Buddhist (Hybrid) Sanskrit Three Articles from a Panel of the XIIth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

Indo-Iranian Journal -     

Re(ge)ndering Gender(ed) Studies

McAuslan, Ian and Walcot, Peter (eds) Women in Antiquity Archer, Leonie J., Fischler, Susan and Wyke, Maria (eds) Women in Ancient Societies: ‘An Illusion of the Night’ Hawley, Richard and Levick, Barbara (eds) Women in Antiquity: New Assessments Richlin, Amy (ed.) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome Sorkin Rabinowitz, Nancy and Richlin, Amy (eds) Feminist Theory and the Classics Reeder, Ellen D. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece     

Jin Chengyu ed., Hekeben Zhongguo guyishu congkan （A Series of Ancient Chinese Books Missing from China but Preserved and Printed in Japan）

China has long boasted a time-honored tradition of reverence for books, but this tradition has been subject to periodic countercurrents that have occasionally led to the widespread, deliberate destruction of books by political authorities. The two most notorious historical examples of this phenomenon are the massive book-burning carried out by the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty,     

张謇致黄体芳父子信札

张謇(1853-1926),字季直,号啬庵,南通人.光绪十一年(1885)举人.光绪十九年出任崇明瀛洲书院院长,二十年高中状元,授翰林院修撰,二十一年总办通海团练,创办通州大生纱厂.     

Sounding Gender(ed): Vocal performances in English university teaching spaces

Voices may tell many stories about the bodies that produce them, but their role in the authoring and reading of gendered and sexualised identities has been neglected. Work within linguistics on voices and gender has focused primarily on voice production and the role of anatomy, using quantitative measurements of vocal features and evaluations of 'disembodied', recorded voices in laboratory settings. Some commentators have argued that, within the constraints of vocal anatomy, voices are performed, in that speakers stylise their voices to some extent in order to cohere with gendered norms. Drawing on the work of linguists and other commentators, this article discusses voices as combinations of the physiological and the discursive. Using teaching spaces at universities in England as an example, it is argued that voices have a geography, being produced and interpreted in particular ways within these interactional spaces. Comments about staff and student voices in teaching spaces, derived from interviews with undergraduates at universities in the north of England, illustrate the importance of audiences. They demonstrate how voices are evaluated in conjunction with other elements of self-presentation, and how vocal performances of gender are read in close conjunction with the performance of instructor and student roles in these spaces. Interviewees also draw attention to problems that the vocal performance of heterosexual masculinity creates in these spaces, highlighting links between gendered and sexualised readings of voices. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, the author concludes that voices should be regarded as a form of 'drag'.     

Ethnobotanies of refusal: Methodologies in respecting plant(ed)-human resistance

Elaborating on conversational exchanges with a Brazilian shaman about biopiracy and interweaving scholarly literature from the ontological and ‘botanical’ turn, the author examines the disciplinary as well as the political ramifications of plant healers and practitioners – particularly indigenous ones – going largely uncited in plant-centred discussions. In Brazil, indigenous claims for territory and political sovereignty gain traction when they are linked to cultural patrimony. Highlighting ayahuasca as an example of the way that certain plants and people can be involved in collaborative survival, the author demonstrates the entwined semiotic-material stakes of the botanical turn within claims for traditional knowledge and territory. Her analysis frames possible ethnobotanies and methodologies of refusal in respecting plant(ed)-human resistance.     

中缅文化协会大事记(1939.12～1942.3)

中缅文化协会自1939年12月21日正式成立后,在沟通中缅文化、促进邦交以及加强两国战时合作等方面做出了贡献.     

黄遵宪的侨务思想和活动(1882-1885)

黄遵宪(1848-1905)不仅是中国近代著名的诗人、政治家、改良主义运动重要的领导人,同时也是一位出色的外交家,对十九世纪末的海外侨务活动有特别的贡献,而1882-1885年是他侨务思想形成的重要时期.本文拟以黄遵宪在旧金山的工作和活动为重点,考察其侨务思想形成的轨迹,从而进一步对其在侨务工作方面的贡献作适当的评价.其务实的工作作风和灵活的外交策略,在今天仍有很大的启迪意义.