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10 October 2025
East Asian Popular Culture is a vibrant and fast-moving field. Study with us to pioneer a new academic approach and join the dots between past, present and future in the first programme of its kind.


09 October 2025
Professor John Nilsson-Wright talks to Professor Chungin Moon of Yonsei University about the foreign policy of South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung, and how Seoul is handling its ties with both Tokyo and Washington in the latest episode of the 'Currents' podcast.


08 October 2025
Professor Tina Phillips will chair the judging panel of the twentieth Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation


02 October 2025
Professor Nilsson-Wright's recent essay on Japan at a political crossroads has been published by online platform, Engelsberg Ideas


29 September 2025
On 18-20 September Prof Laura Moretti hosted the International Symposium of The Association for Early Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon kinsei bungaku kai 日本近世文学会).


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An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert. 

We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world?