In the article the author examines the problems connected with the long drown-out war in Afghanistan. It’s nearly ten years as USA militaries and its NATO allies try to defeat the Islamic opposition. The official aim of ...

Electoral system at the local level is inextricably linked to contemporary political and social processes in Taiwan. At the same time, the phenomenon of «KMT’s local factions» has a direct impact on the development of ...

By the investigation of Chinese run in the six middle and primary schools of Novosibirsk, Russia, including text books, class hours, numbers of students, teachers, etc., this paper explores two types of classes of Chinese ...

Japanese art of making and appreciating incense кo:do:(«way of incense») is considered in the context of the Japanese tea ceremony and the Japanese art of flower arrangement, which constitute the «three major arts of Japan». ...

The article is devoted to factors of influence Russian composer heritage, in particular A. N. Scriabin’s compositions, on becoming a piano-music by Japanese composers. It is proposed division into periods process creating ...

The article considers several aspects of formation of Russian orientalists – Japan and China specialists – during prerevolutionary period. The peculiarity of Russian-Chinese relationship lied in the absence of «war precedent»: ...

Archimandrite P. I. Kamenskiy as a head of Russian orthodox mission in Beijing tried to propagate orthodox religious doctrine as well as to understand Confucianism philosophy. He thought about prospects of harmonized ...

The most serious mistakes made by Chinese learners from different background of mother tongues are vocabulary ones, esp. the misuse of synonyms and homoionyms. This paper aims at the analysis of the causes of the vocabulary ...

In the article quiet specific type of Tibetan’s burials in stone coffins (mostly made from stone slabs) is described. It supposed to be brought to Tibet by ancient Qiangs on their way to the south from Gansu-Qinghai region.