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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 92-108, December 2025.ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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Natural and synthetic arsenic sulfide pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the late Edo period [PDF]
Heritage Science, 2018 Abstract We recently described the use of an artificial arsenic sulfide pigment in Japanese woodblock prints from the Meiji period (1868–1912): we now expand on our previous work by investigating arsenic sulfide pigments used in Japanese woodblock prints of the late Edo period (1615–1868) and early Meiji period.
Stephanie Zaleski +2 more
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Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon +2 more
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Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards [PDF]
, 2006 The rationale for this book was to expose to a western audience artefacts made using woodblock which are largely unknown outside Japan. The western definition and knowledge of Japanese woodblock is fairly narrowly focused on ukiyo-e and knowledge of ...
Salter, Rebecca
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Does culture matter in corporate cash holdings?
International Review of Finance, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This paper identifies culture as an important factor affecting corporate cash holdings by using China and its national culture, Confucianism, as the setting. We find that firms located in regions with stronger Confucian culture hold persistently higher levels of cash. We employ an instrumental variable to draw causal inference.
Yongning Deng, Sipeng Zeng
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'Real' Nature, 'Aesthetic' Nature and the Making of Artworks: Some Challenges of Cross-Cultural Collaboration [PDF]
, 2013 The social and educational benefits of cultural exchange within the realm of art are often asserted. However, what of the meaning and value of the actual artworks arising from those exchanges? This paper analyses the barriers to shared understanding that
Pryer, Anthony J.
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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Surimono and Broadsheets : Graphic art with poems in Japan and America [PDF]
, 2005 The printing of poetry on single sheets of paper has a long history in Europe and in Japan. This paper will focus on the illustrated haiku surimono tradition in Japan, and a possible connection with the appearance of illustrated broadsheet poems during ...
Johnson Scott
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SOAS Library: Chinese art and archaeology collection [PDF]
, 2014 Chinese art has always been well-represented within SOAS Library. This article provides an overview of the Chinese art and archaeology collection, highlighting materials that make it unique, from rare books to literati paintings and woodblock prints.
Wood, Jiyeon
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