Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland. Reweets are not necessarily endorsements. also: @behrwolf.bsky.social
Zurich, Switzerland
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The massive Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics out today: tinyurl.com/4yhykkuk. Congratulations to Andy, SHin & Bit-chee and all their authors!
"Greek Expectations: Why Are Young Chinese Scholars Studying Western Classics?": tinyurl.com/5hd9ycdp
Cfp: Third Swiss Workshop on Historical Linguistics, 22–23 April 2027 @UNIL, abstract deadline 15 January 2027: tinyurl.com/hauyfjxe
Cool new paper on the many uses of silk at Sanxingdui 三星堆 (incl. dying, weaving techniques etc.): tinyurl.com/2uabd83e; popular summary here: tinyurl.com/5dfbk9m2.
Come work with us at AOI Zurich: Open Rank Professorship in Indology (Cultural History of India, specialisation open; apply by 7 Dec 26): jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/cu…
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New research reveals women helped make the Terracotta Army!
The Terracotta Army — thousands of life-sized clay warriors and horses buried with China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang more than 2,200 years ago — has long been imagined as the work of adult male craftsmen alone.
A research team from the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum (working with Shandong University) analyzed 79 independent fingerprints recovered from 23 terracotta figures. The results: about 45.0% from adult men, 32.7% from adult women, and 22.3% from youths under 15.
This is the first quantitative biological evidence showing that while adult men dominated production, women and juveniles also participated in shaping the figures, transporting parts, or assembling them. The fingerprints, preserved in the clay for over two millennia, rewrite our picture of who built this extraordinary underground army.
Offre d'emploi: Bibliothécaires spécialistes de discipline (Langues, littératures et cultures est-asiatiques : japonais et coréen; Langues, littératures et cultures est-asiatiques : chinois; 40%), UNIGE: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.…
Philosophy Postgraduate Conference 2027: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (Aberdeen), call for abstracts.
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Some brief insights into the conference @make_boluo_ and I participated in this week. The scholars, topics, venue, and food - everything was so well organized, and the university and 簡逸光 were truly generous! Looking forward to the publication of our papers #ChinesePhilosophy
On October 13–14, 2026, the Forum on Textual Studies of The Analects and Western Sinology was held at Zhengyi Academy in Fuzhou. Co-hosted by the College of Liberal Arts at Fujian Normal University and the Department of Sinology at LMU Munich, and organized by the Institute for the Study of Confucian Classics at Fujian Normal University, the forum brought together 17 scholars of Chinese studies from China and abroad for an academic dialogue across civilizations centered on The Analects. #TheAnalects #Sinology #Confucian
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Next week, we kick off our interdisciplinary Lecture Series "Philology: Method and/or Historical Object?". Listeners welcome!
en.idk-philologie.uni-muench…
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We mourn the passing of Albert E. Dien (1927-2026), a pioneering scholar of early medieval Chinese history and archaeology and a founding member of the Group. His scholarship, generosity, and lifelong dedication to the field have left an enduring legacy. He will be dearly missed.
Assistant Professorship in Modern Chinese History at Cambridge, apply by Dec 15, 2027: cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistant-pro…
Upcoming conference "Oikoumene -- Contacts across civilizations, beyond the boundaries of Eurasia", 25-27 October 2026, Villa Falconieri, Frascati.
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「劉釗先生著《發現“昆侖石刻”》出版」
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いわゆる「尕日塘（ガンリタン）秦刻石」の専著。豊富な資料と高精細カラー写真あり。近年まで未発表だった里耶秦簡「琅邪獻昆陯五杏藥・秋鰝及它……」の写真も掲載。
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Job Alert: Assistant Professor in the anthropology of China at MIT
careercenter.americananthro.…
Reading -- "aus gegebenem Anlass" -- Anne Carson's great essay on the importance of handwriting and the agony of loosing the capacity to control it, suffering from Parkinsons'. Never mind the wrong Confucius attribution which gives the essay its title or the misdating of the
Ayurveda by almost a millennium -- this is a wise and beautiful text, which I will recommend to all those students who just sit in class tapping away at their keyboards without realising what they are missing out on. tinyurl.com/mrb7wcry
