Statesmanship Beyond the Modern State

The concept and ideal of statesmanship have been handed down to us from ancient to modern times, but it has a paradoxical relationship with the modern state. While terminology suggests that statesmanship presupposes the state, in fact it appears rather incongruent with modern (i.e., constitutional, democratic, and bureaucratic) statehood. Nonetheless, statesmanship continues to be promoted and new understandings, such as judicial and administrative statesmanship, have been proposed. Some hope, moreover, that statesmanship becomes more feasible again as we transfer from state government to multilevel governance. There are problems, however, with conceiving of statesmanship, either in its original or in its newer meanings, under these new conditions. Despite the enduring appeal of statesmanship, the changing role of the state in present-day governance does not mean that this ideal can be easily regained.     

“The music never stopped”: naming businesses as a method for remembering the Grateful Dead

ABSTRACT

Memorialization on the cultural landscape is a common method of celebrating the legacy of an event or person significant to the history of geographical location. The Grateful Dead is a band that continues to define the ideals of the late-1960s San Francisco Sound through their music’s creative freedom and inclination toward experimentation. Although the original lineup of the Grateful Dead is no longer intact, the spirit of the music they created and their psychedelic appeal has been preserved on the cultural landscape. Despite differing reasons for naming their business after the band, hundreds of business owners in the United States have collectively preserved the Grateful Dead’s presence on the cultural landscape. In this paper we explore the distribution of businesses in the United States with Grateful Dead-related names, and how the presence of these business names enriches the cultural landscape with the memory of the band’s music as a product of the iconic San Francisco Sound.     

守望·探索·创新——郑欣淼任期内故宫博物院工作纪要

郑欣淼先生于2002年10月受任文化部副部长兼故宫博物院院长,在此后的十年中,全面主持故宫博物院各项事务。他以其严谨和执着典守故宫十载,完成了十年古建修缮和七年文物清理两项重大工程,奠定了新世纪故宫博物院发展的坚实基础。他还建立了国际博物馆之间战略性和模式化的合作关系,打开了两岸故宫之间交往的格局,开创了故宫博物院发展的新局面。本文对郑欣淼先生在故宫博物院十年的工作做了细致的梳理和记述,这为后继者提供了宝贵的经验和借鉴。     

文物艺术品收藏与鉴赏导论

绪论 就行业习语而言,人文收藏在各个不同的时代有不同的叫法。从历史上的沿袭来看,大致有古玩、骨董、古物、文物等不同的习惯用语并沿用至今。严格地说,这些习语并不是一个等同的概念,因为其内涵与外延都不尽相同。     

汉字与古代婚俗

汉字多具表意功能,本身蕴涵着丰富的社会文化信息.本文取＂姓＂、＂父＂、＂婚＂、＂娶＂、＂妻＂、＂嫁＂、＂媵＂、＂侄＂诸字,通过对其字形、字义的解读,探析了群婚、抢婚、买卖婚、媵制等古代婚俗.     

《文选》赋类李善注所收旧注解题

《文选》李善注中保留了很多旧注,其中以赋类为最多,体现出唐前为赋做注的兴盛。本文对李善注中收录或提到的旧注逐一辨析,考察其概貌、真伪、引书及特色等问题。     

Keeping an eye on your pots: the provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops,Youra, Greece

Combined petrographic and chemical analysis of MN and LN ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra, Greece, has revealed a compositionally diverse assemblage with a range of different local and off-island sources. Ceramics deposited in Neolithic times on this barren, rocky outpost of the Sporades chain may have originated from a surprising number of possible origins, including from the Plain of Thessaly, Euboea and the volcanic northeast Aegean islands. This picture challenges traditional assumptions about Neolithic pottery production and indicates that significant movement of ceramics was already taking place within the northern Aegean as early as the beginning of the sixth millennium BC. The discovery of a persistent local pottery tradition, that is also found on the neighbouring island of Kyra-Panagia, indicates significant continuity in ceramic technology over some 1500 years.     

洛宁县发现黄土石器工业

<正>2006年12月,根据吕遵谔提供的线索,北京师范大学历史学院与洛阳市文物钻探办公室的考古人员,在洛阳市进行了为期一个多月的旧石     

A Few Considerations on Democracy in Africa

Recent moves towards greater political liberalization in Africa, with the widespread introduction of multi-party elections in many states since 1989, do not necessarily constitute evidence of successful democratization. In particular, the focus on elections to the exclusion of other essential features of a properly functioning democracy has vitiated much recent analysis of the 'democratic transition' in Africa. By examining in turn the roots, meaning and limits of democratization in Africa, the author shows that a focus on accountability rather than on democracy per se would be more appropriate.