Some amazing insights from #DVCS #conference of #Sinology #Hamburg: -Qing soldiers needed tokens to use the toilet. (Schneider/Pessl) -In German schoolbooks, Confucianism is shown as a never-changing continuum. (Schmid) -Kang Youwei himself described Qianlong's battle copperplates. (Moll-Murata) /1

Today I stumbled upon an open-access article in the new edited volume "Connected Philology" by someone who has the exact same name as me and also works at the Université de Lausanne. Very suspicious 👀 #shamelessselfpromotion www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Impressions from my talk at #DVCS in #Hamburg: though it was the last panel, the room was still full with ~30 listeners. I have gone back to not using a script. However, the slides are usually quite full. I'll post a little summary of my talk below. #sinology #conference #china

A mural of Fürstenried castle near #Munich (at the nearby underground station), where our graduate programme on global #philology will host its academic retreat next year. I am currently in charge of planning it, hoping to make this a memorable event for our recently joined PhDs!

A rather interesting dinner location yesterday at #DVCS #Hamburg: a replica of the Yuyuan 豫園 teahouse in #Shanghai. There is a lot of talk on #Chinese replicas of European cities, but this is an example of a contemporary imitation of traditional #ChineseArchitecture! #sinology

Surprise visitors to a hidden staircase in my hotel. #hamburg #sinology #chineseemperor #DVCS #china

Impressions from #DVCS Hamburg 2026: the spacious foyer of the Asien-Afrika-Haus, which houses Asian and African Studies.

"Connected #Philology. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Transcultural Encounters" is now available open access! It covers intersections between different philological cultures across the globe, such as European #Yijing 易經 #hermeneutics in the introduction. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

On my way to #Hamburg for the conference of #DVCS (So far, only 45 minutes delay...). This year's topic is "Self Images/Foreign Images", and there are 50 odd presentations listed in the programme (www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/china/dvcs20...). #sinology #chinesestudies #research #conference #chinese

The CfP of next year's International Society for Intellectual History Conference in Istanbul is out, please apply! 🥰 (deadline: 15 February 2026) fass.sabanciuniv.edu/en/ISIH

#Etruscan vase with a creature resembling a #hydra. #Greek-inspired. #history #art

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.

Out now, #openaccess Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo Lever Press #histchild #histed doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

#philjobs #philsky

Postdoctoral position in global philology at U. Uppsala (apply by Nov. 26). Specialisations include: Comp./General Lx., Greek and Byzantine Studies, Indology, Iranian Languages, Latin, Semitic Languages, Sinology, and Turkic Languages. tinyurl.com/nhbk8fhh

Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...

The "Zerwirkgewölbe" (royal game butchery) in #Munich. The building is estimated to date back to the late 13th century and was used as a butchery for game from the royal hunts. It now houses some gastronomy and shops. #history #nobility #hunting #bavaria #animals

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

On November 23rd, I will be at #DVCS #Hamburg, giving a presentation on " 'Fragrant Wind from Chang'an': The Depiction of the Tang Court's Marriage Diplomacy with the Uyghurs" (in German). #tangdynasty #TangChina #chinesehistory #chinesestudies #sinology

Mongolian Association for Manchu Studies is co-organizing a Manchu studies International conference w/ Eotvos Lorand University. Dunno if I mentioned it here, but National Library of Mongolia has a treasure trove of Manchu-language documents, w/out which "Manchu studies" is rather incomplete IMO 🤔

I just found out that, unbeknownst to me, my "Power Emasculated: Eunuchs, Great Clans and Political Reproduction under the Tang" has a Chinese translation: 去势之势：唐代的宦官、世族与政治繁衍（何弥夏）(www.shsjcb.com/sjcb/view.as...). If anyone can get access to it, please let me know

Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

An ad on #YouTube: "Things you just have to see in #Oslo, Norway". Ah, we all know the famous Norwegian mountains, and traditional architecture. #norway #japan #jarway #norpan #traditionalculture #vikings #samurai #samuraivikings

📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...

My program @lmumuenchen.bsky.social has just launched its #elearning tool "World #Philology", with interactive learning units for students looking to diversify their toolkit and knowledge of philological practices across the globe: worldphilology.gwi.uni-muenchen.de #texts #interdisciplinary #study

My bio on the department webpage has been updated. More changes to come! www.en.idk-philologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/pos...

Back in my days, the whiteboard in the students' room of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's Department for #ChineseStudies used to be scribbled not with harmless, plain Li Bo #李白! Us cheeky riffraff would write much grittier, rougher stuff... Such as Du Fu #杜甫! #poetry #graffiti #Chinese #studying #unidays

Few people know that in the Englischer Garten, the central park in #Munich, a statue of #Confucius can be found. It was a present by the #Chinese partner province of #Bavaria, #Shandong Province. With statues by #Dostoevsky and #Heine, the master's countenance is an unexpected sight to behold.

Stairway to the Heaven of knowledge: entrance hall to the Bavarian State Library, Munich.

An...interesting translation of Chunqiu Gongyang jingzhuan tongyi 春秋公羊經傳通義 (lit. Comprehensive Meanings of the Classic and Tradition of the Gongyang Commentary to the Annals) by Kong Guangsen 孔廣森 (1753-1786). #chineseclassics #confucianism #china #chinese #philosophy

A new semester has begun @lmumuenchen.bsky.social! #university #study #munich #research

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂！

12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

My presentation at #DOT2025 @fau.de concerned "Praise and Blame? Zhu Xi's 朱熹 Reception of Zheng Xuan 鄭玄". A very brief foray into #Song #China, I found that Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and his disciples actively considered Zheng Xuan's (127-200) #commentaries to the #Confucian #classics. (1)

The Kollegienhaus of @fau.de (venue of #DOT2025), finished in 1889 when the university's student numbers exceeded 1,000. It is built in the style of a castle, manifesting the significance afforded to research at the time. #Erlangen #history #castle #sinology #conference

The Hugenottenplatz in #Erlangen, with a storck nest! A last mild early autumn evening at #DOT2025 @fau.de , accompanied by a really good quota of interesting talks, in the conference rooms and outside.

The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities conference in Hong Kong, summer 2026. Hope to see many of you there!

Found the #DVCS volume with my article on #sustainability as an aspect of classical #commentary in #HanChina in the book exhibition of #DOT2025 @fau.de

The Schlossgarten (castle garden) of #Erlangen, an impression from #DOT2025.

Made it to #Erlangen for the #DOT2025 @fau.de!

Associate Professor or Lecturer in non-Western Philosophy (UCL, apply by Sep 30): www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Reading up on the #history of #whaling: Did you know that #Japan objected to a whaling moratorium at first, only withdrawing its objection due to #US pressure? The US threatened to deprive Japan of fishing privileges around #Alaska. 1/2

Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing

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

www.theguardian.com/environment/... predicts an ongoing “extinction of experience” with future generations continuing to lose an awareness of nature

JOB ALERT: Endowed Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture at University of Toronto jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Five Ph.D. positions at the Swedish Academy, for work on philology, textual criticism, linguistics, literary and source studies, language history etc. with possible areal focus on Chinese, among many other (apply by Sep 1). tinyurl.com/yc7pazec

Ph.D. position in Classical Indology/Sanskrit at Nina Mirnig's new chair in Vienna: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911) was one of China's 'constitutional commissioners' in 1905-06. He used his world tour to not only study constitutions, but also to purchase elephants 🐘(backbone of Peking Zoo, first in Asia) - and Egyptiaca. Fascinating article by Tian Tian: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...