花颜悦“容”

细声软语,音乐绵绵;舒筋丽颜,体味欣香：这就是税榕Spa的质感,四海皆宜。2001年5月,悦榕Spa学院在泰国普吉岛正式成立,遍布全球60余家悦榕和悦椿Spa的护疗师皆在此受训。作为行业内首屈一指的培训体系,Spa学院的培训项目涵盖了Spa护疗的全方面知识。2007年5月,中国丽江悦榕Spa学院成立了,专门培训和发展中国的护疗师。于是,有了杭州西溪悦榕Spa的含蓄婉约,印尼民丹岛的原始自然,和泰国普吉岛的静心禅意。     

评荀子的君本论和君民"舟水"关系说

荀子是战国末期儒学的传承,但他基于封建政权已经稳固的现实,提出了君民“舟水”关系说。其说弱化了传统儒家民本思想的力度,强化了君主专制的权威,从而从根本上构筑了儒学君本主义体系。孔孟儒学中的民本主义思想则被荀子削去锋芒,塞入君本主义框架中。于是,在牺牲了“民贵君轻”精神的前提下,儒学实现了与封建专制政治的并轨改造,并在理论上为后世封建政治提供了完备而切实可行的方案。     

Sovereign wealth funds: dangers and opportunities

Soaring oil prices since the early 2000s have led to a historic transformation of wealth from consuming regions to major oil exporters. In recent years many of these exporters have set up oil funds to utilize their massive and growing oil revenues. These funds are divided into two categories—stabilizing and saving. Their large investments in western markets have raised concerns that they might be driven by political and strategic interests rather than commercial ones. This article examines oil funds in the Persian Gulf, Norway and Russia. It discusses US and European proposals to regulate oil funds' investments. The article examines the International Monetary Fund's efforts to forge a consensus on a ‘code of conduct’ that would guide the relationship between oil funds and the recipient markets. The analysis argues against excessive regulation.     

Sovereign wealth funds and national security: the Great Tradeoff

One of the most striking financial developments in recent years is the emergence of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)—large publicly owned investment portfolios, which are growing rapidly in both number and size. In a global environment already roiled by a prolonged credit crisis, SWFs raise tricky and potentially controversial new questions for international financial regulation. One issue of concern to many in host countries is the possibility that some SWFs might be used for overt or tacit political purposes, posing a challenge for global monetary governance: a Great Tradeoff between the world community's collective interest in sustaining the openness of capital markets and the legitimate national security concerns of individual host countries. Can some balance between the two be found that will be both stable and acceptable to all concerned? Individually as well as collectively, recipient countries have begun to address the regulatory challenge directly. To date, however, accomplishments have been slight and have failed to stem a noticeable drift towards financial protectionism. A review of some recent proposals suggests that there is no foolproof solution to the Great Tradeoff. But the potential for controversy could be significantly reduced by a negotiated agreement among host governments addressing three key issues: definitions, risk assessment and dispute resolution. The most logical venue for such an exercise would be the OECD, building on its already extensive experience with international investment issues.     

Sovereign Bodies: Ancestor Cult and State Legitimacy among the Incas

The worship of dead Inca kings, because it aimed at preserving the deceased's bodily integrity, reveals constituent aspects of royal personhood. Underpinning these practices was the conception that the dead's agency was conveyed through corporeal substances, which therefore required constant acts of sustenance. This paper examines the bodily practices and material substances that shaped the king's physical person during his lifetime, as well as after his death. These data show that the royal body was made conspicuous through a series of ritual and symbolic actions devised to display the king's faculty to infuse vital force to all living creatures under his rule he thus stood as the source of prosperity for his subjects with which he was engaged in reciprocal obligations of life sustenance. I argue that these “embodied technologies of power” shaped a system of representations that legitimated the king's appropriation of state resources.     

Ayatollah Khomeini: From Islamic Government to Sovereign State

This paper argues that the mature form of the political doctrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–89), Iranian Shiite religious authority and architect of the Islamic Republic of Iran, grew out of an encounter with the modern understanding of the state and the concept of sovereignty. Khomeini’s political doctrine, called the Absolute Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, although based on a religious foundation, should be studied as a break with the traditional understanding of political power in Shiism. It will be argued that such a political doctrine can play the same role as the Christian rhetoric of the early modern political thinkers played, pave the way for modernization of Shiite political thought, and prepare the ground for a modern temporal conception of politics.     

论碧霞元君信仰的起源

泰山碧霞元君是中国历史上影响最大的女神之一,尤其是明清以来,她在民间的影响已经大大超过了泰山主神东岳大帝,以至于当时的文人士子对碧霞元君势力     

"碧霞元君"神号源起时代新考

泰山女神"碧霞元君"名号之由来,传统的说法是宋真宗所敕封。明末刘侗、于奕正《帝京景物略》卷三引"稗史",称宋真宗东封泰山,"还次御帐,涤手池     

Sovereign Power,Biopower, and the Reach of the West in an Age of Diaspora‐Centred Development

Why at this particular historical moment has there emerged a rousing interest in the potential contribution of diasporas to the development of migrant sending states and why is this diaspora turn so pervasive throughout the global South? The central premise of this paper is that the rapid ascent of diaspora‐centred development cannot be understood apart from historical developments in the West's approach to governing international spaces. Once predicated upon sovereign power, rule over distant others is increasingly coming to depend upon biopolitical projects which conspire to discipline and normalize the conduct of others at a distance so as to create self‐reliant and resilient market actors. We argue that an age of diaspora‐centred development has emerged as a consequence of this shift and is partly constitutive of it. We develop our argument with reference to Giorgio Agamben's “Homo Sacer” project and in particular the theological genealogy of Western political constructs he presents in his book The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). We provide for illustration profiles of three projects which have played a significant role in birthing and conditioning the current diaspora option: the World Bank's Knowledge for Development Programme (K4D); the US‐based International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA); and the EU/UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative Migration4Development project (JMDI‐M4D). Drawing upon economic theology, we make a case for construing these projects as elements of the West's emerging Oikonomia after the age of empire.     

蒋介石为筹备收复台湾事致王世杰电

开罗会议后,中国政府开始筹备战后收复台湾的准备工作。本组史料为军事委员会、行政院等机关筹商战后收复台湾政治准备工作来往文电,具有一定的史料价值,特辑出公布。