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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真 (845–903) and Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn 崔致遠 (857–?) share a remarkable number of traits inviting a comparison of their literary works. This study explores the two men’s poetry—the pinnacle of cultural production at the time—to shed more ...
Mikhail Skovoronskikh
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The Effect of Writing Direction and Task‐Specific Experience on Mapping Time and Numbers on Space [PDF]
ABSTRACT Mapping time and numbers on space is affected by the writing direction. In two experiments, we searched for an explanation of how writing scripts can influence the mental representation of time and number axes. We presented to participants either 2 months (written in their native language) or two numbers (Arabic numerals), one on the left and ...
Ordin M, El‐Dakhs D, Polyanskaya L.
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Metamorphosis of a diplomatic interpreting event in ancient China
This article discusses how the earliest known interpreting event in Sinitic China was chronicled and recapped in political and literary writings across different dynasties, in an intertextual process comparable with metamorphosis.
Rachel Lung
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Abstract What is Chinese nationalism? Is nationalism the most effective framework for understanding how people in China are making sense of the world today? These are among the questions raised by Allen Carlson in his 2009 article ‘A flawed perspective: the limitations inherent within the study of Chinese nationalism’, which developed a provocative ...
Kevin Carrico
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The Sinitic poetry of Fujiwara Seika and his place in the history of early modern kanbun literature
Fujiwara Seika (藤原惺窩, 1561–1619) has often attracted scholarly attention as one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in Japan. Yet his substantial literary oeuvre, which includes works in both literary Sinitic (Jp. kanbun 漢文) and Japanese, remains largely
M. V. Skovoronskikh
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The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae: A profile update
The clubroot pathogen wants to conquer the world, and how better than through social media. This Plasmodiophora brassicae profile highlights how the growers are in a constant fight with this devastating pathogen. Art by C.‐É. Brochu. Abstract Background Plasmodiophora brassicae is the causal agent of clubroot disease of cruciferous plants and one of ...
Muhammad Asim Javed +10 more
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Vowel Quality in Xiang Non-Lexical Hesitation Markers: New Forms of Typological Evidence?
Xiang (hsn) remains a poorly understood grouping within Sinitic, with no satisfactory conclusions on how to demarcate its boundaries or define its subgroupings.
Robert Marcelo Sevilla
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Learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A scoping review
Abstract Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has been published so far. A total of 289 journal articles published in 95 journals were identified and used to provide a bibliometric mapping of research in CFL over three ...
Jessica Chan +3 more
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The Odae chinŏn (Five Great Mantras) and Dhāraṇī Collections in Premodern Korea
The Five Great Mantras (Odae chinŏn) is one of the most widely circulated collections of Buddhist dhāraṇīs in premodern Korea, having been published or existing in several variant editions during the Chosŏn period (1392–1910).
Richard D. McBride
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