Series 13
ASIAN STUDIES. AFRICAN STUDIES

Issue 1, 2015

Contents Page
RUSSIA AND THE EAST
1 N. Ya. Bichurin and his “Drevnyaya kitayskaya istoriya” (“Ancient Chinese History”)
Mayorov V. M., Stezhenskaya L. V.
5-11
LINGUISTICS
2 About the stages of development of the attributive substantive structures in the language of the Ancient Turkic runic inscriptions (in comparison with the modern Turkish language)
Dubrovina M. E.
12-21
3 The metaphorical and metonymical inner-form models of phraseological units: a case study of russian idioms and chinese chengyu
Chu Tzuсhien
22-29
HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES
4 Lisan ad-Din Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374) in the History and Historiography of the Arab West
Dyakov N. N.
30-42
5 Copies of the Kitab as-Sadih wa l-Bagim manuscript by Ibn al-Habbariya in the collections of the FAAS Library and the State Library of Berlin
Mokrushina A. A.
43-54
6 Crimean court registers (sidjils) of the 17th–18th centuries: genre structure of hukm, a legal document
Rustemov O. D.
55-62
LITERARY STUDIES
7 Babylonian poem about Erra, the god of disaster: the problem of dating and identifying historical background
Vavilina D. A.
63-72
8 Some features of the development of the English-language literature in Nigeria (1952–1991)
Lyakhovich A. V.
73-80
9 Short short stories in the creative activity of contemporary Japanese writers Akagawa Jiro and Atoda Takashi
Khronopulo L. Yu.
81-90
GEOCULTURAL SPACES AND CODES OF THE CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA
10 Modernization and tradition in the cultural perspective of modern Tunisia
Korovkina A. Yu.
91-97
11 Everyday life of Pashtuns in the 17th — early 18th century: food, dwelling, home activities (based on The Khataks Chronicle) (Part I)
Pelevin M. S.
98-105
12 The goddess Gula in the Kassite glyptic: correlations between text and image
Sologubova M. V.
106-114
FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
13 Chinese-Australian trade and economic relations in the Later Qing Dynasty (1861–1911)
Shi Yilin
115-125
CHRONICLE OF SCIENTIFIC LIFE
14 Participation of teachers and students of the Department of the Ancient East (St. Petersburg State University) in excavation of the monuments of ancient Urartu (Armenia)
Nemirovskaya A. V.
126-128