Post Communist Sinology in Transformation : Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia.

Half Tilte Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Doing Sinology fromPost-Communist Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Beyond Academia and Politics:Understanding China and Doing Sinology inCzechoslovakia after World War II -- Chapter 2. Linguistic Choices for the Identity of"China" in the Discourse of CzechSinologists -- Chapter 3. Surging between China and Russia:Legacies, Politics, and Turns of Sinology inContemporary Mongolia -- Chapter 4. Sinology in Poland: Epistemological Debatesand Academic Practice -- Chapter 5. The Lifting of the "Iron Veil" by RussianSinologists During the Soviet Period(1917-1991) -- Chapter 6. Soviet Sinology: Two Conflicting Paradigmsof Chinese History -- Chapter 7. Chinese Studies in Post-Soviet Russia: FromUneven Development to the Search forIntegrity -- Part II. Being Sinologists inPost-Communist Societies -- Chapter 8. Polish Sinology: Reflections on IndividualizedTrajectories -- Chapter 9. "The Songs of Ancient China" : The Myth of"The Other" Appropriated by an EmergingSinology -- Chapter 10. Between Sinology and Socialism: TheCollective Memory of Czech Sinologists inthe 1950s -- Chapter 11. Tangut (Xi Xia) Studies in the Soviet Union:The Quinta Essentia of Russian OrientalStudies -- Chapter 12. Different Ways to Become a SovietSinologist: A Note on Personal Choices -- Conclusion: The Evolution of Sinology afterthe Communist Party-State.

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