St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies Volume 1

St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies Volume 1

éves leningrádi vegyesfelvágott, Kínától Egyiptomig, tudománytörténeti desszerttel:

Editor’s Note.............................................................................................................11 

Russia and the East 

Marsil N. Farkhshatov

Ahmet-Zeki Validi Togan and the Travel Accounts 

of Ahmad ibn Fadlan ...............................................................................................15 

Sergey O. Kurbanov

Russian Views on Koreans and Japanese Colonial Regime 

in Korea of the First Quarter of the 20th Century...................................................39 

Nikolay A. Samoylov

The Main Stages & Characteristic Features of Sino-Russian 

Socio-cultural Interaction in the 18th – early 20th Centuries..................................55 

Linguistics 

Vadim B. Kasevich

Phonetics and Semantics: Some Cursory Remarks.................................................65 

Alexander Yu. Zheltov

What Do Personal Pronouns Mean, and What Means 

Do they Use for That: Specifics of Gban (South Eastern Mande)......................... 73 

History and Source Studies 

Nikolay A. Dobronravin

Arabic and Ajami Colophons in West African 

and African Diaspora Islamic Manuscripts .............................................................89 

Björn Forsén, Konstantin A. Zhukov

War and Peace: Some Rarely Used Russian and Finnish Sources 

for the History of Russo-Turkish Relations in the 19

th Century.............................95 

Vladimir L. Uspenskiy

Policy of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty towards Tibetan Lamas 

and the Manchu Qianlong Emperor’s Attitude to It............................................111 

Evgeniy I. Zelenev

Army Reforms of the 1850s-1870s in Egypt..........................................................119 

Literature 

Anastasia A. Guryeva
Korean Vernacular Love Poetry in the 18th and 19th Centuries: 
“Male” and “Female” Poems ..................................................................................129 

Maria P. Petrova
Mystical Enchantment in the Works of G. Mend-Ooyo...................................... 147 

Geocultural Spaces and Codes of Cultures of Asian and African Countries 
Victor V. Bocharov
Russian Legal Culture and “Criminal State” 
(Views from the Perspective of Legal Anthropology) ...........................................155 

Yulia S. Mylnikova
Women’s Property Rights in the Inheritance Regime 
of Imperial China (Tang-Song Dynasties) ............................................................. 167 

Ekaterina A. Zavidovskaya
Deserving Divine Protection: Religious Life 
in Contemporary Rural Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces ....................................... 179 

Foreign Policy & International Relations of Asian and African Countries 
Marina N. Samoylova
The Presence of Japanese General Trading Companies in Europe: 
History and Present ................................................................................................ 197 

In Memoriam 
Bicentenary of Shaikh at-Tantawi (1810-1861): 
Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of St. Petersburg 
(Nikolay N. Dyakov) ................................................................................................20