Economic Transition and Demographic Change in Russia, 1989-1995

A World Bank demographer reviews recent population changes in Russia, relating trends in fertility, mortality, natural increase, and migration to the social and economic effects of the transition to a market economy. Significant trends (a precipitous drop in fertility, an extraordinary increase in mortality—especially among middle-aged males—and a consequent decline in natural increase) are identified and analyzed, with dislocations caused by the uncertainties of economic and political transition suggested as the principal causes. The effect of net in-migration to Russia (probably mainly ethnic Russians from the Near Abroad countries) in partially offsetting the natural population decrease is examined as well. 5 tables, 16 references.     

20世纪30年代的县政建设运动与乡村社会变迁--以五个县政建设实验县为基本分析样本

20世纪 30年代 ,南京国民政府与乡村建设派合作 ,掀起了一场县政建设运动。其中 ,五个实验县各有特点 ,但是 ,由于乡村社会结构的变动和国家政治结构变动并未出现地域性的根本差别 ,因而 ,尽管在具体的进程和操作方式上有所区别 ,甚至在参与力量和主体上也有所不同 ,县政建设运动整体上却有着共同的历史特征。它的运作模式、实验方式和实验内容都为中国乡村现代化留下了许多历史经验和教训     

Civil Society,Locality and Globalization in Rural Tanzania: A Forty–Year Perspective

In the last decade, much discussion of civil society in LDCs, especially those in Africa, has been based on two sets of normative assumptions, one deriving from the Tocquevillian tradition, the other concerning the nature and implications of globalization. This article criticizes both these approaches, on the basis of a restatement of the Hegel–Young Marx position on civil society. This is then used to compare and contrast the character of rural civil society in northern Tanzania in the 1950s and 1990s, allowing a critical consideration of the emergent properties of LDC civil societies, of the changing significance of the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ within them, and of the underlying sources of their transformation.     

Masculinity,Modernity and Male Baldness,c.1880-1939

Male baldness was a very common experience but it has rarely been considered by historians of any period or place. This article argues that baldness reveals a precariousness and vanity to masculinity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Baldness limited men's ability to self-fashion their appearance. It made them the target of jokes, marked the fact they were getting older, undermined their looks and, perhaps, made them less attractive to women. There was thus a vigorous market for cures and preventatives. Such products show how deep superstitions and irrational thinking could run, but understandings of the condition were also rooted in the social and cultural conditions of the day. The glamour of Hollywood, a keep-fit culture, growing advertising of male-grooming products and the fading of hat wearing from fashion, all intensified interwar anxieties around baldness. Not everyone worried about baldness, however, and men's feelings about their hair owed much to personality and circumstance. Baldness thus not only reveals the precarious nature of masculinity but also its inconsistent and inherently personal dimensions.     

清代江西的乡绅、望族与地方社会——新城县中田镇的个案研究

本文通过对江西新城县中田镇的个案研究 ,探讨清代乡绅的宗族组织、学术传承与地方权力体系的建构过程 ,揭示清代基层社会结构与地方权力体系的演变趋势