霞浦,印落滩涂之画

<正>霞浦之海,不是诗意的面向大海春暖花开,不是浪漫的白沙绿树蓝天碧海,不是梦想的推窗见海海水正蓝,这里绝不是都市人眼里的蔚蓝假期和温柔晨夕,与时尚无关,与小资相去甚远。她是乡村的,劳作的,甚至还是原始的、泛着浓浓的海腥味的,但它却又是:简约的,梦幻的,精美的,如琴如歌,入诗入画……     

ILLUSIONS OF POWER AND EMPIRE1

Subsequent to the end of the Cold War, analysts groped for an understanding of the overall structures of world politics that marked the emergence of a new epoch. As a result, the concept of empire became a major preoccupation, with the economic and military power of the United States considered sufficient for regarding it as an empire. Due to the proliferation of new microelectronic technologies and for a variety of other specified reasons, however, the constraints inherent in the new epoch make it seem highly unlikely that the U.S. or any other country can ever achieve the status of an empire. In effect, the substantial shrinkage of time and distance in the current period has led to the replacement of the age of the nation‐state that originated with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 with the age of the networked individual. It is an age that has developed on a global scale and that has brought an end to the history of empires.     

吃的心思

意大利美食、法国美食、西班牙美食、瑞典……美食？请原谅我的不礼貌,来到清淡内敛的北欧,虽然在斯德哥尔摩这个国际化的都市中,你的选择可以有很多,但说到当地食物,我那中国式的享乐主义味蕾们一直很忐忑,不知道当与第一口本地食物亲密接触之后,它们该何去何从。     

充满文艺范儿的行摄地

<正>有这样一群人,他们喜欢读文学作品,喜欢看文艺电影,喜欢收藏一些看起来挺文艺的东西,在这些人中,也有很多人喜欢摄影,喜欢玩LOMO。什么是"LOMO"?就是"Let Our lives be Magic and Open",翻译过来就是"让我们的生活开放、有魔力"。这是一种新的摄影取向,Lomographic Society一直都在寻找自然的、即兴的美学。不要想,只管拍!拿起相机,去寻找那些充满文艺范儿的行摄地……     

“霞客式”旅行梦想

<正>400年前,"中国游圣"徐霞客在他60万字的鸿篇巨著《徐霞客游记》开篇写道:"癸丑之三月晦,自宁海出西门,云散日朗,人意山光,俱有喜态……"癸丑之三月晦",正是公元1613年5月19日。徐霞客就是从这一天开始,从宁海西门出发,历时20余年,开始了他一生壮行天下的旅程。400年后,《徐霞客游记》的开篇日已被确定为"中国旅游日",中国成为全球少数设立国家旅游日的国家之一。这对中国的旅游业而言应该是个里程碑事件,它是大众旅游时代到来的真正标杆,旅游将不再是少数人的专享。通过在旅游日的宣传、引导,人们逐渐意识到旅游是丰富业余生活,增长见识、     

TIBET STRIVING TO BUILD AN OUTDOOR PARADISE

正Tibet,the roof of the world,has always been globally renowned for its highaltitude mountaineering.The first group of Chinese heroes to reach the peak of Mt.Qomolangma included Tibetan athletes.Today,Tibet has become a land favored by high-altitude mountaineers.As the Chinese sport industry is about to kick off,Tibet is taking the opportunity to make use of its resources and achieve significant development in sports.     

THE EMPIRE OF THE FUTURE

This rich collection analyzes science in the archives over the past several thousand years. The chapters work together to tell stories of ambitious attempts to provide timeless data for science, which will be used for generations to come—ranging from ancient astronomy to geology to life‐logging and the development of web search. They also demonstrate convincingly that archives are powerful forces across the sciences—every science discussed has an archival base—which partly determine what kind of general knowledge claims can be made by future generations: it is hard to read an archive askance. The collection works best as a series of individual chapters, though some work is done to indicate where they speak to one another. It is a pity that there was not more input from archivists themselves in the project: their noninclusion means that some archival issues (especially what goes on with data after it gets into the archive—how it gets cleaned up, changed, reorganized) are treated somewhat lightly. The collection does provide a very useful set of tools for thinking about scientific archives. It is also an excellent introduction to the peculiarities of scientific archives—one that reflects back on the use of archives in history in general.     

DIRECTIONS FOR DIVERSIFICATION WITH AN APPLICATION TO SASKATCHEWAN*

ABSTRACT. Traditional models of regional diversification do not capture the trade-off between stability and living standards. In this paper, we characterize regions as open activity models subjected to both productivity and price shocks. We then partially rank small diversification policies by the direction in which they point away from the current industrial structure in mean-variance space. Some general patterns emerge. In particular, diversification for regional self-sufficiency and away from regional comparative advantage may be undesirable.     

4. GLOBALIZING THE COMANCHE EMPIRE

The Comanche rose by adapting to the technological and trade opportunities brought to New Mexico by the eighteenth‐century expansion of New Spain's globally linked silver economy. They built an empire that flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, dominating vast areas of the high plains and controlling complex trades, just as a social revolution within Mexico's wars of independence undermined the silver economy and ended its northward dynamism. Comanche power flourished between a struggling Mexico and an expanding US, until the military and industrial power of the latter combined with the ecological vulnerabilities of the Comanche economy to enable the Anglo‐American triumph in what should be called the War for North America of 1846–1848. The US claimed a continental West from an uncertain Mexican sovereignty and an assertive Comanche empire of war and trade. The expansion and collapse of New Spain, the rise and fall of the Comanche empire, and the rise of the United States all occurred within an evolving globalization. Spanish North America expanded to 1810; Comanche power rose in the eighteenth century and soared after 1810 as Mexico struggled with the challenges of nation‐making; then the United States defeated both to claim continental hegemony in the 1840s. These expansions, conflicts, and changes—all tied to larger processes of globalization—reshaped North America between 1700 and 1850.     

3. THE NOSTALGIAS FOR EMPIRE

The aim of this article is to explore the theoretical and practical differences between colonial and imperial nostalgia. It opens with a substantial theoretical discussion of the relevant scholarship followed by an analysis of the nostalgias of empire. Nostalgia, in relation to empire, is usually analyzed as a longing for a period of former imperial and colonial glory, thus blurring the various hegemonic practices associated with empire. This elision arises out of the fact colonialism was integral to European imperialism. Yet there is a significant distinction between imperial and colonial nostalgia. With its main focus on postcolonial society in France and Britain, the article will theorize the differences between them, arguing that one is connected to the loss of global power and the other to the loss of a socioeconomic lifestyle. It will explore the way in which these two types of nostalgia are constructed and historicized, examining their differences from historical memory through the responses of both former colonizing and colonized individuals or groups. It will demonstrate that collective nostalgia is not merely a “feel‐good” sentiment about an idealized political or socioeconomic past, but can be readily connected to coming to terms with past trauma(s) thus being a mechanism to elide violence experienced and violence perpetrated by highlighting one to the detriment of the other.