Journal articles: 'Modern literature|Asian literature|Literature'

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Shapiro, Michael C., Rupert Snell, and I. M. P. Raeside. "Classics of Modern South Asian Literature." Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, no. 2 (2000): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/605066.

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Kim, Jae-yong. "From Eurocentric World Literature to Global World Literature." Journal of World Literature 1, no. 1 (2016): 63–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00101007.

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Editors’ Note: Among the liveliest and most ambitious journals in world literary studies today is the biennial Korean journal Chigujŏk segye munhak (Global World Literature), edited by Kim Jae-yong. Professor of modern Korean literature and world literature at Wonkwang University in Iksan, South Korea. Kim is the author and editor or co-editor of numerous books on Korean and world literature, including Hyŏmnyŏk kwa chŏhang (Collaboration and Resistance, 2004), Segye munhak ŭrosŏ ŭi asia munhak (Asian Literature as World Literature, 2012), and Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (2013). The following essay, translated for JWL by John Kim, is an expanded version of Kim Jae-young’s programmatic essay for his journal’s first issue (Spring 2013), in which he sets out the rationale for the journal as a counter to the persistent Euro-American-centrism of much world literary study, both in the West and in Asia itself. Genuinely global in its presentation of world literature, the journal is published in Korean and is designed for a broad scholarly and general readership in South Korea, providing a notable example of the contemporary development of world literary studies within a distinct national context.

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Hussain, Syed Ejaz. "History as Memory: Alexander in South Asian Demotic Literature and Popular Media." Asian Review of World Histories 9, no. 2 (2021): 157–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340092.

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Abstract The diversity and range of existing archives on the history and romance of Alexander have projected on him a multiplicity of images. Alexander’s conquests, military achievements, romance, myths, and legends have fascinated writers, scholars, historians, poets, filmmakers, the media, and designers of websites around the world. His invasion of India in 326 BCE left an indelible influence on Indian art, history, and literature. The present essay takes up a theme on which not much work has been done in modern scholarship. It focuses on the nature and diversity of the historical memory of Alexander in modern South Asia, particularly as reflected in modern Urdu and Hindi, the two major languages of the subcontinent. It also examines how Alexander is portrayed in popular culture and India’s nationalist discourse.

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Cho, Kang Sok. "A Study on the Request for the East Asian View of the Modern Korean Literature - Focusing on the Book, Modern Korean Literature and China." Comparative Korean Studies 24, no. 3 (2016): 411–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.19115/cks.24.3.12.

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뉴린졔 and 탕전. "A Study on Korean Anti-Japanese Heroic Narrative in Modern East Asian Literature." 아시아문화연구 45, no. ll (2017): 183–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.34252/acsri.2017.45..007.

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Clegg, Cyndia Susan. "Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114, no. 4 (1999): 911. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900154057.

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The association's ninety-seventh convention will he held 5–7 November 1999 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, under the sponsorship of the dean of Letters and Sciences and the Departments of English and Languages and Literatures. Inger Olsen is serving as local chair. The program will represent the association members' diverse interests in all matters of language and literature in classical, Western, and non-Western languages. The thirty-one general sessions will include papers on classical, Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, English, American, and Asian literatures, as well as on linguistics, rhetoric, gay and lesbian literature, film, matrilineal culture, autobiography, poetry and poetics, and critical theory. Among the thirty special sessions are sessions on picaresque literature, Shakespeare and popular literature, Native American literature, Russian literature, Slavic literature, Toni Morrison in the 1990s, Caribbean literature, and cybertextbooks in foreign language education. Several special sessions have been organized by Portland State University and PAMLA affiliate organizations Women in French, MELUS, and the Milton Society of America. Registration at the conference will be $35 and $25. All paper sessions are scheduled for classrooms at Portland State University and will begin Friday at 1:00 p.m. and end Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

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Othman, Roslina. "Modern Literature of Southeast Asia: Research Portal2006425Teri Shaffer Yamada. Modern Literature of Southeast Asia: Research Portal. Long Beach, CA: California State University 2001‐. Gratis Last visited June 2006 URL: http://members.freespeech.org/Southeast‐asian‐literature/." Reference Reviews 20, no. 8 (2006): 34–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120610709600.

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Jiyon Byun. "Modern Asian Poets under Western Gaze: Bei Dao and Yosano Akiko in World Literature." English21 31, no. 1 (2018): 121–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35771/engdoi.2018.31.1.006.

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Mendrofa, Melania Priska. "MALAY LITERATURE: TRANSLATED OR NOT TO BE TRANSLATED." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 3, no. 1 (2019): 76–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v3i1.37.

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In Asian literature, Malaysia is categorized as the minority for its literature. Its development in literary realm has just built for some decades. It is not like the other big countries, such as China, Japan, and many other Southeast Asia which have been famous for its literature in world. Having no difference with other literature, Malay literature is developed through translation. Since English is still the main language in world literature, Malay literature has to consider its literature to be translated in English too. Meanwhile, modern Malay literature has presented already the novels in form of English language verse. Many novelists have tendency to write directly in English rather than presenting their works in vernacular language (Malay language). Translation, specifically in English, does not play important role in Malay literature. Malay English novels can assist the circulation of Malay Literature around the world, yet it may also reduce the appreciation for Malay language itself. This paper aims to discuss Malay literature dilemma in using English as the vernacular language in novels or using English as the bridge for bringing Malay culture into World Literature.

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Gundry, David. "Stage and Page in Early-Modern Japan." Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 2 (2015): 437–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911815000078.

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Wondrous Brutal Fictions and Publishing the Stage will together expand and enrich the scholarly conversation on the theater of Tokugawa-period Japan and its interfaces with various genres of literature and the visual arts. The former volume consists of translations by R. Keller Kimbrough of seventeenth-century sekkyō and ko-jōruri (old jōruri) preceded by an informative and insightful introduction. It will be of great interest to scholars specializing in early-modern Japanese literature, history, and religion, and would lend itself to inclusion in reading lists for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. Publishing the Stage, edited by Kimbrough and Satoko Shimazaki, gathers together a wide-ranging assortment of papers on the symbiotic relationship between theater and publishing in Edo- and early Meiji-period Japan, all presented in March 2011 at an interdisciplinary conference held at the Center for Asian Studies of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Its eleven essays (seven written in English and four in Japanese) will be of use not only to scholars in the fields of Japanese literature and performance but also to historians and specialists in art history.

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Gvili, Gal. "Pan-Asian Poetics: Tagore and the Interpersonal in May Fourth New Poetry." Journal of Asian Studies 77, no. 1 (2018): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911817001309.

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Rabindranath Tagore's visit to China in 1924 was a milestone in the May Fourth Movement's envisioning of modern literature as a vehicle for social transformation. Moving beyond interpretations of the visit as a political failure, this article locates the reception of Tagore's ideal of Eastern spirituality within the larger climate of literary production, specifically in new poetry. Through close reading of poems by Xu Zhimo and Bing Xin, this article argues that Tagore's ideas were fundamental for the development of poetry as an interpersonal medium that both portrays and effects social bonds. This understanding developed as Chinese poets and literary critics engaged with Tagore's critique of Western materialism and his positioning of Asian religious sensibilities in contrast to Western materialism. Tagore's view promoted literature as a medium connecting religion, the individual, and the universe. In this sense, though Tagore's pan-Asianism failed as a viable political project, it carried powerful resonance in the arena of modern Chinese literature.

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Ovcharenko, Nataliia. "Poetological dominants of historical memory in works of asian immigrant writers in Canada." Слово і Час, no. 6 (November 26, 2020): 87–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2020.06.87-101.

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Poetological dominants of historical memory in works of asian immigrant writers in Canada The paper highlights the development of literature related to the historical memory concept of Canadian immigrants from Asian countries. It covers the period of the late 20th ― first decades of the 21st century. The complex of problems, analyzed and structured within the semantic field of the modern historical memory concept, is often applicable both to Canada and Ukraine. The research broadens the knowledge of Canadian literature introducing the names of researchers and writers new to Ukrainian literary studies. The paper overviews the interpretations of Canadian Asian immigrants’ dispositions within the paradigm of modern arts and humanities. The focus is on the issues of double identity, the coherence of ethnic and North American mentality. The researcher generalizes the poetical aspects of the works by Ying Chen, Kim Thui, Joy Kogawa, Michael Ondaatje. Attention has been paid to the definition of discursive parameters, which allow shaping the concept of historical memory in ‘mosaic’ Canadian society; the issues of identities; the main markers of Canadian historical strategies; and versatile patterns of literary texts. The participation of Canada in the global dialog, which involves its culture and literature, plays probably the most important role in the debate on Canadian polyethnic literature. Regional, national, and international features demand some combined definition. The research explicates modern historical memory strategies in the context of conventional territory with its specific spatial and temporal characteristics. The author demonstrates the main local views on peculiarities of the Canadian literary process of the 2nd half of the 20th ― early 21st century and analyzes literary texts. All the novels show profound connection between representatives of Canadian literature, who may seem essentially different but manifest temporal and subjective similarity. The paper lists the names of authors working within the ‘double vision’ formula suggested by N. Frye. This approach focuses on the elements of North American culture pertaining to Canadian multicultural world structure as well as traditional cultures of the writers’ ancestral homelands. The paper also considers the generation paradigm, structured on the basis of social and historical algorithms and psychological markers. The types of generational modes (Kim Thuy, Michael Ondaatje) in literature were combined through a common denominator ― canadianness ― based on a double identity.

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Vin, Hoang Xuan, and Hoang Huu Phuoc. "Children Character's World In The Story Give Me A Ticket To Childhood By Nguyen Nhat Anh." KnE Social Sciences 1, no. 3 (2017): 408. http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/kss.v1i3.763.

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“Give Me a Ticket to Childhood” is a long story written by Nguyen Nhat Anh, one of the most famous authors of Vietnamese modern literature who specializes in children's stories. This is one of his most successful works. It has been translated into many different languages and was awarded the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2010. The paper analyzes the aspects of sociology of literature and poetics of the children character’s world in the story. Keywords: Give Me a Ticket to Childhood”, Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2010, children character’s life, sociology of literature, poetics

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Chiang, M. "The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American / Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life / The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature / Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms." American Literature 86, no. 4 (2014): 844–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811694.

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Makhmudova, Malika, and Muhayyo Makhmudova. "TRADITIONAL CRAFTS OF UZBEKISTAN IN MODERN INTERIOR DESIGN." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 4 (May 26, 2017): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2017vol4.2432.

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The article describes the historical development of the decoration of architectural monuments of Uzbekistan, characteristics of ethno-style, the use of traditional crafts and motifs in interior design, regularity of use of ethno-style in a modern architectural environment.  Analytical approaches and methods of comparison were used in the article as well as materials of the authors’ researches. In addition, the literature on the Central Asian decor, applied art and crafts of Uzbekistan, interior design in ethno-style and others was studied.

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Im,Hyung-Teak. "The Actualization of Modern Language and Literature in Korean Fiction:Transition from East Asian Universal Classical Language to National Language." DAEDONG MUNHWA YEON'GU 12, no. 58 (2007): 9–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18219/ddmh.12.58.200706.9.

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Momoki, Shiro. "INTRODUCTION TO “THE FORMATION OF A JAPANOCENTRIC WORLD ORDER”." International Journal of Asian Studies 2, no. 2 (2005): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479591405000082.

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Traditionally, East Asians have tended to hold a strong national, or state-centric, view. In the modern university system established in the Meiji period in Japan, Japanese history was defined as National History, and strictly differentiated from Asian history, as National (i.e. Japanese) literature was differentiated from Chinese literature. Imperial Japan used the theory of expansionism to justify its hegemony in Asia, but that theory collapsed with the close of World War II. Political complications, furthermore, made it difficult for Japanese historians to have contacts with their fellow Asian scholars. Under these circumstances the tradition of National History was reinforced among the academic circle of Japanese historians. Predominant in this version of Japanese history was the image of early modern Japan as a self-contained, “mono-ethnic” state, in “sea-locked isolation”, and the Tokugawa bakufu's sakoku (national seclusion) policy was the symbol of that isolation. Internationally renowned studies on Japan's foreign relations by scholars such as Kobata Atsushi and Iwao Seiichi did not attract much attention in Japan.

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Hägerdal, Hans. "The Slaves of Timor: Life and Death on the Fringes of Early Colonial Society." Itinerario 34, no. 2 (2010): 19–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115310000331.

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The history of slavery is by no means untouched, and there are now even ambitious global histories of the phenomenon in print. On the other hand, it is clear that much of the literature on this sombre side of human society has concentrated on the Transatlantic slave trade and non-free labour in the Americas. The relative wealth of documents in Western languages has presumably contributed to give the historiography of slavery a Western centre of gravity, coupled with the fact that the early modern Americas were restructured into settlement colonies. This made slavery a motor of socio-economic change in a more pronounced way than in Asian societies. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that the handling of slaves in an Asiatic context has been less thoroughly treated in the extant academic literature. It seems that aspects of Asian slavery have not fit well into the preconceptions of Asianists, or have at least been relegated to the margins of social history.

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Chann, Naindeep Singh. "Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction: Origins of the Sāhib-Qirān." Iran and the Caucasus 13, no. 1 (2009): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/160984909x12476379007927.

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AbstractThis paper seeks to look at the origins, employment, and claims associated with the title sāhib-qirān. Occurring throughout the mediaeval to modern period, with special prominence during the early modern, the title underwent various transformations within particular polities and beyond. While any discussion of the sāhib-qirān must give significant place to the life and career of Timur, the title is far older than the Central Asian conqueror. As is shown, roots of the title and its historical background suggest a pre-Islamic Iranian origin, particularly traced in Pahlavi literature.

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Singh, Devendra, Peter Renn, and Adrian Singh. "Did the perils of abdominal obesity affect depiction of feminine beauty in the sixteenth to eighteenth century British literature? Exploring the health and beauty link." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, no. 1611 (2007): 891–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0239.

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‘Good gene’ mate selection theory proposes that all individuals share evolved mental mechanisms that identify specific parts of a woman's body as indicators of fertility and health. Depiction of feminine beauty, across time and culture, should therefore emphasize the physical traits indicative of health and fertility. Abdominal obesity, as measured by waist size, is reliably linked to decreased oestrogen, reduced fecundity and increased risk for major diseases. Systematic searches of British literature across the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reveal that a narrow waist is consistently described as beautiful. Works in ancient Indian and Chinese literature similarly associate feminine attractiveness with a narrow waist. Even without the benefit of modern medical knowledge, both British and Asian writers knew intuitively the biological link between health and beauty.

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Salukhov, V. V., A. N. Kovalenko, Yu V. Rudakov, V. A. Shelukhin, O. A. Nagibovich, and E. A. Kan. "Contemporary view about the pathogenesis of Hantavirus nephropathy (Literature rewiew)." Nephrology (Saint-Petersburg) 25, no. 4 (2021): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36485/1561-6274-2021-25-4-23-32.

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Hantavirus nephropathy (CVI) is considered to be acute kidney injury (AKI) associated with hantavirus infection (CVI). This infection in the countries of the European and Asian continents causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). However, up to 60% of kidney damage is manifested by pathological changes in urinary sediment without signs of AKI, in connection with which the problems of terminology and diagnosis of kidney damage in HFRS were discussed. A review of the world literature of recent years, devoted to the study of modern data on the pathogenesis of CVI, is presented. The data were revealed that explain the organ specificity of the pathological process in different variants of CVI. The data were revealed that explain the organ specificity of the pathological process in different variants of CVI. The mechanisms related to various aspects of the pathogenesis of hantavirus nephropathy are considered. The factors that alter the functional activity of target cells through the direct action of the virus and the factors mediated by the immune response of the biological host to viral proteins in the form of the action of cytokines ("cytokine storm") causing damage to target organs (indirect factors) are listed. The influence of the hantavirus serotype, genetic factors, and the nature of the immune response of the biological host organism on the severity of renal dysfunction was shown. The concept of "acute damage to podocytes" is disclosed, which explains massive protein uria at the onset of the disease. The molecular and cellular mechanisms of damage to the main compartments of the kidney during hantavirus infection are presented. Disorders of hemostasis and mechanisms of hypercoagulation were demonstrated that underlie glomerular AKI due to acute microvascular syndrome, which is realized in the form of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). The results of experimental data obtained on a laboratory model of infection and in cell culture, histological studies of autopsy material, and nephrobiopsy specimens from patients with hantavirus nephropathy are demonstrated.

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Bańczerowski, Jerzy. "AZJATYCKI PRZEŁOM W POZNAŃSKIEJ NEOFILOLOGII ZE SZCZEGÓLNYM UWZGLĘDNIENIEM SINOLOGII." Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia 19 (December 15, 2019): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/snp.2019.19.02.

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The initial events accompanying the foundation of sinology at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań are called to mind against the background of the Asiatic context. The appearance of east Asian studies at AMU, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean studies, was a necessary academic enterprise serving the intercultural development of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature. In this respect, these studies made this faculty comparable with the corresponding faculties at other universities in Poland. The role of the Institute of Linguistics in this philological breakthrough has been emphasized, and certain personal experiences of the author have been recollected. The proposal concerning the establishment of the Faculty of Asian and African Studiesat AMU has been briefly justified.

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J., Shivanand Manohar, Hrishikesh Solunke, K. Suhruth Reddy, Rajesh Raman, Gurvinder Kalra, and Abhinav Tandon. "Sexual Disorders in Asians." Journal of Psychosexual Health 1, no. 3-4 (2019): 222–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631831819862890.

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The inseparable relationship between mind and body, though known since ages, has been acknowledged in modern medicine only in recent times. There is abundant literature about the effects of various illnesses on different organ systems, but their effect on sexuality has not been emphasized. Research on sexuality has been fore fronted by the West and data, though available, cannot be extrapolated to the Asian population due to marked differences in physical and socio-cultural aspects. The authors have reviewed articles published in Clinical Key, PubMed and Scopus.

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Bailey, Shara E., Jean-Jacques Hublin, and Susan C. Antón. "Rare dental trait provides morphological evidence of archaic introgression in Asian fossil record." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 30 (2019): 14806–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907557116.

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The recently described Denisovan hemimandible from Xiahe, China [F. Chen et al., (2019) Nature 569, 409–412], possesses an unusual dental feature: a 3-rooted lower second molar. A survey of the clinical and bioarchaeological literature demonstrates that the 3-rooted lower molar is rare (less than 3.5% occurrence) in non-Asian Homo sapiens. In contrast, its presence in Asian-derived populations can exceed 40% in China and the New World. It has long been thought that the prevalence of 3-rooted lower molars in Asia is a relatively late acquisition occurring well after the origin and dispersal of H. sapiens. However, the presence of a 3-rooted lower second molar in this 160,000-y-old fossil hominin suggests greater antiquity for the trait. Importantly, it also provides morphological evidence of a strong link between archaic and recent Asian H. sapiens populations. This link provides compelling evidence that modern Asian lineages acquired the 3-rooted lower molar via introgression from Denisovans.

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Houghteling, Sylvia. "Dyeing the Springtime: The Art and Poetry of Fleeting Textile Colors in Medieval and Early Modern South Asia." Religions 11, no. 12 (2020): 627. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11120627.

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This paper explores the metaphorical and material significance of short-lived fabric dyes in medieval and early modern South Asian art, literature, and religious practice. It explores dyers’ manuals, paintings, textiles, and popular and devotional poetry to demonstrate how the existence of ephemeral dyes opened up possibilities for mutability that cannot be found within more stable, mineral pigments, set down on paper in painting. While the relationship between the image and the word in South Asian art is most often mutually enhancing, the relationship between words and color, and particularly between poetry and dye color, operates on a much more slippery basis. In the visual and literary arts of South Asia, dye colors offered textile artists and poets alike a palette of vibrant hues and a way to capture shifts in emotions and modes of devotion that retained a sense of impermanence. More broadly, these fragile, fleeting dye materials reaffirm the importance of tracing the local and regional histories even of objects, like textiles, that circulated globally.

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Yu, Myoungjin, and Sunghyup Sean Hyun. "Development of Modern Racism Scale in Global Airlines: A Study of Asian Female Flight Attendants." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (2021): 2688. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052688.

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Due to the globalization of the airline industry, global airlines are focusing human resource management on diversity strategies and employing flight attendants of various races. Multinational flight attendants have brought many positive results; conversely, discrimination has led to negative phenomena such as racism. Nevertheless, research focusing on global airline racism in tourism studies is unprecedented. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a modern racism scale rating the discrimination perceived by Asian female flight attendants on global airlines. It was developed following Churchill’s eight steps (1979). This study derived measurement items through a literature review, in-depth interviews, first and second expert surveys, and a preliminary survey. These items were developed on a scale through a validity and reliability assessment and were finally confirmed as six dimensions and 24 measurement items. Lastly, research implications were discussed.

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Barros, Amândio Jorge Morais. "The Manila Galleon, Macao and international maritime and commercial relations, 1500–1700." International Journal of Maritime History 29, no. 1 (2017): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0843871416679114.

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Formal and informal trade were key elements in the establishment of global connections. Using data collected from Portuguese and Spanish archives, as well as the secondary literature, this article examines the early modern Southeast Asian Iberian communities of Macao and Manila, their weakness and resilience. Far from the centres of political decision-making they relied on their own resources and abilities to manage maritime connections with China, Japan and Spanish America through the voyages of the ‘Macao Ship’ and the ‘Manila Galleon’. The rarely mentioned intervention of the Macanese traders in the Manila Galleon route constitutes a central part of this research.

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SA WHAE GU. "Chinese Poetry Literature of Modern East Asian Founding Leaders: With a Focus on the Poems of Mao Zedong, Rhee Syngman, and Ho Chi Minh." Review of Korean Cultural Studies ll, no. 25 (2008): 27–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17329/kcbook.2008..25.002.

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Mukherjee, Rila. "Studying the Asian Ocean-Sea." India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 76, no. 3 (2020): 425–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974928420936137.

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This article urges a rethinking of South Asian cosmography to counter our notion of seascapes lying outside notions of sovereignty, territoriality and technologies of control. While seas have emerged as central to economic and political security for most of the worlds’ states, this is seen as a comparatively new phenomenon because South Asia’s territoriality has always been seen as land-based. The emphasis on the modern has resulted in a neglect of South Asia’s rich tradition of maritime expressiveness and generates a ‘maritime blindness’ affecting policy formulation, despite works on seafaring which trace diverse maritime perceptions from Pali and Sanskrit literature, sculptures, coins, paintings and epigraphy. This article claims that waterscapes were not absent in Asian ideas of territoriality, but differentiating between awareness in literary expressions of political selfhood wherein rulers saw the sea as boundary or even space of overlordship, and actual instances of ordering and controlling maritime spaces is important. By contrast, China’s example as keeper of meticulous records pertaining to maritime matters shows attempts at actively controlling maritime spaces and provides new ways of reading South Asian perceptions of the sea.

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Dhanapal, Saroja. "An existentialist reading of K.S. Maniam’s ‘The Return’." Journal of English Language and Literature 2, no. 1 (2014): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v2i1.26.

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According to Peyre (1948:21), the fathers and forefathers of existentialism were mostly Germans, but it was adapted and transformed by the French and was re-exported to the rest of the world. Peyre’s inference reduces the history of existentialism to a nutshell. Existentialism can be defined as an intellectual movement that reflects all aspects of modern life. In literature, this theory acts as a useful approach to analysing literary works in order to make sense of the complexities, contradictions and dilemmas surrounding the characters. The purpose of this research paper is to study the novel of Subramaniam Krishnan, popularly known as K. S. Maniam, an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist, from an existentialist perspective. His novels deal with the lives and problems of the post-colonial Indian Diaspora in Malaysia. In 2000, he received the Raja Rao Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature of the South Asian Diaspora. His first novel ‘The Return’ is an autobiographical novel which deals with cultural struggle and cultural identity. This novel will be analysed from an existential perspective.

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DiPietro, Stephanie M., and Robert J. Bursik. "Studies of the New Immigration." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 641, no. 1 (2012): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716211431687.

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After a prolonged period during which studies of immigration and crime virtually disappeared from the literature, the topic has reemerged as a central theme of contemporary criminology. However, unlike the classic immigration studies that appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, most modern studies combine the various countries of origin into broad pan-ethnic groupings (such as Hispanic/Latino or Asian) that implicitly assume that criminological dynamics are relatively homogeneous within these aggregations despite the important social, cultural, and historical differences that are subsumed. This article utilizes data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study to illustrate the systematic within-category variation that such approaches can mask.

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Raeside, I. M. P. "Hermann Berger (ed.): Mythology in modern Indian literature. (South Asian Digest of Regional Writing, Vol. 12.) vi, 102 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. DM38." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57, no. 2 (1994): 466. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00025957.

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Rai, Alka. "Digital Divide." International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence 10, no. 1 (2019): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2019010101.

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Technological advancement and rapid expansion of internet services have resulted in making people digitally literate. This paper attempts to take an in-depth look at the data of internet users in South Asia with a precise focus on gender perspective. South Asian communities enjoy relishing modern technologies with traditional socio-cultural practices; in some sections, women still do not get equal status and rarely participate in the decision-making processes even at the household level. Therefore, it would be noteworthy to identify whether technological expansion has helped in minimising the existing gender gap in the region or it has worked adversely! This paper is based on the secondary data and relevant literature available in the public domain. Data of the five South Asian countries—Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka—have been analyzed here. The paper has reflected the existing scenario and emerging trends in the current digital world..

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Lal Gupta, Dr Bajrangi. "Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant: A Saga of Marital Disharmony." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 9 (2020): 30–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i9.10751.

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Manju Kapur’s fourth novel The Immigrant was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the DSC prize for South Asian Literature. It was subtitled by Kapur as ‘a truly compelling portrait of an arranged marriage’ in which she explores the depths of an Indian woman’s mind struggling in search for her own happiness in a foreign country. The novel also deals with the problems of woman aspiring for higher life in general. It is a mesmerizing saga about the complexities of marriage and NRI life by Kapur. The paper is an attempt to show the loneliness, suffocation and longing of a modern woman in an arranged marriage in the context to Indian society.

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Samuel, Yoshiko Yokochi. "Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction. By Paul Anderer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. (Modern Asian Literature Series.) xi, 152 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50." Journal of Asian Studies 45, no. 2 (1986): 394–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2055867.

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Moussouttas, Michael, and Igor Rybinnik. "A critical appraisal of bypass surgery in moyamoya disease." Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders 13 (January 2020): 175628642092109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1756286420921092.

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Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a complex cerebrovascular disorder about which little is known. Conventionally, revascularization surgery is recommended for patients, despite an absence of conclusive data from adequate clinical trials. Underscoring the uncertainty that exists in treating MMD patients, investigators continue to present data comparing revascularization with conservative or medical management, most of which originates from East Asia where MMD is most prevalent. The purpose of this manuscript is to review contemporary large case series, randomized trials, and recent meta-analyses that compare surgical and medical treatments in adult patients with MMD, and to critically analyze the modern literature in the context of current practice standards. Data from the available literature is limited, but revascularization seems superior to conservative therapy in adult patients presenting with hemorrhage, and in preventing future hemorrhages. Conversely, evidence that surgery is superior to medical therapy is not convincing in adult patients presenting with cerebral ischemia, or for the prevention of future ischemic events. In contrast to East Asian populations, MMD in Europe and in the Americas is predominantly an ischemic disease that presents in adulthood. Adequate multinational trials are warranted.

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Andrade, Tonio. "An Accelerating Divergence? The Revisionist Model of World History and the Question of Eurasian Military Parity: Data from East Asia." Canadian Journal of Sociology 36, no. 2 (2010): 185–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs8873.

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Over the past few years, this journal has hosted a debate central to world history and historical sociology: Joseph M. Bryant’s bold assault on the revisionist model of global history and the revisionists’ equally trenchant defense. A key point of disagreement concerns Europeans' relative military advantages vis-a-vis Asians. Both sides cite literature from historians’ Military Revolution Model, but each takes different lessons from that literature. The revisionists see a slight military imbalance in favor of Europe but deny that it reflects a general European technological lead. Bryant believes that the European technological lead is significant and reflects a more general modernizing trend. This article tries to resolve the disagreement by appealing to data from East Asia. First, it argues that recent work in Asian history points to what we can call a Chinese Military Revolution, which compels us to place the European Military Revolution in a larger, Eurasian context: not just western European but also East Asian societies were undergoing rapid military change and modernization during the gunpowder age. Second, it adduces evidence from a new study of the Sino-Dutch War of 1661-1668 (a war that both Bryant and the revisionists cite, each, again, taking divergent lessons) to come to a more precise evaluation of the military balance between China and western Europe in the early modern period: western cannons and muskets didn’t provide a discernible advantage, but western war ships and renaissance forts did. The article concludes that the revisionists are correct in their belief that Asian societies were undergoing rapid changes in military technology and practices along the lines of those taking place in western Europe and that the standard model Bryant defends is incorrect because it presumes that Asian societies are more stagnant than is warranted by the evidence. At the same time, the article argues that counter-revisionists like Bryant are correct in their belief that military modernization was proceeding more quickly in Europe than that in Asia, which may indicate that the counter-revisionists are correct on a basic point: there was an early divergence between the west and the rest of Eurasia. At first this divergence was slight – so slight, indeed, that it probably left little clear evidence in the noisy and poor early modern data we have available. But the divergence increased over time. Thus, we can speak of a small but accelerating divergence.

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Heiske, Margit, Omar Alva, Veronica Pereda-Loth, et al. "Genetic evidence and historical theories of the Asian and African origins of the present Malagasy population." Human Molecular Genetics 30, R1 (2021): R72—R78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab018.

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Abstract The origin of the Malagasy population has been a subject of speculation since the 16th century. Contributions of African, Asian, Indian, Melanesian, Arabic and Persian populations have been suggested based on physical and cultural anthropology, oral tradition, linguistics and later also by archaeology. In the mid-20th century, increased knowledge of heredity rules and technical progress enabled the identification of African and Asian populations as main contributors. Recent access to the genomic landscape of Madagascar demonstrated pronounced regional variability in the relative contributions of these two ancestries, yet with significant presence of both African and Asian components throughout Madagascar. This article reviews the extent to which genetic results have settled historical questions concerning the origin of the Malagasy population. After an overview of the early literature, the genetic results of the 20th and 21th centuries are discussed and then complemented by the latest results in genome-wide analyses. While there is still much uncertainty regarding when, how and the circumstances under which the ancestors of the modern Malagasy population arrived on the island, we propose a scenario based on historical texts and genomic results.

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Mehta, Kedar, Mathias Ehrenwirth, Christoph Trinkl, Wilfried Zörner, and Rick Greenough. "The Energy Situation in Central Asia: A Comprehensive Energy Review Focusing on Rural Areas." Energies 14, no. 10 (2021): 2805. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14102805.

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The northern part of the globe is dominated by industrialisation and is well-developed. For many years, the southern part of the world (South Asia, Africa etc.) has been a target of research concentrating on access to energy (mainly electricity) in rural regions. However, the Central Asian region has not been a focus of energy research compared to South East Asia and Africa. Despite plentiful domestically available energy resources, the energy supply in Central Asia is very unevenly distributed between urban and rural areas. Almost half of the total population of Central Asia lives in rural areas and there is a lack of access to modern energy services to meet primary needs. To analyse the energy situation (i.e., electricity, heating, hot water consumption, cooking, etc.) in rural Central Asia, this paper reviews residential energy consumption trends in rural Central Asian regions as compared to urban areas. Furthermore, the paper illustrates the potential of renewable energies in Central Asia. To perform the study, a qualitative comparative analysis was conducted based on a literature review, data, and statistical information. In summary, the presented article discusses the rural energy situation analytically and provides in-depth insights of Central Asian energy infrastructure.

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Manthey, Abby Leigh, Kin Chiu, and Kwok-Fai So. "Demystifying traditional Chinese medicines: Lycium barbarum as a model therapeutic." Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine 01, no. 01 (2018): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2575900018300011.

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The practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) focuses on holistic treatment of the body. This often includes preparation and application of medicinal herbs, either alone or in combination with other supplements. Lycium barbarum (LB), for example, is a commonly used herbal supplement in many Asian countries, being most well-known for improving kidney, liver, and eye health. It is also one of the most widely scientifically researched TCMs and a large body of literature is available describing its effects on various tissues and organ systems. In this perspective, we briefly expand upon how LB can be used as a model TCM in the systematic study of other herbal medicines, highlighting two of the primary barriers to their use in modern medicine worldwide.

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McClellan, Daniel. "Cognitive Perspectives on Early Christology." Biblical Interpretation 25, no. 4-5 (2017): 647–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-02545p11.

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Central to all christological models are concepts of agency, identity, and divinity, but few scholars have directly addressed these frameworks within their ancient West Asian contexts. Rather, the proclivity has been to retroject modern, Eurocentric, and binary frameworks onto the ancient texts, resulting in christological models that inevitably reflect modern orthodoxies and ontological categories. The future of christological research will depend on moving beyond this tendentiousness. In an effort to begin this process, this paper will apply findings from the cognitive sciences – which examine the way the human brain structures its perception of the world around it – to the reconstruction of ancient frameworks of agency, identity, and divinity. Applying these findings to early Jewish literature reveals the intuitive conceptualization of God’s agency, reified as the divine name, as a communicable vehicle of divine presence and authority. These observations support the conclusion that early Jewish conceptualizations of divine agency provided a conceptual template for the development of early christology.

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Kumarasinghe, Sriyalatha, and Grant Samkin. "Impression management and ancient Ceylonese rulers." Accounting History 25, no. 1 (2018): 5–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373218802892.

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This study investigated how the Ceylonese kings, who ruled the South Asian island nation until the start of colonial occupation in the late sixteenth century, used stone inscriptions as impression management techniques to present a favourable impression of themselves to their subjects. The sample comprises 383 stone inscriptions. The findings of this article suggest that the impression management strategies used by Ceylonese kings to communicate with their subjects are consistent with those used by more modern charismatic leaders. However, the way strategies were implemented differed. This study contributes to the literature on the motivations and impression management techniques used by charismatic leaders and it adds to the limited knowledge on ancient Sri Lanka. Examining how charismatic leaders in the form of Ceylonese kings used inscriptions may provide insights into how modern-day chief executive officers or partners of major accounting practices use narrative components of annual reports and other forms of corporate communications to portray their leadership.

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Seung-Woong, Ahn. "Background of Prosperous Wuxia Literature in Shanghai during 1920s-30s : Humanities and Cultural Network of Northeast Asian Waters and Popular Culture of Shanghai during Modern Times (1)." Chinese Studies 68 (September 30, 2019): 315–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14378/kacs.2019.68.68.19.

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Kragh, Ulrich Timme. "Chronotopic Narratives of Seven Gurus and Eleven Texts: A Medieval Buddhist Community of Female Tāntrikas in the Swat Valley of Pakistan." Cracow Indological Studies 20, no. 2 (2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.20.2018.02.02.

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Modern South Asian women’s writing wells up to the stirring surface of contemporary literature in now globally recognizable forms of fiction and memoir, inter alia, the novel, the poem, the biography, the autobiography. Yet, beneath these topmost layers of colonial and post-colonial literary tides flow undercurrents of precolonial women’s writing, often in radically other figurations of lettered expression. Even further down than the familiar temporal strata of the Vaiṣṇavite and Śaivite religious poetry written by the dozen authoresses ranging from Muktābāi to Rūpa Bhavānī between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, there exists another place in the deep, like an underwater lake, of a much older women’s writing penned by Tantric women gurus. The majority of this archaic Buddhist literature streamed out of the Swat valley in Pakistan, a locality for no less than seven known female gurus, who lived, taught, or wrote there between the eighth and eleventh centuries. After a short prologue on Swat and its recent history, the essay surveys eleven female-authored medieval Tantric works, which range in genre from ritual treatises, meditation practice-texts, and mystic poems, to literary forms that even seem evocative of contemporary women’s gendered voices: spiritual biography and autobiography empowered by a place.

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RAY, SOHINI. "Boundaries Blurred? Folklore, Mythology, History and the Quest for an Alternative Genealogy in North-east India." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 25, no. 2 (2014): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186314000510.

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AbstractThis paper analyses the use of religious folklore among the Meitei people of Manipur in northeastern India in the creation of a racial identity. After the Meiteis, who are ethnically Southeast Asian, were forced to convert to Hinduism in the early eighteenth century by the Manipuri king Garibniwaz, they were provided with a number of folklores regarding their origin that combined Hindu and indigenous Meitei deities and myths. Recently, the rise of anti-Hindu sentiment in Manipur—spurred by a movement to revive the indigenous Meitei religion and a strained political relationship with India—has led to the questioning of the validity of these stories by Meitei academics. As a result a new cannon of literature is being developed by scholars that link the origin of the community to its Southeast Asian roots. Discovering the racial identity of the Meitei people has motived this movement. This paper analyzes the multiple meanings that mythologies concerning origin hold in contemporary Meitei society and challenges the modern notion that historical consciousness is absolute truth.

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Wing-Yu Tam, Hugo. "「是」字句和「是……的」句的教學語法: 以九套國際學校中文教材為例". Global Chinese 7, № 2 (2021): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2021-2007.

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Abstract Due to the economic growth in East and Southeast Asia, the global interest in teaching and learning Asian languages has been continually increasing in the past two decades. More and more international schools are offering Asian languages as elective second/foreign languages to adolescent learners, such as Arabic, modern Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), Japanese, and Malay. Since 2008, the most common grammatical mistake, shi (literally to be) had been highlighted by the Cambridge Assessment every single year in the IGCSE Mandarin (0547) examiner reports. This paper reviews the literature of the functions and the error patterns of copula verb shi and “shi…de” construction, then investigates how the textbooks describe the grammatical usages and sequence the different functions of shi for young learners. Based on the qualitative research findings, this study proposes suggestions for improving the description of grammar items in Mandarin textbooks, and illustrates the classroom activities and teaching strategies for parts of speech in the international school context. This research has implications for second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, and teacher education for IGCSE Mandarin.

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Inchingolo, Francesco, Luigi Santacroce, Andrea Ballini, et al. "Oral Cancer: A Historical Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 9 (2020): 3168. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093168.

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Aim: This historical medical literature review aims at understanding the evolution of the medical existence of oral cancer over times, particularly better comprehending if the apparent lower prevalence of this type of cancer in antiquity is a real value due to the absence of modern environmental and lifestyle factors or it is linked to a misinterpretation of ancient foreign terms found in ancient medical texts regarding oral neoplasms. Methods: The databases MedLne, PubMed, Web of Science, Elsevier’s EMBASE.com, Cochrane Review, National Library of Greece (Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens) and the Library of the School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) were extensively searched for relevant studies published during the past century on the history of oral cancer and its treatment from antiquity to modern times, in addition to the WHO website to analyse the latest epidemiological data. In addition, we included historical books on the topic of interest and original sources. Results: Historical references reveal that the cradle of the oral oncology was in ancient Egypt, the Asian continent and Greece and cancer management was confined to an approximate surgical practice, in order to remove abnormal masses and avoid bleeding with cauterization. In the Medieval Age, little progress occurred in medicine in general, oral cancers management included. It is only from the Renaissance to modern times that knowledge about its pathophysiological mechanisms and histopathology and its surgical and pharmacological treatment approaches became increasingly deep all over the world, evolving to the actual integrated treatment. Despite the abundant literature exploring oncology in past civilizations, the real prevalence of oral cancer in antiquity is much less known; but a literature analysis cannot exclude a consistent prevalence of this cancer in past populations, probably with a likely lower incidence than today, because many descriptions of its aggressiveness were found in ancient medical texts, but it is still difficult to be sure that each single description of oral masses could be associated to cancer, particularly for what concerns the period before the Middle Ages. Conclusions: Modern oncologists and oral surgeons must learn a lot from their historic counterparts in order to avoid past unsuccessful efforts to treatment oral malignancies. Several descriptions of oral cancers in the antiquity that we found let us think that this disease might be linked to mechanisms not strictly dependent on environmental risk factors, and this might guide future research on oral cavity treatments towards strategical cellular and molecular techniques.

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Daniels, Peter T. "The Native Syriac Linguistic Tradition." Historiographia Linguistica 39, no. 2-3 (2012): 327–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.39.2-3.07dan.

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Summary The native Syriac linguistic tradition comprises annotations to the biblical text (‘masorah’), lexica, and grammars created between the 6th and 13th centuries; 24 Syriac scholars are known by name. Syriac grammarians have been considered to be mere imitators, of both Greek and Arab grammarians, but this is a severe exaggeration; they were, however, the source of much that is found among the Arabs. The first, Jacob of Edessa (640–708 A.D.), and the last, Gregory Bar Hebraeus (1225/26–1286), have received the most attention. Much needs to be done, both in publishing and evaluating Syriac linguistic work, and in recognizing its importance in cross-connecting the West Asian civilizations and in foreshadowing modern approaches to language. This article provides a guide and key to the literature.

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Veevers, David. "‘Inhabitants of the universe’: global families, kinship networks, and the formation of the early modern colonial state in Asia." Journal of Global History 10, no. 1 (2015): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022814000370.

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AbstractNew research on the early modern colonial state in Asia has emphasized the agency of actors and their networks in a process of state formation, while the rise of global history has similarly highlighted the importance of global connections in forming sites of empire. This article seeks to contribute to this growing literature. It does so by revealing that the families of English East India Company servants, following their counterparts in other European East India companies in Asia, underwent a global transition in which they established Asian-wide networks of kinship, transcending the local and regional spaces in which they had previously operated. Through their increasing ability to operate across the social, cultural, economic, and political borders of Asia, Company kinship networks facilitated the formation of a politically amorphous colonial state. Furthermore, while previous scholarship has confined colonial state formation to the later eighteenth century, this article challenges the historiography by relocating this process to the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Bruckmayr, Philipp. "The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 4 (2016): 115–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i4.939.

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The volume at hand brings together recent advances in and new avenues forthe study of both Ithna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism in South Asia. As FrancisRobinson notes in his introduction, the region’s roughly 60 million Shi‘aswere grossly neglected in scholarship until the mid-1980s. Since then, andparticularly from the turn of the twenty-first century onward, the situation haschanged significantly. Indeed, some of the most interesting and promising recentstudies of various historical and contemporary aspects of Shi‘ism in generalhave focused on those very communities. Justin Jones, one of the spearheadsof this development, has acted as co-editor of this important collectionof eight thematically highly diverse essays.After Robinson’s overview of the field’s existing literature and the volume’scontents, Sajjad Rizvi tackles a major desideratum in the study of IndianShi‘i scholarly history by closely examining the life and works of Sayyid DildarAli Nasirabadi (d. 1820). A major scholar of his day, as well as the founderof a scholarly dynasty and an instrumental figure in establishing the Usuli traditionin the Shi‘i state of Awadh, his figure and works have, surprisingly, onlyreceived attention in the context of Dildar Alis’s polemics against Shah Abdal-Aziz of Delhi (d. 1823) and his critique of Shi‘ism. Reviewing Ali’s severelycontested but lastingly influential intellectual attack on Akhbarism, Sufism,Sunnism, and philosophy, all expressed in the context of rising Shi‘ipower in late eighteenth-century Awadh, Rizvi aptly highlights the importanceof seriously considering major developments in the late pre-colonial periodin order to more fully understand the actual and supposed transformations thatSouth Asian Shi‘ism underwent during and beyond colonial rule. Needless tosay, this also holds true for the study of other Muslim communities of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries ...

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