The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings

Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case study of cosmetics advertising in China, India, South Africa, Germany and the United States, we show that the Modern Girl in each locale was shaped through multidirectional citations of elements from elsewhere, through transnational processes of racialisation and through distinct articulations of nationalism.     

爱上他乡的生活 就是最好的生活

<正>旅行经历告诉我们,风景在路上,赚钱,出去玩,再赚钱再出去玩现在想来,让我决定辞了很拴人的工作,以便有更多的时间去旅游的起因,源于10年前那次真正意义上的旅游。2002年5月的某天,一个朋友从泸沽湖打电话来约我过去玩几天。他是个驴友,每年都会去泸沽湖探望常住那里的朋     

摆脱引力 御风而行 乘上热气球俯瞰世界

<正>据说,每个人都有三个庸俗的梦想:飞翔、永生和预知未来。永生和预知未来至今而且可能将是人类永远都无法破解的难题,相对而言,飞翔就容易得多了。如今,国外每年一度的热气球节以及气球大游行备受追捧,这可能正是人们对飞翔梦想的践行,毕竟谁不希望自己可以有一对自由的翅膀,在天空中自由翱     

沟壑纵横 神秘莫测的峡谷

正放眼望去,那沟壑纵横、光彩夺目、景色壮丽的奇景:一排排岩层伸向远方,直抵天际;一层层陡坡的色调点缀在绛紫色和金黄色之间。不用问,你就会知道,本篇所要介绍的就是神秘莫测的峡谷。峡谷,是指深度大于宽度、谷坡陡峻的谷地,V形谷的一种。一般发育在构造运动抬升和谷坡由坚硬岩石组成的地段。当地面隆起速度与下切作用协调时,易形成峡谷,是修建水库坝址的理想地段。峡谷一般由河流长时间侵蚀而     

Nomadism in the Modern World

A Soviet specialist on the economic geography of Afghanistan and the arid zone examines contemporary processes characteristic of nomadism: the changing relationships between nomadic and settled populations and the pressures that induce nomads to adopt a settled mode of life. The gradual transformation of the nomadic economy is viewed as historically inevitable, but the problems involved in the settling process vary in different regions and depend to a large extent on the physical and economic setting of the region.     

The Imperial Visual Archive: Images,Evidence, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Hispanic World

This article examines the role of images as evidence and sources of knowledge in the early modern Hispanic world, arguing for the continued importance of visual epistemology as a technique for producing and circulating knowledge from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Visual materials played a central role in the production of knowledge, scientific and imperial, and served as key instruments for addressing the considerable challenges of distance and place posed by the geographical expanse of the empire. Historiographically, the article highlights the active generation of scientific knowledge in the Hispanic world and connects it to imperial and administrative practices; it highlights trans-regional channels of circulation, demonstrating the connected histories of the viceroyalties and peninsula and the multidirectional trajectories in which information and knowledge moved; and it points out deep connections between earlier and later colonial periods. Methodologically, the essay explores the potential of images as historical sources, suggesting that the high status of images in the early modern Hispanic world led to the creation of an enormous pictorial archive that deserves the same level of scholarly attention and rigor that has been lavished on the textual archive.     

Modern witnesses: foreign correspondents, geopolitical vision, and the First World War

The First World War was the first modern, mediated conflict. In this paper I argue that British correspondents on the Western front attempting to accurately witness the war encountered a crisis of representation and visuality. They occupied a particularly unstable position between the many sites and points of view within a cubist landscape of shattered geographies and unstable boundaries. Their writings, though rich in masculinist and nationalistic accounts of heroism, also contain a newer perspective characterized by the failure to fit these older narratives into the inhuman, incomprehensible spaces of modern war.     

南京大屠杀前后留宁欧美侨民的内心世界

南京大屠杀前后,留在南京的欧美侨民建立国际安全区,为减轻人民生命财产损失作出了重要贡献,赢得了南京难民的尊敬。本根据新近出版的一些留宁欧美侨民的档案史料,对当时留宁欧美侨民的内心世界试作分析,将南京大屠杀史的研究深入到欧美侨民的思想,从而力求深刻全面地理解他们的行为及意义。由于史料的限制,本主要分析留宁欧美侨民群体中典型人物的思想活动。     

Towards a Transpacific Archaeology of the Modern World

The historical archaeology of overseas Chinese communities is a rapidly growing subfield. Although historical archaeology is not widely practiced in China, there are well-developed interdiscipinary research centers that investigate the history and culture of migrants’ qiaoxiang (hometown) societies. Scholars in American Studies programs throughout Asia are also bringing new perspectives to the study of Chinese migration past and present. By collaborating with these scholars, archaeologists on the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project are developing new chronological, geographic, spatial, and material frameworks for the interpretation of overseas Chinese archaeological sites and landscapes.     

流民与近代盗匪世界

本文从社会史角度，对流民与近代盗匪世界的互动关系进行剖析，认为流民是盗匪的最可靠的来源，近代中国所以成为盗匪世界，正是建筑于流民遍地国情基础上的。文章还以苏、皖淮北地区为例，进一步揭示出流民与社会动乱的关系，指出：在一个流民众多的国度里，如果社会不能将他们的社会行为纳入合理的规范内，那么，流民的越轨犯禁，就会直接造成社会的动荡不安。