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Happy Tuesday from adoptable kitties, Pearl and Brax! These Besties have the right idea on this snowy day, keeping cozy cuddly warm! Pearl and Brax are both wonderfully unique kitties and they are going to endlessly enrich their forever family’s life. Pearl is 1.5 years old and Brax is 2 years

happy lunar spring festival everybody

Mind and Psychology in Early China Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Mind and Psychology in Early China

New Cambridge Element, Mind and Psychology in Early China, by Lisa Raphals, out now! Download for free for the next 2 weeks at
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JAOS The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

The latest issue of JAOS has been published, #145.4 (2025). This will be the last one under the old name. Starting next year, the journal will appear under its new name, JASPA: Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia.
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Other exciting stuff in the issue: Milburn on Zuo Si's "Rhapsody on White Hair," Feezell on Yu Xin's "Pacing the Void" poems, and a forum of responses to Pearce's book on the Northern Wei. I'm honored to have my research in this fantastic journal, from which I've learned so much over the years.

New issue of Early Medieval China is out! I have an article in it on anomaly accounts 志怪 in the Liang text Jinlouzi 金樓子. Come for the unique treatment of strange tales as fodder for (very hard to translate) parallel prose, stay for Jinlouzi's own bizarre history of dissolution and recompilation...

Interesting...

Yes this one really confused me...

Interesting/funny question from a student in my Chinese class today... Does anyone know if the slang "ate" (as in "to do something very well") has made it into Chinese? Or, I guess, how would this be translated to Chinese if you had to...?

Simple prompt hack: tell chat to 述而不作 for guaranteed more accurate results

Before moving to Canada I'd have said absolutely not. But this has been the case every year since we got here in 2016, except for last year. And that was actually kind of disturbing...seems unlikely this year too!

I liked his book on Forests!

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

In apps where I can control font, changing to one designed for traditional characters/use in TW fixed this, but for stuff in the OS/web browser display etc., I had to give higher "priority" to 繁體字, and now it seems to consistently display correctly.

So even when I was typing in 繁體字, the OS would default to displaying what I guess is the standard 'non-simplified' form in mainland China, rather than the one which is the standard form in HK/TW. I didn't know (or had forgotten...) that this difference exists, but it makes sense (I guess).

Ok-still don't really understand why it exists, but I realized that in my case at least the reason the 過 with a single 橫折 stroke from the left to the right then down was sometimes displaying instead of the other one was because I had simplified Chinese script "prioritized" over traditional script

Funny thing about learning/practicing Chinese, the best way to look up how to say many things is still to work backwards from Chinese-language sites focused on teaching English. So many more resources for studying Chinese now, but still so far behind...

Berkestan 2026 | Institute of East Asian Studies

#CFP 2026 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 10-11 at UC Berkeley. Submit paper proposals by November 8 for consideration.

Little did anyone know, the gashadokuro would eventually be available for purchase at your local Home Depot, not to annihilate one's enemies, but to annoy one's suburban housing association at Halloween.

Thanks for looking into this! Still mystified because I can't figure out when/why the 11 stroke version would be used, since it's not the standard form in TW but is still more complex than the standard simplified form 过. I vaguely recall learning that both were OK, but still want to know more...

Yep, and I have a hard time controlling which standard is displayed. It makes sense for 骨， in that the standard simplified and traditional forms both use 冎, they just write it differently... But standard simplified form of 过 doesn't need it.... Who is this for...

Character 過 with top component of 咼 written with one stroke extending from the left side to the center and then down

Character 過 with top component of 咼 written with one stroke extending from the center to the right side, and another stroke extending from the center down

...is there a short explanation of why both of these forms of 過 exist and seem to be displayed randomly, esp. when the simplified form is just 过?

They hate what they don't understand......

Could it be 孫?

In my experience most clocks are wrong 100% of the time. All clocks in my house seem to run at different speeds. Every classroom I've ever taught in here has had multiple clocks all displaying different times, all of them wrong. What is time...

The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened?

👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...

Xie Lingyun

I heard PT Anderson has a new movie coming out about wedding season in Taiwan... It's called "One Pān-toh After Another"

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