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Dr James McMullen FBA

Oriental and African Studies East Asia Japan History of a specific country Japan
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2001
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/james-mcmullen#/

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke and St Antony's Colleges, University of Oxford

Past appointments

Pembroke College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow

2006 -

Pembroke College University of Oxford Fellow

1989 - 2006

St Antony's College University of Oxford Fellow

1972 - 1989

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Japanese, Oriental Institute

1972 - 2006

Publications

The worship of Confucius in Japan forthcoming

Rulers or fathers: a casuistical problem in early modern Japan Past and Present 1987

Genji Gaiden: the origins of Kumazawa Banzan's commentary on the Tale of Genji 1991

Idealism, protest and the Tale of Genji 1999

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Xinjiang Rong FBA

History of Central Asia; Iranians (Sogodian, Khotantese) in China; cultural exchanges between China and the West from Han to Tang dynasties; Chinese history during the Sui, Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties Period, Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts

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Professor Sheldon Pollock FBA

Sanskrit philology; Indian literature, intellectual history, history of aesthetics; theory of philology and of comparativism

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Professor Manfred Woidich FBA

The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first

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