the collapse of the soviet :union: provided an extraordinary opportunity for china to enforce political and economic process in the central asian region. proximity of the border of china and the central asian countries with rapid economic growth of china, have imposed certain conditions on central asian countries' relations with it. in general, bilateral relations between china and the cou...

Through an investigation of two recently discovered paper sheets the Incantation Wish-Fulfillment from Silla kingdom, this reveals that early Korea had more diverse forms dhāraṇī practices than previously assumed. analyses these incantation sheets, contributes toward filling gap in our current understanding material practice pertaining to medieval East Asia. Previously, all known traces dhāraṇī...

As interest grows in the use of linguistically annotated corpora in research and teaching of foreign languages and literature, treebanks of various historical texts have been developed. We introduce the first large-scale dependency treebank for Classical Chinese literature. Derived from the Stanford dependency types, it consists of over 32K characters drawn from a collection of poems written in...

The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The ancient Iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and Greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the European countries in the 13th century. The Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur ...