Bunker's Advice Was Bunk

Book reviewed:
Howard B. Schaffer. Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv + 380 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 (cloth).     

说赵高不是宦阉——补《史记·赵高列传》

根据《云梦秦简》和《张家山汉简》以及秦始皇陵出土文物等考古资料,在某种程度上可以解读传统文献记载中有关赵高身世中的一些疑问。就考察的结果而言,赵高生于秦昭襄王五十一年(前256年),他学史出仕,以大史考试第一而入秦宫为尚书卒史,后来出任中车府令、郎中令、丞相等职,死于秦二世三年(前207年),享年49岁。赵高的祖上可能是质于秦都的赵国王族,父亲是仕于隐官的文法之吏,母亲是供职于隐官的刑余之人。赵高长于文字书法,精通法律,行事坚忍,以文法能吏身份长期仕宦于宫中,是侧近之臣的宦人而不是宫刑之余的宦阉。秦始皇陵车马坑出土的二号铜车马的御官,应当就是赵高所出任的中车府令相关官属的形象体现。     

Was Digenes Akrites an Oral Poem?

Abstract

It is often suggested that Digenes is in some way connected with oral poetry, whether the oral folk poetry of the modern ‘acritic’ ballads or the type of oral epic tradition identified by Milman Parry and A. B. Lord in the Homeric poems and in modern Yugoslavia. Some clarification of the possible role of oral tradition in the composition and transmission of Digenes now seems overdue, and in this paper I propose to examine the texts of the poem in the light of recent work on ‘oral literature’, so as to define more precisely in what sense any of these can be described as ‘oral’, and then, more tentatively, to suggest a possible framework for the growth and transmission of the poem which might account for these results.     

谁是战争的祸首——评日本扶桑社《新历史教科书》对中日战争的描述

中日战争,是贯穿近代中日关系的主要线索。实事上,所谓的中日战争,就是日本对中国的侵略战争和中国对日本的反侵略战争,这在1874年日本侵略台湾至1945年日本全面侵华战败70年间各次战争中都无一例外。而与事实相反,日本扶桑社2002年出版的《新历史教科书》,对中日战争历史进行了许多错误描述,明显地暴露了编纂开脱战争罪责的意图,构成了该书的要害之一。这里仅列举典型进行剖析。     

谁是《格萨尔》的真正作者

《格萨尔》史诗最初是怎样产生的？它的作者是谁？这是几百年以来研究这一史诗的学者们十分关心的问题。其实，据专家调查，《格萨尔王传》一书，最初是在蒙古发现的。     

The Midsummer Solstice As It Was,Or Was Not,Observed in Pagan Germany,Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England

From records of pagan Scandinavia, Germany, Anglo-Saxon England, the Mediterranean countries and early Christian influence, the attempt is made here to assess why it could be that ancient sun-worshipping communities in north-western Europe did not commemorate the summer solstice. The paper addresses the following questions: What were the survival needs of these early societies? How did they perceive and use the summer season? What is the significance of midsummer as historically recorded? What effects did calendar changes have on the observance of seasons? What effects have nineteenth-century mythologists had on our perception?     

郝懿行《尔雅义疏》之刊刻源流

郝懿行(1755—1823),字恂九,号兰皋,山东栖霞人。所有《尔雅义疏》、《山海经笺疏》、《春秋说略》等。其中《尔雅义疏》一书,最能反映郝懿行的学术成就。关于郝懿行的《义疏》刊刻情况,王欣夫先生的《蛾术轩箧存善本书录》中讲得最为简明扼要：“兰皋此书,初刻入阮氏《学海堂经解》,此(陆建瀛刻)为第二刻,世所谓简本也。咸丰乙卯,高伯平得钱塘严鹤山钞本,怂恿聊城杨至堂重刻,而胡心耘续成之,为第三刻。同治丙寅,兰皋孙联薇据以覆刻入《郝氏遗书》,为第四刻。光绪间,崇书局又刻之,为第五刻。世所谓足本也。”现谨依王先生所述为纲,结合其它一些材料,以进一步说明此书的刻印源流和由此而引发的足本与删节本问题,以对我们利用该书提供一定的帮助和便利。     

《毛泽东诗词三十七首》朱砂特装本面世

《毛主席诗词三十七首》（1963年版）是毛泽东主席唯一亲自参与审订、编辑的毛泽东诗词版本,排印本由人民文学出版社出版发行,集字本由文物出版社出版发行。集字本又分平装本和朱砂特供本两种。其中,朱砂特供本是当年专供毛主席收藏和赠送友人使用的书籍。全书12开,采用云纹宣纸、