SHAKING OFF POVERTY AND GIVING REBIRTH TO TIBETAN BOOTS

正Tibetan culture not only includes subtle and profound spiritual treasures,but also rich and complicated village regulations and folk conventions including unique national traditional craftsmanship.In function and artisanship,Tibetan boots,the carrier of traditional Tibetan craftsmanship,are a good presentation of how civilizations and people have learned and borrowed from each other     

The BUTTER LANTERN FESTIVAL HELD IN THE LABRANG MONASTERY

On Feb.24,2013,an annual Butter Lantern Festival was held in the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,Gansu Province on the Chinese Lantern Festival.Each Chinese Lantern Festival,the monks would place the butter lanterns made of the Tibetan specialty of yak butter in the square before the sutra hall of the Labrang Monastery as a means to pray for good fortune and harvest.     

20 30 40寻找私属酒店

20岁,你想特立独行;30岁,你找到了人生的另一半,急切地想要为爱正名;40岁的你,妻儿相伴,带给他们幸福的生活是最重要的承诺。寻访一座陌生城市,如何找到最适合自己的那一间酒店？不妨依照年纪,精心挑选。     

CULTURAL TOURISMHELPS THE JIEZHU VILLAGE OUT OF POVERTY

正Yajiang County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is named Yaquke in Tibetan, meaning"mouth of the river". It is located upstream the Yalong River and has 35 peaks over 5,000 meters above sea level. Jiezhu Village is named"the village of Kangba men", located in Yajiang County's town of Xi'eluo, and it is one of the birthplaces of the Kangba culture, being 60 kilometers from Yajiang County at an     

MOUNTAIN CHICKENS PECKING OUT THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY

正On the Mt.Wagu mountainside,spring has brought warm temperatures.Large numbers of red poultry seek out something to eat under the trees or flutter around with open wings."Don't just pass these off as ordinary mountain chickens,"the farmers say to me."They are as precious as gold in the minds of villagers!"     

THE DRYING OUT OF THE ARAL SEA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

The author examines the problem of the present state of the environment in the desert irrigation districts of southern Kazakhstan and Central Asia. A drop of the level of the Aral Sea and the formation of new land on the exposed seabed, the desiccation and desertification of the Amudarya and Syrdarya deltas caused by an intensification of agriculture have been proceeding against the background of a series of dry years. Irreversible environmental changes are having a negative impact on the socioeconomic conditions of the Aral region. The author, basing himself on the results of scientific investigations related to the Aral Sea problem, proposes a number of measures designed to moderate this negative impact.     

OUT OF PLACE IN THE COUNTRY: TRAVELLERS AND THE "RURAL IDYLL"

A controversial new Criminal Justice and Public Order Act in Great Britain contains measures to curb the lifestyles of a group known collectively as "New Age Travellers". This paper examines these travellers as "folk devils" of the Conservative "New Right" on a number of levels: their lifestyle does not conform to that espoused by authoritarian or libertarian Conservatism; moreover, they violate the spatial order of contemporary British society by trespassing against the dominant social representation of the countryside — the "rural idyll". In Parliamentary debates speakers drew on the rural idyll to defend the exclusivity of access to the countryside. Notably, whilst Gypsies were seen as having a legitimate if highly marginalized position in the rural representation, few saw any place for New Age travellers.     

HOW NINETEENTH‐CENTURY GERMAN CLASSICISTS WROTE THE JEWS OUT OF ANCIENT HISTORY

This essay considers why Jewish antiquity largely fell outside the purview of ancient historians in the Germanies for over half a century, between 1820 and 1880, and examines the nature of those portraits that did, in fact, arise. To do so, it interrogates discussions of Jewish antiquity in this half‐century against the background of those political and national values that were consolidating across the German states. Ultimately, the article claims that ancient Jewish history did not provide a compelling model for the dominant (Protestant) German scholars of the age, which then prompted the decline of antique Judaism as a field of interest. This investigation into the political and national dimensions of ancient history both supplements previous lines of inquiry and complicates accounts that assign too much explanatory power to a regnant anti‐Judaism or anti‐Semitism in the period and place. First, the analysis considers why so little attention was granted to Jewish history by ancient historians in the first place, as opposed to its relative prominence before ca. 1820. Second, the essay examines representations of ancient Judaism as fashioned by those historians who did consider the subject in this period. Surveying works composed not only for the upper echelons of scholarship but also for adolescents, women, and the laity, it scrutinizes a series of arguments advanced and assumptions embedded in universal histories, histories of the ancient world, textbooks of history, and histories dedicated to either Greece or Rome. Finally, the article asserts the Jewish past did not conform to the values of cultural ascendancy, political autonomy, national identity, and religious liberty increasingly hallowed across the Germanies of the nineteenth century, on the one hand, and inscribed into the very enterprise of historiography, on the other. The perceived national and political failures of ancient Jews—alongside the ethnic or religious ones discerned by others—thus made antique Judaism an unattractive object of study in this period.     

辛亥革命首义之地军用钞票试考

辛亥革命时期的历史货币,特别是军用钞票,由于发行有地域性,印数有限,加上时局变迁。回收焚毁等原因,留存下来数量极少。湖北为辛亥革命首义之地,又是迎击清王朝派兵会剿的主战场,因此,这里的军用钞票尤为引人关注。1949年钱万能编的     

明代“嘉靖重轮重郭异品大钱”跋

《上海博物馆藏钱币.元明钱币》编,刊出之钱图440,明世宗嘉靖大钱①,制异。此钱径特大,尤为特别的是,正背两面外轮各含双线,内郭亦挂双线,中国古钱唯此独具,为“双面重轮重郭超号异品大钱”。钱图刊出之后,见泉界多有评述。有称“孤品”②,也有识为“臆造品”③。学术探讨,看法不一,事属正常,而意见如此相左,必有可议之处。有幸,笔者在1998年北京报国寺第二次全国钱币交流会上,见到与图440同一版式的一枚大钱。初不以为然,看后便无法释手。钱之铜质黄中偏暗,俗称水浑铜;包浆通体入骨,面带斑点状细小铜绿;穿口略小,“嘉靖通宝”四字秀劲有力,…     

徐州狮子山西汉楚王陵出土铁甲胄的清理与复原研究

目次一楚王陵铁甲胄的出土情况与特点二关于铁甲胄复原的方法和过程三楚王陵出土铁甲片的形制四楚王陵铁甲胄的复原研究五楚王陵铁甲片的金相分析六小结经国家文物局批准,1994年12月至1995年3月,徐州汉兵马俑博物馆与南京博物院联合组队,对位于江苏省徐州市汉兵马俑坑以东约400米处狮子山顶的一座大型西汉楚王陵墓进行了考古发掘,并取得重大成果,被评为1995年中国十大考古新发现之一。狮子山楚王陵     

4. “KEEP THAT WOMAN OUT!” NOTIONS OF SPACE IN TWENTIETH‐CENTURY FLEMISH WITCHCRAFT DISCOURSE

This article considers the importance of a spatial dimension for witchcraft research, which has so far been largely neglected. In twentieth‐century Europe people in certain regions still considered their world in terms of witchcraft; they attributed misfortune to bewitchments and usually blamed their neighbors. Here a part of Flemish‐speaking Belgium is investigated with the help of legend texts collected in the 1960s. The witchcraft discourse that informed these texts did not just contain formulations of space; sometimes it also determined how people negotiated space. In this part of Flanders, witchcraft was embedded in Roman Catholicism; monasteries were the favored destinations of all those who considered themselves or their family members bewitched. In order to find cures for bewitchments people undertook hazardous journeys of considerable distance and found their efforts hindered by the witch they sought to counteract. The measures against evil influences that they were given were meant to consolidate the boundaries between their own (private) space and the (outside) space where witches roamed. Bewitchments were generally blamed on women. In the contemporary patriarchal social order, both public and domestic spaces were nearly always under men's control. This is why bewitchment was caused less by transgressions of male‐defined boundaries than by infringements of bodily spaces such as by eying or touching somebody else's children. This suggests a different approach to female space based on notions of proximity.