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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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Transformative Tears: Genesis’s Joseph and Mengzi’s Shun
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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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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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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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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The Rural–Urban Fringes in the Local Limelight: Urban Village Redevelopment in Yinchuan, Ningxia
As urbanisation strategies have been adopted throughout China in recent years, it has become increasingly relevant to study their implementation processes in so-called lower-tier cities away from the well-known regions.
Michael Malzer
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The Intellectual Persuasion in the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation With Peter K. Bol. [PDF]
Interviewer’s Note: Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. A leading scholar in the field of Chinese intellectual history, the much-published Professor Bol has long been an ...
Bol, Peter K., Yao, Ping
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
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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Russian Sinology: Current Stage and Main Problems
The authors carry out a periodization of the Russian comparative jurisprudence and development of comparative legal studies, starting from the pre-revolutionary (imperial) period and up to the present day.
A. V. Vinogradov, A. R. Kobzev
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Introduction of Major Institutions [PDF]
Chinese Civilisation Center, City University of Hong Kong: A Modern Approach to Chinese Tradition/ Department of Japanese Kanbun Instruction and Research Program, Nishōgakusha University/ Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome ...
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