Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)

A 1842 French sinology article cover with 4 CN characters 其事好还” with Latin trans: “Quod ore prodit ad os revertitur. Prov.”
written by Guillaume Pauthier, who was comparing his own Dao De Jing道德经 trans with Stanislas Julien.
It’s one episode in longrunning debate between the two over trans of DDJ.

📖 Prix du mémoire sur la Chine contemporaine

Le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères organise la première édition du prix du mémoire sur la Chine contemporaine.

📅 Date limite de candidature : 15 janvier 2026

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Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 at University of St Andrews Recruiting now: Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Jobs: Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews (apply by Jan 19, 2026): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/r...

Summer school: Models of Dialectical Thought in Chinese and Asian Philosophy (Ljubljana), apply by 30 May 2026: as.ff.uni-lj.si/en/summer-sc...

Then off to the fantastic Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vitton today. (Mao, Davos, Graubünden, Vierwaldstättersee).

Wonderful event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Association of/for Chinese Studies at the Collège de France yesterday. tinyurl.com/yp8nt3ws

where he entertained us with fantastic stories and fine Belgian beer hidden "from the other missionaries" under his bed. May he continue to r.i.p.!

For a nice obituary see W.S. Coblin in Monumenta Serica 47 (1999):505–514, summarized in the Wikipedia article on Serruys. I had the good fortune of visiting him in the retirement home of his congregation near Leuven shortly before his death with Bill Baxter (UMich.) 3/4

His work on the Fangyan 方言 and Old Chinese dialectology, on the syntax of oracle bone&bronze inscriptions and the Shangshu 尚書, or on children's riddles and ditties from Shanxi were pathbreaking achievements in their time and deserve to be read even today. 2/4

OTD in 1917, Paul Leo-Mary Serruys (d. 16.VIII.1999) was born in Flanders, who spent the first time of his life as a missionary of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae in China, the second as one of the leading scholars of Old Chinese philology in the US and Taiwan. 1/4

Meanwhile, here is Feng Shi 馮時's imaginative attempt to make sense of the markings on the ceramic supports: www.bilibili.com/opus/7985362...

News about the 7000 year old "earliest Chinese script" from the Liulinxi 柳林溪 site which circulated on the Chinese internet in October are starting to reach English language media: tinyurl.com/dnwvsbyd.

Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...

Out now, #openaccess
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed

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Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Jobs: Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, requiring the ability to teach able to teach e.g. Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer. (apply by 12-Jan-2026), www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...

Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowship Scheme for Ph.D. Students (apply by Dec 1): www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fund...

La linguistique missionnaire : quand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens #LANGAGE EN COMMUN

Nice blogpost on (Chinese) Missionary Linguistcs by Otto Zwartjes (Paris), "[Q]uand les langues du monde s’ouvrent aux regards européens", tinyurl.com/yx9sttae.

Postdoctoral position in global philology - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in global philology, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in global philology at U. Uppsala (apply by Nov. 26). Specialisations include: Comp./General Lx., Greek and Byzantine Studies, Indology, Iranian Languages, Latin, Semitic Languages, Sinology, and Turkic Languages. tinyurl.com/nhbk8fhh

Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, "historical linguistics pertaining to one or more language families of Africa, Oceania, and Eurasia" desired: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Sign the Petition Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition:

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🎓The SERI awards up to 3 scholarships for PhDs at the European University Institute in Florence from 2026–2027
➡️ eui.eu/phd (apply by 15/01/2026)
To the webinar on 21.11.2025, 14:30 (CET) www.eui.eu/events

Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology

Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

"AI has become exceptionally proficient at mastering the grammatical and logical “craft” of language, the “art” of imbuing text with deep emotional resonance and novel imagery remains a significant challenge and a key differentiator for human creativity." Phew, close call!

Interesting new paper on training an LLM to write Tang poetry (doi:10.1038/s40494-025-02087-x), including a Turing test to evaluate results, which concludes:

Advice for students Graduate and advanced undergraduate students The number of philosophy programs, graduate or undergraduate, where students can seriously study Indian philosophy is small, compared to even ancient Gr…

Malcolm Keating shared some excellent advice for #students who want to work on Sanskrit philosophy:
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Hans Conon v d G features in a recent paper on which I was co-author

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Könntest Du mir den bitte schicken? Komm da grad nicht drank, wo ich sitzen. Danke, W

Oh danke, da hab ich wohl zu schnell gegoogelt.

OTD in 1894 Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) passed away impoverished in London. To commemorate the extremely productive and pleasantly eccentric "Sino-Babylonian" scholar, I uploaded a little CV (to appear in shortened form in the ODNB) here: tinyurl.com/4nbf96bm.

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 ...

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

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 ...

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.