Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich. President, Europ. Ass. for Chinese Studies (EACS). Reweets are not necessarily endorsements; see also @behrwolf.bsky.social
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 （氒/厥/攸） retweeted
China just founded my dream institution. Maybe if I can make it to Nanjing next year, I can drop by and visit here sometime. This is my dream job too. Just let me mess around with oracle bones for three more decades and you won't hear a peep out of me.
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Iso Kern (Geng Ning 耿寧, 1937–2026), Swiss philosopher and distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy, has passed away a few days ago. His unusual intellectual journey connected European phenomenology with Chinese Neo-Confucianism and Yogācāra Buddhism,
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Kern’s intellectual life embodied a rare combination of academic rigor, personal modesty, and intercultural curiosity: a sustained engagement with traditions beyond one’s own. His work, documented in the uploaded preliminary bibliography,
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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 （氒/厥/攸） retweeted
a little over two weeks left to apply!!
🚨 Two PhD positions with me at the University of Zurich!
Join my new project “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds Itself Together”.
4 years · Start: 1 March 2027
Apply by 22 November 2026
Please share widely! :-)
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New for download: Aglaia Starostina's exciting dissertation on migrating plots between medieval China and India: A treasure trove of weird & witty Buddhist tales on wooden birds, sleeping beauties, magical helpers, white snakes or bell-casting mothers. tinyurl.com/2dzjk3jk
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Program of the XXXVIIth annual meeting of the German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS) at Göttingen available here: events.gwdg.de/event/1481/ov….
Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 （氒/厥/攸） retweeted
Assistant professor job: Thomas and Evelyn Rawski Endowed Chair in East Asian Studies.
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The massive Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics out today: tinyurl.com/4yhykkuk. Congratulations to Andy, SHin & Bit-chee and all their authors!
