All Outputs (4)

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.

Sexual Politics on Screen: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Iranian Cinema since the 1990s (2024)
Thesis
Han, Y. Sexual Politics on Screen: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Iranian Cinema since the 1990s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London