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Kagekiyo, 1732, A Kabuki play  [Translation] (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). Kagekiyo, 1732, A Kabuki play  [Translation]. In A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 (239-260). University Of Hawai'i Press

Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (2020)
Book
Ferrari, R. (2020). Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics... Read More about Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia.

The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity (2019)
Journal Article
Birch, J., & Singleton, M. (2019). The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity. Journal of yoga studies, 2(1), 3-70. https://doi.org/10.34000/JoYS.2019.V2.002

The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati is a Sanskrit text on the practice of Haṭhayoga, probably composed in the eighteenth century in Maharashtra. This article discusses, among other things, the dating, authorship, sectarian affiliation, and unique features of... Read More about The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity.

(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China (2019)
Book Chapter
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2019). (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. In A. Pilsch, & S. Ross (Eds.), Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (223-238). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429244599-17

This chapter argues that digital labor plays a pivotal role in the worlding mechanism of regional and national literatures in the East Asian context. Yeung probes the role of digital labor in canonizing Third-World literature, or what she conceives a... Read More about (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.

The derivation of the Tibetan present prefix g- from ḥ- (2019)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2019). The derivation of the Tibetan present prefix g- from ḥ-. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 72(3), 325-332. https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2019.72.3.4

According to the communis opinio it is arbitrary whether a Tibetan verb takes the prefix g- or ḥ- in its present stem. This paper instead argues that ḥ- [ɣ] originated as a phonetically conditioned variant of g-; a pattern that became obscured throug... Read More about The derivation of the Tibetan present prefix g- from ḥ-.

'Arabic Emotions From the Quran to the Popular Epic', Special issue of Cultural History Journal 8:2 (2019)
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Bauer, K., Blatherwick, H., Bray, J., Holmes Katz, M., & Moukheiber, K. (2019). 'Arabic Emotions From the Quran to the Popular Epic', Special issue of Cultural History Journal 8:2. Edinburgh

Arabic, like Latin, was a language of empire, and, like Latin, when empire retreated, Arabic remained. The language of the Quran became that of Islamic law, at the same time developing into a language of courtly life, poetry and letters, and, eventua... Read More about 'Arabic Emotions From the Quran to the Popular Epic', Special issue of Cultural History Journal 8:2.

Diaspora Varieties of Korean: Morpho-syntactic Contrasts in Koryo Mar and Vernacular Yanbian Korean (2019)
Journal Article
Barnes-Sadler, S., & Yeon, J. (2019). Diaspora Varieties of Korean: Morpho-syntactic Contrasts in Koryo Mar and Vernacular Yanbian Korean. Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics, 231, Article 102742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102742

This paper identifies and examines numerous points of morpho-syntactic contrast in two transplanted varieties of Korean—Central Asian Koryo Mar (KM) and Chinese Vernacular Yanbian Korean (VYK). This allows us to evaluate implicit claims made about th... Read More about Diaspora Varieties of Korean: Morpho-syntactic Contrasts in Koryo Mar and Vernacular Yanbian Korean.

Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu. The Journal of Asian studies, 78(3), 549-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000172

On 25 April 2015 central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which killed over 9000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth century minaret which collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepali... Read More about Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu.

Challenge to subject–object asymmetry: Acquisition of relative clauses in L2 Korean (2019)
Book Chapter
Ju, Y.-K., & Park, J. H. (2019). Challenge to subject–object asymmetry: Acquisition of relative clauses in L2 Korean. In C. Danjo, I. Meddegama, D. O’Brien, J. Prudhoe, L. Walz, & R. Wicaksono (Eds.), Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics: Online Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (40-43). British Association for Applied Linguistics

Challenge to subject–object asymmetry: Acquisition of relative clauses in L2 Korean [Video poster] (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ju, Y.-K., & Park, J. H. (2018, September). Challenge to subject–object asymmetry: Acquisition of relative clauses in L2 Korean [Video poster]. Poster presented at The 51st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, York St John University

In this study, we investigate European learners’ preference towards subject relative clauses (SR) and object relative clauses (OR) in L2 Korean. The objective of the study is to examine two competing proposals of the filler-gap dependency: Structural... Read More about Challenge to subject–object asymmetry: Acquisition of relative clauses in L2 Korean [Video poster].

Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres' (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'. South East Asia Research, 27(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587925

This piece reflects on the decline of Area Studies in the Euro- American academy. Although it is sometimes presented and discussed as if it were a discipline, the paper argues that it may be easier to chart an afterlife for Area Studies if we conceiv... Read More about Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.

From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection (2019)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2019). From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Brepols

Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication o... Read More about From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection.

Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus (2019)
Journal Article
Blatherwick, H. (2019). Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus. Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 66(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341519

The story of the Annunciation to Mary and the birth of Jesus in the Qurʾān and the Bible has been the subject of several recent literary studies that bring up the use of textual silences, and the significance of speech and speechlessness as themes in... Read More about Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus.

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.