The problem is not the gender of the person wielding the gun. It's the gun. The gun is the problem. It's always been the gun. It will always be the gun.

The Qianlong Emperor [r. 1735-1799] enshrined his conquests as the "Ten Complete Victories" - he even had a nickname: 十全老人: "The Old Man of the Ten Victories" He went so far as to have it carved onto his own white-jade imperial seal. But your "World's Best Dad" mug is cool, too, I guess...

The grains of sand in eight million kotis of nayutas of Ganges rivers are a tiny handful compared to the number of deterministic steps that this six-state Turing machine starting on an empty tape takes before halting. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...

Cool Sinological question from @michaelerard.bsky.social -- can anyone think of any historical sources that describe young children talking or record their first words?

China has announced that from next month, Tibetan will no longer be a subject in the annual National College Entrance Examination (高考 gaokao), China's most important test for high school students. According to the announcement (www.scio.gov.cn/live/2025/36...):

Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them. They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

HONEY "Sesame oil, milk, honey, [and] syrup are to be cooked in a vessel [so that] half [of it] remains. ... pepper is to be strewed in – this is to be drunk as a medicine against cancer." cetom.univie.ac.at?m-ioltoch306

The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay

Very sad news about Andrew West, an online friend to many of us on here, who had a rare combination of expertises and was always generous with advice on 'Phags-pa script wine advertisements, fake Yuan-dynasty passports, and less-explored reaches of the higher Unicode planes.

Opposing ICE in chalk with sidewalk goatses; what a time to be alive

I am utterly shocked and saddened by the news of Andrew West‘s @babelstone.co.uk untimely passing. He was a huge inspiration, an impressive scholar, and a kind and generous person. FAMA PER ORA VOLAT SPIRITUS ASTRA TENET

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2

Qinshihuang Kunlun magic herbs inscription latest. Turns out this so-called uninhabited zone 無人區 isn't quite so uninhabited after all. A local Tibetan guy Dorje Namgyal [sp?] (pic L) used to herd his flock of 3000 sheep there and says he saw the inscription in 1986. www.nbd.com.cn/articles/202...

Look unlike China we're not running camps I mean unlike China we're not dramatically raising military spending I mean unlike China we're not pressuring private companies to follow a political agenda I mean unlike China we don't have a cult of personality around our paramount leader I mean unlike Chi

cursed chengyu

pedocop theory.

NEW: A ChinaFile investigation into China's powerful, but leaky, internet censorship system at locknet.chinafile.com 1/21

I suggest that PUP consider telling the story of the region by providing Uyghur scholars a chance to tell theirs. Rahile Dawut’s studies of Uyghur folklore and culture tell the story of the region better than anyone. Why not start by publishing translations? madeinchinajournal.com/2023/11/13/r...

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social the video can be found on Facebook www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

Eye of dog? Nose of dog? World's most annoying writing system?

See you there, Philly! If the only thing stopping you going is company, message me. I'll have my phone with me. If the only thing stopping you going is the weather, bring an umbrella and hope it pisses with rain on Trump's shitty parade.

The Tuoba Wei emissary's inscription was plate 217 in Jettmar's Antiquities of Northern Pakistan. This is plate 214. (No connection between them, sadly.)

TIL: there's a legible 5th c. CE Chinese inscription in Pakistan, scratched on a rock by a Tuoba Wei emissary. 大魏使谷巍龍今向迷密使去 Envoy of the Great Wei, Gu Weilong, now departs on his mission to Maymurgh (?)

"The Emperor sent the Five Grandee, vassal Yi, leading magicians to collect medicines in the Kunlun Mountains. Yi in the 26th year, third moon, jimao day, his chariot arrived here. Yi [...] before [...] could [?] 150 Chinese miles." Ok, Bsky, real or fake?

Propaganda on behalf of TCM.

never stops being funny that the driest early chinese philosophical school was the moist

"But we have found in Ho's 54-page review many more serious errors than he claims to have found in our 431-page book. We believe that a reviewer's primary responsibility to the reader is to carefully read the book he is reviewing; and Ho Dah-an failed to do this."

Another terracotta soldier incident, to add to the Philly ugly sweater thumb-stealing, the Osaka nationalist in 1984, the German art student, the Great Yorkshire Terracotta Warrior Heist of 2016, and all the rest. 始作俑者，其無後乎！ x.com/tongbingxue/...

Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

It would be nice if the @nytimes.com could call this announcement out for what it is: a racist blanket ban that is reminiscent of the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1890s. Why hold back on this or treat this sudden and unprecedented move like normal policy? This is unhinged, so call it out!

this is further confirmed by the soon-to-be-published Wangjiazui's 詩經, also in fact a manuscript reproducing the 國風 section, poem by poem, with titles and organizational stability. A few verses and a couple of poems present a different order, but this is expected in a manuscript culture

Finally, my article with Li Yumeng on the new manuscripts evidence on the formation of the 論語 is out as first view on Early China (will be in volume 47). #出土文獻 #Analects www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"We need to make Chinese literature part of the conversation first and foremost because it includes thoroughly enjoyable works, which happen to be written in Chinese." Check out my review of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #chineseliterature lareviewofbooks.org/article/prem...

coming up in 5 days! May 31st, starting at 9AM CEST. The @digitalorientalist.bsky.social's 2025 conference, with a great line up. Organized by Rachael Griffiths, Ed-in-Chief of the DO, and @mzorki.bsky.social #AI #digitalhumanitites #intersection #conferences #AIdebates

So, this is what I do. Try to keep up with all the new amazing discoveries that are happening in ancient China, read the mss, introduce them to the field. The study of this sources is so, so important. I can given you 10 reasons why in my sleep #Chienesehistory #ancientchina #manuscriptstudies #🀄️

Congratulations, Maddalena! @madpoli.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

These 6 characters and the Jin Emperor's signature mark are all that remain of the 12th-century Jurchen Small Script! @babelstone.co.uk and I submitted a proposal for its Unicode encoding – a vital step for covering all four extinct #Khitan and #Jurchen scripts. www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n53...

For #EpigraphyTuesday some fragments of Chinese-inscribed marble slips unearthed from the ruins of Karabalgasun, situated on the west side of the Orkhon River in central Mongolia, which was capital of the Uighur Khaganate between 744 and 840. The first fragment is engraved 没蜜施 ... 1/7

My book review of the new course book 出土文獻與古文字教程 - should be translated in English! We miss something like this to teach how to work and study ancient records #出土文獻 #中國古代歷史 #ancienthistory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rahile Dawut, the famous folklorist and anthropologist, is passing her 59th birthday in China's prisons, under a lifetime sentence for being an Uyghur woman scholar. The Chinese regime is such cowards, they will not even reveal her whereabouts or status or anything. They are the criminals.

The current situation of international students at any university in the US: 1. You absolutely cannot express an opinion on one of the worst ongoing global atrocities, unless you are cheering for its continuation.

Ew York. Ew Mexico. Assachusets.

The Smithsonian is transferring to China fragments of the Warring States Chu silk manuscript (a.k.a. Zidanku 子彈庫 silk manuscript) sections (juan 卷) 2 and 3. These were accessioned by the Smithsonian in 1992. Section 1 is still in private ownership. Press release: asia.si.edu/about/press/...