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by Wolfgang Behr

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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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by Wolfgang Behr

behrwolf.bsky.social
True to his first name, these contributions were highly creative, often even playful, but never loosing sight of the serious research questions at their core. ཞི་བདེ་ལ་གཤེགས། & R.i.p.! (3/3)
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by Wolfgang Behr

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community will probably remember him best for his "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan" (HJAS 49.2, 1989), "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera" (JAS 62.1, 2003) and his “Interdependence of Words, Texts from Early China" (CLEAR 44, 2022). (2/3)
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by Wolfgang Behr

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Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
Kidder Smith and John Holt, faculty · Bowdoin College Library Special Collections & Archives
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by Wolfgang Behr

behrwolf.bsky.social
Fascinating new article on "The Language of Teotihuacan Writing" as an Uto-Aztecan language immediately ancestral to Nahuatl, Cora, and Huichol using a logographic/rebus driven writing system: t.co/DLeIKK1VXJ.
Also very cool of the Danish authors to include an abstract in Nahuatl!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/737863?journalCode=ca
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Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr

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This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025
A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...
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Did Chinese kiss?
Did Chinese Kiss?
It may seem like a silly question, but a new book by scholar Hu Wenhui tries to resolve the debate over whether kissing has always been a part of Chinese courtship.
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Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr, James A. Benn

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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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by Wolfgang Behr — Reposted by: James A. Benn

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Tangut Winter School taught by Nikita Kuzmin at the Elling Eide Center (Jan 5-9, 2026), apply by Nov 1: ellingoeide.org/tangut-winte...
Tangut Winter School 2026 | Elling Eide Center
Tangut Winter School 2026 Join the Tangut Winter School 2026 for five days of lectures and guided readings on Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.T ...
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by Wolfgang Behr

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Happy to celebrate the Ph.D. of Milad Abedi, formerly at our "Sino-Indo-Iranica rediviva" project (data.snf.ch/grants/grant...), now at U. Innsbruck (tinyurl.com/2eaympve) & doing exciting work on the Pahlavi Papyri of the Austrian National Library. Congratulations again!
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by Wolfgang Behr — Reposted by: James A. Benn

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Congratulations to the Munich colleagues for massively bringing back Philology with a capital P, the "deadliest enemy of eternal verities" (Stephen Owen), in times when it is under threat almost everywhere in Europe and North America.
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by Wolfgang Behr — Reposted by: James A. Benn, Elisa Freschi

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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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by Wolfgang Behr

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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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by Wolfgang Behr

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Ghent Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”, October 24–29, 2025:
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Doctoral school “Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’””, October 24–29, 2025 – Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
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by Wolfgang Behr

behrwolf.bsky.social
Nice chart for your university administrators: "European Universities Good at Arts and Humanities". Let's keep that!
europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/good-at...
Good at something | The European Correspondent
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by Wolfgang Behr

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Interesting paper on the research directions of our Japanese colleagues.
jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments...,
cf. also x.com/ZhenbenBook/...

by Wolfgang Behr

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Visiting Assistant Professor in Early Chinese History at Colby College (Maine), any period up to the early Qing (apply by Nov 14, 2025) : apply.interfolio.com/173986
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by Wolfgang Behr — Reposted by: James A. Benn

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Writing history aficionados -- 注意！ Detailed analyses of Tang brushes, paper & ink from Murong Zhi's tomb: doi:10.1038/s40494-025-01989.
Even if one doesn’t have to go along with the “deep Sinicization of the Tuyuhun royal family” bit in the discussion, a fascinating paper.
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by Monika Dommann — Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr, Niels Werber, Peter Schöttler

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Nächster Donnerstag ist die Abschiedsvorlesung von Michael Hagner.

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«Die Wissenschaft ist kein Lieferdienst»
Über 20 Jahre lang war Michael Hagner Professor für Wissenschaftsforschung an der ETH Zürich. Er hielt der Wissenschaft den Spiegel vor und setzte sich für ihre Freiheit ein. Was er zu seinem Abschied...
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by Wolfgang Behr

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Das China-Zentrum e.V. in Sankt Augustin sucht zum Frühjahr 2026 Chefredakteur/-in und Mitarbeiter/in mit Expertise im Bereich China und Christentum mit 100% Beschäftigungsumfang (unbefristet; Bewerbungsschluss 20.10.2025)
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by Wolfgang Behr

behrwolf.bsky.social
Victor Mair's fine obituary for Michael Carr (1947-2025), whose rambling articles on Chinese etymology I always enjoyed: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71029
Still my favorite. "Personation of the Dead in Ancient China," Computational Analysis of Asian & African Languages 24 (1985):1–107. R.i.p.!
Language Log » Michael Edward Carr, lexicographer, R.I.P.
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Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏

[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
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I gave a presentation this week at the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Erlangen on the orthography of Indic loanwords in Mainland Southeast Asian languages. Suggestions, feedback, and critiques are most welcome!

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Towards a typology of orthography of Indic loanwords in Mainland Southeast Asian Languages (35. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, 10.09.2025)
Mainland Southeast Asian languages have been greatly influence from Pali and Sanskrit through the spread of Buddhism. This is reflected both in the writing systems — the major writing systems (Mon, Bu...
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Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr

craigclunas.bsky.social
"Echoes of Great Brightness" conference will be live-streamed, on 16 and 17 September, and you can watch a great roster of speakers on art of the Ming and art of the non-Ming, online: the link is here: web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...
Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond.
An International Conference in Honour of Craig Clunas.
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by Wolfgang Behr — Reposted by: James A. Benn

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A little bit earlier, of course, the lion flew to China _from_ Central Asia and possibly the Ancient Near East, cf. www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/11..., www.jies.org/DOCS/jies_in..., languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=53305.
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by Wolfgang Behr

behrwolf.bsky.social
So, the winged lion of the Venetian Republic of Generali fame flew in all the way from the Tang Chinese motive kitchen. Or the Polos, père & oncle, nicked the statue from Kublai's court (with all its Lower Yangtze lead isotopes)... Very cool new paper here: tinyurl.com/2t6kmuet
The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice
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Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr, Scott F. Kiesling, Niklas Johansson

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Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.

C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset
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Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr

schrift-sprache.bsky.social
There are a couple of things of notice in this Chinese version (and how it is printed). 🧐

< 1899 The Nations' Undiplomatic Concert of Languages: Polyglot Peace Album in Memory of the 80th Birth-Day of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India @ resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN8561...
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by Raji C Steineck — Reposted by: Wolfgang Behr

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Out now! If you ever wondered about Dogen's cryptic text in time and how it related to what Zen monks actually did in their monasteries-or how to read Dogen not as pre-Heideggerian, here's the book for you. @studyoftime.bsky.social
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Zen Time
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by Wolfgang Behr

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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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