Moving Forward: A Bioarchaeology of Mobility and Migration

Journal of Archaeological Research - Growing interest in bioarchaeology and its ability to address complex questions tied to social and biological identities in the past has led to the development...     

A Look Back at the Steel Seizure Case

During every national emergency, the system of checks and balances designed, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, to prevent a power grab by any of the three branches by giving each “the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others,” comes under great pressure. ¹ After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the public looked to the President to take extraordinary measures. Congress quickly moved to expand executive powers to meet the emergency, confirming the view of a leading textbook on the presidency that “it has become the dominant institution in a system designed for balanced government.” ²     

A Look Back at the Dred Scott Decision

Thank you for inviting me to deliver the 2009 Annual Lecture of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am a great admirer of the Society's commitment to preserving the history of the Supreme Court and to increasing the public's awareness of the Court's contributions to our nation's history.     

中国旧石器时代考古反思

近年来,在中国旧石器时代考古学界屡屡爆出重大新闻,亦真亦幻,令人扑朔迷离。谢飞指出：“目前,解决上述重大学术问题显得非常乏力的原因,不是旧石器考古队伍的问题,而是文物管理部门和学术权威单位关注不够、组织不力的问题”。…此话切中要害．非常值得深思。     

Models for Spatial Weights: A Systematic Look

General properties of spatial weights models, in particular Markovian properties, are systematically investigated. The role of stationary spatial distribution, interpretable as an importance-centrality or prominence index, is emphasized. Spatial interaction models, and among them the gravity model, are classified with respect to the time reversal and aggregation invariance properties obeyed by the associated spatial weights. Nine examples, involving connectivity, flows and distance decay analysis, integral geometry, and Dirichlet-Voronoi tessellations illustrate the main concepts, with a particular geometrical emphasis, and show how traditional, heuristic ingredients aimed at defining spatial weights can be recovered from general models.     

涿州云居寺初考

本文据辽、金时期的金石文献对涿州云居寺做了初步考证,认为该寺始建于隋唐,辽代最为兴盛,金元至明代屡有修缮,香火未绝,清初开始废弃、荒圮。现存的云居寺塔建于辽道宗大安八年,供奉释迦牟尼佛顶骨舍利,塔名为释迦佛舍利塔,辽末在塔侧地下秘藏有石经。     

华人网络的再认识：一个空间的视角

现有关于华人跨国网络的研究,为我们描绘了华人网络的三张面孔,即作为“文化载体”、“社会纽带”和“经济圈”的华人网络。本文从空间的角度,对以上研究进行了补充。它以香港及其邻近的东南亚地区的华人移民经验为依据,在检讨了滨下武志、王赓武和和斯金纳等人有关中国社会经济地理、文化中心和市场结构理论的基础上,提出了一个东南亚华人网络空间结构的理论模型。该模型以国际大都会为中心,形成了“去中心”、“多层次”和“多维度”的钻石型网络结构。在该模型中,华人网络的经济、社会和文化的面向获得了互动和统一。若干类似的子网络相互联结,共同构成了全球华人网络的宏观地域系统。     

A Look at Sino--Tibetan Relations through Tibetan Cold Weapons

Tibetan armament has a long history that is heavily influenced by the culture of Central Plains. An important part of the Chinese culture of armaments, they also retain their uniqueness and interrelationship. In Tibetan historical records written in the Ming Dynasty, there were detailed accounts of swords. In general, Tibetan armaments advanced substantially during the Tang Dynasty by learning from the Tang.     

审视中美关系的一个视角

中美关系不是一对孤立的双边关系,而是东亚国际关系的一部分,两是互相影响的,论论述了近代早期、后近代时期、冷战时期和后冷战时期两的互动关系,对《望厦条约》、蒲安臣的合作政策和蒲安臣使团、门户开放政策进行了重新阐释。对在不同时期日本、苏联、朝鲜和越南对中美关系的影响进行了剖析。并对美国当前能否对中国实施遏制政策发表了自己的见解。     

力行哲学的思想脉络

力行哲学是20世纪三四十年代中国的官方哲学。它的提出,适应着当时社会的某种政治需要,也和蒋介石的哲学思路密切相关。力行哲学从王(阳明)学及孙中山“知难行易”观念中借用了大量的现成概念和思想资源,同时,为适应其现实目标,蒋又对之进行了加工、改造,并由此引发了概念的混乱及哲学基本精神的冲突。力行哲学以“行”为中心,而“行”的概念本身就是复杂、含混的,“行”的落实也困难重重。当然。作为一种政治化的哲学思想,概念的清晰和统一并不是提出真正关注的问题;力行哲学的出现及其目标,和现实的政治要求息息相关。     

浅谈博物馆形象的塑造

博物馆形象是博物馆的无形资产,是一个馆精神风貌的展现,因此要从科学规划、优化内外环境、优化形象要素、传播造势和成功运营等几方面入手,探索新理念,建设新文化,实施CI战略,造就一个全新、鲜明、努力向上的博物馆新形象。     

Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation

This article examines how an understanding of gender has challenged and changed the perception of ‘modernisation’ and its relation to Western culture. In so doing it also shows how the traditional division of disciplines, especially between political and social history and historical demography, has limited insights into beliefs and behaviours of both women and men. The decline in the numbers of children born within a family was accompanied by many shifts in daily living, not least in the way housework was structured as indicated by the spatial patterns of both formal social life and domestic labour. A detailed examination of these issues, including the use of various types of household labour – slave, free, waged and the ‘adopted daughter’(evlatlök), and poor relation – brings into sharp focus how the leading segment in the process of modernisation, the urban middle class, was active in and responded to such major changes. Women's involvement in education, politics and the labour market was intimately intertwined with these aspects of family and domestic life – but so, in very different ways, was men's.     

高山流水觅知音

<正>很早以前我就喜欢俞伯牙与钟子期的故事,有机会来到了武汉,最先想到的就是去古琴台看看,也是圆了我多年来的梦,在夕阳西下的时候我拍下了这组照片。