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showing, through the analysis of Warring States manuscript texts, how different
communities rewrote old cultural capital and became political actors through literary
thought production.
Later that year, my book Zhushang zhi si: zaoqi Zhongguo de wenben yu yiyi
shengcheng 竹 上 之 思 : 早 期 中 國 的 文 本 與 意 義 生 成 , was published. Beijing: Zhonghua
shuju. This book is a translation of my 2012 monograph Philosophy on Bamboo.
(ISBN: 9789888758692)
In May 2022, my book Songs of the Royal Zhou and the Royal Shao: Shi of the Anhui
University Manuscripts, was published (co-written with Adam C. Schwartz, HKBU).
Leiden: Brill, 2022. (hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-50823-1; e-book ISBN: 978-90-04-
51243-6) (xii, 222 pp.). With this book we provide a first complete reading of their
earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as witnessed by the Anhui University
manuscripts. As a thought experiment, we seek to establish an emic reading of
these songs, which they contextualise in the larger framework of studies of the Shi
(Songs) and of meaning production during the Warring States period more broadly.
The analysis casts light on how the Songs were used by different groups during the
Warring States period.
Reports and College Activities
Finally, in May 2022 we launched our new journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures
(https://mtc-journal.org). It is the official journal of the Centre for Manuscript and Text
Cultures (CMTC) (https://cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk). Together with Angus Bowie, I serve
as the Senior Editor of the journal.
Kinan Muhammed (Clinical Sciences)
Over the past year I have received additional research
funding through partnership with industry and UKRI
to establish a multi-site clinical trial in dementia. The
study investigates whether neurocognitive function can
be accurately measured at home using novel digital
behavioural measurements and remote EEG. The aim is
to assess if these measures provide more sensitive end
outcomes for clinical drug trials in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. I am
the Chief Investigator for this national study and patient recruitment has now started
and will run over the next 18 months.
In addition, I have contributed to publications in The European Medical Journal of
Innovation and Brain Communications. These works explore the neural mechanisms
of motivation in Parkinson’s disease and REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and also
assesses the use of augmented reality technology to assist clinicians with invasive
neurological procedures.
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