Developments in the systematic study of ancient civilizations through the disciplines of Classics and Egyptology informed both archaeology and eventually social anthropology, as did the study of East and South Asian languages and cultures.

* Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall.

* New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:

This theme of mutuality is prevalent in East Asian cultures even to this day.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

It is not exclusive to China, but followed by many other Asian cultures as well.

In many Asian cultures dragons were, and in some cultures still are, revered as representative of the primal forces of nature, religion and the universe.

Elephants are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence ; their intelligence level is thought to be comparable to that of dolphins and primates.

Many Asian civilizations distinguish between art / court / classical styles and " folk " music, though cultures that do not depend greatly upon notation and have much anonymous art music must distinguish the two in different ways from those suggested by western scholars.

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

* Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures ; the last day of the six months Dakshinayana period ( see January 14 ):

It is suggested the similarity comes from the conquest and colonisation by Spain during the 16th century, when engravings of the Virgin Mary influenced Asian cultures.

* Qilin or Kirin, a mythical creature known in various East Asian cultures

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music.

Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution.

Most South American Native peoples were largely panentheistic as well ( as were ancient South East Asian and African cultures ).

By 313 BC, Hellenic ideas had begun their almost 250-year expansion into the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asian cultures.

In many East Asian cultures, a simple bow from the waist ( rei in Japanese, panbae in Korean ) is used, with many regional variations seen.

The history of East Asia is highly focused on territories within the Chinese sphere of influence where the majority of East Asian cultures and technologies originated from.

A plethora of large empires, civilizations, and cultures that have existed on the Asian continent were influenced by the Silk Road, which connected China, India, the Middle East and Europe.

Orientalism is a term used by art historians, literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern, and East Asian cultures ( Eastern cultures ) by American and European writers, designers and artists.

In interdependent cultures, usually identified as Asian as well as many Latin American, African, and Southern European cultures, an interdependent figure of self is dominant.

The U. S. missile defense program has proven to be the primary persistent obstacle to better relations with Russia, which views the placement of U. S. missile defense systems in Eastern Europe for defense against " the Iranian threat " similarly to how the U. S. would view placement of Russian missile defense systems in, for example, Cuba, for Russian defense against " the insidious Asian ".

Additionally, while most women in the United States have a negative view of menopause as a time of deterioration or decline, some studies seem to indicate that Asian women have an understanding of menopause that focuses on a sense of liberation, and celebrates the freedom from the risk of pregnancy.

Since the 1960s, many westerners attracted by the world view presented in Asian religious systems including Hinduism have converted to Hinduism.

The film portrays Gibson's dystopian view of the future with the world dominated by megacorporations and with strong East Asian influences.

From dining to shopping, people can view art galleries around downtown and can taste exquisite cuisines from Armenian to Italian and Mexican to Asian.

He has stated the view that brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon do the same in the ancient Asian game of Go.

It's not clear, however that this stereotypical view reflects the reality of East Asian classrooms or that the educational goals in these countries are commensurable with those in Western countries.

The strike north view held that Japan should join with Manchukuo ( the Japanese puppet state created out of occupied Manchuria in 1932 ) and China to form an “ East Asian League ”, which would then prepare for and fight a war with the Soviet Union.

If the consensus view regarding the origins of the Nilo-Saharan languages which came to East Africa is adopted, and a North African or Southeast Asian origin for Afro-Asiatic languages is assumed, the linguistic affiliation of East Africa prior to the arrival of Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic languages is left open.

The Asian Elephants are also led through the park twice daily for a swim in full view of the public.

However, the general view of what is and is not buddhavacana is broadly similar between East Asian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

The Thai historian Sunait Chutintaranond made an important contribution to study of the mandala in Southeast Asian history by demonstrating that " three assumptions responsible for the view that Ayudhya was a strong centralized state " did not hold and that " in Ayudhya the hegemony of provincial governors was never successfully eliminated "

The park includes a conservatory ( a designated city landmark ), completed in 1912 ; a water tower with an observation deck, built by the Water Department in 1906, a fenced-off reservoir ; the dramatic Art deco building of the Seattle Asian Art Museum ( a designated city landmark ); a statue of William H. Seward ; and a sculpture, Black Sun, by Isamu Noguchi ( colloquially referred to as " The Doughnut ") around which a scenic view of the Seattle skyline that prominently includes the Space Needle can be seen, as well as several meadows and picnic tables.

Originally, he sympathized with the students, but in 1997, he had changed his view and now regarded the crackdown as a necessary evil to preserve Asian stability.

The marathon starts on the Asian side of the city, shortly before the First Bosphorus Bridge, crosses the bridge giving an outstanding view of the Bosphorus and Istanbul, passes many historic sites including the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, and ends in the İnönü Stadium in the European part.

Panoramic view at dusk from the Asian side

An assumption that there are no isolated populations is questionable in view of the existence of various uncontacted peoples, who are suspected to have been isolated for many millennia, including the Sentinelese who have been isolated from the western world and also from the Asian mainland.

Perhaps beginning with early Silk Road trade, the Eurasian view of history seeks establishing genetic, cultural, and linguistic links between European, African and Asian cultures of antiquity.

Some authors take a wider view of the genus, and include the related Asian – Australasian genus Toona in Cedrela.

According to Thomas Lum, a specialist in Asian Affairs: " Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) has exerted great effort in manipulating the flow of information and prohibiting the dissemination of viewpoints that criticize the government or stray from the official Communist party view.

In 2008, GfK Asia will track the broader Asian Optics industry which includes contact lens, ophthalmic lens, spectacles frames and sunglasses to give the industry a comprehensive view of this expanding market segment.

* East Asian Collection-an East Asian garden with a view of Lake Spafford and an open lawn ; features cherry blossoms and daphne ( prominent in winter and spring ) and ginkgo, zelkova, and ornamental grasses ( prominent in fall ).

The Kushans, who were a Central Asian Tribe ( Other view, they were Turks, or Mongolian Tribe or a Chinese Tribe ), overran the entire north of India in the first century.