Alfred Forke: Der Ursprung der Chinesen
Found this little known book by Alfred Forke this week: The Origin of the Chinese on the Basis of their Old Pictograms. He discusses #etymology and connects it to early Chinese philosophy, cosmology, and culture. The 1925 volume focuses on agriculture, urbanism, and government. #Sinology
#histbookchat #sinology Latest arrival!! The Wall Dancers by Yi-Ling Liu (2026) @yilingliu95.bsky.social from @ithakapress.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley of
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who, if all the old Irish folk tales are true, does a little dance every time she sells a book...
#histbookchat #sinology New book from Hilde de Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social - out in UK on 12thJuly 2026
Research Scholar @jeffreykotyk.bsky.social on @tagesschau.bsky.social on the transmission of #ZodiacSigns through #Buddhism into East Asian culture. 🔭
🔗 buff.ly/yqQbsLz (GER)
#HistSci #Astrology #AstroSky #Astronomy #JapaneseStudies #Sinology
Finally some pictures from the 撼龍疑龍二經, two texts on #Fengshui #風水 compiled in the late 1800s. The pictures show maps of mountain and river landscapes almost looking like abstract paintings. The last picture contains illustrations of various landscape features. #ChinaBooks #Sinology
Presenting my research
My committee and me
Yesterday, I finally defended my dissertation with great success. Everyone enjoyed listening to a few #revenge stories from the Gongyang zhuan #公羊傳. And I am proud to have become the first doctor in my family. And a heartfelt thank you to all of my committee members! #Sinology #ChineseStudies
My review of Cultural Mavericks by Zheng Liu (2026) in @asiancha.bsky.social with many thanks to Tammy @myetcetera.bsky.social for her judicious editing!!!
#sinology
#booksky 📚💜
#histbookchat
Map of early antiquity / 古初地圖
Map of the Shang dynasty / 商地圖
Here are also Ma Su‘s maps for early antiquity and the Shang Empire #商代 as examples of the interesting reconstruction work he did! #AncientChina #Sinology
So yesterday I mentioned some very good Chinese archaeology videos about the predynastic period. If you're interested in this, or indeed in archaeology and historiography, check out this series! #Sinology #History #Archaeology
youtu.be/jJsI9dYlNv0?...
This open-access interdisciplinary volume on #insects looks intriguing! Seems like it will have a contribution on insects in #HanChina, specifically the Lunheng #論衡 , by a weirdly familiar guy @lmu.de ... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... #history #animalstudies #sinology #philosophy
Great review by Martin Laflamme of the biography of Hua Guofeng by Stephane Malsagne!! @malsagne.bsky.social
Is there going an English translation??? (I failed my French exams at school lol) #sinology #histbookchat
CfP: China AG / China Workgroup 2026 (June 13-15, 2026)
This year's #conference will take place at JMU in Würzburg, Germany. We welcome all topics concerning China or the Sinophone sphere.
Young scholars (BA to Postdoc) are invited to send their abstracts to Raffaela Rettinger. #Sinology
After retiring, Mullie continued his research at the library of KU Leuven. He ultimately left thousands of Chinese volumes, some of which date to the early 1700s. These books offer much insight into the research of missionaries in/on China and early Belgian #Sinology. #Chinabooks
Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."
Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚
New history of the Warring States period from Andrew Seth Meyer out 5th May from @academic.oup.com #histbookchat #sinology looks good!
University of Hawaii Center for Chinese Studies invites paper submission for the 5th Hawaii International Conference on Chinese Studies (1/6-1/8, 2027). Deadline for abstract submission is March 31st 2026.
manoa.hawaii.edu/hiccs/
#sinology
EXPENSIVE new arrival! Governance of a Party-State by Ling Li (2025) from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
who, with her skirt hitched high and a pot noodle in her hands, is the first up to dance at any party #histbookchat #sinology
Check out a new blog post by Benjamin Landauer on the Chinese and Japanese editions of 百美新詠圖傳, a 18th-century pictorial catalogue of "poetry, painting, and historical anecdote for 103 women hailing from Chinese history and mythology." #bookhistory #womenshistory #sinology
#law #sinology Really enjoyed this long paper by Zeming Liu and Benjamin L. Liebman - Redefining Law in China (2025) - straightforward and lots to ponder! Open access too!
academic.oup.com/ajcl/article...
Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image (kamboompics.com/Pexels (Canva)) shows a symbolic image of electronic circuit in shades of green. Picture by Pexels (pixabay). The third image (setform 2017) displays the MPIWG main building.
New #StudentJob opportunity 🦸♀️
Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks to hire a #StudentAssistant in #DigitalHumanities with an academic background in #CompSci, #DataScience, #DigiHum, or related disciplines 🦾💻
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#Sinology #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
Always a happy day when the latest journal arrives from across the pond @ssycds.bsky.social Lots of interesting stuff inside, including a special section on the human senses!! #histbookchat #sinology #China #SongDynasty
#histbookchat #sinology #law On the wish list for 2026!
Just gotta find another relative to sell to afford it 😵💫😬😢
Weird Confucius - Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History. By Zhao Lu
My book for the holidays: Zhao Lu‘s Weird #Confucius
Let’s see what this got in store for me and my dissertation! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
CfP: Third Forum on Dialogue of World Civilizations - #Astronomy, Science and Technology on the Ancient #SilkRoad
Lanzhou University invites paper submissions for a conference on May 29-31, 2026 with an optional trip to #Dunhuang on June 1-3.
More information in the pictures. #Sinology #China
To be honest, I don't think it was a very smart move of Ling Shu #凌曙 to give two of his works almost identical names, when Qing scholars liked to abbreviate titles they quoted... 春秋公羊禮說 and 禮說 are just too easily mixed up! #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy #LateImperialChina
New article by 謝詩楨 on Confucian #resentment 怨 was just published on 哲學評鑒. The piece examines whether Confucianism can withstand Nietzschean challenges and emphasizes the element of care in Confucianism. Fun read! #ComparativePhilosophy #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ptp1BDmXdd...
Really looking forward to reading the gaokao book after handing in my dissertation. But lots of interesting picks overall. Thanks for creating this list!
Might also be interesting for some #Sinology people!
My copy of Ling Shu‘s #凌曙 complete works has finally arrived and it looks awesome. For the first time, all his works are collected in one place and the biographical studies already look very promising. Just in time to still be included in my dissertation! #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy #Philology #清代
*申徒狄見周公 *Shentudi is received by Duke of Zhou records a dialogue between Shentudi and Zhougong, a meeting mentioned in transmitted literature， with some overlap with a manuscript from Changtaiguan 長台關.
#出土文獻 #Sinology #newevidence #簡帛研究 #周公
