Pages: 646

On full grounds, the book can be attributed to the genre of “the novel out of articles” because the author’s meditations, like a cohesive thread, narrate about the intricate history of his motherland Moldova, its people and their mentality, its history and culture, its science and education, about its place in a most complex interweaving of Western and Eastern cultures and civilizations.
The book consists of several sections including journalistic, cultural and scientific research. The same topic is considered at different angles and in different variations – the topic of human destiny and human creativity in this world that is intricate, constantly shaken by economic, political, ethnic and spiritual crises.
The book reflects the extensive material rich in facts, events and thoughts. This material is based on the author’s personal experience as a scientist, diplomat and publicist. The book attempts to "decipher" the cultural codes of the multinational population in Moldova.
Hence it got its name - “The Moldavian Hieroglyph”.

“It's a very strange book – smart, delicate and elegant. The essay-book. It should not be read avidly, but be read now and then and should be returned to again and again giving the attention to its new places. The author was born in the country, which lies at the crossroads of cultures – a country where culture, mingling, gave birth to new cultural forms. The author grew up as a leader, connecting the most remote cultures – the Chinese culture and those of the Dniester and the Danube because he was the ambassador of Moldova in China. Similarly, he links humanitarian and mathematics cultures, politics and philosophy in a single information space. And the he links them gracefully, not intrusively”. Leo Klein

CONTENTS

Butucheni apocryphal. Borshevich in the original. (Foreword by M. E. Tkachuk). . . 6

Author’s Foreword . . . 16

First Section
Journalism: the Burden of our Freedom

Moldavian Rebus . . . 25
Moldova: a Snail on a Slope of Mountains . . . 32
Moldova: Flying over the "Bermuda Triangle". . . 42
Moldova: Burden of our Freedom and Freedom of our Choice. . . 55
Moldova: A New "Focal Point" of the East-West Relations. . . 62
Moldova: A "Vector" Analysis of the Internal and External Political Realities. . . 70
Ghosts of the Roman Empire and the Problem of Moldavian Statehood. . . 79
Moldova in the Face of History: the Peculiarities of the Political Mythology of Mentality. . . 88
This Bitter Word "Freedom." . . 92
Moldova: Strategy of Freedom. . . 101
Butucheni: Requiem for the Great Masters of the Land Moldova. . . 108
"Political Las Vegas" in Moldova and the Growth of the National Political Consciousness. . . 122
Fates of the National Political Culture and the Silence of the Lambs. . . 130
The Trajectory of the Moldavian Myth in the Mirror of Geopolitical Reality. . . 137
The Burden of our Mythology, "Cain, where is thy brother Abel?". . . 153
Adventures of Moldavian Ideas at Bessarabian Wedding. . . 178
Happy New Year, Dear Transnistrians from the Both Dniester Banks! . . . 190
Postscriptum to the Article “Happy New Year, Dear Transnistrians from the Both Dniester Banks!". . . 195

The Second Section
The Chinese Mirror: Anthropological Studies

Anthropology of the Ascension: the Discourse of Civilizations. . . 199
Archaeology of the Chinese Culture: the Enigmas of Continuity. . . 328
"People" and "Protocol" Diplomacy: from the Experience of Practical Activities in China. . . 414

The Third Section
Reflexive and Discourse Approach to Scientific Research

Reflection and Discourse: Psychological, Cultural and Mathematical Aspects of Freedom and Creativity . . . 447
Stratagems of Reflexive Control in the Western and Eastern Cultures . . . 450
George Soros’ Theory of Reflexivity: the Experience of Critical Analysis . . . 504
Reflexive and Discourse Systems in the Context of Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Archaeology . . . 525
Vlach’s Worship: about the Magic of Reflective Discourse . . . 550
Klein’s Phenomenology. . . 557
Hypostases of Cultural Feat: a Remarkable Customs Officer from of the Kin of the Costinesti. . . 576

Appendix
Indescribable Charm of the Information Approach

Information Phenomenon of Zipf's Law:  on the Nature of the "Perfect" System. . . 586
Energy and Information in a Quantum-Mechanical World. . . 611
Moldova in the Mirror of China (Concluding remarks by L.S. Klein). . . 641