1979——1992年——海外华人在中国大陆投资的现状及其今后发展趋势

中国自1979年实行对外开放以来,利用外资取得了很大进展,海外华人在大陆投资,已成为中国利用外资的重要组成部份,本文主要对海外华人在中国大陆投资的现状及其对中国经济发展的作用和今后发展趋势三个方面进行论述和分析,探讨海外华人与当代中国经济建设的关系和作用。     

共生与发展——关于华商网络与中国“走出去”战略的探讨

在经济全球化的时代,海外现代华商网络是世界经济发展的一种重要社会资源。近20多年来,海外华人经济取得了令人瞩目的成就,引起学术界、企业界和政治界的高度重视。本文试图利用宏观经济学和生态学的共生理论,对海外现代华商网络的自我完善与发展以及中国的“走出去”战略进行探讨,以期海外华人经济和中国大陆经济的共同繁荣。     

论中国改革开放与华资投向趋势

中国以社会主义市场为导向的经济改革和对外开放的进一步加快,使经济建设进入了一个高速增长的新阶段。海外华人对中国大陆经济发展的信心倍增,华资(含华侨、华人、港澳台资金,下同)在中国大陆的投放,随着改革的深化而     

“侨乡与海外华人”国际学术研讨会综述

由香港中文大学人类学系主办的“侨乡与海外华人”国际学术研讨会于 2 0 0 4年 2月 5日 -7日在福建泉州海外交通史博物馆举行。来自中国大陆、香港、美国、加拿大、英国、西班牙、瑞典、澳大利亚、特立尼达和多巴哥、日本、菲律宾、马来西亚等国家和地区的 3 0多名学者参加了会议。会后 ,与会代表参观了晋江的石圳和陈埭两个侨乡。会议围绕着主题 ,分为人类学与侨乡研究、移民社区与海外华人、归侨与侨乡、海外华人与中国、侨乡与跨国网络、跨国网络与中国、传统文化与变迁、侨乡与社团组织八个专题进行深入的研讨。其要点有 :1 .关于海外华…     

新加坡中华总商会与亚洲华商网络的制度化

新加坡中华总商会在亚洲华商网络的制度化中有重要的作用 ,从总商会的纵向联系和横向交往看 ,它是联接东南亚和东亚华商网络的关键性枢纽。这一组织在建构海外华人社会与商业网络过程中不断地发展 ,逐渐成熟的制度化的华商网络对 2 0世纪海外华人社会及其与中国的互动关系有着深刻的影响 ;与此同时 ,它也成为本土化、区域化和全球化进程中的不可或缺的环节     

中国大陆的归侨社团：以北京印尼归侨为例的研究

20世纪五六十年代, 数以十万计的印尼华侨返回中国大陆。由于政治的原因, 他们与海外华人社会的联系一度中断。中国实行改革开放以后, 他们逐渐恢复了与海外华人的联系。20世纪80年代以来, 他们纷纷组建社团, 重拾失落的记忆, 再塑自我认同。本文旨在通过对北京印尼归侨社团的实地考察, 研究全球化背景下归侨与海外华人社会关系的重建及其新的组织模式和认同特点。     

华人网络与韩人网络的比较研究

通过当前韩国对于海外华人四个方面的"似是而非"认识的分析,对华商网络的倾向与特征、建设韩民族网络等问题的探讨,得出结论:韩国华侨与韩国所理解的海外华人之间存在很大的差异;当代韩国政府希望能像中国充分发挥海外华人的优势那样,使海外韩人发展成为韩国在21世纪的新的成长动力并加以利用的认识是一种错误的"乐观判断";海外华人对祖国的向心力,不只是来自爱国情,更重要的是其生存保障与利益的实现;中韩两国的侨务政策存在区别,中国致力于"护侨",而韩国的目光集中于"用侨"。     

海洋亚洲与海外华人（1405—2005）——第三届海外华人研究与文献收藏机构国际会议综述

由新加坡海外华人资料库委员会和美国俄亥俄大学图书馆联合主办、新加坡国际郑和学会协办的第三届海外华人研究与文献收藏机构国际会议“海洋亚洲与海外华人(1405-2005)”,于2005年8月18-20日在新加坡举行。来自新加坡、马来西亚、印度尼西亚、菲律宾、缅甸、泰国、日本、韩国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、比利时、荷兰、德国以及中国大陆、台湾地区和香港特别行政区的170多名专家学者出席了会议。新加坡外交部长杨荣文先生应邀担任贵宾,并在开幕式上发表重要演讲。作为第三届海外华人研究与文献收藏机构国际会议,此次会议也是为纪念郑和下西…     

国际关系视野下的海外华人史书写：历史脉络、理论探索与实践路径

海外华人史研究是近代以来中国史学界的传统领域,历经文化背景的时代变迁,因其复杂性成为吸收跨学科理论和方法的交叉地带。作为移民群体的海外华人所同时具有的民族性和跨国性,使得海外华人史与国际关系之间存在天然交集。借鉴国际关系学界方兴的“移民与国际关系”研究,有助于厘清晚清以来海外华人与中国外交,乃至更大范围的国际关系的历史交织。从国际关系的角度研究海外华人历史,不仅意味着研究路径和研究对象的变化,同时也意味着传统的侨史研究者需要加强对不同类别的历史文献的运用。海外华人与国际关系之间存在大量亟待开垦的学术荒地,中国学者有责任和义务挖掘海外华人群体在国际关系史中留下的复杂痕迹,及其所呈现的多重面像。     

关系网络视角下中国侨务公共外交评析

论文从关系网络的视角,以中国政府部门及相关机构建立的面向海外华侨华人的政府论坛为对象,探讨了中国侨务公共外交为实现与华侨华人之间的互动交流,而构建的关系网络类型及其特点、效果和局限。研究显示,关系网络应用在侨务公共外交这个分支领域,能增强中国与华侨华人之间的联系与交流,并在一定程度上发挥华侨华人"桥接中外"的积极效应。但因目前关系网络的结构、内容以及信息策略难以充分调动华侨华人在公共外交中的主体性,同时因海外华人社会的发展变化,关系网络在联接中外、沟通中外上还存在不确定性因素。因此,构建"多中心型""非政府型"和"数字型"关系网络以及转移网络"中心行为体"的政策思路十分重要。     

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.     

LEAD ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF ISLAMIC POTTERY GLAZES FROM FUSTAT,EGYPT*

Lead isotope analyses have been undertaken on a group of Islamic lead‐glazed pottery artefacts from Fustat, Egypt, spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th century ad , that had previously been the subject of a comprehensive typological, chronological, petrographic and technological study. Comparison of the lead isotope ratios for the glazes with those for lead ores from Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Anatolia, Greece, Sardinia and Spain provided information on the possible sources of the lead used in the production of the glazes. The results show that the lead used in glaze production by the Islamic potters at Fustat was most probably obtained from distant ore sources in Iran or Tunisia, Sardinia, Spain and the Taurus Mountains. Different ore sources were favoured in different periods and, to a limited extent, for different types of pottery, but at no time did the Fustat potters use the potentially more accessible Egyptian ore sources.     

Australian Cenozoic Bryozoa, 2: Free-living Cheilostomata of the Eocene St. Vincent Basin,S.A., including Bonellina gen. nov

Schmidt, R., March 2007. Australian Cenozoic Bryozoa, 2: Free-living Cheilostomata of the Eocene St. Vincent Basin, S.A., including Bonellina gen. nov. Alcheringa 31, 67-84. ISSN 0311-5518.

Free-living bryozoans are diverse in the Eocene sediments of the St. Vincent Basin, South Australia. They include Bonellina pentagonalis gen. et sp. nov., Otionellina sp. cf. O. exigua (Tenison Woods), Otionellina sp. cf. O. cupola (Tenison Woods), Tubiporella magna (Tenison Woods), Celleporaria nummularia (Tenison Woods), and an indeterminate species only found as moulds. This diversity and abundance is highest in the sediments representing the initial transgressive marine facies, where they occur in ‘sand fauna’ bryozoan assemblages (e.g. with Melicerita and Siphonicytara). Free-living bryozoans decrease up-section and are absent from latest Eocene sediments, indicating a significant environmental shift.

Rolf Schmidt [rschmid@museum.vic.gov.au], Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Vic 3001, Australia; received 18.3.2005, revised 14.12.2005.