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The Chinese Alphabet
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Welcome to my channel. My name is Imre Galambos and I am a sinologist doing research on medieval manuscripts from sites along the Silk Road. I used to be Professor of Chinese at Cambridge but recently I moved to the beautiful city of Hangzhou (China) and now I teach at Zhejiang University. This channel focuses on Chinese language, characters and manuscripts, as well as on how to write and publish in academia, and how to pursue research in general. I am trying to distill my own experience and to present it in a way that is helpful for those just starting out on their academic career.
NB. There is, of course, no such thing as "the Chinese alphabet", because the Chinese use signs (i.e. characters) to write. This is a writing system that is entirely different from the phonetic scripts of other cultures.
NB. There is, of course, no such thing as "the Chinese alphabet", because the Chinese use signs (i.e. characters) to write. This is a writing system that is entirely different from the phonetic scripts of other cultures.
Chinese religion - Interview with Prof. Vincent Goossaert
This is an interview that took place at the Minnan Buddhist Institute, in the Nanputuo Monastery in Xiamen. I talk to Prof. Vincent Goossaert about his projects within the field of Chinese religions, the Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) database he is building together with other scholars and students, his comparative research on rituals, and his views on the continuity of rituals and religious texts in Chinese history.
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Will I be able to complete the PhD?
Просмотров 184Месяц назад
Students thinking about applying to a PhD course sometimes wonder whether they would be able to complete the PhD course, whether they are smart enough or tough enough to finish and get the final degree. In reality, the answer is that it is not about how smart or talented you are, but rather whether you are able to push through and perservere. You need to commit to this course of action and then...
Leaving the translation last
Просмотров 151Месяц назад
A question related to writing a paper or a dissertation is whether we can leave the translations last. Because we know that they are important, but we might prefer to first write the bulk of the dissertation and move on to the translations only once everything else is ready. This way we can work on them together in batch. Although this may appear logical, I fundamentally think that this is not ...
Khotan and the Silk Road - Prof. Erika Forte
Просмотров 3492 месяца назад
This is an interview with Prof. Erika Forte from Kyoto University, discussing her research on Buddhism in Khotan during the first millennium AD. Khotan was an oasis kingdom along the Southern Silk Road, with a thriving Buddhist culture. Prof. Forte talks about her work as an archaeologist without being able to excavate in the region, as well as the inherent difficulties of having much fewer mat...
Researching Chinese painting - Michael Cavayero
Просмотров 3852 месяца назад
I am talking with Michael Cavayero, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Peking University. We discuss his research on Chinese painting, Sinology, Buddhism, and the combination of these. His approach is somewhat different from the usual one, in that he works not so much on the paintings themselves (which are rare for his period) but on textual sources discussing those. By combining art hi...
How to remove all Chinese characters from a file
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.3 месяца назад
This video is about a simple hack to remove all Chinese characters from a file, so you don't have to do this manually. There are times when you need to quickly delete all Chinese from a file, and if it is hundreds of pages long, it will take you ages to do this character by character, or line by line. For such times, there is a simple Find and Replace solution in word. You need to hit the Ctrl ...
Chinese seals found in Ireland - 19th century antiquarianism
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There were several dozen Chinese seals found in Ireland between 1780 and 1853, causing a minor sensation not only among antiquarian enthusiasts but also in leading intellectual circles. They were brought together in a book published in 1850 by Edmund Getty, which bore the title Chinese Seals Found in Ireland. Because of the seal script characters on them, the seals were thought to be very old a...
Chinese character variants
Просмотров 9 тыс.3 месяца назад
Although large dictionaries contain tens of thousands of characters, the majority of these are variant forms which are almost never used in daily life. This video introduces the variants that were used and explains how they had their own standard, meaning that they would be written more or less the same way across more than a thousand years, throughout East Asia. The video also shows how we can...
Ligatures in medieval Chinese manuscripts
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This video is about a less commonly known phenomenon in medieval Chinese manuscripts, namely, the presence of joined graphs (hewen). These are graphs for a small number of words, typically in Buddhist texts, that join two characters into a single unit, but continue to read it as two syllables. The earliest examples of this scribal device were already seen in early Chinese manuscripts and inscri...
Inside the art world - Interview with Lily Dai
Просмотров 2644 месяца назад
Today my guest is Lily Dai, and we talk about her work in the London art world. She talks about her own background in urban design and architecture, how she initially worked as a designer, before moving on to her current job. She also talks about what it takes to be successful at this line of work, how you need to maintain your integrity by always validating your information before you pass it ...
Chinese Primers along the Silk Road
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.4 месяца назад
Primers are texts that were specifically written for the purpose of being used by children or young adults on the way to acquiring literacy. Along with the dispersal of Chinese Classics to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other neighboring countries, a large number of other texts, including primers went to these countries which continue to use the Chinese script until the modern period and inherited t...
Reading classical Chinese texts with AI
Просмотров 6134 месяца назад
AI is all around us these days, being served up among the search results on Google and other search engines. It is being praised as this incredible technology that is able to solve nearly all of our problems and tasks. So I went on to ChatGPT to see whether it could help me find some Chinese phrases amongst the sea of ancient Chinese texts. This video is about my repeated attempts to push it fu...
Public speaking anxiety - What worked for me
Просмотров 3074 месяца назад
Fear of public speaking is typically mentioned as one of the main sources of anxiety in our age. Yet the ability to speak in public is also one of the main predictors of a person's professional success, closely following her ability to write well. In the academic world, this is even more important to be able to speak in front of people, as our lives revolve around teaching, presenting at confer...
Writing a book review
Просмотров 1545 месяцев назад
In this video I am responding to specific questions I received about how to write an academic book review, how to do it in a way that is still authentic and useful, yet does not offend the author and does not cause problems for the reviewer in the long term. Because it is true that if the reviewer is an established scholar, going very harsh on his book is not a good strategy. So my advice is to...
Buddhist scrolls from the Tang capital - Dunhuang manuscripts
Просмотров 5785 месяцев назад
Buddhist scrolls from the Tang capital - Dunhuang manuscripts
After a Chinese degree from Cambridge - Imogen Page-Jarrett
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After a Chinese degree from Cambridge - Imogen Page-Jarrett
The New IDP website - Better than before?
Просмотров 4936 месяцев назад
The New IDP website - Better than before?
Which project should you choose for your PhD?
Просмотров 2427 месяцев назад
Which project should you choose for your PhD?
Should you be writing BOOK REVIEWS as a grad student?
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Should you be writing BOOK REVIEWS as a grad student?
Reading texts and learning languages - Interview with Dr. Bill Mak
Просмотров 4117 месяцев назад
Reading texts and learning languages - Interview with Dr. Bill Mak
Multicultural Dunhuang - Interview with Imre Galambos
Просмотров 4097 месяцев назад
Multicultural Dunhuang - Interview with Imre Galambos
Chinese and Tibetan manuscripts - Interview with Prof. Amanda Goodman
Просмотров 6948 месяцев назад
Chinese and Tibetan manuscripts - Interview with Prof. Amanda Goodman
How to pick a title for your dissertation or paper
Просмотров 2488 месяцев назад
How to pick a title for your dissertation or paper
Don’t list forthcoming articles in your CV
Просмотров 2099 месяцев назад
Don’t list forthcoming articles in your CV
Empress Wu characters in medieval Chinese manuscripts
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Empress Wu characters in medieval Chinese manuscripts
Study of China in Britain - Prof. T. H. Barrett
Просмотров 7679 месяцев назад
Study of China in Britain - Prof. T. H. Barrett
Colophons in Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang - Introduction
Просмотров 95710 месяцев назад
Colophons in Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang - Introduction
How to find a great research topic?
Просмотров 27610 месяцев назад
How to find a great research topic?
Learning CLASSICAL CHINESE efficiently
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Learning CLASSICAL CHINESE efficiently
You'll never know how much this helped me.... Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! We need more people like you!
Use voice to text input. 蝴蝶,蚯蚓,蟑螂,昆虫,壁虎,蚂蚁,螃蟹,虾。common radical is 虫
I just learned about this feature and it's pretty neat! I was reading an old literature and looked up so many uncommon words. Then I discovered about these in the settings and wow amazing. I wonder if the dictionary works with other languages? Because this tool will be INCREDIBLE for learning a new language!
I love this man ! Thank you for this interview~ It is insane to think about the tremendous weight of our past misconceptions concerning Chinese spirituality... I will gladly discover the Chinese Religious Text Authority !
Great, thanks for watching!
So happy and surprised to see that Prof. Galambos had started using kindle two years ago. Sorry to be late to the “party”. Agree with many things you and your readers had mentioned. In addition, I often buy the same book in two versions - Chinese and English to study translation. For example, I’m reading Prof. Patricia Ebrey’s book “Emperor Huizong”, Chinese version is in a hard copy and English in Kindle. It’s a way to compare texts in both languages, which is what I’m interested in. I also like to use Kindle to read a topic which I am not familiar with, so I can use the dictionary to check words much more quickly than a physical book. Lolan Song
Thanks for watching, Lolan!
I wonder if any of those scrolls or books had any information on the weather around the site? Why was it abandoned?.
The scrolls don’t talk about the weather, but it is likely that the river had changed its course and so the area became a desert.
This is a great video. Thank you for making it.
Thanks!
Fallout NV gobi desert rifle ❤
Oh, my goodness! Thank you so much for this! I just discovered your channel during a search after bemoaning the fact that you can get a crappy B-rated movie from a dozen places online, but AUDIBLE seemed to be about the only game in town when it comes to books still under copyright. I'm hoping that audiobooks become more popular with the implosion of Hollywood.
You should also try Apple Books, that is often cheaper than Audible.
@@TheChineseAlphabet Even better! Thank you!
Typical Europeans and their fake discoveries.
Basically my ancestry. Illustrative dna says Nestorian
Thanks for the interesting backstory.
Claaaaaassic rus haha
another tale of ruski honesty
Thank you. This is a very interesting documentary.
While I appreciate this interview, I wanted to add some context about the Cambridge Buddhist Temple located on Cromwell Road. Describing it as "a tiny house with a Sri Lankan monk" (at 26:24) doesn't quite capture its significance. The temple has been active for over six years and works closely with various groups in and around Cambridge. It regularly hosts events with participation from dozens of people and features teachings from prominent monks of various traditions. It plays a vital role in our community and contributes richly to the diversity of Buddhist practice in Cambridge. I believe it's important to recognise and respect the contributions of all Buddhist traditions in our community. Thank you for considering this perspective.
Great, thank you for this perspective!
The only efficient way to learn Chinese characters is to look at their original oracle bone shapes. For example, how the heck am I supposed to memorize 'summer' 夏 xià? No logic there at all! Easy, just look at the original: a picture of a man kneeling before the sun. It might help if you learn that at the time of its creation the character read, and the word was pronounced not xià, but KRAːʔ. What the heck is KRA? Well, that's the ancient endonym of the 'Chinese' people, the Huaxia, or the Magnificent KRA. By the way, KRA also happens to be the endonym of Austronesian/Tai-Kadai/Kradai people who had populated central and eastern China before the (proto-)Chinese arrived from Tibet arount 4000 years ago. The (proto-)Chinese invaders forced the locals to learn the Sino-Tibetan words, but the grammar was lost forever. The process was called 'dramatic creolization' by the linguists. Which is why Chinese now has Tibetan words, but not Tibetan grammar. That's the proper way to learn Chinese characters!
you got a new subscriber. nice job..
Welcome to the channel!
Seems like these kinds of societies have existed all over the world. Clawing and fighting for personal recognition and glory of discovery, even if it means stealing from others.
Thank you, Very interesting and i learned something new. thanks
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing from own experience, I found it very useful for my current status.
Glad it helps!
Very cool!
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Your video is outstanding. The content, delivery and pictures are superb❤
Wow, thank you!
Is there still any uyghur community that holding and preserving their ancient traditional budhism believe, will u make a documentation about those communities for cultural heritage footage.
To my knowledge all Uyghurs are Muslim now so there no Buddhist communities. But this is not a new development, the conversion to Islam happened during the premodern period.
Thank you so much! Your advice is so helpful and practical.
Then how about Power Point? do u have any idea how?
Sorry, I have no idea about Powerpoint.
Thanks for posting this content. It reminds me my grandma's name which contains 奀 , literally 不大 or 小, pronounced as "sui(like 虽)"
0:46 Chinese subtitles are required for monolingual speakers of the other spoken languages. Monolingual Cantonese speakers do not understand Mandarin, but will be able to read Standard Chinese subtitles.
Good point!
nő = 女 Nǚ = woman, együtt = 一起 Yīqǐ = together
Sounds so interesting, I also think Chinese paintings are very literal in the sense that you must approach them through literature. Will definitely check out Dr Cavayero’s work.
Yes, I also think it is fascinating!
“Chinese paintings are very literal in the sense that you must approach them through literature” I'm no expert but I know for a fact that there are plenty of symbolism that are prominent in paintings and not in literature.
太棒了。
Write radical form just need 200 word. Just recognize Just like recognize flower,road,people face. Radical 囗 ,related to mouth so 吃,喝,哭,口渴,many not related are 器官,嚣,吗,咖啡
Easy-peasy! 😎
That's great to know, thank you Professor! We had similar issues when we were trying to change the font of Chinese characters within hundreds of pages where the main language is English. I was unable to find an elegant solution within word, but my Chinese colleague said that there is a function for that in WPS. So sometimes WPS is already giving solutions for problems that only exist when working with two languages. Thanks for your videos! Hope you have a good week!
Thanks for watching!
so real my friend
Honestly I'm surprised there aren't more considering how easy it makes some words to write, but I guess it does disrupt the unique flow Chinese has. The only ligature that I've seen use (that I recognize as a ligature) is a Japanese last name that's a kokuji, being 粂 (Kume) which is a derived from 久米 (Kume).
Cool. What's the meaning of the code you entered? For example, does 127 mean 'Chinese'? Can you change that for different languages?
[!^1-^127] matches any character that is not in the ASCII range 1 to 127.
very useful!
Oh, thank you!
Yes they are definitely a technology! I am studying calligraphy and finding new love in Chinese primers & 小學
Calligraphy is really cool!
In calligraphy context, 高 with the ladder form is closer to bronze script or seal script e.g.from繹山碑(& 亯 from大盂鼎 which is also a building) that might be why it was seen as standard. Also in clerical script, the ladder and mouth would be practically the same both written with two horizontal and two vertical strokes. Great video btw 🪜
Thanks!
Dutch VOC ships also brought thousands of these types of stamps whit them along with Chinese porcelain, here in the Netherlands they were sold as gaming pieces and can still be found in lots in antique shops here.
Wow, I had idea, that’s really interesting. Can you recommend a book or article to read about this?
@@TheChineseAlphabet some books are D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer - Chine de commande C.J.A. Jörg Porcelain as a commodity. the porcelain trade as part of the VOC's China trade, 1729 - 1794. the smaller pieces such as opium boxes stamps netsukies. were mainly bought by the sailors of the VOC and sold at the black market trade, mainly on the Dutch and German markets. If you look at the crew lists of the VOC ships, there were also a few Irishmen who signed on to these ships. You could contact the VOC archive, which has more than five million documents in their possession. I would first look to see if any Dutch or VOC coins (VOC had its own mint and mint house) have been found in the area. Where the stamps are found, then you immediately have a connection between the stamps and the VOC
Well that Tangut princess did put an end to his life as well spreading his DNA into offspring legend behold. Although he was a Tengrist , he had a bit of instant karma there! it would be some poetic justice if the legend be true.
Well, depending on whose side you are on…
@@TheChineseAlphabet I know a good urologist that can fix anything. Happy Saturs day!
@Rhombohedral must be a divine doctor!
@@TheChineseAlphabet he makes a new bladder out of a piece of colon and he makes a new male member out of a piece of arm. Dzjengis would have liked that with the last procedure a prosthetic is needed. Ye that evening with photo's of it all I never forget
Ireland has always been a safe haven for those seeking a place to comfort them while escaping the horrors further east. My ancestors tell tales of Egyptian Royals to a wandering Jesus coming not just to escape but to reconnect with the comforting forces of nature. Druids instructed many Sages through the mists of time
Sounds like your family has some stories tobtell
Irish guy here, and I had never heard of this story. It was interesting!
Thanks!
Fantastic video. I'm not sure if Edmund Getty's motivation would have been primarily Irish nationalism, or if he would have seen himself as such. His Wikipedia bio shows him to very much be a part of the Protestant Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. Later in the 19th century, some people from this background famously were Irish nationalists - WB Yeats, Maud Gonne, etc. But in the first half of the 19th century, the 1801 Act of Union joining Ireland & Britain was still new, and most people of Getty's background would have been supporters of it.
I see, thanks for clarifying that!
Sounds like leftovers from a Hellfire Club treasure hunt. Why else would they have been scattered in such improbable places. They certainly aren't prehistoric.
They sure aren’t.
9:36 County of Kilkenny
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My favorite channel. Always with incredible narratives and knowledge explained in a simple way - as I think it should be. Given my department has no orientalist or similar, your work it is very inspiring for this little M.A. student. Could you, please, make a video in depth on how you learned Chinese (both Mandarin and Classical one). There are some videos where you deal with language experience, like a video on your first experiences in China after the Military Services - but the topic on instrumental usage of languages is quite uncommon on youtube. It is always very interesting to hear how the other scholars you brought here deal with the language(s) barrier.
Thank you! I am glad you enjoy the channel. Let me think about this video, I’ll try to come up with a way to present this kind of information.
What was the intellectual discourse at the time in the region that was eager to link Ireland to ancient Eastern Asia?
It was trying to disassociate themselves from the English, to show that they were completely different from them. But it was not primarily with China
@@TheChineseAlphabet hah! I'm going to tell my Irish colleague that I'm Irish too now!
@babelbrain 😀
@babelbrain IIRC there is a quite old Old Irish story which speaks of the Celtic people as originating from Scythia (this would show a remarkable cultural memory even if only approximately true - though I don't know what the current historical view of it is) - and, as mentioned in the video, possession of ancient Chinese artefacts would presumably lend credence to it.
@@increpare_games fascinating! I'll have to look more into it!
Lovely story. Perhaps it was a prank gone bit too far 😁 Did I understand correctly that they are not personal seals, but rather mass-produced stamps with sayings, similar to modern rubber stamps for children?
Yes, they are seals with auspicious sayings or quotes from poems. Perhaps more expensive than rubber stamps but not personal ones.