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This is a 1990 JPRS report distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency. It translates the English summaries of major articles from the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989. The topics include small business policy in Asia, non-capitalist development in Central Asia, the Truman Doctrine and Turkey, pre-Islamic Turkic religions and al-Mawardi. One article, by A.D. Dikaryov, looks at how Chinese UFO enthusiasts search ancient Chinese sources for historical evidence of UFOs.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990
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37. A negative influence on the East, exerted by the West, was rather that the East actively rejected all western elements, becoming more and more archaic. However, one should not consider that modernization of the eastern economy is inevitably to lead to the death of traditional structures, pre-industrial civilization. The study of economic history of the East would help understanding economic problems of the USSR.
38. Results of the study of economic history could be applied for forecasting trends in the following fields: global problems, studies of economic growth and analysis of precedents.
39. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO) IN ANCIENT CHINA
40. A.D. DIKARYOV
41. The process of emancipation of thought in China in 1980s is particularly impressive after the spiritual vacuum of the epoch of "'cultural revolution.'" The thirst of the whole society for knowledge based on the economic reforms, takes in a number of cases the form of unofficial science. An example of such organizations is the scientific societies of UFO fanciers with corresponding periodicals as the revue "'Feidie Tansuo'" ("Studies of Flying Saucers'"). The efforts by Chinese scientists to find in ancient Chinese sources "'historical evidences'" of UFO' existence are of particular interest for Sinologists and experts in science of science. The activities of adherents of this new scientific trend in China demonstrate methodology and tasks of the Chinese historical science in general.
42. The article considers a number of concrete modern versions of interpretation of historical materials on extraordinary flying phenomena. A number of works criticizing the attempts to place a historical basis under this problem, as a rule, does not dispute the main modern concept of UFO as a product of alien mind.
43. COPYRIGHT: "'Narody Azii i Afriki''. Izdatelstvo "'Nauka'' Glavnaya redaktsiya vostochnoy literatury, 1989 Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.