《太平御览》引《释名·释言语》考

《太平御览》征引《释名》630余条,这些引文对于今本《释名》的校勘具有很大价值。本文以《释名》第十二篇《释言语》为例,将《太平御览》征引《释名ˇ释言语》的26条与现存最早的《释名》版本翻宋本进行对校,并在参考相关引书及诸家校语的基础上加以辨别取舍,以期对今本《释名》的整理和研究有所裨益。     

《经传释词》辨正

《经传释词》是清代用训诂的方法来研究古汉语虚词的里程碑式的著作,影响深远。但是由于时代及其他局限,此书也存在一些不足和错误。本文列举了《经传释词》中的一些训解错误,涉及虚词“与”“於”“焉”“欤”“邪”“也”“若”“然”“是”9个,及虚词连文结构“然且”,分析了其致误之由,并给予了正确的解释。     

《文会堂词韵》文献价值说略——《词林韵释》的一个明代别本

胡文焕《文会堂词韵》中的舒声部分(含“入声作三声”)完全抄自《词林韵释》,保存了明本《词林韵释》的文本面貌。从胡文焕的序中可以看出《词林韵释》是一部在明代中后期江浙地区流传且有一定影响力的曲韵,可据此解决今人对该书性质的争议。将《文会堂词韵》与《词林韵释》今存各本比勘,可助梳理诸本源流。从《文会堂词韵》字头无注释的体例来看,现存《词林韵释》的注释可能是受明代韵书著述风气影响而由后人所添。《文会堂词韵》与《词林韵释》名异实同,而在清代词学家眼中却地位迥异,反映出清代词韵“弃曲”“从宋”的编纂观念。《词林韵释》为《词林正韵》取代,又表现出清人词韵“从雅”的进一步转向。     

补《全宋诗》34首

《全宋诗》是一部具有重大学术价值的宋诗总集,但因工程浩大,难免挂漏之失。本据《凤墅残帖释》辑补了《全宋诗》未收之诗34首。《风墅残帖释》取材于宋刻宋人手迹,其献真实性毋庸置疑。     

《唐会要》成书考略

《唐会要》是现存最早的会要体史书,是研究唐史,特别是研究玄宗天宝以后历史的重要典籍。但目前对该书全面、深入的研究仍未展开,其成书过程、流传情况至今尚不明晰。本对《唐会要》编纂流传过程中的一些模糊问题作了一些新的探索,通过对以王应麟的《玉海》为主的几部引用《唐会要》较多的类书进行的细致考察,从中梳理出一些《唐会要》与《会要》、《续会要》之间的关系,从一个侧面论述了王溥对前后《会要》的整理工作。     

《英藏敦煌社会历史文献释录》之《毛诗郑笺》标点献疑

郝春文先生主编的《英藏敦煌社会历史文献释录》对敦煌学的研究提供了方便,为学术界所称道。但是也存在一些问题。本文就其中《毛诗郑笺》篇的断句标点作些分析。     

《原本玉篇残卷》征引《说文·言部》训释辑校（一）

《原本玉篇残卷》即南朝梁陈问顾野王所撰《玉篇》的唐写本,其征引《说》训释颇多,是研究《说》古本、校勘今传大小徐本的重要资料之一。但这些资料尚未得到比较细致的整理。今辑《言部》训释若干,并随偶作校勘,希望能为治《说》提供些许方便。     

《造像量度经》研究综述

《佛说造像量度经》是一部与“梵式”(或称“番式”、“藏式”)佛教绘画和造像的比例、尺度有关的重要经典.这些经典实际上来源于一个习见的婆罗门教传统。自乾隆六年(1741年)工布查布译就之后,中国学者鲜有对它进行深入研究者.本文综述了世界主要学者对此经典及与之相关的梵.藏文经典的研究成果,并就研究中的一些问题表述了自己的观点。     

《宋本广韵》引《国语》例辨正

《宋本广韵》引《国语》共计19例,其中15条或不见于今传《国语》,或以注文作正文,或文字有异,或训释欠妥。本文通过资料爬梳,对其中的不当之处予以勘正。     

《楚辞章句》重言词训释要例阐微

《楚辞章句》是成书于东汉时期的一部重要训诂作,其对《楚辞》中的大量重言词进行解释时注意运用义训法的多种体例随揭示语词的意义,不为前人的注释材料所制约;同时注意运用各种训诂术语,使释义方式日臻完美,成绩卓,为后世训诂学家所仿效。认识其重言词训释的状况,既有利于今人正确理解《楚辞的》语句,也可从中汲取研究和训释重言词的经验。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

Hospital Drama: Visual Theatres of the Medical Rendezvous from Asylum to Hospital with Reference to Specific Works by Anna Furse

Abstract

This paper is informed by Furse’s practice as a theatre maker in two fields of output that are connected by two factors: first, the presence of the woman patient — hysteric/subfertile respectively — within the clinical gaze; second, the significance of the womb to each pathology. In the treatment of each (explored in Furse’s theatre), lens based technologies play their part, whilst the cultural and medical can be seen to have overlapped to produce specific meaning with regard to Her body and its spectacularity. The article presents an overview of some of the key issues in precisely how the woman’s body becomes spectacular within this prosthetic medical gaze and how the medical — and theatrically designed spaces to represent these — become meaningful and potent proxemics that in turn inform medical/ theatrical spectatorship. Overarching nineteenth-century protocols at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (where Furse’s Augustine (Big Hysteria) is set) to contemporary imaging technologies used in the treatment of subfertility with Assisted Reproduction Technologies (the topic of her Art of A.R.T. projects), it examines the way in which photography develops through cinema to X-Ray, ultrasound and then 3D/4D ultrasound to ‘capture’ the woman’s body in ways by which she becomes muted and exposed. These occular technologies that extend the gaze, first to an exterior subject and then, eventually, traversing the flesh without knife, lend specific performativity to the ‘patient’ women, within the context of hysterias and reproductive impairments respectively. Finally, issues of suspension of disbelief are addressed. The spectator’s faith in the screen-based image of Her spectacular body is interrupted in Furse’s work, which is also keenly interested in the effect of such imagery on the woman’s sense of Self. The historical and cultural leaps in this article argue that there is indeed a trajectory through the history of medical imaging since the first application of photography to anatomy to the more advanced scoping technologies of medical imaging today, and that in each era, the production of these images remain fraught with cultural implications.     

The Death of Alexander the Great – A Spinal Twist of Fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome.