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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12 February 2024
In his essay, Roel Sterckx distils the ancient philosophies that flow through China’s contemporary geopolitics.
06 February 2024
Dr Young was invited to deliver three lectures on modern Japanese literature in which students engaged such topics as translation, Okinawan and trans-border texts, and the relationships between modern Japanese literature and Vietnam.
05 February 2024
Keynote address given by Prof Barak Kushner at the The Sixth Biennial International Conference of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies Haifa, 17 November 2022, now available to read online.
02 February 2024
A Reading and Discussion with Esther Dischereit
02 February 2024
The essay, titled 'Subjection and Citizenship: 1930s Nikkei Citizenry and Japanese-Language Education in Hawaii', features in the new publication from the Hoover Institution: 'Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s'
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