The new ethnicity: Old wine in new bottles

Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, eds. Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 531 pp. Tables and index. $5.95 paper.

Abdul A. Said and Luis R. Simmons, eds. Ethnicity in an International Context. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1976. 241 pp. $12.95.     

Old guard versus new partisans: Think tanks in transition

Over the past two decades there has been considerable growth of think tanks not only in the United States, but also in Britain and Australia. The new breed operates in a markedly different style from the older institutions which were more inclined toward disinterested policy research. Today, policy institutes are more likely to be engaged in the ideologically partisan marketing of ideas. This paper classifies independent public policy institutes in order to assess their differing features across political systems and over time. It also proposes a number of avenues for further analysis of what is an underdeveloped field of study.     

Women's studies in anthropology: Old debates and new issues

Powers, Maria N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xv + 241 pp. including reference notes and index. $19.95 cloth.

Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii + 285 pp. including notes, and index. $24.95 cloth.

Simms, Margaret C., and Julianne M. Malveaux, eds. Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1986. 302 pp. including chapter references. $12.95 paper.     

Old wine in new bottles: China–Taiwan computer-based 'information warfare' and propaganda

This article considers the operational utility of computer-based information warfare across the Taiwan Strait. It reviews the capacity of both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan to wage offensive and defensive information warfare, and acknowledges that both sides have invested and continue to invest considerable amounts of resources into developing their information warfare ability, both have taken part in the Revolution in Military Affairs process that has redefined military strategy in an age of high-technology warfare, and computer-based information warfare will serve as part of a broader military strategy that revolves principally around conventional methods of attack and deterrence. However, using a critical security approach the article suggests that the capacity to wage computer-based information warfare is currently limited, and plays more of a psychological role in the propaganda offensive that continues across the Taiwan Strait. Hence, computer-based information warfare is 'old wine in new bottles'.     

窑变与清乾隆窑变釉杏元贯耳方瓶

窑变釉是清代御窑厂仿钧又不似钧的新色釉。钧窑是宋代名瓷窑之一,以生产青中带红,灿如红霞的瓷器驰名于当时,与汝、定、官、哥并称宋代五大名窑。钧窑以烧青瓷为主,但与一般青瓷相比,有其独特之处。其一,钧釉是一种蓝光乳浊釉,改变了汉唐以来历朝青瓷那种一览无余的玻璃质感。虽然它的色泽深浅不一,但多近于蓝色,人们根据其颜色深浅,分别称其为天青、天蓝、月白,它们都具有莹光般的蓝色光泽,晶莹温润,凝厚深沉。     

The development of the bottle kiln in pottery manufacture in Britain

Abstract

This paper describes the types of bottle-shaped kiln used in the British pottery industry in the 1950s. It reviews the evidence of standing structures, archaeological fieldwork and documentary sources for their operation and antecedents. It concludes that their origins are to be found in developments of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and that their widespread adoption was as much for cultural as for technical reasons.     

Old Ferryboats in Tibet

According to Tibetan historical documents, as early as the Tubo period, sailing activites were recorded on the Yarlung Zangbo River and Lhasa River. According to Biography of Padmasambhnva, he onec crossed the Yarlung Zangbo by a wooden bout with a horse＇s head to reach Samye Monastery murals in the Samye Monastery, Potala Palace and Norbu Lingka record this.     

不老的老人——献给我可爱的爷爷

他,仍活着他的身影穿梭在老屋各个角落终于累了,靠着一根树桩,一根极粗的树桩喘息着,在暮色中模糊这时刻,我瞥见,停下脚步,把他端详他真的老了,皱纹侵占了他的脸庞眼珠不再黑亮,但我却被善良与光明融化     

老巴州

老巴州是一匹马,一匹枣红色的骟马。我知道的时候它是我父亲车上的辕马。辕马驾在辕里既要承担车前部的重量,又要担任舵手,还要给前面搭梢子的牲口助力拉车。可见这是一个重要的岗位。因此,车户在他驾驭的三四匹牲口里最看重辕马,经常给它喂偏食,车鞭也很少落在它身上。     

Old Oslo

DURING an excavation outside the NW. corner of the defences of Winchester, Hants., an object was discovered which careful conservation proved to be an early medieval burse-reliquary. It has a wooden core, to which are tacked thin, gilt copper-alloy metal sheets, with embossed decoration. The context of the reliquary suggests its loss in the late 9th or early 10th century, and its art-historical associations indicate that it had been made at some time in the previous hundred years. It is the first early medieval reliquary of this type to have been found in England.