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

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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