Jainism, an Indian born religion, is one of the oldest religions in the world. In history, the organizational development, religious characteristics, and practice methods of Jainism are closely related to ...read more
Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of ...read more
The work of the philosopher-mathematician, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), situated within the French historical epistemological landscape of the 20th-century, is characterized by a fascinating an unique interplay between metaphysics, mathematics and ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
Prostitution in Japan has been a much studied subject in recent years. The state-sanctioned, highly regulated prostitution practised in the so-called enclosed quarters (kuruwa) of the Edo period (1600-1868) in ...read more
The main objective of this research are the flying apsaras in the grottoes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, focusing on the three main royal grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes and Gongyi ...read more
The popular genre of crime fiction not only reflects, but also shapes the prevailing perceptions of criminals in a certain culture. In order to yield a thorough historical understanding of ...read more
The thesis takes the Pre-Qin eclectics as research object. Although scholars of eclecticism did generally not form their own schools, their academic thoughts and monographs were an important part of ...read more
To what extent does China's domestic nationalism influence the evolution of China's diplomatic discourse from 2012 to 2025? This study focuses on the main features of domestic nationalism in China ...read more