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Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896 (2022)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2022). Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 32(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-667

The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East... Read More about Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896.

Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2022). Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars. Exchanges (Coventry), 9(3), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887

This article analyses Hosoda Mamoru’s anime film Summer Wars (2009) through its rearticulation of the lonely male otaku. A highly debated issue in and outside of Japan, the otaku community of fans shares with nerds associations with obsessive interes... Read More about Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars.

‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema (2022)
Journal Article
Murtagh, B. (in press). ‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema. Indonesia and the Malay World, 50(146), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2026618

The sudden onset of sustained anti-LGBT discourse in Indonesia in 2016 gives pause to revisit a number of Indonesian movies from recent years, a cinema which has, since its re-emergence in the early 2000s, been noted for its positive engagement with... Read More about ‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema.

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.

Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō (2021)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2021). Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō. Nihon bungaku (Tokyo. 1952), 70(10), 22-32

This article proposes obsession as an important trait in considering narrative representations of alienated youth over the last twenty years. The study focuses on two novels: Nipponia Nippon (2001), by Abe Kazushige, and Oshi, moyu (2020), by Usami R... Read More about Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō.

Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō (2021)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (in press). Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō. Japanese Studies, 41(3), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2021.1970519

In his fiction, Takahashi Gen’ichirō often portrays crises of contemporary life where characters do not identify with shared ideologies or communities, instead resorting to repetitive actions to survive in their empty daily existences. This article a... Read More about Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō.

新しい話者の視座から見た琉球諸語の開花の取り組み (Efflorescence of Ryukyuan Languages from Perspectives of New Speakers) (2021)
Journal Article
Zlazli, M. (2021). 新しい話者の視座から見た琉球諸語の開花の取り組み (Efflorescence of Ryukyuan Languages from Perspectives of New Speakers). https://doi.org/10.34526/jrsi.2.0_163

筆者は現在，博士研究の一環として，Hintonのマスター・アプレンティス言語学習プログラムを参考にして，琉球諸語の新しい話者の支援に焦点を当てたMAI-Ryukyusプロジェクトを実施している。研究の問いは，新しい話者が琉球諸語を話す原動力，琉球諸語の多様性を可能な... Read More about 新しい話者の視座から見た琉球諸語の開花の取り組み (Efflorescence of Ryukyuan Languages from Perspectives of New Speakers).

Foreword to Rumi's Book of Wisdom (2021)
Book Chapter
Farzad, N. (2021). Foreword to Rumi's Book of Wisdom. In M. Mafi (Ed.), Rumi's Book of Wisdom (vii-xvii). Hampton Roads Publishing Company

Jaina-Prosopography Database (2021)
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Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography Database.

Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections (2020)
Book Chapter
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2020). Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections. In M. Klar (Ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010456-12

This article deals with a feature of the Qur’an’s style which I identified and named ‘Suspension of composition patterns’. Richard Bell had commented on Qur’an 2:238-39, a passage on prayer, which he thought had no connection with the preceding mater... Read More about Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature (2020)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (in press). Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature. Journal of World Literature, 5(4), 568-586. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00504005

We generally believe that literature first circulates nationally and then scales up through translation and reception at an international level. In contrast, I argue that Taiwan literature first attained international acclaim through intermedial tran... Read More about Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.

In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China (2020)
Book Chapter
Lu, X. (in press). In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China. In A. Skrodzka, X. Lu, & K. Marciniak (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (341-363). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.13

The red martyr holds a special place in the collective memory of communist nations. In the Chinese pantheon of red martyrs, Norman Bethune, a renowned Canadian doctor who died during his selfless support of China’s anti-imperialist war against Japan,... Read More about In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China.

Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia (2020)
Book
Howard, K., Ingram, C., Ong, M. Y., McLaren, A., Liu, L., Roche, G., Kim, H., Maliangkay, R., de Ferranti, H., Terauchi, N., Finchum-Sung, H., Day, K., & Teoh, Y.-M. (2020). K. Howard, & C. Ingram (Eds.). Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295

Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and ‘place’ intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It ex... Read More about Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia.

Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution? (2020)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (in press). Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?. Conflict, Security & Development, 20(3), 379-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1771848

Two significant institutional developments occurred in the aftermath of the major earthquakes that struck Nepal in 2015: a new national constitution was drafted and promulgated and a National Reconstruction Authority was established. The constitution... Read More about Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?.