ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

1. Rank: Assistant Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow or Research Fellow (positions roughly correspond to assistant professor, associate professor and professor at the university level in t...

Volume 2024, Issue 90 of Ming Studies

This blog post includes a linked audio file. Just click on the link below if you would like to hear the post read aloud. Scroll down to read the text. BILD / LIDA · Languages do not “die”, they are…

On Chris Graney’s recent guest post I linked to an earlier guest post that he had written about the Danish Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe and one of the new readers, that this link attracted, p…

Perry Anderson brings a peculiar gift to the work of criticism: he can step into a book and inspect it closely, even...

In which Gottfried Leibniz consults the Book of Changes and invents digital technology. With cameos from Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Needham, and eventually, The Chinese Computer.

In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

最近二三十年间, 欧美的人文社会科学研究领域中形成了一个所谓“档案转向” (archival turn) 的学术潮流。

When I made my first posting to this blog in November 2011, I described it as the waizhuan 外傳 (“outer chapter”) to the neizhuan 內傳 (“inner chapter”) of the Serica Project, w…