VESTNIK OF SAINT PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY
ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES

Volume 9. Issue 4. 2017

Contents Pages
HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES
1 Urban uprisings in Southern Mesopotamia (24th–18th century B.C.)
Kozyreva N. V.
344-364
2 Cuneiform archives from Dur-Enlille: New evidence on the family of sandabakku of Kassite Nippur?
Redina-Thomas M. A.
365-376
3 Traditional Chinese illustrations to The Book of Historical Documents
Stezhenskaya L. V.
377-383
4 Some notes on the Limbu people done by British diplomats and scholars in the 19th century
Streltcova L. A.
384-396
LITERARY STUDIES
5 Modern Arabic fiction: A study of the Iraqi writer Lutfiya al-Dulaymi
Mokrushina А. А.
397-402
FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
6 The confrontation of modernist and conservative elite groups in the ruling elite of an independent Burma/Myanmar
Brodyak D. A.
403-415
7 African social networks in China: A comparative study of communities in Guangzhou and Yiwu
Ying Yang
416-428
RUSSIA AND ASIA
8 Lu Xun’s translation of “Dead Souls” (first volume, translated from German to Chinese): Study of an unpublished manuscript
Ge Tao
429-439
9 Islam and its impact on the development of the state in Libya: The valuable experience of Soviet historiography
Lukyanov G. V.
440-456
10 The Image of the Soviet Union and Russia in Chinese history textbooks of the 2000s (in the perspective of development of Chinese historiography)
Rysakova P. I.
457-468
11 Russian diplomat G. A. Planson in Chinese fiction and Academic literature
Kharitonova A. M.
469-476