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The publication presents new evidence on Palladius Kafarov’s role in preparations for the Russian embassy’s visit to China in 1857–1858.

Using a speech by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the article examines code-switching between Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and the speaker’s role.

The article examines how redundant information and the sememe of Russian zero forms are rendered in Chinese translation.

The article analyzes the integration model of the Gulf Cooperation Council from its establishment in 1981 to 2020 and assesses current challenges.

The article reviews Japanese onomatopoeic words from the standpoint of cognitive experimental research and discusses their relevance to psychology and sound symbolism.

The present article is a sequel of a series of articles on history of Javanology based on biographies of its most prominent personalities. The article dwells on J.F.C. Gericke, who being a scholar, teacher and administrator played an exceptionally important role at an early stage of Java academic studies. If we name Baptist pastor Gottlob Brückner (1783–1857) (who is the first translator of the New Testament into Javanese and author of the first Javanese grammar book) a founding father of Java studies, then J. Gericke may be considered as belonging to the second generation of scholars engaged in the Java studies: he was fifteen years younger than G. Brückner, he arrived at Java later than G. Brückner, his works were also published later. While G. Brückner, being a priest, had no ties with academic environment, J. Gericke did a lot for its establishment, both as a scholar and as an administrator. J. Gericke contributed a lot to the development of Javanology in its infancy. Starting from the very beginning J. Gericke proved to be a practicing Orientalist (he established contacts with the Java nobility while performing a task entrusted by the government), an administrator in the academic field (he was one of the founders of the Institute for the Javanese Language), a teacher, a linguist (he compiled a practical grammar book and the first Great Javanese-Netherlands Dictionary) and also an illuminator of the Javanese people (he translated the Bible and adapted the Bible stories).

The article examines representations of India’s Muslim past in the literary works of Kunwar Narayan.

The article analyzes biographies of Vinaya monks in Chinese Buddhism from the late Ming to the Qing period and the role of monasteries and secular patrons.

The article studies the functions of the Chinese prepositions 给 gei3, 为 wei4 and 替 ti4 as markers of verbal valency, with particular attention to the beneficiary.

The first Order of independent Indonesia – Bintang Gerilya, or the Guerilla Star – was instituted in 1949, to praise those Indonesians who fought for the Independence against the Dutch. The evolution of Indonesian award system is inextricably intertwined with the developments of the Indonesian state and Indonesian Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI). In the late fifties, the Indonesian Armed Forces became more professional. They adopted the dual function of security and politics and managed to suppress rebellions throughout the Indonesian Archipelago. They needed to be granted for their heroism and service to the Government. As a result, two military orders were instituted in 1958, Bintang Sakti, or the Sacred Star, and Bintang Dharma. Later on, when Suharto established his New Order Regime (Orde Baru) and made the Armed Forces the main actor in Indonesian politics and society, he instituted several orders to buy loyalties of Indonesian top brass officers. All main branches of the Indonesian Armed Forces received their professional orders in late 1968 – Bintang Jalasena for the Navy, Bintang Kartika Eka Pakçi for the Infantry, and Bintang Swa Bhuwana Paksa for the Air Force. But three years later, in 1971, Suharto instituted a new military Order – Bintang Yudha Dharma, or the Grand Meritorious Military Order Star of Indonesia. This award has been a means to praise those military and civilian officials as well as foreign military officers who helped and facilitated the development and strengthening of the National Armed Forces of Indonesia. My paper focuses on the statute of the Order and several cases of its bestowal. The main sources are legal documents of the Indonesian Government and the mass media as well as other open sources.

The article examines the synthesis of Chinese classical and Western modernist literary traditions in Bai Xianyong’s Taipei People using the story “Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream”.

The article examines the publication and reception of the Chinese poetic collection “Landun Shiyong” in the context of Anglo-Chinese contacts before the Opium War.

The article examines Intan Paramaditha’s interpretation of the Javanese folklore image of Nyai Roro Kidul in the short story “The Queen” and its relation to horror fiction.

The paper aims to analyze adjectival paradigms of degree in Tagalog as influenced by Spanish. The subject appears to be of interest to the researchers of language contact with Spanish, as the contact-induced changes in the Tagalog grammar are still understudied. The impact of Spanish borrowings on the whole system of degrees in Tagalog adjectives has not yet received any particular attention. Following the approach by I. Melchuk, the paper offers descriptions for both the adjectival paradigm of intensity category and comparison category in Tagalog. The impact of Spanish borrowings in these two paradigms are analyzed based on the Leipzig Corpus of Tagalog. It is shown that Spanish-derived moderative marker medyo and elative markers masyado and sobra have contributed considerably to the inventory of the intensity paradigm of Tagalog. In the comparison paradigm which includes comparative, superlative, equative, and also attenuative degree forms, Spanish comparative marker mas has been shown to prevail, while pareho has been adopted as a new equative degree marker (infrequent). Along with the native relator sa, two Spanish-derived relators kaysa and kumpara sa are part of the Tagalog comparison inventory. Finally, it is suggested that the use of mas as a double-marker in comparison of inequality may indicate a tendency to grammaticalization of mas towards a general “comparison of inequality” marker.