• Temple, Huygens and ‘sharawadgi’: tempering the passions to achieve tranquillity 

  Zhuang, Y (Routledge, 27 January 2022)

• Supping with a long spoon in the Indian Ocean: the negotiation of the 1972 Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation between Mauritius and the People’s Republic of China 

  Burnham, T (Routledge, 12 December 2021)

  Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union’s 1970s reengagement with Africa through the Indian Ocean, this article investigates the overlapping extensions of aid and technical assistance to the island nation of Mauritius, ...

• Gardens of happiness: Sir William Temple, temperance and China 

  Zhuang, Y (Taylor & Francis (Routledge) / Manchester University Press, 4 May 2020)

  Sir William Temple, an English statesman and humanist, wrote “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus” in 1685, taking a neo-epicurean approach to happiness and temperance. In accord with Pierre Gassendi’s epicureanism, “happiness” ...

• Translational and transnational queer fandom in China: the fansubbing of Carol 

  Guo, T; Evans, J (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 18 June 2020)

  This article analyzes the Chinese fan translations of the film Carol and relevant paratexts by Jihua subtitling group, one of the most well-known Chinese lesbian fansubbing groups actively and explicitly advocating for ...

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Classicism in England: John Soane’s Language and Imagination 

  Zhuang, Y (Routledge, 1 November 2019)

  From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, British architecture had slipped into a widely acknowledged malaise brought on by the effects of increasing currents of secularisation and commercialisation. Ornaments ...

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