“自下而上”:当代中国农村社会研究的社会史视角

从互助组到人民公社体制结束,是一个前后相继、不可割裂的时代。从"自下而上"的社会史角度对此进行研究,可以纠正以往研究的缺失,丰富我们对新中国历史的认识。中国社会史研究应当引入到现当代史的研究,这亦是社会史研究应有的社会关怀。     

The Secret Society's Secret: The Invoked Reality of the Tiandihui

This essay examines two sets of reports in the Qing-dynasty Jiaqing and Daoguang periods (respectively 1796-1820 and 1821-45) in order to understand better the perceived reality of the Tiandihui.The first set,found among the papers of Jiangxi governor Xianfu (1809-14),allows a comparison of a criminal gang that invoked the Tiandihui ceremony with one that did not.The second set includes the diary of Taihe county magistrate Xu Dihui (in office from 1824) that recorded various events which came to be reported to the senior officialdom as having been conducted by secret societies.By collating the incidents as reported in the diary and memorials to the emperor,the authors argue that the pressure of the administrative process was responsible for the ultimate acquiescence by the Hunan governor Han Wenqi (in office 1825-29) in the perception of an indisputable connection of the incidents with secret societies.Moreover,both sets of reports show that participants in secret-society ceremonies and officials who suppressed them knexv that the acclaimed networking of the Tiandihui as implied in its folklore was very far from the reality.     

Bridging Top Down and Bottom Up: Modelling Community Preferences for a Dispersed Rural Settlement Pattern

This paper explores the scope to bridge top-down and bottom-up perspectives on spatial planning by drawing on EU-funded action research in relation to rural settlement planning in Northern Ireland. The empirical work is located within a review of planning theory that exposes a long running tension between the technocratic stances of government planners and the aspirations of engaged citizens. It demonstrates the operation of a large group planning methodology that delivers community preference with environmental responsibility as a participatory input into planning policy formulation. Transferable insights into the dynamics of spatial planning are identified.     

一片丹心祭文奎

是1950年,建国之初,那一个热情昂扬的时代。     

车轮不息:骑行世界之巅

白字,用燃烧身体的方式,以不息的双轮,在这个星球表面留下痕迹。每一个未知令他感受到生命的意义,陌生人的暖意令他感受到旅途的美好。虽然去过了全球60多个地方,但他午夜梦回,常在西藏阿里。对他来说,荒野和星空更加重要。我喜欢用燃烧身体的方式,在这个星球表面划过痕迹。对我来说,荒野和星空更加重要。之所以选择骑行,是因为同样一个目的地,你以怎样的速度去经历它——决定了这是旅行、旅游或者只是经过而已。     

戈洛夫金使团来华考论

本文认为嘉庆十年出使中国的戈洛夫金使团,是清代中俄关系史上规模最大的一次外交出使活动.此次出使反映了19世纪初俄国在对华贸易中的新诉求、对两国争议土地划界的态度以及清廷对两国关系的认识等问题.     

From Mission to Maynggu Ganai: The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission Site

The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission site, now known as Maynggu Ganai Historic Site (meaning “people’s land” in local Wiradjuri language), contains the archaeological remains of the convict agricultural station that was established in 1823. The site, subsequently taken over by the Anglican Church Missionary Society as a mission to the Wiradjuri, operated from 1832 to 1844. Drawing upon archaeological survey, the extraordinary historical archive associated with this site, and an analysis of community consultative research, this article explores the role of this site in colonial cultural exchange, as well as the contemporary cultural meanings of this history and its physical remains for the community today.     

马戛尔尼使华事件中的英吉利“表文”考

在马戛尔尼使华事件中,原本"极有大体"的英王致乾隆皇帝的国书,因英国使团所聘华人翻译者有意识的改动,沦为一份属国"表文",而英国使团对此毫无察觉,坦然呈交清廷.此中出现的错误,虽非清廷君臣直接操纵所致,却也清楚地反映出乾隆盛世闭关自守体系下中外交往的重重阻厄,在某种程度上还影响了此后几十年中英关系的发展.     

明代密疏书写格式考论

明代的密疏是朝臣上呈给皇帝的一种秘密章奏,是一种特殊的上行官书。和普通的题、奏本相比,它有诸多的不同。其中密疏书写格式的特殊,既是密疏与一般章奏最显的差别之处,其相对独特的书写格式的形成,也是明代密疏言事初步制度化的一个表现。明代密疏书写格式的发展,大致经历了两个阶段,即明代中前期时,密疏的书写格式依照一般的题、奏本格式,并无太大的差别;而到了明世宗嘉靖初年,始形成了影响后世的书写格式。明代密疏的书写格式大体上包括开首、叙事和结尾三个主要的部分,此外,密疏书写中的尊上与禁忌也与一般的章奏有较大的不同,这些正是明代密疏书写格式的独特之处。