《庞居士语录》的抄本与明刻本

《庞居士语录》是中国佛教的著名居士--唐庞居士庞蕴的语录和诗偈集.庞蕴(?～815),字道玄,出生于衡阳(今湖南衡阳市),元和(806-820)中,举家北游襄阳(今湖北襄樊市).在禅林中,庞居士与梁朝傅大士齐名,被人们称之为"中土维摩诘",《庞居士语录》是研究唐代禅学的重要著作.庞居士与王梵志、寒山一样,是唐代著名白话诗人,《庞居士语录》保存了大量唐代口语和俗语,也是研究唐代语言的重要参考资料.     

西安白庙村唐代金杯及有关问题

在陕西历史博物馆收藏的唐代金银器中,以1970年10月西安南郊何家村窖藏出土的270多件金银器最为著名。由于多种原因,这批窖藏金银器的正式发掘报告一直没有编写出版。为了向学术界提供全面、详实的何家村窖藏金银器资料,二十世纪九十年代中期,陕西历史博物馆决定组织有关人员开始编写何家村窖藏金银器的发掘报告。     

Tradition and Christianity: Controversial Funerals and Concepts of the Person among the Paiwan,Taiwan

This essay focuses on the complex and dynamic relationships between tradition and Christianity among the Paiwan, an Austronesian‐speaking people in Taiwan. The ethnography comes from a village in which adherents of traditional religion and Presbyterians live in the same area, but in separate quarters. They have close kinship and marriage ties; however, the funeral constitutes a major area of controversy and tension. I juxtapose their contrasting representations of death and funerals to highlight their differences and trace the source of their conflict to the ideological domain of concepts of the person. I argue that the differences in their funerals can be explained by the differences in the ways the two groups articulate two versions of the person. Adherents of traditional religion emphasize the holistic side of the person by calling the spirit of the deceased to reunite with the living, whereas Presbyterians stress the individualistic side of the person and maintain the boundary between the living and the dead. I propose that it is the co‐existence of two distinct concepts of the person and the different ways of articulating those concepts which shape the dynamic but often contradictory relationship between tradition and Christianity.     

Identifying the Impacts of Land-Use Spatial Patterns on Street-Network Accessibility Using Geospatial Methods

While the land use-street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one-way impacts of land-use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land-use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge. Their empirical correlations also lack geographical variability, constraining site-specific land-use practices. Therefore, this study overcame the aforementioned limitations by examining the two-level spatial models to formulate accessibility-oriented land plans, using a well-developed Chinese city as an example. Firstly, two landscape metrics—Euclidean Nearest-Neighbor Distance (ENN) and Similarity Index (SIMI)—were used to quantify the intra- and inter-land-use configurations, respectively. Both city-level and local accessibility were measured using spatial design network analysis. Performing both ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models, results identified the statistically significant effects of inter-land-use patterns on two-level street accessibility. An exception was that land-use configurations within residential and industrial regions were irrelevant to street accessibility. We also found GWR was a better-fitting model than OLS when estimating locally-varied accessibility, suggesting hierarchical multiscale land-use planning. Overall, locally heterogeneous evidence in this study can substantialize land use-street network interactions and support the decision-making and implementation of place-specific accessibility-oriented land use.     

中国古代失蜡铸造起源问题的思考

迄今为止,中国发现的最早期失蜡铸件,属春秋晚期器,技术已相当复杂。早期的、技术较原始的失蜡铸件并未发现。中国失蜡法的起始年代和原始技术仍是一个学术悬案。近年来发现了一批早至商晚期的中原和长江中下游青铜器,其纹饰或附件的成形无法按陶范法解释。按技术特征分类,计有通体为难于脱范的模纹;模纹内宽外窄;模纹边缘上翘和绳索状附件缺少范线等4种。对4种现象进行了讨论,并作了部份模拟试验,据此提出：中国失蜡法起源于“焚失法”;焚失法最早见于商晚期;这种技术在无范线失蜡法出现之后逐渐消亡;至春秋中晚期,无范线失蜡法已相当成熟。     

Exploiting Sino-US Geostrategic Competition: The View from Seoul and Singapore

The mainstream literature on weak status quo states’ diplomacy tends to identify their regional security roles in terms of dealing with non-traditional security issues. This article argues that such a limited approach is not sufficient to explain the current security dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. This article reviews the literature on weak status quo states’ influence on regional order. It then identifies a security environment in which they are more likely to exert some impact on maintaining and building a regional order. After contextualising these discussions in the Asia-Pacific setting, the article examines the experience of South Korea and Singapore as secondary powers in the East Asian region. Although both countries enjoy high levels of security cooperation with the US, both have also been able to exercise a certain amount of influence in advancing their own geostrategic interests amidst the growing Sino-US geostrategic competition. Yet their exploitation of Sino-US geostrategic competition is neither a simple balancing strategy against China nor a simple bandwagoning with the US, since both South Korea and Singapore have been increasing bilateral and multilateral security cooperation with China.