Hilde De Weerdt

De tijd van hechte vriendschap tussen die twee is al lang achter de rug en heeft ook niet zo lang geduurd. Ook niet overtuigd dat China "natuurlijk veel territoriale ambities" heeft.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Sun Tzu and The Art of War Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.

Voor wie meer wil weten over Sunzi's Kunst van het Oorlogvoeren is er ook nog altijd een leuk gesprek uit 2018 in BBC In Our Time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #ArtofWar /2

Wat speelt er met al die ontslagen aan de top van het Chinese leger?

Vanochtend te gast bij De Ochtend: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

Voor de volledige podcast met Veerle De Vos en Tom Vandeweghe: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... /1

👉🏼 LEES- en LUISTERTIP : Ontslagen in de legertop: bereidt China zich voor op oorlog? Ik maakte met @devosve.bsky.social een boeiende aflevering van de ⁦‪gelauwerde VRT NWS podcast #Chinavoorbijdemuur!
vrtnws.be/p.QABvlK5y8

IIIF-Friday 13: IMMARKUS-workshop Verrassing: de dertiende IIIF-Friday vindt voor een keer op een maandag plaats! Tijdens deze editie maak je kennis met IMMARKUS, een annotatietool van KU Leuven die je helpt om slimmer met beeldcollec...

🖼️ #IIIF Fridays: Discover IMMARKUS, an annotation tool for working smarter with digital image collections (Cc: @aboutgeo.bsky.social). In this online session, @hildedw.bsky.social will demonstrate how IMMARKUS can support your workflow!

📅 30 March (14:00-16:00)
📝 Register: meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...

Happy new year!
火馬迎春, 吉慶有餘 。

(Inspired by a Ming illustrator and shared intelligence.)

Postdoctoral researcher ERC project URBAN-DELTA Join the ERC project URBAN DELTA to study the historical foundations of megapolises in deltas in China and Europe

CFA: two 3-year postdoc positions with Merlijn Hurx at KU Leuven in architectural history: one on building technology in the Yangtze delta and one on building markets in Europe and China. The deadline for applications is 16 March 2026.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

I just published v0.1.0 of tiny.iiif 🚀 - the first official release of my new IIIF server!

• Publish images as IIIF instantly
• Organize images with simple drag+drop
• Image Service + Presentation manifests + user-friendly GUI all in one package

Available now!
github.com/rsimon/tiny-...

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Welcome to Cambridge Core

We aim to expand our offerings. If you're working in the history of political thought and have a proposal in mind for thematic collections or important works and thinkers in East or Central Asian political thought, get in touch. We cover early, medieval, early modern, and modern political thought./2

The 3rd East Asian title is out in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought! Following Wu Jing: The Essentials of Governance & Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven, P Flueckiger's Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy is now on Cambridge Core.

Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China Published in Ming Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

but one that calls for more collaboration across these damned dynastic boundaries. If interested in the latter, get in touch.

Regular link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Free eprints link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VCUCE...

Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China Published in Ming Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

My review of Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China. Timothy Brook and Lianbin Dai. In sum: a great contribution to understanding jingshi 經世 (statecraft, governance, and political economy)

A special issue needs to discuss its main theme across multiple periods of Chinese history. If you have ideas or questions, feel free to get in touch with us via email or meet with us in person at the @asianstudies.org meeting in Vancouver. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is now online, with 12 articles & 25 book reviews covering most periods of Chinese history.
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are now full, but there is a waiting list. #IIIF

Come join us on January 27th for an online workshop on how to annotate and transcribe IIIF Images with IMMARKUS. More information and a link for how to register free of charge:

iiif.io/event/2026/o...

Onwards! Happy celebrations and best wishes for a more joyful new year of solidarity.

EXTRAORDINARY. OHLeuven qualifies among the top 12 European women's soccer teams. On a shoestring budget.

30 years ago getting access to these archival documents required much time and effort and a bit of networking; very excited about what the future holds for those wishing to write histories across source ecologies. Txs to @aboutgeo.bsky.social

First steps for pilot work on the automated transcription, translation, and entity/event extraction of Qing archival dossiers and their linking across other datasets and other archival and historical sources.
Impressive results even on cursive script.

IIIF 2026 Annual Conference, The Netherlands, June 1-4, 2026. Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague In collaboration with dutch digital heritage network

🔊The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now open!

Read the full CfP and find a link to submit: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, History Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.

Ik raad ook de Chinese geschiedenis podcasts aan binnen het ruimere BBC In Our Time repertoire--de structuur hiervan is een mogelijk model om discussies over geschiedenis voor een ruimer publiek toegankelijk te maken. Ik krijg nog steeds vragen over die uitzendingen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Hoe Chinese keizers moeten regeren - Blik achteruit Met René Koekkoek & Annelien de Dijn. Gast: prof. dr. Hilde de Weerdt (UL). Hoe moet een Chinese keizer zich gedragen? Wat is de essentie van goed regeren? In China in de 8ste eeuw, ten tijde van de z...

niet zoveel in het Nederlands, misschien moeten we er iets aan doen? Ik deed er ooit een hier: blik-achteruit.nl/podcast/hoe-... In het Engels kan ik de volgende over nieuwe boeken in Chinese Studies aanraden: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Working with a small museum/archive/project with digitized images but little metadata?

I'm looking for testers for a VLM pipeline for auto-enrichment (transcription, captions, tags, IIIF). If you share a few sample images, I'll run them through + share results. Would love to hear your feedback!

In defence of higher education & research:
Sign the petition and join the protest in Brussels on Dec 11, 12pm
For
The allocation of basic funding for higher education;
No increase of current registration fees;
No cuts in scholarships
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Screenshot of the IMMARKUS annotation interface with three historical images—an Oxford bookplate, a medieval-style world map, and an early printed nautical map—displayed side by side, with metadata fields visible on the right.

🎉 IMMARKUS 1.0.5 is out! The latest release of our open-source image annotation tool for humanities, heritage & museum professionals is now available – with bug fixes, productivity enhancements, and improved #IIIF annotation import.

Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org
Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...

Cold and rainy but good fun at the annual Science Day in Leuven where we demonstrated how anyone can easily collect and work creatively with high-quality images streamed from cultural organizations globally. #dvdw2025 #IMMARKUS

Somewhat of a surprise to me when this came up on a newsfeed: we're used to hearing that the Netherlands tops the list of the global EF English Proficiency Index, but it appears Flanders tops the Netherlands, and most Flemish provinces significantly outperform most Dutch provinces...

More on the sources and source ecologies for infrastructural studies, and comparative regional and social histories of infrastructures on the way.

2. A multidisciplinary @asianstudies.org forum on Critical Approaches to Chinese Infrastructures with perspectives from history, sociology, urban studies, anthropology, development studies, religious studies, and digital humanities is about to go into production with the Journal of Asian Studies.