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  Sinology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Age of Enlightenment, sinologists started to introduce Chinese philosophy, ethics, legal system, and aesthetics into the West.
At that time, sinologists often described China as an enlightened kingdom, comparing it to Europe, which had just emerged from the Dark Ages.
Abel-Rémusat's counterpart in England and Germany were Samuel Kidd (1797–1843) and Wilhelm Schott (1807-1889) respectively, though the first important secular sinologists in these two countries were James Legge and Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinologists   (448 words)

  
 Women-Related Email Lists about Sexuality or Sexual Orientation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some of the list's current concerns are the politics of Internet research; communicating with individuals in related fields; mentoring among women, people of color, and queers in the Internet research areas; developing bibliographies and syllabi; and academic hiring and promotion practices.
List members may propose books to be read for group discussion, or simply post comments about whatever they are currently reading.
HUES is a list "for dykes/lesbians/queer/gay women of color who live our lives as the fabulously fierce Femmes we are." The list is part of the Hir_She community.
www-unix.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/f_sex.html   (5186 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on HACKED BY TURK-SOPHİA
List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly (en)
List of signatories to the death warrant of Charles I (en)
List of signatories to the Rome Statute (en)
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GBP 15.00 Available One in a new encyclopaedic series of monographs on calligraphers, this is a well-illustrated critical biography with chapters on Guo's life, calligraphy, his work on the 'Lanting Xu' and an analysis of his style.
GBP 15.00 Available One in a new encyclopaedic series of monographs on calligraphers, this is a well-illustrated critical biography concentrating on the life, but setting the calligraphy in its context.
GBP 45.00 Available Annotated list of 1500 Chinese books and articles on modern Chinese history, government, law, foreign affairs, economics, social problems, education, and intellectual and literary movements.
www.hanshan.com /txtlists/list117.txt   (15792 words)

  
 Wikipedia Topics from Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Clydesdale and South East Glasgow
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proxies.gr /nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/http/www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia-cid-455898291   (607 words)

  
 Kicked out of Chinapol
Cunningham doesn't substantiate to what degree the Sinologists on the list engage in "America good, China bad" rhetoric, or what the stated scope of the group's discussions entail.
Unless Chinapol was an explicitly right-wing list (why would Cunningham be there to begin with?), I can't see America-boosters coming to dominate any discussion on a list that's representative of the prevaling discourse in China studies.
He joined the list, posted a plethora of comments over the course of a short period of time--some informed and relevant, many of the "I live in Beijing therefore I am qualified to comment on a China-related issue I know very little about" ilk--then wrote his rambling protest and got booted.
www.danwei.org /internet/kicked_out_of_chinapol.php   (5087 words)

  
 PAW February 9, 2005: Perspective
In the afternoon of that bloody day, Fang Lizhi was listed first on the Chinese government’s “most wanted” list.
(There are several lists, by the way; the list of Chinese who are prevented from returning to their own country is much longer than the list of miscreant Sinologists.) But many other scholars are associated with the same groups and are not fllisted.
The officials whom President Tilghman met certainly would have relayed a message, and a public comment certainly would have been heard in the “concerned quarters.” The problem with saying nothing is that silence itself becomes a message.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW04-05/08-0209/perspective.html   (1437 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 9/20/2002: University Presses Take Different Approaches to Making Cuts
Geoffrey Burn, who was hired as director in 2000, runs through a long and precisely calibrated set of changes in its list.
Burn emphasizes that the change in Stanford's list is not simply a matter of abandoning some areas (for example, ancient history, ornithology, and contemporary European politics) to make room for others that are more profitable.
A monograph on Chinese business law, for example, might be of interest not only to both Sinologists and legal scholars, but also to people in business schools and practicing lawyers.
chronicle.com /free/v49/i04/04a01201.htm   (1435 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 8.759: Grammar lab, Tone, Cultural competence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list.
I was wondering if anyone on this list has ever used these applications for teaching and, if so, could tell me about any experience with them.
Dear Sinologists: I am wondering if anyone has ever attempted to correlate tones and speech parts in Chinese.
linguistlist.org /issues/8/8-759.html   (307 words)

  
 Nerve.com - The Science of Sex: A Nipple Too Far by Simon LeVay
According to one expert on the list, supernumerary nipples don't have to be very nipple-like.
I had barely absorbed this fact when another subscriber to the list came up with a bunch of references concerning the genetics of supernumerary nipples.
One subscriber to the mailing list, a doctor who worked two years on a Navajo reservation, said that he saw them commonly on Navajo women.
www.nerve.com /Regulars/ScienceOfSex/05-16-00   (898 words)

  
 [A-List] A G Frank: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
It was the Zollverein [tariff association] sponsored by the Hamiltonian Friedrich List that brought Germany into existence in the first place.
The "Paradox of Growth without Development" as the dean of American Sinologists John King Fairbank entitled a chapter in his CHINA: A NEW HISTORY published in 1992 just before his death, is that there was and is NO such paradox.
China's previous world leading economic productivity and merchandise export surplus based thereon still continued also in its world market domination in ceramics and silk, which was now increasingly complemented also with the export of tea, especially to Britain and other parts of Europe.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2001-December/035543.html   (12571 words)

  
 China
However, we need to be very concerned about the possibility of one or more of the candidates, in desperation, playing the "Taiwan independence card." We also need to follow Beijing's response very closely in the aftermath to the elections, for the PRC may well be tempted to test the new leader's resolve.
There are too many Sinologists who believe that the Chinese still plan an overt response of some nature to President Lee's "state-to-state" comments.
Placing Pakistan on this list would mean that we have totally cut off Pakistan -- that we thereby, effectively, no longer seek to influence the course of events in Pakistan.
www.nti.org /db/china/engdocs/bere0200.htm   (4690 words)

  
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An obvious consequence of this phenomenon would be sociolinguistic stereotypes of the form, e.g., 'New Yorkers drop their r's and say words like 'shlepp'' which typically refer to (perceived) phonetic/phonological and lexical features, and not syntactic ones.
It owes allegiance to no particular school or style of criticism, and is open to anyone who takes a serious interest in philosophical interpretations of literature, literary investigations of classic works of philosophy, philosophy of language, and literary theory.
List The March 15, 1994 edition of the UMass--GLSA Publication list is available: short form: email glsa@linguist.umass.edu or on the Linguist LISTSERV long form: email glsa@linguist.umass.edu or ftp linguistics.archive.umich.edu in the directory linguistics/papers/available ZG, comp.
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.301-350   (14610 words)

  
 LISTSERV 14.4
I run a large pan-Eurasian Research List (725 or so members, most of whom are professional researchers) with Michael Witzel (Indology, Harvard) and Lars Martin Fosse (Oslo) at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/ Our researchers include archaeologists, population geneticists, linguists, Sinologists, Near Eastern researchers, Indologists, comparativists, etc. -- probably the biggest collection of them in the world.
Victor Mair, at the University of Pennsylvania, recently posted a query on the List on the following cylinder seal, which is unprovenanced.
Victor at first assumed it was an Old World piece: http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/rollerseal.jpg http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/rollersealprint.jpg One of our Sinologists sent the photo to Ulla Kasten, curator of Yale's Babylonian Collection, and Ulla wrote back that it wasn't Near Eastern at all, but thought it might be Mesoamerican or South American.
listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0611a&L=aztlan&D=1&F=&S=&P=3817   (182 words)

  
 Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Each list, comprising new words and proper nouns, consists of the word (ci), its pronunciation in Pinyin Romanization, part of speech, English translation, examples for use (Chinese-English), and its frequency relative to a list of basic Chinese words.
Some words do not have a part of speech marked because they are a fixed phrase or detachable verb, and some are not marked for frequency because they are proper nouns or beyond the scope of the syllabus.
The list is in two parts: part one is new words in the text and part two is vocabulary for the reading supplement.
www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu /intro_standardchinese.php   (741 words)

  
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The original anouncement follows: Additional Roundtable at ASI Conference In addition to the roundtables listed on the registration form, there will be one on the usability testing of indexes on Saturday, May 17 from 12:00 noon to 1:45.
I would tend to list the functions available under each class name (since the classes are the building blocks of the program), but cross reference the methods (ie the public functions), eg read() See Input Class, Reader Class.
If anyone is interested, there are lists of Chinese surnames but it would mean little to most of you since one would have to recognize the characters.
www.indexpup.com /index-list/1997/01_May_1997.txt   (17884 words)

  
 FAS Email Archives -- Missile Defense Monitor
Acting otherwise could plunge Eurasia into turmoil and usher in a new era of tension between Russia and the United States.
Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro, Mar 01, 1997, p 18-32 Many American policymakers and Sinologists believe that China will inevitably become nonideological, pragmatic, materialistic, and progressively freer in its culture and politics.
Beijing, however, sees the United States not as a strategic partner but as the chief obstacle to its regional and global ambitions.
www.fas.org /MHonArc/BMDList_archive/msg00077.html   (2954 words)

  
 The Kinsey Institute - Professional/Research Links - Professional Organizations [Related Resources]
The WWW also provides information on funding opportunities, and research support, and also an annotated list of publically available data resources.
This "think/action" tank addresses issues of substance abuse and sexual behavior, such as the relationship of alcohol and drug abuse to teen pregnancy, the spread of STDs and HIV, date rape, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, incest, family break-up, prostitution, sexual aggression and performance, and rape.
Educators will be interested in its listing of recent sexuality education resources (books, articles, and videos).
www.indiana.edu /~kinsey/resources/professional.html   (2994 words)

  
 Sinologists | Bruno Schindler
This was the publication of the journal Asia Major, whose dedicated Press (Verlag der Asia Major, in Leipzig) was founded in 1920.
In England, Schindler associated himself with various publishing enterprises, and himself contributed to the 1936 Gaster Anniversary Publication (evidently an 80th birthday tribute, though University College thinks otherwise) a "List of Publications of Dr M Gaster." Time passed.
Schindler became associated with Taylor's Foreign Publishers in 1936, and soon became known as its "spiritual leader." He assisted his wife Alma as Director of the Regent Park School which they had founded to educate Jewish children, many of them orphans from Germany and Austria.
www.umass.edu /wsp/sinology/persons/schindler.html   (956 words)

  
 Sinologists | Iulian Shchutskii
He married in 1928, with Nicholas Poppe, a fellow student and specialist in Mongolian, as his best man. In that same year, he was sent by the Academy of Sciences to Japan to acquire books in Chinese and Japanese, and make contact with Japanese Sinologists.
Contains Konrad's Introduction and Petrov's Biographical Sketch from the 1960 Russian edition, plus a further Introduction to the English Edition by Gerald Swanson.
Borisov Uyezd Duma List (on the possibility that Shchustskii was Jewish
www.umass.edu /wsp/sinology/persons/shchutskii.html   (1624 words)

  
 China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sinologists usually use "Chinese" in a more restricted sense, more akin to the classical usage of Zhongguo, or to the meaning of the "Han ethnic group", who make up the bulk of Mainland China.
(See List of Chinese authors, and List of Chinese language poets).
The Chinese created numerous musical instruments, such as the zheng, xiao, and erhu, that have spread around East and Southeast Asia, especially to its dependencies.
china.kiwiki.homeip.net   (3212 words)

  
 Pinyin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is an exhaustive list of all finals in Standard Mandarin.
This argument revolves around pinyin's unconventional use of Roman letters, of which the phonological values of some phonemes are quite different from that of most languages utilizing the Roman alphabet.
Some sinologists praise this as pinyin's flexibility in that it allows the entire Roman alphabet to be adapted to the Chinese sound system (compared to Wade-Giles, which leaves out or underuses many letters).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinyin   (4604 words)

  
 Graduate Program Guide - Appendix II
If the list indicates that a language can be "fulfilled by options outlined under Appendix III," refer to that appendix for further information.
Although language requirements should be satisfied before the PhD Oral Qualifying Examination, students whose fields require extensive language preparation may petition the Graduate Advisers Committee to postpone completion of these requirements until after the examination.
Reading lists in preparation for these two exams can be adjusted to the needs of individual candidates, who should consult with the faculty to draw up these lists.
history.berkeley.edu /graduate/programguide/language.html   (831 words)

  
 AEI - Search | Page Not Found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To confine your results to those that contain an exact phrase, select "Exact Phrase" from the "Search for Keywords:" drop-down menu (available in Advanced Search).
When browsing page listings, you can filter what you are seeing by subject matter:
For example, someone interested in economic policy can filter a list of recent commentary so as to view material on only that issue.
aei.org /research/view.abstract,recNo.81,subjectID.19,filter.all/projectnews_list...   (206 words)

  
 Gabrielle Harris jewelry design from ancient Chinese culture
Gabrielle was a student at SOAS, London University, before she moved to Nanjing as a scholarship exchange student in 1980.
At SOAS, she had the honour of learning ancient philosophy and history with truly learned sinologists.
Having spent time in such tutorials, her arrival in the China of 1980 required some adjustment.
www.natureproducts.net /Art/Gabrielle/Gabrielle.html   (444 words)

  
 Amazon: Listmania! - View List "Early Daoism"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A translation and commentary by the finest sinologists of our time.
Taoist scholar: A list by Ren Qizhen "Qizhen"
Daoism without the BS: A list by James Miller
www.amazon.com /Early-Daoism/lm/296NJLNJGSFHP   (532 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.962: Chinese Historical Phonology
The detail of Beijing and Cantonese phonological histories is here made accessible to linguists outside the specialist field of Sinology.
The material is explicit, comprehensive, and transparent in a way which will be appreciated by Sinologists and non-Sinologists alike.
If you buy one of these books please tell the publisher or author that you saw it advertised on the LINGUIST list.
www.linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-962.html   (431 words)

  
 IGCS - Philosophy and Religion (China WWW VL - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies)
This page is part of the homepage of EASL (European Association of Sinological Librarians) and offers a list of Chinese texts (philosophy, literature, history etc.) which you can download or view from the various existing databases on the internet.
A general survey of the official status of Confucianism; including some photographs of Confucian temples in Beijing, Qufu, Hangzhou, and Quzhou; a list of key dates for enshrinement in the temple and Confucius' posthumous titles; and a bibliography of sources.
Although the texts themselves are not incorporated (or linked) yet, the database offers very interesting information on the various links between the texts, translations, and commentaries, and for many texts also the structure is listed (discerning texts and subdivisions of texts).
sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de /igcs/igphil.htm   (3931 words)

  
 Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Manila's coterie of resident Sinologists cannot list enough reasons for a Filipino politician to seek a Chinese connection - as Estrada did.
They ask - or feign to ask - nothing in return for their largesse.
It's the only way to forge ahead." There's hope from people like the party list group Bayan Muna - which has spun off into Gabriela, a woman's group; Anakpawis, a workers' party; and Migrante, a migrant workers' organization.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FJ02Ae01.html   (3192 words)

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