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07 March 2024
Dr Mahbod Ghaffari has been awarded the 2024 Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence. Twelve prizes are awarded every year by the Vice Chancellor to individuals who make an outstanding contribution to the teaching programme in a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole.


27 February 2024
Melissa Gatter, an alumna of FAMES, recently received the Alixa Naff prize for her monograph, drawing on the research that she undertook in FAMES. Melissa held a CIS Studentship during her PhD (2016-2020) at FAMES, during which time Prof Anderson was her supervisor.


15 February 2024
Barak Kushner will be delivering a talk at the East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO)


15 February 2024
We are delighted to announce the publication of Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill), edited by Prof Laura Moretti and Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo).


12 February 2024
In his essay, Roel Sterckx distils the ancient philosophies that flow through China’s contemporary geopolitics.


Spotlight on

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?