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9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics of the Associazione die Linguistica Cinese (AILC) coming up next week (June 17-18) at La Sapienza in Rome. Check out the programme/abstratcs here linguisticacinese.wixsite.co…
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Ambitious article on "The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage" by KKL Wong et al. in npj Herit. Sci. (2026), doi.org/10.1038/s40494-026-0…. In the syntactic/semantic task, performance of all tested (1/2)
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LLMs "declines sharply for modal particles and function words whose meanings depend heavily on discourse-level context or manuscript-specific philosophical styles", often down to 50%. Not sure, whether this is bad or good news for us non-artificial readers at this point... (2/2)
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CFP: Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL), R.U. Bochum, 9-10th Oct 2026: chinesestudies.eu/2026/call-…
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JANUS-Project Annual Conference "The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity", 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (janus-project.org/events/con…), online participation link: forms.gle/ByBnjbLMeof8qn1AA
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Online Summer School: Negative Asian Thought (resisting "therapeutic and optimistic interpretations"), beginning June 11, with Brook Ziporyn, Adam Loughnane, Julie Reshe, Graham Parkes). Register here:
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CFP: 1st International Conference on Kra-Dai Languages and Linguistics (ICKD-1 2026), November 21-23, 2026, to be held at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, submit abstracts by Aug 31, 2026. sites.google.com/view/ickd20…
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Congratulations to Claus U. Rieth, who defended his monumental, erudite and entertaining Ph.D. thesis on the Chinese Tree Peony (mudan 牡丹) with flying colours at TU Dresden yesterday. (96§§8 pp.) Watch out for the book version forthcoming with Brill.
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Incredible new tools that don’t just show but chart #SilkRoads connections and mobility. A new genetic study showing migrations and political change over the last 4000 years. Especially interesting pulse from the 4th C… nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Is Thucydides Trap a Thing? My post: "The Trap of the Thucydides Trap" open.substack.com/pub/yashen…
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I feel a cold fury whenever I open a pdf of some paper to read and Adobe is like "Hm, this looks long. Would you like me to just summarize it for you?" No, fuck you, Adobe. The paper is long because it contains a lot of details that matter. Why wouldn't I want to read them?
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Individuals named with numbers are a common phenomenon in Chinese history, but the underlying reasons and meanings remain subject of debate. We invite you to explore these numerical names via our “Database of Names and Biographies” to discover more. newarchive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw…
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Jobs: Early‑career researcher for the PNRR project LIVEDIE – "Living and Dying in the Tarim Basin". Experience with early Chinese documentary sources and solid competence in Classical Chinese are essential (apply by June 3): tinyurl.com/3bb8z7rd
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New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
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1/ 🚨🚨 My new article in The China Quarterly arguing that Xi Thought is not a coherent doctrine. Rather, it is a rhizome - unity is an effect of distributed institutional labour, not a property of the texts themselves
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2026 Berggruen essay competition announced: This year's theme "A new axial age?" (submit by August 17th, 2026): tinyurl.com/wmw7uf27.
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Just out: ONE big ONCE in a blue moon feast on virtually every aspect of "ONEness" in East Asia: "Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards Unity?" (343 pp.). Congratulations to Andrea Bréard, Thomas Crone and Valerie Kiel for making this possible: degruyterbrill.com/journal/k….
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Lovely farewell tribute to Stephen Owen: "Chinese readers ...recognized him as ... a man who had strayed into a kingdom not his own, sat down, and lived inside its cadences long enough to change how they heard them." thechinaacademy.org/farewell…
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