Recent changes in migration patterns in Australia

The authors examine the extent to which internal migration in Australia is following the pattern observed in several other developed countries, namely, a flow of population from urban to rural areas. Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan net internal migration rates for 1966-1971 and 1971-1976 are compared at both state and regional levels     

当今日本史坛值得关注的理论动向——阐析重构日本现代史观的三种理论

本文在序言中扼要介绍了日本现代史学中的两种传统观点 ,分析了 2 0世纪70和 80年代日本学术界对传统观点的质疑以及 90年代后这种质疑发展为三种强调日本战时和战后体制存在连续性的理论———“总体战体制论”、“现代日本经济体制源流论”、“1 94 0年体制扼要论”的根本原因 ,然后分四个部分阐述了这三种理论的立论宗旨、方法论原则、基本内容以及这些理论对日本现代史研究各个领域的广泛影响及遭到的批评。在余论部分 ,作者评析了这些理论。     

茅台酒与当代名人

《茅台酒与当代名人》反映茅台酒与中国当代名人主要是毛泽东一身与茅台酒的有关故事。折射出毛泽东利用茅台酒为其政治服务以及他对此酒的钟爱。     

近十年来中国的日本企业终身雇佣制研究综述

近十年来,我国学者对日本企业终身雇佣制展开了广泛的研究。本文就终身雇佣制概念的界定、上世纪90年代后终身雇佣制变化的原因、日本企业终身雇佣制未来走势的研究成果进行综述,并加以评论。     

Descartes our contemporary

Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. By Stephen Gaukroger (Oxford University Press, 1995), xviii + 499 pp. £25.00 cloth.

Descartes and his Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies. Edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene (University Of Chicago Press, 1995), vii + 261 pp. $17.95 paper.     

Security and alienation in contemporary China

Barlow, Tani E., and Donald M. Lowe. Chinese Reflections: Americans Teaching in the People's Republic. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1985. xviii + 250 pp. including index. $17.95 cloth.

Yue Daiyun, and Carolyn Wakeman. To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xxv + 405 pp. including index. $17.95 cloth.     

弥足珍贵的近现代文物——97443公务车（附97348公务车）

在列车发展史上,有一鲜为人知的车种——公务车。公务车本属客车之一种,它是为方便特殊或重要人物在行车期间处理公务而特别制造的,因而又称特种车。这种车服务对象特殊,乘坐须有一定的身份和地位;装潢考究,成本昂贵,产量有限;行车保密,要求严格,警备森严。因而普通百姓难得一见,不熟知它也就不足为怪了。     

Charcot in contemporary literature

Charcot and his medical observations remain an enduring topic of scientific study in neurology, but he is also the topic of modern literary works. This essay examines the depiction of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a character in late-twentieth-century literature as an index of the contemporary nonmedical literary public's interest in neurology and Charcot. It focuses on three contemporary works that involve Charcot as a central figure with comparison between primary source documents and the rendered context, character development, and plot lines of these literary works. The two French novels [Slumbers of Indiscretion and Dr. Charcot of the Salpêtrière] and one American play [Augustine (Big Hysteria)] approach Charcot and neurology with differing levels of historical accuracy. All create a figure of authority, each with a different coloration of the balance between power and its abuse. Two focus almost exclusively on his work with hysteria and inaccurately amplify Charcot's concern with symbolic sexual conflict as the origin of hysteria and fictionalize more extensive interactions with Freud than historical documents support. The three works demonstrate that Charcot retains an enduring fascination with an enigmatic personality, a controversial career, and a pivotal role in the development of studies involving the brain and behavior. Neurologists should not look to these works as replacements for more seriously composed historical studies, but as enrichments anchored in the imaginative possibilities of Charcot and his fin de siècle era.     

Relational creativity and improvisation in contemporary dance

ABSTRACT

In a study combining methodological elements from cognitive psychology and social anthropology, we worked with professional contemporary dancers making choreographic movement material to investigate the effects of working with others during improvisation. Dancers improvised alone, in pairs, and in a trio, they self-reported the number of new movement ideas created within two and four minutes, and self-rated ease, interest, originality, and clarity. Within two minutes, higher ratings were assigned in the unfamiliar pair than the familiar pair condition but there was no effect of group size on the number of ideas created. Within four minutes, more ideas were created in the solo condition than the pair condition with no effect of group size on ratings. Open-ended responses suggested that the quality and relevance of the ideas increased in the duo and the trio conditions. The conclusions point to emergent aspects of relations between persons as fundamental to creativity.     

Indian foreign policy and contemporary security challenges

India is fast emerging as an important player in regional and international arenas. However, it continues to be beset by a number of security challenges, both internally and externally. On the assumption that India's foreign policy has evolved in step with its domestic politics, this article briefly surveys the evolution of Indian domestic politics and foreign policy before discussing some of the domestic and international (including regional) security challenges India faces today. The article concludes that although economic diplomacy does at present serve India well in projecting power internationally, achieving great power status in the future will rest on the resolution of key political and security challenges.     

Commuting and migration

This paper studies the connection between interregional commuting and interregional migration, using data from the Czech Republic. In principle, prior commuting could either raise or lower the propensity to migrate, depending on whether the existence of commuting alters the benefits of migration by more than it changes the costs. The Czech data, however, indicate that commuting raises the likelihood of migration overall and for nonelderly age groups. But for the elderly, the effect is the reverse, with prior commuting making migration less likely.     

The church and Catholicism in contemporary Italy

Abstract

The constitutions of modern States may be seen somehow as a form of civil religion that is to be revered and that binds all people of a nation both ethically and legally. Reflecting on the constitutional architecture of a State means going deeper into the structure of societies, laws and mentalities. One of the foremost experts of the history of the Italian constitution and himself an interpreter of the fundamental Law of Italy, in this lecture Judge Sabino Cassese discusses the forms of constitutionalism adopted in Italy from the nineteenth-century Statuto Albertino down to contemporary debate on the ‘updating’ of the Italian constitution.