Series 13
ASIAN STUDIES. AFRICAN STUDIES

Issue 2, 2015

Chinese perspectives on world history (Refl ections in connection with publication of the book: Gotelind Muller. Documentary, World History, and National Power in PRC: Global Rise in Chinese Eyes. Routledge, 2013. 264 p.)
Samoylov N. A.
Contents Page
LINGUISTICS
1 Personal-demonstrative pronouns in Bengali as units of secondary nomination (evidence from the story “One day, some day” by A. Bisbas)
Kostina E. A.
5-16
2 Morphology and syntax of postpositions in Guro (preliminary remarks)
Kuznetsova N. V.
17-35
3 Noun classes in numerals: the case of Niger-Congo languages
Pozdniakov K. I.
36-58
4 The role of the Bobangi language in the development of Lingala
Toporova I. N.
59-72
HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES
5 Debating the Path of China’s Development in the Early 1930s: from “Westernization” to “Modernization”
Borokh O. N.
73-86
6 Copies of manuscript of Kitab al-amthal as-saira from the Library of Faculty of Asian and African Studies and from the Manuscript Department of Berlin State Library
Yafi a Jousif Jamil
87-94
LITERARY STUDIES
7 Dialogic connection of modern drama with classic turkish literature (on the material of the mesnevi Beauty and Love)
Prushkovskaya I. V
95-102
8 Elements of the absurd poetics in the works of Chinese poets of the “New Period”
Tugulova O. D.
103-112
GEOCULTURAL SPACES AND CODES OF THE CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA
9 Touhu: contents, attributes, main historical periods (regarding the study of the contents of “Li ji” Confucian treatise)
Keidun I. B.
113-120
10 Everyday life of Pashtuns in the 17th — the beginning of the 18th centuries: food, dwelling, home activities (based on The Khataks Chronicle) (part II)
Pelevin M. S.
121-128
REVIEWS
11 Review of the history of collection and study of Arabic manuscripts in St. Petersburg
Mokrushina A. A.
129-135
12 136-140
CHRONICLE OF SCIENTIFIC LIFE
13 Interethnic relations in modern Rwanda: ethnic value systems and world perception (observations by the St. Petersburg expedition to Rwanda of 2015)
Zavyalova O. Yu.
141-143