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Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives

"Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives" published on 06 Jul 2026 by Brill.

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CfP for a panel on "Transcultural Creatures in Medieval Eurasian Art" at the in-person CAA 2027 (3-6 Feb 2027, NY). More info at the link below, where you can submit proposals by 31 August 🌿🦁🐻🐯🐾

New job: Early Modern/Modern Chinese History (field open) University of Massachusetts - Boston jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70181

On Chinese and Taiwanese social media, users are jokingly discussing alternative designs to the proposed new #Euro banknotes showing famous people or birds: a train construction site in Germany, a pickpocket in Paris, or an attached plastic bottle cap.

The latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies is out with a large section dedicated to reflections, essays, and research articles on the past and future of Chinese Studies, in celebration of the association's 50th anniversary. journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...

A bittersweet last day at #EACS2026 in Venice. While I normally tend to stick to early history and philosophy more, this year, I have mostly listened to papers on literature and from manuscript studies, which has been very inspiring.

CfP for an AAS 2027 panel on "Oceanic Crossings across the Pacific" with scope for maritime histories, blue humanities, and marine animal histories. Proposals due by July 31 🌊🐳🦈 More info below: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

My presentation "The Classics as Teachers, Teaching the Classics. Commentary as a Didactic Instrument in Early Imperial China" at #EACS2026 takes place in session 10/11 (from 14:15) tomorrow in room 10A.

The interdisciplinary volume "Microhistories Retold. Insects in the Premodern World" has published! My study is on insects (esp. locusts) in the 2nd c. Lunheng 論衡. It discusses human agency faced with natural calamities and negotiates human-animal relations. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#EACS2026 has kicked off in Venice! An impressive 800 scholars of Chinese Studies from Europe and the world are gathered here.

Today's new #HoPWaG: How were the texts of the Han dynasty different from those in the Warring States period? How historical circumstances shaped philosophical writing, and how texts in turn shaped Han political culture. historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/chin... #philsky #philosophy #handynasty

How I imagine everyone is travelling to #EACS2026 (conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies) in Venice.

I finally got my hands on "The Craft of Oblivion" by @albertgalvany.bsky.social (2023). Curious to find out what the beautiful fish on the cover have to do with forgetting and memory. Goldfish, at least, have been proven to have a much better memory than they get credit for...

A masterclass has rounded off the summery visit by Martin Kern to @lmu.de. Based on his forthcoming comparative philology lexicon, we discussed the value of intercultural and interdisciplinary comparison (decentring familiar conceptions and convictions) and gained career insights for our PhD cohort.

Prof. Kern's core claim is that we must use received texts as comparative means bevause we would not otherwise be able to understand the classics at all, in the case of manuscripts due to the proliferation of variants. But we should not take it as authoritative or definitive...(1/2).

Marco Pouget@marcopouget.bsky.social · last mo.

Prof. Martin Kern (Princeton) will give a lecture on "Writing and Community in 300 BCE China. The Canonical Poems (Shi 詩) at the Chu 楚 Capital of Ying 郢" @lmu.de on July 14th. I am thrilled he followed the invitation by our project and will even be giving a masterclass to our cohort.

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Marco Pouget@marcopouget.bsky.social · last mo.

Prof. Martin Kern (Princeton) will give a lecture on "Writing and Community in 300 BCE China. The Canonical Poems (Shi 詩) at the Chu 楚 Capital of Ying 郢" @lmu.de on July 14th. I am thrilled he followed the invitation by our project and will even be giving a masterclass to our cohort.

Call for Applications from the Early Medieval China Group! The Group will sponsor up to two panels on topics related to early medieval China that are to be proposed to #AAS in #Boston in 2027. More information below! #medieval #china #asianstudies #aas2027

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...

The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history and the value of a history degree, and reflections on why learning about the past helps us understand the present.

Why Study History | American Historical Association

Resources and materials for parents, students, educators, and administrators explaining why we study history

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I discovered a, to someone in Chinese Studies especially, interesting detail on the facade of Westminster Abbey, London: a Chinese man's sculpture. Turns out, it is pastor Wang Zhiming 王志明 (1907-1973), who is revered as a modern martyr because he was killed during the Cultural Revolution.

Prof. Martin Kern (Princeton) will give a lecture on "Writing and Community in 300 BCE China. The Canonical Poems (Shi 詩) at the Chu 楚 Capital of Ying 郢" @lmu.de on July 14th. I am thrilled he followed the invitation by our project and will even be giving a masterclass to our cohort.

Very chuffed to see this volume appearing! It really spans a broad spectrum of revenge conceptions from early China to the present, and from visual culture and art to literature and philosophy. And the preceding workshop @china-kuleuven.bsky.social taught me a lot! Thanks, @ciaota.bsky.social!

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊@ciaota.bsky.social · last mo.

I am very happy that the new issue of Oriens Extremus will be coming out soon, which includes a 10-article special section Exploring Revenge Across Chinese History that I edited. We cover #ChinesePhilosophy, #ChineseHistory, literature, and law. #Sinology (1/2)

Call for Applications: Editor, Education About Asia The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is searching for an Editor for its peer-reviewed, open-access online teaching journal, Education About...

Call for Applications: Editor, Education About Asia

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is searching for an Editor for its peer-reviewed, open-access online teaching journal, Education About Asia (EAA). The main responsibility of the Editor is to produce two issues...

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And we also hear from Chiara Bocci in our latest Talking Animals feature about her research on Chinese animal lore, including Song-period “pufferfish mania,” intelligent earthworms, and the magical properties of rhinoceros horns! #animalhistory 🐟🐛🦏 chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/talking-anim...

IT'S TIME. The #AAS2027 Call for Proposals is now open!! Read the submission instructions, gather your proposal components, and submit everything before the 5:00pm ET deadline on August 5. We can't wait to see you all in Boston! bit.ly/AAS2027CFP

Just came across this illustration of an imaginary meeting among the authors of the Four Books 四書 in a 1907 print of the 四書集註. Interestingly, it features Confucius 孔子, Zisi 子思, Yanzi 顏子, and Mengzi 孟子... So Zengzi was replaced by Yan Yuan 顏淵. #ChinaBooks #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy

Massive new open access edited volume (1300p.!) just dropped featuring 10 state-of-the field pieces and 34 translations of Chinese-language scholarship spearheaded by Marc Matten and colleagues Erlangen-Nürnberg www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Reich an Geschichte, Kultur und Rohstoffen, eine viermal größere Staatsfläche als Deutschland, benachbart zu den Großmächten China und Russland: Hans van Ess @lmu.de porträtiert die #Mongolistik! Mehr unter www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/bl... #Mongolei #MongolUls #Mongolia #kleinefaecher

I organised an introductory seminar on #DigitalHumanities together with the IT Group fpr the Humanities @lmu.de for our cohort of #PhD students. The seminar concluded with a detailed overview of current #AI tools and how they might be responsibly implemented into a research workflow.

After a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, my blog is finally back. Subscribe if you're interested in updates on new books and the latest research on Early and Early Medieval China. earlychinasinology.blogspot.com