China's Emerging Neoliberal Urbanism: Perspectives from Urban Redevelopment

Abstract: China's urbanization is undergoing profound neoliberal shifts, within which urban redevelopment has emerged in the forefront of neoliberalization. This study aims to understand China's emerging neoliberal urbanism by examining the association between urban redevelopment and neoliberalism. Rather than a deliberate design, neoliberalization in China is a response to multiple difficulties/crises and the desire for rapid development. The neoliberalization process is full of controversies and inconsistencies, which involve conflicts between neoliberal practices and social resistance, and tensions between central and local states. Nevertheless, China's neoliberal urbanism has a responsive and resilient system to cope with the contradictions and imbalances inherent in neoliberalism. Meanwhile, neoliberal urbanism is more tangible at the sub‐national scale, since the local state can most effectively assist neoliberal experiments and manage crises. This study not only contributes to the understanding of China's neoliberal urbanism, but also has multiple implications for neoliberalism studies in general. First, in examining the interrelationship between the state and market, it is the actual effect of legitimizing and facilitating market operation rather than the presence (or absence) of the state that matters. Second, a new nexus of governance has formed in the neoliberalization process. Not only the nation state but also the local state is of great significance in assisting and managing neoliberal projects. Third, this study further validates the importance and necessity of scrutinizing neoliberal practices, in particular the controversies and inconsistencies within the neoliberalization process.     

Capital's search for order: Foreign direct investment in Singapore's overseas parks in Southeast and East Asia

If countries compete for capital in the shape of foreign direct investment (FDI), from the point of view of multinational enterprises (MNEs), there is a market for the social order on offer in different nation states. MNEs seek out particular models of social order for their FDI projects. In the middle is a diverse set of organisations who mediate between supply and demand in a world market for social order. East and Southeast Asia represent interesting and complicated cases in point. Different national models of social order are also overlain and punctured by the hybrid models apparent in cross-border zones of economic integration and joint venture industrial park enclaves. This paper examines the engagement between states, MNEs and intermediaries in this variegated FDI policy landscape.     

略论《明书》的史学价值

《明书》是清初史家傅维鳞(1608—1667)任翰林院编修时所纂纪传体明史,因《四库全书》仅列其入存目,并加以否定,学界对《明书》多有误解与轻视。本文由反驳《四库全书总目》对《明书》的批评入手,从《明书》对官修《明史》的影响、对明史研究的价值以及作为第一部明代全史的史学地位等方面,对《明书》做了相对全面、客观、公允的评价。     

Rice fields and modes of rice cultivation between 5000 and 2500 BC in east China

Recently, rice fields dated between 5000 and 2500 BC were found at the Tianluoshan sit in east China. The early rice fields dated between 5000 and 4500 BC are the oldest rice fields known. The discovery has provided data of recovering reclamation, cultivation, and the ecological system of rice fields in the Neolithic age. People opened up marshes of dense reeds with fire and wooden or bone spades, in order to create rice fields. In the rice fields, there was not only rice, but a lot of weeds as well. The excavations proved that little or even no weeding or irrigation was adopted. However, tilling soil by wooden and bone tools was evidenced. The average yields are estimated to have been about 830 kg for the early period and 950 kg per hectare for the later period. The cultivation system was low-level. Although the Tianluoshan people cultivated rice, they still obtained a great deal of food by gathering and hunting.     

山西垣曲商城出土部分铜器的科学研究

1993年,国家博物馆考古部与山西省考古研究所联合对山西垣曲商城进行的发掘获得了一大批珍贵的遗物,其中在商城内的古道路旁,发现了属于商代早期的炼铜遗迹,出土了铜器残片、炼铜炉壁、炉渣等丰富的遗迹、遗物,这批遗物的发现对于深入研究我国青铜时代特别是青铜时代最重要的时期--商王朝的青铜冶炼技术的发展状况具有极其重要的价值,北京大学和国家博物馆合作对出土的部分铜器、炼渣进行了科学分析.共取青铜样品7件,样品清单见表一.致谢:清华大学摩擦学国家重点实验室的杨文言高级工程师在扫描电镜观察、电子能谱分析过程中给予了重要的帮助,在此深表谢忱!     

从随葬铜器墓看周代莒国贵族埋葬制度

莒国是先秦时期东夷少昊部落建立的国家,其贵族埋葬制度具有鲜明的地区特色,集中反映在随葬铜器墓中。莒国随葬铜器墓可以分为四期。据此,莒国贵族的埋葬制度相应的也可以分为四个阶段：萌芽期、形成期、鼎盛期、消亡期,其年代为：西周中期、西周晚期到春秋早期、春秋中期到战国早期、战国中期。莒国贵族的埋葬制度吸收东夷文化的因素,在其发展的过程中,也不断地受到了齐、楚等国的影响。     

鸦片战争前在华西人与对华战争舆论的形成

随着1830年前后中英之间冲突的演进,来华西人群体对广州贸易体制愈益不满,逐渐产生了对华武力强制的舆论。西人先后在广州发行了一批英文报刊,作为舆论阵地,在1830年代初期提出对华武力威慑,迫使清政府废除广州体制、实现对华自由贸易的主张。1834年律劳卑事件后,这种主张发展为对华战争的舆论。在西人内部,武力威慑论和对华战争论都曾引起争论,部分西人反对这种依恃武力改变对华关系的观点。1837年英人几种关于对华关系的小册子出版后,来华西人分别在其报刊上提出对华关系的武力强迫论、商业交往论和宗教改善论。但在1837—1838年的兴泰行商欠案发生后,西人普遍不满广东当局对此案的解决,对华战争渐成为其一致主张。     

资本贪婪与金融危机:资本的本性、特点、霸权、转嫁危机和思维方式

回顾西方资本的历史,有利于认识它的今天,预计其未来行动. 马克思在<资本论>中科学地分析资本的融资流通等经济作用的同时,特意指出:资本需要流通,"只是在这个不断更新的运动中才有价值的增殖.因此,资本的运动是没有限度的."他进一步指出:资本家的目的"不是取得一次利润,而只是谋取利润的无休止的运动".马克思称之为"绝对的致富欲,价值追逐狂",而且,"资本来到世间,从头到脚,每个毛孔都滴着血和肮脏的东西".[1]     

拜占庭史料中公元6世纪安条克的地震灾害述论

地震是破坏性极大的自然灾害.在生产力欠发达,抵御自然灾害能力较弱的古代社会,地震对受灾地区发展的负面影响更为明显.在公元6世纪,地震先后6次波及拜占庭帝国东部的大都市安条克,给该城造成了极大的破坏.在灾害过后,尽管拜占庭皇帝和安条克地方政府、教会与民众都比较积极地参与救灾活动,但因为灾害本身过于严重,加之在地震次生灾害应对上的疏忽,安条克城市的发展最终还是在该时期陷入了低谷.     

怎样成为一位优秀的班主任

班主任是班级工作的领导者、组织者、管理者,是班级的核心。初看起来,班主任工作平凡且十分繁琐,但正是这平凡而繁琐的表层之下,却蕴含着重大意义。