Inga Clendinnen,Historian (1934–2016)

Inga Clendinnen has been described as an anthropologist, a public intellectual, a writer, a poet in prose, a Mesoamericanist, and a student of the Holocaust and Australia. She was all this, but she insisted that she was always and mainly a historian. A cultural historian without portfolio, I would say. This essay aims to introduce her written work as a whole, its main purposes, themes, and approach.     

Make-believe: fashion and Cinelandia in Rizzoli's Lei (1933–38)

Amidst the wide array of women's magazines published in Italy in the 1930s, Lei. Rivista di vita femminile presents a compelling case study of the make-believe effect achieved through fashion and the allure of the silver screen. Published by Angelo Rizzoli between 1933 and 1938, Lei stands out for a cosmopolitan, American-looking lifestyle that champions an Italian ‘new woman’, aware of her own new image and enmeshed in a fantastic world of romantic novels and movie stars. This essay studies the paradoxes and complexities of an Italian illustrated periodical promoting the image of a fashionable woman in the midst of growing imperialism and autarchy, and publishing the work of Leica photographers, Lucio Ridenti and Paul Wolff in particular. Lei reflects the fundamental ambivalence of this time, promoting Italian fashion through Hollywood as a way to counteract the French fashion industry, and inviting women to role-play through the allure of their image.     

Trude Dothan (1922–2016): In Memoriam

Abstract

This paper sheds new light on the most common type of pottery associated with advanced phases of Early Bronze I (EB I) in the southern Jordan valley: the distinctive family or group known as Um Hammad Ware, or Proto-Urban D (PUD) Ware. To date, this kind of pottery was thought to be concentrated mostly around the site of Tell Um Hammad. This study presents new evidence suggesting that this ware was dispersed over a region considerably wider than previously understood, and that the centre of its manufacture was probably in the region of western Wadi Far'ah. This paper also explores the possibility that the origins of this family are to be found in the pottery traditions of the Golan region during the Chalcolithic period.     

五石斋日记(1933年)

经征得南京大学邓瑞教授同意,自本期起,本刊将陆续选载其父邓之诚先生之《五石斋日记》。《五石斋日记》计24册,毛笔小草楷,为邓之诚1933～1959年间所记。     

论希特勒的对华政策(1933—1941)

在希特勒的远东政策上,其对华政策颇令人寻味,它一直处于一种不稳定和缺乏一贯性的状态。1935年11月的英国《泰晤士报》写道:“同与其他列强的关系相比,中国同德国的关系更加密切,无论在经济关系,政治关系上,还是在军事关系上,德国人都独占鳌头”。然而,中日战争爆发后,希特勒却在国会宣称,中国的每一个胜利都意味着“布尔什维克主义在东亚的胜利,除了对国际犹太人外,这种胜利对谁都无好处”。     

何应钦与华北交涉(1933─1935)

何应钦与华北交涉（１９３３─１９３５）杨晨长城抗战受挫,国民政府被迫与日直接交涉。北平军分会代理委员长何应钦秉承蒋介石、汪精卫的意旨,妥协求和,结果产生了《塘沽协定》、＂何梅协定＂和冀察政务委员会。对此,人们多持否定态度,本文拟对华北交涉的背景、经过...     

潘汉年与中央特科(1931～1933年)

潘汉年是临危受命于中央特科情报科长的。他创造性地把党的情报工作与统一战线工作有机结合,建立了广泛的情报网;把专门性重要情报力量与一般性普通辅助性情报力量结合,开辟了新的情报渠道。此外,他把公开工作与秘密工作严加区别同时正确结合,利用公开合法的法律和社会惯例,与敌人周旋,并取得对敌斗争的胜利。