Position:
Retired University Lecturer, Japanese
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email:
james.mcmullen@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Pre-Restoration history and culture, especially the history of Confucian thought and institutions in Japan
Current Projects:
- The history of the Sekiten and Sekisai rituals to venerate Confucius in Japan
- Article on the thought of Ogyuu Sorai
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to premodern Japanese history and culture
- Classical and modern literary and historical texts
- Unseen translation
Recent Publications:
- Genji Gaiden: the origins of Kumazawa Banzan's commentary on the Tale of Genji, Reading: Ithaca Press 1991
- Idealism, protest, and the Tale of Genji, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999
- "Kuge, buke, juhsa", in Yokoyama Toshio (ed.), Kaibara Ekiken: Tenchi Waraku no Bunmeigaku, TakyoL Heibonsha 1995 [In Japanese]
- "The worship of Confucius in ancient Japan", in P. Kornicki and I.J. McMullen (eds.), Religion in Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
- "Ashikaga Takauji and the fourtheenth-century dynastic schism", in J.P. Mass (ed.), The origins of Japan's medieval world, Stanford: Stanford University Press 1997
- "La melancholie de l'amour: Motoori Norinaga et le Dit du Genji", Japon pluriel, 4 [2001], pp. 349-71
- Confucian Perspectives on the Akô Revenge: Law and moral agency", Monumneta Nipponica, 58:3 [2003], pp. 293-315.
