Looking Forward,Looking Back

This paper surveys the disparate literatures on time, and the relative paucity of metaphors available (based on spatial analogues or mirroring past and future onto one another). Parallels between approaches to the past and future are considered and different intellectual traditions surveyed in futurology, memory, history (chronotopes), archaeology and philosophy. Causation across time, how the past affects the present, how the future may affect present and the past are considered as ways of better understanding how tensed statements in time and of time are essential elements of history and of anthropology. Pluralizing is suggested as a positive step: we should be talking of pasts, futures and even of presents. This has consequences, for example, the Thin Red Line of actuality must be broadened to be perhaps the Thick Reddish Braid. As introduction to a special issue of History and Anthropology I consider the papers that follow and how they contribute to the theme.     

The Tibetan Ieg of the Olympic Torch Relay

As scheduled,the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relayed its Lhasa journey on June 21~(st).The relay in Tibet had 156 torch bearers including 75 Tibetans and covered 9.3 kilometers.     

注释学研究的回顾与前瞻

新兴的“注释学”经过三十多年的发展,已经在各个层面展开了广泛研究并取得了初步成果。本文描述了注释学研究的概貌,总结了得失,并展望今后注释学发展的方向,提出应加强注释史、不同类型文献的注释、注释学实践操作技术和注释学本体等四项课题的研究。     

云南省新编地方志工作的回顾与前瞻

云南省人民政府于1981年11月成立了以省长为主任的云南省地方志编纂委员会,领导全省的新编地方志工作。迄今为止,云南省地方志编纂委员会先后换了四届,每届都由当时的省长担任主任委员。20年来,在省委、省政府的领导下,通过全省数以万计的地方志工作的艰苦奋斗,我省的新编地方志事业取得了巨大成就。     

Looking Forward by Looking Back: May Day Protests in London and the Strategic Significance of the Urban

This paper deals with the question of how oppositional movements can adapt their protest strategies to meet recent socio-spatial transformations. The work of Lefebvre provides several clues as to how an alternative discourse and appropriation of space could be incorporated in such protest strategies. One of the central themes in Lefebvre's work is that the appearances, forms and functions of urban space are constitutive elements of contemporary capitalism and thus that an alternative narrative of urban space can challenge or undermine dominant modes of thinking. What exactly constitutes the "right" kind of alternative discourse or narrative is a matter of both theoretical and practical consideration. The paper analyses one case: the May Day protests in London in 2001, in which a protest group, the Wombles, managed to integrate theoretical insights into their discourse and practice in a highly innovative manner. Since cities, and global cities in particular, play an ever more important role in maintaining the consumption as well as production practices of global capitalism; they potentially constitute local sites where global processes can be identified and criticised. It is shown that the Wombles effectively made use of these possibilities and appropriated the symbolic resources concentrated in London to exercise a "lived critique" of global capitalism. Since the Wombles capitalised on trends that have not yet ended, their strategies show a way forward for future anti-capitalist protests.     

On Spatial Planning and Marxism: Looking Back,Going Forward

The renewed interest in Marxism that occurred in social sciences and humanities after the 2008 economic crisis has not yet found its counterpart in spatial planning. This paper examines what Marxist planning theory and practices could mean in the current conjuncture. It does so through scrutinising (1) the vibrant Marxist discourse in planning that existed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, (2) the recent history (since the 1980s) of planning theory and its relation to the political economy, and (3) the current political economic context (not least defined by the diabolic crisis). Where previous Marxist approaches to planning were very strong on analysing the political economy, I argue there is currently a need—with old hegemonies losing ground, communicative approaches losing support, and neoliberalism in the political economy losing legitimacy—to also discuss establishing alternatives.     

弘扬孝道是促进社会和谐的核心

近年来,全国各地都在开展以学习中华传统文化为主要内容的人民自我教育的活动。进行爱国主义教育、八荣八耻教育、伦理道德教育、孝亲敬老教育、感恩党和国家的教育、     

寻宗教之源——西藏,到处都闪耀着艺术的灵光

走进西藏是我多年的夙愿,当我有幸与它零距离接触时,感到震撼的不仅是视觉的冲击,更被它悠久的文化、神秘的宗教色彩深深地吸引。在西藏,无论是人口稠密的城镇乡村,还是荒无人烟的草原,无论是崇山峻岭的山口,还是碧波荡漾的湖畔,到处都闪耀着艺术的灵光……那里的寺院依山而建、金光流溢,那里的山口和湖畔翻飞着美丽又神圣的经幡。还有,山顶矗立的古代城堡,佛殿内色彩缤纷的神奇壁画、雕塑和唐卡,辽阔草原奔放的歌舞,到处都展示着智慧的笔触。     

淮河中游地区史前文化研究的现状与展望

淮河中游地区的考古发掘与研究,虽然属于起步晚的区域,但经过近20年的努力,获得了非常可喜的成果,与其他地区相比可以说是后来居上,并在同期文化中的某些领域达到了领先的程度,从而使学术界对这一区域的关注和重视程度大幅度提高。前期的工作给我们增加了信心,潜在的信息令研究者为今后的发掘和研究充满着期待。