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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
This thesis analyses part of a corpus of premodern Japanese texts usually referred to as irui-gassen mono (“tales of battles between nonhuman beings”). More specifically, it investigates texts that describe disputes between ... -
How Tintin Met Tchang: The Sino-Belgian Catholic Network in the Early Twentieth Century
The thesis provides a detailed historical account of the Sino-Belgian Catholic network and argues that by promoting mutual communication it contributed to building up a sense of solidarity, inspiring people to see shared ... -
Groomed For Business: Constructing the White-Collar Man’s Body in Contemporary Japan
Over the past few decades in Japan, the male body has been subject to increasing scrutiny and pressures to groom, trends that have been analysed as a counter to the orthodox ‘salaryman’ figure, thus largely excluding him ... -
Poetry and Poetics: the Sufi Eye and the Neoplatonic Vision in Jāmī’s Salāmān u Absāl
This doctoral thesis focuses on a fifteenth-century masnavī (narrative poem) of Salāmān and Absāl by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), the “seal of the poets” of classical Persian literature. It is a long, mystically ...
