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The book Liezi - the basis for the translation of the "Taoist" text
Beran, Jan ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Liščák, Vladimír (referee) ; Vávra, Dušan (referee)
The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English.
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Marco Polo and his knowledge of Asian languages
Liščák, Vladimír
Marco Polo (1254–1324) claimed (or rather his editors) that he could speak (and read) in other languages in addition to his own, at least five. We do not know whether Marco – whose skills in his native language (Venetian) seem to have never been strong and were certainly influenced by the fact that he had been away from home for more than half his life – was waiting for an opportunity to describe his experiences, or whether Rustichello, who wrote them down, took the opportunity to practice his craft as a writer. Marco often mentions that people in some regions speak their own language. Although he spoke little or no Chinese, he spoke a number of languages used in East Asia at the time – most likely Turkish (in the Kuman dialect: (lingua) tartara, tartaresce, tartaresche), which was also spoken among Mongols, Arabized Persians, Uighurs, and perhaps Mongolian.
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Libro del conosçimiento and contemporary sources of the 14th century
Liščák, Vladimír
The Libro del Conosçimiento de todos los rregnos or Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms, also known as the Book of All Kingdoms, is an anonymous 14th-century Castilian geographical and armorial manual (dated to ca. 1385). It is written in the form of imaginary autobiographical travelogue of a Castilian mendicant friar, as he travels through the entire world, known and fanciful, from the westernmost Atlantic islands, through Europe, Asia, Africa and the Arctic, identifying all the lands, kings, lords and their armorial devices as he passes them. The only explicit information is that the anonymous author claims to have been born in Castile in 1305.
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The Chams: language and cultural implications
Hlavatá, Lucie ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee) ; Liščák, Vladimír (referee)
This work deals with the lingual and resulting cultural problems of the Cham minority ethnic living in central and southern Vietnam. Between the 2nd and 15th centuries, the Cham people had created their own hinduized state with an original culture in this area. We consider the Cham language the crucial problem for finding the identity and the integration of this ethnic into the contemporary multiethnic society in Vietnam, as well as in greater scope, in the whole region of South-East Asia. The work is divided into two basic parts: the first part considers the characteristics of the Cham language, where our attention is focused especially on the Cham dialects and typological classification. The second part addresses the contemporary position of the Cham language in Vietnam, the official and true approach to these problems, the bilingual Cham names and the Cham literary traditions. The interest in Cham language dates from about mid-19th century. After being first described by John Crawfurd, it has been the concern of the French linguists from EFEO for a long time. On account of these stated investigations, we mention in this work the genealogical classification of the Cham language. We had paid great attention to the Cham dialects, especially in relation to religious problems. ...
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The Christian missionary movement in China, 1860-1900
Sakmárová, Dominika ; Liščák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ondřej (referee)
The objective of this Bachelor's thesis is to describe the activities of Christian missionaries in China during the second half of 19. century. Most attention is being drawn to Protestant missions, which are more relevant due to the absence of hierarchy in Protestant churches, unlike in other branches of Christianity. However, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox missions are also briefly mentioned. The main point of the thesis is to describe history of Christian missions in China leading to the situation which arose in the second part of 19. century, causing a variety of different approaches to the problem of evangelization of Chinese people. The thesis describes various ways how the missions were practised and what kind of reactions amongst Chinese people they induced. On the other side, the point of view of Chinese Christians is mentioned, with the side effects that arose due to the presence of foreign missionaries. This leads to the explanation of how the Christian teachings were adjusted to the Chinese culture, and what were the consequences of cultural differences between missionaries and Chinese. The thesis is divided into two main parts, the first, theoretical part is concerned with history of evangelization in China and explaining specific cultural differences causing the evangelization process to be very...
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Manifestations of Animism among Khmers in Cambodia and in South Vietnam
Pospíšilová, Veronika ; Hlavatá, Lucie (advisor) ; Vrhel, František (referee) ; Liščák, Vladimír (referee)
This doctoral thesis discusses the manifestations of animism among Khmers in Cambodia and in south Vietnam. The subject is viewed from the culturally-anthropological perspective and attention is paid primarily to the specifics that are present in the everyday life of Khmers. The paper characterizes the manifestations of animism within the scope of the selected hypotheses and perceives this topic through various ethnological paradigms. The doctoral thesis marginally introduces animism as a phenomenon, the Khmer as a people, animistic rituals, and traditional Khmer feasts. Furthermore, the paper focuses on the importance of the shaman and other spiritual figures in the Khmer religious conception, the topic of healing, rites of passage, specific Khmer supernatural entities, and places where they are worshipped. The entire thesis includes the comparison of theoretical knowledge with the results of empirical research in selected areas. Using specific examples, it is demonstrated that animism is a part of syncretism, which is still an important component of the Khmer culture and significantly influences important life decisions. Rather than a unified discourse that would strictly subscribe to linear composition, the doctoral thesis is a prolegomenon to the phenomenon of animism in the Khmer culture and...
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The Christian missionary movement in China, 1860-1900
Sakmárová, Dominika ; Liščák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ondřej (referee)
The objective of this Bachelor's thesis is to describe the activities of Christian missionaries in China during the second half of 19. century. Most attention is being drawn to Protestant missions, which are more relevant due to the absence of hierarchy in Protestant churches, unlike in other branches of Christianity. However, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox missions are also briefly mentioned. The main point of the thesis is to describe history of Christian missions in China leading to the situation which arose in the second part of 19. century, causing a variety of different approaches to the problem of evangelization of Chinese people. The thesis describes various ways how the missions were practised and what kind of reactions amongst Chinese people they induced. On the other side, the point of view of Chinese Christians is mentioned, with the side effects that arose due to the presence of foreign missionaries. This leads to the explanation of how the Christian teachings were adjusted to the Chinese culture, and what were the consequences of cultural differences between missionaries and Chinese. The thesis is divided into two main parts, the first, theoretical part is concerned with history of evangelization in China and explaining specific cultural differences causing the evangelization process to be very...
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The book Liezi - the basis for the translation of the "Taoist" text
Beran, Jan ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Liščák, Vladimír (referee) ; Vávra, Dušan (referee)
The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English. The thesis does not include an abstract in English.
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The Czechoslovak legionnaires in the Far East
Hošek, Martin ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee) ; Liščák, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis deals with the exploits of Czechoslovak army in Russia towards the end of the First World War. In 1918 it was transferred from the theatre of war in European Russia to the Far East via Siberia and from there by the A11ied navies to Europe, according to the A11ies plans to use them to strengthen the war against the Germans on the Western front. It deals in particular with the so called Vladivostok group, the avant-garde of the Czechoslovak army, which, though bound for France, returned to Siberia in order to reinforce the other Czechoslovak units locked in conflict with the Bolsheviks for control of the Trans-Siberian railway. The author of this thesis, who is a sinologist, therefore focuses his attention on the period of transportation along the Chinese Eastern Railway in the second half of 1918. This involves an analysis and clarification of the very complex situation when the Czechoslovak legionnaires were crossing Chinese territory and their controversial employment in the Allied intervention against Soviet Russia, which was manipulated by the Japanese army to further its expansionist aims in the Far East.
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