The Archaeometry and Archaeology of Ancient Chinese Glass: a Review

This paper provides a new review of archaeometric research carried out on glass found in China, set in an archaeological context, from its earliest occurrence to the Song dynasty. It is set within a broad geographical context taking the terrestrial and maritime Silk Road contacts into account. We discuss chemical and isotopic compositional contrasts in glasses from different periods found in different parts of China, the glasses that were almost certainly made in China and those that were imported. A theme that runs through the paper is the problem of provenancing glass found in China, along with a lack of evidence for primary glass‐making sites and minimal evidence for secondary glass production. We discuss the glass artefacts that are of typical Chinese types and contrast these with imports; the structure reflects this contrast. We discuss potential new scientific and archaeological approaches to Chinese glass.     

A new antiarch placoderm from the Emsian (Early Devonian) of Wuding,Yunnan, China

Pan, Z., Zhu, M., Zhu, Y. &; Jia, L., August 2017. A new antiarch placoderm from the Emsian (Early Devonian) of Wuding, Yunnan, China. Alcheringa 42, 10–21. ISSN 0311-5518.

Wufengshania magniforaminis, a new genus and species of the Euantiarcha (Placodermi: Antiarcha), is described from the late Emsian (Early Devonian) of Wuding, Yunnan, southwestern China. The referred specimens were three-dimensionally preserved in black shales, allowing a high-resolution computed tomography reconstruction of anatomical details. The new euantiarch is characterized by a large orbital fenestra, an arched exoskeletal band around the orbital fenestra and a developed obtected nuchal area of the skull roof. Maximum parsimony analysis, using a revised data-set of antiarchs with 44 taxa and 66 characters, resolves Wufengshania gen. nov. as a member of the Bothriolepididae, which is characterized by the presence of the infraorbital sensory canal diverging on the lateral plate, and the nuchal plate with orbital facets. New analysis supports a sister group relationship between Dianolepis and the Bothriolepididae. Luquanolepis, a coeval euantiarch from the neighboring site of the new form, is referred to the Asterolepidoidei and represents the basalmost and earliest member of the Asterolepidoidei.

Zhaohui Pan* [panzhaohui@ivpp.ac.cn], Min Zhu* [zhumin@ivpp.ac.cn], You’an Zhu^? [zhuyouan@ivpp.ac.cn] and Liantao Jia [jialiantao@ivpp.ac.cn] Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, PR China. *Also affiliated with University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China. ^?Also affiliated with Uppsala University, PO Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden.     

多光谱摄影技术在印绘纺织品文物信息提取中的应用——以正德八年诰命为例

为了探讨多光谱摄影技术在纺织品文物信息无损提取中的实用性,利用多光谱成像系统和微型光谱仪对正德八年诰命中破损的纹理组织、模糊的墨书字迹进行识别。在对诰命的图像信息提取后发现,多光谱的红外光波段对纺织品文物上的墨书字迹具有较好的识别作用;在颜色复杂或肉眼无法识别细微纹理的情况下,结合提取对象的反射光谱,可以较好获取织物颜色和纹理信息,完善和补充纺织品文物的相关信息。多光谱摄影技术在纺织品文物信息无损分析方面具有较好的实用性。     

多源大数据下的北京市居民就餐活动与城市空间关系探究

融合了位置和文本信息的社交媒体数据为城市空间研究提供了有力的数据支撑,也为发现其背后隐藏的人类行为时空模式及规律提供了可能.本文构建了文本信息挖掘技术与空间分析有机结合的居民时空行为研究框架,利用2017年微博数据,采用BERT与Fast.AI结合的文本分类模型,结合LDA主题模型进行文本主题挖掘,对北京居民日常就餐活...     

跨文化管理研究在中国酒店业经营管理提升和品牌创建中的应用

本文讨论了中国酒店业30年发展历程中始终面临的几个方面的文化问题。例如,跨国酒店公司的海外投资对发展中国家在经济和社会文化方面的积极和消极影响;现代信息技术对酒店管理的促进作用和带来的问题;酒店经营全球一体化与文化多样化之间的关系;中外酒店管理者的文化差异和文化冲突;中国酒店业跨国经营的文化适应等。本文提出,应当加强跨文化管理研究在酒店经营管理中的应用,它可以有效地提升经营管理人员的业务水平,促进酒店业经营管理的国际合作,优化酒店产品营销,指导酒店硬件设施建设,提高人力资源管理效率,指导酒店特色项目的设计运作,提高酒店对外投资效率以及指导酒店的品牌创建。     

我国旅游运行宏观管理的六大要领

本文从主题词界定入手,讨论了我国旅游运行的宏观管理问题。本文认为,对旅游运行实行宏观管理是一项系统工程,其顺利实施取决于有效把握六大要领,即：市场经济价值观是旅游运行宏观管理的根本性指导思想;主客关系是旅游运行宏观管理的核心性社会关系;旅行社是旅游运行宏观管理中的主轴性行业;旅游资源是旅游运行宏观管理的决定性物质基础;多元系统网络结构是旅游运行宏观管理的突出特点;法制建设是旅游运行宏观管理的重要保障。     

Latent trajectory models for space‐time analysis: An application in deciphering spatial panel data

This article introduces latent trajectory models (LTMs), an approach often employed in social sciences to handle longitudinal data, to the arena of GIScience, particularly space‐time analysis. Using the space‐time data collected at county level for the whole United States through webpage search on the keyword “climate change,” we show that LTMs, when combined with eigenvector filtering of spatial dependence in data, are very useful in unveiling temporal trends hidden in such data: the webpage‐data derived popularity measure for climate change has been increasing from December 2011 to March 2013, but the increase rate has been slowing down. In addition, LTMs help reveal potential mechanisms behind observed space‐time trajectories through linking the webpage‐data derived popularity measure about climate change to a set of socio‐demographic covariates. Our analysis shows that controlling for population density, greater drought exposure, higher percent of people who are 16 years old or above, and higher household income are positively predictive of the trajectory slopes. Higher percentages of Republicans and number of hot days in summer are negatively related to the trajectory slopes. Implications of these results are examined, concluding with consideration of the potential utility of LTMs in space‐time analysis and more generally in GIScience.     

Artwork securitisation: a Chinese style of artwork investment

A new artwork trading model emerged in China at the beginning of 2010s: the value of a piece of artwork was divided into equal shares, and investors could buy and sell these shares in the cultural artwork exchanges, in exactly the same way as investors trading stocks in the stock market. In China, this trading model, once available, was hotly pursued by investors. This rapid market growth quickly descended into trading market confusion and speculation, forcing the government to deal with this model and eventually putting a stop to it. In this paper, we take a closer look at the reasons for the artwork shares’ price booming and slumping, the disorder and speculation in the artwork share trading market, and the reasons why the Chinese government halted this kind of trade. Taking the Tianjin Cultural Artwork Exchange of China as an example, we found that artwork can be an alternative investment vehicle, but the share trading model, similar in function to the stocks and bonds market, is not fit for artwork. The lack of legal basis and supervision by governmental bodies, together with the changeable trading rules has also contributed to the failure of this artwork trading model in China.     

北凉统治与高昌佛教

北凉政权在统治河西时期,已在高昌设郡进行统治.至沮渠蒙逊之子沮渠无讳、安周时,高昌变成了北凉政权的统治中心.北凉统治高昌,前后仅有十八年(443-460年),但对高昌佛教的发展起到了非常重要的作用,已引起了学术界的重视.这里在前人研究的基础上,谨就北凉残部西迁高昌的过程及其对高昌佛教发展等问题略作述论.     

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