Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by bryondowd on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:11PM (#13880333)

Here's one of the resources I came across. I only perused it briefly, but it mentions a Father Yakinf returning to St Petersburg and translating "the Confucian classic Four Books (Sishu)" among other things.

Hopefully this link works for you and isn't dependent on local cookies or something. But the book is: China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient By Susanna Soojung Lim

https://books.google.com/books?id=RQldRM5wlfcC&pg=PA65&lpg=P...

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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by nybblet on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:57PM (#13881081)

Haha: "He developed a questionable reputation among the other members of the Mission..."

Yes, I can see it, and this is very cool. Thank you very much!

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