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Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966 (2025)
Thesis
Gipson, F. M. Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines photographs, nianhua posters, ink paintings and oil paintings of Mao Zedong produced up to 1966 to interrogate each medium’s ideological functions, reconsider their position within the wider lineage of traditional Chinese art con... Read More about Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966.

Obituary, In Memoriam: Elizabeth Howard Moore (1949–2024) (2025)
Other
Murphy, S., & Charney, M. (2025). Obituary, In Memoriam: Elizabeth Howard Moore (1949–2024). Bangkok

The name Elizabeth, née Howard, Moore is one that is likely very familiar to many readers of the Journal of the Siam Society. She not only published in JSS on several occasions (see the reference list at the end), she was also an active scholar in Th... Read More about Obituary, In Memoriam: Elizabeth Howard Moore (1949–2024).

China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots (2025)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (in press). China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 88,

The Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024 to the Oriental Ceramics Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understandi... Read More about China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots.

Digitising the past, preserving the future: creating a digital collection of pre-Columbian crania excavated one hundred-twenty-one years ago by Alfredo Jahn in Lake Valencia, Venezuela (2025)
Journal Article
Rangel-de Lázaro, G., & Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2025). Digitising the past, preserving the future: creating a digital collection of pre-Columbian crania excavated one hundred-twenty-one years ago by Alfredo Jahn in Lake Valencia, Venezuela. STAR: Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2025.2488083

In 1903, the Berlin Museum of Ethnology commissioned Alfredo Jahn Hartman to conduct archaeological excavations in the Lake Valencia basin in Venezuela. Jahn explored two sites, Camburito and El Zamuro, where he unearthed pre-Columbian artefacts and... Read More about Digitising the past, preserving the future: creating a digital collection of pre-Columbian crania excavated one hundred-twenty-one years ago by Alfredo Jahn in Lake Valencia, Venezuela.

Boîte à Documents (Bunko) (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (in press). Boîte à Documents (Bunko). In Une Passion Chinoise –Monsieur Thiers’ China. Louvre Museum

A ḍamaru for Jagat-Candra: a historical musical instrument from Nepal (2025)
Journal Article
Sharma, N., & Widdess, R. (2025). A ḍamaru for Jagat-Candra: a historical musical instrument from Nepal. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 63(2024), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.4000/13mzv

Historical musical instruments are rare in Nepal. So far, a few examples of ritual instruments associated with former rulers have been identified. A previously unpublished hour-glass-shaped pellet-drum (ḍamaru) from seventeenth-century Bhaktapur is o... Read More about A ḍamaru for Jagat-Candra: a historical musical instrument from Nepal.

Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid (2025)
Book Chapter
Harris, R. (2025). Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid. In N. Manabe, & E. Drott (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190653866.013.0034

This chapter takes a medium-term view of developments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over a period of twenty years, during which the indigenous Turkic Muslim Uyghurs were collectively transformed in official discourse from “ethnic separ... Read More about Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid.

Im/Perceptible Boyhood in a Post-Andrew Tate World (2025)
Journal Article
Thomas-Parr, G., & Gilroy-Ware, M. (2025). Im/Perceptible Boyhood in a Post-Andrew Tate World. Australian Feminist Studies, 39(119/120), 229-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2025.2460822

This study examines how boyhood is rendered im/perceptible via the infamous social media influencer Andrew Tate, in response to testimonies of teachers that attest to his influence on boys’ adoption of misogynistic, anti-feminist and sexist behaviour... Read More about Im/Perceptible Boyhood in a Post-Andrew Tate World.

Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2025). Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh. In Y. Cai (Ed.), The Museum in Asia (115-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367815264-11

Over the past decades, Ladakh in northwest India has experienced a museum boom with the creation of exhibitionary spaces in many of the key Buddhist monasteries. While small, single-room displays were set up in the 1990s, the first major ‘Western’ st... Read More about Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh.

Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change (2025)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2025). Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change. In V.-A. Ware, K. Sadeghi-Yekta, T. Prentki, & W. Al-Kurdi (Eds.), Arts-based Research in Global Development: Performing Knowledge. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003381846-15

This chapter considers ways of listening across disciplinary, sectoral and cultural barriers in support of more culturally sensitive, inclusive approaches to development policy and practice. Responding to the growing appeal for creative solutions to... Read More about Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change.

Mustang at the Crossroads: on the Entanglement of Monastery Collections (2025)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (in press). Mustang at the Crossroads: on the Entanglement of Monastery Collections. In S. Cubelic, J. Shrestha, & C. Zotter (Eds.), A Yam between Two Rocks: Transcultural Histories of Nepal’s Relations with India, China, and Tibet. Heidelberg University Publishing

Undertaken since 2012, the documentation of monastery collections in Mustang, Nepal, reveals a broad range of interregional relationships. While these largely conform to the connections apparent in the political and religious history of the region, e... Read More about Mustang at the Crossroads: on the Entanglement of Monastery Collections.

Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan (2025)
Journal Article
Felix da Costa, D. (online). Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan. Journal of African Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2444220

This article offers a novel perspective into how Murle agro-pastoralist youth in South Sudan draw on permanent body marks (also known as scarifications or body inscriptions) to communicate their individual and collective stories and future aspiration... Read More about Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan.

Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments (2025)
Journal Article
Pullen, L. (2025). Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments. Religions, 16(1), 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16010084

This research, situated in the geographical and historical context of the Tangut and East Java, uncovers a significant aspect of the evolution of Buddhist art styles. A thangka of the goddess Vajravārāhī found in Khara Khoto, dated to the late 12th c... Read More about Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments.