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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊

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PhD student @KULeuven. Doing Chinese philosophizing. Kang Youwei-studies and Gongyang Confucianism. They/them

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hey there to all our new friends on here! I‘m Markus Samuel Haselbeck and I‘m currently in the last year of my PhD at KU Leuven. I specifically work on revenge in Gongyang #Confucianism (公羊學) from the Warring States until now, but I‘m interested in #ChinesePhilosophy at large (Esp Mozi and Zhuangzi)

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 1d

Their research article on the IMMARKUS tool will also come out in a few days, so stay updated on their InfraLives project! #Sinology

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 1d

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

Participants looking at the screen that shows a slide with maps.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, I hope you’ll enjoy reading it.

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks a lot! It was a very enjoyable adventure writing on Li Zhi! His and his successors‘ ideas are always super exciting to study, so I hope I’ve done them justice in the article.

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 3d

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

Me holding the three volumes of Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers.

First page of our chapter, included in volume 2.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 8d

Always a pleasure!

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Sep 11

Now back to focusing on the last stretch toward finishing my dissertation! And of course it's my last presentation as a PhD student.

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Sep 11

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!

Me speaking to the audience with lots of hand gestures

First slide of my ppt: Kein König ohne Heiligkeit. Zur Beziehung von innerer Heiligkeit und äußerer Königlichkeit (neisheng waiwang 內聖外王) bei Kang Youwei.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Sep 10

Already excited for what is probably my last conference presentation of the year on Thursday. Moving to Kang Youwei's notion of neisheng and waiwang #內聖外王 for it. #sinology #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseHistory #EarlyChina #ModernChina #公羊學

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Sep 10

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!

First slide of my ppt: Make Revenge Great Again. Analysis and Interpretation of Jiang Qing's 蔣慶 Notion of Revenge.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations! All the best for the preparations for your oral defense.

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 8

Still rather on the expensive side, but the paperback is coming out later this year.

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 8

Possibly any of the passages where the roles between Confucius, ”the master,“ and other people are reversed could be interesting for this. Like, when he wants to learn from Yan Hui how to ”sit and forget“ 坐忘 or when Confucius only understands the 内 but not the 外 at a funeral of three friends.

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 8

I once taught some Analects and then switched to Robber Zhi and compared the different Confucius depictions in the two. Students loved it and it taught them about the shared Cultural memory various Chinese schools of thought similarly draw from. Fun class!

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 6

And in the end, this work, which is now almost 3000 pages long in the #中華書局 edition, wasn't even printed during his life time... Where do these people take their motivation from? Incredible! #ChinesePhilosophy #Philology #AncientChina #EarlyChina #Sinology

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 6

Not only are forty years an incredible amount of time, but the work amounted to 70(!) juan in the end. If that wasn't enough, Chen even compiled the #白虎通疏證 of 12 juan as a supporting work for the #公羊義疏, a huge contribution to Late Imperial China's Gongyang scholarship.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 6

In the collection of his miscellaneous writings, there is a quote, where Chen states: "I, Li, diligently worked on the Gongyang subcommentary for forty years, approaching [this process] by merely gathering [sources] and completing [it] with a manuscript of more than 70 juan."

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 6

Chen Li passed away at the age of 60 but it is unclear, when he finished compiling the work (if he truly did finish during his lifetime). This led some scholars to believe Chen had worked on the compilation for even a whole 40 years!

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 1

Since New Text Confucianism pretty much died out after the Han, the Old Text position became orthodoxy until the end of Imperial China. (Only during the Mid-Qing did scholars rediscover New Text Confucianism)

I have no clue, but as a badass, maybe number 10 would be his jun 君, the Emperor?

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 1

her parents, her siblings, and their kids and siblings).

Depending on which interpretation one uses, this leads to a very different group of family members that one has to take revenge for. #EarlyChina #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 1

interpretation of the #Baihutong #白虎通. This understands the term as describing four generations on one's fathers side (father and his parents, his other kids and siblings, their kids and siblings, and their kids and siblings), three generations on one's mother's side (mother

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 1

But what are those Nine grades of kinship? While Old Text Confucianism #古文學 understands it as reaching four generations back and four generations onward, surrounding oneself (from great-great-grandfather to great-great-grandson), New Text Confucianism #今文學 followed the

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · Aug 1

He Xiu #何休: It is ritually proper that the enemy of one’s parents, one must not support Heaven together with; the enemy of one’s brother, one must not be in the same state with; the enemy of one’s nine kin [relationships], one must not be in the same township or clique with.

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