Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸)
@behrwolf.bsky.social
Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
"AI has become exceptionally proficient at mastering the grammatical and logical “craft” of language, the “art” of imbuing text with deep emotional resonance and novel imagery remains a significant challenge and a key differentiator for human creativity." Phew, close call!
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"AI has become exceptionally proficient at mastering the grammatical and logical “craft” of language, the “art” of imbuing text with deep emotional resonance and novel imagery remains a significant challenge and a key differentiator for human creativity." Phew, close call!
Könntest Du mir den bitte schicken? Komm da grad nicht drank, wo ich sitzen. Danke, W
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Könntest Du mir den bitte schicken? Komm da grad nicht drank, wo ich sitzen. Danke, W
Oh danke, da hab ich wohl zu schnell gegoogelt.
October 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Oh danke, da hab ich wohl zu schnell gegoogelt.
True to his first name, these contributions were highly creative, often even playful, but never loosing sight of the serious research questions at their core. ཞི་བདེ་ལ་གཤེགས། & R.i.p.! (3/3)
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
True to his first name, these contributions were highly creative, often even playful, but never loosing sight of the serious research questions at their core. ཞི་བདེ་ལ་གཤེགས། & R.i.p.! (3/3)
community will probably remember him best for his "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan" (HJAS 49.2, 1989), "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera" (JAS 62.1, 2003) and his “Interdependence of Words, Texts from Early China" (CLEAR 44, 2022). (2/3)
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
community will probably remember him best for his "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan" (HJAS 49.2, 1989), "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera" (JAS 62.1, 2003) and his “Interdependence of Words, Texts from Early China" (CLEAR 44, 2022). (2/3)
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This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025
A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...