Returning from the Bernhard Führer Festspiele through the gardens at Clare College, Cambridge, finally a Confucius Statue I like by Wu Weishan 吴为山 (zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%...).

R.i.p., David Mungello (20.XI.1945-4.VII.26): sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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Personal Obituary Dr. David Emil Mungello died on July 4, 2026, after a prolonged battle with kidney disease. He was born on November 20, 1943, in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania to Lois Louise Dittmar Mun...

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2026 Berggreun Prize Essay Competition Open (Theme: "A new Axial Age"?): berggruen.org/essay-compet.... Submit your essay (10k words in English or 15k chars. in Chinese) by August 17th

Compete in the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition | $50,000 Prize

Submit your essay for a chance to win $50,000 and be published by Berggruen Press. Explore fundamental questions and bridge cultural perspectives. Make your mark on the future of philosophy and cultur...

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Just ordered a new item for the Terrien de Lacouperie redivivus drawer: The "Master of Longlu Hall" (龍路堂主人, @Kidai_000) unfolds his theory of a "Sumer-Shang Continuum" in Chinese and English here: tinyurl.com/mtky7bz3. Turns out that Yu 禹 the Great was actually Gilgamesh after all ;-)

Interesting forthcoming quantitative analysis of Hou Hanshu 後漢書 toponymy, stressing fixed naming practices, some local autonomy and exceptions in in western frontier geography, despite "a spatial epistemology oriented toward administrative legibility" tinyurl.com/28aw5eje.

Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage - npj Heritage Science

npj Heritage Science - Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage

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2027 scholarship program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin hosting Germany's largest Asian Tectual Collections announced (Annual Theme "Material Textuality", apply by Sep 30): staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/sp...

Programmatic Guangming ribao article by Yang Bo 楊博 on the rewriting of Early Chinese knowledge circulation and the Zhonghua 中華 construct, prompted by recent archaeological finds, including the Qinghai Qin inscription find: tinyurl.com/5ekmtsxz

秦刻石学术钩探｜新见秦刻石与上古知识流动

这场争鸣，恰恰为我们反思上古时期知识生成、传播与共享的机制提供了契机。它使我们反思：我们究竟在多大程度上了解古人的知识世界？当考古实物“溢出”过去文献构筑的认知边界时，我们应如何调整自身的认知框架？

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And another victim of the shortsighted trend to discontinue "small" subjects at universities in the German speaking world: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio.... Condolences to my colleague and friend Mark Kirchner who always tried to cover the 200+ mio Turkic speaking people in teaching and research.

Hessen: Uni Gießen streicht Turkologie: Fach in Hessen vor dem Aus?

Mark Kirchner ist der einzige Professor für Turkologie am einzigen Studien-Standort für dieses Fach in Hessen. Bald geht er in den Ruhestand, die Stelle soll nicht nachbesetzt werden. Studierende fürc...

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Follow in the footsteps of Dietrich Seckel and Lothar Ledderose: Professorship in “East Asian Art History (W1-W3) at Heidelberg University (apply by Aug. 15), www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...,

As many of you will have learned with sadness these last days, Victor H. Mair passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. Here are some websites with reminiscences and tributes by colleagues, friends and family members.: shorturl.at/KmuFm, shorturl.at/dVAyV, shorturl.at/soSQK, shorturl.at/LyuZp. (1/2)

Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1

The periodization of Chinese history has been a thorny issue since the late nineteenth century, when European period labels or chronotypes such as ancient, medieval, and modern entered East Asian historiographic discourses together with notions of ...

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Out tomorrow: Very much looking forward to reading this.

This is to announce the passing of E. Bruce Brooks (*1936) a few days before reaching his 90th birthday on May 26. EBB was an extraordinary sinologist, co-author, with his wife Taeko, of the fascinating, often provocative "The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors" (1/10)

9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics of the Associazione die Linguistica Cinese (AILC) coming up next week (June 17-18) at La Sapienza in Rome. Check out the programme/abstratcs here linguisticacinese.wixsite.com/ailc/copy-of...

Ambitious article on "The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage" by KKL Wong et al. in npj Herit. Sci. (2026), doi.org/10.1038/s404.... In the syntactic/semantic task, performance of all tested (1/2)

CFP: Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL), R.U. Bochum, 9-10th Oct 2026: chinesestudies.eu/2026/call-fo...

JANUS-Project Annual Conference "The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity", 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (janus-project.org/events/confe...), online participation link: forms.gle/ByBnjbLMeof8...

Conference

2026 “The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity” 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford This year, the Janus Project conference welcomes papers exploring the roles, imagin…

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Online Summer School: Negative Asian Thought (resisting "therapeutic and optimistic interpretations"), beginning June 11, with Brook Ziporyn, Adam Loughnane, Julie Reshe, Graham Parkes). Register here: www.patreon.com/posts/summer...

Summer School: NEGATIVE EAST ASIAN THOUGHT | Julie Reshe, PhD

Summer School: NEGATIVE EAST ASIAN THOUGHT by Julie Reshe, PhD on Patreon. Join Julie Reshe, PhD's community for exclusive content and updates.

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CFP: 1st International Conference on Kra-Dai Languages and Linguistics (ICKD-1 2026), November 21-23, 2026, to be held at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, submit abstracts by Aug 31, 2026. sites.google.com/view/ickd202...

Congratulations to Claus U. Rieth, who defended his monumental, erudite and entertaining Ph.D. thesis on the Chinese Tree Peony (mudan 牡丹) with flying colours at TU Dresden yesterday. (96§§8 pp.) Watch out for the book version forthcoming with Brill!

Jobs: Early‑career researcher for the PNRR project LIVEDIE – "Living and Dying in the Tarim Basin". Experience with early Chinese documentary sources and solid competence in Classical Chinese are essential (apply by June 3): tinyurl.com/3bb8z7rd

2026 Berggruen essay competition announced: This year's theme "A new axial age?" (submit by August 17th, 2026): tinyurl.com/wmw7uf27

Just out: ONE big ONCE in a blue moon feast on virtually every aspect of "ONEness" in East Asia: "Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?" (343 pp.). Congratulations to Andrea Bréard, Thomas Crone and Valerie Kiel for making this possible: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/....

Special Issue: Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?; Edited by Andrea Bréard, Thomas Crone and Valerie Kiel

Volume 80, issue 1 of the journal Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques was published in 2026.

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This is to break the sad news of the passing of Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (4.I.1946-13.IV.2026), classicist and comparative historian of Ancient Rome, Greece and Early China. For some time in the late 80ies, he was the only other German citizen apart from me in Jilin province. (1/9)

Congratulations to @mzorki.bsky.social who defended her fascinating thesis @AOI/UZH on Tuesday. Everything you always wanted to know about 物 and much more ...

Remembering Professor Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026) of Leiden University. ://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GBGiQmAkKupx7yPbKYlHrA @yingaa.bsky.social

缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)

缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)

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I just heard via a colleague who lives in the same street, that Rodo Pfister (*14.10.1962 in Langenthal) passed away a few days ago. He was a prolific Early China scholar, with encyclopedic interests in the history of medicine, sexology, materia medica, drugs and spices, (1/14)

Umfrage zur Wahrnehmung von Bedingungen am Arbeitsplatz 10-15 Minuten. Sie ist Teil der Qualifikationsarbeit eines jungen Menschen, der mir am Herzen liegt. Bitte teilnehmen und/oder Posten. survey.uni-hannover.de/index.php/84...

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各位同仁, please consider signing the following petition to protest against plans to close down the Stockholm Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and the Museum of the Middle Ages: tinyurl.com/5n7j8j54.

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