茶:带来世界变革的饮料

本文感谢英国剑桥大学社会人类学教授、英国学术院院士、欧洲研究院院士艾伦·麦克法兰教授Professor Alan Macfarlane,FBA,以及他的著作《Green Gold,The Empire of Tea》(《绿金:茶叶帝国》);英国剑桥大学康河计划——保护即将消失的世界Cambridge Rivers Project(CRP);帝瑚传播Bluake Communications。茶叶(camelliasinensis)原产于喜马拉雅山东部湿热的丛林区,位于缅甸、印度阿萨姆和中国云南的三角带,包括现在云南省的普洱地区。     

The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys

Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development — from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy — has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a ‘black box’, with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. In this context, there has been increasing interest in time use studies as a way to peer inside this black box. This article offers a review of methods and identifies some of the difficulties facing time use studies in capturing intrahousehold dynamics, and presents the results of a two‐season simultaneous activity time use study in Malawi which aimed to address these difficulties. The results suggest significant limitations to time use surveys. The kinds of reproductive labour that often interest researchers may be invisible to the women responding to time use surveys, with the result that care work is dramatically under‐reported. The authors discuss the implications of the divergence between researchers’ concerns and the women's reports of their lives for time use surveys, and for feminist development research methods more broadly.     

潮涌千年 改变中国与世界格局的福州

<正>进入9月,地处南方的福州长乐乡间依旧很热。抬头望去,在左手边的田地里,种着数垄茉莉花,右手边的田地里,种着数垄甘薯。不远处的村边,是一片绿油油的水稻田。田地里很安静,只有几个劳作的农民偶尔说话入耳。然而眼前的一幕,却不能不让人心潮澎湃,正因为茉莉花、甘薯和水稻,穿越了千年,依然在它们最初进入中国的地方被种植,被收获,被饮食。占城稻喂饱大宋中华大地上的古人对水稻一点儿都不陌生,早在距今七八千年前,当时生活在太湖流域和杭州湾的古人就放     

20世纪30年代美国的和平主义运动

20世纪30年代,在人们对第一次世界大战进行反省和日益恶化的国际形势的影响下,美国社会出现了一股与孤立主义既相联系又相区别的和平主义思潮。和平主义者主要由妇女、宗教界人士和在校大学生组成。他们反对战争和军备,主张以和平的手段和方式解决国际纠纷。在法西斯主义猖獗的时代背景下,和平主义者的理念及其实践显得与现实严重脱节,最后只能以失败而告终。