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Series 13

ASIAN STUDIES. AFRICAN STUDIES.

Issue 3, 2014

�	Contents	Page
LINGUISTICS
1	Nomenclature as a part of chinese scientific lexicon (on the evidence of terminology in linguistics and literary critics) Sun Shufang, Shelov S. D.	5-16
HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES
2	The poetic trilogy about mamluk sultans Iliushina M. Yu.	17-25
3	Manuscripts on literature and folklore from A. K. Kazem-Beck�s collection Mokrushina A. A.	26-34
4	Caucasian studies at Saint-Petersburg University: department�s inception and its teachers (Part 1) Kharatishvili G. S.	35-46
5	Medieval arabic sources on the Malay world Yankovskaya A. A.	47-53
6	Manuscripts on linguistics from the collection of oriental manuscripts of A. K. Kazem-Beck Hana Yafi a Yusif Jamil.	54-72
LITERARY STUDIES
7	�Sheikh Umar� by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa within the context of Hausa religious literature Lyakhovich A. V.	73-80
8	Technical aspects of the songs-sermons of Mira?Bai: an approach to the study Tcvetkova S. O.	81-89
9	Line syntax in 4th�8th centuries jewish liturgical poetry in Aramaic Tsolin D. V.	90-111
GEOCULTURAL SPACES AND CODES OF THE CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA
10	The role of informal relations (guanxi) in the social life of mainland China after 1949: historiography of the question Veselova L. S.	112-122
11	Hypnosis in jesuit missionary activities in 17th century Vietnam (Part 3) Kolotov V. N.	123-136
FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ECONOMY OF ASIA AND AFRICA
12	Conception of the history of Japan�s foreign policy 1945�2003 in the works of Togo Kazuhiko Malashevskaya M. N.	137-147
CHRONICLE OF SCIENTIFIC LIFE
13	Science and education in modern Sudan (on St. Petersburg University scholars expedition. January�February 2014) Gerasimov I. V., Dyakov N. N.	148-151
14	St. Petersburg linguistic expedition to Nigeria Zheltov A. Yu.	152-154
15	Report on the expedition to Guinea (February 3, 2014 � March 3, 2014) Zavyalova O. Yu.	155-156