夭折的和成熟的

现代中国人的这些怀念文字是被污染的汉语世界中少有的财富。在这样的文字里,我们的精神在社会面前获得了胜利,一如生者对逝者的祈祷：愿他们穿过荒凉的大地,在上帝的怀里得到安宁。人生的卑微、苦难和紧张,在生与死的观照里获得了解答与回报     

神秘的伏尔加河 艳色的俄罗斯

我对伏尔加河的了解来自俄罗斯经典歌曲《伏尔加纤夫曲》和《三套车》,对俄罗斯文化和历史的了解来自文学巨匠托尔斯泰长篇小说《战争与和平》和《安娜·卡列尼娜》,对俄罗斯伟岸建筑的了解则源自苏联电影《彼得大帝》《叶卡捷琳娜女皇》。俄罗斯—神秘、辉煌、雄伟,是一片神奇而壮美的土地。从莫斯科到圣彼得堡,从辉煌的宫殿到质朴的乡村,从建筑、绘画到芭蕾、音乐……,只有亲自穿越它,才能真正读懂那神秘的伏尔加河、艳色的俄罗斯。     

红色才女杨刚的的一生

一杨刚,原名杨季徽、杨缤.祖籍湖北沔阳。沔阳,北有汉水,南有长江,因此水害连年.当地的一则民谣道出了沔阳的苦难:"沙湖沔阳州,十年九不收。"杨刚的家庭,就是旧中国众多穷困不堪的家庭中的一个。祖父早逝后,撇下25岁的祖母独立支撑一贫如洗的家     

难忘的经历 美好的回忆

亲爱的心曲姐姐： 你好!我们学校最近规定,不让带吃的东西到学校来,一经查出,马上没收,并且给予处分。我们都很气愤,今天一个老师竟然到我们班上翻桌洞,把找到的零食都拿走了。这让大家更加气愤。我们几个同学准备到办公室找她评理去,想问问她凭什么翻我们东西？凭什么没收我们的东西？可是最终也没去。心曲姐姐,您说我们应不应该找学校去啊？     

节日的盛装 欢快的锅庄

来到高原,我发现夺人眼球的不仅仅是高原的自然风光,还有藏族独特美丽的服饰。从我第一眼看到高原上节日的盛装,就深深的被其吸引,它们好似神女散落在高原上色彩缤纷的花朵,在高原之巅摇曳生姿。     

最好的和最坏的

现代奥运会114年历史中,我们可以轻易划出两个时期,前一个属于皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦,他是现代奥运会的创始人;后一个属于胡安·安东尼奥·萨马兰奇．正是他,把负债累累的国际奥委会变成了了全世界最有影响的非政府组织.     

童年的世界 成长的开始

这只是一部动画片,是一部有了些年头的经典动画片,但很多看过的成年人都无法忘怀。这也只是一部动画片,但它是宫崎骏的动画片,我们知道,很多动画,加上"宫崎骏"三个字,或许就会被赋予更多的期待和新的含义了。它叫《千与千寻的神隐》。     

光明的、温暖的、吉祥的、圆满的与滋养万物的牛粪——牛粪与藏民的生活

牛粪在藏语中称为“久瓦”。在西藏．牛粪作为烧茶做饭的燃料已有上千年的历史。至今生活在雪域高原的广大藏族同胞仍将牛粪视为最佳的燃料。牛粪除了作为燃料外,在藏族日常生活中还有着特殊的用途与含义。藏族的传统生活与牛粪是息息相关的．甚至有研究者认为．牛粪体现了藏民族独特的人文色彩．风俗民情与生活态度等深层内涵……     

既是民俗的又是历史的

首先,今天参加这个会,我和大家有一个不太相同的,特别和萧放教授比较起来,有点不太一样的感触。面对这套书,我更多感到的是一种歉疚。钟老在安排这套书工作的时候,从开始拟作者名单的时候我都在旁边,他希望我把明清卷承担下来,因为知道我做明清史,又跟他学民俗学,做民俗学意义上的民俗史有点优势,现在这套书的作者具有这种学科背景的可能只有萧放,所以他希望我能承担这一卷。     

熟人的熟人的熟人圈

尊敬的木木:我很宅,一下班就回家,圈子自然是狭小了些,接触异性的机会也不多。而从小所受的教育就是女孩子要端庄,所以打情骂俏的机会也微乎其微。我在网络上也具备一定程度的吸引力,可要碰到一个动心又     

法老时代的埃及妇女在家庭中的地位

Although many scholars have assert that the Egyptian women’s position in the family was high during the time of the Pharaohs, no research in China has made a comprehensive and systematic discussion over this issue so far. Based on both documents and archaeological materials, this article approaches this question in three aspects: (1) Egyptian women’s position in the family economy; (2) the affection between the husband and the wife; (3) the position and role of the mother. __________ Translated from Shijie Lishi 世界历史 (World History), 2004, (2): 11–20     

The merchants of chang’an in the Sui and Tang dynasties

As the capital of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Chang’an brought together large numbers of high-ranking officials, aristocrats, local residents, and sojourners. The promise of profits caused by the high demand for consumer goods attracted merchants. Chang’an was also the starting point of the renowned Silk Road. For all these reasons, Chang’an became a gathering point for Small and medium-scale merchants, rich merchants, ethnic-minority merchants, and foreign merchants. All these merchants engaged in a wide variety of business activities and made money by surprisingly diverse means. Those with great economic power were quite active politically. The activities of these merchants symbolize the unprecedented growth of commerce in Chang’an and reveal the high level of development of urban trade in the Sui and the Tang dynasties. __________ Translated from: Shaanxi Shifan Daxue Xuebao 陕西师范大学学报: 哲学社会科学版(Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), No.2, 2004, by Fabien Simonis. Fabien Simonis wish to thank Alexei Ditter for his help in translating poetic passages.     

The impact of the opening of Tianjin on economic changes in its hinterland

Although the opening of Tianjin was forced, it actually accelerated the connection of Tianjin and its hinterland with the international market. The opening brought great changes to the structure of agriculture, animal husbandry, and industry and commerce in the hinterland; encouraged the development of market orientation and international orientation in the hinterland’s economy; and greatly improved the occupational organization and income of most farmers and herdsmen. The opening resulted in great progress for the whole modern economy of the hinterland and thereby provided an exemplary case for the study of problems related to the economic modernization process of China. __________ Translated from: Shixue Yuekan 史学月刊 (Journal of Historical Science), No. 1, 2004     

近代中国城市大众文化史研究笔谈

The studies of urban popular culture in modern China in recent years have attracted wide attention from scholars in China and abroad. The symposium, which is composed by Ma Min’s “Injecting vitality into the studies of urban cultural history,” Jiang Jin’s “Issues in the studies of urban popular culture in modern China,” Wang Di’s “The microcosm of Chinese cities: The perspective and methodology of studying urban popular culture from the case of teahouses in Chengdu,” Joseph W. Esherick’s “Remaking the Chinese city: Urban space and urban culture” and Lu Hanchao’s “From elites to common people: The downward trend in the studies of Chinese urban history in the United States,” provide valuable insights on the perspective, trend, and methodology of the studies. Four articles of the symposium are translated by Yang Kai-chien and Jin Xueqin from Shixue Yuekan 史学月刊 (Journal of Historical Science), 2008, (5): 5–19; Joseph W. Esherick provides the English version of his article.     

近代天津城市边缘区的形成及其结构特征

During the first half of the 20^th century, when China experienced a new tide of urbanization, a tendency appeared, in which the upper strata moved to the urban center and the lower strata distributed over the marginal area, where poor people formed a new community. This marginal community bore distinctive characteristics no matter in spatial structure or in residents’ life style in the development of modern Tianjin. The lower culture from the marginal areas and the upper culture from the foreign concessions constituted an interaction urban cultural structure in modern China. Translated by Lü Chunjun from Tianjin Shifan Daxue Xuebao 天津师范大学学报 (Journal of Tianjin Normal University), 2007, (4): 37–41     

Way Down East, ��Way Down West��: Hollywood cinema and the rise of conservatism in 1920s China

This article investigates the distribution and consumption of Way Down East (directed by D. W. Griffith, 1920) in Chinese cities in the 1920s in an attempt to explore the impact of foreign films on early Chinese filmmaking in particular and on Chinese society in general. Griffith’s Way Down East highlights a young woman’s trials and tribulations caused by male tyranny and deception. Such films by D. W. Griffith struck a chord in China in the 1920s, when the concerns of women and the loss of family values after the May Fourth movement found expression in film. The embracing of Way Down East in China, particularly among progressive intellectuals, indicates the existence of an anti-May Fourth conservatism. Chinese intellectuals were inspired by Way Down East to deny Chinese women’s subjectivity as new women who could control their own destinies; such a denial thereby rejected romantic love as a means of women’s emancipation and enlightenment. The intellectual class’s jettisoning of the rhetoric of “free love” and free marriage and re-emphasizing family values in the 1920s were conducive to the Nationalist Party’s conservative agenda to discipline individuals and Chinese society in the late 1920s and 1930s. Therefore, the “partification” of China during the Nanjing Decade (1927–37) was a direct outgrowth of a conservative consensus that followed upon May Fourth.     

严复社会史观的构建与近代史学转向

The construction of Yan Fu’s view on social history has combined the indigenization of Western historiography and the modernization of traditional Chinese historiography, which reflects the characteristic of a change towards modern historiography. The academic sources of Yan’s view on social history include some Western thoughts such as Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinist theory, Edward Jenks’ patriarchal clan system theory, John Seeley’s political historiography, etc.; and also many indigenous sources such as Yang Zhu’s self benefit, Mozi’s selfless love, Buddhist views on mood, etc. __________ Translated from Shixue Lilun Yanjiu 史学理论研究 (Historiography Quarterly), 2007, (1): 74–86     

1820年代华亭-娄县地区各行业工资研究

The issue of wages has been ignored in previous studies of economic history in late imperial China. Focusing on Huating County and Lou County (today’s Songjiang County of Shanghai), this article explores the wages in agricultural, industrial, commercial, and service occupations of this area in the 1820s. The findings, though primary, are helpful to our understanding of incomes in early-nineteenth-century China. Translated by Yang Kai-chien from Qingshi Yanjiu 清史研究 (Studies in Qing History), 2008, (1): 5–20     

昭君想象与时代变迁

Wang Zhaojun was a romanticized historical figure. The visualization of her was characterized by specific historical and social backgrounds. While her image was shaped with the thousands of years’ expansion of northern interethnic relations in ancient China, the united modern multi-ethnic state created her glorious image as “an angel bringing about national harmony, peace, and unity.” __________ Translated by Feng Mei from Zhongyang Minzu Daxue Xuebao 中央民族大学学报 (Journal of the Central University for Nationalities), 2008, (1): 55–58     

中国对日、韩、越三国科举的影响

China’s imperial examinations greatly influenced the East Asian world. Japan imitated it during the eighth to tenth centuries; its subjects include xiucai, mingjing, jinshi, mingfa, as well as medicine and acupuncture. Korean imperial examinations are the longest and most comprehensive ones among other East Asian countries. Vietnam was the last to abolish the imperial examinations. All three East Asian countries imitated China in their imperial examinations, which greatly raised their cultural levels. Translated by Yang Chunyan from Xueshu Yuekan 学术月刊 (Academic Monthly), 2006, (12): 136–142