埃及学:一门近代新兴学科的诞生

埃及学是近代诞生的一门新兴学科,是研究古代埃及的语言、文字、历史、文学、艺术、宗教、建筑和科学技术的一门综合性学科。埃及学的诞生。带来了持续百年之久的考古发掘热潮;埃及象形文字的成功释读。极大地丰富了人们对古代埃及这一人类文明宝库的认识。     

论16世纪葡萄牙在亚太地区扩张活动的性质

西方颇有影响的学者将 1 6世纪葡萄牙在亚太的扩张活动———争夺香料贸易垄断权和传播基督教———描述为基督徒与穆斯林之间的斗争。本文论述了该活动的性质是殖民侵略。理由是 :一、在形式上该斗争是 1 6世纪之前 ,伊比利亚半岛两教斗争的继续 ,但性质却完全不同。二、争夺财富是葡萄牙人对亚太的经济侵略。三、争夺灵魂 ② 是葡萄牙人对亚太的精神文化侵略。值得注意的是 ,与以往相比 ,1 6世纪中基督教对财富的争夺已居第一位。这是两教冲突日趋世俗化 (争夺物质利益 )的转折点。     

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...     

China's Emergence and Impact on Technology in East Asia: The Case of Machinebuilding

Two Taiwan-based economists estimate the technology content of exports by the machinebuilding industry of the East Asia region during 2004-2008, using comparative analysis to clarify changes in the relative competitiveness of four East Asian nations (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) accompanying the formation of a regional trading bloc and production networks. In particular, they examine the technology content of these countries' machinebuilding sub-industries' exports within the Southeast Asian market (documenting the rise of the machinebuilding industry in China) as well as the penetration of Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese sub-industries into China's market. The results point to areas of emerging competition among China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan for East Asian markets, which can only be expected to intensify in the future. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: F14, F15, F36, O14, P23. 7 tables, 36 references.     

The role of US defense exports in Asia Pacific regionalism

Despite the emergence of a regional economic space, political integration in the form of institutional building has yet to take shape in the Asia Pacific. On the one hand, the area is constructed as part of a localized space articulated in terms of relatively self-contained regional economic networks. On the other hand, Asia Pacific remains fractured in geopolitical structures, relying heavily on the US to organize the region, particularly in the post-war period. This paper focuses on the nature of lagging regional political integration and examines the role that US defense trade (1989–2004), and to a lesser extent military presence, plays in this. Specifically, it shows that US geopolitical strategy, influenced heavily by a realist framework, displays a pattern of bilateral courtship where its defense trade is positively related to allies in Asia. This relationship results in stronger trans-Pacific than regional linkages, inserting an otherwise localized Asian economic space into the more diffused global US-centered geopolitical space.     

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?     

近代中国广告的产生发展及其影响

近代中国广告的产生,是新式高业经营方式演变趋新的产物,与众多报刊杂志以及其他各种新型传播媒体的出现相辅相成,也与西方商为文化在中国的广泛传播紧密相联。随着华商认识的提高,以及商业的发展和媒体的繁荣,广告在近代中国越来越兴盛,并且出现了各种不同形式的新颖广告。广告的产生与兴盛对中国工商业的发展起了积极的促进作用,不少华商巧妙地利用广告拓展自已的事业,甚至在与外国资本进行激烈竞争的过程中能立于不败之地     

张謇与近代化大农业的产生

20世纪初,以江苏著名的民族资本企业家张謇为代表的中国现代化事业的先行者们,引进西方资本主义经营模式,在江苏苏北沿海地区进行资本主义大农业经营,创造性地建立了公司加佃户(农户)的经营方式,并将这种方式纳入了近代大工业主导的资本主义市场经济体系,形成了具有现代意义的农工商一体化格局,在近代中国第一次成功地将传统小农推向了现代大市场。     

近代保险的传入和中国民族保险业的产生

保险是近代中国社会新生的事物。一种新事物能够在社会上产生和生存,除了要具有其产生必要的土壤外,必先具备一定的理论和思想基础。近代中国的有识之士正是通过侵略者的言传身教形成了自己的保险思想和理论。西方侵略者要想达到利用保险业侵略、控制中国经济的目的,首先要使中国人接受保险,缘此,他们开始在中国宣传保险知识。这种宣传包括文字宣传和实际引导。1838年,《东西洋考每月统计传》载文介绍西方近代保险业,从文中我们可以初步看出外商最初向国人宣传介绍保险的情形:且说曾相公如此右思左意,忽有以想来,那外洋舟只来数万里远,海茫…     

The Problem in Policy: Representations of Asia Literacy in Australian Education for the Asian Century

This paper examines the strategic arguments articulated in calls for the teaching and learning of Asia in schools. “Asia literacy” is currently framed as a necessary “solution” for Australian education, but acceptance of this “solution” into the mainstream educational policy agenda has been problematised as a neoliberal and neocolonial construct. Subsequent policy debate indicates the dominance of an economic rationale that is seemingly impossible to resist. This paper suggests that critical policy approaches can be used to identify alternatives to these dominant frameworks, which imagine Asia literacy in alternate ways. Re-imagining the “solution” offers three alternatives: working within an economic agenda; restructuring Asia literacy away from a distinct policy agenda; and treating policy gaps as spaces in which teachers can generate locally relevant possibilities.