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Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
John A. Rapp, Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China. Contemporary Anarchist Studies series; New York and London: Continuum Books, 2012; 303pp; ISBN 978-1-4411-7880-0. Daoism and Anarchism is both timely and topical. The book came out just at a time when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), simultaneously...
Thomas Jansen17 Sep 2016Leave a comment
10th Conference on Asian Studies: Connecting the Old with the New
10th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Connecting the Old with the New Organizers: Department of Asian Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic Conference date: November 4, 2016 Conference venue: Palacký University Olomouc, Křížkovského 14, Czech Republic Conference language: English Call for papers can be downloaded...
Martin Lavicka15 Jul 2016Leave a comment
Summer School 2016: Photo Gallery
Bellow please find pictures taken during the 2016 International summer school, titled: Contested geographies: old and new connections between the Middle Kingdom and its neighbours. This summer school was organized by the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc and held between June 6 and 11, 2016. More pictures can be seen on...
Martin Lavicka21 Jun 2016Leave a comment
Chinese Character Learning Strategies
Chinese Character Learning Strategies Written by Michaela Zahradníková (Palacký University Olomouc) Annotation:Chinese characters are generally seen as the most difficult task in learning Chinese as a foreign language. This study focuses on learning strategies applied by beginning learners, namely memorization strategies and metacognitive...
Martin Lavicka01 Jun 2016Leave a comment
Experiencing Taiwan in Taiwanese Nature-Oriented Literature by Pavlína Krámská
Experiencing Taiwan in Taiwanese Nature-Oriented Literature Written by Pavlína Krámská (Charles University Prague) Annotation: The notion of the local, much discussed by the Nativist literary movement in the 1970s, has got another much broader meaning in the environmental literature since the 1980s. It has incorporated the wilderness...
Martin Lavicka03 May 2016Leave a comment
“Lamaism, the living anachronism” – Depiction of Tibetan Buddhism in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s
“Lamaism, the living anachronism” – Depiction of Tibetan Buddhism in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s1 Written by Martin Slobodník (Comenius University in Bratislava) Annotation: The paper discusses the depiction of Tibetan Buddhism in a number of travelogues written by Czech and Slovak authors (usually writers and journalists...
Martin Lavicka25 Apr 2016Leave a comment
Contested geographies: old and new connections between the Middle Kingdom and its neighbours
International Summer School: Date: June 6 – 11, 2016 Venue: Křížkovského 14, Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Organizers: Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tuition fee: free of charge Registration deadline: May 22,...
Martin Lavicka12 Apr 2016Leave a comment
Religion in China and its Modern Fate
Paul R. Katz. Religion in China and Its Modern Fate: The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press/ Historical Society of Israel, 2014. 264 pp. 10 illus., 2 maps, 2 tables. $40.00 (pb). ISBN: 978-1-61168-543-5. Written by Joachim Gentz Academic books come in different genres to satisfy the great variety of...
Thomas Jansen28 Jan 2016Leave a comment
Building of “New China’s Astronomy” by Václav Laifr
Building of “New China’s Astronomy” and the Establishment of New Historiography of Traditional Astronomy in the 1950s and 1960s: An insight from the oral history sources written by Václav Laifr (Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Centre, Charles University in Prague) Annotation: The period of seventeen years before the Cultural...
Martin Lavicka25 Jan 2016Leave a comment
Shanghai Stank: Night Soil Business in Modern Shanghai by Chieko Nakajima
Shanghai Stank: Night Soil Business in Modern Shanghai written by Chieko Nakajima (Assumption College, Worcester) Annotation: This study examines changes in human waste disposal management in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Shanghai. Human waste was a significant commodity that connected the city with the countryside; its use...
Martin Lavicka14 Jan 2016Leave a comment
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17 Sep 2016
Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
John A. Rapp, Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and...
15 Jul 2016
10th Conference on Asian Studies: Connecting the Old with the New
10th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Connecting the Old with the...
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25 May 2015 / Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
I just want to echo Gary's comments and to alert to readers who may be interested in Routl...
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23 May 2016 / Norbert Francis
Yes, this was an interesting study by Chang and Lu of bilingualism and perceptions of the ...