清代晋商在禹州的经营活动——兼论禹州药市的发展脉络

清代的禹州商业有一个以杂货转运为主到药材集散为主的变化过程。晋商是最早活跃于此的重要商帮,其经营以棉布、茶叶等“杂货”转运山西,以及禹州本地所产瓷器、“禹布”输出为主,药材只是其中的一部分。直到咸同之际杂货贸易仍是禹州市场的主角,故同治元年最早开征的厘金为“百货厘”。禹州作为药材市场的兴起始于乾隆年间,并在与洪山庙药市的竞争中取胜。除地方政府的支持外,晋商早期经营活动奠定的市场基础是禹州药市得以顺利发展的重要原因。清代后期怀帮以及各地药商大量涌入,晋商中经营药材业者也有大幅增长;同光年间药材贸易逐渐超过杂货成为禹州市场上最重要的商品,禹州也成为华北的三大药市之一。     

Knowledge-based development dynamics in less favoured regions: insights from Australian and Icelandic university towns

Knowledge-based development (KBD) is a widely practiced policy and is signified as an effective development approach particularly for the metropolitan city-region context. Even though, increasing recognition of this policy resulted in some initiatives in less favoured regions – such as regional university towns – its appropriateness for this context has not been investigated adequately. This paper explores the concept thoroughly in regional university town settings from the lens of the triple-helix model – a critical element for success in KBD. The study aims to broaden our understanding on the challenges of implementing a successful triple-helix model in regional university towns by providing evidence from different country contexts – Australia and Iceland. The methodology of the comparative case investigation incorporates policy and stakeholder perception analyses. Results reveal the journey of the investigated cases, their limited accomplishments and failure factors. Findings shed light on the developmental challenges of regional university towns by highlighting critical issues relating to suitability, appropriate implementation and effectiveness of the KBD policy.     

The Location Invariance Theorem in Weberian Space Under Uncertainty

This paper examines the validity of the location invariance theorem in Weberian space under various types of uncertainty. The main results are: Given that the firm's location is constrained to remain at a specified distance from the output market, the optimal location is invariant to any change in product demand if and only if the production function is homothetic for a firm facing demand price uncertainty, or if the production function is homothetic and both inputs are risk-neutral for a firm facing technological uncertainty. Alternatively, given that the distance from the firm's location to the output market is a variable, location invariance occurs for a firm facing demand price uncertainty if the production function is linear homogeneous. In the presence of input price uncertainty the optimal location always varies with a change in product demand. The results can include those previously obtained for linear stochastic location models as special cases and some are new contributions to the literature.     

Wired Communities in the City: Sydney,Australia

Questions relating to the ability of particular groups in society to access information and communications technologies (ICTs) have become a growing part of the academic and policy literature. The issues raised in this literature have revolved around a number of themes, many of which can be subsumed under concerns about a growing digital divide whereby society is being divided into information rich and information poor sectors. This differentiation can be between particular social groups irrespective of place, or between people in particular places be these large regional areas (e.g. metropolitan versus non‐metropolitan) or localities and communities within an urban area. This paper focuses on the existence of a ‘digital divide’ across the Sydney metropolitan area. Using ABS 2001 census data the paper presents an analysis of computer and internet access and use for clusters of local communities and focuses on how usage differs across communities as differentiated by socio‐economic status, household and family status and ethnic background.     

浅议地方志有关保密和敏感问题的处理

对地方志如何处理有关保密和敏感问题,本文有如下见解:一、加强学习,提高认识。要求认清复杂形势,提高保密意识;熟知保密范围;明了保密期限,掌握解密原则。二、掌握尺度与处理方法。主要是把握好历史敏感事件和现实军事状况的记述尺度,灵活运用综合法、换位替代法、比较隐蔽法和回避舍弃法等记述方法。三、抓住关键并处理好4个关系。抓住资料收集、志稿审查和出版发行几个关键工作,处理好收集与保管的关系,编写需要与保密要求的关系,自审与通审的关系,内部版与公开版的关系。     

什么是《诗经》的“文学研究”——关于经学与文学关系之思考

二十世纪初期,《诗经》研究从学视角审视传统《诗经》学,得出的基本结论是传统《诗经》学里没有学性研究。当前学从经学与学关系视角解构传统《诗经》学,得出的结论是传统《诗经》学有学研究,但对传统《诗经》学学研究的起点却众说纷纭。对传统《诗经》学学研究认识的分歧,究其根由,在于缺乏一个统一的《诗经》“学研究”判断标准。     

Differentiating Khmer Stoneware Production: An NAA pilot study from Siem Reap Province,Cambodia

We report analytical results for stoneware samples from four excavated Angkor‐period kilns in the Greater Angkor area. Previous work has suggested that establishing distinct chemical signatures for kiln complexes in this region is problematic. The current study highlights the effectiveness of neutron activation analysis (NAA) for differentiating the products of Angkorian kiln complexes; it also confirms the viability of a larger‐scale research programme to understand the relationship between Khmer stoneware production and patterns of distribution across the wider Angkorian territory. Evidence of ceramics excavated at kiln sites but produced elsewhere highlights the complexity of consumption patterns during the Angkorian period.     

Webs of belonging

Lynn Pan (ed). The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 400 pp. Illustrations, colour photographs, tables and maps, introduction, timelines, Chinese character list, bibliography, index. US$59.95, hardcover.

Mandy Thomas. Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese‐Australian Lives in Transition. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999. 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, introduction, bibliography, index. A$35.00, paper.

Mia Tuan. Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: the Asian Ethnic Experience Today. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 202 pp. Tables, figures, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. US$18.00, paper.

Traise Yamamoto. Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1999. 317 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. US$17.95, paper.     

《桃花女》中的古俗

《桃花女》杂剧今存脉望馆抄本和《元曲选》本。曹本《录鬼簿》、《录鬼簿续编》、《也是园书目》、《今乐考证》和《曲录》中均作《破阴阳八卦桃花女》,在《太和正音谱》中略作《智赚桃花女》。本剧作为元杂剧并不出名,原因有很多,首先是作者不确定。曹本《录鬼簿》、《元曲选》说是王晔。王晔,字日华,号南斋,     

Whither societas civilis in the Asia–Pacific after 11 September: ideological absolutism and ethics in an age of terror

Dominant discourses and strategies of the post-11 September ‘war on terror’ reflect an ideological absolutism that has left the democratic space of civil society in the Asia–Pacific severely curtailed and compressed. Recovery of this distinct space of freedom, so crucial to ‘civilisational’ amity, begins with the strategic deconstruction of the totalising logics and practices underwriting not only the words and deeds of religious militants but also those of state actors. Accordingly, amity is best sought not through uncritical fidelity to essentialist and exclusivist understandings of subjectivity, but acknowledgement and acceptance of the reality that the self is necessarily indebted to the other, to which the former must exercise an ethical responsibility.