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Золотой шелкопряд. Сюй Сюань и его сборник «Записи об изучении духов»
Петербургское Востоковедение, 2020.
"Records on Investigating Spirits" ("Jishen lu") is a short story collection compiled by the famous Chinese writer and calligrapher Xu Xuan (917–992).
This edition includes the first complete commented translation of the book into a European language and a study of its history and composition. The research covers the collection's religious and mythological elements reflecting the author's interest in supernatural (demonic) entities and phenomena.
The publication is intended for historians of literature and religion and a wide range of readers.
Priority areas:
humanitarian
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Russian
Akelev E., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 981–995
The sermon by Patriarch Adrian dedicated to the Streltsy uprising of 1698, one of the most important events of Peter the Great’s reign, has never been published or used by historians previously. The text is known from a single manuscript written by Karion Istomin, a prominent writer who served as the patriarch’s secretary and who was apparently ...
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М.: Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество, 2026.
Сборник включает материалы XXVIII Елизаветинско-Сергиевских чтений, состоявшихся в Москве 1 ноября 2025 г., посвящённых 180-летию со дня рождения императора Александра III и 120-летию памяти великого князя Сергея Александровича, и завершающих культурную и научно-просветительскую программу выставки «Августейший хозяин Москвы» (организованной Фондом «Елизаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» в Музее Москвы в июле — ноябре 2025 г.).
Сборник предназначен для историков, ...
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Fufaeva I., Русистика 2026 Т. 24 № 3 С. 423–438
Historical consonant alternations in the Russian verbal paradigm (e.g., pustit – pušču) have lost their phonetic motivation, making it relevant to study their productivity in the adoption of new words. Given the active development of the lexicon, investigating how native speakers form the 1st person singular of new verbs allows us to assess the dynamics ...
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Касаткина Т. А., Корбелла К., Сергеева В. С. et al., М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2025.
В книге ставится задача описать ряд имплицитных авторских теорий творчества, вскрываемых анализом текстов и подтверждаемых эксплицитными высказываниями автора, в том числе такими, которые могут на неискушенный взгляд совсем не относится ни к каким авторским "теориям", высказываниям словно совсем о другом - но вскрывающими сердцевину авторского мировидения и, соответственно, главные принципы его творчества. ...
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Loesov S., Häberl C., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2026 Vol. 146 No. 2 P. 325–338
This study examines the tradition of David and Uriah the Hittite, as related by Syriac Orthodox Christians in the upper Mesopotamian region of Ṭur ʕAbdīn in southeastern Türkiye. The narrative, recounted by Nisane Ergün, a native speaker of Ṭuroyo, reflects a localized adaptation of the biblical tale inspired by regional folklore. Unlike the canonical account, ...
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Shteynman M. A., Studia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религии 2024 № 2 С. 156–171
Social reality of the “Game of Thrones” is considered in this
article not as a model or a kind of reconstruction of Middle Ages reality.
On the contrary we argue that “Game of Thrones” as well as original “Song
of Ice and Fire” should be studied through the prism of social and cultural
trens of the 20th – beginning ...
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Tsendina A., Наука - Восточная литература, 2026.
Sagan Sechen's "Precious History" (17th century) occupies a special place in Mongolian historiographic tradition. It is the only Mongolian chronicle translated into Manchu and Chinese (18th century), printed in Beijing, and recognized by the Qing court as the official history of the Mongols. This work is of great value for reconstructing Mongol history as a ...
Added: November 5, 2026
Kolmogorova A., Ekaterina Yavshitz, Margolina A. et al., Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026.
Automatic classification of aphasia severity presents persistent challenges, particularly for languages with limited clinical speech re sources such as Russian. This paper explores a multimodal approach to severity estimation that combines acoustic and semantic representa tions of pathological speech. Acoustic features are extracted using pretrained Wav2Vec 2.0 models, while semantic information is obtained from the ...
Added: November 4, 2026
Tsendina A., Oriental Studies 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 311–322
In Mongolian medieval historiography, the 18th century holds a special place. During this period, the compilers of Mongolian chronicles departed from the canons of archaic family history and embraced authorial creativity and critical reflection on events. While the 17th century witnessed the emergence of these trends, and the 19th century saw their ossification and almost ...
Added: November 4, 2026
Kuvshinskaya Y. M., Традиционная культура 2026 Т. 27 № 3 С. 105–125
Th is article is devoted to funeral religious verse (dukhovnye stikhi) from the
Kostroma Trans-Volga region, an extensive repertoire of which was identifi ed during folklore
expeditions conducted by the HSE University in the Manturovo, Makarev, and Kady districts
of the Kostroma Region in 2021–2025. Th e research material includes informants’ testimonies,
video and audio recordings of verse performances, ...
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Maisak T., Studies in Language 2026
The paper addresses the phenomenon of polygrammaticalization based on data from Udi, a lesser-studied language of the Nakh-Daghestanian family. In Udi, two function words sal and saal share the same source structure and represent combinations of the numeral ‘one’ with the additive clitic ‘also, even’. Synchronically, the two words are both formally and functionally distinct: whereas sal is an emphatic negative ...
Added: November 3, 2026
Alexander V. Solovyov, Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 107–144
This article seeks to redefine the Kim Pusik’s 金富軾 (1075-1151) Samguk sagi 三國史記 (Histories of the Three Kingdoms) as a more imaginative and literary text by foregrounding its “supernatural” elements (collectively referred to as “wonder tales”), rather than emphasizing the ‘Confucian’ orientation that has conventionally been prescribed to it. It reviews the extend of incorporation ...
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Moskvina Z. О., Веремейко Э. Ю., Современный ученый 2026 № 11 С. 73–79
This article examines the phenomenon of the polyparadigmality of the Russian economic media discourse under conditions of chronic macroeconomic instability. Drawing on materials from leading business publications (RBC, Kommersant, Forbes), it demonstrates that, to make sense of crisis reality, the media actualize two archaic, cognitively contradictory models: the calendar model (appealing to cyclicity, orderliness, and ...
Added: November 3, 2026
Volkov P., Современный дискурс-анализ 2026 № 2(39) С. 3–13
It is generally believed that in critical discursive research, especially in the theory of Norman Fairclough, the central place is occupied by Michael Halliday's system-functional linguistics, according to which the grammar of a language is its „theory of reality“ and grammatical is ideological. In this paper, arguments concerning the incompatibility of the critical paradigm with ...
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Kotov V., Природа 2026 № 10 С. 99–107
В 1934 году Академия наук СССР была переведена из Ленинграда в Москву. Николай Семенович Курнаков, назначенный директором вновь созданного Института общей и неорганической химии, привёз с собой в столицу своих лучших сотрудников, среди которых была и Наталия Сергеевна Домбровская, теоретик безводных соляных равновесий. Публикация знакомит читателя с биографией Н.С. Домбровской, составленной на основе литературных источников ...
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Туторский А. В., Этнография 2025 Т. 30 № 4 С. 136–153
This article provides an overview of the post-World War II development of the concept of cultural areas in the United States and the concept of “economic-cultural type” in the Soviet Union. It analyzes the main lines of criticism directed at these frameworks. It identifies three foundational aspects of the cultural area (CA) concept as it ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
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Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Volchkova E., Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 2023 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 68–82
This article* examines the origins and development of notions about jian spirits, beings into which, according to Chinese folk tradition, the souls of the dead transform after their demise. An analysis of the few available references to jian in Chinese literature and folklore suggests that the first mention of jian as ‘ghosts of ghosts’ appears ...
Added: October 16, 2025
Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Added: September 26, 2025
Melville A. Y., Каберник В. В., Mironyuk M. et al., / МГИМО МИД России. 2024.
Данный аналитический доклад является одним из результатов исследований в рамках консорциума НИУ ВШЭ и МГИМО. В нем прежде всего раскрыты вопросы концептуализации национальной мощи и сопутствующих категорий и дается обзор прецедентов. Далее рассматриваются вопросы операционализации предлагаемых нами компонентов национальной мощи. В следующих разделах доклада предлагается анализ вопросов методологии, используемой в докладе. На этой основе предложен ...
Added: September 19, 2025