Fortuitous Consequence: The Domestic Politics of the 1991 Canada-United States Agreement on Air Quality

Following more than a decade of negotiations, the Canada-United States Agreement on Air Quality entered into force on March 13, 1991, with the signatures of then-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US. President George Bush. Why was it so difficult for Canadian and US. negotiators to reach agreement? I argue that Canadian and U.S. domestic politics were the primary impediments to resolving the U.S.-Canada acid rain dispute. This article thus casts the dispute in terms of a pair of domestic environmental policy problems, whose timely and complementary solution, furthermore, required executive initiative as the handmaiden of ecological crisis. Heightened public concern about the threat of acidic air pollution in Canada prompted Mulroney's efforts to reduce acid rain. In the United States, a likewise critical change in the public's perception of air quality as a national emergency created the mass support necessary for Bush's federal acid rain control initiative     

Picture News on The 5~(th) Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies

<正>Co-sponsored by China Tibetology Research Center(CTRC),China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture,Academy of Social Sciences of Tibetan Autonomous Region,the 5~(th) event of the Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies was held in Beijing from August 2 to August 4,2012. This seminar has invited 267 scholars in the filed of Tibetan Studies from 2I countries and regions including China,Japan,Mongolia,India,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Hungary,     

The International Geographical Congress (Stockholm)

Following are excerpts from a report read by Professor Salishchev on October 14, 1960, at a meeting of the Council of the Geography Faculty of Moscow University. The omitted part of Professor Salishchev's report is substantially the same as the report of the National Committee of Soviet Geographers, printed in Soviet Geography, April 1961, pp. 40–46. Professor Salishchev's report on the work of the Commission of National Atlases, of which he is chairman, is translated in full.     

The 6th Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies

The 6th Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies held in Beijing from August 2nd-4th,2016,was convened by the China Association for Protection and Development of Tibetan Culture,the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC),and the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences (TASS),TAR.In total,325 scholars attended the seminar,among whom 216 were Chinese and 109 were from abroad.The seminar received 416 papers and selected 308.     

二次大战期间日本使用中国强制劳工人数初考

本参照纽伦堡国际军事法庭审判纳粹德国使用强制劳工罪时形成的相关法规．运用国内新发掘出的大量日本和伪政权的重要档案献以及国内外研究成果。对日本法西斯在二次大战期间在中国各沦陷区(主要是东北、华北沦陷区,也包括蒙疆、华中、华南沦陷区)强征输出和使用的中国强制劳工主要类别与人数。分别进行了简要考证和计算。并在此基础上加以综合。对战争期间日本强征使用中国强制劳工的总数进行了初步考证。     

The Emergence of International Studies in New Zealand*

With acceptance of the responsibilities of a founder member of the League of Nations - including assuming an international mandate in the Pacific - the prospect of a distinctive New Zealand international role and awareness emerged, thus laying the foundation for a local version of international studies. The early figures in the field were a group of intellectuals trained in history, law, or economics, often with experience of British higher education. Members of the League of Nations Union, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and later the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, their activities and publications sometimes challenged the boundaries of Empire-centric discourse. An avowed Internationalism - though sometimes compromised by racial anxieties - was a strong theme in their work; the impact of US foundations especially stimulated a knowledge of the importance to New Zealand of extra-Imperial issues in the Pacific and Asia. Although only intermittently engaged with policy, their influence is nevertheless discernible, especially from 1935.     

JURNALS on Tibetan Studies(I)

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厦门大学国学院风波——鲁迅与现代评论派冲突的余波

导致1927年厦门大学国学院解体的两大内因,即因缘北京大学而来的鲁迅与所谓现代评论派的冲突,以及国学院与校长林庆及理科的过节,虽有各种复杂的人事纠葛与性格冲突,本身并无政治上实质性的大是大非,不宜单从鲁迅一面立论,将冲突各方推向反面或视为异类。不过,跳出具体的个人恩怨,此事蕴藏着那一时期中国政治与学术重新分化组合的征兆。面对社会矛盾的不断激化,五四以来笼统的政治派分进一步分解,学则在意见分歧中走向各执一端的狭境。     

陇右文化研究刍议

陇右文化是指在陇右这一特定地域内孕育产生和发展演变的各种文化现象,它属于地域文化范畴。陇右特殊的自然条件和人文环境,赋予陇右文化鲜明的风格和浓郁的地域特色。陇右文化既是中华文化的重要组成部分,又对中华文化的发展发挥了独特的作用。作为一门综合性很强的学科,研究陇右文化,揭示其丰富内涵和演进历程,探讨其演变规律、地域特点和变迁动因,对于推进区域社会经济发展和甘肃文化大省建设,发展社会主义先进文化,都具重要的现实意义。