I libri di Ca’ Foscari

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Volume 8 | Review | 150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari

150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari

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Abstract

Since its establishment in 1868, Ca’ Foscari University’s educational vocation has been marked by its attention to the study and teaching of Oriental languages. Inheriting the legacy of Venice as a commercial and cultural gateway to the East, the development of Oriental studies has been envisioned as one of the most important and peculiar missions of this University as a national educational institution. This volume revisits the history of the teaching and research on Middle, Central, South-Asian and East Asian languages and civilisations at Ca’ Foscari, and of this University’s relationships with the East, offering some insights and information about the evolution of these disciplines, the main protagonists and the multiple connections that have tied and still tie Ca’ Foscari with the Oriental world.

Keywords Ca’ Foscari Alumni • Diglossia • Orientalism • Jewish Studies • Chinese Studies • Japanese cartography • Arabian Studies • Indus delta • Asian Studies • Alberto De’ Stefani • Chiang Kai-shek • Aramaic • Ca’ Foscari • Arturo De Luciano • Austen Henry Layard • Islamic Studies • China • Near Estern Studies • Jewish history • Japanese Studies • Change • Ancient and modern Semitic languages • Mario Sabattini • Sindh • South Asian Studies • Japanese language instruction • International students • Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio • Colloquial Arabic • Ca’ Foscari University • Armenian Studies • Armenians in Venice • Arabic language • Scholars’ education and fields of research • Italian-Japanese relations • Italian philology • Hebrew • Italian sinology • Italy • Eastern languages • Mongolian Studies • Social sciences • Prehistoric sites • Disciplinarity • Las Bela • Silk Road Studies • Learning needs • Lebanon • Lionello Lanciotti • Marco Polo Studies • Textual criticism • History of Venice • History • Indology • Semitic Philology • Venetian Royal High School of Commerce • Relations between Italy and Republican China • Nallino • Radiocarbon chronology • Teaching approaches • Venice • Silkworms breeding • Travel literature • History of the Department

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-252-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-252-9 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-253-6 | Published Oct. 21, 2018 | Language it, en

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