《镜花缘》的神话寓言结构和谪仙托生母题探析

采用神话寓言的方式作为小说的结构,寄寓作者的某种创作意图,是中国传统小说的一个突出特征。《镜花缘》系清人李汝珍所著的一部颇有特色的长篇章回小说,不仅采用了神话寓言的方式作为小说的结构,而且,在这样的结构中,还十分醒目地贯穿了道教的谪仙托生母题。     

Is distance really dying? Transportation and knowledge spillovers

Enhanced transportation infrastructure improves the frequency of travel and facilitates face-to-face communication. Will the resulting reduction in travel cost mitigate the geographical concentration of knowledge spillovers? Our empirical strategy exploits China's mass expansion of its intercity high-speed railway network as a natural experiment. Using patent citations as the proxy for knowledge spillovers, we find inventors increasingly rely on more distant knowledge after rail connection and newly connect cities' innovation performance improves substantially.     

彰显与重塑——佛山盐步老龙礼俗的调查与研究

明朝万历年间,佛山南海盐步老龙与广州泮塘龙舟因一次大型龙舟比赛而结缘,因对比赛结果的谦让而结契：根据两条龙船所造时间之先后、历史之长短来划分辈分,盐步老龙因时间久远被尊为“契爷”（干爹）,年轻的泮塘龙舟甘为“契仔”（干儿子）,并择日簪花挂红,举行隆重的结拜仪式。在以后的每年端午节期间,“契爷”、“契仔”互相探访,仪式隆崇,场面壮观,彰显和重塑了南海盐步老龙厚重的文化习俗。     

Death in the sun: the bioarchaeology of an early post-medieval hospital in Gibraltar

SUMMARY: In 2014, during construction work at the ex-Civil Hospital in Gibraltar, excavations led by the Gibraltar Museum revealed a major, previously unknown burial ground containing more than 200 skeletons. We present the historical, archaeological and radiometric dating evidence from the site alongside the results of initial osteological analyses. The data indicate that the burials pertain to an earlier 16th-century Spanish hospice, and therefore stand to offer new insights into the functioning of this early modern hospital and the health and movements of people at a time of incipient globalization.     

The Chinese Upper Paleolithic: Geography, Chronology, and Techno-typology

This article reviews the archaeology and chronology of the Chinese Upper Paleolithic and the human fossils attributed to this period. The onset of the Upper Paleolithic in China dates to ca. 35,000–30,000 years ago and is marked by the appearance of a few body decorations and well-shaped bone tools that were added to stone tool assemblages, including core-and-flake tools in North China and cobble tools in South China. The proliferation of blade assemblages in northwest China is interpreted as the cultural impact or the physical presence of bearers of blade industries from western Eurasia. The ensuing appearance of microblade assemblages in North China by 23,000–22,000 years ago reflects the use of local siliceous crystalline nodules by a population that recognized the advantages of this raw material. At that time in South China, prehistoric artisans continued to shape their stone objects from the available flat river cobbles. During the later part of the Chinese Upper Paleolithic (ca. 21,000–10,000 BP), foragers also made bone tools, antler objects, pottery, and shell tools, which laid the technological foundations for the early Neolithic period. One difficulty in this research is that human fossils are rare. Few are well dated and morphological, cultural, and biological interpretations are hotly debated. Our review attempts to facilitate the understanding of a poorly known period in Chinese archaeology and its place in human cultural evolution.     

简评《〈蒙古源流〉研究》

《〈蒙古源流〉研究》已经出版了,这是一部对《蒙 古源流》进 行全面研究和科学整理的学术著作,它的出版具有学术上的价值和意义。作者乌兰博士（女 ,蒙古族）历经２０多年的研究,最后整理出版了这部大作,这是她对蒙古学 研究的一大贡献,可喜可贺。由于１７世纪蒙古地区社会的稳定和经济、文化的发展,涌现出一批现存最早 的蒙文史籍,《蒙古源流》是其中最有价值的史籍之一,是编入《四库全书》 的惟一汉译民族文字的历史著作;因此,《蒙古源流》已成为民族文字史籍中 传世最广、闻名遐迩的代表作。《〈蒙古源流〉研究》约５万字的…     

服务蓝图：国际上最新旅游服务设计方法

服务设计是服务质量管理的重要环节,良好的服务设计是保障服务质量的先决条件。服务蓝图是现今国际上极为流行的服务设计方法,本针对旅行社的具体情况,以案例形式介绍这种先进方法。     

清季外官改制的“地方”困扰

民国以来,学界习惯用中央与地方的观念,讨论清季新政内外官改制及其引发的矛盾纠纷,忽略了督抚反复强调元代以来行省并非“地方”的申辩,且多不愿成为立宪政体下的“地方”官吏,以及清廷所颁政令中,直省始终未成为地方行政层级的事实。时人套用外来政体的中央与地方概念观照清代的部院与直省,不仅与清朝集历代王朝体制之大成的设制用意形似而实异,且对清季改制及民初省制造成很大困扰,亦长期制约后人对中国政治制度史的认识。这种观念体制上中西新旧不相凿枘的纠葛,折射了制度兴革与历史文化复杂而深刻的联系,也给未来中国的改革设置了难题。     

对徐州龟山和狮子山汉墓结构的几点认识

本文主要通过对徐州地区发现的两座楚王墓--龟山汉墓和狮子山汉墓结构设计、建造以及陪葬品等方面的讨论,进一步说明徐州地区楚王陵的结构形制特点,使我们对西汉葬制有较为深入的认识.     

唐敦煌县令宋素墓志再考——敦煌相关金石整理研究之二

唐敦煌县令宋素墓志,近年出土于陕西华阴,志石、志盖均保存完好。传世史籍及出土文献中有关唐初敦煌县令等任职人员的记载十分有限,根据志文我们可推算宋素担任敦煌县令的大致时间。通过对有纪年的唐初敦煌写卷进行梳理,可粗略了解宋素担任敦煌县令前后敦煌当地的社会状况。该墓志的发现不仅可补传世文献的不足,且或将有助于当前的敦煌学研究。