陈云:严于律己和“给人吃好饭”

作为开国领袖、新中国的经济总管,陈云虽手握财政经济大权,却始终严于律己、克己奉公。他权为民所用、利为民所谋,时时刻刻想着为民谋福,"给人吃好饭",而自身却粗茶淡饭,轻车简从,令人可敬可叹。请阅《陈云:严于律己和"给人吃好饭"》一文,为您讲述老一辈革命家陈云的非凡人生境界和价值追求。     

汉光武帝刘秀的人格魅力

本文以略带调侃的笔调写出了汉光武帝刘秀独特的人格魅力,值得一读。中兴皇帝刘秀个头不高,只有七尺三寸,相对于他那个时代八尺以上的伟男标准,只能算个"轻量级"。但轻量级的他却有着重量级的人格魅力。在中国历史上,他是一位无可争议的治国平天下的高手,而他的成功在一定程度上正是得益于他独特的人格魅力。     

言为心声 文如其人——亲耳聆听陈云四次讲话

<正>平生只亲耳聆听过陈云四次讲话,却留下了深刻的感悟和不尽的回味。其实,像我这样的经历,对陈云有所了解和认识一般比较晚。周惠(时任中共内蒙古自治区党委第一书记)在1980年6月曾对我说到,陈云非常务实、正直,坚持讲实话,从不讲假话、空话。而新中国成立后毛主席对他是"几重用""几靠边",靠边为多等。当讲到陈云在十一届三中全会后可以充分发挥作用了,但身体不行了时,周惠竟泣不成声,我也被深深感动了。     

实事求是地研究和宣传党史、国史

正本次会议以"陈云与党史、国史研究"为主题,很有意义。陈云同志是伟大的马克思主义者,是第一代、第二代中央领导集体的核心成员之一,他是党史、国史上许多重大事件、重大决策的亲历者、参与者,他的一生与党史、国史密不可分。陈云同志的光辉思想不仅是党史、国史研究的重要内容,同时也是研究党史、国史的活的灵魂。陈云同志是实事求是的典范,他一以贯之地坚持和弘扬实事求是的优良作风,鲜明地     

晚年陈云与邓小平：心心相通——访国家安全部部长、原陈云同志秘书许永跃

编者按:改革开放新时期,在我们党第一代中央领导集体中担任过重要职务的老一辈领导人只有邓小平和陈云同志.他们在确立新时期党的基本路线以及一系列重大决策上的意见,一直为党内外许多人所关注.就此问题,我们采访了国家安全部部长、原陈云同志秘书许永跃同志.     

试论陈云关于执政党的生死存亡观

陈云一贯对执政党的建设深化远虑。在新的历史时期,他从党风的角度,揭示了以党群关系为核心的执政党的生死存亡问题,为丰富马克思主义建党学说,加强执政党的建设,作出了卓越的贡献。一、提出了执政党存在着以党群关系为核心的生死存亡问题中国共产党自执政以来,其命运一直为党内外所关注。全党为自身的巩固和发展而斗争,历经沧桑,迎来了新的历史时期,也迎来了新的考验。针对党内腐败现象,陈云以无产阶级战略家的气魄,提出了执政党存在着以党群关系为核心的生死存亡问题,使全党同志振聋发聩。（一）继承革命导师的建党学说,更明…     

《当代中国史研究》2005年总目录

(题后括号内数字,前为期次,后为页码) 特稿 总结经验要实事求是、着眼大局 —在第五届国史学术年会上的讲话 按照历史决议的精神正确评价毛泽东同志 在第五届国史学术年会上的开幕词 在第五届国史学术年会闭幕式上的总结发言 陈奎元(6.4) 逢先知(6.7) 朱佳木(6.9) 张星星(6.12) 纪念陈云诞辰100周年 陈云的人格魅力 一个外国人心目中的陈云 论陈云的党内民主思想 陈云同志是我国社会主义经济建设的开创者和奠基人之一 为共产主义事业奋斗到底的一生 —我所了解的晚年陈云(上) “大跃进”和国民经济调整时期的陈云经济思想及其意义 当代中国…     

陈云同志留给我最为深刻的印象

正陈云同志是伟大的无产阶级革命家、政治家,杰出的马克思主义者,也是党和国家久经考验的卓越领导人。1995年,江泽民同志在中共中央纪念陈云同志诞辰90周年的座谈会上指出:"陈云同志的一生是坚贞不渝的共产主义者的一生。他对共产主义崇高理想、对党和人民的伟大事业无限忠诚。"2005年,胡锦涛同志在中央举办的陈云同志诞辰100周年纪念大会上又指出:"陈云同志执着追求理想,始终忠于党和人     

张爱萍:新中国海军的创建者——对张爱萍将军的片段回忆

<正>现在人们记住的,往往是张爱萍为国"铸剑",领导"两弹一星"大协作、大会战的辉煌,很少有人知道,他还是名副其实的新中国海军的创建者。笔者作为赶上战争年代过来的原海军的起义水兵,经受过张爱萍将军人格魅力的感召,聆听过触及灵魂的教诲,他对党外人士做到以诚待人,以德感人和以理服人的卓有成效的思想政治工作,堪称我党、我军之典范。在本     

美国商人扳倒以色列总理

曾经的坚强后盾,最终"出卖"了奥尔默特,是屈打成招.还是另有玄机?曾5次接受腐败调查而岿然不倒的以色列前总理奥尔默特,终于被扳倒了。9月21日,他在党内外的一片讨伐声中宣布辞职,待新总理产生后就得交出大权。让人感到意外的是,给奥尔默特最致命一击的,居然是他的一个多     

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.