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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
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Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations to Shen Ruiqing (discovery.nus.edu.sg/10992-ruiqin...) for editing and translating this wonderful volume on Jerry Norman (1936-2012): tinyurl.com/yvdvht7m
Discovery
discovery.nus.edu.sg

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d
Gotta love these moments when you have to look up both a Chinese term AND its English translation after all these years of learning both languages. zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%...
鬣羚 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鬣羚

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d
A 鬣羚 lièlíng, mainland serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), sighted in the fascinating report on the Shang Royal zoo (河南安阳市殷墟商王陵区第五地点2023～2024年发掘简报, 《考古》2025.12; E. summary here: www.sixthtone.com/news/1018081), which was all over the Chinese media these last weeks.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d
AI is coming quickly for the early Chinese philosophical lexicon: tinyurl.com/47hz7afj. This is how the Han invention of philosophical schools and 2000 years of conceptual misreadings will get even more firmly enshrined.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02112-z?utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_40494_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260129&utm_content=20260129
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d
AI is coming quickly for the early Chinese philosophical lexicon: tinyurl.com/47hz7afj. This is how the Han invention of philosophical schools and 2000 years of conceptual misreadings will get even more firmly enshrined.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02112-z?utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_40494_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260129&utm_content=20260129
tinyurl.com

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · Jan 9
Reposting one of my favourites: 🤓

Manchu Cuneiform | 楔形滿洲文字 (😉)

From Shiba Kōkan's 司馬江漢 Oranda tensetsu 和蘭天説 (1796) @ www.digital.archives.go.jp/img.pdf/1236...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
(A longer obituary I wrote on him these last days will appear in the next issue of "Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung" (BJOAF), but I am uploading his list of publications for easy reference to all interested as images below.) (7/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
As the Bamboo annals said about his great hero Mu wang 穆王, whom he followed on his travels through China and Central Asia in mianbaoche and jeeps, and through commentaries and citations on paper at home, "the king has ascended" (wang zhi 王陟). R.i.p.! (6/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
Modern Greek and other languages as well. He also was probably the funniest teacher I ever had, a wild rock guitarist and, with "his queen" Regina, the center of a large and happy family. (5/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" (2019) and a magnum opus on the Mu tianzi zhuan 穆天子傳 (2024). Manfred was a precise philologist, sensitive translator and indefatigable lexicographer who spoke native speaker level Mandarin, and excelled in Japanese, Turkic, Mongolian, (4/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
into German, he also continued his work on Early and Medieval China, which he had begun with his masterful study of early forms of autobiography in China (1984/1987). He produced masterful monographs on the "Queen Mother of the West" (Xiwangmu 西王母) complex (1999), (3/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
Germany's most important Chinese Language Training Center in 1985, from which he retired in 2017. Apart from many publications on TCFL, including textbooks and important dictionaries of measure words, proverbs and specialized vocabulary and a long list of movie translations (2/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Jan 9
On December 19 last year, the great sinologist Manfred Frühauf ended his suffering from ALS, aged 75. Manfred was my first teacher of Classical and Modern Chinese at J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, before becoming Director of the "Sinicum" at Bochum U., (1/7)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 28
Wonderful portrait of / interview with Bob Hegel:
m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...
跨海论汉｜美国汉学家何谷理：我依然是十七世纪中国文学的大粉丝
澎湃，澎湃新闻，澎湃新闻网，新闻与思想，澎湃是植根于中国上海的时政思想类互联网平台，以最活跃的原创新闻与最冷静的思想分析为两翼，是互联网技术创新与新闻价值传承的结合体，致力于问答式新闻与新闻追踪功能的实践。
m.thepaper.cn

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Dec 22
Obsessed with these Analects of Confucius 論語 Romanized in 19th-century Shanghainese 😍
Yáh, rh zz dsih tsz; peh yuh yöh hū? 學而時習之不亦説乎？😍

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 20
New Cambridge Element, Mind and Psychology in Early China, by Lisa Raphals, out now! Download for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/3MB22rz
Mind and Psychology in Early China
Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Mind and Psychology in Early China
cup.org

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 19
Follow in the footsteps of 高本漢 -- Ph.D. positions inPhD position(s) in Arabic, English, Japanese, Latin or Sinology at U. Gothenburg: tinyurl.com/3prfpjrv
One or more PhD positions in Arabic, English, Japanese, Latin and/or Sinology
PhD position(s) in Arabic, English, Japanese, Latin and/or Sinology. We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and
tinyurl.com

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Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social · Dec 16
Third volume of the Anhui University corpus is now out! It contains 3 manuscripts 👇
hz.ahu.edu.cn/2025/1130/c6...
hz.ahu.edu.cn

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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · Dec 16
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Professorship for Africa – Europe in the long 20th Century
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship for Africa – Europe in the long 20th century (open rank). The position should be filled by 1 August 2027. Depending on the qualificati...
jobs.uzh.ch

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Dec 16
There is modern Sanskrit literature about everything. There is also a Sanskrit epic poem about Jesus Christ, titled Kristubhāgavatam, published by P.C. Devassia in 1977, which won the main Sanskrit literary prize in 1980 😁

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 15
The editors of Journal of the European Ass. for Chinese Studies invite submissions for a special issue on the state of Chinese Studies in Europe scheduled for publication in 2026, building on the anniversary symposium held in Paris in November 2025. (cf. detailed call below).

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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · Dec 15
Feliĉan naskiĝtagon, dear Dr Esperanto! 🎉

If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.

#Histlx #Esperanto
A street sign in Berlin labeled "Esperantoplatz" A pink bench with an inscription in Esperanto reading: "Kio estas via nomo?" A green bench with an inscription in Esperanto reading: "Kiel vi fatras?" (sic: shhould be "Kiel vi fartas?") A green mosaic star on the ground of Esperantoplatz

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Dec 13
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
Title and Abstract of my paper "On the Unity of Inner Sageliness and Outer Kingliness in Kang Youwei's Daxue zhu xu"

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 8
Professorship in Indo-European Studies at Copenhagen U. (apply by 12 Jan 2026): jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
jobportal.ku.dk

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · Dec 7
Call for applications for the
Friedrich Weller Prize 2026 (for works on Buddhism, China, India, published 2023--2025). For details, please see:
www.saw-leipzig.de/de/aktuelles...
Ausschreibung Friedrich-Weller-Preis 2026 — Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
www.saw-leipzig.de

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Geschichte der Gegenwart @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social · Dec 7
Korea hat Trump kürzlich die Reproduktion einer historischen goldenen Krone geschenkt. Verbirgt sich dahinter eine indirekte Kritik? Andrea Riemenschnitter über die Geschichte der Kronen aus dem Silla-Reich und die Kunst der versteckten Botschaften.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/eine-koreani...
Eine korea­ni­sche Krone für Donald Trump
Der koreanische Präsident Lee Jae Myung schenkte Trump die Replikation einer goldenen Krone. Auf den ersten Blick vielleicht eine Ehrerbietung an den Liebhaber von Glanz und Protz, zeigt aber ein Blic...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 3
Interested in the looong Chinese prehistory of the concept of "brainwashing" (xinao 洗腦) before its well-known appearance in the mid-20th century cold war story? Check out my article available in this volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...!

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Dec 3
Congratulations @jim_bach_ and co-editors Brigit Knüsel Adamec and Justyna Jaguścik on the publication of the Festschrift Andrea Riemenschnitter,"Re-Thinking Literary China", available as the latest OA volume in our Worlds of East Asia Series here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...!

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Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · Dec 3
Reposting due to faulty DOI

This issue has an open access article by Nicholas Sims-Williams on #Bactrian:

Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.

brill.com/view/journal...

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · Dec 3
Dans 1 semaine, le 10 déc. à 17h au centre de colloques du Campus Condorcet, discussion (et pot) avec Romain Lefebvre (BNF) des documents géographiques de Dunhuang sur les questions de matérialité, d'histoire locale et d'organisation du savoir. all welcome

www.campus-condorcet.fr/fr/agenda/do...
Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois - Campus Condorcet
Le mercredi 10 décembre à 17h, l’Humathèque Condorcet organise une discussion autour du livre d'Alexis Lycas (EPHE-PSL) - "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographie...
www.campus-condorcet.fr