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Sinology in Poland: Epistemological Debates and Academic Practice

, 2016
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.
Anna Rudakowska
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Transformative Tears: Genesis’s Joseph and Mengzi’s Shun

Religions
By comparing two significant characters in a Biblical and a Confucian story, respectively, this article examines how the two traditions referred to share a common understanding of what “reconciliation” is meant to be. I compare Joseph in Genesis and Shun
Moritz Kuhlmann
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Taking Sinology Classics as the Carrier to Improve Students’ Humanistic Literacy [PDF]

, 2018
As the carrier of Chinese traditional culture, classics of sinology bear a long history and rich humanistic spirit, having a positive effect on the education of students from vocational school.
Xu, M, Lei, J. (J), Lei, J, Xu, M. (M)
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Literacy and illiteracy, its relational other: A key topic for collaboration between psychology and anthropology

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract Collaborative work between anthropology and psychology on literacy and particularly on illiteracy helps to rethink general disciplinary backgrounds, concepts, and complex empirical phenomena in the field of (il)literacy. Since the formational period of the social sciences, the concept of literacy has been key to the self‐understandings of ...
Erdmute Alber, Carlos Kölbl
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Who Understands China in Poland? The Epistemological Debates on China and Study of China at the Sinology Department, Warsaw University

, 2016
The meaning and significance of China is closely related to the concept of sinology, which takes China as its object of study. This project looks at the understanding of sinology in Poland against the background of the epistemological debates in the ...
Rudakowska, Anna
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Pivot to the South: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through China's Belt and Road Initiative

Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 6, June 2024.
Abstract Whilst China's aid and development model has been traditionally understood as divergent from the dominant post‐1945 liberal development model, scholars are also increasingly exploring convergence between features of the two development models.
Hannah McNicol
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Peace with Chinese characteristics in concept and conduct

Cogent Social Sciences
Peace studies have thrived on liberal norms. A liberal vs. illiberal divide occurred with the re-emergence of illiberal actors promoting alternative concepts. Peace with Chinese Characteristics is one of them as informed by Confucianist thinking, but how
Josie-Marie Perkuhn
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The history and nomenclatural significance of herbarium collections made by Alexander A. Tatarinow in North China and Mongolia in 1841–1850

TAXON, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 556-572, April 2024.
Abstract Alexander A. Tatarinow (1817?–1886) made an extensive collection of vascular plants and insects in North China and Mongolia while serving as a physician in the 12th Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing during 1841–1850. Tatarinow's plant collection included about 800 species and became the basis for 70 new species, of which 12 ...
Alexander N. Sennikov
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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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