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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

...De sidder ved deres vinduer og holder øje. De stirrer tværs over gyden ind i mørke lejligheder, og de ved det ikke, men de stirrer på hinanden." (13)

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Så der sidder de altså, skjult i skyggerne. Udenfor falder sneen blødt og stille. Indenfor er de alene i hver deres lille etværelses i deres faldefærdige gamle bygninger. De har begge to slukket lyset. De venter begge to på, at den anden skal vende tilbage....

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Und als ich bei der Waage meiner Wünsche in die eine Schale das bequeme Land, und in die andere die Heimat meiner Träume legte, da senkte sich die Waage deutlich zur Seite meiner Träume, obgleich eine weiße, zarte Hand ganz leicht an den Schnüren der Schale mit dem bequemen Land zog. #森尾外 #Schamoni

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"In dem Zimmer schlummern Dornröschen und ihr Hofstaat. Nur kenn Franka den Mechanismus nicht, der die Zeit wieder in Gang setzen könnte. Oft hat sie sich gefragt, ob Stillstand ein traumloser Zustand ist oder ob Dornröschen von Albträumen geplagt wurde." (95)

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"Es ist dem Zufall überlassen, welches Licht am Abend noch brennen und mit dem Anbruch der Nacht zu erkennen sein wird, wie Glühwürmchen, die erst im Dunkeln auf die Idee kommen, sich gegenseitig finden zu wollen." (69) #UnterGrund @annegretlie.bsky.social

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Acts of citational cultural play", I like that.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Hinausgeworfen aus dem Haus der Sprache. Zwangsgeräumt." (191) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Gerade das, was am schwersten zu erzählen ist, müssen wir versuchen, in Worte zu fassen...Wovon wir nicht sprechen können, darüber müssten wir schreiben. Denn Verrücktheit, das is der gerissene Faden des Gedächtnisses. Wer nicht mehr erzält, verschwindet...

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Sobald die Leute genug haben, wovon sie leben können, stellt sich heraus, dass sie nicht wissen, wofür sie leben könnten." (143) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Beim Bauern holten wir Milch in verbeulten Blechkannen, Mein Vater nahm den Deckel von der Milchkanne. Dann schwang er sie eimal im Kreis. Die Milch blieb auch ohne Deckel in der Kanne. So zeigter er mir, dass die Fliehkraft stärker wirken kann als sie Anziehungskraft, das Fernweh stärker als ....

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Vivisektion: die Öffnung des Organismus bei lebendigem Leibe. Die Methode: Schreiben." (115) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Die Saiten hängen durch, tiefere Töne werden angestimmt. Der Mensch verliert seine Fähigkeit zur Resonanz mit der Welt und seine Schwingungsfähigkeit." (106) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Die Depression ist nicht nur geistig oder körperlich, sie ist eine Verstimmung des ganzen Menschen. Wie eine Gitarre, die einen Viertelton herabgestimmt ist und deren Stimmung nicht mehr zur Stimmung anderer Instrumente passt, die nicht mehr mitspielen kann...

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Die Patienten sind wirklich ver-rückt." (85) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it and run with it. At the end, they'll see who's done the best job." (200) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"everything was the hieroglyph of something else." (195) #Eco #Pendulum

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CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

So exciting, this lovely book has arrived!! Many thanks to @nabibabi.bsky.social, my amazing co-author Barbara Wall, and super organized editor @uncannydazzler.bsky.social Nick Miller for making it happen. #Seventeen #kpop

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Das Erinnerungsvermögen kann nicht von der Vorstellungskraft getrennt werden. Sie gehen Hand in Hand. Auf die eine oder andere Weise sind wir all Erfinder unserer Vergangenheit." (10) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Our Hanmun is fun quiz is now listed in the AAS program! The exercises are designed so that even students in their first year of Korean language learning can try them. No prior Hanmun experience needed! Please share widely with your students and colleagues: forms.gle/oLgLh8Ja5AjT... #AAS2026

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Hanmun for students in Korean Studies

First steps - you can do it! Please finish by March 12, 2026.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Anyway, reading soothes me. Would you understand it if I told you that reading enabled me to accept myself? I could understand humanity through books. How week we are, an also how strong we are. How endlessly good, and yet endlessly violent." (219) #IWentToSeeMyFather #아버지에게갔었어

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

To encourage broad participation, one paper with sample exercises will be pre-circulated. Our presentations will reflect on participants’ responses and aim to spark a collaborative conversation on improving Literary Sinitic pedagogy in Japanese and Korean Studies. #AAS2026

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Finally, Emilie Mellerkær offers the perspective of a current hanmun learner in Korean Studies, emphasizing the value of translanguaging and interactive exercises for increasing student engagement and comprehension.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Felix Siegmund turns to the linguistic concepts of hôsa and silsa (empty vs. full words), exploring their didactic potential for hanmun training.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

David Lurie, drawing on over two decades of experience teaching Literary Sinitic in a Japanese Studies context, critiques the dominant use of a narrow set of Confucian texts in kanbun education and calls for broader diversity in both content and method.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ross King opens the panel by advocating for more ‘authentic’ hanmun instruction—blending traditional Korean pedagogical methods with modern analytical tools.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Moreover, there is still no shared platform to discuss how best to teach and learn Literary Sinitic in these disciplinary contexts.This panel brings together 4 instructors and 1 student engaged in Literary Sinitic education to explore more effective, inclusive, and engaging pedagogical approaches.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yet today, training in this classical language remains a rare privilege in most Japanese and Korean Studies programs in Europe and North America. When courses are offered, they often assume prior knowledge of Mandarin, not of Japanese or Korean.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

🔹 Panelists: Ross King · David Lurie · Felix Siegmund · Emilie Mellerkær · Barbara Wall 🔹 Panel abstract: Literary Sinitic (漢文; J. kanbun, K. hanmun) shaped the literary cultures of East Asia for centuries.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

and everyone who takes the quiz and attends our panel will get a chocolate. 🍫 🔹 Panel: “Classical Chinese”? Kanbun? Hanmun? The Conundrum of Literary Sinitic Training for Japanese and Korean Studies Researchers Thursday, March 12, 2026; 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT; Location: VCC, Room 301

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

While the exercises are primarily designed for students who have learned Korean, all Hanmun lovers are very welcome. Please feel free to share with your students and anyone who might be interested. Emilie and I will present these pedagogical experiments at the upcoming AAS Conference in Vancouver ..

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We’ve been experimenting with interactive Hanmun exercises tailored specifically to students in Korean Studies, and one early “guinea pig” told us the quiz made her brain happy ❤️ If you’d like to test it yourself (and perhaps make your brain happy too), try it here: 👉 forms.gle/oLgLh8Ja5AjT...

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Have you studied some Korean and are curious about taking your first steps into Hanmun (Classical Chinese / Literary Sinitic)? 😄 If you’d like to test it yourself (and perhaps make your brain happy too), try it here: 👉 forms.gle/oLgLh8Ja5AjT... #AAS2026 Please share widely! It's much fun!

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Hanmun for students in Korean Studies

First steps - you can do it! Please finish by March 4, 2026.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I love this translation! "I felt like a butterbur leaf in the vegetable patch being hit by the relentless rain." (125) #IWentToSeeMyFather #아버지에게갔었어 Thank you, @antonhur.com

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CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Friends, an article (short one, just 2,400 words) that I wrote just came out. It's part of the @eastasiaforum.bsky.social issue on "Resource Geopolitics" and my article is on #Korean #SoftPower (or rather my misgivings that Soft Power actually exists and really can help Korea, beyond

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East Asia Forum Quarterly: Volume 18, Number 1, 2026

<p>Critical minerals and rare earths have moved to the centre of economic security agendas. As decarbonisation accelerates and US–China rivalry deepens, governments are racing to secure the supply cha...

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

世事悠悠不忍聞荒橋立馬忽忘言幾時白日明心曲是處靑山隔淚痕燒棧子房寧負信翳桑靈輒早知恩傷心無術身生翼飛到雲霄一叫閽 세상일 갈수록 차마 들을 수 없어 다리 위에 말 멈추고 말없이 서 있네 어느 때 백일이 심정을 비추어 줄는지 이곳은 청산이 눈물에 가렸네. 잔도 태운 장자방이 어찌 신의를 저버렸으랴 예상의 영첩도 벌써 은총을 알았다오 마음 아프구나 이 몸에 날개 돋울 길 없어 하늘로 날아가 옥황상제에게 하소하지 못하니 (26) #여행 #심경호 #益齋亂稿

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"I was as much of a bee as the ones we wanted to attract; and, like them, I was being quickly lured to a flower, though I didn't yet know what that flower was." (276) #Eco #Pendulum

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Seven years ago, my previous employer's head of data science told me that machine learning would soon advance to the point where machines would be able to interpret and translate classical Chinese documents. My response was, no chance. He turned out to be absolutely right; I was wrong.

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Keunbong, placing the unsuspecting boy's index finger into a straw cutter, quickly brought down the blade...now that he couldn't pull the trigger on a rifle, he wouldn't be wanted by the military." (74) #IWentToSeeMyFather #아버지에게갔었어

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them." (225) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"I decided to invent a job for myself. I knew a lot of things, unconnected things, but I would be able to connect them after a few hours at a library." (223) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Mysticism is a degenerate form of contact with the divine, whereas initiation is the fruit of long askesis of mind and hear." (215) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"'But what do they want people to know?' 'Only that there's a secret. Otherwise, if everything is as it appears to be, why go on living?'" (208) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"everything was the hieroglyph of something else." (195) #Eco #Pendulum

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

月夜瞻鄕路 달 밝은 밤 고향 길 바라보니 浮雲颯颯歸 뜬구름 너울너울 돌아가네 緘書忝去便 서찰 봉해 그 편에 부친다 해도 風急不聽廻 바람 급해 화답이 돌아오지 않으리 我國天岸北 우리나라는 하늘가 북쪽에 있고 他邦地角西 이곳 남의 나라는 땅끝 서쪽 日南無有鴈 남방에는 기러기 없으니 誰爲向林飛 누가 계림으로 전해 주랴 (26) #여행 #심경호 #往五天竺國傳

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Barbara Wall @nabibabi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"I had a vague feeling. That my incompleteness would continue - that wherever I was, I'd be writing and erasing, writing and erasing. That even after writing the last period, I would be endlessly refining the words I had written." (38) #IWentToSeeMyFather #아버지에게갔었어

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