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23 April 2024
We are extremely proud of our alumna Tessa Rizzoli. Tessa, who graduated in 2020 from Japanese Studies at AMES, has recently published in Japanese a very interesting book on the Japanese language:『イタリア女子が沼ったジワる日本語』(亜紀書房、2024)


22 April 2024
James Montgomery joins New Lines Culture Editor Lydia Wilson on The Lede podcast to discuss his latest book, “In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems,” which offers a new translation of hunting poetry by Ibn al-Motaz, a poet writing in the ninth century, after the establishment of the Islamic caliphate.


19 April 2024
Wiktor Gębski one of the post docs from our Faculty has had a book published this week called A Grammar of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes.


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.


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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?