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The Aesthetics and Imaginaries of Uyghur Heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang Dance Craze (2024)
Journal Article
Harris, R. (2024). The Aesthetics and Imaginaries of Uyghur Heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang Dance Craze. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30(8), 872-887. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2342289

In parks and town squares across China in 2023, amateur dance enthusiasts engaged in a nationwide ‘Xinjiang dance’ craze, a phenomenon reflected and amplified on social media. For outside observers this might seem a bizarre development following the... Read More about The Aesthetics and Imaginaries of Uyghur Heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang Dance Craze.

Visual Culture: Hindu Art in the Age of Empires and Encounter (2024)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2024). Visual Culture: Hindu Art in the Age of Empires and Encounter. In V. L. Stoker (Ed.), Volume 4: A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Empires (127-152). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350024342.0012

Elizabeth Moore (1949–2024) (2024)
Journal Article
Yahya, F. Elizabeth Moore (1949–2024). Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 150-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2331349

Obituary

Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum (2024)
Digital Artefact
Tan, H. (2024). Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum. [Blog post]

Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes” (2024)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2024). Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”. ARTMargins, 13(1), 139-142. https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00377

In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the new nation. Pitched in military terms, and announced in the document translated for the first time here,... Read More about Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”.

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes (2024)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2024). Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes. ARTMargins, 13(1), 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00378

In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the new nation. Pitched in military terms, and announced in the document translated for the first time here,... Read More about Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes.

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual). (2024)
Book
Contadini, A. (2024). Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual). SAGEP Editori

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna è il catalogo della mostra (dal 20 aprile al 15 settembre 2024) a cura di Anna Contadini. Frutto di un mirato collezionismo, gli oggetti esposti provengono da una vasta fascia d... Read More about Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual)..

Catalogue entries: Zhao Mengfu, 'River Village, Fishermen's Joy'; Chen Ruyan, 'Mountains of the Immortals'; Zhao Yong, 'Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain' (2024)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2024). Catalogue entries: Zhao Mengfu, 'River Village, Fishermen's Joy'; Chen Ruyan, 'Mountains of the Immortals'; Zhao Yong, 'Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain'. In C. V. Spee (Ed.), China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Cleveland Museum of Art

Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946 (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y. (2024). Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00122_1

This article examines the personal experiences and memories of Japanese tango musicians in Manchuria in the years leading up to and immediately after the Second World War, revealing the tensions between migration and movement, on the one hand, and me... Read More about Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946.

Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, P. (2024). Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation. Archives of Asian Art, 74(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-11169083

This article examines contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing's (b. 1955) 2012 animation video, The Character of Characters, which remediates Zhao Mengfu's (1254–1322) calligraphy and painting. The video, in which Chinese written words become the true pr... Read More about Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation.

'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y., & Kasai, A. (2024). 'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00121_2

Preoccupied with the historical contradictions of seawater as manifested in the early to mid-twentieth century popular music history surrounding Japan, the Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: Maritime Histories of... Read More about 'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial.

Unveiling histories: navigating ideological constructs and cultural memories in the contemporary art of Iran (2024)
Journal Article
Keshmirshekan, H. (2024). Unveiling histories: navigating ideological constructs and cultural memories in the contemporary art of Iran. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 23(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2024.2306738

This special issue explores the multifaceted landscape of the contemporary art of Iran, unveiling diverse approaches to historical narratives and cultural memory while challenging the concept of a ‘correct history.’ Focused on the post-revolutionary... Read More about Unveiling histories: navigating ideological constructs and cultural memories in the contemporary art of Iran.

Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor South Sudan (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Felix da Costa, D. (2024, March). Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor South Sudan. Presented at Northeast Africa Seminar Series organised by Centre for African Studies University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford

'Yilong: Zhongguo de xiandaizhuyi yu modai huangdi liuwang chaoting de yishu'〈龙移：中国的现代主义与末代皇帝流亡朝廷的艺术〉 (simplified Chinese translation of 'The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-Exile', trans. Lai Xingrui) (2024)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (2024). 'Yilong: Zhongguo de xiandaizhuyi yu modai huangdi liuwang chaoting de yishu'〈龙移：中国的现代主义与末代皇帝流亡朝廷的艺术〉 (simplified Chinese translation of 'The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-Exile', trans. Lai Xingrui). Meishu daguan, 2024(3), 12-28

Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024)
Book Chapter
Asaba, Y. (2024). Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. In K. Wendland, & K. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango (314-330). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974936.019

Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia (2024)
Book Chapter
Sharrock, P. (2024). Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia. In R. K. Payne, & G. A. Hayes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies (557-580). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549889.013.47

Fierce Herukas, emitted by the supreme buddhas of the Vajrayāna “thunderbolt vehicle,” emerged toward the end of the first millennium CE to bolster Buddhist kings outside India with supernatural powers to defend their territory, repel their enemies,... Read More about Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia.

Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia, Volume 1 (2023) (2024)
Other
Krishnaswamy, J. A., Wells, R., Pacciolla, P., Rao, A., Widdess, R., Mukherji, S., & Peiris, E. Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia, Volume 1 (2023). New York

Contents:

1. Editors’ Introduction to the AAMSA journal

2. A Novel Generative Paradigm for Carnatic Rhythmic Composition

Jagdish A. Krishnaswamy and Robert Wells

3. The Musical Journeys of a Goddess

Paolo Pacciolla

4. Suḷādi Songs o... Read More about Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia, Volume 1 (2023).

Ceramics (2024)
Book Chapter
Tan, H. (2024). Ceramics. In H. Njoto, & N. Hidalgo Tan (Eds.), Archaeology and Art History of Southeast Asia: An Introductory Resource Guide (33-36). Temasek History Research Centre

Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, P. (2024). Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame. The journal of e-media studies, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.504

This multimodal essay utilizes the Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT), an open-source drop-in module, to create samples of time-based annotations for still photographs in Chinese films starring Ruan Lingyu. Exemplary films include Love and Duty (Lian’ai... Read More about Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame.

Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35) (2024)
Thesis
Ma, K. Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis centres on two Yongzheng period (1723–35) handscrolls entitled Guwan tu 古玩圖 (Pictures of Ancient Playthings) housed in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. By reexamining the scrolls not solely as pictorial representa... Read More about Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35).