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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Tujia folk songs, as an important component of traditional Chinese music, have developed distinctive melodic structures through longterm oral transmission and intergenerational inheritance.
H. Xiang, S. N. Chen
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Folk musical creativity of Gnjilane in elementary school music teaching [PDF]
This paper discusses the folk musical creativity of town of Gnjilane and surrounding from the perspective of music education. The possibility of using the traditional folk music creation of this region in primary school teaching music was pointed out ...
Pavlović Biljana M. +1 more
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Abstract We present a morphology‐based backbone phylogeny of Cerambycidae beetles inferred by parsimony analyses using 77 adult characters scored for 101 species. This phylogeny is largely consistent with recent phylogenomic studies regarding key placements (e.g., Parandrini stat. rev. within Prioninae, Necydalini stat. rev.
Burcu Şabanoğlu Şimşek +2 more
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FOLKLORE REPERTOIRE FROM KORCHINSKI`S (1937) AND GHERSHFELD`S (1940) COLLECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY VISION [PDF]
The article is focused on reviewing, from the perspectives of contemporary times, the repertoire of the song itself from the Romanian folklore collections from the left bank of the River Dniester, published in the 30s–40s of the 20th century.
DRAGOI VASILI
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