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A brief (max. 10 sentences long) professional CV in English. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2012 3 July-September 2012 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume IV., Issue 3. _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief FARKAS, Flórián The Hague, Holland Deputy Editor-in-Chief OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Budapest, Hungary Editors ALIMBAY, Nursan Almaty, Kazakhstan ARADI, Éva Budapest, Hungary BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Budapest, Hungary BÍRÓ, András Budapest, Hungary CSORNAI, Katalin Budapest, Hungary CZEGLÉDI, Katalin Pécs, Hungary ERDÉLYI, István Göd, Hungary HORVÁTH, Izabella Hangzhou, China KARATAY, Osman İzmir, Turkey MAHAPATRA, Debidatta Aurobinda Boston, MA, USA MARÁCZ, László Amsterdam, Holland MARCANTONIO, Angela Rome, Italy MURAKEÖZY, Éva Patrícia The Hague, Holland SECHENBAATAR Hohhot, China UCHIRALTU Hohhot, China ZOMBORI, Andor Nagoya, Japan _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2012 4 July-September 2012 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume IV., Issue 3. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Dear Reader, ............................................................................................................................................. 7 HISTORY ............................................................................................................ 8 VERMAN, Sanghamitra Rai Trade and Religion: Trade and Its Role in the Spread of Buddhism in China from India. (1st to 6th Century C.E.) .................................................................................. 9 LINGUISTICS ................................................................................................. 21 ТАМБОВЦЕВ, Юрий Алексеевич “Этнографическая криминалистика: к какому народу ближе всего венгры по данным дактелоскопии?” ..................................................................................... 22 TAMBOVTSEV, Yuri: Ethnographic Criminalistics: to which People are the Hungarians Closer on the Basis of their Dactiloscopic Data? ................................................................... 36 POLITICS ......................................................................................................... 37 MANTOO, Shahnawaz Ahmad Bangladesh Illegal Immigration: Effects and Consequences .................................................... 38 SOCIOLOGY ................................................................................................... 54 BALÁZS, Lajos Erotica, obscenitatea şi pragmatismul ţărănesc al dăinuirii ...................................................... 55 BALÁZS, Lajos: Eroticism, Obscenity and the Peasant Pragmatism of Survival ..................................................... 68 LITERATURE & ARTS .................................................................................. 69 MIRABILE, Paul The Mediaeval Eurasian Koine: The Art of Philology ............................................................... 70 PLÁJÁS, Ildikó Zonga A Different Lesson on History of Arts ........................................................................................... 98 TRAVELOGUE .............................................................................................. 104 TAPON, Francis Czech Republic — Eastern Europe’s Most Civilized Country ................................................ 105 CLASSICAL WRITINGS ON EURASIA ................................................... 110 VÁMBÉRY, Ármin In Herat and Beyond It ................................................................................................................... 111 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2012 5 July-September 2012 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume IV., Issue 3. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CHRONICLE ................................................................................................. 115 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála In the Footsteps of Khasar in Inner Mongolia ........................................................................... 116 Our Authors ......................................................................................................................................... 125 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2012 6 July-September 2012 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume IV., Issue 3. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER, WHAT OBITUARIES DO REVEAL One naïvely might assume that obituaries are about the deceased. In fact they reflect others’ perceptions of the deceased person in question instead of an in-depth knowledge of their personality and œuvre. Gore Vidal passed away on the 31st of July this year. During his relatively long life he produced a very rich and versatile artistic output. He was also the enfant terrible of the American political establishment, a key figure of civic life in the US, both in writing and in live media appearances. Next to this, his countless essays and his two excellent memoirs provide an unparalleled insight into his thinking and character. Based on this one would assume that those who wrote an obituary on this occasion had plenty of time to prepare such a writing and provide a full picture. Browsing through the obituaries published in the mainstream media, those who know his complete œuvre get a very strange feeling: while some obituary writers emphasize his public life in politics and arts, others his groundbreaking novels tackling homosexuality, his screenplays or his great essayist talent, his literary historian work is just mentioned en passant and out of context. As I mentioned previously, Gore Vidal was a formidably versatile person, hence it is really difficult to mention every facet of his life and work. Therefore an obituary should focus on the core of a person’s œuvre. While his public life was of great importance, likewise his essays, screenplays and literary novels, these alone would not, in my view, guarantee him a place in mankind’s intellectual Walhalla. The literary historic novels constitute the core of Gore Vidal’s œuvre. He was a literary historian par excellence. His seven volumes series on American history is insurmountable. His other works like Julian are also of the greatest quality. But the crown jewel of his whole life is Creation, a fictional travel story of an Achaemenid Persian diplomat in the 5th century BCE, who over