嘻嘻哈哈说嘻哈

这是我做的一个噩梦:我女儿跟一个家伙回到家里,跟我说:“老爸,我们要结婚了。”那家伙是个说唱歌手,满口大金牙,头戴说唱巾,胳膊上大块肌肉风起云涌,一副流氓无赖样。更可怖的是:你还没回过神,已经听到小脚板的啪嗒啪嗒声——他们的后代降临了。那声音长驱直入我的起居室,在我的生活里四下乱撞,把我淹没在自己的虚伪声音中,因为我年轻那会儿也曾是这么个傻瓜蛋,沉迷于我自己的音乐、自己的声音。为此,我诅咒看见他脸的那天,那张脸简直就是我的翻版;我悔不该在那天听见他的名字,因为我惊恐不安地明白过来,一种似乎没有旋律、情感、乐器、歌词、和弦、没有序曲、没有尾声、没有高潮的音乐,一种根本就不像是音乐的音乐——说唱,统治着世界。那不再是我的世界。那是他的世界。而我生活在其中,生活在一颗嘻哈行星上。     

红发警报

英国的哈里王子是否拥有濒临灭绝的红发基因?今年报刊上纷纷报道,地道的红发人将在2100年彻底灭绝。因为在全球大融合的时代,两个红发人结合的几率越来越小。通常,只有父母都携带红发基因,子女才可     

试论藏传佛教微型雕塑“嚓嚓”在藏区的传入与发展(英文)

Buddhist culture was officially introduced into Ti- betan-inhabited areas in the 7th century A.D.Until that time,the influence of Bonpo culture on Tibetan society had been all-pervasive.However,its teachings and disciplines were less systematic and perfect,which offered Buddhism a good opportunity to infiltrate.So like any other foreign culture,Buddhism began its     

中国城市早期现代化过程中的娼妓问题

在中国近代开埠城市中,娼妓炽兴,卖淫嫖娼日趋社会化、商业化、复杂化。本文从认识中国城市早期现代化过程中弊病的角度,以城乡关系和城市政治、经济、文化及市民行为观念的转型变迁为背景,剖析了这一城市病的历史及社会根源,试图揭示中国城市早期现代化过程中的几个面向和特点。     

A perplexing document in the early history of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: Melotti's rendition of a "Lecture of Charcot" (including a complete translation from the Italian with commentary)

In 1885, Dr. Guilio Melotti published an Italian translation of a lecture on "Convulsive Tics with Coprolalia and Echolalia" given by Jean-Martin Charcot. Although this lecture often has been cited as an authoritative statement of Charcot's view, until now it has not been translated into English. The lecture presents a number of statements that appear nowhere else in Charcot's published corpus, including some that seem to contradict Charcot's other pronouncements on maladie des tics. Although the Melotti-Charcot lecture may portray Charcot's position accurately in many passages, the article most likely is a compilation from a variety of sources.     

Mission boys, civilized men, and marriage: educated African men in the Missions of Southern Rhodesia, 1920-1945

This paper examines what marriage may have meant to African men within the Christian elite of Southern Rhodesia. Using mission and government sources, it argues that domestic, Christian marriage was important to elite African men as a way of allowing them to achieve adulthood while remaining in good standing with mission sponsors who generally objected to or feared indigenous ideas of patriarchal male adulthood. Tracing life histories of two American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions ministers, one who succeeded in remaining within the mission system and one who left, blacklisted, it explores how domestic, Christian marriage defused many of the missions' suspicions of elite African men, while providing a way to acquire the economic, social and political power associated with full adulthood within the local context.     

Lung cancer, chronic disease epidemiology, and medicine, 1948-1964

Beginning in the early 1950s, a series of epidemiological, biochemical, pathological, and animal studies demonstrated a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. A number of reputable scientists challenged these findings, but for a variety of reasons, including the behavior of the tobacco industry, historians have assumed that these objections were insubstantial and disingenuous. Viewing these objections in scientific and medical perspective, however, suggests that there was a legitimate and reasonable scientific controversy over cigarette smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s and early 1960s. That controversy had important consequences. A new chronic disease epidemiology emerged, transforming the role and importance of epidemiology to medical research. This new epidemiology supplemented Koch's postulates, establishing a statistical method that allowed for linking environmental factors to the etiology of chronic diseases. The 1964 report to the surgeon general, Smoking and Health, represented the denouement and codification of these developments. This reexamination of the scientific controversy over smoking in the 1950s and early 1960s provides an important context for understanding the subsequent public relations battles between the tobacco industry and public health after 1964.