EX-PATRIA in China! Via Zoom though.Participating in the 2023 seminar series ‘Byzantine Diplomacy in a Global Perspective’: Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), at Northeast Normal University in Changchun. On 23rd October 2023 Ekaterina Nechaeva delivered a lecture on the principles of gift-giving in Late Antiquity, in particular on the symbolic diplomacy between Rome and the steppe peoples. Many thanks to all the colleagues from the Northeast Normal University in Changchun and personally to Li Qiang for the invitation and brilliant organisation.