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Marco Pouget

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Sinologist at LMU Munich and FAU Erlangen. Interested in premodern Chinese (intellectual) history and written culture. https://uni-erlangen.academia.edu/MarcoPouget

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 5

#DVCS volume 19 on #sustainability in #Chinese culture has published!
A bit of an outlier, my contribution is on commentarial #zukunftsphilologie (future #philology) techniques to secure an enduring intellectual legacy. #sinology
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_7594.a...

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂！

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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.

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 13d

I have never seen a photo of him before, that is so interesting! He looks somehow European to me.

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 25d

Zhu Xi appraises Zheng Xuan's readings rather critically, but also praises him for having come up with "simple and appropriate" (甚簡當) explanations. This shows how paradigmatic Han philology and exegesis was, and how readily the preceding tradition was received by scholars in imperial China.

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 25d

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)

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 26d

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

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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Society for the Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies @ssycds.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 28d

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

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 28d

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

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 29d

I will speak on the #reception of #commentary of #HanChina in the work of #ZhuXi 朱熹 in #SongChina.

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 22

2/2 Japan then continued whaling with a self-issued permit and under the guise of "research", so president #Reagan took away their fishing rights anyway in 1988. This story exemplifies the great negotiation power of the United States (that time in favour of protecting our dying ecosystem).

Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks!

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 14

謝謝！

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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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds

Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

www.theguardian.com

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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

Associate Prof/Prof - Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social · Aug 8

There is a recent book titled Weird Confucius. Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in Chinese History by Zhao Lu: www.bloomsbury.com/us/weird-con...

Weird Confucius

Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities…

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

University assistant predoctoral

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

Duanfang’s Egyptian rubbings: the first Egyptian collection in Late Imperial China | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Duanfang’s Egyptian rubbings: the first Egyptian collection in Late Imperial China

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