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"En face d'un événement extraordinaire qui provoque l'étonnement, un Occidental dit : "qu'est-ce que c'est ?", et un Luba : "qui fait cela ?". Quand quelqu'un fait une chute, un Occidental dit : "Je suis tombé", tandis qu'un Luba dit : "On m'a jeté par terre". Derrière un événement, il n'y a pas de cause impersonnelle mais une intention personnelle. Cette idée est l'une des caractéristiques de la foi en la sorcellerie en milieu luba. La résurgence de la croyance en la sorcellerie ces dernières décennies, aussi bien en RDC qu'ailleurs en Afrique, exige une réflexion critique qui, démasquant l'obscurantisme entourant ce phénomène, libère l'homme africain de cette emprise. Postulant que le Buloji-Mupongo, ou la sorcellerie en milieu luba, suppose l'utilisation des connaissances de la nature et de ses potentialités, et aussi le déploiement d'une activité invisible basée sur une conception spéciale de l'être, cet essai offre les jalons d'une véritable déconstruction de la croyance en la sorcellerie."--Page 4 of cover

"The archives of the Grand Secretariat currently housed at the Institute were originally kept at the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Ch'ing imperial palace. They were removed from the Storehouse when it underwent renovation in 1909. After the overthrow of the Ch'ing, these archives changed hands several times, and were, at one point, even sold to a paper recycling factory. Eventually, the Institute purchased them from Li Sheng-to, a book collector, in 1929 thanks to the efforts of Fu Ssu-nien, the Institute's first director. There are over four thousand Ming (1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch'ing (1644-1911) archival materials in this collection, including imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk these documents.The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch'ing legal compendia." (cited from database website)

Contributed articles presented at the conference "11th Bod-kyi rig-gnas bgro-glen" held in 2014 at Sa-rā Bod-kyi Mtho-rim Slob-gnyer-khang, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh; on the historical value of Simla Accord, 1914. The Simla Accord, or the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, in Simla, was a treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by the representatives of the Republic of China, Tibet and the British India (United Kingdom) in Simla in 1913 and 1914

Collection of articles on the 1913 Tibeto-Mongol Treaty, including the Tibetan and Mongolian versions of the treaty, and their respective translations into English