http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96225 Volume 2014 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:50:59 GMT 2026-04-06T17:50:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97154 The Role of Korea in Cultural Transmission between China and Japan during the Three Kingdoms Period; ; ; This article is about the latest results of Korea’s transmitting role in the era of the Three Kingdoms focusing on Buddhist thoughts and artistry. Our claim is to proof that China as the main source of culture, Korea and Japan created an influential circle in north‑east Asia. Monks carried philosophy, administrative system and artistry mostly but merchants, artisans were important participants of this cultural process too. The Three Kingdoms: Silla Paekche and Koguryŏ maintained cultural connections with China and Japan severally but along with the progress of the inner connections and the formation of the regional cultural characteristics a collective influential area evolved during the 5th to 8th centuries. We could use the latest archaeological evidences of architecture and graphic arts but other also sources to confirm our new viewpoint. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97154 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97122 Idealistic View on the Reality of Revolution: Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827); ; ; The French Revolution had in that time fundamental importance and affected by different intensity also ideological developments in other European countries including the United Kingdom. Helen Maria Williams was known in England as a popular English poet and romantic writer. As well as many foreign admirers of Revolution also Williams left her native country under the influence of French Revolution events. In Paris she immediately succumbed to the Federation Festival charm. Williams’s almost uncritical revolutionary idealism remained until the time when The Mountain (La Montagne) was established and its terror started to dominate the Revolution. From 1790 to 1796 Williams published eight volumes of Letters from France and in this way she informed the British public about revolutionary events. Williams’s Letters are also an important source of information needed for understanding her relationship to the revolutionary events. In my article I will focus not only on some of her views on the Revolution but I will also deal with the reaction of British press to her Letters. The important part of this article will be the question of women’s rights because Williams devoted a large part of her work just the fate of women during the Revolution. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97122 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97123 Great Britain, Germany, and the Selected Railway Problems in China, 1907–1908; ; ; The contribution, which is based on unpublished sources from the National Archives in London and the Political Archive in Berlin (Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts), aims to present and analyze the British and German view of the complicated question of railway‑building in China at the end of the Qing Empire era — concretely in the years 1907–1908. The author will turn his attention to the British and German economic interests in this country with special regard to the building of the Chinese railways, which were conducted by foreign companies. He will define the construction of railways as a policy of following the political and economic interests of the Great Powers in China. The contribution will also focus on the question of the British and German methods to gain railway concession and how successful London and Berlin was in its policy and whether it was able to take advantage of its opportunities. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97123 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97130 Feinde Widerwillen? Französisch‑burgundischer Discours über den Vertrag in Troyes; ; ; The Treaty of Troyes meant a fundamental breakthrough in relations between the Duke of Burgundy and French Kingdom, as well as between him and England. The article is using chosen narrative sources to try to analyse forms of perception of the identitity of Burgundy in relation to both partners, particularly France. It leads to a conclusion that it is possible to follow two marginal, mutually influential attitudes: the tendency to an independent political consciousness whose initiator is the land of Flanders and the tendency to include this consciousness into historical tradition of France. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97130 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z