Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета

Series 13
ASIAN STUDIES. AFRICAN STUDIES

Issue 4, 2014

№	Contents	Page
RUSSIA AND THE EAST
1	High-level Russia-Japan negotiations in 1997–1998: new tendencies in development of bilateral relations Malashevskaya M. N.	5-14
2	Evolution of Chinese studies in Russia in the middle — second half of the 19th century Petukhova N. V.	15-22
LINGUISTICS
3	Particles as a Means of Expressing Modality in Chinese Simatova S. A.	23-36
4	Parts of speech in the explanatory Manchu-Mongolian dictionary of 1717 Enkhbat Munkhtsetseg	37-43
HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES
5	“Ash-Shafiya fi-t-tasrif ” by Ibn al-Hadjib with hierarchic system of the commentaries in Daghestan Hadjieva D. Kh.†	44-55
6	Problems of digitizing and cataloging arabic manuscripts Redkin O. I., Bernikova O. A.	56-64
7	Caucasian studies in Saint-Petersburg University: history and teachers (part 2) Kharatishvili G. S.	65-74
LITERARY STUDIES
8	Folklore motives in the Chi Zijian novel The Right Bank of the Argun river Voytishek E. E., Bochkareva D. S.	75-83
9	The flicker effect in the novel of Khusraw Babakhani “Mermaid” Zavyalova E. E.	84-88
10	Tradition of anti-utopia in Gao Xingjian’s play “The Other Shore” Kuznetsova J. A.	89-99
11	Eileen Chang’s novels: the image of the Chinese new woman in the middle of the 20th century Kupriyanova Yu. A.	100-107
12	Fraudulent Marriage in the Medieval Arabic Maqama Teptyuk P. S.	108-112
GEOCULTURAL SPACES AND CODES OF THE CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA
13	Philosophical and aesthetic comprehension of new-year picture “Yi tuan he qi” of Taohuawu regional center Lemeshko Ju. V.	113-120
FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
14	India as the key factor in China-Butan and China-Sikkim relations (1949–1962) Nikolaev P. P.	121-127
CHRONICLE OF SCIENTIFIC LIFE
15	Arabic and Islamic studies in contemporary Europe. On the XXVIIth Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI 27) Dyakov N. N.	128-130
IN MEMORIAM
16	Commemorating the 100^th Anniversary of E. M. Pinus (1914–1984) Birth Rybin V. V.	131-133