Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did

Southern Hokkien (Minnanhua, Taiwanese), one of the southern Chinese regional languages, is rarely taught in Chinese programmes at European or American universities. This paper sheds light on the design and pedagogical aims of a new comprehensive introduction to Southern Hokkien, and deals with aspects of Southern Hokkien that are found beneficial for an efficient acquisition of this language outside its natural linguistic environment

Sima Qian as a Reader of Master Kong's Utterances

Based on selected passages from the Shiji (Records of the Scribes) this paper attempts to shed light on Sima Qian's readings of the utterances of Confucius in the wider context of the early reception history of the Lunyu (Analects). It understands the records and interpretations transmitted in the Shiji as a widely overlooked early hermeneutical attempt to contextualise and clarify the meaning of statements attributed bu Master Kong

Mencius for Han Readers: Commentarial Features and Hermeneutical Strategies in Zhao Qi’s work on the Mencius

This paper explores hermeneutical strategies applied by Zhao Qi (d. 201) in his Mengzi Zhangju (Mencius: Chapters and verses). It surveys commentarial features of the earliest extant commentary on the Mencius and discusses examples of Zhao Qi's dealing with lexicon, orthography, grammar and syntax in his word glosses and translations from Zhou Chinese into contemporary parlance, which offer a window into the development of linguistic features of the Later Han period