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Fei Xiaotong (费孝通) (2 November 1910 — 24 April 2005) was the prominent anthropologist and sociologist of China. He was one of the first sociologists and anthropologists who conducted anthropological studies of the life of Chinese society. He was a political journalist ...

The Berber question in Algeria, which history goes back to the colonial period, now draws increasing attention to itself. The international media, illuminating the Berber question, inclines to conclusions about the real danger of a split in the society and the possible seces...

The Article analyses how the contemporary Iraqi novel literature illustrates sectarian conflicts. The Arab revolutions enabled writers to use literature to openly discuss this ever-present antagonism inherent in Arab societies. The article emphasizes that Iraqi authors analyse both intern...

The United Arab Emirates are one of those Arabic countries where national literature of modern type — which replaced Arabic medieval adab — came into existence as late as in the 1970s. Nevertheless, among the earliest Emirati short-stories, most of which were based on&#...

This paper presents an analysis of three manuscript copies of the Collection of Proverbs by the famous Muslim scholar-linguist al-Maydānī. Two of the copies are part of St Petersburg manuscript collections: the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian&#x...

This article addresses the Arabic manuscript which dates back to the 14th century. The manuscript ref. № 49 preserved in the library collection of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) was initially noted in 1994 by D. A. Morozov in his list...

The paper reflects some results of the study of the “Ji jiu pian” (“Quick access [to characters]”), which was compiled in the 1st century BC by Han dynasty official Shi You. “Ji jiu pian” is the earliest Chinese primer survived to the present day. Some issues&...

This particular study is an inconspicuous part of a large project – new academic translations of the songs of “Kojiki” and “Nihon Shoki” into Russian published recently at Amazon publ. They contain original texts, romanization, glossing, translations into Russian and some comment...

Literary heritage of Fyodor Dostoevsky has always presented an attraction for world cinema encouraging and inspiring filmmakers from different countries including Asia to rethink and reinterpret the works of this outstanding Russian writer again and again. A remarkable effort toward&...

The article deals with the origins and evolutionary history of the main libraries’ collections in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow), which are of great significance for the scholars involved in Japanese studies or Oriental studies. The concerned libraries specifics’ analyses also...

[Рец. на книгу]: Ткаченко С. Л. Институт президентской власти. СПб.: Секретариат Совета Межпарламентской ассамблеи государств — участников СНГ, 2018. 216 с.

[Рец. на книгу]: Bianchini S. Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe. London; New York: Edward Elgar, 2017. 352 p.

[Рец. на книгу]: Thies C., Nieman D. Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism. Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior Through Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 206 p.

One of the main criticisms of political realism in International Relations theory has been that it poorly explains historical change. While some representatives of realism have paid a great deal of attention to historical alterations, realism, in general, does not offer a sa...