《钝斋文选》与《南山集》案

明末清初的方孝标<钝斋文选>,为理清康熙时代最大文字狱<南山集>案的重要文献.清廷以<钝斋文选>中的<滇黔纪闻>为方孝标所定三项罪行,按之<钝斋文选>皆不能成立.康熙皇帝却将错就错铸成<南山集>案.雍正明知此案"中有隐情",在矫枉时故意留条尾巴.既维护了康熙的权威,又显示了自己的恩泽.人们从中也能窥测到某些历史的奥秘.     

《天演论》版本时间考析两题

<天演论>研究取得一定成果,也存在问题,研究者多关注严译主张是什么,而探讨<天演论>在知识界的传播路径,鲜有涉及.笔者试图以考证见思想,探讨<天演论>早期本子及其在思想界的传播情况以及舆论界的反应.     

明人黄(日韦)《蓬轩类纪》相关问题考释

明人黄(日,韦)的<蓬轩类纪>是研究由明前期向中期过渡阶段南北地区特别是苏州地方社会变迁的珍贵材料.关于该书的名称和衍变等问题,自明嘉靖以来即产生歧异和纠葛.近年来由于新材料的影印出版,这些问题因而得以澄清:<蓬轩类纪>为黄NFDBF笔记之原名,而<蓬窗类纪>为误称;其孙黄省曾依据材料归属吴地和非吴地的原则将<蓬轩类纪>分解,重组为<蓬轩吴记>和<蓬轩别记>;其他与之相关的问题在上述主要问题考实的基础上自然得到解决.     

《宋书·州郡志》脱漏试补

本文举例讨论了中华书局本<宋书·州郡志>脱漏方面的问题,并试为补正,凡33条.这些脱漏,多是在流传过程中产生的,也可能有<宋书·州郡志>本身的失误,又有<宋书·州郡志>本身没有脱漏而中华书局本误补者.     

纪昀与《四库全书》

清代乾隆年间<四库全书>的编纂,是中国古代历史上最为浩大的文化工程.著名学者纪昀参与其中,既总揽全局,"撮举大纲",负责全书的编纂审核工作,又主持纂成<四库全书总目>及<四库全书简明目录>,并先后主持文渊阁、文源阁和文津阁<四库全书>的复校事宜以及各阁<四库全书>的补遗工作,成为纂修工作中惟一始终其事而总其成者,为<四库全书>的修成及其完善作出了不可磨灭的贡献.     

秦简《寡》、《天》、《(兴蚕)》诸卦解诂 --兼论《归藏易》的若干问题

王家台秦简<归藏>首卦名<寡>,为<坤>卦别名,卦辞讲"不仁",夏后启投渊、共工坠江,都是"不仁"的恶果.次卦名"天",乃<乾>卦别名,卦辞说过早地让诸侯们来朝见,不利于农业收成."( )"是<既济>卦别名,卦辞以( )虫蛀咬席子,来隐喻商朝北方受到鬼方的侵扰.<师>卦残辞可与传本<归藏>缀合,讲周穆王西征的故事."( )"为"瞿"字异体,乃<睽>卦别名,残辞可与传本<归藏·瞿>卦佚文缀合,以"两羭"醉酒"三日然后苏",来隐喻商王朝国家无忧.秦简<归藏>与传本<归藏>的内容基本相同,而传本<归藏>实乃战国魏襄王墓出土<易繇阴阳卦>的佚文.它是战国早中期人在<周易>筮占体系的影响下,依托<山海经>、<楚辞>等文献里的人物故事,编撰而成的易学著作.     

《凤合集序》——研究高启的新见文献

本文所辑<凤台集序>是明初谢徽为著名诗人高启<凤台集>所作序文,此文不见于今存诸种高启诗文集,也向无研究者加以注意.它保存在明人朱存理<珊瑚木难>中,是现存唯一一篇评论高启金陵时期诗歌作品的文字.本文认为此序真实可信,并通过对其内容的解析,揭示了此序对于高启诗学思想与创作研究的独特价值.     

《上博简·孔子诗论》"樛木之时"释义--兼论《诗·樛木》的若干问题

<上海博物馆藏楚竹书>第一册的<孔子诗论>部分三处提到<樛木>一诗的主旨为"时".关于其意义,本文联系到<诗经>此篇进行了探讨.<樛木>诗的"福履"二字盖读若"蔑(伐)历",意指贵族受到关于其经历及功绩的考察与肯定.简文的"时"字应当理解为春秋战国时期社会上广泛流行的时遇、机遇的概念.<孔子诗论>的相关简文与<诗·樛木>篇的相互印证,对于阐释楚竹书和<诗经>相关文义都是重要参考.     

清末徽州学生的《庚戌袖珍日记》

本文介绍新发现的<庚戌袖珍日记>,从一个侧面反映商务印书馆刊行的读物对皖南社会的影响,并根据日记书写的内容,研究清末徽州学生的行旅生活.     

秩序的确立:《新安名族志》的编撰与意义

本文通过解读<新安名族志>力图揭示传统徽州社会对秩序的重视.确立秩序的主要依据是文化背景和官秩,这使徽州社会形成了良好的文化氛围,徽州商人亦秉承其文化精神在中国商业舞台上确立了自己的一席之地.<新安名族志>的编撰过程体现了立序标准的确立、立序主体的作为以及该志的文化内涵.     

21世纪的太平洋——在政治、经济、军事上的重要性评价

太平洋是地球上最大的海洋,在环太平洋沿岸和浩瀚海洋中星罗棋布的岛屿上,分布着40个国家和一些尚未独立的地区,太平洋地区国家陆地面积占世界的46%,人口占世界的40%,但却拥有全球50%以上的GNP和近1/2的世界贸易总额。二次大战以后,太平洋地区的迅速崛起,引起国际舆论的广泛关注。21世纪是太平洋世纪,已日益被国际社会所公认。本文立足于政治军事地理及地缘政治学的基本理论,以21世纪是太平洋世纪的基本结论为出发点,从资源、经济、政治、军事等四个方面对太平洋在21世纪的重要性进行了系统地分析与评价。指出太平洋不仅是人类有待开发的巨大资源宝库和全球经济最富有活力的地区而且是21世纪全球地缘政治中心和地缘战略中心,是世界上各大国和大国集团矛盾的焦点,以及军费增长最快和军备最密集的地区。在今后相当长一段时期内,围绕太平洋地区控制权的争夺竟会日趋激烈。因此21世纪的世界是走向和平还是步入战争,关键取决于环太平洋地区各种战略力量的矛盾与合作。     

Politics and Eschatology: Reassessing the Appeal of the “Jewish Indian” Theory in England and New England in the 1650s

This article examines the “Jewish Indian” theory — which claimed that American Indians were the ten lost tribes of Israel — in 1650s England and New England. The theory found support in England while failing in New England. This difference in reception can be explained by considering its ecclesiological, political, and eschatological implications. Biblical commentators in both England and New England held to a form of “Judeo‐Centric” eschatology, which looked for a sudden, miraculous conversion of the Jews and their eventual superiority to Gentile believers. Such beliefs undermined crucial elements of New England ecclesiology when applied to Native Americans. Conversely, the New England Company used the theory in its publications as a fund‐raising tool in England. These publications impacted upon debates on Jewish readmission to England in the mid‐1650s, with New England missionary models suggested as a way of evangelising Jews. This article therefore argues for the importance of understanding eschatological beliefs in local contexts, while demonstrating the way in which such beliefs can be maintained and reoriented in the face of apparent disconfirmation.     

An Exemplary Leader?: New Zealand and Decolonization of the Cook Islands and Niue

ABSTRACT

New Zealand is proud of its decolonization record: Prime Minister Peter Fraser’s role in developing provisions for non-self-governing territories in the United Nations; New Zealand’s support for the 1960 declaration on colonialism; its leadership on decolonization in the Pacific; the innovative decolonization solution of self-government in free association with New Zealand adopted by the Cook Islands in 1965, and similar arrangement by Niue in 1974. This record is ascribed to a New Zealand belief in self-determination. Closer examination shows many officials, ministers and parliamentarians were opposed to self-government for the Cook Islands, and concerns lingered about Niue. The arrangements reached reflected New Zealand’s reluctance to let go. Yet self-government was granted, in the context of a reassuring New Zealand view of itself as the centre of the South Pacific region. With new competition for influence in the region, it is important that New Zealand does not seek to constrain the Cook Islands’ and Niue’s self-government and potential future self-determination.     

The Legacy of Bernard Narokobi and the Melanesian Way

ABSTRACT

This special issue on the life and legacy of Bernard Narokobi documents and contextualizes Narokobi's life and thought. A central figure in Papua New Guinea's transition from Australian territory to independent nation, Narokobi was a jurist, philosopher, and poet who is best remembered for making ‘the Melanesian Way’ an important theme – if not the guiding ideological principle – in the discourse of independence in Papua New Guinea. In looking closely at Narokobi's biography, the collection also contributes to a growing body of work on political life writing in the Pacific. The collection speaks to Narokobi's role as a theorist of Oceanic modernity more broadly, one who deserves a place alongside two other important philosophers of Pacific independence, Epeli Hau‘ofa and Jean-Marie Tjibaou, as one of the main visionaries of Pacific decolonization and Oceanic modernity of the post-war period.     

Webbygnathus,a new Late Ordovician conodont genus from New South Wales

The new conodont Webbygnathus munusculum gen. et sp. nov. is described from Eastonian (early Late Ordovician) strata from the central part of the Parkes Zone of the Lachlan Fold Belt and the New England Fold Belt in New South Wales. In the type area south of Gunningbland, central New South Wales, the genus occurs associated with macrofossils of the coral/stromatoporoid assemblage Fauna II (early Eastonian or Ea2); in the New England region it has been obtained from strata on both sides of a major structural feature, the Peel Fault, the associated conodont assemblages indicating an age equivalent to that of coral/stromatoporoid assemblage Fauna III or late Eastonian (Ea3). The apparatus of this species, as presently known, comprises two pectiniform elements, one stellate with a four-rayed basal cavity, the other fundamentally pastinate, with a three-rayed basal cavity.     

能动与受动：道咸新学表现的转折与“冲击/反应”模式

道咸新学是清代学术史上的一个重要转折,其“务为前人所不为”的态度既是学问的自然扩展,也显露出明显的“造反”意味,使清代学术在很大程度上游离出明清之际开创的风气。经学内部治学空间、门类和取向逐渐外移,而此前臣服于“汉学专制”的“一切诸学”从边缘走向中心。道咸新学体现了中国传统学术的多元性和开放性,对冲击中国的西教和西学做出了不同的反应,在不断受动中仍保持了能动。由于西潮冲击带来更大的转变,且西学稍后占据“新学”之名,致使道咸“新学”在学术史上呈失语状态。梳理学术史上这一重大转折,探究这一不待西潮冲击先已出现的自身变动与稍后席卷中国之西学的关联互动,对理解西潮冲击的实际影响,以及将中西各自整体化的“冲击/反应”解释模式,都有所助益。     

The Varying Role of Vertebrae in Pacific Fishbone Analysis: Comparing Tropical Versus Temperate Midden Assemblages

Archaeologists working in the tropical Pacific have demonstrated the feasibility and value of including fish vertebrae in midden analyses, and recent New Zealand studies draw similar conclusions. This work provides an illustrated guide to the identification of vertebrae from key New Zealand fish taxa and shows the effects of including vertebrae on a large fishbone assemblage from southern New Zealand. We note major differences between New Zealand and tropical Pacific assemblages resulting from the inclusion of vertebrae. Unlike the Indo‐Pacific taxa of the tropical Pacific, no New Zealand species have been shown to be sensitive to the inclusion of vertebrae. In both places, including vertebrae results in changes in relative abundance and rank order; but in New Zealand, this is a function of processing practices, not fishing behaviours. This work serves to highlight changes in the Polynesian fishing adaption following the colonisation of New Zealand. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Last of Australian Imperial Dreams for the Southwest Pacific: Paul Hasluck,the Department of Territories and a Greater Melanesia in 1960

This paper is a study of the vision held at the beginning of the 1960s by Paul Hasluck, the minister for external territories, and his department of the path to decolonisation for Melanesia. Faced by the ongoing West New Guinea crisis, Hasluck and his officials proposed to keep the western part of New Guinea out of Indonesian hands by expanding Australia’s empire, step by step, to include most of Melanesia. This greater Melanesian empire would eventually be guided to self-government. The proposal stood in a long line of ideas by Pacific-minded Australians going back for 100 years for an expanded Australian empire in the southwest Pacific. Consequently the Menzies cabinet’s rejection of Hasluck’s proposal was not just an important step towards changing its policy towards WNG; it marked the end to a century of Australian dreams and designs of a greater formal empire in the southwest Pacific.     

Mobility,farmworkers, and Connecticut's tobacco valley, 1900–1950

By the early decades of the twentieth century, southern New England's Connecticut Valley had become a center of shade tobacco production and a destination for seasonal farmworkers drawn from sources inside and outside of New England. This paper explores the history of three groups of seasonal workers—children from area cities and towns; white southern high school students; and young African American men from southern high schools and black colleges—with an eye to assessing the impact of their presence on the form and meaning of the Connecticut Valley. My first goal is to add depth to the historiography of twentieth-century New England farming by drawing attention to the largely overlooked story of non-rural and extra-regional seasonal farmworkers. My second goal is to frame the case of Connecticut tobacco labor according to the study of mobility and its relationship to landscape. The mobility of workers into and within the region, I suggest, made possible the success of the shade tobacco economy while at the same time posing challenges to popularized cultural conventions about regional identity. For this reason, I argue, the history of Connecticut's shade tobacco landscape was informed by the efforts of shade tobacco growers to direct and control a confluence of environmental conditions, group and place-based identities, and the mechanics and meanings of mobility among seasonal workers. By hiring non-local, seasonal workers and by attempting to control their mobility, large-scale, corporate growers and their spokespeople ultimately sought to maintain control over the development and identity of the valley's rural landscape.     

Europe,the rise of Asia and the future of the transatlantic relationship

This article examines how, in a global strategic context presided by the rise of Asia and the US rebalance towards that region, Europeans are contributing to transatlantic burden‐sharing—whether individually or through the EU/NATO. As Asian powers reach westward and the US shifts its strategic priorities eastward, classical geostrategic delimitations become gradually tenuous. Particularly important are the ‘middle spaces’ of the Indian Ocean, central Asia and the Arctic, in that they constitute the main avenues of communication between the Asia–Pacific and the European neighbourhood. The article seeks to understand how evolving geostrategic dynamics in Europe, the ‘middle spaces’ and the Asia–Pacific relate to each other, and how they might impinge on discussions on transatlantic burden‐sharing. It is argued that the ability of Europeans to contribute to a more equitable transatlantic burden‐sharing revolves around two main tenets. First, by engaging in the ‘middle spaces’, Europe's key powers and institutions are helping to underpin a balance of power in these regions. Second, by stepping up their diplomatic and economic role in the Asia–Pacific, strengthening their security ties to (US) regional allies and maintaining an EU‐wide arms embargo on China, Europeans are broadly complementing US efforts in that key region. There are a number of factors that stand in the way of a meaningful European engagement in the ‘middle spaces’ and the Asia–Pacific, including divergent security priorities among Europeans, the impact of budgetary austerity on European defence capabilities and a tendency to confine foreign policy to the immediate neighbourhood. The article discusses the implications of those obstacles and outlines some ways in which they might be overcome.