BREAKING NEWS! US Dollar no longer accepted in the afterlife!! Used to be even in my little #GobiDesert oasis you could find US$ to burn for your ancestors. No longer! Not a single USD & told： "美元在天堂已经不流通了，人民币才是硬通货，天上地下都一样!!" #清明节 #RMB #敦煌

Interview with Prof. Timothy H. Barrett on the development of Chinese studies in Britain. youtu.be/yidTLc5SWtA

europhras 2023 officially started at Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan. #phraseology #linguistics

BS Onsets correspondence tables 2022 final academia.edu/103107870/BS_O… via Academia

"A study of the Verb ZHUAN 转 meaning ‘return’ in Modern Chinese/近代汉语“返回”义动词“转”研究 Jeudi 15 juin 2023, 10h-12h, EHESS, Salle AS1_08 54, bd Raspail, 75006 Paris 2e conférence de ZHANG Cheng 张赪 (Université Tsing Hua, Pékin), professeure invitée à l’EHESS-CRLAO

The Sound of Ancient Languages, parts 1 and 2: 0:00 Etruscan  0:39 Sumerian  1:25 Ancient Greek  2:24 Urartian 3:24 Avestan  3:50 Egyptian  4:41 Akkadian  5:34 Sanskrit 6:33 Hittite  7:31 Latin  8:28 Phoenician  9:14 End 0:00 Proto Indo European 0:30… dlvr.it/SxvhmV

Come The Felicity The Door: From Charles Belov: Sending along a photo from a videodisc cover I encountered in a little free library. The Chinese title 幸福来敲门 is translated into English as "Come The Felicity The Door". xìngfú lái qiāo mén 幸福来敲门… dlvr.it/SzHQ4S

A comparative analysis of colour–emotion associations in 16–88‐year‐old adults from 31 countries - Jonauskaite - British Journal of Psychology - Wiley Online Library bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…

Toward modernization, rail station under the old city Wall in Peking, ca. 1900. My personal collection.

Some foreign textiles in nomadic tombs. Left: Chinese silk at Noin-Ula, Mongolia, 1st c BCE-1st c CE (similar to brocades at the Han burial of Mawangdui, near Changsha). Right: Bactrian / Yuezhi embroidered carpet at Noin-Ula. Both are in my book (less than a month to go)! 🙂

“Playing” with Color: How Similar Is the “Geometry” of Color Harmony in the CIELAB Color Space across Countries? mdpi.com/2710604 #mdpiarts via Arts MDPI

International Conference on the Languages of the Far East, Southeast Asia and West Africa CALL FOR PAPERS academia.edu/117597250/Inte… via Academia

#chineselinguistics #japaneselinguistics researchgate.net/publication/38…

FYI: Deadline extended (hybrid event): "International Conference on the Languages of the Far East, Southeast Asia and West Africa", November 21-22, 2024: International Conference on the Languages of the Far East, Southeast Asia and West Africa LESEWA-XVI… dlvr.it/T721v5

Scientists were able to create a remarkably lifelike digital avatar of Lady Xin Zhui using remains uncovered in her 2,200-year-old tomb. ow.ly/F9t150RJGfm

A study in scarlet: cultural memory of the tropes related to the color red, female countenance, and onstage makeup in the Sinophone world - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

-6 days to the Cerlis2025 conference! Full programme available at sites.google.com/unibg.it/cerli…

Beijing, 2007, CCTV headquarters is still under construction. ©️ Iwan Baan