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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 8h
If you have the patience to engage with his erudite French, you are still guaranteed to make fantastic discoveries in his work, even more than a century after his death on Jan. 19, 1918. (3/3)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 8h
with a broad-minded vision, and unusual intellectual powers coupled with almost superhuman activity and unbounded capacity for research." Few works have stood the test of time as well as those of Chavannes. prosopo.ephe.psl.eu/edouard-chav... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89d... (2/3)
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Edouard Chavannes | Dictionnaire prosopographique de l'EPHE
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 8h
OTD in 1865, Édouard Chavannes was born. As Berthold Laufer said in his obituary in 1918, Chavannes "was not merely a sinologue in the narrow, old-fashioned sense of this misused word, but an orientalist and historian of eminent learning and insight, (1/3)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interessanter Beitrag über den "chinesischen Oskar Schindler" und "Gerechtem unter den Völkern" (חסיד אומות העולם), Ho Feng Shan (何鳳山) im gestrigen Standard: www.derstandard.at/story/300000....
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Der vergessene Judenretter aus China
Der chinesische Generalkonsul Feng Shan Ho rettet während der NS-Zeit tausende Jüdinnen und Juden aus Wien vor dem Holocaust
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are hiring www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet... Wir suchen eine:n neue Kollegin! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/professur-fuer-geschichte-des-frueheren-mittelalters-mit-dem-schwerpunkt-materielle-kulturen/3cc74484-cc11-4da3-9b3c-076558ad09a5
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Berufungsverfahren
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Job announcement: Assistant professorship in contemporary China studies at the University of Geneva, apply by Oct 31: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Professeur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle (7055)
en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just out in our "Worlds of East Asia" series, Lionel Fothergill's wonderful book (OA) on contemporay uses of the 四大奇書 in other media, available for download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apparently, Germaine Tillion wrote a note in Chaoui describing the person who had betrayed her Resistance cell to the Nazis and disguised it as part of her field notes. www.inumiden.com/germaine-til...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Zeus's law" as 仁 and 義? A Sino-Hellenic reading of Nolan's Odyssey by Stelios Virvidakis: www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/....
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here's the underlying article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Job announcement: Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track), Indiana University, Bloomington, Dep't. of Central Eurasian Studies (apply by Sep 30): tinyurl.com/4vyc836e
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Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track)
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured hire (open rank) t...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Probably a lot of back-projections about the anyway ill-defined notion of "雒越 Luoye/Lạc Việt peoples" involved, but looking forward to learning more about the Zuojiang Huashan 左江花山 petroglyphs, whether painted with menstrual or other blood: tinyurl.com/2n5d2hp8.
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Were these ancient rock images painted with human blood?
Macabre ingredient may have helped murals on Chinese cliffs survive nearly 2000 years of weathering
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Job announcement: Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track), Indiana University, Bloomington, Dep't. of Central Eurasian Studies (apply by Sep 30): tinyurl.com/4vyc836e
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Roger E. Covey Professorship in Silk Road Studies (Open Rank, Tenure Track)
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured hire (open rank) t...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you!
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Celebrating the birthday of the doyen of 20th c. Chinese linguistics Wang Li 王力 (10.8.1900-3.5.1986) with a picture of the "artist as a young man" in Paris and a poem lamenting his mentor Luo Changpei 羅常培, born a day before him (9.8.1899-13.12.1958).
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy birthday Zheng-Zhang Shangfang 郑张尚芳 (9.8.1933-19.5.2018), “urbling” 癡情 linguist and most passionate and kind scholar of OC ever. m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f..., view.inews.qq.com/k/20231116A0...
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
To mark Hermann Paul's birthday, we recommend Episode 9, on the Neogrammarians, and Episode 45, on the Neogrammarian networks 🎉 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/10/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/04/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians
In this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
in Old Chinese ablaut and affixal morphology, early contacts of the Chinese and Indo-European worlds or the historiography of the Xiongnu. He also had fascinating stories to tell about his time at Bletchley Park or in immediate postwar Japan. R.i.p.! (2/2)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lighting a candle for Ted Pulleyblank, who was born OTDT in 1922. asia.ubc.ca/profile/edwi..., www.jstor.org/stable/23753.... Although we only met a few times, we corresponded extensively in the 80ies and 90ies and he helped me develop research interests (1/2)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
FRIAS fellowship call (within 8 ys after Ph.D.) opened (apply by 18 September 2026): uni-freiburg.de/frias/fundin...
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FRIAS Fellowship Programmes – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The call for Ambizione grants of the SNSF has opened (appl. deadline 3 Nov 26): www.snf.ch/en/N18L3oGWo.... Interested PostDocs within 4 ys after PhD working on Early & Medieval China, early silk road or premodern Ch. linguistics, feel free to contact me.
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Ambizione
Your first step towards scientific independence!
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yes, right, Prof. Roel Sterckx, who is a fellow of the college, kindly opened the gates.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fits well with Christoph Harbsmeier's "Confucius ridens" (www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...) or Li Ling's 李零 depiction of "the sage" as a "stray dog".
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Returning from the Bernhard Führer Festspiele through the gardens at Clare College, Cambridge, finally a Confucius Statue I like by Wu Weishan 吴为山 (zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%...).
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
R.i.p., David Mungello (20.XI.1945-4.VII.26): sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
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D.E. Mungello Obituary
Personal Obituary Dr. David Emil Mungello died on July 4, 2026, after a prolonged battle with kidney disease. He was born on November 20, 1943, in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania to Lois Louise Dittmar Mun...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
2026 Berggreun Prize Essay Competition Open (Theme: "A new Axial Age"?): berggruen.org/essay-compet.... Submit your essay (10k words in English or 15k chars. in Chinese) by August 17th
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Compete in the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition | $50,000 Prize
Submit your essay for a chance to win $50,000 and be published by Berggruen Press. Explore fundamental questions and bridge cultural perspectives. Make your mark on the future of philosophy and cultur...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And the self-proclaimed guardians of Huaxia culture are, predictably, going ballistic (www.wyzxwk.com/Article/yulu...), taking a jab at Olga Gorodetskaya (郭靜云) in passing, too.
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假学术之名,行刨根之实的文化狂徒! - 乌有之乡
假学术之名,行刨根之实的文化狂徒!
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just ordered a new item for the Terrien de Lacouperie redivivus drawer: The "Master of Longlu Hall" (龍路堂主人, @Kidai_000) unfolds his theory of a "Sumer-Shang Continuum" in Chinese and English here: tinyurl.com/mtky7bz3. Turns out that Yu 禹 the Great was actually Gilgamesh after all ;-)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Also includes some useful comparative notes on Aztec (Nahuatl) toponymy.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Interesting forthcoming quantitative analysis of Hou Hanshu 後漢書 toponymy, stressing fixed naming practices, some local autonomy and exceptions in in western frontier geography, despite "a spatial epistemology oriented toward administrative legibility" tinyurl.com/28aw5eje.
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Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Spatial distribution, naming patterns, and formation mechanisms of Eastern Han toponymic heritage
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wouldn't know. Do they hold related materials, maybe, which could be flagged for an application?
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
2027 scholarship program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin hosting Germany's largest Asian Tectual Collections announced (Annual Theme "Material Textuality", apply by Sep 30): staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/sp...
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Scholarship Program | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Homepage der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Programmatic Guangming ribao article by Yang Bo 楊博 on the rewriting of Early Chinese knowledge circulation and the Zhonghua 中華 construct, prompted by recent archaeological finds, including the Qinghai Qin inscription find: tinyurl.com/5ekmtsxz
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秦刻石学术钩探|新见秦刻石与上古知识流动
这场争鸣,恰恰为我们反思上古时期知识生成、传播与共享的机制提供了契机。它使我们反思:我们究竟在多大程度上了解古人的知识世界?当考古实物“溢出”过去文献构筑的认知边界时,我们应如何调整自身的认知框架?
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And another victim of the shortsighted trend to discontinue "small" subjects at universities in the German speaking world: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio.... Condolences to my colleague and friend Mark Kirchner who always tried to cover the 200+ mio Turkic speaking people in teaching and research.
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Hessen: Uni Gießen streicht Turkologie: Fach in Hessen vor dem Aus?
Mark Kirchner ist der einzige Professor für Turkologie am einzigen Studien-Standort für dieses Fach in Hessen. Bald geht er in den Ruhestand, die Stelle soll nicht nachbesetzt werden. Studierende fürc...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Follow in the footsteps of Dietrich Seckel and Lothar Ledderose: Professorship in “East Asian Art History (W1-W3) at Heidelberg University (apply by Aug. 15), www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...,
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A full overview of his academic work up to 2014 is available in his Asia Major Festschrift (19.1/2), the giant list of all the SPP volumes he enabled and edited here: www.sino-platonic.org (2/2)
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Sino-Platonic Papers
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As many of you will have learned with sadness these last days, Victor H. Mair passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. Here are some websites with reminiscences and tributes by colleagues, friends and family members.: shorturl.at/KmuFm, shorturl.at/dVAyV, shorturl.at/soSQK, shorturl.at/LyuZp. (1/2)
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Language Log » Victor Mair RIP
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Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?: On a Conceptual Aporia in Chinese Historiography: Essays in Long Late Antiquity: Vol 1, No 1
The periodization of Chinese history has been a thorny issue since the late nineteenth century, when European period labels or chronotypes such as ancient, medieval, and modern entered East Asian historiographic discourses together with notions of ...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Out tomorrow: Very much looking forward to reading this.
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Let me finish with one of his recurrent WSWG mail conclusions: "Better information or better based conjecture always welcome" and his recommendation: "Read the Shr 詩 meanwhile!" R.i.p! (10/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I also enjoyed some of his biographic sketches of former teachers and colleagues (P.A. Boddberg, Hellmut Wilhelm, Erwin Reifler et al.), part of a larger unfinished project on the history of sinology. (9/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
early medieval Chinese texts or new datings for historical figures, including the Buddha. His book reviews and online comments were always insightful, unconventional, often contrarian and trenchant, as were his many, often daily WS(W)G mails, of which I still have some 5k on my harddisk.(8/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
in 1968, was deeply interested in bringing the philological methods of Cui Shu 崔述 (1740–1816), Karl Lachmann (1793-1851) and other important figures of European 19th textual criticism of the Bible to Early China sinology, often proposing renegade redatings or rearrangements of early and (7/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
copies via e-mail attachments and the varying WSG listservs. Some of them, beautiful in their concision and philological ambition, are still available for download here: www.umass.edu/wsp/introduc...). EBB, who received his BA from Oberlin Conservatory in 1958 and a Ph.D. from UW Seattle (6/10)
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Warring States Project Staff | E Bruce Brooks
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
history and historiography of Early China, its trans-Eurasian connections or structural parallels in the world of New Testament philology, usually written with WordPerfect and always using his own idiosyncratic romanization scheme, remained unpublished or circulated only as samizdat (5/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
in the early 2000s, when it became one of the most lively battle grounds for fresh, out-of-the-box ideas on early Chinese history and culture, and quickly earned it the nickname "Working States Warring Group" in some circles. Many of EBB's essays and vignettes on the textual philology, (4/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
their second book, "The Emergence of China: From Confucius to the Empire" -- more a commented anthology of key passages than a narrative history -- is still available here: tinyurl.com/5979m8a7. WS(W)G held a few physical symposia in the US and the Netherlands, and quickly went online (3/10)
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The Emergence of China | Sample Passages
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
(1988), and long-term maestro of the "Warring States (Working) Group". The radical "accretional" theory spelled out in the "Analects" book triggered many academic reviews, and was even quoted in an essay in "The Atlantic" tinyurl.com/2za4w7j5 a decade later. An almost complete version of (2/10)
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Confucius and the Scholars
East Asian technocrats and modernists in Beijing, among others, are eagerly embracing an updated Confucianism -- even as scholars in the West ask some eyebrow-raising questions. Did the Chinese sage r...
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is to announce the passing of E. Bruce Brooks (*1936) a few days before reaching his 90th birthday on May 26. EBB was an extraordinary sinologist, co-author, with his wife Taeko, of the fascinating, often provocative "The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors" (1/10)
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics of the Associazione die Linguistica Cinese (AILC) coming up next week (June 17-18) at La Sapienza in Rome. Check out the programme/abstratcs here linguisticacinese.wixsite.com/ailc/copy-of...
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AILC 2026 - ROME | ailc
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