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Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab (2025)
Book
Ouyang, W.-C. (2025). Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755657520

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life. In the Islamic tradition, the broad concept of adab spans ethical instruction and literary culture. Literature classified asadab was int... Read More about Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations (2024)
Digital Artefact
Ouyang, W.-C. Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations. [YouTube]

Traversing the history of coffee through several literary examples, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores coffee as not only a drink, but as tradition, commodity, and source of controversy. From the works of Mahmoud Darwish to Haruki Murakami, coffe... Read More about Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations.

Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights (2024)
Journal Article
Ouyang, W.-C. (2024). Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights. Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 24(1), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.10127

Framing in The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-layla) brings together not only people and their stories but also temporalities, geographies and destinies. It stages coincidental encounters of these in en- tangled story lines (story within story... Read More about Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights.

Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare (2024)
Thesis
Li, J. Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

As the first president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere has enormously influenced the politics, economy, and culture of the country. Beside his well-known identity as a politician and poet, he was also an important literary translator. The subject of this... Read More about Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare.

Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers (2023)
Thesis
Zhan, F. Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the representations of women’s pains, subjectivities and motherdaughter relationships in fictional writing published between 1980 and 2020 by Chinese women writers. More specifically, this project addresses three issues prominent... Read More about Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers.

A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic (2023)
Thesis
Rejeibi, R. A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the domain of audiovisual translation (AVT), rendering humour is difficult due to the linguistic intricacy involved and the technical limitations of the medium. Furthermore, it is crucial in humour transfer to represent the original discourse's co... Read More about A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic.

Aesthetics of Sesotho Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and the novelists who came after him (2023)
Thesis
Makamane, R. Aesthetics of Sesotho Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and the novelists who came after him. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how indigenous literary aesthetics have been utilised in the Sesotho novel in the first century of literary writing in Lesotho. Through comparative analysis of the novels of Mofolo (1907, 1910, 1926) and Basotho novelists who wro... Read More about Aesthetics of Sesotho Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and the novelists who came after him.

Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance (2023)
Thesis
Zhou, Y. Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

As the demand for translation services surges, issues of translation processes and quality — which have been heatedly discussed in Translation Studies — have also been increasing concerns for professionals in the translation market. In China, these i... Read More about Translation as a Product in The Chinese Translation Market: Process and Quality Assurance.

Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures (2022)
Journal Article
Ouyang, W.-C. Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures. Middle Eastern Literatures, 25(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2022.2131240

Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues (2022)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2022). Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues. In M. van Berkel, & L. Osti (Eds.), The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy (340-355). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525245_019

Harun al-Rashid has a powerful presence in the Medieval Arabic Literary Imaginary. This chapter explores the imaginings of the character, entourage and rule of Harun al-Rashid in medieval Arabic storytelling and adab works and examines the role this... Read More about Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues.

Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz (2022)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2022). Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz. In M. Higonnet, S. B. Jørgensen, & S. E. Larsen (Eds.), Landscapes of Realism: Rethiking Literary Realisms in Comparative Perspectives. II. Pathways through Realism (703-720). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxiii.25ouy

The routes of European realism into Arabic cultural and literary expressions are many. They also overlap in both the travel and arrival of this complex package of politics and aesthetics, simultaneously and randomly, through translation and adaptatio... Read More about Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz.

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature (2022)
Thesis
Gamberini, F. A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Common critiques surrounding the balinghou cultural phenomenon often qualify their literary work as bestsellers lacking any appreciable literary or social value. The incredible commercial success of their fiction combined with the idol-like personali... Read More about A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature.