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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀

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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 Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · Oct 31

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...

Gregory Scott on Buddhist Mass Media in Modern China [MCI Talk]

YouTube video by Manchester China Institute

www.youtube.com

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 16h

Achievement Unlocked: Stream-enterer

0.000000000001% of players have unlocked this

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 16h

its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 19h

eamw.mh.sinica.edu.tw

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 17h

Mrs Piozzi on what a preface should be. Quite pleasing. From her Anecdotes of Dr Johnson (London, 1786). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Keynes.F.5.9.

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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 9d

Proud to launch the Digital Library of Chinese Classics! 510 texts, 20 years of research, 500 scholars, 282 vols, in one comprehensive digital collection, empowered by Brill’s renowned dictionaries. Check it out:
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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

The Drum Tower, Gulou, The Bell Tower, photographed in 1913 by John David Zumbrun

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1911 the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義 began, the beginning of the end for the Qing Dynasty and the imperial system in China. #雙十節

The Hubei Military government building in Wuchang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising#/media/File:Hubei_Military_Government.jpg

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social · 2d

I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Andy West obituary

Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages

www.theguardian.com

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 1d

The Urboardgame, if you will

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone ever attempted to georeference the maps from Tan Qixiang's 譚其驤 Zhongguo lishi ditu ji 中國歷史地圖集?

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 2d

Worship at an ancestral tomb, near Weihai, Shandong province, photograph by Ah Fong of Weihai, c.1910

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 2d

In 1722 黃叔璥 Huang Shujing, a Mandarin-speaking Qing official, arrived Taiwan where he spent 2 years. He recorded in 臺海使槎錄 “Records from the mission to Taiwan and its Strait” (1736) how the language spoken by Taiwanese was totally unintelligible—like barbarian gibberish and birds talking (鴃舌鳥語，全不可曉)

臺海使槎錄·卷一~卷二
by （清）黃叔璥
https://archive.org/details/06044602.cn/page/n127/mode/1up

Taiwanese Hokkien
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien
臺灣話
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E8%A9%B1

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD 1 yr ago: Alice Casalini @UChicago introduces DIGA, the created with the intention of digitizing artifacts from Gandhāra scattered all around the world.

Check it out 👇
#streamline #workflow #digitaltools #DHinpractice #DHresources

digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/08/t...

The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)

In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art and archaeology of Gandhāra.1 Produced between the 1st c. BCE and the 5th c. CE, …

digitalorientalist.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

A memorial tablet to the Emperor Yongle (reigned 1402-1424) "who moved the urns of empire", photographed c.1923 by "Adam Warwick", the male pseudonym the Peking photographer Juliet Bredon used to get work in America....

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7d

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 4d

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE MOON?
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a thread, because everyone is confused about Mid-Autumn Festival...

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 4d

中秋節快樂！

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 4d

Ah - 'peeks' of course! Although seeing the moon would be the peak to my week :D

Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 5d

Going to be cloudy all day here, hope that the moon peaks out tonight #中秋節

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 5d

The following universities are delaying implementing a pay rise:

Dundee
Kent
Brunel
Coventry
Swansea

The following have yet to make a decision on the matter:

Aberdeen
Bangor
Bournemouth
Bradford
Buckingham
Cumbria
Lincoln
Plymouth Marjon

#UKHE