Popular geopolitics of Chinese Nanjing massacre films: a feminist approach

This article attempts to deconstruct the masculinised contract among the war narrative, popular culture, and Chinese nationalism by exploring the roles of women in Nanjing Massacre films with war narratives and Chinese audiences' emotional ‘readings’ of these women. Based on the analysis of City of Life and Death (2009) and The Flowers of War (2011) and audiences' comments on these two films from Douban Movie, this article has mapped a popular geopolitics of these two films through a feminist approach. The main argument of this research points out that, through the production and consumption of these two films, the women of the Nanjing Massacre can be territorialised as Nanjing/China and used to represent China's attitudes towards both the historical and current Sino–Japanese relationship. In this way, the women of these films can be considered an articulation of popular culture and politics, and they are empowered to establish Chinese nationalism and construct anti-Japanese identities in Chinese society. To a wider extent, this article can be read as a contribution to the literature on gender, nationalism and popular geopolitics.     

Sense of place and tourism business development

This study is to investigate the role of sense of place on residents' participation in tourism-related businesses. Emphasis was placed on understanding whether and how sense of place influenced people's decisions to operate a tourism-related business. Thus, this framework and the empirical validation presented are the result of triangulating quantitative survey data (n = 118) tourism business operators and follow-up with qualitative interviews (n = 72) respondents in Tai O, Hong Kong, the linkages between sense of place and small and medium business enterprises (SMTEs) were explored. The findings revealed that sense of place played an important role in encouraging move-out residents and their descendants to return and participate in a tourism-related business. Sense of place also influenced some people's decisions regarding the type of business they were involved in and the manner in which they operated their business. The findings suggested that operators of tourism-related businesses who have a strong sense of place, whether local residents or outsiders, can contribute to preserving a community's culture and for sustainable tourism development.     

内陆亚洲视野下的“新清史”研究

"新清史"作为一种学术思潮,是西方"内陆亚洲"研究理论运用到清代历史叙事的一个结果。"内陆亚洲"在19世纪被俄国、德国学者作为一个地理概念使用,用于亚洲区域的划分。后随着这一地区的历史、语言和文化及其对世界历史的影响日益受到广泛关注和研究,"内陆亚洲"成为一个文化概念。"新清史"学者们对"内陆亚洲"概念和理论的借鉴极具启发意义,但他们将满洲特性泛化为以游牧文化为核心的内亚特性,有违以往内亚史学者之本义。他们偏向强调清朝与内亚政权的延续性,将"内陆亚洲"从一个文化概念演绎为一种与"中国"对立的政治概念,逻辑上存在偏差,也不符合历史实际。     

中国农村工业结构变化的省际差异分析

本文应用结构变化指数和专业化指数,定量分析了全国各省、市、区1986至1991年农村工业结构变化的差异、专业化差异及两者关系的差异,并根据各地专业化部门的变化趋势,对农村工业结构政策提出若干建议。     

Archaeobotanical remains from the mid-first millennium AD site of Kaerdong in western Tibet

In this study, we present the preliminary result of archaeobotanical investigation at Kaerdong in western Tibet. The result shows that agropastoralism with combined strategies of foraging, hunting and fishing was in practice at the location between approximately 455 and 700 cal. AD. Our results also show that herding animals grazed at meadows above 4300 m above sea level (masl), and dung was used as fuel. The presence of a rice grain together with spikelet bases indicates that rice was a component of food resources possibly as a result of a trade and exchange system. In addition, tatary buckwheat grains were also recovered at the site.     

The Diffraction of Rayleigh Waves by Twin Circular Cavities in a Poroelastic Half-Space

The diffraction of Rayleigh waves by twin circular cavities in a poroelastic half-space is investigated using the indirect boundary integral equation method (IBIEM). To satisfy the boundary conditions on the free surface, Green’s functions of compressional and shear wave sources in a poroelastic half-space are derived based on Biot’s theory. It is verified that the IBIEM has great accuracy and numerical stability. Then, the influences of the drainage boundary condition, incident wave frequency, porosity, and cavity spacing on the dynamic responses are investigated by numerical examples. The results show that the amplification effect of the twin cavities is greater in the case of undrained boundary conditions, lower frequencies, and smaller cavity spacings. The porosity of the saturated medium also influences the dynamic responses because the velocity of the Rayleigh wave will change with the porosity of the saturated medium.     

先秦时期青铜钺的再研究

青铜钺在先秦时期具有重要礼制意义。鉴于考古材料的日益丰富,本文在前人研究的基础上,运用考古类型学研究方法并结合文化因素分析法,总结出青铜钺发生发展的时代性和地域性。同时以此为基础,结合古文字和历史典籍资料,探讨了商周时期的用钺制度。     

竹书《鲍叔牙》与《管子》对比研究的几个问题

最近公布的上博藏战国楚竹书五中有<鲍叔牙与隰朋之谏>、<競建内之>两篇①,本文讨论有关事件的年代与背景,并对简文几处疑难文字的释读提出看法.简文记有齐桓公祭祖告庙后颁发的一道政令,时间在公元前650年至前645年间.相关内容又见于<管子>,对于考察<管子>一书有关资料的来源具有参考价值.     

地域文化与国家文化——三晋文化与山西文化关系辨析

战国时代在"争于市朝"的政治策略下,韩、赵、魏的发展重点先后离开山西,同时使三晋文化带有强烈的经世致用和急功近利的色彩。处于政治冲突中心的国家所承载的文化往往直接体现时代的风貌,与山西在历史变迁中自然形成的地域差异和自身文化特质有本质的区别。将三晋文化视为山西文化的直接源头甚至发展巅峰的观点是值得推敲的。