说玦

Jue, is one of the important kinds of Chinese ancient jade.Iti-s production dates to the Qing dynasty.Judged from the shape,it is an ear pedant as earring, which reflects the simple aesthetic conception and traditional thought of ancient people.Jue of the early times is comparatively important and it is the forefather of ancient jade as far as we know and worthy of thorough research.     

Tourism,the Platform of the Future——An Interview with Businesswoman Cheng Xiufang

正The town of Tangke is in the southwest of Zogye County, Ngapa Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. This place in China's Sichuan Province is quite famous as a tourist attraction, as it is where the Yellow River bends the first of nine times throughout the length of its stream. The land is pretty flat and has an abundance of     

KING GESAR GETTING HIS MANDARIN VOICE

正The epic of King Gesar,which was listed as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage item by UNESCO,is considered a masterpiece of Tibetan folk literature.With new content infused into the epic and with a constant emergence of rappers,it is believed to be the world's longest narrative epic,and it is regarded as an encyclopedia of Tibetan ancient society.Financially supported by the Financial Bureau of Tibet with an investment of 7.66 million yuan,a project     

Tradition and the Poetics of Innovation: Sumerian Court Literature of the Larsa Dynasty(c. 2003–1763 BCE). Alter Orient und Altes Testament 339. Münster:Ugarit-Verlag

<正>The main body of the book is divided into four major chapters plus an introduction and a conclusion.Concise as it is,the introduction to the main discussion deals with a series of important methodological issues.First,the subject of the study is defined as the literary texts of the Larsa court(p.1),which     

Shining Regung Art

Regung art is a particularwonder of Tibetan Bud-dhism art, blending blendsreligious and folk art in away that is treasured byTibetan Buddhists as well as becomingwell known in the world.Art Flower in Golden ValleyRegung is the Tibetan name of areasin Tongren County and Zeku County inQinghai Province with the meaning of"golden valley".The Regung area as the birthplace of"Regung art" has an abundance of tangka,duishiu, sculptures and religious architec-tural structures. Several villages, …     

RONKHON TSERING SAMDRUP AND YU NNAN TEA IN TIBET

The trade between Yunnan and Tibet has continued for a long time. In modern Shangri-La, there is an ancient town called Dukezong. In Chinese historical literature, it is recorded as East Iron Bridge Town. Dukezong is an important place for Yunnan- Tibet trade. Yunnan is the home of tea and Tibetans have long had the habit of drinking tea everyday. Yunnan is situated adjacent to Tibet;     

REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION OF THE ECO-FRIENDLY LHASA-SHIGATSE RAILWAY

<正>Tibet is not only the origin of rivers,the source of ecology in South and Southeast Asia,but also an initiator and a conditioning zone for the Chinese and even the climate of the Eastern Hemisphere,thus honored as the last pure land in the world.Tibet is known as grand,magnificent,pure and mysterious,     

TIBETAN TREASURES REBUILD THE MEMORY OF ANCIENT TIBETAN SHANGSHUNG CIVILIZATION

正Ngari Prefecture of Tibet,the so-called"Roof of the World",where the mountains and waters originate,is known for bringing out the ancient secret Shangshung civilization."Shangshung"is a word from the ancient Shangshung language."Shang"is the name of an ancient tribe,and"Shung"stands for"place"or"valley".According to historical records,the Kingdom of Shangshung came into being as early as     

A Brief Analysis of Tibetan Calendrical Designation of Years

The Tibetan astronomical calendrical calculationhas a long history.There are many documentaryrecords and Tibetan people have rich experiences ofit.Tibetan calendrical designation of years as a sum-mary of Tibetan people's experiences in their strugglewith the nature is an important part of Tibetan as-tronomy and calendrical calculation.It takes twelveyears as a small cycle and 6o years as a big cycle.A bigcycle is called“rabjung”[rab-byung] in Tibetan.Thefirst rabjung started in 1027 and the current rabjung is     

浅析藏历纪年的确定及巧算

The Tibetan astronomical calendrical calculation has a long history. There are many documentary records and Tibetan people have rich experiences of it. Tibetan calendrical designation of years as a summary of Tibetan people‘s experiences in their struggle with the nature is an important part of Tibetan astronomy and calendrical calculation. It takes twelve years as a small cycle and 6o years as a big cycle. A big cycle is called “rabjung” {rab-byung} in Tibetan. The first rabjung started in 1027 and the current rabjung is the 17th rabjung.     

仪式与艺术的关系

仪式是人类学的一个重要范畴,也是人类精神生活中一种重要的活动,它具有象征特性、符号特性和场域特性,作为人类一套独特的话语,仪式是人类解决现实矛盾的一种超现实手段,仪式的这些特性与艺术有着惊人的相似之处。     

Some Aspects of Lower-Level Economic and Administrative Divisions of the Northern Part of Transbaykalia

The basic notion in Soviet economic regionalization that administrative divisions should correspond closely to economic regions is often ignored at the local level. The Muya area, an intermontane basin in northern Transbaykalia, is discussed as an example of an area in which an artificial administrative division hampers the resolution of economic problems of the area as a whole.     

Can Histories Be True? Narrativism,Positivism, and the “MetaphoricalTurn”

Narrativism, as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit, can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism. First, narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism. Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist, "picture view" of knowledge. Moreover, all the non-cognitive aspects attributed as such are dependent on this picture theory of knowledge and a picture theory of representation. Most of the epistemological characteristics that White and Ankersmit attribute to historical narratives therefore share the problems of this picture theory.
The article's second thesis is that the theories of narrative explanation can also fruitfully be analyzed as inversions of positivist covering-law theory. Ankersmit's brand of narrativism is the most radical in this respect because it posits an opposition between narrative and causal modes of comprehension while simultaneously eliminating causality from narrativist historical understanding. White's brand of narrativism is more of a hybrid than is Ankersmit's as far as its theory of explanation is concerned; nevertheless, it can also be fruitfully interpreted as an inversion of covering-law theory, replacing it by an indefinite multitude of explanatory strategies.
Most of the striking characteristics of both White's and Ankersmit's narrativism pre-suppose positivism in these two senses, especially their claim that historical narratives have a metaphorical structure and therefore no truth-value. These claims are had to reconcile with the factual characteristics of debates by historians; this problem can be tracked down to the absence in "metaphorical” narrativism of a conceptual connection between historical narratives and historical research.     

Entangled Memories: How to Study Europe’s Cultural Heritage

A fruitful direction for research on the European cultural heritage is to adopt a transnational approach. Rather than see cultural heritage as predominantly expressed in national contexts, it could be seen as primarily transnational and as plural. Such a view would also suggest a conception of national histories as themselves products of transnational encounters. In this perspective, the European dimension is not then necessarily something over and above nations, but part of their heritage. Moreover, as fundamentally transnational, the European heritage is not exclusively confined to Europe. Cultural heritage is not something that is fixed or based on an essence; it is produced and reinterpreted by social actors in different but overlapping contexts. This is also an interpretative approach that draws attention to the entangled nature of memories and especially the cultural logic by which new conceptions and narratives of heritage emerge from the encounter and entanglement of different memories. Such an approach offers new opportunities for comparative research on the European heritage as an entangled mosaic of histories and memories. This approach thus rejects not only particularistic but also universalistic ones such as alternative Eurocentric accounts.     

Islamism revisited

While contemporary Islamism is a response to the domestic political situation in many Muslim countries, as well as to US and western policies in the Muslim world, it is also about religious assertion and the forging of an alternative ideology, not only as a means of empowerment but also as a means of establishing a particular social order. The debate is as much an internal one as it is a global one and in many ways mirrors the struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for political and cultural independence.     

An accidental Bangkok theme park

ABSTRACT

Bangkok's Nana precinct began as an Indian real estate venture in the 1920s and 1930s, then emerged as an R&R destination for American servicemen in the Vietnam War era. In the present time, it has become the main focus for Middle-Eastern tourism to Bangkok. It continues as an Indian commercial community in the remnants of an American recall, catering to an un-(anti-)American Middle-Eastern clientele in a milieu of frantic consumption, bright-light spectacle, un-Islamic music and surreptitious, forbidden pleasures. This extraordinary intersection of the incongruous is approached here through four perspectives which, it is suggested, are extendible to accidental urban theme parks generally: (1) as spectacle; (2) as cultural destabilization when spectacle is interrogated in a framework of multi-cultural, multi-voiced cacophony; then (3) when interrogated in a political economy context, as deconstructive of held assumptions attaching to both consumer society and global geopolitics; thence (4) at least potentially as globally transformative – the tourist as metamorphic agent in a dialectic of assemblage and ecosystem.     

The Erasmus undergraduate exchange programme: a highly qualified success story?

Erasmus is regarded as a European success story: an example of cross-border cooperation and an opportunity for students to improve their inter-cultural skills and work capacities. This article takes an in-depth look at this success, examining recent trends in Erasmus mobility. Analysis shows that while certain countries have greater numbers of students outgoing than incoming, the converse situation is found in countries such as Portugal. To explain this imbalance, evidence is drawn from a study of Erasmus in Portugal conducted during 2016. While the popularity of the country as a destination is related to low cost of living, friendliness and educational quality, interviews with managers of the Erasmus programme reveal other factors that limit the participation of local students. This includes the low level of Erasmus scholarships for undergraduates from families affected by the economic crisis, with exchange students also increasingly viewed as tourists and consumers as well as learners.     

Service as a Subversive Activity: On the centrality of service to an academic career

In the normative view of academic life, service is presented as an unfortunate inconvenience, a dull distraction from the real work of the academy, which is taken to be teaching and research. Service is also presented to the novice academic as an activity that is completely unconnected with the real work of teaching and research. Jan Monk has made service central to her academic career. A brief overview of her service activities shows how closely intertwined they have been with her scholarship and teaching. Moreover, I believe that Jan's service work demonstrates not only how service is central to a vibrant, meaningful, and rich academic life; it is also an essential vehicle for creating change within, as well as outside of, the academy.     

Complexity and Redundancy in Binary Maps

The complexity of binary maps that is provided by the areal arrangement of colors is considered, and measured using information theory. In addition, information theory provides other measures that have an interpretation in a map context. One of these, redundancy, is examined and found to bear a striking empirical relationship to a spatial autocorrelation statistic. It is argued that spatial autocorrelation is, conceptually as well as empirically, the two-dimensional equivalent of redundancy. It too measures the extent to which the occurrence of an event (color) in an areal unit constrains, or makes more probable, the occurrence of an event in a neighboring areal unit.