#sinology — Public Fediverse posts

After the conference & day trip, it was time for meetings. We did plenty! I took part in delegation meetings with #AcademiaSinica and #NTU (National Taiwan Univ.), but there were many more. We learned about exchange opportunities, memoranda were signed, and we presented each others' research priorities and focus areas, and found lots of overlap! #Biodiversity #WorldLiterature #Sinology #DigitalHumanities #ArtifcialIntelligence #NaturalLanguageProcessing, to name just a few. #tcdh #UTrier

Transliterations of #European words by Fu Sinian (Fu Ssu-nien #傅斯年, 1896–1950):

新諾邏輯 Xīnnuòluójí = #Sinology
李奈桑斯 Lǐnàisāngsī = #Renaissance

#ModernChina #TranslingualPractice #歷史語言研究所工作之旨趣 #國文學史分期之研究
@ihptaiwan

Let me also share the latest two articles published #OA in Asia Pacific Perspectives: https://www.usfca.edu/center-for-asia-pacific-studies/asia-pacific-perspectives #asianstudies #asia #china #chinese #sinology

One minor thing that bothered me was that the otherwise very expansive piece on the #CCP #dictatorship didn't include even a single passing mention of #Tibetans, #Uighurs or #SouthMongolians facing #genocide in "Xi Jinping's China". I'd say those present a rather notable ethical dilemma for academic PRC engagers right there, but what do I know... 🤷🏻‍♂️

(the only references to so-called ethnic minorities were: “70 cases of dissent by Tibetans and Mongolians.” and “ ...the anti-foreign protests surrounding reports on the uprising in Tibetan China in the Western press”)

In a way that is quite enlightening of the fact that sinologists are practically by definition preoccupied with the already-siniziced 'Han' Chinese subjects while their colonial victims aren't considered actually Chinese(!). Ordinarily the CCP would be foaming at the mouth at such 'distortion of historical facts', but, with irony sometimes self-immolating right on cue, the Party seems quite at peace with the lack of spotlight on its #lebensraum activities...

One might also add that the Chinese peoples (plural!) are facing their own potentially irreversible cultural genocide in the form of CCP's thirdreich-esque "One Language" drive (see: ein volk ein reich ein führer) where the party-neutered and ideogram-simplified version of Pekingese shall replace *all* of the native languages across the empire. Only a century ago all 'regions' in the empire had their own languages (naturally) and only those with special needs would acquire 'mandarin' from, well, some mandarin...

They are *not* dialects of some mythical 'chinese' any more than the variety of Indo-European languages would be mere dialects of some mythical 'european', or god forbid 'aryan' uber tongue.

#prc #china #chinese #pekingese #putonghua #sinology #oldchinahand #colonialism #imperialism

🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇

Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.

Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.

Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming a shameless firebrand promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').

The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, speading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/09/15/in-a-retro-mood-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-cutting-a-deal-with-xi-jinpings-china/

I’m a scholar of medieval (mainly ~200~1000 CE) Chinese literature and religion at UC Santa Barbara, and have side interests in digital humanities, translation, and world literature. I’ve written a lot about Buddhist poetry in the Tang Dynasty. I also teach Classical Chinese and a bunch of other things here.
#sinology #literature #TangDynasty #UCSB #Buddhism #poetry #translation #DigitalHumanites #introduction