Adam Smith

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05539 Buddhist Studies position in California.

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a truly astonishing amount of 異體字 on this tombstone from a man in Banka Island, Indonesia, and its decipherment by Sharon S.L. Toh 子 as 㜽 和 as 咊 公 as ⿱八白 皇 as ⿱白由 丹 as ⿵冂⿱上口 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

been a while since I saw a mutant character that really delighted me

A memorable and compelling moment from my childhood TV consumption.

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

another high-profile plagiarism row is blowing up in Chinese social media... at the centre of it is Zhong Shu, the podcaster known for the Nolan interview. basically people are discovering that many of her episodes (which are monologues) are repackaged translation of

Talisman powered by radioactive thorium ☢️ www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202512/09/...

The problem is not the gender of the person wielding the gun. It's the gun. The gun is the problem. It's always been the gun. It will always be the gun.

The Qianlong Emperor [r. 1735-1799] enshrined his conquests as the "Ten Complete Victories" - he even had a nickname: 十全老人: "The Old Man of the Ten Victories" He went so far as to have it carved onto his own white-jade imperial seal. But your "World's Best Dad" mug is cool, too, I guess...

Cool Sinological question from @michaelerard.bsky.social -- can anyone think of any historical sources that describe young children talking or record their first words?

China has announced that from next month, Tibetan will no longer be a subject in the annual National College Entrance Examination (高考 gaokao), China's most important test for high school students. According to the announcement (www.scio.gov.cn/live/2025/36...):

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

HONEY "Sesame oil, milk, honey, [and] syrup are to be cooked in a vessel [so that] half [of it] remains. ... pepper is to be strewed in – this is to be drunk as a medicine against cancer." cetom.univie.ac.at?m-ioltoch306

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The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay

Very sad news about Andrew West, an online friend to many of us on here, who had a rare combination of expertises and was always generous with advice on 'Phags-pa script wine advertisements, fake Yuan-dynasty passports, and less-explored reaches of the higher Unicode planes.

Opposing ICE in chalk with sidewalk goatses; what a time to be alive

I am utterly shocked and saddened by the news of Andrew West‘s @babelstone.co.uk untimely passing. He was a huge inspiration, an impressive scholar, and a kind and generous person. FAMA PER ORA VOLAT SPIRITUS ASTRA TENET

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2

Look unlike China we're not running camps I mean unlike China we're not dramatically raising military spending I mean unlike China we're not pressuring private companies to follow a political agenda I mean unlike China we don't have a cult of personality around our paramount leader I mean unlike Chi

cursed chengyu

NEW: A ChinaFile investigation into China's powerful, but leaky, internet censorship system at locknet.chinafile.com 1/21