Born 1980 in Jindřichův Hradec; 1998–2004 M.A. programme in Sinology (thesis Theoretical basis for making of a dictionary of minimal lexical stock for reading Classical Chinese texts) at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (FF UK), 2009 Ph.D. in Languages of Asian and African Countries at FF UK (thesis Word-class Flexibility in Classical Chinese: Verbal and Adverbial Uses of Nouns), 2015 habilitation in Linguistics of Chinese at Charles Univesity.

Specialization: historical linguistics of Chinese, theory and history of Chinese writing, history of Chinese linguistics, ancient Chinese literature and philosophy

Selected publications:

 Books:

Sün-c’. Překlad, komentář, studie [Xunzi. Translation, commentary, study]. Praha: Academia 2019.

Chan-fej-c’, sv. II. Překlad kapitol XXX–LV s komentářem [Hanfeizi. Translation and commentary, vol. 2/2]. Praha: Academia, 2013.

Chan-fej-c’. Překlad, komentář, studie. Sv. 1 [Hanfeizi. Translation, commentary, introductory studies, vol. 1/2]. Praha: Academia, 2011.

Word-class Flexibility in Classical Chinese. Verbal and Adverbial Uses of Nouns. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.

Čínské písmo [Chinese Writing] (together with M. Pejčochová). Praha: Academia, 2009.

 Articles/monograph chapters:

“Ancient Chinese Sentence Final Particle ěr爾”, Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 50.1, 2021, 1–64.

“The First Chinese Grammar between the Domestic Tradition and Western Modernity: Neglected Aspects of Mǎ Jiànzhōng’s Prefaces to Mǎshì wéntōng (1898)”, Archiv Orientální 88.1, 2020, 57–93.

“Linguistic affinites of the Yǐnwénzǐ text in light of basic corpus data”. In: Wolfang Behr, Rafael Suter and Lisa Indraccolo, edd., The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 347–396.

Rec. G. E. R. Lloyd, Jingyi Jenny Zhao (eds.) (in collaboration with Qiaosheng Dong), Ancient Greece and China Compared, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, xv, 430 pp. EASTM 49, 2019, 128–133.

“A Preliminary Study of the Lexical Field norm in Ancient Chinese: Etymology, Word-formation, and Conceptual Metaphor”. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica 4, 2017, 11–50.

“Concessives, Pre-Modern”. In: R.P.E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z.J. Handel, C.T.J. Huang, James Mayers, edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, vol. 1, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 658–665.

“Word Classes, Pre-Modern”. In: R.P.E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z.J. Handel, C.T.J. Huang, James Mayers , edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, vol.4, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 566–576.

“Mǎshì wéntōng”. In: R.P.E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z.J. Handel, C.T.J. Huang, James Mayers , edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, vol. 2, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 682–689.

“Chinese and Prague Linguistic School”.  In: R.P.E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z.J. Handel, C.T.J. Huang, James Mayers , edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 447–451.

“Word, Wordhood, Pre-Modern”. In: R.P.E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z.J. Handel, C.T.J. Huang, James Mayers , edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 549–554.

“Pokus o kvantitativní jazykovědu klasické čínštiny – základy glottometrie staročínských textů” [An Attempt at Quantitative Linguistics of Classical Chinese – Basics of Glottometry of Ancient Chinese Texts]. Nový Orient 71.2, 2016, 44–55.

“Lǚshì Chūnqiū: Object Words Denoting Processes”. In: Barbara Meisterernst, ed., New Aspects of Classical Chinese Grammar. Asien und Afrikastudien der Humboldt Universität, Harrassowitz, 2016, 149–174.

“Čínský pojem yì 義 a jeho český překlad [The Chinese Term yì 義 and its Czech Translation].” Nový Orient 69.3, 2014, 48–55.

“A Weapon in the Battle of Definitions: a Special Rhetorical Strategy in Hánfēizǐ.” Special issue of Asiatische Studien 68.3, 2014, (forthcoming).

“The Ancient Chinese Language.” In: Tim Wright, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. [on-line] New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0108.xml?rskey=83dAXp&result=43#backToTop].

Teaching

Since school year 2004/2005: teaching at IEAS of the Faculty of Art, Charles University in Prague

• courses taught: Classical Chinese, Classical Chinese Texts, Chinese Writing, Practical Modern Chinese, Introduction to Phonetics of Standard Chinese, Grammar of Modern Chinese, Theoretical Grammar of Chinese, Linguistic Analysis, Classical Chinese Story, Selected Chapter from Linguistics of Classical Chinese, Selected Chapters from Linguistics of Modern Chinese, Texts Involving Mixed Linguistic Registers, Traditional Chinese Philology, Historical and Dialectal Phonology of Chinese, History of Chinese Language, Advanced Grammar of Modern Chinese

Latest talks

26th September 2019, lectures on Chinese writing and Chinese phonetics at the European Day of Languages, Hybernská Campus (FF UK)

14th–15th December 2018: “Against Maltreatment of Fuction Words in Classical Chinese as membra disiecta,” International Symposium on the Teaching of Classical Chinese, Universität Bonn

26th September 2008, lecture on Chinese phonetics at the European Day of Languages, Hybernská Campus (FF UK)

23rd–24th November 2018: “Kvantitativní fonologie staré čínštiny na základě rozboru kapitol Chéngxiàng a Fù knihy Xúnzǐ [Quantitative Phonology of Old Chinese: Analysis of the Chénxiàng and Fù Chapters of the Book Xúnzǐ],” 12th Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, FF UK and CCK-ISC, Praha

12th–14th April 2018: “A Formal Analysis of the ‘Fù’ and ‘Chéngxiàng’ Chapters of the Xúnzǐ: Phonostatistics of Old Chinese,” a talk delivered at the conference Warp, Woof, Wen / Phoneme, Pattern, Pun – Structural Approaches to Early Chinese Texts, University of Zurich

11th December 2017: “Stará čínština jako běžný zástupce sinotibetských jazyků: rekonstrukce staročínské morfologie [Ancient Chinese as a Common Sino-Tibetan Language: Old Chinese Morphology Reconstruction],” a talk for the Jazykovědné sdružení at the University of Hradec Králové

23th November 2017: “Between Meaning and Form: Selected Challenges in the Translation of the Xúnzǐ,” an invited talk delivered at the University of Zürich before the professor Hutton’s Xúnzǐ workshop

25^th–26^th November 2016: „Využití kvantitativních metod při zkoumání staročínských textů [Quantitave Methods in Research of Ancient Chinese Texts]“, 10th Annual Czech-Slovak Sinological Conference, FF MÚ, Brno

15^th–16^th September 2016: “Terminological Foundations of Ancient Chinese Legalism: Quantitative and Etymological Perspectives”, a talk delivered at the workshop on ancient Chinese legalism, held by the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

22^nd–27^th August 2016: “Structural Peculiarities of Old and Modern Chinese I–VI”, six-session workshop as a part of the 10^th year of the international Summer School of Linguistics, organized by ÚČJTK FF UK and held in Litomyšl