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  《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles

  16th Jan 2025 12:30 pm to 16th Jan 2025 1:30 pm

  C.K. Choi Building, Room 120

  The Book of Swindles 杜騙新書 (1617 preface) is said to be the first Chinese collection of stories about fraud. Addressed primarily to traveling merchants of the late Ming era, the work offers eighty-odd tales of swindles attempted and accomplished, most of which are followed by an author’s comment that drives home the lesson for the...

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  Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge

  18th Jan 2025 4:00 pm to 18th Jan 2025 5:15 pm

  The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge on January 18, 2025. In this talk, Mahdi Tourage will discuss what we should do with the ample evidence of misogyny, racism, and male-supremacy in the poetry of a globally celebrated mystic like Rumi. He...

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  2024/25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Samurai, Knights, and Nationalisms: Japan and the Medievalization of the Modern World

  30th Jan 2025 5:30 pm to 30th Jan 2025 7:45 pm

  Auditorium, Asian Centre

  With Professor Oleg Benesch (University of York)

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