The Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered over a century ago and since then have generated an impressive volume of research. Looking at the corpus today, one of its most astonishing features is the linguistic diversity of the material, manifested in a mixture of languages and scripts. There are texts in over twenty different languages and scripts, including combinations of these. There are examples of Tibetan written with Chinese characters as a way of recording the pronunciation of Tibetan names and titles.
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11 April 2024
Dr Nilsson-Wright has recently published an article in Global Asia, and submitted a chapter on populism in Japan to an edited volume.
05 April 2024
Professor Barak Kushner has recently published a new article that highlights some of the findings from his recent book, The Geography of Injustice.
26 March 2024
'The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History' is out now
25 March 2024
Dr Lydia Wilson, an affiliated reasercher at this Faculty, has recent published an article in New Lines magazine investigating how works published in 1855 by Walt Whitman and Faris al-Shidyaq, one in English and the other in Arabic, were shaped by similar concerns with a newly emerging world.
12 March 2024
The Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies has just published a new article by Dr Hajni Elias, Affiliated Lecturer in Chinese Art & Material Culture, titled "The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China."
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