I can't wait to read this. Fortunately it's available for free now.

Our 'cereal killer' is finally out!

doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Since the 20th Party Congress begins in ten days, I thought I would do a thread on the work I have done to date on Xi Jinping.

First, here is an article I did on how Xi Jinping's early years (1950s and 1960s) may have affected his worldview. journals.openedition.org/chinaperspecti…

SOAS intends to terminate the professorship of Burmese (Justin Watkins), which would be a terrible loss to the field. Here is a petition - pls circulate widely.
docs.google.com/document/d/12A…

The Program & the Collection of Abstracts of the international conference dedicated to the memory of the prominent Russian #Tangut scholar, Professor Evgeny Kychanov are now available online. The conference will take place in St. Petersburg on June 23-24.

orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…

New paper on Xinjiang as a genetic melting pot and the early entry of putative IE speakers into the region. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

🧵My translation of the analysis of the current situation in Russia by an active FSB analyst. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far & wide. The full text is over 2000 words. This is a highly insightful look behind the curtain - covers many subjects.

Поскольку пассивное наблюдение за хроникой катастрофы невыносимо, душа требует немедленного действия. Но помните вот что:

Got this in the mail today - a beauty!
Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu: Dice and Gods on the Silk Road: Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context. Brill, 2021.

XXXII. Jahrestagung der DVCS in Freiburg, Programm hier: dvcs2021.github.io/programm/

How did the king of Shang and his family members bathe? What kinds of vessels did they use? You are welcome to visit our online exhibition, “The King Demands Hot Water,” starting on June 10. Please follow the link: museum.sinica.edu.tw/exhibitions/80/

As sympathetic as such attempts at a crosslinguistic, comparative typology of etymological developments may be, they become problematic without the corrective of a philologically informed conceptual history.

Herr Prof. Dr. Christoph Harbsmeier, MZAW-Gastprofessor für Kulturgeschichte des Altertums, hält am 28. April um 18.00 Uhr s.t. bis 20.00 Uhr einen Vortrag. Infos zur Anmeldung unter sinologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/vort…

More books on Buddhist rock-cut caves: A Study on the Restoration of the Kizil Grotto Murals, has just come out!

Am I too late to submit?

Navalny's new video about Putin's corruption scheme with English subtitles youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI

Important essay by Heiner Roetz (RU Bochum) on the compliance of major international journal publishers with Chinese censorship requests and the astonishing lack of any reaction among the major science organizations in Germany: josha-journal.org/en/categories/…

Important Silk Road discovery: the first epitaph in Sogdian and Chinese for a woman. See Bi Bo and Nicholas Sims-Williams, “The Epitaph of a Buddhist Lady: A Newly Discovered Chinese-Sogdian Bilingual,” JAOS 140.4 (2020): 803-820.

Just ordered

Out now! New Festschrift (in German) for the wonderful Dr. Shing Mueller w/ contributions by Maria Khayutina, C. Luhn, C. Bocci, H. van Ess, T. O. Hoellmann, R. Ptak, S. Eicher, M. Nuernberger, and yours truly. 1/2 #SixDynasties
ostasien-verlag.de/reihen/deutsch…