Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊
@ciaota.bsky.social
PhD student @KULeuven. Doing Chinese philosophizing. Kang Youwei-studies and Gongyang Confucianism. They/them
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Hey there to all our new friends on here! I‘m Markus Samuel Haselbeck and I‘m currently in the last year of my PhD at KU Leuven. I specifically work on revenge in Gongyang #Confucianism (公羊學) from the Warring States until now, but I‘m interested in #ChinesePhilosophy at large (Esp Mozi and Zhuangzi)
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A (Very Short) Queer History of China
The Lives of Ancient Chinese Queer People
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November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Today, I had the opportunity to present my transcription of and research on long-lost letters from the first Danish Sinologist, Mourier, to Julius Klaproth right next to #武夷山, where #朱熹 built his study. Great atmosphere! #Sinology #ChineseHistory
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Today, I had the opportunity to present my transcription of and research on long-lost letters from the first Danish Sinologist, Mourier, to Julius Klaproth right next to #武夷山, where #朱熹 built his study. Great atmosphere! #Sinology #ChineseHistory
Trip to Gulang Island #鼓浪嶼 today for a lecture in the Old Japanese Consulate. Great views on an architecturally stunning island. European style villas standing side by side, and trees that look ancient seaming the paths with not a single car in sight.
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trip to Gulang Island #鼓浪嶼 today for a lecture in the Old Japanese Consulate. Great views on an architecturally stunning island. European style villas standing side by side, and trees that look ancient seaming the paths with not a single car in sight.
Made my way to Xiamen University 廈門大學 for a Sinology workshop on German-Chinese relations throughout history and had the chance to visit Lu Xun‘s #魯迅 study room where he often stayed over night to keep using the library during his time here. Looking forward to a great workshop! #ChineseHsitory
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Made my way to Xiamen University 廈門大學 for a Sinology workshop on German-Chinese relations throughout history and had the chance to visit Lu Xun‘s #魯迅 study room where he often stayed over night to keep using the library during his time here. Looking forward to a great workshop! #ChineseHsitory
This Open Access volume might be interested for some Sinology scholars and historians on here! #lateimperialchina #chinesehistory
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Quantitative History of China
This Open Access book showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history based on large historical datasets.
link.springer.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This Open Access volume might be interested for some Sinology scholars and historians on here! #lateimperialchina #chinesehistory
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
As the lack of English secondary literature specifically dedicated to Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 makes this School of Chinese Philosophy and #Confucianism rather inaccessible, I have decided that it is time for a bibliography post including introductory and more specific works on Gongyang thinkers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As the lack of English secondary literature specifically dedicated to Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 makes this School of Chinese Philosophy and #Confucianism rather inaccessible, I have decided that it is time for a bibliography post including introductory and more specific works on Gongyang thinkers.
Received a few books from China a few days ago and am super excited for some more #公羊學. Especially interested in what seems to be the only other monograph ever written on #劉逢祿 besides 吳龍川‘s 劉逢祿《公羊》學研究 (2008). And 曾亦 is usually a safe bet for good research on Chinese Philosophy! #Sinology
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yesterday, I presented part of my research on Gongyang Confucian revenge at the Qing Intellectual History Network. Great session with lots of interested questions and nice discussion afterwards. Thanks to everyone who joined us! #公羊學 #Confucianism
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Yesterday, I presented part of my research on Gongyang Confucian revenge at the Qing Intellectual History Network. Great session with lots of interested questions and nice discussion afterwards. Thanks to everyone who joined us! #公羊學 #Confucianism
I was invited to present some of my research on #Revenge in Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 at the Qing Intellectual History Network next week. Feel free to join us at the link below on November 10! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I was invited to present some of my research on #Revenge in Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 at the Qing Intellectual History Network next week. Feel free to join us at the link below on November 10! #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.
Wow, this is super interesting! I‘m always fascinated by different annotation systems people come up with. While my annotations are rather tame (lines, brackets, circles, notes, some “code” letters here and there,…) I’ve come across some WILD note-taking!
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Wow, this is super interesting! I‘m always fascinated by different annotation systems people come up with. While my annotations are rather tame (lines, brackets, circles, notes, some “code” letters here and there,…) I’ve come across some WILD note-taking!
If you are interested in #Yinyang philosophy or new to Chinese thought overall, definitely check out this episode of HoPWaG featuring Robin R. Wang! Meeting her in Beijing in 2015 had a great impact on how I understand Yinyang and the five phases today.
On today's new #HoPWaG episode we are joined by Robin Wang, who discusses yin-yang theory: she argues it is not so much a piece of doctrine as a whole pattern of thought.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/yin-yang-wang
#philsky #chinesephilosophy #yinyang
www.historyofphilosophy.net/yin-yang-wang
#philsky #chinesephilosophy #yinyang
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you are interested in #Yinyang philosophy or new to Chinese thought overall, definitely check out this episode of HoPWaG featuring Robin R. Wang! Meeting her in Beijing in 2015 had a great impact on how I understand Yinyang and the five phases today.
Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities
Today, I have finally received my author copy of Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers to which I contributed a 15-page chapter on Li Zhi #李贄 and the thinkers surrounding him together with Phillip Grimberg. #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today, I have finally received my author copy of Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers to which I contributed a 15-page chapter on Li Zhi #李贄 and the thinkers surrounding him together with Phillip Grimberg. #ChinesePhilosophy #Sinology
Had the chance to present my analysis of Jiang Qing's #蔣慶 notion of revenge and its roots in Kang Youwei's #康有為, Liao Ping's #廖平, and Chen Zhu's #陳柱 ideas at FAU Erlangen's #DeutscherOrientalistentag yesterday. Thanks to my colleagues for the great panel!
September 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Had the chance to present my analysis of Jiang Qing's #蔣慶 notion of revenge and its roots in Kang Youwei's #康有為, Liao Ping's #廖平, and Chen Zhu's #陳柱 ideas at FAU Erlangen's #DeutscherOrientalistentag yesterday. Thanks to my colleagues for the great panel!
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Handed in my #dissertation @fau.de today! It's on its way to #Erlangen now.
My thesis concerns commentarial practices in early imperial (Han 漢) China, analysing Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 commentary to the Liji 禮記. #chinesehistory #sinology #chinesestudies #commentary #philology #ritual #hermeneutics
My thesis concerns commentarial practices in early imperial (Han 漢) China, analysing Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 commentary to the Liji 禮記. #chinesehistory #sinology #chinesestudies #commentary #philology #ritual #hermeneutics
August 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Handed in my #dissertation @fau.de today! It's on its way to #Erlangen now.
My thesis concerns commentarial practices in early imperial (Han 漢) China, analysing Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 commentary to the Liji 禮記. #chinesehistory #sinology #chinesestudies #commentary #philology #ritual #hermeneutics
My thesis concerns commentarial practices in early imperial (Han 漢) China, analysing Zheng Xuan's 鄭玄 commentary to the Liji 禮記. #chinesehistory #sinology #chinesestudies #commentary #philology #ritual #hermeneutics
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While Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 doesn't recognize it as a legal tool, #Revenge #復仇 takes on the function of punishing enemies. Instead of the whole enemy family, it's the single person who wronged a member of one's own nine grades of kinship #九族.
While Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 doesn't recognize it as a legal tool, #Revenge #復仇 takes on the function of punishing enemies. Instead of the whole enemy family, it's the single person who wronged a member of one's own nine grades of kinship #九族.
August 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Still wondering how I ended up on a #PredatoryJournal's mailing list for a Mexican physics conference with my #EACP presentation. How would this title fit into "Science Set Journal of Physics"?
And it's their 9th email, so they really want my paper on #劉逢祿, #康有為, and #蔣慶!
And it's their 9th email, so they really want my paper on #劉逢祿, #康有為, and #蔣慶!
July 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Still wondering how I ended up on a #PredatoryJournal's mailing list for a Mexican physics conference with my #EACP presentation. How would this title fit into "Science Set Journal of Physics"?
And it's their 9th email, so they really want my paper on #劉逢祿, #康有為, and #蔣慶!
And it's their 9th email, so they really want my paper on #劉逢祿, #康有為, and #蔣慶!
Finally read this article on @tsmullaney.bsky.social‘s fascinating research and the lucky rediscovery of Lin Yutang‘s #林語堂 MingKwai 明快-typewriter, which worked similar to modern computers in displaying possible characters you could mean as early as 1947. #sinology
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Finally read this article on @tsmullaney.bsky.social‘s fascinating research and the lucky rediscovery of Lin Yutang‘s #林語堂 MingKwai 明快-typewriter, which worked similar to modern computers in displaying possible characters you could mean as early as 1947. #sinology
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
Interesting report on the rise of scams through #Guoxue institutions in urban China.
Although such scams existed all throughout history, I wonder if the Imperial examination system and closer-knit academic networks curbed this problem to some extent? #sinology #LateImperialChina #Chinesephilosophy
Although such scams existed all throughout history, I wonder if the Imperial examination system and closer-knit academic networks curbed this problem to some extent? #sinology #LateImperialChina #Chinesephilosophy
The Allure of Guoxue in Modern Urban China In recent years, a growing number of urban Chinese have turned to guoxue—literally “national studies,” referring to the study of traditional Chinese culture, philosophy, and classical texts—as a means of seeking meaning, identity, and spiritual…
Urban Chinese and the Rise of Guoxue Scams: Tradition, Identity, and the Lure of Enlightenment
The Allure of Guoxue in Modern Urban China In recent years, a growing number of urban Chinese have turned to guoxue—literally “national studies,” referring to the study of traditional Chinese culture, philosophy, and classical texts—as a means of seeking meaning, identity, and spiritual fulfillment. This revival, however, has also given rise to a troubling phenomenon: […]
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July 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Interesting report on the rise of scams through #Guoxue institutions in urban China.
Although such scams existed all throughout history, I wonder if the Imperial examination system and closer-knit academic networks curbed this problem to some extent? #sinology #LateImperialChina #Chinesephilosophy
Although such scams existed all throughout history, I wonder if the Imperial examination system and closer-knit academic networks curbed this problem to some extent? #sinology #LateImperialChina #Chinesephilosophy