东莞伦氏“续书楼”

东莞伦哲如(明)以“续书”名其藏书之楼,盖志在续修《四库书》也。顾志未遂而书又散佚,所著唯存《续藏书纪事诗》数卷而已。 哲如有《续书楼藏书记》一文(见《文     

毕仲衍《中书备对》目录的发现及其意义

北宋毕仲衍所修的《中书备对》今已散佚,传世的一些文献尚存其中少数内容。《四库全书》文津阁本《西台集》中收有一篇题名为《毕仲衍〈上编次官制卷目稿札子〉》的奏议。据考证,它是毕仲衍进呈《中书备对》时所上的奏议,与元丰新官制无关。其中的“卷目”,正是《中书备对》的目录。这个目录的发现,对考证此书的卷数、了解该书的内容和辑佚这部残存文献有重要价值。     

北宋时期的古籍整理

公元十世纪中叶至十二世纪三十年代的北宋政权,是一个重视“文物之治”的王朝,他们曾对古籍整理进行了长时期的工作。一北宋时期为了保存古籍,曾对散佚古籍进行了多方面的收集。我国在宋代以前,官藏典籍,据欧阳修《新店书·艺文志序》说,历代“藏书之盛,莫盛于开元,其著录者五万三千九百一十五卷;而唐之学者自为之书,又二万八千四百六十九卷”。再加上当时整理的佛、道经典九千五百卷,计有九万余卷之多。它反映了     

曾慥《类说》引《玉泉子》佚文辨正

唐末佚名撰《玉泉子》5卷原本久已散佚,传世的1卷本由明人辑自《太平广记》,存文真伪相掺.南宋曾慥所编《类说》引录《玉泉子》18条,其中16条不见于今本,故被视为原书佚文.本文从文本内容、他书征引情况、《类说》引录文献特点等角度考辨所谓的“《玉泉子》佚文”并不可信,是明刻本《类说》引文篡乱的结果.     

《临晋县志》民国版影印出版

为弘扬“资政存史、引领教化”的功用,加强对古籍资料的保存和传承,临猗县志办于2012年初,影印出版了民国版《临晋县志》一书,该书由临晋县长赵昌燮主笔。据考,《临晋县志》创修于明嘉靖二十二年（1543）,至民国九年（1910）。共纂修六次,其中,明代所修的两部县志已散佚无存,清康熙版县志也未见传世,现留存的有清乾隆版《续修临晋县志》八卷,光绪版续志两卷,     

风俗诗人袁学澜与《吴郡岁华纪丽》

王重民先生所著《中国善本书目录》专门著录了散佚在海外的中国古籍善本,其中著录有《吴郡岁华纪丽》稿本12卷,现藏美国国会图书馆,作者为清代苏州人袁学澜.王先生因不知国内尚有该书初稿本及抄稿本,故特将该书《序言》、《例言》、《续例言》均著录于后.《吴郡岁华纪丽》到底是一部什么样的书,有什么特点,作者袁学澜又是何许样人,国内尚未见有文提及,本文将予以介绍,以彰乡邦文献.     

敦煌市博物馆藏古藏文《大乘无量寿经》目录(一)

本以叙录的形式刊布了敦煌市博物馆藏敦煌藏卷式写经。本馆藏藏卷式写经244件,全部为《大乘无量寿宗要经》,而且大多尾题抄经人、校经人,19卷还有收藏的印章。刊出其目,有助于了解敦煌写经在河西一带散佚流传及其内容。     

徐有贞别集版本及佚作辑考——以明清方志及艺术类文献为视角

徐有贞诗文集主要包括《武功集》5卷、《天全翁集》5卷等内容,此外散佚的诗文均在辑佚范围。据明清至今的方志及艺术类文献,可辑出徐有贞散佚诗歌18首、词4首以及各类应用文26篇,存目4篇。上述佚诗、佚文对了解吴中派文人早期结社、交游等活动有一定价值。此外,徐有贞为同乡袁颢所作《袁氏家训序》,对揭示袁颢曾孙袁黄《了凡四训》由儒入佛的转变具有积极意义。     

“初唐四杰”之首王勃魂栖越南

正初唐诗人王勃,字子安,绛州龙门通化(今属山西省运城市万荣县)人。生于唐高宗李治永徽元年(650年),卒于唐高宗李治仪凤元年(676年),生年27岁。王勃的出身及其文学成就王勃出身于书香门第,大户人家。其祖父王通,为隋末大儒,系著名的思想家、教育家。著有《王氏六经》,共百余卷,年久散佚,传世著作有《中说》一书。卒后门徒尊称为"文中子"。其父王福峙曾出任太常博士、雍州司功、交趾县令、六合县令、齐州长史等职。     

关于《搜神记》的几种传本

《搜神记》原本三十卷,为东晋史学家干宝所撰。对此,《隋书·经籍志》、《旧唐书·经籍志》及《新唐书·艺文志》皆有著录。唯《宋史·艺文志》载为十卷,且云“不知作者”,可见该书在宋代已经散佚。今本《搜神记》二十卷,为明人胡应麟据《法苑珠林》、《太平御览》、《艺文类聚》、《初学记》及《北堂书抄》诸书所辑。《四库提要》作者疑此书“即诸书所引,缀合残文,傅以他说”而成。鲁迅在《中国小说的历史的变迁》中则称它是“一部半真半假的书籍。”     

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.     

The Chemists' Style of Thinking

Der Denkstil der Chemiker. Der Aufsatz diskutiert die Tragfähigkeit des Begriffes “Denkstil”, wie er von Alistair Crombie eingeführt und Ian Hacking aufgegriffen wurde, für das Verständnis dessen, wie das Fach Chemie historisch seine Identität ausgeprägt hat. Obwohl weder Crombie noch Hacking den Begriff “Denkstil” in Bezug auf einzelne Disziplinen verwendet haben, erscheint im Fall der Chemie seine Anwendung besonders vielversprechend, weil er hier hilft, ein zentrales Problem zu thematisieren – nämlich die Frage, wie es Chemikern trotz wechselnder Gegenstandsbereiche und theoretischer Umbrüche gelang, eine eigenständige und stabile Identität auszubilden. Nach einer Einführung in den Begriff “Denkstil”, argumentiert der Aufsatz, dass die Beständigkeit der Chemie als eines Faches wesentlich in ihren Laborpraktiken gründet, die ihrerseits wiederum die spezifische Art der Fragen bestimmten, die Chemiker in ihren Forschungen stellten bzw. die Form der Antworten, nach denen sie suchten. Folgende Merkmale kennzeichnen diesen “chemischen Denkstil” (1) eine spezifische, im Herstellen begründete Form des Wissens, (2) die Befassung mit einzelnen Stoffen und Materialien statt mit Materie im Allgemeinen und (3) eine Beobachtung von Natur besonders im Hinblick auf Transformationsprozesse. The Chemists' Style of Thinking. This paper discusses the relevance of the notion of “styles of scientific thinking” introduced by Alistair Crombie and revisited by Ian Hacking, for understanding how chemistry shaped its identity. Although neither Crombie nor Hacking applied this notion to individual disciplines, it seems appropriate to use it in the case of chemistry because it helps to address a puzzling issue: how did chemists manage to shape an identity of their own, despite shifting territories and theoretical transformations? Following a presentation of the notion of style, I will argue that the stable identity of chemistry is rooted in laboratory practices, which determined the specific questions that chemists put to nature as well as the answers to their questions. The “chemical style of thinking” is characterized by i) a specific way of knowing through making, ii) the concern with individual materials rather than matter in general and iii) a specific commitment to nature.