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Alexis Lycas
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Medieval Chinese history @ephe-psl.bsky.social‬
Les Man du fleuve Bleu (@anacharsis-ed.bsky.social, 2023)
Documents géographiques de Dunhuang (@college-de-france.fr, 2025)
Études chinoises @etudeschinoises.bsky.social
www.crcao.fr/membre/alexis-lycas/
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publication day for my *Documents géographiques de Dunhuang*, a social and cultural history of geographical knowledge, and probably one of the only medieval history books published in France during the ephemeral Lecornu government, which you can freely download here: books.openedition.org/cdf/20307
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Un article en deux parties très intéressant pour dégonfler ces think thank creux et leurs apôtres qui brassent de l'air avec emphase
Le Grand Continent, ou la géopolitique mondaine des petits Machiavel de notre temps (première partie)
Le Grand Continent et son « mage » Giuliano da Empoli veulent raconter le chaos du monde. Mais leur proximité avec les puissants nourrit une géopolitique lettrée et sans vertèbre.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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#BOTD: Yu Ying-shih 余英時 (1930–2021), historian, sinologist, and a true #Renaissance man of #ModernChina
January 22, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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💻👀 Le numéro 43 d’Études chinoises est désormais en ligne en libre accès sur Persée :
www.persee.fr/issue/...
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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François Gipouloux (dir.) - Dictionnaire de la Chine impériale

À paraître en avril chez CNRS Éditions
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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what’s your favorite way of being acclaimed? mine is critically
January 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is now online, with 12 articles & 25 book reviews covering most periods of Chinese history.
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊
www.cambridge.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Job!

Four-year PhD fellowship in Chinese Studies at Leiden University

Deadline: 1 March

careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Four-yea...
Four-year PhD fellowship in Chinese Studies sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation
Four-year PhD fellowship in Chinese Studies sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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📢 Nouveau sur Persée !
📖 "Études chinoises. 漢學研究", vol. 43, n°1, 2024.
🔗 www.persee.fr/issue/etchi_...
🤝Merci à nos partenaires de l'Association Française d’Études Chinoises (AFEC) pour leur contribution à la diffusion des savoirs en #OpenAccess !
#ScienceOuverte #Chine
January 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Un superbe numéro estampillé jeunes chercheurs/euses, avec comme souvent dans ce cas-là, des contributions impeccables, entre histoire médiévale et littérature moderne, et surtout depuis le numéro précédent en accès ouvert immédiat grâce à la générosité de l'@etudeschinoises.bsky.social
www.persee.fr/issue/etchi_...
Volume 43 of Études Chinoises, the French journal of Chinese studies (dated 2024) is online!!! This is a varia issue. Next issue (2025) should follow in a couple of months 🚀
Études chinoises, vol. 43, n°1,2024. - Persée
www.persee.fr
January 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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On December 19 last year, the great sinologist Manfred Frühauf ended his suffering from ALS, aged 75. Manfred was my first teacher of Classical and Modern Chinese at J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, before becoming Director of the "Sinicum" at Bochum U., (1/7)
January 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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if your “unpopular opinion” post gets zero likes you won
January 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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I’ve just published an article reflecting on several extended trips I’ve made to China over the past few years. A number of outlets, most recently the NYTimes and the Economist, have written about China’s museum boom, usually framing it in terms of national pride or nationalism.
From imperial ritual through Maoist dialectics to Xi-era heritage politics, in this essay @tristangbrown.bsky.social explores how China’s heritage bureaucracy has turned archaeology into a language of governance, transforming artefacts into symbols of civilisational continuity and state authority.
Excavating a History Already Found
A carved stone discovered in Qinghai Province in 2020 drew wide attention in June 2025 when a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposed that it was an inscription from the reign of...
madeinchinajournal.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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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
January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Jean-Philippe Beja - Surveiller et punir en Chine

Laogaï et technosurveillance, de 1946 à nos jours

À paraître en mars chez La Découverte
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Since it's fake character origin week, here's at least a super funny one. 🤣🤣
And it's not even completely fake: 飛 is originally a pictogram of flying birds.

(I don't have the original credits for this, if you know please add!)
January 6, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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📢 Offre d’emploi

Le CEFC recrute un·e chercheur·se/rédacteur·ice en chef adjoint·e.

La date limite de candidature est fixée au 19 janvier 2026. La prise de poste est prévue au 1er avril 2026.

🔗 emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/1...

#Recrutement
#Chine
#ChinaPerspectives
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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Mongolian and Manchu scripts are written top-down. But there's a big difference to Chinese and related scripts: The columns run left to right. In bilingual documents, like Daicing 大清 edicts, the 2 versions start from the edges & meet in the middle, without formal hierarchy.
December 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
alors que sera créé en janvier 2026 au CRCAO le premier pôle universitaire d'études mongoles, écouter l'anthropologue Roberte Hamayon - autrice de la Chasse à l'âme (le + beau titre de livre des sciences humaines françaises) - expliquer avec clarté les différentes facettes du chamanisme mongol
December 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Avec deux articles sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
en vrai le second empire mais le premier à durer aussi longtemps, et un dossier paritaire pour ce qui est des spécialistes francophones de la période
Les Han, premier empire chinois au menu de la livraison de janvier de L'Histoire
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
appel à communications pour la journée jeunes chercheur(e)s de l'AFEC, en mai 2026, une occasion rare et utile de présenter ses premiers travaux sur le monde chinois pour docs/postdocs
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Heading to Paris for this conference. La culture visuelle de la gastronomie / Visual Culture of Gastronomy hicsa.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/c...
La culture visuelle de la gastronomie / Visual Culture of Gastronomy | HICSA
hicsa.pantheonsorbonne.fr
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
CFP: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies vol. 7.1 (2026), the EACS 50th Anniversary Issue welcomes contributions that critically reflect on the state of Chinese Studies in Europe. Details: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
journals.univie.ac.at
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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New issue of Early Medieval China is out! I have an article in it on anomaly accounts 志怪 in the Liang text Jinlouzi 金樓子. Come for the unique treatment of strange tales as fodder for (very hard to translate) parallel prose, stay for Jinlouzi's own bizarre history of dissolution and recompilation...
Project MUSE - Early Medieval China-Volume 31, 2025
muse.jhu.edu
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM