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Northern Wei Wutaishan: An Outside View of Centres and Peripheries (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. (2022). Northern Wei Wutaishan: An Outside View of Centres and Peripheries. In J. Chen, G. Kuan, & H. Fo (Eds.), What Happened After Mañjuśrī Migrated to China? The Sinification of the Mañjuśrī Faith and the Globalization of the Wutai Cult (77-88). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003206514-5

This study is an attempt to look at Wutaishan from an outside, non-Chinese, non-Buddhist perspective in order to imagine its possible religious significance to the Taugast, the group originally from beyond the northern limits of Chinese civilization... Read More about Northern Wei Wutaishan: An Outside View of Centres and Peripheries.

Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. (2022). Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan. In C. V. Jones (Ed.), Buddhism and Its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations (210-224). British Academy. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266991.003.0011

Neo-Confucians (to use the Western term) claimed to make East Asian Buddhism redundant by showing that Chinese traditions of thought offered better solutions to the human condition than Buddhism, yet the suspicion remained that they were themselves i... Read More about Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan.

Negation in Kho-Bwa: A typological comparison. (2022)
Book Chapter
Bodt, T. (2022). Negation in Kho-Bwa: A typological comparison. In N. Hayashi, & T. Ikeda (Eds.), Diversity of Negation (203-237). Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

The Kho-Bwa languages Puroik (Sulung), Bugun (Khowa), Sherdukpen, Sartang, Khispi (Lishpa) and Duhumbi (Chugpa) are generally presumed to form a small, coherent cluster within the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are spoken in western and central A... Read More about Negation in Kho-Bwa: A typological comparison..

An East Asian Theory of Democracy (2022)
Book Chapter
Cheung, O. (2022). An East Asian Theory of Democracy. In S. Cooke (Ed.), Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations (103-132). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84938-2_5

East Asia, which proudly self-identifies as the “non-West,” offers rich empirical evidence to test the validity of Western theories of democracy, and to generate new theories on the contested subject. In addition to asking why the political realities... Read More about An East Asian Theory of Democracy.

Victim Participation: Human Rights Bodies (2022)
Book Chapter
Oette, L. Victim Participation: Human Rights Bodies. In A. Peters (Ed.), Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press

Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context. In E. Brac de la Perrière, A. El Khiari, & A. Vernay-Nouri (Eds.), Le périples de Kalila et Dimna. Quand les fables voyagent dans la littérature et les arts du monde islamique (95-129). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498143_005

This article seeks to situate early Arabic illustrated Kalila wa Dimna manuscripts with regard to both text and image, and to position them within the broader context of thirteenth and fourteenth century Arab painting. The transmission of the various... Read More about Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context.

Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2022). Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia. In J. Carbine, & E. Davis (Eds.), Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion (43-65). University Of Hawai'i Press

This paper discusses the development of the sīmā stone tradition from the earliest archaeological evidence in what are today the areas of Northeast Thailand and Central Laos to its wider distribution across Mainland Southeast Asia. The earliest subst... Read More about Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia.

Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar (2022)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2022). Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar. In C. Yamahata, & B. Anderson (Eds.), Demystifying Myanmar's Transition and Political Crisis (231-253). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6675-9_12

Development studies have often grappled with how to bridge the ‘theory/policy divide’ that exists within the discipline between an intellectual focus on historical processes of social change, and more practical objectives aimed at designing intervent... Read More about Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar.

Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892 (2022)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2022). Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892. In S. Mangold-Will, C. Rauch, & S. Schmitt (Eds.), Sammler-Bibliothekare-Forscher: Zur Geschichte der Orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (151-207). Klostermann

The article is a revised and expanded extract of Flügel, Peter (2016) 'Life and Work of Johannes Klatt'. In: Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius, (eds.), Jaina-Onomasticon. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 9-164.