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Cross-Disciplinary Research in Social Sciences: Science boffins to philosopher kings: is the rule of science a good thing?
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Cross-Disciplinary Research in Social Sciences. Monday, June 29, 2015. Science boffins to philosopher kings: is the rule of science a good thing? Maciej Pletnia 2014,. Asian Identity: Regional Integration and Collective Memory of the Pacific War in Contemporary Japanese Society. Highly learned and esteemed. Generals, believe they should. Happen: "Die erste Kolonne marschiert. Die zweite Kolonne marschiert.". O is, sadly, the case with many branches of social sciences, where arm-chair ponitification reign...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: The Hundredth Anniversary of Thai Nationality
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Monday, May 20, 2013. The Hundredth Anniversary of Thai Nationality. Ack on the 10th of April we celebrated 1 00 years since the invention of. Thai nationality , which. Appeared for the first time in. The Nationality Act B.E. 2456, enacted by King Rama VI on. Ext year we w ill be celebrating the centennia l of. British nationality, int ro duced by the The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act. Y or so ago. The Invention of Tradition. O nce they aske...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: 花鳥風月: the beauties of nature
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Sunday, July 26, 2015. 花鳥風月: the beauties of nature. 花鳥風月 literally means "flowers, birds, the wind and the Moon." In the Tang Imperial court of China, whence the Japanese picked up their penchant for such four-letter words (四字熟語), nature appreciation was a big thing. After all, it was the early centuries of the Common Era and, in the absence of TV, internet and pachinko. O, enjoy your. While they are still around. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). O nce...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: June 2015
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Monday, June 29, 2015. 喜怒哀楽 - Human emotions, which ones are desirable? Joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure". Recently I attended a talk by an American anthropologist Melissa Caldwell, where, inter alia. She shared her observation that Russians consider experiencing the whole range of emotions from suffering to joy as natural for human beings, while for Americans being always happy is the desired objective. Of the Neo-Liberal subject. T oday I accidentally de...
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NN: Mohsen: Persian restaurant @ Warwick Road
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Bonne cuisine et bon vin, c'est le paradis sur terre." Henri IV, le bon roi. Thursday, August 13, 2009. Mohsen: Persian restaurant @ Warwick Road. Am really eager to make friends with some North Koreans. They must be veritable teddy bears, since the US Secretary of State Office claims the opposite. From my own personal hands-on experience,. People from the so-called Axis of Evil countries -. Cubans, Syrians and Iraqis - have been most warm-hearted, hospitable and generous people around. کشک و بادمجان), i...
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Cross-Disciplinary Research in Social Sciences: March 2015
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Cross-Disciplinary Research in Social Sciences. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The predicament of identity: to join or not to join them. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Is there something behind academic verbosity. The vapid, self-indulgent verbosity of the latter-day academia has become proverbial. Clever jibes from inside the ivory tower like the infamous Postmodernism Generator. Make a nice exposé of the likes of Homi Bhabha's 90-minute projectile verbal vomit. The mythopoetical totali...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: December 2014
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Monday, December 8, 2014. On power and respect: the change in Thai perception of Russia. He other day we went to a restaurant in Silom, Bangkok's business district. At the end of the dinner, I got to chat with our waitress, who upon learning where I am from, started waxing on lyrically about what a great, strong and admirable leader Putin is and what a great rich country Russia is. Poor Caucasians', stragely dressed and with little purchase power. Besides ...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: May 2015
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Saturday, May 16, 2015. 浅からず深からず : interested but not involved. 浅からず深からず - Asakarazu, fukakarazu. Echnically, this is not a four-letter compound, although it can be written as such, kango. Style, 不浅不深 (please correct me, if necessary, I'm not big on kango. Here's another Japanese saying to that effect: 附かず離れず ( tsukazu hanarezu. Between being indifferent and being too involved. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 晴耕雨読:the joys of country life. W hy the fuck would ...
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Ex Oriente lux: East & Southeast Asia Studies: Old-Style Japanese names of months (旧暦の月名)
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Ex Oriente lux: East and Southeast Asia Studies. Monday, November 4, 2013. Old-Style Japanese names of months (旧暦の月名). Efore Japan was restyled along the Western lines in the 19th century, it had enjoyed about three centuries of relatively isolated existence. Or example, the latter-day boring names of months - the First month for January, the Second month for February, etc. - were predated by colourful native Japanese ( Yamato. Remember listening to a song by Nakajima Miyuki. Flowers ( u no hana. 6月/June...
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NN: Kikurage: the mushroom of many names (キクラゲ, 黑木耳)
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Bonne cuisine et bon vin, c'est le paradis sur terre." Henri IV, le bon roi. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Kikurage: the mushroom of many names (キクラゲ, 黑木耳). Nown in the past as Jew's ear,. These days it is safer to call it kikurage. キクラゲ) by its Japanese. Name Its alternative name, jelly ear. Is not very widely recognised, while the Latin name, Auricularia auricula-judae. Is too cumbersome. The Chinese name hei mu er. Will hardly ever catch on, will it? It is not particularly click with the rest of Asia.