Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the fieldAddresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial studies and world literature
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), when Allopen—the first Nestorian missionary—arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in China began with Robert Morrison, of London Missionary Society, who first set foot in Cant…
From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real w…
Sejalan dengan rencana strategis Perpustakaan Nasional untuk menjalankan fungsinya sebagai perpustakaan pusat penelitian juga pusat pelestarian pernaskahan Nusantara, maka kegiatan alih-aksara, alih-bahasa, saduran dan kajian naskah kuno berbasis kompetisi perlu dilakukan sebagai upaya akselerasi percepatan penelitian naskah kuno yang berkualitas, memenuhi standar penelitian filologis, serta mu…
Teks yang mengambil siklus cerita wayang purwa ini berisi cerita Pandawa dan keadaan Kerajaan Astina setelah perang Baratayuda yang disajikan dalam bentuk tembang macapat. Beberapa peristiwa setelah perang Baratayuda dalam teks SK antara lain adalah munculnya kereta kencana di Astina, moksanya Begawan Destarata, lahirnya Parikesit, munculnya kembali Aswatama, Kartamarma, dan Karpa (Kurawa yang …