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Medieval Chinese history @ephe-psl.bsky.social‬ Les Man du fleuve Bleu (@anacharsis-ed.bsky.social, 2023) Documents géographiques de Dunhuang (@college-de-france.fr, 2025) Études chinoises @etudeschinoises.bsky.social www.crcao.fr/membre/alexis-lycas/

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 2d

publication day for my *Documents géographiques de Dunhuang*, a social and cultural history of geographical knowledge, and probably one of the only medieval history books published in France during the ephemeral Lecornu government, which you can freely download here: books.openedition.org/cdf/20307

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23h

Félicitations à @lxslcs.bsky.social on the occasion of his new OA volume "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois". Go to books.openedition.org/cdf/20307 for a table of contents and download links in different formats.

Documents géographiques de Dunhuang

La découverte au tournant du xxe siècle de milliers de documents dans l’oasis centrasiatique de Dunhuang fut comparable, par son retentissement scientifique, à celle des manuscrits de la mer Morte ou ...

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 1d

And those interested in purchasing a physical copy of the book can order it from the i6doc website for a reasonable price (21€): i6doc.com/fr/book/?gco...

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more interesting facts about the so-called #GlobalMiddleAges is that, while East Asian historians often use an emic framework of ca. 200–1000 for the medieval (zhonggu 中古), Western GMA folks insist on a Eurocentric "medieval millennium" of 500–1500. #periodisation

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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · 3d

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 2d

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 3d

Nouvelle édition de Romain Graziani - Fictions philosophiques du «Tchouang-tseu»

À paraître en novembre chez Gallimard

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 5d

Un problème notable chez les historiens est leur difficulté à accepter que d'autres disciplines se saisissent de leurs problématiques ou données, tandis qu'eux usent des concepts sociologiques et anthropologiques, parfois de façon fragile ou décalée, sans que cela suscite d'indignation particulière.

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 7d

Coming (quite) soon
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 9d

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).

Planned Research Projects

Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

www.lmu.de

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 12d

Ppl are claiming that the Chinese name for 'Israel' means 'racism.' Indeed, the Yiselie 以色列 could be superficially parsed as "classify 列 according to 以 colour 色". But of course, the choice is purely phonetic - it's attested since 1838 in Karl Gützlaff's 古今萬國綱鑑 1/

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 12d

'Protéger les #grenouilles. Sphère publique, émotions et question animale en #Chine (années 1870-1940)'

par Joachim Boittout (@upcite.bsky.social)

À lire dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 🐸

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

#skystorians #animals #frog

– L’ingénieuse grenouille échappe aux oies qui la chassent
Légende : Frêle mais ingénieuse grenouille dans « La Grenouille et les oies ». 1) Trois grenouilles rencontrent des oies sur le chemin de leur promenade printanière : « Les amuse-bouche sont servis ! », s’exclament les oies ; 2) Les grenouilles, poursuivies par les oies, s’enfuient ; 3) Parvenues au bord de l’eau, les oies ne craignent pas de nager pour continuer leur chasse ; 4) La grenouille rencontre un banc de têtards qu’elle enjoint à la venger des oies malfaisantes ; 5) Les têtards forment la tête d’un chat, effrayant les poursuivantes mises en déroute : « les oies s’enfuient ! Croâ, croâ, croâ ! », s’exclame la grenouille.
Source : « Qingwa he’e », Ertong huabao, 18, 1923, p. 3.

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 13d

#BOTD: Zhou Shuren 周樹人, pen/brush name Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936), one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century writing in Modern #Chinese 白話文. #WorldLiterature #ChineseLiterature Also known as a wearer of awe-inspiring #WritersMoustache.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 14d

Join our workshop on "Literary Forms and Epistemic Goals in Early Chinese Philosophical Texts" here at UZH next week (off- or online) and read about Rafael Suter's project behind it here: data.snf.ch/grants/grant...!

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Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social · 14d

My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182) | University of Oslo

Job title: Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 16d

Understatement

MIA: Chinese, South and Southeast Asian Art (Bot) @miachsouthasia.bsky.social · 17d

Dish https://collections.artsmia.org/art/61919/

blue floral pattern on white ground; two large flowers at center
Painted with two lush peony blooms in the center, this exceptional example of early Ming blue-and-white is notable for its bold design, softness of brushwork, and subtle, controlled shading. The work exhibits the saturated "heaped and piled" spots of intense, cobalt-blue found in the best Yongle era (1403-24) porcelains. The central blossoms are encircled in the cavetto by an elaborate lotus scroll of eight blooms, and the flared flat-lipped rim with eight detached flower and fruit sprays including chrysanthemum, pomegranate, and camillias among others. An identical dish was excavated from the early Yongle stratum at the Chung Hua Road site at the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen.

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 18d

#OTD 1013: Completion of the Principal Models from the #Imperial Storehouse (Cefu Yuangui #冊府元龜), a massive collection of official documents and one of the principal sources for the history of #MedievalChina. One of the Four Great Books of the Song (960–1279) 宋四大書

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 18d

Thanatos il me semble

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20d

i'm on a writing retreat (i've retreated from writing)

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 20d

And a Taiwanese MA dissertation

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 21d

#histbookchat #sinology New release from Cambridge Uni Press - A Mongol Family at the Ming Court

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 21d

It's #WoodblockWednesday again! Here's a bonkers book of 2000+ pp. in which the author records his thoughts on anything and everything under the sun, basically an 18th century literatus substack. Shi Chengjin 石成金 (1739-1795), 家寳全集, www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb0...

Title page from the copy in the Munich State Library

Not going to let a gourd tell me what not to do

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 22d

Medieval (Tang-Yuan) Chinese History Postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the new research project "Steppe Cities in Medieval Mongolia: Historical, Archaeological and Environmental Perspectives" - CFA attached

Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · 23d

3 contrats postdoctoraux dans le Grand Programme de Recherche (GPR) “Les fabriques de l’antique” ; modalités de candidature ci-dessous et plus d'infos à venir sur le site www.fabriques-antique.psl.eu

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 24d

#Map of #Formosa, compiled in 1901 by James W. Davidson (with nomenclature showing Japanese and Chinese pronunciation)

Note the annotation off the north coast — "Japanese military forces landed here, May 29, 1895" — where the invasion of #Taiwan started at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War.

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15952169

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