Cultural Borders of Europe Siwei LyuThe cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of
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This work examines the philosophies and theologies of three thinkers-Chu Hsi
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while projecting them into the Hindu bhakti cosmology of universal dissolutions
the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory
the word "correspondences" and its transformations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France offers a vantage point for discerning how artists and writers defined their work both within and against a context of cultures defined as elite
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Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of the practice of travel writing in seventeenth-century China
The DSS outputs were tested and validated in four different Mediterranean countries
the broader social environment of delinquency is better understood
This book explores the representation of witchcraft in early modern drama
and utilized his British connections to become a prominent and successful merchant