2013. 2

The article deals with the problem of “Taiwanese identity”, that may have a direct impact on the future development of the relations between the two sides of Taiwan strait. This subject attracts the attention of many Taiwanese and Western researchers but is still poorly studied in Russian historiography. The article discusses main peculiarities of defining the notion of “Taiwanese identity” and related to this terminological difficulties and certain phenomena of Taiwanese social life.

In the article, based on a series of computations and models, it is shown, that global economy which on the whole had been rapidly progressing since the start of the 19th century, during the last thirty years has noticeably slowed down rates of its growth. There are investigated causes of the paradoxical phenomenon, when, despite the emergence of foundations of knowledge-based economy in the advanced countries, there came about, according to generally accepted statistics, substantial decrease in growth rates of their GDP and Total Factor Productivity. Also are specified the scales, determinants and major restraints of the Asian economic upsurge as well as major components and contradictions of modern Russian developmental model. There also are provided an assessment of socio-economic and a number of political consequences of unbalanced growth of the world economy and a prognostic estimate of contours of world economic growth for the nearest decade.

The paper centers on the problem of conceptualization of death in the novel “Cries in the Drizzle” (Zai xi yu zhong huhan) by modern Chinese writer Yu Hua. The analysis of the phenomenon is carried out from a triple perspective: in terms of influence of traditional Chinese worldview, Western philosophies and totalitarian (maoist) discourse on the views of Yu Hua. The author comes to a conclusion that the simultaneous search for a kind of existential truth, historical authenticity and attempts to re-think Chinese tradition lie at the core of the writer’s art world.

The article gives a theoretical analysis of the genre system of the medieval Turkish ashik poetry — oral individual-author creation of ashik-songers. The author takes into consideration two the most popular in the Turkish philology genre classifications of the ashik poetry and shows the opposite views about the term «genre» and points out weak places of the existing classifications. In the conclusion the author suggests his own genre classification of ashiks` songs basing on the idea that the term `genre` relating ashiks` songs must comprise four closely connected with each other and equal from the point of their genre determinating role elements — theme, emotional tone, melody and form.

The article is devoted to revelation of peculiarities of personal names in some of the Bantu languages of East Africa. Morphemic structure of the family name can be an indication of ethnicity, gender and confessional affiliation of the owner’s own name. The article also reviews semantics of the personal name, nicknames and pseudonyms.