks to my colleagues for the great panel!

Handed in my #dissertation @fau.de today! It's on its way to #Erlangen now. My thesis concerns commentarial practices in early imperial (Han 漢) China, analysing Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 commentary to the Liji 禮記. #chinesehistory #sinology #chinesestudies #commentary #philology #ritual #hermeneutics

I'm always so amazed by how long people can work on a single project/book. A similar case is Chen Li #陳立 who worked on his 公羊義疏 for at least thirty years. Unhappy with what Xu Yan #徐彥 did during the Tang, he began compiling this massive subcommentary around the age of 20.

ad: discourse on Nine Familial Extermination on X. While Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 doesn't recognize it as a legal tool, #Revenge #復仇 takes on the function of punishing enemies. Instead of the whole enemy family, it's the single person who wronged a member of one's own nine grades of kinship #九族.

Still wondering how I ended up on a #PredatoryJournal's mailing list for a Mexican physics conference with my #EACP presentation. How would this title fit into "Science Set Journal of Physics"? And it's their 9th email, so they really want my paper on #劉逢祿, #康有為, and #蔣慶!

Having read Levenson's 13-page study of #廖平, I am utterly confused. His reading of Liao is so negative that he cannot even objectively evaluate that Liao wasn't the first to read the #春秋 esoterically but that all of Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 before him did so already.

Finally read this article on @tsmullaney.bsky.social‘s fascinating research and the lucky rediscovery of Lin Yutang‘s #林語堂 MingKwai 明快-typewriter, which worked similar to modern computers in displaying possible characters you could mean as early as 1947. #sinology www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

Interesting report on the rise of scams through #Guoxue institutions in urban China. Although such scams existed all throughout history, I wonder if the Imperial examination system and closer-knit academic networks curbed this problem to some extent? #sinology #LateImperialChina #Chinesephilosophy

Will be great to have this volume available in English through @quirinpress.bsky.social soon! A really nice source on the history of #Chinesephilosophy! (I am kinda surprised that we got a German translation before an English one…)

I love that Huang Kaiguo 黃開國 in his 公羊學發展史 introduces Liao Ping #廖平, a famous late-Qing #Chunqiu #春秋 scholar, by stating that he lived 80 Chunqius 春秋 (also means ‘years’) long. He really had to go for that pun!

Gong Zizhen #龔自珍 (1792-1841) became famous for his poetry and as an early influence on the reform movements of the late 1800s, surrounding figures like Kang Youwei #康有為 and Liang Qichao #梁啟超. As grandson of Duan Yucai #段玉裁 and educated by his mother (1/6)Pi

Working on all those great thinkers who seem to have their careers take off below my age can be demotivating. But I've come across some famous historical figures that struggled with their careers in some way. I hope this gives #motivation to people to keep doing their thing!

English-language in-Person Summer School on #ChineseLaw in the center of Germany (Sep 22-26). Participation is even free for students!

I still cannot understand why no English secondary literature on Liao Ping #廖平 exists (besides Feng Youlan's translated History of Chinese Philosophy and Ulrich Theobald's chinaknowledge.de). People have told me my thesis would be the first English study of his thought...P

The presentation made me search for pictures I took at the #观复博物馆 in Beijing some years ago. Probably some of the most beautiful pieces of stone #art I’ve ever seen. #chineseart #chinesefurniture #stonescreen

Our #history department at KU Leuven is again looking for a new Postdoc colleague, this time to join the ERC project “Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History” led by @hildedw.bsky.social. For more info check: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #sinology #imperialchina #chineseinfrastructure

While visiting friends and family in Munich, I had the chance to listen in on a workshop on #materiality in traditional and modern East Asian art organized by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @utokyoofficial.bsky.social.

Over the past 5 weeks I presented my research on 5 different occasions: 3 conferences, 1 workshop, and 1 department event. Getting all the feedback from scholars at various institutions was great, but I am happy to finally having the time to let all this flow into my thesis.

Made it back from the #SACP to #Leuven. Had a blast at the four conferences I attended over the past four weeks, but now I‘m rather happy to get some rest and concentrate on my thesis again. Thanks for accompanying me to 3/4 conferences @marcopouget.bsky.social.

Just had the chance to present my thoughts on #康有為's notion of #revenge as part of humankind's social #evolution at the #SACP and got really nice and interesting feedback. Thanks to everyone who attended as well as my co-panelists, @marcopouget.bsky.social and Nadine Künne!

Made my way to #Leiden with @marcopouget.bsky.social for three days full of Asian philosophies at this year‘s #SACP. Looking forward to meeting old and new colleagues and friends and presenting my paper on the evolution of societies as imagined by #康有為 in his discourse on #revenge.

Rapid population growth in southern China predates introduction of rice and millet, so how did it grow so fast? Analysis of teeth and tools found evidence of taro and yam starch grains, suggesting they were the region's original staple 🏺 #Archaeology 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Went through my pictures from my time at #清華大學 and found this beautiful 尊 #bronzevessel from an exhibition on the art from the small state of 噩. On the inside, it says 作寶彝. Especially the #elephant-like “deities” on top of a bigger face stand out to me on this one.

Among many inspiring presentations on revenge in pre-modern and modern literature, tattooing culture, #耽美小说, #志怪, and #QingLaw, I had the chance to present my own research on #劉逢祿’s notion of revenge and his limiting thereof to highlight nonviolence.