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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Jesuit Conspirators and Russia’s East Asian Fur Trade, 1791–1807 [PDF]

, 2015
In 1791, amidst growing anxiety about British encroachment on its fur trade with the Qing Empire, the Russian government discovered that Britain was sending a large and important embassy to Beijing, led by Lord Macartney.
Gregory Afinogenov
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When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 259-271, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
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Verbal and Visual-Figurative Clichés in the Representation of China in Connection with the Boxer Rebellion: Mandarin, Anthropomorphic “Titbid”, Frozen Empire [PDF]

Телекинет
The article analyzes the verbal and visual-figurative representations of China in magazines of the Russian Empire in 1898–1901. The author focuses on texts and images that became a reflection or reaction to the Boxer Rebellion, the main event included ...
Zakharchuk, V. V
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Evaluate Sequential Interventions for Adaptive Water Management in Large River Basins

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) and Adaptive Water Management (AWM) have been widely promoted as guiding principles, yet their practical realization at the basin scale remains difficult and underutilized. Sequential Interventions (SIs), stepwise actions applied in a predefined sequence at designated decision points, offer a practical ...
Yuhan Yan, Tingju Zhu, Zhenxing Zhang, Ximing Cai   +3 more
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Role for Complement C5 in Eosinophilic Inflammation of Severe Asthma

Allergy, Volume 81, Issue 5, Page 1571-1586, May 2026.
Complement activation module, particularly C5, is positively associated with eosinophilic inflammation in severe asthma cohorts. Elevated C5 expression correlates with poor lung function improvement and persistent eosinophilic inflammation. Mouse model studies confirm that C5 exacerbates eosinophilic inflammation, highlighting its potential as a ...
Cong Dong, Shaohua Lu, Zhenan Deng, Xuliang Cai, Huahao Shen, Guochao Shi, Changxing Ou, Zuofu Peng, Wei Jiang, Xiuhua Fu, Changzheng Wang, Meiling Jin, Zhongmin Qiu, Xiaoyang Wei, Wei Gu, Kewu Huang, Qiang Li, Xiangyan Zhang, Nanshan Zhong, Kian Fan Chung, Qingling Zhang, on behalf of C‐BIOPRED Consortium, Jiangtao Lin, Yongming Zhang, Nan Su, Xiaoyan Zhang, Qing Zhao, Ying Nong, Ping Chen, Tianyi Zhu, Binbin Ji, Yan Wang, Haitao Zhao, Jinbao Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiaona Yang, Chunhua Wei, Jing Han, Nong Yu, Qiang Li, Zhifu Yang, Yanhong Liu, Guohua Li, Huadong Guan, Shuping Zhang, Xiuhua Fu, Lihong Wang, Lingxin Meng, Zhenting Sun, Guangqin Cao, Lei Zhao, Kewu Huang, Hong Zhang, Wen Wang, Li An, Yangyu Chen, Yanli Gao, Xiaoxia Liu, Huifen Zhai, Fang Lin, Zhaohui Zhong, Zhongguang Wen, Yan Xiao, Jian Kang, Linfei Kong, Xinming Su, Xue Yan, Dijia Zhou, Huaping Tang, Wei Han, Yi Shu, Tintian Li, Lixin Xie, Hong Hu, Bo Liu, Yuzhu Li, Longmei Fan, Yue Zhang, Shifeng Zhao, Xiaofang Liu, Yuhong Wang, Xichun Zhang, Xinmao Wang, Pen Bai, Guangfa Wang, Yan Hu, Zhanwei Hu, Ju Cao, Bei He, Rui Wu, Xiaoyan Gai, Hong Zhu, Zhihai Han, Jiyi Meng, Wei Chen, Li Ma, Zhenqian Liu, Chunyang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Huahao Shen, Fugui Yan, Bin Shen, Xinghong Wang, Hao Zhang, Yinghua Yin, Jinkai Liu, Yanxiong Mao, Mao Huang, Xin Yao, Mao Huang, Ji Zhou, Zhenzhen Wu, Ping Yan, Yujie Zhang, Xinling Yang, Ningfei Ji, Fan Fei, Wanzhen Fu, Yi Yang, Yuting Shi, Wangjian Cha, Guochao Shi, Min Zhou, Wei Tang, Wei Chen, Jun Zhou, Wenjie Yang, Lei Zhu, Meiling Jin, Liping Xue, Li Li, Chun Li, Yin Gong, Qiang Li, Guogang Xie, Luhong Bao, Wuping Bao, Nianyun Li, Fengming Ding, Min Zhang, Zhongmin Qiu, Li Yu, Jungang Xie, Lingling Yi, Xianghuai Xu, Qiang Chen, Junjun Tang, Jinfu Xu, Xiaobing Ji, Jingyun Shi, Bo Su, Xiaojun Yang, Jiuwen Bai, Shuo Liang, Kebing Cheng, Wei Gu, Jiyong Ma, Yun Liu, Jun Ren, Shan Mao, Qingling Zhang, Baoqing Sun, Jiaxing Xie, Rihuang Qiu, Zhiqiang Wang, Peiyan Zhen, Wenting Luo, Changgao Zhong, Wei Luo, Yanqing Xie, Xinxin Yu, Wenting Yu, Wei He, Changzheng Wang, Qianli Ma, Min Wan, Mingzhou Zhang, Haining Li, Shaoxi Cai, Haijin Zhao, Yanmei Ye, Fang Zhou, Laiyu Liu, Guohua Huang, Jianpeng Liang, Jianping Zhao, Jungang Xie, Qiongjie Hu, Kaiyan Li, Wang Ni, Guohua Zheng, Weining Xiong, Lingling Yi, Xihu Du, Yunhui Zhang, Zhi Li, Xiaoqiong Tan, Feng Liao, Shenglan Wang, Yijiang Huang, Xinjun Cai, Kai Liu, Shaojing Sheng, Yihui Fu, Shenghua Sun, Qiang Zhang, Jinweng Cai, Ye Ling, Pin Chen, Hong Luo, Lv Liu, Zhijun Liu, Yuling Tang, Yusheng Yan, Guiyan Mo, Long Wen, Yinqun Zhu, Du Fan   +217 more
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Evolution of the Image of China on the Pages of the Magazine “Mir Bozhiy” at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The article examines the reflection of the image of China and the Chinese on the pages of the magazine “Mir Bozhiy” at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dmitry V. Mikheev
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 496-526, May 2026.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
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Institutionalisation and Institutional Evolution: A Model of Selecting Government Officials in Ancient China

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 359-367, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The evolution of institutions in selecting government officials in ancient China reflected efficiency considerations and increased power concentration in the hands of the ruler. Selecting government officials in ancient China became more rule‐based over time, and standardisation and centralisation were some key features of this process.
Haiwen Zhou
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Spatial Structure of Settlements in Mainland China in the Early 20th Century

Land
Settlements and settlement systems are key arenas of human–environment interaction, and reconstructing their spatial patterns is essential for understanding historical socio-environmental dynamics.
Raorao Su, Zhen Zhao
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