One Country Two Peoples?

This article weighs the demographic evidence for either assimilation or separation among Hong Kong residents who were born in British Colonial Hong Kong or Mainland China. Using successive waves of Hong Kong census data from 1991 to 2011, we show the effects of nativity on four indicators of social distance and differentiation: residential segregation, linguistic assimilation, wage inequality and educational opportunity. On the one hand, there is some evidence of assimilation in terms of residential location and home language. On the other hand, in terms of wage inequality and access to postsecondary education, our findings suggest that Hong Kong's population could become more divided depending upon birthplace.     

1982-2000年中国人力资本受教育程度空间变化研究

1982-2000年三次人口普查反映中国人口受教育程度具有较大的变化,但其在时空上分布具有其特点:在时间上大学、高中非义务教育人口增长速度呈加速趋势,人口的受教育程度在质和量的明显改善;在空间上具有南北、东西发展差异,以东西差异为主,东西地带性差异比南北地带性差异大,人口的受教育程度空间差距正在逐渐缩小,南北差距的收敛速度快于东西。在运动趋势上,1980年代受教育人口的运动趋势与经济运动方向一致,1990年代出现受教育人口的运动趋势与经济运动方向在南北方向一致,而东西方向相反的趋势。     

BLOCK,NEIGHBOURHOOD OR DISTRICT? THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE FOR AREA EFFECTS ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

Researchers show an increasing interest in the question of how a neighbourhood influences its residents. The crucial question is whether place‐related factors have an independent effect on individual life chances. This study examines adolescent development, with educational attainment as the dependent variable. It further addresses contextual effects that emerge at different intra‐urban geographical scales by exploring spatial effects at block, neighbourhood and district level in Oslo, Norway. How does the population composition at the three scales affect the level of future educational attainment for adolescents? What are the most important aspects of the population? Is the impact of various population indicators similar or different across the three scales? A number of causal mechanisms, which operate at different geographical scales, such as social interaction, shared social spaces, stigmatization and institutional resources are discussed. The study has a longitudinal approach, and includes register‐based information about the whole population of Oslo and a young target population. The analysis is based on two‐, three‐ and four‐level modelling. The results reveal significant effects on the youth's future educational attainment at all geographical levels and for all tested measures of social and demographic area composition. The share of low‐educated neighbours seems to have the strongest impact. Contradictory to most other studies, the results show that the highest geographical level (district) has the strongest effect. This surprising result is tentatively interpreted to emerge from a combination of three interwoven mechanisms: the youths' extended activity spaces and social interactions, the institutional aspects (schools), and place stigmatization.     

The Changing Brazilian Language

This article analyzes two female Bildungsromane published by nineteenth-century authors, Las dos Gracias by Fernán Caballero (1867) and La vida íntima by Pilar Sinués (1876). The female Bildungsroman in Spain explores different educational and developmental opportunities open to women since the middle of the nineteenth century. Fernán Caballero and Pilar Sinués, who have been—and still often are—dismissed as anti-feminist and conservative, created a very nuanced vision of female Bildung in their novels. Far from being mere propaganda pieces aimed at keeping women in subjection, these novels discuss the obstacles that society places in the way to female development and offer ways of overcoming these obstacles.     

美国大都市区政治的巴尔干化与政府体制改革

自20世纪初以来,美国城市的郊区化发展十分迅猛,郊区政府实体急剧增多,造成了美国大都市区政治上的巴尔干化,从而为解决大都市区的各种问题产生了不利的影响。为了解决巴尔干化所造成的问题,美国学术界乃至政府机构进行了大量的研究,提出了各种改革方案,许多地方政府还采取了各种改革措施。但由于问题的复杂性,这些改革收效甚微,目前仍然处于探索之中。     

从银行立法看30年代国民政府与沪银行业关系

20世纪30年代,围绕<银行法>、<银行收益税法>和<兑换券发行税法>、<储蓄银行法>等有关银行法规的颁行,南京国民政府与上海银行业之间进行了一系列交涉,这不仅从一个特殊角度体现了国民政府金融统制政策的形成,揭示上海金融业与国民党政权的关系,客观上也表明这一时期金融市场的运作、金融业务的开展乃至金融体系的构架,都不能离开法制手段.     

The State of Autonomy

In this article it is argued that between 1870 and 1910 the Swedish social liberal state used economic grants as a political tool in order to govern parts of the sector of social movements. State grants given to non-formal education, folk high schools, organizations that held lectures for the working class, and organizations that set up libraries are the point of departure for the analysis. The specific governing measure consisted of making the sector flourish in a ‘state of autonomy’, a state in which their conduct was influenced by the need to fulfil certain demands in order to receive funding. The requirements included, for instance, that the organizations were governed by a specific form, that they were in liaison with the local government, and that they did not wander outside the ideological demarcations set up by the government. In conclusion, the article shows how the state tried to govern the conduct of non-formal education.     

City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001

The degree to which residents of British inner cities and suburbs have diverged in their voting behaviour over the post-war period is analysed in this article. Examining aggregate election results by constituency, it is demonstrated that residents of inner cities and suburbs are indeed polarizing in their electoral choices. OLS regression analysis is conducted using constituency-level data to determine the relevance of intra-urban differences for understanding geographic variation in the vote in relation to those for region, size of conurbation and urban–rural distinctions. Results show that urban place of residence is particularly important for understanding the shifting geography of Conservative support. The implications of this research for electoral change in Britain are discussed.     

The Ohio Data Archives

The Ottoman government obtained current information on the empire's sources of revenue through periodic registers called tahrir defterleri. These documents include detailed information on taxpaying subjects and taxable resources, making it possible to study the economic and social history of the Middle East and eastern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Although the use of these documents has been typically limited to the construction of local histories, adopting a more optimistic attitude toward their potential and using appropriate sampling procedures can greatly increase their contribution to historical scholarship. They can be used in comprehensive quantitative studies and in addressing questions of broader historical significance or larger social scientific relevance.     

Typologies of Advantage and Disadvantage: Socio‐economic Outcomes in Australian Metropolitan Cities

Australia's metropolitan cities have undergone significant social, economic and demographic change over the past several decades. In terms of socio‐economic advantage and disadvantage these changes, which are often associated with globalisation, wider economic and technological restructuring, the changing demographics of the population and shifts in public policy are not evenly dispersed across cities, but represent a range of often contrasting outcomes. The current paper develops a typology of socio‐economic advantage and disadvantage for locations across Australian metropolitan cities. More specifically, the paper takes a range of Australian Bureau of Statistics data and uses a model‐based approach with clustering of data represented by a parameterised Gaussian mixture model and discriminant analysis utilised to consider the differences between the clusters. These clusters form the basis of a typology representing the range of socio‐economic and demographic outcomes at the local community level.     

Why is it so difficult to reduce gender inequality in male-dominated higher educational organizations? A feminist institutional perspective

ABSTRACT

Using a Feminist Institutional perspective, and drawing on a wide range of evidence in different institutions and countries, this article identifies the specific aspects of the structure and culture of male-dominated higher educational organizations that perpetuate gender inequality. Gender inequality refers to the differential evaluation of women and men, and of areas of predominantly female and predominantly male employment. It is reflected at a structural level in the under-representation of women in senior positions and at a cultural level in the legitimacy of a wide range of practices to value men and to facilitate their access to such positions and to undervalue women and to inhibit their access. It shows that even potentially transformative institutional interventions such as Athena SWAN have had little success in reducing gender inequality. It highlights the need to recognize the part played by the ‘normal’ structures and culture in perpetuating gender inequality.     

中国十大城市群综合发展水平的多层次因素分析及非均衡差异研究

中国十大城市群正在成为中国经济、科技、文化最发达的地区,成为了中国国民经济的十大支撑点,因此,研究中国十大城市群综合发展水平具有理论和实践上的重大意义。通过构建城市群综合发展水平评估指标体系,采用多层次因素分析与分类相结合的综合评估方法,对中国十大城市群综合发展水平进行了科学评估及比较,十大城市群综合发展水平呈现出四大集团的非均衡区域差异分布。同时分别提出了缩短领先型集团、挑战型集团、追赶型集团、后进型集团城市群综合发展水平非均衡差异的对策与建议。     

Objects of Memory: The Ethnography and Archaeology of Heirlooms

With the emergence of chiefdoms, a new ideology of inherited social difference had to be created and sustained over time. One way that inherited social inequalities may have been constructed, legitimated, and maintained is through the transmission of heirlooms or artifacts that objectified a collective ancestral past. Archaeologists have generally viewed heirlooms as anomalies or complications in the archaeological record. In this paper, however, I argue that, if identified, heirlooms have the potential to provide a richer and finer-grained understanding of the human past, in general, and to aid in the determination of hereditary rank, in particular. I discuss and compare the ethnographic evidence for heirloom use in bands, tribes, and chiefdoms, and, based on this evidence, I suggest criteria by which heirlooms might be identified in the archaeological record. Some examples of possible heirlooms from the archaeological literature are also presented. Finally, an evolutionary model for the circulation and disposal of heirlooms is proposed.     

The Value of Mid-Nineteenth Century Manufacturing Returns The Printed Census and the Manuscript Census Compilations Compared

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate and may depend on how the relationship is defined. The author uses stature as a measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that although there was an inverse relationship between inequality and health in the nineteenth century, greater average state wealth was associated with taller individual statures. He also poses and supports a biospatial relationship between the environment and stature. Greater direct sunlight (insolation) produces more vitamin D, which is related to adult terminal stature. Stature increased with population density and urbanization in states with lower population densities than the Midwest; however, stature decreased in states with population densities greater than those in the Midwest.     

论孙中山的民族国家构想

孙中山的民族国家构想是其民族主义臻于完善的标志。这一构想经历了三个阶段,第一次世界大战结束后定格成型。其内涵不同于早期民族国家,对外方面要求实现民族和国家的独立,其实际涵义是解除列强的压迫,废除不平等条约;对内方面要求国家统一和民族统一,通过具有民族融合性质的“同化”,将各民族合成一大中华民族。这一构想虽属于资产阶级民族主义范畴,但却是一种变异的形态,从理论构成、实践途径、发展前景来看,在一定程度上以无产阶级的思想理论和方式,改造、充实这个资产阶级的课题,具有鲜明的时代特征。     

大革命时期中央银行初创资本金考

广东革命政府于1924年创立的中央银行,是中国历史上第一家以“中央银行”命名的国家银行,尽管严格讲它还不能算是真正的国家银行,却是后来南京国民政府中央银行的滥觞,在金融史上具有不可忽视的重要地位。特别是在北伐战争时,它担负起一切军政费用的支应和调拨的责任,对支援革命战争起了积极的作用。对于该行的开办资金,历来学界大都认为有粤币毫银1000万元,但根据对有关史料的分析和考证,这笔款项其实并不存在。