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Food Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A., Berlin, S., Wang, C. Y., & Thomason, E. (2022). Food Cultures. In S. Kehoe, & G. Wielander (Eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review (41-55). University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.d

The four pieces in this chapter all revolve around the changing relationship to basic food stuff traditional associated with backwardness and deprivation in the context of a search for the “authentic” by urban middle classes. Jakob Klein deals with t... Read More about Food Cultures.

A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. H. (2022). A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism. In Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution: Volume 1: Reinterpreting Ideologies and Ideological Reinterpretations (21-40). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811260872_0002

The following remarks on the articulation between the end of the Cultural Revolution and the birth of the Society for the Study of the History of Chinese Atheism amounts to no more than a sketch, rapidly put together from whatever materials I have fo... Read More about A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism.

Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II (2022)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2022). Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II. In A. Kumar, & K. Roy (Eds.), Warfare and Society in British India, 1757–1947. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347989-13

Recent work on military logistics in India during World War II have focused on the mobilisation of supply for the war effort per se, the technical operations of the railways and their impact on training railway operating companies in India, and the e... Read More about Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II.

Article 14 (2022)
Book Chapter
Banda, F. (2022). Article 14. In P. Schulz, R. Halperin-Kaddari, B. Rudolf, & M. A. Freeman (Eds.), The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women: A Commentary (2nd ed) (519-551). Oxford University Press

Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., & Baker, C. (2022). Introduction: Changing Narratives of Albinism in Africa. In E. Imafidon, & C. Baker (Eds.), Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (1-14). Peter Lang

Taiwan History (2022)
Book Chapter
Fell, D. (2022). Taiwan History. In The Far East and Australasia 2023 (54th Edition). Europa Publications

Muslim Family Law: Trajectories of Reform (2022)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L., Jouirou, Z., & Sharafeldin, M. (2022). Muslim Family Law: Trajectories of Reform. In Z. Mir-Hosseini, M. Al-Sharmani, J. Rumminger, & S. Marsso (Eds.), Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage. Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Law (337-378). Oneworld

Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts (2022)
Book Chapter
Sperl, S. (2022). Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts. In B. Lawrence, & V. Cornell (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality (412-431). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118533789.ch22

This chapter focuses on the example of an acclaimed Islamic artist of the present time, Dr Ahmed Moustafa (b. 1943). His ideas on the nature of the Arabic script as an art form are discussed and traced back to the classical Islamic intellectual tradi... Read More about Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts.