Until the second half of the 19th century, East and South-East Asian countries were linked by an interstate system, based on the rules of the Chinese Empire, which became known – following Western patterns – as a China-centred feudal aid system. This model is descriptive, thus it is not suitable capturing the inner logic and operational mechanism of these interstate relations. The present study is making an attempt to put the China-centred feudal aid system into its own context and to identify its institutional basis.

Before the times of socialism, Tázlár was a small boondocks community of the Great Plain in Hungary. In the 1970s, when the author started his fieldwork there, he found quick development, constructions and future oriented people. Now, many homes are for sale, the land was privatised but the output is smaller. Since 2012, the primary school belongs again to the church, not because Tázlár residents have nostalgia for the Horthy era but to secure the finances for the institution. The author uses the ‘anthropology of time' approach in his local history and ethnographic analysis.

Among the social movements developed in 2011, maybe the Chilean student movement made the maximum echo in the Americas. The article is exploring the roots and goals of this movement, clearing a misunderstanding that these protests were focusing only on (re)making the education gratis. By presenting the two year history of the movement, the author (also) wants to contribute to Hungarian public discussions.

We willingly believe that if nothing else but academics is properly nuanced and open in the present world. The reality is different: systems-based critical economics – although its representatives have foretold the possibility of a coming crisis years before its outbreak, and analysing its features now also getting into its roots and further perspective – has been and still missing from the mainstream of Hungarian economics, in addition making such studies public is difficul.

On the book of Péter Agárdi: Irodalomról, vagy más ily fontos emberi lomról. József Attila és a magyar nemzeti hagyománytudat. [On literature or similar human rubbish. Attila József and Hungarian national consciousness of traditions] Budapest, Balassi Kiadó, 2013.