Ethnohistorical geography and aboriginal rights litigation in Canada: memoir of an expert witness

Since the early 1950s, evidence from ethnohistorical geography has played an important role in aboriginal rights claims and litigation in North America. I became involved in Canadian aboriginal and treaty rights litigation over 35 years ago. My participation has included several landmark cases: Regina v. Horseman (treaty rights), Delgamuukw v. Regina (Comprehensive title claim), and Regina v. Powley (Métis rights). Most of the evidence that I have presented over the years has dealt with various aspects of the changing spatial economies of First Nations and Métis communities from Ontario to British Columbia. The Hudson's Bay Company's vast archive has been the primary source for this data.     

Popular geopolitics and political memoir: Geopolitical expertise and force majeure as foreign policy justifications in Tony Blair's A Journey

Political memoirs are not only popular with a general readership, they can also be useful historical source material. The place, form and function of geopolitics within them have been seldom explored, especially in the context of critical geopolitics. This article redresses this balance by arguing that geopolitics is a crucial salient in representations of foreign policy in that it is both a marker of expertise, power and authority, and an effective force majeure, allowing memoirists to depict constraints on action. These conclusions are reached through a theorisation of the form of memoirs in the light of recent innovations in popular geopolitics, in which I propose that they be studied via socio-discursive and fictive categories, in order to discern modes of representation and interactions with audience in justifying and explaining controversial foreign policies. The case study which demonstrates this concerns former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s, 2010 memoir, A Journey, a paradigmatic text in terms of how geopolitics functions in the above modes, particularly in his representations of globalisation, the War on Terror and the UK's relationships with the USA and Europe. By bringing together approaches from popular geopolitics and discursive theories of memoirs, I am able to make an original contribution that highlights the importance of political space within one particular and popular literary form and how this is used to justify past foreign policies.     

一部颇具新意的拓荒之作——评《当代中国政治思想史》

河南大学出版社新近出版的《当代中国政治思想史》一书 ,不论在学术价值、理论建树方面 ,还是在推动学科建设、为现实提供借鉴方面 ,都不失为一部创见迭出、极富新意的开拓性佳作。该书也有某些不足之处     

周祖谟《广韵校勘记》补

本文对周祖谟先生的《广韵校勘记》中几个字词的校勘提出自己的看法,并对原校勘作了补充说明。     

《黄仕强传》校释商补

敦煌写卷《黄仕强传》是一篇著名的唐人入冥故事,有明显的民族特色和时代特色,是中国传统文化与印度佛教文化相交融的产物,在敦煌写卷中极具代表性。法国汉学家戴密微（paul Demieville）、柴剑虹先生先后对该文作过考释与校注,于淑健也提出过一些商补意见,但值得商榷和补充的地方仍有不少。故本文尝试再作商补。     

裁缝旦木正骑熊遨游昆仑山的故事

这回我讲的是一位裁缝和一头棕熊的故事。这个故事以惊心动魄的场景开始,在云淡风清中过渡,在一声暗雷中结束,人熊平安,皆大欢喜     

隐者与兔狲和“白狼”的故事

认识桑德尔老人,是我的一番特殊经历,他的人品、见识和医术给我留下了难忘的印象。     

陶醉，从味觉开始享受酒店早餐

《福布斯》在公布了全世界最值得光顾的酒店早餐厅之后,又做了一个旅行者在旅途中所住酒店用餐情况的调查,结果显示：60％的出行者在酒店只吃一顿饭,就是早餐;虽然80％的客人选择在酒店用早餐是因为房价中已经包含了早餐的费用,但酒店早餐精致独到的诱惑力也不容小觑。     

论柯文的"中国中心观"

柯文《在中国发现历史》一书所提倡的“中国中心观”,不仅仅是一个史学方法论问题,更是一个深层次的史学理论问题;尽管它仍存在着明显的缺陷,但对于克服美国中国史研究领域中的“西方中心主义”弊端,具有重要的意义。     

民间新见玉带銙

去年底,在对民间收藏品的鉴定中,我们征集到一组玉带(?)。虽然由于对它的出土情况不甚明了,科学研究的价值已失,但无论是其玉带的用(?)规格,还是其工艺的精美程度,都堪称是古代玉器光辉的典范。