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.

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Interpenetration and essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist traditions, especially the Korean Buddhist tradition.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

* Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

The need to support more writing systems for different languages, including the CJK family of East Asian scripts, required support for a far larger number of characters and demanded a systematic approach to character encoding rather than the previous ad hoc approaches.

* Conical Asian hat, a simple style of straw hat originating in East and Southeast Asia

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

Other British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including Bhaji on the Beach ( 1993 ), East Is East ( 1999 ), Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ), Anita and Me ( 2003 ) and Death at a Funeral.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

* Asian Currency Unit: proposed for the ASEAN + 3, or the East Asian Community

* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

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.

Category: East Asian religions

Category: East Asian culture

Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism.

East Asian " Buddhist " cuisine differs from Western vegetarian cuisine in one aspect, that is avoidance of killing plant life.

The entrance to Chiang's tombsite at Tzuhu ( Cihu ) uses the official posthumous rendering of Chiang Kai-shek ( Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts | from right to left ): The President ( space ) Lord Chiang Mausoleum.

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

The collections represent the civilisations of the ancient Near East and its adjacent areas.

The collections date from 2700 BC onwards and are drawn from Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

Meyer Library, a 24-hour library slated for demolition in 2015, holds various student-accessible media resources and houses one of the largest East Asia collections, whose 540, 000 volumes are being transported to an interim location while a new library is rebuilt.

Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, ethnology and geography ; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587 ; the observatory ( 1860 ); the museum of antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ); and the ethnographical museum, of which P. F. von Siebold's Japanese collections was the nucleus ( Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ).

* The faculty ’ s archives include collections from the Design Council and a range of other British and global design organisations and the moving image archive Screen Archive South East.

The Clusius garden ( a reconstruction ), the 18th century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese Siebold Memorial Museum symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.

In 1879 – 80 the collections of the British East India Company's India Museum were given to the V & A and the British Museum.

The Far Eastern collections include more than 70, 000 works of art from the countries of East Asia: China, Japan and Korea.

The collections are well represented in these areas: early silks from the Near East, lace, European tapestries and English medieval church embroidery.

The Maritime Heritage East partnership, based at the award winning Time and Tide Museum aims to raise the profile of maritime heritage and museum collections.

As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control of East Dunbartonshire Council, with one of the primary grievances amongst the electorate being fortnightly waste collection, after the introduction of kerbside collections for recycling plastics, glass, metals and paper.

The Western wing on the second floor features collections of the Oriental art ( from China, India, Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asia, Byzantium and Near East ).

The East Asian Collection has one of the most extensive collections of carved snuff bottles, many of which were included in the catalogue: The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: Chinese Snuff Bottles.

The Library comprises one of the largest collections of scientific, engineering and business materials in East Asia.

Corona / East Elmhurst also houses one of the most extensive collections of African American art and literature in the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, which serves Queens County with reference and circulating collections, totaling approximately 30, 000 volumes of materials written about or relating to black culture.

From Bombay, the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and East Coast of Africa, where botanical and zoological collections were gathered.

Pictish sculptured stones at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum | Meigle MuseumPictish remains are in abundance in this part of Scotland and one of the largest collections of Pictish sculptured stones is housed 5 miles to the East of the town at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum.

The Institute is located 5 km southwest of the city centre at the East Gate of the university campus and has one of the most outstanding collections of art assembled in Britain in the 20th century, including works by Gwen John, André Derain, Fernand Léger, René Magritte and Egon Schiele.

Many ancient lacquer artefacts of East Asia can be found in private collections and museums, such as the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D. C.

An example of this craft and of others built and / or designed by Uffa Fox are in the collections of the Classic Boat Museum at East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

" The story exerted its influence even in the absence of Jews ... the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the proliferation of the Host-desecration story in England: in collections of miracle stories, many of them dedicated to the miracles of the Virgin Mary ; in the art of illuminated manuscripts used for Christian prayer and meditation ; and on stage, as in popular Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which itself evoked memories of an alleged ritual murder committed by Jews in East Anglia in 1191.