Australia-Southeast Asia relations and the East Asian Summit

The economic and geopolitical landscape of Asia has changed dramatically in recent years, providing Australia with an unprecedented opportunity to become an integral and significant player in a wider Indo-Pacific region as it charts its future and seeks to manage tensions while shaping a new architecture of cooperation. Late in 2004 at their annual summit, leaders of ASEAN, the Association of South East Asian Nations, agreed to create a new forum—the East Asian Summit—and hold the first meeting of heads of government of participating countries in Kuala Lumpur in December this year. The summit seems destined to become a regular event and thus the policy-guiding core of any future East Asian or Indo-Pacific community.     

区域东亚与知识“东亚”

"东亚"既是一个空间性概念——即地理性、地域性的概念,又是一个时间性的概念——即历史性的和意识形态的概念。现代性的介入,使得"东亚"成为一个需要不断重新界定和检验的概念。区域东亚是知识"东亚"的理解和阐释对象,知识"东亚"是区域东亚在理论和知识上的抽象和提升。区域东亚在结构上具有封闭性、多元性的特征,在功能上又具有流变性和开放性的特征。知识"东亚"的命题集中反映了知识界的"中心-边缘"结构、各种知识背后的意识形态竞争和权力诉求。现代性和东亚的关系并不是一种单向度的"冲击-回应"关系,而是一种双向的相互建构的共生关系。     

认识古代东方:评吉娜·巴勒思的《中国、朝鲜和日本:东亚文明的崛起》

本通过评介巴勒思教授的《中国、朝鲜和日本：东亚明的崛起》,试图阐释东亚明一体化进程这一概念,说明九世纪早期以前东亚明各系统的独立性。     

变动中的东亚地缘政治与美国东亚政策的演变

近年来,伴随着中国的快速发展和东亚地缘政治格局的变化,美国加快了向东亚转移战略力量的步伐,这一动向值得中国关注。本文通过对近代以来东亚地缘政治格局的变化进行分析,系统梳理了美国东亚政策的来龙去脉及其主线,并对美国东亚政策的未来走向进行了预研。     

The China factor in US alliances in East Asia and the Asia Pacific 1

Any discussion of the United States' alliances in East Asia and the Pacific should include an understanding of the role that China plays in regional security in general, and the influence of such a role on the alliance system in particular. The 'China factor' in the contemporary US alliance system can be understood by asking the following questions: (1) what are China's perceptions of and concerns regarding the US alliance system as a whole and regarding specific bilateral military alliances of the US?; (2) where does China figure in the American post-Cold War worldview, and what role does the United States itself see its alliances playing in relation to China?; (3) to what extent are the current bilateral alliances of the US directed against China, in the view of US allies; and (4) how might the reshaping of the international security environ ment following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States affect China's perceptions and attitudes towards future alliance developments?     

翱翔东亚的"黑面舞者"

黑脸琵鹭有一个长而扁的大嘴,嘴的前端呈圆勺状,就像中国的古典乐器琵琶,因此人们称它为琵鹭.琵鹭体态优雅,黑色从喙部一直延伸到脸部,遮盖了眼睛,仿佛是戴着面罩的大侠佐罗;与嘴相呼应,它有一双漆黑的长胫和阔足,除此而外,其它的剁毛通体雪白,仿佛是佐罗肩上飘飞的大氅.它飞翔起来舒展如芭蕾舞演员,因而人们称它为"黑面舞者".     

东亚稻作起源研究的新进展

农业起源是国际学术界的重大课题之一,而中国的稻作起源研究由于其丰富的材料在这方面取得了丰硕的成果,引起了世界的广泛关注。《东亚稻作起源研究的新进展》一文是加拿大著名植物考古学家加里·克劳福德和沈辰博士综合中国、日本和韩国近年来稻作考古方面的发现和研究成果所作的述评,在高度评价东亚稻作起源研究成就并赞同某些观点的同时,也提出了自己的一些看法。首先,作者赞同中国水稻的本土起源说,认为可能起源于长江中下游地区,是一种热带型粳稻。中国考古发现中未见籼稻,籼稻系起源于南亚地区。但是,对于当前所发现一些最早的水稻遗存(如玉蟾岩、彭头山、贾湖,甚至河姆渡)是否为驯化种,作者却持基本否定态度,认为仍然属于野生种,甚至没有足够的考古证据证明是人为采集利用的结果,直到较晚期的龙虬庄,水稻遗存才有了明显的人工干预迹象。农业起源是一个数千年的漫长过程,而非一种突发的事件,这也是国际学术界的主流观点。另外,作者还对中国学者对野生稻的生物分类方法提出了意见,认为目前的分类方法不够细致,还应该作进一步的划分。作者比较重视稻作起源中的技术手段,对日本学者的DNA方法表示赞赏,认为它解决了如粳、籼不同起源等方面的一些重大问题。最后,作者还提到要重视起源问题的文化和生态背景,强调了多学科系统协作的重大意义。     

中国文化现代化与东亚合作

本文尝试将中国文化现代化与东亚合作议题结合起来进行整体性思考,以探讨区域文化传统的传承、大众文化与文化产业合作以及有益于共同利益的、面向未来的文化共同体建构。首先,提出了观察和思考中国文化现代化路径的三个维度:民族本源、地区基础和全球视野。其次,梳理了东亚文化传统的同质性内容和共同演进逻辑,讨论了以东亚文化传统为基石构建面向未来的文化共同体的可能性。其三,以全球范围内的文化同质化趋势为背景,提出应立足东亚三国文化产业领域的既有优势、合作基础和共同市场,构造一条成熟有序的大众文化生产与传播链条。     

The Emergence of Early Pottery in East Asia: New Discoveries and Perspectives

Journal of World Prehistory - The appearance of the oldest pottery in the world is a major focus of Early Neolithic archaeology. So far, most discoveries of early pottery have occurred in South...     

The contested rescaling of economic governance in East Asia: a special issue

The special issue this article opens engages with an apparent conundrum that has often puzzled observers of East Asian politics—why, despite the region's considerable economic integration, multilateral economic governance institutions remain largely underdeveloped. The authors argue that this ‘regionalism problématique’ has led to the neglect of prior and more important questions pertaining to how patterns of economic governance, beyond the national scale, are emerging in East Asia and why. In this special issue, the contributors shift analytic focus onto social and political struggles over the scale and instruments of economic governance in East Asia. The contributions identify and explain the emergence of a wide variety of regional modes of economic governance often neglected by the scholarship or erroneously viewed as stepping stones towards ‘deeper’ multilateralism.