From romance to decolonial love in The Woman of Colour — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Barr, Rebecca Anne

“…[but] Thea, a scholar of rights, slavery, and freedom, would have [said] . . . that is not the case. …”
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Forward to the past : modernizing linguistic typology by returning to its roots by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…The comparative study of unrelated languages did not begin with Joseph Greenberg in the 1960’s, but began more than 150 years earlier in Europe with scholars of the Romanticist movement. The most prominent of these scholars was the German scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose goal in studying 75 different languages was to understand the construal of the world (Weltansicht) of the speakers of the different languages, what we now think of as the cognitive categories manifested by the languages of the speakers, as each language manifests a unique set of cognitive categories. …”
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Queer latent images, post-loyalism, and the Cold War : the case of an early sinophone star, Bai Yun by Hee, Wai Siam

“…On screen, he performed with the stylings of a traditional Chinese feminine dashing young scholar; off screen, he frequently created scandals involving other male and female stars as part of a reverse publicity strategy. …”
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帝国的超级符号：香港流行文化中的英女王 = The super-sign of empire: Queen Elizabeth II in Hong Kong popular culture by 蔡佳恩 Chai, Jia En

“…This paper will use Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure’s “Semiotics” theory and refer to the scholar Lydia H. Liu’s “Super-Sign”, which analyzes the nineteenth-century diplomatic history of China and Britain, and looks over the portrayal of the Queen in Hong Kong popular culture to explore how Hong Kongers have constructed their post-colonial identity over the 70 years of Sino-British relations.…”
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In defense of a conception of Confucian harmony by Li, Chenyang

“…In reading the central theme of the Yijing, I follow the respected Yijing scholar Yu Dunkang, who holds explicitly that “the core idea of the Zhouyi is to pursue grand harmony as the highest goal” (Yu 2006, p. 5). …”
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同志潛影、後遺民與冷戰：以早期華語語系明星白雲為例 = Queer latent images, post-loyalism and the Cold War: the case of an early sinophone star, Bai Yun by 许维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…On screen, he performed with the stylings of a traditional Chinese feminine dashing young scholar; off screen, he frequently created scandals involving other male and female stars as part of a reverse publicity strategy. …”
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Why observing Li is not the instrument to attain Ren: on the relation between Ren and Li in the Analects by Zhang, Jian

“…Many scholars have made several influential contributions to this topic. …”
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Interpreting Confucius : the aesthetic turn and its challenges by Li, Chenyang

“…This work deserves serious attention and careful treatments by pertinent scholarly communities.…”
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'Don Quick-sottish, or so': Cervantic ingredients in Aphra Behn's the emperor of the moon (Article) by Castro-Santana, Anaclara

“…In a brief critical assessment of Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon (1688), Jane Spencer pronounces it “a play that, in the best Quixotic tradition, enchants even as it mocks the victims of enchantment.”1 Behn’s farce does precisely that, and much more, with the aid of Cervantes’s hypotext. However, scholars have yet to study at length exactly how quixotism is invoked in The Emperor of the Moon and the ways in which it bears upon the satirical targets as well as the general humor and the larger implications of the piece.…”
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New light on Dryden’s conversion (Invited Commentary) by Gardiner, Anne Barbeau

“…The conversion of John Dryden has perplexed scholars for centuries. Considering Dryden’s literary stature, one can understand the consternation at the time that greeted his becoming a Catholic. …”
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“And all the crops of Asia flourish here” : unsettled boundaries between East and West, landscape and text in Eliza Lucas Pinckney and André Michaux (Article) by Bullington, Thomas

“…However, the disciplinary boundaries that twenty-first-century scholars draw between garden history and literature obscure these linkages. …”
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Histories of aging and gender variability: old age in the nineteenth-century 'hijra'/'eunuch' archive by Hinchy, Jessica

“…Queer, trans and gender histories have destabilised concepts of childhood and adolescence and thereby shown how age-stratification and normative notions of time are produced through gender and sexual normativity. However, scholars can productively consider how gender variability produces, negotiates or unravels hegemonic concepts of old age. …”
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Migration and language education : towards a typology of complementary schools by Jain, Ritu

“…Delivered through a unique model of state-community partnership, the affirmative measures have escaped scholarly attention since their introduction in the early 1990s. …”
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Qiaowu : extra-territorial policies for the overseas Chinese by van Dongen, Els

“…In response to this, some scholars have urged for the return of the state in analyses of the role of diasporas in IR. …”
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American studies in Singapore by Clark, Justin Tyler

“…First, has the international community of American Studies scholars shifted in its approach to the Pacific? And second, have conditions evolved for American Studies scholarship conducted in the Pacific? …”
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Bodies and viruses : biomedicalizing hepatitis B in shaping South Korea's nationhood by Park, Hyung Wook

“…Biomedicine, including vaccination and science-based sanitation, was regarded as the only effective measure against it. Hence, some scholars have assumed that bodies and the disease were merely objects of biomedical intervention essential for nation-building. …”
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Living with the dead as a way of life : a materialist historiographical approach to cemetery asceticism in Indian Buddhist monasticisms by Witkowski, Nicholas

“…This study challenges the long-standing scholarly conception that ascetic practice was incompatible with the institutional imperatives of the Indian Buddhist monastery in the “middle period.” …”
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"Chinese, Yet Not Chinese": creolized Babas, China-born Chinese, and their changing relationships in Singapore after 1870s by Ong, Soon Keong

“…Because the Babas had settled outside China and created a creolized culture through localization and Westernization, their supposed straying from Chinese culture and distancing from China were used by scholars and the Chinese themselves to explain the growing gulf between the Babas and the China-born. …”
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Realistic revolution : contesting Chinese history, culture, and politics after 1989 by van Dongen, Els

“…Finally, their self-identification as scholars was a response to rapid social change that nevertheless left their concern with China’s fate unaltered.…”
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Virtual play and the Victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience by Gao, Timothy

“…This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age.…”
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