New post at the COEB research blog:
Link: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
#Chinesestudies #history #Belgium #China #studentmigration #Chinesehistory #phd #blog
New post at the COEB research blog:
Link: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
#Chinesestudies #history #Belgium #China #studentmigration #Chinesehistory #phd #blog
New post on my phd blog
Link: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/03/trus...
#booksky #history #phd
New post on my phd blog
Link: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/03/trus...
#booksky #history #phd
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New Post on my phd blog: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/03/visi...
#phd #archives #history #research #studentmigration #chinesestudies
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New Post on my phd blog: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/03/visi...
#phd #archives #history #research #studentmigration #chinesestudies
Blog launch!
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Blog launch!
Link: chinese-overseas-education-in-belgium.blogspot.com/2026/02/coeb...
En ligne | Le chinois dans tous ses états : une anthologie augmentée, éd. par Cécile Armand. Inclut deux contributions de Claude Chevaleyre (CNRS/IAO)
Publication numérique en accès libre, hébergée sur Huma-Num : materia-sinica.huma-num.fr
Collaboration avec Jinntech, soutien ANR-23-AERC-0018
I don't know how the project turns out, but I am ready.
quite the transition period for me, from the last working days in France to hanging around a month to moving to applying to waiting to completing phd enrollment at the Free University of Brussels. Full of hurdles, uncertainty and bureaucratic shenanigans. but also excitement.
Some news: I have received a FRESH scholarship from the Franco-Belgian FNRS and started my phd research on the transnational history of Chinese-Belgian educational exchanges (1900-1950) since the beginning of January. Twenty-twenty-five was
Taobao recommendation for a badge "Get in loser we're seizing the means of production"
Taobao recommendations FTW
Share: Language Without the World: Reading Thierry Poibeau’s Conversational AI
#DH
enepchina.hypotheses.org/7543
Exemplaren van De onvindbare stad in een geopende kartonnen doos.
Exemplaar van De onvindbare stad, sfeervol verlicht door een snoer kerstlichtjes, staand voor een rij Chinese boeken op een plank.
Een laat kerstcadeau: de presentexemplaren van "De onvindbare stad" van Yu Hua, vertaald door mij! In China, zo'n honderd jaar geleden, gaat een man op zoek naar zijn vrouw, die op een dag plotseling is weggelopen. Uiteindelijk vindt hij met een omweg toch wat hij zocht.
#China #literatuur
Ah yes, spotlight deprivation could be fatal.
Can we just have one week that isn't about *him?*
Leerkrachten doen achterstallige verbeterwerk tijdens de week van de deliberatie, wanneer ze niet verplicht aanwezig zijn op school. De inkorting van de deliberatietijd zorgt voor onnodig meer werkdruk, want wie gaat die leerlingen in die week moeten bezighouden? Niet Demir.
If you missed yesterday's @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar from Aleksandra Kaye and colleagues on 'Science Across Borders: Text-Mining and Network Analysis Insights into the Polish Diasporic Periodical Press, 1830-1930', it is now on our seminar youtube channel #dhist
youtu.be/tio0nDGDGjw
It's just picking up a piece of history to confirm one's believes about the world today, with the nice bonus of coming across as an informed pundit. But, just like the famous Napoleon quote ("Let China sleep..."), these parallels quickly fall apart when you actually dig a bit deeper.
Lately, some China pundits have drawn flimsy parallels from Qing-era episodes (Self-Strengthening Movement, Macartney mission, Opium Wars) to comment on today’s EU. Although I won't deny the challenges that the EU is facing, these comparisons are superficial, not to mention incredibly tacky.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Popcorn time!
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
And the Pedantry Award goes to...
“We moeten besparen. België geeft te veel uit. Vooral aan sociale bescherming en zorg. Nieuwe belastingen? Kan niet. We zijn al belastingkampioen! En die raken enkel de middenklasse & schaden de economie.”
De onuitgesproken uitgangspunten van de begrotingsdiscussie. Kloppen ze? 🧵
enepchina.hypotheses.org/6675 #sinology
Kennis koesteren, doorgeven, zelf maken ... is een maatschappelijk functie van de #universiteiten, ongeacht of die op onmiddellijk "iets oplevert". Het is een maatschappelijk goed, geen economische parameter.
Ik denk dat afhankelijk van AI in schrijfopdrachten wijst op grotere problemen: gebrek aan informatievaardigheden, weinig lezen en het feit dat schrijven nooit serieus aangeleerd wordt.
I misread the feed name “Air Canada strike” as “Canada Airstrike.” I didn’t know how I did it but I had a small heart attack.