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