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Professor Mikael Adolphson

Myōun and the Heike Monastic Influence in Twelfth-Century Japan 2020
Discourses on Religious Violence in Premodern Japan 2018
Weighing in on Evidence: Documents and Literary Manuscripts in Early Medieval Japan 2018
Violence, Warfare and Buddhism in Early Medieval Japan 2016
Review of Asuka Sango's "The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan." 2016
Review of Matthew Stavros' "Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital" 2016
Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory 2015
Review of David Spafford's "A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan." 2014
The Doshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Monasteries 2012
The competitive enforcement of property rights in medieval Japan: The role of temples and monasteries 2009
The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History 2007
Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries 2006
Social Change and Contained Transformations: Warriors And Merchants in Japan, 1000-1300 2004
The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers and Warriors in Premodern Japan 2000

Dr Paul Anderson

Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language and Patriarchy 2023
Urgency and Imminence: The Politics of the Very Near Future 2022
The Social Life of Syrian Diplomacy: Transnational Kinship Networks of the Asad Regime 2021
Not a Silk Road: Trading Networks between China and the Middle East as a Dynamic Interaction of Competing Eurasian Geographies 2020
After Trust: Institutions, Flexibility and Geopolitics in the Durability of Networks in Inter-Asian Commerce”. Introduction to Special Issue (with Magnus Marsden) 2020
Muslims in the UK and Europe V 2020
Beyond Syria’s war economy: Trade, migration and state formation across Eurasia 2019
Games of Civility: Ordinary Ethics in Aleppo’s Bazaar 2019
Muslims in the UK and Europe IV 2018
“An Abundance of Meaning”: Ramadan as an Enchantment of Society and Economy in Syria 2018
“Order” and “Civility”: Middle-Class Imaginaries of Citizenship before the Syrian Uprising 2018
Aleppo in Asia: Mercantile Networks between Syria, China and (Post-) Soviet Eurasia since 1970 2018
Muslims in the UK and Europe III 2017
Muslims in the UK and Europe II 2015
Aleppo’s Yarn Market: Trust and Speculation in a Time of Economic Transformation 2014
Money and Commerce in Aleppo: the success and failure of a businessman in Aleppo, 1980s-2009 2014
The Politics of Scorn in Syria and the Agency of Narrated Involvement 2013
'The Piety of the Gift’: Selfhood and Sociality in the Egyptian Mosque Movement 2011
Conducting fieldwork in the Middle East 2008
Is Altruism Possible? 2008

Dr Assef Ashraf

Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran 2024
The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere 2019

Professor Amira K Bennison

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires 2016
Sectarianism in the landscape: the transfer of the khuṭba of Fes from the Mosque of the Shurafāʾ to the Qarawiyyīn Mosque in 933 (321 AH) 2015
Relations between rulers and ruled in the medieval Maghrib: The "social contract" in the Almoravid and Almohad centuries, 1050-1250 2014
The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (Proceedings of the British Academy) 2014
Drums, Banners and Baraka: Symbols of authority during the first century of Marīnid rule, 1250-1350 2014
Tribal identities and the formation of the Almohad élite: The salutory tale of Ibn ‘Aṭiyya 2012
Muslim internationalism between empire and nation-state 2012
Almohad tawḥīd and its implications for religious difference 2010
Religious Minorities under the Almohads 2010
The necklace of al-Shifa: Abbasid borrowings in the Islamic West 2010
The Ottoman Empire and its precedents from the perspective of English school Theory 2009
The Great Caliphs: the golden age of the ‘Abbasid empire 2009
Cities in the Premodern Islamic World: the Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society 2007

Professor Adam Yuet Chau

Religion in China: Ties That Bind 2019
A Most Awkward Sphere: The ‘Religion Sphere’ (zongjiaojie 宗教界) in Modern and Contemporary Chin 2018
Of Temples and Trees: The Black Dragon King and the Arbortourists 2018
Culinary Subjectification: The Translated World of Menus and Orders 2018
Human Organs in Oil Tank Trucks: An Extractology 2017
La channeling zone : religion populaire, État local et rites de légitimation en Chine rurale à l'ère de la réforme (The Channeling Zone : Popular Religion, the Local State, and Rites of Legitimation in Rural China during the Reform Era) 2012
Religion in Contemporary China 2010
Mao’s Travelling Mangoes: Food as Relic in Revolutionary China 2010
The Sensorial Production of the Social 2008
An Awful Mark: Symbolic Violence and Urban Renewal in Reform-Era China 2008
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China 2008
The Politics of Legitimation and the Revival of Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China 2005

Dr Jonathan Duquette

Defending God in Sixteenth-Century India: The Saiva Oeuvre of Appaya Diksita 2021
Classical and Contemporary Issues in Indian Studies: Essays in Honour of Trichur S. Rukmani (with Prof. P. Pratap Kumar, Ed.) 2013

Dr Hajni Elias

Hajni Elias publishes new book 2025
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China. 2024
Commemorating the Dead for the Living: Two Eastern Han (25 – 220 CE) Stelae from Southwest China 2023

Dr Noga Ganany

Popular Reverence and Commercial Publishing in Late Ming Hagiographic Literature 2023
Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s Saints Trilogy 2022
Journeys Through the Netherworld in Late-Ming Hagiographic Narratives 2021
Book review: Master of Silent Whistle Studio, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Translated by Qiancheng Li and Robert E. Hegel (University of Washington Press, 2020) 2021
Jigong 2019
Book Review: Barend J. Ter Haar. Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 2018
Baogong as King Yama in the Literature and Religious Worship of Late-Imperial China 2015
Review of the exhibition “Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Decor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi,” at the China Institute, New York (February 9 - June 17, 2012) 2013

Dr Mahbod Ghaffari

Persian beyond Borders 2021
Fārsi bīyāmuzīm! 2 (Let's Learn Persian!) Intermediate, 2nd Edition 2021
University of Cambridge, Asian, Middle Eastern and Persian Studies during the pandemic 2021
Persian Language Teaching in the UK: Challenges, Potentials and Initiatives 2021
Persian as an interlanguage 2020
Persian for Dummies 2019
Fārsi bīyāmuzīm! 1 (Let's Learn Persian!) Beginner, 2nd Edition 2017
The Position of Persian Focus ‘Ke’ in Tree Diagram Based on Minimalist Programme 2017

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl

Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew 2024
The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew 2023
Diachronic Exceptions in the Comparison of Tiberian and Qumran Hebrew: The Preservation of Early Linguistic Features in Dead Sea Scrolls 2018
Review of H. Dallaire's "The Syntax of Volitives in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite Prose" (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 9; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014) 2018
Review of P. Bekins' "Transitivity and Object Marking in Biblical Hebrew: An Investigation of the Object Preposition ʾet" (Harvard Semitic Studies 64; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014) 2018
Biblical Hebrew Tense–Aspect–Mood, Word Order and Pragmatics: Some Observations on Recent Approaches 2018
Review of O. Cohen's "The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew Prose" (Harvard Semitic Studies 63; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 2017
All Is Not Lost: Linguistic Periodization in the Face of Textual and Literary Pluriformity 2017
Review of E. Reymond's "Qumran Hebrew: An Overview of Orthography, Phonology, and Morphology" (Resources of Biblical Study; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014) 2016
Review of K. Penner's "The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Qumran Hebrew Texts" (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 64; Leiden: Brill, 2015) 2016
Transitional Biblical Hebrew (Selected Texts, in Hebrew) 2016
Transitional Biblical Hebrew 2016
Hebrew Diachrony and the Linguistic Periodization of Biblical Texts: Observations from the Perspective of Reworked Pentateuchal Material 2016
Her Word versus His: Establishing the Underlying Text in 1 Samuel 1:23 2014
Characteristically Late Spellings in the Hebrew Bible: With Special Reference to the Plene Spelling of the o Vowel in the Triliteral qal Infinitive Construct 2014
Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Book of Jeremiah: The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition 2014
Hebrew Language: Periodization 2013
Resolving the Crux of Judges 7:5b–7: A Critique of Two Traditional Approaches and the Reproposal of a Third 2009
The Pragmatics of the X+verb Structure in the Hebrew of Genesis: The Linguistic Functions and Associated Effects and Meanings of Intra-clausal Fronted Constituents 2005

Professor Geoffrey Khan, Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl

Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible 2022
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible 2022

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl, Professor Geoffrey Khan

New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew 2021
Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 3) 2020
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew 2021
Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 3) 2020

Professor William J. Hurst

Urban Chinese Governance, Contention, and Social Control in the New Millennium 2019
Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia 2018
Residency, Class, and Community in the Contemporary Chinese City 2018
Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance 2015
The Chinese Worker after Socialism 2009
Laid-off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics 2009

Dr Heather Inwood

Screening the In-Between: Intermediality and Digital Dystopianism in Contemporary Chinese Film and Fiction 2017
2006, September 30: Chinese Verse Going Viral: 'Removing the Shackles of Poetry.' 2017
Review of Internet Literature in China, by Michel Hockx. 2017
Internet Literature: From YY to Mook 2016
Poetry for the People? Modern Chinese Poetry in the Age of the Internet 2015
What’s in a Game? Transmedia Storytelling and the Web-Game Genre of Online Chinese Popular Fiction 2014
Review of 'Romancing the Web: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance', by Jin Feng 2014
Review of 'Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China', by Rui Kunze 2013
Yi Sha: Running His Race in the Ninth Lane 2012
Popular Culture of East and Southeast Asia, 1900-present 2012
Multimedia Quake Poetry: Convergence Culture After the Sichuan Earthquake 2011
Between License and Responsibility: Reexamining the Role of the Poet in Twenty-First Century Chinese Society 2011
"Dangdai shige de meitihua” 当代诗歌的媒体化 (The mediatization of contemporary poetry) 2011
Review of 'Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China', by John A. Crespi 2009
Review of 'China’s Second World of Poetry: The Sichuan Avant-Garde, 1982-1992', by Michael M. Day 2009
Identity Politics in Online Chinese Poetry Groups 2008

Dr Saussan Khalil

Arabic Writing in the Digital Age: Towards a Theoretical Framework 2022
The teaching of Arabic as a community language in the UK 2022
A delineation of variation in Arabic between fuṣḥá and Egyptian ’āmmīyah 2020
Oxford Arabic Dictionary 2014
Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages 2013
The evolution of the Arabic language through online writing: the explosion of 2011 2012
Talk like an Egyptian: Egyptian Arabic as an option for teaching communicative spoken Arabic 2011

Professor Geoffrey Khan

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia 2024
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew 2020
The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective 2018
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi 2016
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online 2013
A Short Introduction to the Masoretic Hebrew Bible and its Reading Tradition 2013
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj 2009
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan 2008
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar 2008
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Urmi 2008
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja 2004
The Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought in its Classical Form: A Critical Edition and English Translation of al-Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-Lugha al-ʿIbrāniyya by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn ibn al-Faraj 2003
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh 2002
The Early Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought: Including a Critical Edition, Translation and Analysis of the Diqduq of ʾAbū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ 2000
Early Karaite Grammatical Texts 2000
A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect of the Jews of Arbel 1999
Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections 1993
Arabic Papyri: Selected material from the Khalili Collection 1992
Karaite Bible Manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah 1990
Studies in Semitic Syntax 1988

Professor Geoffrey Khan, Dr Masoud Mohammadirad

Language Contact in Sanandaj 2024
Language Contact in Sanandaj 2024

Professor Geoffrey Khan, Dr Paul Noorlander

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic 2021
Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic 2021

Professor Barak Kushner

Justice in the Time of Cholera 2024
The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History 2024
The Real Manchurian Candidates: Chinese war criminals in the postwar, prisoners of history 2023
「戦争・ホロコストと帝国・植民地支配表像をめぐるメディアの正義と和解〜ヨーロッパとアジアをまたぐ複眼的視座を求めて」 2023
「繫往於今―重思東亞戰罪審判的歷史遺緒,」” (new introduction for the traditional Chinese translation of Men to Devils) 2021
「ヨーロッパから見た東アジア歴史問題の起源」 2021
Anchors of History: The Long Shadow of Imperial Japanese Propaganda 2021
Introduction: The Search for Meaning in Defeat and Victory 2020
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding 2020
In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia 2020
Japan’s war of words with the world: WWII propaganda in the international arena 2018
法律與帝國—對日關係中「正義」的掙扎（1944-1947） 2018
「日本語版への序」(new introduction for the Japanese translation) in バラク・クシュナー（幾島幸子 翻訳）『ラーメンの歴史学--ホットな国民食からクールな世界食へ』 2018
〈處理戰後的勝利：國民黨、日本與共產黨對於正義的立場〉, 陳冠任(譯) 2018
The question of complicity: Japan’s early postures toward war crimes and war responsibility in the aftermath of the Second World War 2017
The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife 2017
戦後中国における日本人戦犯裁判の戦い〜正義とその正当性 2017
合法性と帝国──台湾を事例とした日中関係における「正義」をめぐる戦い 2017
Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan’s post-imperial commemoration 2015
Examining Japan's Lost Decades 2015
Men to Devils, Devils to Men Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice 2015
Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan 2015
Chinese War Crimes Trials of Japanese, 1945-1956: a Historical Summary 2014
Empire's Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880-1945 2014
Ghosts of the Japanese Imperial Army: The ‘White Group’ (Baituan) and Early Post-war Sino-Japanese Relations 2013
Unwarranted attention: the image of Japan in twentieth century Chinese humour 2013
Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup 2012
Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan 2011
Going for the Gold - Health and Sports in Japan's Quest for Modernity 2011
Treacherous Allies: The Cold War in East Asia and American Postwar Anxiety 2010
Pawns of Empire: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes 2010
Imperial Cuisines in Taisho Foodways 2010
Planes, Trains and Games: Selling Japan’s War in Asia 2009
Nationality and Nostalgia: The Manipulation of Memory in Japan, Taiwan, and China since 1990 2007
The Thought War--Japanese Imperial Propaganda 2006
Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event 2006
Digesting Postwar Japanese Media: American Propaganda in Occupied Japan 2005
Laughter as Matériel: The Mobilization of Comedy in Japan’s Fifteen-Year War 2004
Negro Propaganda Operations': Japan's short-wave radio information broadcasts for World War II Black Americans 1999
Cannibalizing Japanese Media - The Case of Issei Sagawa 1997

Professor Andrew Marsham

Umayyad History 2024
The Umayyad Empire 2024
Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Hamza (d. 748) 2024
H. F. Amedroz; R. B. Serjeant 2023
Bede, Ibn Isḥāq, and the idols: narratives of conversion at late antique edges 2022
Kinship, Dynasty, and the Umayyads 2022
The Umayyad World 2021
The Islamic World: Conquest, Migration and Accommodating Diversity; The Islamic World: Community, Leadership and Contested Patterns of Continuity; The Islamic World: Nomads, Urban Elites and Courts in Comparison (with Eric Hanne & Jo Van Steenbergen) 2021
Introduction: The Umayyad World 2021
The Caliphate 2021
Introduction: Umayyad Elites and the Foundation of the Islamic Empire (with Alain George) 2018
Some Observations on Commerce and Covenant in the Qur'an 2018
God’s Caliph' Revisited: Umayyad Political Thought in its Late Antique Context 2018
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Area Editor, Area Advisor and Contributor) 2018
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam 2018
The First Islamic Chronicle: the Chronicle of Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ (d. AD 854) (with Tobias Andersson) 2017
Constructing the Umayyads: From Mecca to Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ 2016
The Crescent and the Sword 2015
Attitudes to the Use of Fire in Executions in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: the burning of heretics and rebels in late Umayyad Iraq 2015
The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: the accession of Mu‘awiya in Jerusalem, c. 661 CE 2014
The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (c. 750–c. 1250) 2014
The Pact (Amana) between Mu‘awiya ibn Abi Sufyan and ‘Amr ibn al-‘As (656 or 658 CE): ‘Documents’ and the Islamic Historical Tradition 2012
Universal Histories in Christendom and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1400 2012
Public Execution in the Umayyad Period: Early Islamic Punitive Practice and Its Late Antique Context 2011
Historiography 2009
Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire 2009
The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity, c. 610–750 2009
The Safe-Conduct for the Abbasid ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Ali (d. 764) 2007
'Those who make war on God and His Messenger': some implications of recent scholarship on rebellion, banditry and state formation in early Islam 2005

Professor Charles Melville

Every Inch a King: Comparative studies on kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds 2018
The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and transformation in Ilkhanid Iran 2016
Persian Historiography, Vol. X of A History of Persian Literature 2012
A History of Persian Earthquakes 2005
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A historical perspective 1994

Dr Elizabeth Monier

Religious tolerance in the Arab Gulf states: Christian organizations, soft power, and the politics of sustaining the “family–state” beyond the rentier model 2023
The securitisation of religious minorities: implications for the inclusion/exclusion of Christians in Egyptian national spaces 2023
The Meaning and Purpose of ‘Minority Media’ in the Middle East and North Africa 2023
Minorities or Citizens in the Middle East? Locating the “minority question” in the intersecting histories of collective national belonging and state-building 2022
Towards a New Basis for Societal Stability through Re-Imagining National Minority/Majority Boundaries 2022
Minorities or citizens in the Middle East? Locating the ‘minority question’ in the intersecting histories of collective national belonging and state-building 2022
Spatial Practices of ‘Retreat’ Among Egyptian Christians: Isolating or Empowering? 2020
The Chaldean patriarch and the discourse of ‘inclusive citizenship’: restructuring the political representation of Christians in Iraq since 2003 2020
Christianity in the Arab Gulf States 2020
Christians in Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE: Expanding Tolerance? 2020
Christianity in Egypt 2020
Bethlehem and the Middle East 2020
Christians and Other Religious Minorities in the Middle East 2019
Navigating Historical Minority Dilemmas Today: presenting violence against Copts to an international audience after 2011 2019
Online Media as Research Topic and Research Tool: fact, fiction and Facebook 2018
Faith and Culture 2018
Middle Eastern Minorities and the Media 2018
Middle Eastern Minorities in Global Media and the Politics of National Belonging 2017
Egypt, Iran, and the Hizbullah Cell: Using Sectarianism to “De-Arabize” and Regionalize Threats to National Interests. 2015
Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings 2015
The Failure of the Muslim Brotherhood: implications for Egypt's regional status (with: Dr Annette Ranko) 2014
The Arabness of Middle East regionalism: the Arab Spring and competition for discursive hegemony between Egypt, Iran and Turkey. 2014
Social v. State Media: Egypt’s Fight for Information After the Uprising (with: Mina Monier) 2013
The Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood: Implications for Egypt (with: Dr Annette Ranko) 2013
Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Coptic Media, Identity and Representation 2012
The Arab Spring and Coptic–Muslim Relations: From Mubarak to the Muslim Brotherhood 2012
The ‘mediation’ of Muslim–Christian relations in Egypt: the strategies and discourses of the official Egyptian press during Mubarak's presidency 2012
Connecting the National and the Virtual: Can Facebook Activism Remain Relevant After Egypt’s January 25 Uprising? 2011

Professor James Montgomery

Loss Sings 2018
War Songs 2018
Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study 2018
Ibn Faḍlān, Mission to the Volga, in: Two Arabic Travel Books 2014
On Geography: An Arabic Edition and English Translation of Epistle 4 2014
Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books 2013
The Vagaries of the Qaṣīdah. On the Tradition and Practice of Early Arabic Poetry 1997

Professor Laura Moretti

The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi 2021
Pleasure in Profit Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan 2020
Adaptation as a Strategy for Participation: The Chikusai Storyworld in Early Modern Japanese Literature. 2020
近世初期・前期の散文文学における『伊勢物語』の書き直し、パロディーおよび新展開 (‘Kinsei shoki – zenki no sanbun bungaku ni okeru Ise monogatari no kakinaoshi, parodi oyobi shin tenkai) 2018
Sōgōteki wahon literashii: Kenburijji daigaku Imanueru carejji no kokoromi「総合的和本リテラシー」教育―ケンブリッジ大学イマヌエル・カレッジの試み 2016
Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children 2016
A Forest of Books: Seventeenth-Century Kamigata Commercial Prose 2016
Onna enshi kyōkun kagami and Onna genji kyōkun kagami: sexual education through entertaining parody 2013
‘The Japanese early-modern publishing market unveiled: a survey of Edo-period booksellers’ catalogues 2012
Critical edition of Chikusai ryōji no hyōban 竹斎療治之評判 (1685) 2012
Kanazōshi revisited: reconsidering the beginnings of Japanese popular literature in print 2011
Special Issue on ‘Narrativity and fictionality in Edo-period prose literature’ 2009
On the edge of narrative: towards a new view of the 17th-century popular prose in print 2009

Dr David Mozina

Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice 2021

Dr John Nilsson-Wright

現代日本のポピュリズム ── ノスタルジーとロマン主義 2024
Valuable Insights on the Roots of Today’s Global Disorder 2024
UK Policy on the Indo-Pacific: Balancing Global Ambition in an Era of Resource Scarcity and Rising Insecurity 2023
Alliance Asymmetries and the Challenges of Balancing Security and Democracy: US Relations with the Republic of Korea 2023
Yoon’s vision for South Korea as a Global Pivotal State: Is there anything to it? 2023
South Korean Foreign Policy Innovation and Sino-US Rivalry. Strategic Partnerships and Managed Ambiguity 2023
Contested Politics in South Korea. Democratic Evolution, National Identity and Political Partisanship 2022
Sino-Japanese Relations. Prospects for the Next Five Years 2018
Creative Minilateralism in a Changing Asia: Opportunities for Security Convergence and Cooperation between Australia, India and Japan 2017
Brexit and its Consequences: Anglo-Japanese Relations in a Post-EU Referendum World 2016
The Politics and International Relations of Modern Korea 2016
The Asia-Pacific Power Balance: Beyond the US-China Narrative 2015
Japan’s Abe Administration: Steering a course between pragmatism and extremism 2015
Japan’s Abe Administration: Steering a course between pragmatism and extremism 2015
Park Geun-hye, Foreign Policy Innovation and Risk on the Korean Peninsula 2015
Crisis of Peace and Leadership in Korea: Lessons of Kim Dae-jung's Legacies 2014
Inter-Korean relations and the challenge of North-east Asian regional security 2013
Korea and East Asia: The Stony Road to Collective Security 2013
Is Japan Truly ‘Back’: Prospects for a more Proactive Security Policy 2013
Crisis of Peace and Humanitarian Development in North Korea: Reflections on Life in North Korea During the MB Government 2013
The Role of Japan in the International Relations of East Asia 2012
Resurgent Trilateralism in Northeast Asia 2011
East Asia: Consistency and Sensitivity Needed in a Strategically Vital Region 2010
Sasakawa Ryouichi: Unravelling an Enigma 2010
Contending with Regional Uncertainty: Japan’s Response to Contemporary East Asian Security Challenges 2010
The Limits to 'Normalcy': Japanese-Korean post-Cold War Interactions, 2010
Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960 2005
The best course available : a personal account of the secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa reversion negotiations 2002

Dr Paul Noorlander

Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic 2021

Dr Charis Olszok

Palms behind the Smog: Strange Energies in Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (Season of Migration to the North) 2024
Salīm Barakāt’s Weird Ecology 2023
Following the Pipeline: Petro-phantoms in Fāḍil al-ʿAzzāwī’s The Last of the Angels (1992) and Imīl Ḥabībī’s Saraya, the Ogre’s Daughter (1991) 2023
The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability 2020
Comparative Literature, Companion Species and the Camel 2020
The Litterscape and the Nude: History Escapes in Mansur Bushnaf’s al-ʿIlka (Chewing Gum) 2019
Creaturely Memory: Animal Tales and Deep History in Modern Libyan Fiction 2016
Ebola ’76 2015
Ibrahim Al-Koni 2015
African Titanics 2014

Professor Yaron Peleg

The Bible and Modern Hebrew 2025
An Ashkenazi School of Hebrew Literature 2025
New Hebrews Making National Culture in Zion 2025
New Directions in Israeli Media 2025
The Cambridge History of Modern Hebrew Literature 2025
Of Howling Jackals and Village Scenes, a Lament 2023
Toward a Jewish Religious Realism in Israeli Cinema 2021
The Literary Art of Yuval Shimoni 2020
Class Struggle in the Era of Identity Politics: The Revolutionary Modernism of Doron Tzabari 2019
The Woman Facing Us 2018
Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television 2016
A New Hebrew Literary Diaspora? Israeli Literature Abroad 2016
Brandeis Modern Hebrew 2015
Secularity and its Discontents: Religiosity in Contemporary Israeli Film and TV 2015
Re-Orientalizing the Jew: Contemporary Israeli Masculinities 2015
Writing the Land: Language and Territory in Modern Hebrew Literature 2013
Making a Holy Community: God's Neighbors and the Ascendancy of a new Religious Hegemony in Israel 2013
Identities in Motion: Israeli Cinema Reader 2011
Beaufort the Book, Beaufort the film: Israeli Militarism Under Attack 2011
Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Manhood 2011
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas 2008
From Black to White: The Changing Image of Mizrahim in Israeli Cinema, 1960-2000 2008
Love, Suddenly: Etgar Keret and the Emergence of Hebrew Romance 2008
Zionism and Postcolonialism in Y. H. Brenners' Short Story 'Avla' 2008
Israeli Identity in a Post-Zionist Age 2008
Heroic Conduct: Homoeroticism and the Creation of Modern, Jewish Masculinities 2006
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination 2005
Love at First Sight? David, Jonathan and the Biblical Politics of Gender 2005
Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Modern Hebrew Literature (1880-2000) 2003
Hasipur ha’ivri hakatsar be’amerika, 1900-1950 (The Hebrew Short Story in America, 1900-1950) 2003
The Critic as a Dialectical Zionist: Gershon Shaked’s Hebrew Fiction 1880-1980 2003

Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ

「食後寝るとウシになる」‘Shokugo neru to ushi ni naru,’ (if you sleep after a meal, you will become a cow) 2025
「『あとは寝るだけ』東日本大震災の避難所から安眠をかんがえる」“Ato wa, neru dake:” Higashi Nihon daishinsai no hinanjo kara anmin o kangaeru’, (‘All that’s left to do is sleep’: what we can learn about sound sleep from the experience of tsunami refugees living in shelters in Tohoku) 2025
Nah? Ee hanashi yaroh?: Sakata Yoshie ga kataru, kamisuki-uta/sakazukuri-uta no sekai [Good stories, right!? : Yoshie Sakata’s lifestory and the world of paper-making songs and sake brewing songs] 2022
Beyond Kawaii: Studying Japanese Femininities at Cambridge 2020
The stranger and others: The Life and legacy of the ethnologist Oka Masao 2019
Japanese Historic “Timescapes”: An Anthropological Perspective 2018
Introduction from the Guest Editors to the Special Issue “Time in Historic Japan” 2017
Densha no naka no inemuri: Shanai kūkan to jendā o kōsatsu suru 2017
Cool Japanese Men: Studying New Masculinities at Cambridge 2017
Landschaften der Zeit: Tages- und Nachtstunden im vormodernen Japan 2016
Getting Away with Sleep. Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament 2016
Introduction: Into the Night and the World of Sleep 2016
Sekai ga mitometa Nippon no inemuri. Tsūkin densha no utouto ni mo imi ga atta! [The world has recognised Japanese inemuri. There was a meaning in napping on commuter trains!] 2013
Higashi-Nihon daishinsai no jinruigaku. Tsunami, genpatsu jiko to hisaisha-tachi no ‘sono go’ [Anthropology of the East-Japan great earthquake disaster. The aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear disasters for the victims] 2013
Japan copes with calamity. Ethnographies of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of March 2011 2013
Negotiating gendered space on Japanese commuter trains 2013
Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy 2013

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Excreted and left untreated? Human and animal waste: from Dunhuang back to Laozi 2023
Китайская мысль: от Конфуция до повара Дина 2023
Excreted and Left Untreated? Human and Animal Waste: from Dunhuang to Laozi 2023
Zhongguo sixiang 中国思想 2022
Chinees Denken. Over geschiedenis, filosofie en samenleving 2021
Agrarian and Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han 2020
Chinese Thought: from Confucius to Cook Ding 2019
Ways of Heaven: an Introduction to Chinese Thought 2019
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest times to 1911 2018
Food and Agriculture 2018
Agronomy and philosophy in early China 2018
The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 2018
Animal to edible: the ritualization of animals in early China 2018
Ritual, Mimesis, and the Animal World in Early China 2015
Ideologies of the peasant and merchant in Warring States China 2015
Alcohol and historiography in early China 2015
Mozi 31: Explaining Ghosts, again 2013
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China 2011
In the Fields of Shennong 2008
De l'Esprit aux Esprits: Enquête sur la notion de shen en Chine 2007
Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China 2005
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China 2002

Professor Hans van de Ven FBA

The Chinese Communist Party: a Century in Ten Lives 2021
China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937 - 1945 2017
Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China 2014
Negotiating China’s Destiny in WWII 2014
'Imperium in Imperio': The 1911 Revolution, Bond Markets, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (1895-1928) 2012
The Battle for China 2010
The Maritime Customs in World War Two: A Stubborn Anomaly in a Nationalist Time 2010

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke

“Passed around by a Crescent” Wine Poetry in the Literary Traditions of the Islamic World 2022
Wine for the King, wine for the hero. The literary role of wine as a body- and mind-altering catalyst in Firdawsi’s early Persian Shahnama masnavi 2020
The Interpretation of Nizami’s Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Period. Shared past and cultural legacy in the transition from the prism of national literature criteria 2020
Comparative Perspective on Wine in Near and Middle Eastern Literatures, Beiruter Texte und Studies (Khamriyya Volume) 2020
What does Turandot want? From Puccini’s Freudian riddles back to Nezami’s silent Pythagorean questions 2019
Kalila and Dimna as a case-study. The Ibn al-Muqaffa‘’s and Nasrullah Munshi’s translations 2019
Wretched King Mobad loses the War of Love 2019
Dimna’s Trial and Apologia in Kashifi’s Anvar-i Suhayli. Morality’s place in the corrupt trial of a rhetorical and dialectical genius 2016
Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila and Dimna in Timurid Herat 2016
Sir William Jones and the Anvar-e Sohayli. With a fortuitous but nevertheless essential note on the Orient Pearls 2015
“Nezami Ganjavi”, Poetry Criticism vol. 165, L. J. Trudeau (ed.) Literary Criticism publications 2015
Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141-c.1209) 2015
Persian Pearls. Classical Persian Poems and Recordings 2014
Iskandar’s Bibulous Business: Wine, drunkenness and the Calls to the Saqi in Nizami Ganjavi's Sharaf Nama 2013
The Kalile o Dimne and Rumi. “That was the husk and this is the kernel.” 2013
Murder in the Forest. Celebrating Misreadings and Rewritings of the Kalila-Dimna Tale of the Lion and the Hare 2012
What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila wa Dimna stories? 2011
A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim. Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa 2011
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Popularity and Neglect. 2011
L’histoire du Concours des peintres Rumis et Chinis chez Nizami et Rumi. Deux aspects du miroir 2008
Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia - The Botany of Nizami's Khamsa 2007
The Middle-Eastern Illustrated Manuscripts 2007
Private Pleasures. Illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris. The Collection of Denys Spittle 2007
Firdausi’s Dastan-i Khusrau va Shirin: not much of a love story! 2006
"Mais comment peut-on être persan?" Éléments iraniens en Orient & Occident Liber Amicorum Annette Donckier de Donceel; Collection Lettres Orientales de l’IPHO 2004
Kashefi’s forgotten Masterpiece: Why rediscover the Anvar-i Suhayli? 2003
From culinary recipe to pharmacological secret for a successful wedding night: the scientific background of two images related to fruit in the Xamse of Nezâmi Ganjavi 2002

Professor Vincenzo Vergiani

The practice of pratinidhi : Bhartṛhari’s views on substitution 2021
Some of Bhartṛhari’s Insights on Complex Utterances 2021
Scribbling in Newar on the Margins of a Sanskrit Manuscript (Add.2832, University Library, Cambridge) 2021
Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. A Turning Point in Indian Intellectual History 2019
Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages. Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations 2017
A tentative history of the Sanskrit grammatical traditions in Nepal through the manuscript collections 2017
Helārāja on omniscience, āgama and the origin of language 2016
Bhartṛhari on Language, Perception and Consciousness 2016
Āgamārthānusāribhiḥ. Helārāja’s use of quotations and other referential devices in his commentary on the Vākyapadīya 2015
The concept of prayoktṛdharma in the Vākyapadīya and some later works. The expression of feelings through words: a linguistic and philosophical outlook 2015
Bilingualism and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India 2013
The adoption of Bhartṛhari’s classification of the grammatical object in Cēṉāvaraiyar’s commentary on the Tolkāppiyam 2013
Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti. The section on pratyāhāras. Critical edition, translation and other contributions 2011
An annotated translation into Italian of the first and the twelfth chapters of the Mānavadharmaśāstra 2010

Dr Lydia Wilson

How Two 19th-Century Books Paved the Way for Modernism 2024
Archaeology Gives Clues on Monastic Life in the UAE 2023

Ms Emma Wu

Practical Chinese Usage: Common Words and Phrases 2020
Insider China 2009
A2 level Chinese Examination Study Guide 2008
Towards a new edition of the Sogdian Ancient Letters 2005
Collins English-Chinese Dictionary 2004
Langenscheidt English-Chinese Dictionary 2000

Dr Victoria Young

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature Inciting Difference 2024
Beyond “Transborder”: Tawada Yōko’s Vision of Another World Literature 2021
Inciting the Past: Okinawan literature and the decolonising turn 2020
"Backbone". Translation of the poem by Tōma Hiroko 2016

Professor Boping Yuan

Interlanguage Grammars of Mandarin Chinese 2024
Disentangling cues of different domains in transfer and development in L3 acquisition: an investigation of L2/L3 Mandarin yes-no questions 2024
How does a structurally similar background language influence L3 grammars? A study on the syntax of L2/L3 Mandarin 2024
What looks native-like may not necessarily be native-like: Evidence from L2 Chinese covert objects. 2023
三语习得前沿理论及三语汉语研究 2023
Asymmetric form-meaning mappings in L2 acquisition of Chinese sentence-final particles BA 2022
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: evidence for the cue-based model 2022
The role of L1 in L2 speech production at different stages of L2 development: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production of verb-phrase ellipsis by English and Korean speakers 2022
论二语习得中第一语言迁移的方向性及经济性原则——以二语句法和二语语篇为例 (Directionality of first language transfer and economy principle in second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 syntax and discourse). 2022
Asymmetric transfer and development of temporal-aspectual sentence-final particles in English-Cantonese bilinguals’ L3 Mandarin grammars 2021
English and Spanish speakers’ interpretations of L2 Chinese applicative double object constructions 2021
Definiteness constraint on subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence concerning the source of transfer in L3 acquisition. 2020
Roles of positive and indirect negative evidence in L2 feature reassembly: An empirical study of L2 acquisition of Chinese and Thai collective markers 2020
Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism 2020
An incremental model of second language speech production mechanisms: Developmental evidence from object ellipsis in second language Chinese speech production 2020
Facilitative Transfer Only? L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particle Clusters by English-Cantonese Bilinguals 2020
Directionality and complexity of L1 transfer in L2 acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese discourse 2019
Transfer at L3 initial stages: comparing Mandarin temporal- aspectual sentence final particles in L2 and L3 grammars 2019
Can L2 sentence processing strategies be native-like? Evidence from English speakers’ L2 processing of Chinese base-generated-topic sentences 2017
Computational Complexity and L1 Transfer in L2 Chinese Attitude-bearing Questions 2017
Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English speakers 2016

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