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Professor Mikael Adolphson

Discourses on Religious Violence in Premodern Japan 2018
Weighing in on Evidence: Documents and Literary Manuscripts in Early Medieval Japan 2018
Review of Matthew Stavros' "Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital" 2016
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
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

Games of Civility: Ordinary Ethics in Aleppo’s Bazaar 2019
Beyond Syria’s war economy: Trade, migration and state formation across Eurasia 2019
“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 IV 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

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
The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (Proceedings of the British Academy) 2014
Relations between rulers and ruled in the medieval Maghrib: The "social contract" in the Almoravid and Almohad centuries, 1050-1250 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

Dr Tristan G. Brown

A Mountain of Saints and Sages: Muslims in the Landscape of Popular Religion in Late Imperial China 2019
The Deeds of the Dead in the Courts of the Living: Graves in Qing Law 2018
(In Chinese) Environment, Property, and Law in Late Qing Sichuan—Cases from Qing Dynasty County Judicial Archives0 2018
(In Chinese) 從 ‘至尊寶’ 到 ‘地高久’ —由《歧路燈》看清代社會賭博、法律以及社會現象 (Gambling, Law, and the Social Order of Late Imperial China as Reflected in Li Lüyuan’s Lantern at the Crossroads) 2015
Feasts of the Sacrifice: Ritual Slaughter in Late Imperial and Twentieth Century China 2015
Imagining Consumers: Print Culture and Ethnic Advertising in Early Twentieth Century China 2014
Illuminating the Shadow Economy of the Banner Garrison: Manchu Language Contracts as Sources for Qing Social History 2013
Muslim Networks, Religious Economy, and Community Survival: The Financial Upkeep of Mosques in Late Imperial China 2013
A Silk Road Blueprint: Religion, Kinship, and State Construction Projects in the Development of a Northwestern Chinese Borderland, 1912-1946 2013
The Metaphorical Dimensions of Symbolic Prices and Real-World Values in A Dream of Red Mansions 2011
Towards an Understanding of Qianlong's Conception of Islam: A Study of the Dedication Inscriptions of the Fragrant Concubine's Mosque in the Imperial Capital 2011

Dr Adam Yuet Chau

Religion in China: Ties That Bind 2019
Of Temples and Trees: The Black Dragon King and the Arbortourists 2018
Culinary Subjectification: The Translated World of Menus and Orders 2018
A Most Awkward Sphere: The ‘Religion Sphere’ (zongjiaojie 宗教界) in Modern and Contemporary Chin 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
Mao’s Travelling Mangoes: Food as Relic in Revolutionary China 2010
Religion in Contemporary 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 Arthur D Dudney

Hermeneutics: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain 2018
Urdu as Persian: Some Eighteenth-Century Evidence on Vernacular Poetry as Language Planning 2018
Going Native: Iranian Émigré Poets and Indic Languages 2017
Metaphorical Language as a Battleground for Tradition and Newness in Late Mughal Persian 2017
Khān-e Ārzu’s Middle Way for Poetic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Indo-Persian 2016
Review of PhD thesis A Market for Speech: Poetry Recitation in Late Mughal India, 1690-1810 by Nathan Tabor 2016
Delhi: Pages from a Forgotten History 2015
Review of PhD thesis Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan by Kevin Schwartz 2015
Review of Neguin Yavari’s Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam 2015
Lines in the Sand: Some Thoughts on Pre-Colonial Language in South Asia in Response to Shreesh Chaudhary 2013
Braj Reinvented: Colonial Approaches to Hindi Dialects 2010
The Wonders of Words, or the Role of Ḳhān-i Ārzū’s Navādir al-alfāz̤ in the Development of Urdu 2010

Professor Khaled Fahmy

Rudolph Peters and the History of Modern Egyptian Law 2017
1967: a structural and continuing defeat (in Arabic) 2017
The defeat of the Egyptian army in 67 (in Arabic) 2017
‘Inab wa Basal: ‘Abd al-Hakim ‘Amir wa Qarar Insihab al-Jaysh al-Misri min Sina’ fi Harb Huzairan 1967 (in Arabic) 2017
The crisis of the humanities in Egypt 2017
Mehmed Ali dynasty 2016
The long revolution 2015
Dissecting the modern Egyptian state 2015
Opening politics’ black box: Reflections on the 
past, present and future of the Egyptian 
Revolution 2015
Mubarak, Hosni 2012
Muhammad Ali 2012
The birth of the secular individual: medical and legal methods of identification in 19th-century Egypt 2012
The essence of Alexandria, pt. 1 2012
The essence of Alexandria, pt. 2 2012
The responsibility of Arab governments in the war on Iraq 2008
Muhammad ‘Ali et la nation égyptienne 2008
Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt 2008
Muhammad 'Ali 2006
Muhammad Ali Pasha and His Sabil 2005
Modernizing Cairo: A revisionist account 2005
The army: The cornerstone of Muhammad Ali's project (in Arabic) 2005
Justice, law and pain in Khedival Egypt 2004
The Body and Modernity: Essays in the history of medicine and law in Modern Egypt (in Arabic) 2004
For Cavafy, with love and squalor: Some critical notes on the history and historiography of modern Alexandria 2004
Towards a social history of modern Alexandria 2004
Justice, law and the modern state in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt 2003
Mutiny in Mehmed Ali’s New Nizamî Army, April-May 1824 2002
Prostitution in nineteenth-century Egypt 2002
An olfactory tale of two cities: Cairo in the nineteenth century 2002
The military and politics in Egypt: An historical overview 2001
Medicine and Power: Towards a social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Egypt 2000
Medical Conditions in Egyptian Prisons in the Nineteenth Century 2000
The role of the army in Mehmed Ali’s project (in Arabic) 2000
The police and the people in nineteenth-century Egypt 1999
The legal history of Ottoman Egypt 1999
The anatomy of Justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt 1999
The nation and its deserters: Conscription in Mehmed Ali’s army 1998
Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt 1998
Law, medicine and society in nineteenth-century Egypt 1998
The era of Mehmed Ali Pasha, 1805-1848 1998
All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt 1997

Dr Imre Galambos

Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim 2018
She association circulars from Dunhuang 2018
The Chinese Script 2017
Graphic variation in early Chinese Writing 2017
Confucius and Laozi at the altar: Reconsidering a Tangut manuscript 2016
Manuscripts and printing: East Asia 2015
Confucian education in a Buddhist environment: Medieval manuscripts and imprints of the Mengqiu 2015
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto 2015
Studies in Chinese Manuscripts: From the Warring States Period to the 20th Century 2013
Non-Chinese Influences in Medieval Chinese Manuscript Culture 2012
The northern neighbors of the Tangut 2011

Dr Noga Ganany

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
Journeys Through Hell in Late Ming Hagiographic Narratives

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl

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 2016
Transitional Biblical Hebrew (Selected Texts, in Hebrew) 2016
Hebrew Diachrony and the Linguistic Periodization of Biblical Texts: Observations from the Perspective of Reworked Pentateuchal Material 2016
Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Book of Jeremiah: The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition 2014
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
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

Dr Heather Inwood

Review of Internet Literature in China, by Michel Hockx. 2017
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
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 Eivind Kahrs

Action, Being and Brahman 2013
Commentaries, translations, and lexica: some further reflections on Buddhism and philology 2007
Indian Semantic Analysis: the nirvacana tradition 1998
What is a tadbhava word? 1992

Dr Saussan Khalil

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

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 Barak Kushner

Japan’s war of words with the world: WWII propaganda in the international arena 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
Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice 2015
Examining Japan's Lost Decades 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
Unwarranted attention: the image of Japan in twentieth century Chinese humour 2013
Ghosts of the Japanese Imperial Army: The ‘White Group’ (Baituan) and Early Post-war Sino-Japanese Relations 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
Pawns of Empire: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes 2010
Imperial Cuisines in Taisho Foodways 2010
Treacherous Allies: The Cold War in East Asia and American Postwar Anxiety 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

Dr Andrew Marsham

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
Introduction: Umayyad Elites and the Foundation of the Islamic Empire 2018
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam 2018
The First Islamic Chronicle: the Chronicle of Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ (d. AD 854) 2017
Constructing the Umayyads: From Mecca to Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ 2016
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 Crescent and the Sword 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
The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity, c. 610–750 2009
Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire 2009
Historiography 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 Nathaniel Miller

Seasonal Poetics: The Dry Season and Autumn Rains among Pre-Islamic Najdī and Ḥijāzī Tribes 2017
Warrior Elites on the Verge of Islam: Between Court and Tribe in Arabic Poetry 2016

Dr Elizabeth Monier

Faith and Culture 2018
Middle Eastern Minorities and the Media 2018
Online Media as Research Topic and Research Tool: fact, fiction and Facebook 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
The Arab Spring and Coptic–Muslim Relations: From Mubarak to the Muslim Brotherhood 2012
Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Coptic Media, Identity and Representation 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

Dr Laura Moretti

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
Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children 2016
A Forest of Books: Seventeenth-Century Kamigata Commercial Prose 2016
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
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 John Nilsson-Wright

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
The Politics and International Relations of Modern Korea 2016
Brexit and its Consequences: Anglo-Japanese Relations in a Post-EU Referendum World 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
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
Inter-Korean relations and the challenge of North-east Asian regional security 2013
The Role of Japan in the International Relations of East Asia 2012
Resurgent Trilateralism in Northeast Asia 2011
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
East Asia: Consistency and Sensitivity Needed in a Strategically Vital Region 2010

Dr Patrick O'Hare

“Rubbish Belongs to the Poor!”: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons 2020
'The landfill has always borne fruit': Precarity, Formalisation and Dispossession among Montevideo’s Waste-pickers 2019
Waste 2019
‘We Looked after People Better When We Were Informal’: The ‘Quasi-Formalisation of Montevideo’s Waste-Pickers 2019

Dr Charis Olszok

Other Creatures in 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

Dr Yaron Peleg

A New Hebrew Literary Diaspora? Israeli Literature Abroad 2016
Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television 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
Making a Holy Community: God's Neighbors and the Ascendancy of a new Religious Hegemony in Israel 2013
Writing the Land: Language and Territory in Modern Hebrew Literature 2013
Beaufort the Book, Beaufort the film: Israeli Militarism Under Attack 2011
Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Manhood 2011
Identities in Motion: Israeli Cinema Reader 2011
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
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas 2008
Heroic Conduct: Homoeroticism and the Creation of Modern, Jewish Masculinities 2006
Love at First Sight? David, Jonathan and the Biblical Politics of Gender 2005
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination 2005
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
Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Modern Hebrew Literature (1880-2000) 2003

Dr Teresa Perez

In support of situated ethics: ways of building trust with stigmatised ‘waste pickers’ in Cape Town 2019

Dr Michael Rand

New Data on Aramaic in Classical Piyyut­ – תשמיע ניחומים ללישה, a Silluq for Shabbat Shim‘u by Yoḥanan ha-Kohen 2015
Was Mahzor Eretz Israel – A Geniza Codex Indeed Used in Eretz Israel? New Fragments of the Codex and their Contribution to an Understanding of the Nature of its Liturgical Rite 2014
An Anti-Christian Polemical Piyyut by Yosef ibn Avitur Employing Elements from Toledot Yeshu 2013
Piyyut Commentary in the Genizah 2011

Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ

Japanese Historic “Timescapes”: An Anthropological Perspective 2018
Densha no naka no inemuri: Shanai kūkan to jendā o kōsatsu suru 2017
Cool Japanese Men: Studying New Masculinities at Cambridge 2017
Introduction from the Guest Editors to the Special Issue “Time in Historic Japan” 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
Negotiating gendered space on Japanese commuter trains 2013
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
Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy 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

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Chinese Thought: from Confucius to Cook Ding 2019
Ways of Heaven: an Introduction to Chinese Thought 2019
Food and Agriculture 2018
Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han 2018
Agronomy and philosophy in early China 2018
The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 2018
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest times to 1911 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
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

China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937 - 1945 2017
Negotiating China’s Destiny in WWII 2014
Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China 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

Dr Christine van Ruymbeke

Dimna’s Apologia. The Place of Morality in the Corrupt Trial of a Dialectical and Rhetorical Genius 2016
Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila and Dimna in Timurid Herat 2016
Sir William Jones and the Anvar-i Suhayli. Containing a fortuitous but nevertheless essential note on the "Orient Pearls 2015
Iskandar’s Bibulous Business: Wine, drunkenness and the Calls to the Saqi in Nizami Ganjavi's Sharaf Nama 2013
The Kalila wa Dimna 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
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
What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila wa Dimna stories? 2011
L’histoire du Concours des peintres Rumis et Chinis chez Nizami et Rumi. Deux aspects du miroir 2008
The Hellenistic Influences in Classical Persian Literature 2007
The Middle-Eastern Illustrated Manuscripts 2007
Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia - The Botany of Nizami's Khamsa 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
The Application of Scientific Knowledge in Mediaeval Persian poetry: Nezami’s Sandal Tree 2002

Dr Vincenzo Vergiani

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 Casper Wits

The Transnational in China’s Foreign Policy 2018
The Japan Group: Managing China’s People’s Diplomacy Toward Japan in the 1950s 2016
Cultural Relations within Sino-Japanese ‘People’s Diplomacy’: Nakajima Kenzō and the Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association 2016
Sino-Japanese relations in the year 1958: steps toward reconciliation 2015

Dr Victoria Young

"Backbone". Translation of the poem by Tōma Hiroko 2016

Dr Boping Yuan

Computational Complexity and L1 Transfer in L2 Chinese Attitude-bearing Questions 2017
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 [in Chinese] 2017
Can L2 sentence processing strategies be native-like? Evidence from English speakers’ L2 processing of Chinese base-generated-topic sentences 2017
Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English speakers 2016
Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English speakers 2016
The effect of computational complexity on L1 transfer: Evidence from L2 Chinese attitude-bearing wh-questions 2015
Interfaces in second language acquisition of Chinese 2015
‘Wh-on-earth’ in Chinese speakers’ L2 English: Evidence of dormant features 2014
Is Chinese ‘daodi’ ‘the hell’ in English speakers’ L2 acquisition of Chinese daodi … wh … questions? Effects and recoverability of L1 transfer at L2 interfaces 2012
"WH"-Topicalization at the Syntax-Discourse Interface in English Speakers' L2 Chinese Grammars 2012
Asymmetric syntactic and thematic reconfigurations in English speakers’ L2 Chinese resultative compound constructions 2010
Domain-wide or variable-dependent vulnerability of the semantics—syntax interface in L2 acquisition? Evidence from wh-words used as existential polarity words in L2 Chinese grammars 2010

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