SHEEP IN THE YEAR OF WOOD SHEEP

<正>Editor's Note:During Tibetan New Year celebrations,a colorful sheep head carved with yak butter is always placed in the middle of an altar in each household.The sheep head is pronounced as"Loguo"in Tibetan,similar in sound with"Losar",meaning the Tibetan New Year.As2015 is the Year of the Wood Sheep in the Tibetan calendar,we present this special report on why the sheep holds     

THE COMMITMENT AND DEVOTION OF DAWA TASHI

<正>When the earthquake curred,this man led on his fellow villagers to rescue three children from the debris without going home to take care of his wife and his own fallen house.He is well known as afull-timeParty Secretary,because in order to live up to the     

NEGATIVE FACTORS IN THE USE OF THE BIOCLIMATIC RESOURCES OF THE APSHERON PENINSULA

The author raise several significant problems involved in plans to establish resort functions on the Apsheron Peninsula, which together with its major metropolitan areas (Baku and Sumgait), serves as a center for oil refining and petrochemical production based on significant offshore oil drilling in the Caspian Sea. Among these problems are the fact that part of the area of greatest resort/recreational potential (northern coast) is also the area of highest SC₂ concentrations (reflecting chemical production in Sumgait), and that another promising location (southern coast) exhibits high levels of NO₂ (largely attributed to automobile traffic and power generation in Baku) (translated by Andrew R. Bond).     

Walking Around Zari IN THE YEAR OF MONKEY

Zari is a holy mountain in theeyes of the Tibetans. In thefourth and fifth months ofthe Tibetan year, they come to walkaround it. Generally, it takes eight to10 days to complete the circuit.Legend has it that a Buddhanamed Xigong lives atop the ZariMountain which, however, is alsohome to a ghost called Qoi. Tibetansbelieve that if they fail to worshipthe mountain and walk around itevery 12 years, the ghost will emergeto ruin their lives. Walking aroundthe mountain just once will givethem a…     

光绪癸未年宁波金融汇票

2003年3月,笔者在宁波范宅古玩市场收集到一张宁波当地的光绪癸未年金融汇票（如图）及其他借票、除票等若干张。这批票据均是在镇海被发现整理出来的,同时发现的还有清代的田契、税单等,《宁波晚报》2002年11月8日“清代税票现身范宅”曾作报道。     

A TURNING POINT IN THEORY OF HISTORY: THE PLACE OF HAYDEN WHITE IN THE HISTORY OF METAHISTORY

This article intends to place Hayden White's reflection on the basic principles of meaning-construction in history into the historical context of modern historical studies. It first presents the self-understanding of professional historians in which they emphasize the academic (wissenschaftlichen) character of the discipline. In this way of reflection, the traditional (premodern) interpretation of history as a part of rhetoric was pushed back and replaced by methodological argumentation about the rules of research (with an emphasis on source critique). Historiography, or the presentation of the results of research in a narrative form, was not completely neglected, but was not widely recognized. After the analytical insight into the narrative form of historical knowledge, significant discussion of the principles of historical thinking dramatically changed from the issue of research to that of representation (historiography). Hayden White's Metahistory (1973) marked this change paradigmatically. It turned the shift from rhetoric to science in its contrary direction: a new turn to rhetoric was proclaimed. This new anti-turn set off a hitherto unanswered question as to how research methodology should be treated. Source critique was not refuted but did not attract significant attention. The research procedure of interpretation, in contrast, was met by a new understanding and interest: it was identified as representation by the linguistic procedures of meaning-construction. Its role as a part of historical method, however, was completely ignored. The article ends with a still unresolved problem of metahistory, namely the relationship between interpretation and representation. They are not identical, but are closely related. Their synthesis and their differences have to be systematically inquired into and reflected upon if metahistory is to step forward and engage in this task. Then the merits of White's return to rhetoric will be appreciated as well as its one-sidedness criticized, before a further step is taken.     

TASHI TSERING,A PAVER OF THE TIBETAN-LANGUAGE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

<正>From dreaming of typing a Tibetan word on the computer to creating Tibetan typefaces and input methods for Microsoft Windows,and then to developing Qomolangma Tibetan typefaces,digitization of the Tibetan language has been apersonal pursuit for several decades for Tashi Tsering,a research fellow at the China Tibetology Research Center.He has witnessed the emergence and rapid development of the Tibetan language on the     

THE TREASURE OF GUARRAZAR: TRACING THE GOLD SUPPLIES IN THE VISIGOTHIC IBERIAN PENINSULA*

The treasure of Guarrazar, found in the 19th century in Spain, is the most important illustration of the high level of Visigothic jewellery in the Iberian Peninsula. The votive crowns and crosses of this treasure are an arrangement of pierced gold in a Byzantine–Germanic style, decorated with emeralds, garnets, sapphires and other materials. In order to establish the provenance of the gold, we analysed a group of 46 minute samples from the most important pieces kept in Spain for major and trace elements. The combination of PIXE and PIGE with an external 3 MeV proton µ‐beam was used to analyse the samples. Considering the gold sources cited by Pliny the Elder and the composition of contemporary Visigothic coins, we suggest the exploitation of south Iberian mines. Using the same set‐up, we complemented these results with the analysis of 11 emeralds inlaid in items from the Guarrazar jewellery that is kept in France. We suggest the use of European sources unknown to the Romans for these gemstones.     

年里雷州半岛“年例”不了情 百鸡宴,过火海……野性到天荒地老

<正>岁月在日历上一天天地翻过去了,时间就这样在手指间不经意地轻轻滑过。不经意间,2011年来了。元旦只是个开始,随后春节及各地量大如"灌水"的文化饕餮足以让民俗摄影的达人们翘首以待。     

关于乾隆朝湖北宝武局铸钱利润的考察

清王朝鼎定中原,遂于顺治元年设立京城宝泉、泉源局铸钱。其后各省陆续大规模铸饯。从当时京局和地方各铸饯局给中央的报告来看,铸钱的主要目是为了获取铸钱利涧“以佐军资”,“开炉鼓铸,生息助饷”,以适应战争的需要。随着满清王朝统一全国事业的完成,清政府铸钱获取利润的目的越来越小,而越来越向有利于国计民生和商品经济发展方面转移。特别是在康熙朝,     

再造河西契机下张掖地区产业增长态势分析

一个区域的发展是否健康快速,从根本上讲,取决于其产业结构的优劣、其主导产业的竞争能力大小。张掖地区是河西走廊重要的地区,它不仅区位条件优越,而且发展的基础较好,潜力巨大。随着甘肃省"再造河西"战略的实施,张掖地区面临着一个前所未有的新的、巨大的发展机遇,为适应形势,促进发展,张掖地区的产业结构、主导产业选择必须加以调整。本文首先利用"克劳森四指标法"对张掖地区的整体发展情况进行了判断,认识了张掖地区在甘肃省所处的相对发展水平。其次进一步采用"偏额-份额分析法"对该地区的产业结构优劣、各产业增长态势进行了分析,根据新时期发展战略要求,有针对性地指明了各产业科学合理的发展导向。     

SOCIO-ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY IN THE WEST AT A TURNING POINT

The decade of the 1970s is viewed as a turning point in the development of socio-economic geography in the West. An increasingly sociological focus has been accompanied by strong criticism of the traditional foundations of human geography and economic geography. A radicalization of socio-economic geography has involved several contradictory trends and periods. A symptomatic and important aspect, from the Soviet point of view, has been increasing interest on the part of some Western scholars in Marxist theory and in the work done by Soviet geographers in socio-economic geography.     

PANEL ON THE SOVIET UNION IN THE YEAR 2000

A panel of geographers debates possible future developments in the Soviet Union in regional and environmental policy, water resource management, agriculture, industry, energy, population, urban growth and planning, transportation, and foreign trade. The present emphasis on modernization of existing plant capacity in cities of the western, more heavily settled regions of the USSR seems destined to continue, although it will be constrained by a growing shortage of industrial labor, declining terms of trade and resource oversupply in increasingly competitive export markets, and the continued resistance of Central Asian populations to urbanization and industrial employment.     

WEALTH AND POWER IN THE BRONZE AGE OF THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA: THE FUNERARY RECORD OF CERRO DE LA ENCINA

Summary.   As a result of recent fieldwork undertaken at the archaeological site of Cerro de la Encina, our knowledge of the funerary ritual has increased considerably. The funerary record shows a significant concentration of wealth in burials corresponding to the family groups of the highest social status. Dramatic social differences can also be found in the internal organization of the settlement. The locations of burials within the settlement area, under the floors of dwellings, allow us to establish that the settlement space was closely related to the social identity of the families. The high number of burials with double and triple inhumations, in contrast to other Argaric necropolis, also stands out as an important feature of Cerro de la Encina, suggesting that familial relationships seem to be more marked here than at other Argaric sites. All these data are discussed in relation to the funerary ritual of the Argaric Culture.     

PHOENICIAN TRADE IN THE NORTH‐EAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PROBLEM

In this work the authors make a synthesis of the updated studies on Phoenician trade in the north‐eastern area of the Iberian Peninsula during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. Also presented are the lines of research, and their latest developments, pursued by the teams of researchers that work in this field.