《日本再发现》

第一篇文章《太阳照常升起》把现代日本讲得很全面,战后经济发展的局面,泡沫经济以后的困境,两个时代的正面、负面都有写。我觉得其他文章都有点过度强调日本传统因素的影响,但是外围人总有这种趋势,包括我们日本讲中国的时候也是。     

日本泡沫经济的崩溃

从20世纪80年代到90年代初,日本的经济经历了从巅峰滑落谷底的巨大变迁,自从这所谓的泡沫经济崩溃以来,日本社会不景气持续至今。当前,从经济学家到平民百姓,很多人都在议论人民币升值,中国股市房价飞涨这些现象与当年的日本极其相似。在推进贸易自由化,资本全球化的同时,中国怎样做才能不重蹈日本的覆辙呢?客观的认识和分析日本泡沫经济的不断膨胀与崩溃,对于当今的中国有着重大的启示意义。     

战后日本地价的变动及其原因

战后日本地价的变动及其原因冯辉战后日本的地价持续上涨,特别是在政府开始实施国民收入倍增计划的６０年代、进行列岛改造的７０年代初期,以及从８０年代中期到９０年代初期的泡沫经济时期。地价的变动是与经济结构的变化、经济发展的速度、城市化、地区开发的动态密切...     

加强民族立法促进少数民族自治地方经济发展

辽宁省目前有8个少数民族自治县,虽然在长期与汉族人民共同生产生活中,少数民族自治地方内共同性日益增多,区域性增强,但仍然存在着经济特点,从宏观上分析表明,经济发展滞后是辽宁省民族自治地方经济的基本特点,其中,历史上遗留下来的经济发展滞后是民族自治地方基本经济特点的特点,这是针对民族自治地方经济发展的历史过程而言的,表现出民族自治地方经济特点的民族性。民族自治地方经济发展差距同全省逐步拉大,是基本经济特点的内在表现,体现了民族自治地方经济特点的区域性。民族自治地方就是要紧密结合经济发展特点实际,加强立法,促进经济发展。     

《资本论》中的安徽王侍郎

近年来,亚洲金融危机起伏不定;欧洲不少国家货币贬值;俄罗斯经济濒临悬崖;日本泡沫经济破产、又趋向军国主义招魂活动;美国正准备改用塑料货币;欧洲各国已用统一欧元……诸般现象说明货币在国际经济世界中的重要性。中国,在世界金融风暴中能巍然屹立,     

日本经济发展过程中的问题及其对我国的启示

自１９９１年５月进入经济调整期算起,如今已７年有余。这一期间日本的经济增长率年平均只有ｌ％左右。而１９９３年与１９９７年第４季度呈现负增长。如此长时期的经济不景气,在日本战后的经济发展过程中是前所未有的。由于经济毫无起色,股市持续下跌,使得泡沫经济崩溃后出现的银行呆坏帐问题迟迟得不到解决。而１９９７年夏天爆发的东南亚金融危机,又给在这一地区拥有大量投资及贷款的日本银行和企业以重大的打击。一时间,日元贬值,股市狂跌,金融体系破绽百出。世人对这个排名世界第二的经济大国的前途十分忧心。而东亚国家,除了…     

房地产泡沫和金融安全——日本泡沫经济的启示

房地产泡沫和金融安全之间的相互关系既是政府宏观管理必须密切关注的问题,也是学术界长期探索的重大课题。本文以20世纪80至90年代的日本泡沫经济为对象,全面分析了日本以地价泡沫为特征的泡沫经济状况以及日本房地产泡沫对日本金融安全伤害的情况。在此基础上,从制度变迁、宏观经济政策的变化以及预期和经济主体行为变异等方面,考察了日本房地产泡沫和金融安全之间的相互关系,重点分析了两者之间的传递机制。     

日本地方史志编纂的几个问题

文章认为,无论是作为日本地方史志源头的风土记,还是明治时期的皇国地志,其编纂都曾受到中国地方志的影响。针对这些情况,文章向我们介绍了有关日本地方史志编纂的几点知识:日本地方史志编纂机构的组成,日本地方史志编纂的契机与目的,日本地方史志的种类,日本地方史志体例的演变,日本地方史志资料的收集与"史料编",日本地方史志的利用。日本地方史志在长期的发展过程中,体例历经变化,最主要的是由"志"向"史"的转变,以至于"二战"以后,"史"的体例成为日本地方史志中的主流。究其原因,除了机构变动、受西方史学思潮影响等原因外,更主要的是与现代社会的发展进步密切相关。日本地方史志的变化和创新历程,值得我们今天修志借鉴和参考。     

当前日本经济的复苏与风险

从20世纪80年代末到本世纪初的10多年间,日本经历了战后以来最为严重的经济衰退。泡沫经济崩溃后,为了恢复经济,20世纪90年代以来日本政府推出过大大小小的经济对策不计其数,经历了多年艰难调整后,改革取得了明显的成效,延续了10多年的经济衰退和停滞终于结束,实现了经济的全面复苏。但另一方面,当前在日本经济增长和复苏的过程中,潜在的危机隐患依然存在,经济复苏是否能够持续下去仍然是个悬念,不能排除经济增长减缓或出现新一轮衰退的可能。     

实现财政档案科学管理的有效路径

财政档案是对地方经济的历史记录,是研究地方经济发展的重要依据,经济信息含量很高,尤其对提高财政管理水平、制定地方经济发展战略有非常重要的参考价值。当前在我国,财政档案管理工作被视为一般、次要的工作,其本身的价值和可利用的空间没有得到充分体现,是需要我们给予重视和解决的问题。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

Hospital Drama: Visual Theatres of the Medical Rendezvous from Asylum to Hospital with Reference to Specific Works by Anna Furse

Abstract

This paper is informed by Furse’s practice as a theatre maker in two fields of output that are connected by two factors: first, the presence of the woman patient — hysteric/subfertile respectively — within the clinical gaze; second, the significance of the womb to each pathology. In the treatment of each (explored in Furse’s theatre), lens based technologies play their part, whilst the cultural and medical can be seen to have overlapped to produce specific meaning with regard to Her body and its spectacularity. The article presents an overview of some of the key issues in precisely how the woman’s body becomes spectacular within this prosthetic medical gaze and how the medical — and theatrically designed spaces to represent these — become meaningful and potent proxemics that in turn inform medical/ theatrical spectatorship. Overarching nineteenth-century protocols at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (where Furse’s Augustine (Big Hysteria) is set) to contemporary imaging technologies used in the treatment of subfertility with Assisted Reproduction Technologies (the topic of her Art of A.R.T. projects), it examines the way in which photography develops through cinema to X-Ray, ultrasound and then 3D/4D ultrasound to ‘capture’ the woman’s body in ways by which she becomes muted and exposed. These occular technologies that extend the gaze, first to an exterior subject and then, eventually, traversing the flesh without knife, lend specific performativity to the ‘patient’ women, within the context of hysterias and reproductive impairments respectively. Finally, issues of suspension of disbelief are addressed. The spectator’s faith in the screen-based image of Her spectacular body is interrupted in Furse’s work, which is also keenly interested in the effect of such imagery on the woman’s sense of Self. The historical and cultural leaps in this article argue that there is indeed a trajectory through the history of medical imaging since the first application of photography to anatomy to the more advanced scoping technologies of medical imaging today, and that in each era, the production of these images remain fraught with cultural implications.     

The Death of Alexander the Great – A Spinal Twist of Fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome.