Autore	Balbo Andrea
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2026
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (336 pages)
Disciplina	909.0982
Collana	Roma Sinica Series
Soggetto topico	International relations and culture
ISBN	3-11-171858-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Introduction -- 1 Ancient Explorations -- Beyond Scrolls and Codices: The Diversity of Stories, Languages and Scripts Along the Silk Roads -- 1 Premises -- 2 The Silk Roads -- 3 Beyond the Codex -- 4 Beyond the First Millennium -- 5 Beyond Classical Languages -- Maruts and the Ritual Paths to Immortality: Hints of Indo-Iranian Doctrines -- 1 Premise -- 2 Maruts and Frauuaṣ̌is: A Discussion on the Earliest Assumptions -- 2.1 Bands of Warriors and the Source of Abundance -- 2.2 Providing and Distributing Water -- 3 The Wings of Maruts and Frauuaṣ̌is -- 4 Etymological Remarks -- 5 Intermediate Summary -- 6 On a Maruts' Rite to Gain Access to Heaven: Sāmavedic Brāhmaṇas -- 7 Looking Backwards: Traces of an Ancient Culture -- 7.1 Dyutāna of the Maruts, Not a Trivial sthāpati -- 7.2 Nitāna of the Maruts: Only a Name Variation? -- 7 Conclusions -- Mapping the Silk Land: The Far East in Some Western Geographical Texts -- 1 Premise -- 2 The Periplus Maris Erythraei -- 3 Ptolemy -- 4 Ammianus Marcellinus -- 5 Cosmas Indicopleustes -- 6 Brahmans -- On Rome, Diadems and other Topics Between Iran and Turfan -- 1 Premise -- 2 Rome, Parthians and Persians -- 3 The Roman Empire in Manichaean texts -- 4 A Christian Persian Tomb in Constantinople -- 5 Rome in Zoroastrian Texts -- 6 The 'Caesar' in Kušan Kingdom -- 7 Roman Epithets in Turkic Central Asia -- 8 Byzantine-Iranian Connections against the ʿAbbasid Caliphate -- 9 Romulus and Remus at Samarkanda -- 10 Roman Echoes in Sogdian Texts -- 2 Modern Refractions: History -- Scribi e scrittura negli Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI di Giovanni Pietro Maffei -- 1 Premessa -- 2 La scrittura in India -- 3 La scrittura in Brasile -- 4 La scrittura in Cina -- 5 La scrittura in Giappone -- 6 Conclusioni. Two Sources for the Early Jesuit Mission to China: Matteo Ricci's Commentari and Michele Ruggieri's Relatione -- Appendix -- A List of 17th-Century Editions of Nicholas Trigault's De christiana expeditione -- The Earliest Latin and Spanish Translations of the Confucian Four Books: Old and New Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Manuscript R: An Overview -- 3 Manuscript N: A New Discovery -- 4 Textual Comparison of NL and R -- 5 The Spanish Confucius: NS, E and T -- 6 Latin and Spanish Translations: A Comparison -- 7 Conclusions -- Matteo Ricci Betrayed? Trigault's Overly Cautious Translation of the Entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina and the Origins of the European Idealisation of China -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Trigault's Mission in Europe -- 3 Textual Comparison -- 4 China's Rulers -- 5 Confucius and His Religion -- 6 Jesuits Evangelisation Strategies -- 7 Trigault's Editorial Project -- 8 Pantoja's Letter -- 9 Conclusions -- Christians in Late-18th-Century Sichuan Province -- "Les pieds sont en haut et la tête en bas" : Some Considerations on de Guignes's 'Upside-Down' Histoire des Huns -- 3 Philosophic Encounters -- Aristotelian Philosophy Along the Maritime Silk Roads in Late Ming -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Maritime Road to China through Japan -- 3 The Direct Maritime Road to China -- 4 The Hybrid Maritime Road to China -- 5 Conclusion -- Some Topics of Mencius' Philosophy in its First Latin Translation (c. 1590) -- 1 Mencius and his Translators -- 1.1 Translations of Mencius -- 1.2 The manuscript -- 1.3 Mencius -- 1.4 Issues of Translators -- 2 The Government -- 2.1 On the Government as Inner Calling -- Commentary -- 2.2 On the Proper Reward for Government Officials -- Commentary -- 3 Economy -- 3.1 On Economy: What is the Real Profit for a Country? -- Commentary -- 3.2 On Economy: Just Taxation -- Commentary. 3.3 On Economy: The Market Value of Products -- Commentary -- 4 Human nature -- 4.1 On Human Nature: The Goodness of Human Nature -- Commentary -- 4.2 On Human Nature: Feelings and Relations -- Commentary -- 4.3 On Human Nature: The Sense of Shame -- Commentary -- 4.4 On Human Nature: The Way of Heaven -- Commentary -- 5 Conclusion -- The Difficult Search for Seneca the Younger in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus -- 4 Future Perspectives -- Greek Epigraphy in SERICAGreek Epigraphy in SERICA -- 1 Greek Epigraphy Beyond the Euphrates River: A Glimpse -- 2 Silk Roads and Greek Epigraphic Evidence: Historical Premises -- 3 Selection Criteria for the SERICA Database -- 4 Epigraphic Records: An Example -- Prime analisi computazionali sulla lingua dei testi latini di SERICA -- 1 Introduzione: testometria del latino medievale e moderno e progetti del Centro di Studi Comparati "I Deug-Su" -- 2 Applicazioni di metodi computazionali alla ricerca sui testi latini di SERICA -- 2.1 Lavoro Preliminare -- 2.1.1 Lessico -- Type-Token ratios -- Lexical Innovation Rate/Tasso di innovazione lessicale -- Distribuzione delle forme e dei lemmi nel documento -- Liste di frequenza -- Word n-grams -- Collocates -- Confronto tra testi -- Cluster analysis -- 2.1.2 Morfologia -- 2.1.3 Sintassi -- 2.1.4 Prospettive sulla sintassi: il topic modelling -- 3 Conclusioni -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names, Places and Anonymous Works.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9911119873203321

Autore	Olimat Muhamad
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina	382.0951/056
Soggetto topico	Arab Spring, 2010-
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-07312-6 1-283-86063-5 1-135-10222-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; China and the Middle East; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviation; Introduction; 1 Sino-Middle East relations: an overview; 2 A five-dimensional paradigm: energy, trade, arms sales, cultural relations and political co-operation; 3 Walking on thin ropes: a tridimensional perspective; 4 China's reaction to the Arab Spring; 5 China and Israel: the Jewish presence in China; 6 China and Saudi Arabia; 7 China and Iran; 8 China and the United Arab Emirates; 9 China-Algeria Relations; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462971903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2020
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 98 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color)
Soggetto topico	Merchant marine - China Investments, Chinese Strategic planning - United States International economic relations Merchant marine Military policy Strategic aspects of individual places Strategic planning
Soggetto genere / forma	Legislative hearings.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	China's Maritime Silk Road initiative
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910714099203321

Autore	Rastogi Cordula
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, District of Columbia : , : The World Bank, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (133 p.)
Disciplina	382.0958
Collana	Directions in Development
Soggetto topico	Business logistics - Asia, Central Trade routes - Asia, Central Transportation - Asia, Central
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8213-9913-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	From the old to the modern Silk Route -- Connecting Central Asia to the world -- Rail freight transit along the modern Silk Route -- Road transport connections along the modern Silk Route -- Supply-chain efficiency and logistics costs -- Underlying obstacles to supply-chain efficiency -- Improving the eurasian connection.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464828803321