The article examines attempts to institutionalize political processes at the township and village level in China and changes to grassroots governance in the era of Xi Jinping.
Keywords:
China; political reforms; governance; institutional reforms; grassroots level; democratization; Xi Jinping; ideology
The article analyzes the position of the Muslim Brotherhood in Mauritanian domestic politics and the development of the Tawassul party between 2007 and 2019.
Keywords:
Mauritania; Nouakchott; Muslim Brothers; Tawassul; Maghreb; Sahel; Islam
The article examines religious endowments to Buddhist institutions of the kingdom of Awa from a monk and rulers of Chiang Mai, using two Burmese inscriptions from the fourteenth century.
The paper explores the biography and academic career of Professor Mikhail Meyer, a distinguished historian of Ottoman and Turkish studies and President of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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.
Keywords:
Indonesian folklore; Nyai Roro Kidul; horror; Indonesian culture; Intan Paramaditha
The article reviews studies of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy published over the last twenty years and groups them according to their research methods.
Keywords:
Egypt; modern Egyptian literature; Naguib Mahfouz; Egyptian novel
The article analyzes Chinese authors’ experiments with the recitation and performance of modern poetry in the 1920s and 1930s and the relation between oral and written forms.
Keywords:
Chinese poetry; declamation; recitation; rhythm; verse
The article presents an annotated translation of the anonymous Chinese collection “Landun Shiyong” (Ten Verses on London), the first known poetic description of London in Chinese.
Keywords:
Landun shiyong; Chinese poetry; Qing China; J. F. Davis; K. F. A. Gutzlaff
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.
Keywords:
Egypt; diglossia; code-switching; political communication; Modern Standard Arabic; Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
The article reviews Japanese onomatopoeic words from the standpoint of cognitive experimental research and discusses their relevance to psychology and sound symbolism.
Keywords:
Japanese language; onomatopoeia; mimetic words; sound symbolism; psycholinguistics
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.
