China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010): From "Getting Rich First" to "Common Prosperity"

China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan, which sets the directions for national development for the 2006 to 2010 period, has been described as a revolutionary plan. This paper examines the Plan's goal to build a "harmonious socialist society" by enabling disadvantaged groups and less developed regions to share the fruits of economic growth. It first describes the Plan's main principles and major quantitative targets for the five-year period. In the second half of the paper, the author argues that the emphasis on "common prosperity" can be explained by the rise in inequality over more than two decades, by a new political administration that seeks to establish its own path while endorsing ideas from past regimes, and by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao's more open and consultative style of leadership. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: O20, O53, P21. 1 figure, 2 tables, 58 references.     

“江山”如此多娇

<正>江山,位于浙江西南部,和闽浙赣三地交界,自然和人文地理资源极为丰富。我们在一个雨季,走进了如画的江山,行走在江郎山、清漾、大陈古村、廿八都古镇之间,深切感受当地的山水人文。在我的眼里,这儿很多地方都值得住下来,可以更从容地去看,去细细品味。比如大陈村,比如廿八都,完全可以单独书写一篇文章。     

充实 圆融之美——访岭南青年画家方瑞

近年看画展多次,多次看到方瑞的画。 或线条飞动,或墨块飘逸。通俗的题材,用她那通而不俗的表现手法,传情传神,跃然而出。于简洁清妙中透出勃勃生机,于纯正充实中彰显成长的力量。感觉中,这些画无论是在富丽堂皇的厅堂,还是在方寸之陋室,似乎总能与环境融洽无间。     

Pioneers,politicians and the conservation of forests in early New Zealand

In pioneering societies there is usually little interest in resource conservation, and scant concern for the consequences of environmental disturbance. Yet legislation to conserve the extensive forests of New Zealand was introduced soon after settlement began, and despite a general desire for material improvement. Ultimately, this paradox is attributable to George Perkins Marsh's demonstration of the ecological consequences of man's impact on his environment in Man and nature. The arguments of this work published in 1864 were soon heard in New Zealand. But a mere handful of New Zealanders recognized the importance of Marsh's ideas. For the most part, they were immigrants from the middle and upper ranks of British society, drawn to the colony by the prospects it offered, and removed from the general struggle to tame the land. Their concern was essential in promoting interest in the questions of environmental disturbance and conservation in the 1870s. The immediate reason for the introduction of the New Zealand Forests Bill in 1874, however, was Prime Minister Julius Vogel's recognition of the applicability of the conservationists' arguments to the New Zealand scene. Thus character and circumstance combined to heighten the impact of Marsh's writing and to temper the ethic of exploitative land use in the pioneering environment of New Zealand.     

Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong: The Soviet Collapse Revisited

Book reviewed in this article:
Michael Cox (ed.), Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia     

Getting to know you

Statistics in Geography: A Practical Approach

D. Ebdon (1977) Basil Blackwell, (0–631–10131–4), 195pp

Statistical Methods and the Geographer

S. Gregory (1978), Fourth Edition, Longman, (0–582–48186–4), 240 pp

Quantitative Techniques in Geography: An Introduction

R. Hammond &; P. S. McCullagh (1978), Second Edition, Oxford University Press, (0–19–874067–0) 364 pp

Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geography: A Primer on the GeneralLinear Model

R.J. Johnston (1978), Longman, (0–582–48677–7), 280 pp

Maps and Statistics

P. Lewis (1977), Methuen, (0–416–65380–4), 318 pp

Inferential Statistics for Geographers

G.B. Norcliffe (1977), Hutchinson, (0–09–128621–2), 272 pp

Statistical Concepts in Geography

J. Silk (1979), George Allen &; Unwin, (0–04–910066–8), 276 pp

Patterns in Human Geography

D.M. Smith (1977), Penguin, (0–14–080926–0), 373 pp

Quantitative Methods in Human Geography: An Introduction to SpatialAnalysis

P.J. Taylor (1977), Houghton‐Mifflin, (0–395–18699–4), 386 pp

An Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Human Geography

M. Yeates (1974), McGraw‐Hill; (0–07–072251–X), 300 pp     

Making a Life: Getting Ahead,and Getting a Living in Aboriginal New South Wales

ABSTRACT This paper offers an ethnographically grounded examination of the intersections between work, employment and identity for Indigenous people living in a country town in far western New South Wales, Australia. It argues that work, employment and labour are locally deployed categories that meet mainstream discourse in a precarious fashion and, that this disjunction has clear material and ideological repercussions. For most Aboriginal people in Wilcannia, you are who you are, not by virtue of what you have ‘become’ in any economic, professional or educational sense. Who you are is not a becoming, it is established at birth. These genealogical forms of being through kinship see a construction of self which in many ways is at variance to the standard ‘autonomous self‐regulating individual’ (Sennett 1998:215). This sense of self, for most, is not determined by engagement in the capitalist division of labour; indeed, the greater the engagement in the capitalist economy, the more problematic and fraught a sense of self and of belonging can become.     

Zhongdian Culture Rich and Colorful

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Pioneers of Affective Neuroscience and Early Concepts of the Emotional Brain

Views on the representation of emotion in the brain, as formulated about a century ago, are described, with a focus on the Vienna physiologist and psychologist Sigmund Exner, the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and the French physician Israel Waynbaum. All three can be characterized as forerunners in the field of “affective neuroscience”. By the turn of the century, they had developed a neural network theory of emotion which included a stage of pre-cortical processing. In spite of their otherwise very diverse theoretical backgrounds, their concepts of parallel processing routes were highly similar. It is interesting to note that their ideas were on line with present-day views on the neural substrates and physiological characteristics of emotional processing, although none of the three scientists could rely on the refined anatomical knowledge available nowadays.     

Getting inside our informants' heads

William H. Geoghegan. Natural Information Processing Rules: Formal Theory and Applications to Ethnography. Monograph of the Language‐Behavior Research Laboratory, Number 3. Berkeley: University of California Language Research Laboratory, 1973. viii + 448 pp. Figures, tables, appendixes, and bibliography. $6.50 (paper).     

大型主题活动的富矿效应

大型主题活动是一座富矿,一些预测数据表明,大型主题活动蕴涵着显的经济和社会价值。分析这些数据,可为旅游业应对将面临的机遇和挑战提供借鉴。