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

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They were wide-spread everywhere, but since universities nowadays don’t specialize in a single discipline anymore (Chinese normal universities also don’t do teaching only), they changed there names. But in Paris you still have the École normale supérieure, for example.

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Over the past two days, Fujian Normal University held a conference on the textual and historic world of the Lunyu 論語. I was very happy to present my research on chapter 16, the Ji Clan 季氏, and its structure. #ChinesePhilosophy

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Vale, Al Dien (1927-2026): My fondest memory of him is from Dunhuang in 1998, when he went to a local beer festival and then came to us students (unannounced) with armloads of bottles. It was our job to drink the beer so he could remove the labels for his extensive collection 🍺

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Today would've been Nylon Cheng's 80th birthday, if he had not died for his values in 1989. The publisher and free press advocate made the ultimate stand by self-immolation when KMT police led by Hou Yu-ih, his party's 2024 president candidate, stormed Nylon's office to arrest him for insurrection.

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