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Sinology in Poland: Epistemological Debates and Academic Practice
, 2020 This study looks at how an understanding of sinology as a discipline evolved among Polish specialists on China against the background of the epistemological debates on the study of China in the Western world.
Rudakowska, Anna
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FilologWith China’s reform and opening-up policy, alongside its growing global influence, Chinese language education has gained significant international attention.
Sonja D. Stanković +3 more
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Evaluation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative by European Think Tanks (2013-2017)
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 This paper presents the analysis of the leading European think tanks’ research on The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by the Chinese government in 2013.
Kseniya G. Muratshina
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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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The Social Construction of the Realm of the Discipline: Polish Sinology
, 2020 This work picks up the long standing debate on the meaning of sinology, and particularly one of the latest contributions by "The Epistemology of China Studies: Oral History Project" hosted by the Research and Educational Center for Mainland China and ...
Rudakowska, Anna
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History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 203-236, June 2026.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract This paper introduces the collection of five short papers written by scholars from Egypt, Russia, Singapore, China and South Africa that advance this journal's ‘Geography in the World’ initiative through a more robust engagement between geography and area studies.
Han Cheng, Deen Sharp
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Сравнительная политика, 2020 Review of the collective monograph: Development Model of Modern China: Assessments, Discussions, Forecasts. Ed. by Alexei D. Voskressenski; Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian ...
A. V. Akimov
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Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract This paper critically evaluates the contemporary remaking of China's area studies and world geography as part of a nationalist project of spatial knowledge production, by examining an emerging landscape of individuals, institutions and ideologies. Two arguments are made.
Han Cheng
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