Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)

Congratulations to Shen Ruiqing (discovery.nus.edu.sg/10992-ruiqin...) for editing and translating this wonderful volume on Jerry Norman (1936-2012): tinyurl.com/yvdvht7m

鬣羚 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书

Gotta love these moments when you have to look up both a Chinese term AND its English translation after all these years of learning both languages. zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%...

A 鬣羚 lièlíng, mainland serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), sighted in the fascinating report on the Shang Royal zoo (河南安阳市殷墟商王陵区第五地点2023～2024年发掘简报, 《考古》2025.12; E. summary here: www.sixthtone.com/news/1018081), which was all over the Chinese media these last weeks.

AI is coming quickly for the early Chinese philosophical lexicon: tinyurl.com/47hz7afj. This is how the Han invention of philosophical schools and 2000 years of conceptual misreadings will get even more firmly enshrined.

AI is coming quickly for the early Chinese philosophical lexicon: tinyurl.com/47hz7afj. This is how the Han invention of philosophical schools and 2000 years of conceptual misreadings will get even more firmly enshrined.

Reposting one of my favourites: 🤓

Manchu Cuneiform | 楔形滿洲文字 (😉)

From Shiba Kōkan's 司馬江漢 Oranda tensetsu 和蘭天説 (1796) @ www.digital.archives.go.jp/img.pdf/1236...

(A longer obituary I wrote on him these last days will appear in the next issue of "Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung" (BJOAF), but I am uploading his list of publications for easy reference to all interested as images below.) (7/7)

As the Bamboo annals said about his great hero Mu wang 穆王, whom he followed on his travels through China and Central Asia in mianbaoche and jeeps, and through commentaries and citations on paper at home, "the king has ascended" (wang zhi 王陟). R.i.p.! (6/7)

Modern Greek and other languages as well. He also was probably the funniest teacher I ever had, a wild rock guitarist and, with "his queen" Regina, the center of a large and happy family. (5/7)

the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" (2019) and a magnum opus on the Mu tianzi zhuan 穆天子傳 (2024). Manfred was a precise philologist, sensitive translator and indefatigable lexicographer who spoke native speaker level Mandarin, and excelled in Japanese, Turkic, Mongolian, (4/7)

into German, he also continued his work on Early and Medieval China, which he had begun with his masterful study of early forms of autobiography in China (1984/1987). He produced masterful monographs on the "Queen Mother of the West" (Xiwangmu 西王母) complex (1999), (3/7)

Germany's most important Chinese Language Training Center in 1985, from which he retired in 2017. Apart from many publications on TCFL, including textbooks and important dictionaries of measure words, proverbs and specialized vocabulary and a long list of movie translations (2/7)

On December 19 last year, the great sinologist Manfred Frühauf ended his suffering from ALS, aged 75. Manfred was my first teacher of Classical and Modern Chinese at J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, before becoming Director of the "Sinicum" at Bochum U., (1/7)

Wonderful portrait of / interview with Bob Hegel:
m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...

Obsessed with these Analects of Confucius 論語 Romanized in 19th-century Shanghainese 😍
Yáh, rh zz dsih tsz; peh yuh yöh hū? 學而時習之不亦説乎？😍

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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Follow in the footsteps of 高本漢 -- Ph.D. positions inPhD position(s) in Arabic, English, Japanese, Latin or Sinology at U. Gothenburg: tinyurl.com/3prfpjrv

UZH: Professorship for Africa – Europe in the long 20th Century The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship for Africa – Europe in the long 20th century (open rank). The position should be filled by 1 August 2027. Depending on the qualificati...

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Third volume of the Anhui University corpus is now out! It contains 3 manuscripts 👇
hz.ahu.edu.cn/2025/1130/c6...

There is modern Sanskrit literature about everything. There is also a Sanskrit epic poem about Jesus Christ, titled Kristubhāgavatam, published by P.C. Devassia in 1977, which won the main Sanskrit literary prize in 1980 😁

Feliĉan naskiĝtagon, dear Dr Esperanto! 🎉

If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.

#Histlx #Esperanto

The editors of Journal of the European Ass. for Chinese Studies invite submissions for a special issue on the state of Chinese Studies in Europe scheduled for publication in 2026, building on the anniversary symposium held in Paris in November 2025. (cf. detailed call below).

Title and Abstract of my paper "On the Unity of Inner Sageliness and Outer Kingliness in Kang Youwei's Daxue zhu xu"

My new paper on Kang Youwei's #康有為 interpretation of the Daxue #大學 was published just a few days ago. I first presented my research in Olomouc in 2022, so it has been a journey since then, but I am more than happy with the final result! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology

Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Professorship in Indo-European Studies at Copenhagen U. (apply by 12 Jan 2026): jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Eine korea­ni­sche Krone für Donald Trump Der koreanische Präsident Lee Jae Myung schenkte Trump die Replikation einer goldenen Krone. Auf den ersten Blick vielleicht eine Ehrerbietung an den Liebhaber von Glanz und Protz, zeigt aber ein Blic...

Korea hat Trump kürzlich die Reproduktion einer historischen goldenen Krone geschenkt. Verbirgt sich dahinter eine indirekte Kritik? Andrea Riemenschnitter über die Geschichte der Kronen aus dem Silla-Reich und die Kunst der versteckten Botschaften.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/eine-koreani...

Call for applications for the
Friedrich Weller Prize 2026 (for works on Buddhism, China, India, published 2023--2025). For details, please see:
www.saw-leipzig.de/de/aktuelles...

Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....

Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographies et recueils du Moyen Âge chinois - Campus Condorcet Le mercredi 10 décembre à 17h, l’Humathèque Condorcet organise une discussion autour du livre d'Alexis Lycas (EPHE-PSL) - "Documents géographiques de Dunhuang. Guides et traités illustrés, topographie...

Dans 1 semaine, le 10 déc. à 17h au centre de colloques du Campus Condorcet, discussion (et pot) avec Romain Lefebvre (BNF) des documents géographiques de Dunhuang sur les questions de matérialité, d'histoire locale et d'organisation du savoir. all welcome

www.campus-condorcet.fr/fr/agenda/do...

Reposting due to faulty DOI

This issue has an open access article by Nicholas Sims-Williams on #Bactrian:

Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.

brill.com/view/journal...