Scratching beneath iconographic and textual clues: A reconsideration of the social hierarchy in the Dian culture of Southwestern China

The use of historical texts to interpret archaeological data is a common practice in Chinese archaeology. The selective use of archaeological material as evidential support to textual accounts can however project a limited view of ancient societies, where social behavior from distinct contexts are conflated to produce a single coherent narrative. This paper addresses this prevalent interpretational approach to the Dian polity, a Bronze Age culture located in southwestern China, through a systematic analysis of the mortuary evidence from four cemeteries. Results from the multivariate analysis are contrasted against the textual and iconographic materials to provide a more comprehensive understanding of Dian social organization and to demonstrate social patterning that challenges conceptions about the nature of Dian social hierarchy.     

试论花东子卜辞的“子”当为武丁之子

殷墟花园庄东地甲骨卜辞属于非王卜辞,其中出现最多的男性祖先称谓是“祖乙”和“祖甲”。整理者认为“祖乙”即同期王卜辞中的“祖乙”(中丁之子、祖辛之父)“,祖甲”则是祖乙之子沃甲(羌甲),从而推断花东子卜辞的主人“子”很可能是沃甲的后人。但不少研究者已经指出,这个推断与花东子卜辞中所见对祖甲和祖乙的致祭顺序有矛盾,并对“子”的身份提出了几种与整理者不同的意见。本文通过分析花东子卜辞的称谓系统,尤其是通过对称“祖乙”为“毓祖”的分析,结合花东子卜辞所反映出的“子”与武丁的特殊亲密关系,考定“子”是时王武丁的子辈,而且当是亲子。     

1906—1931年日俄经济势力在东北地区的空间推移——以港口、铁路、货物运销范围的变化为视角

日俄战争造成的南北满地理概念, 仅是以条约形式划定的非区域实体的空间分界范围。1906—1931年, 日本通过港口和铁路线的建设, 使其经济势力逐渐从东北南部扩大到东北北部; 同时, 俄国 (1921 年以后为苏联) 在东北北部的经济势力范围则逐步退缩。随着港口—铁路网的完善, 1931 年后日本确立了在整个东北地区的经济霸权。     

《神仙传》校读札记

《神仙传》是一部道家的著作,其中的语言多有特色。本文以《四库全书》本为底本,参校他书,选择一些有代表性的讹误汇录成文。     

近年来明清社会救济研究述评

社会救济,亦称社会救助,它是国家和社会对因各种原因失去最低生活保障的社会成员给予物质的援助,以维持其最低生存需要,维护其基本生存权利的一种社会行为。明清时期是我国古代社会救济事业发展的鼎盛时期,对这一时期救济史的研究状况进行较为细致的回顾总结,对明清社会救济史的研究具有一定的指导意义。     

DOING SOMETHING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF ETHNIC CULTURES

Kunkyap Dontse was born in 1950 in Xinlong ounty of Garze Tibetan Autonomous refecture in Sichuan Province.In 1975,he graduated from the Art Department of the Central College for Nationalities.He was then sent to Bathang Normal School in Sichuan to teach.Three years later, he was transferred to work in the Education Bureau of Garze.In 1983,he was employed by the Tibetan School of Sichuan as deputy president,mainly in charge of educational affairs.In 1988,he was working for the Editing and Translation Bur...     

A new diminutive euphyllophyte from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar,Xinjiang, China and its evolutionary implications

Xu, H.-H., Wang, Y., Tang, P. & Wang, Y., May 2017. A new diminutive euphyllophyte from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China and its evolutionary implications. Alcheringa 41, 524–531. ISSN 0311-5518.

A diminutive euphyllophyte, Douaphyton levigata gen. et sp. nov., is described from the upper Middle Devonian (Givetian) Hujiersite Formation of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China. The plant consists of more than three orders of axis branching, each axis being less than 2 mm wide. The second-order axes are short, laterally and alternately attached to the main axis. The third-order axes are paired and anisotomously divided, bearing the vegetative appendages or the fertile units. The fertile unit consists of a short recurved axis giving off up to four short pedicels along one side, each of which bears one to four pairs of terminal sporangia. Douaphyton has a three-dimensional branching system that has an intermediate form in the evolutionary context of euphyllophytes and lignophytes. It is also proposed that complex branching developed in multiple groups in the Middle Devonian.

*Hong-He Xu [hhxu@nigpas.ac.cn], Yao Wang [yaowang@nigpas.ac.cn], Peng Tang [pengtang@nigpas.ac.cn], Yi Wang [yiwang@nigpas.ac.cn] State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210,008, PR China. Yao Wang [yaowang@nigpas.ac.cn] University of Science and Technology of China. 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230,026, PR China.     

辽阳博物馆藏清光绪瓷器选萃

清圯绪（1875-1908年）时期,社会局面相对稳定,封建统治政仅得到暂时的巩固,进入了所谓“同光中兴”的历史时期。以慈禧为首的统治集团,为满足自己穷奢极欲的生活圳火肆搜刮民脂民膏。住这种背景下,从光绪元年开始,景德镇御窑厂不仪烧造了很多宫廷用瓷,同时还为光绪帝人婚及慈禧大寿烧造了大批庆媳和赏赐川瓷,使长期不景气的制瓷业稍有复苏。     

沪宁杭城市群区发展趋势探讨

沪宁杭城市群区发展趋势探讨姚士谋Ｊ．Ｎｉｐｐｅｒ（中国科学院南京地理与湖泊研究所）（德国科隆大学地理所）关键词城市群区,集聚功能,基础设施建设,外向型经济,国际化城市沪宁杭地区位于中国东部沿海居中的地理位置,历史上也是属于经济比较发达与城镇密集的区域...     

抗战后期美洲洪门致公堂的政治参与——以“美洲《十报宣言》事件”为中心的考察

论文依据国民政府应对“美洲《十报宣言》事件”的往来函电,结合美国联邦调查局对该事件的调查报告,探讨抗战后期美洲洪门致公堂作为华侨社团的政治参与及国共两党的回应,说明以美洲洪门致公堂为代表的美洲华侨对中国共产党民主理念的认同。“美洲《十报宣言》事件”,是抗战胜利前夕美洲洪门致公堂办的报纸与中国共产党党员所实际负责的报纸联合发表宣言,号召中国国民党结束一党专政,成立民主政府的事件。该事件涉及抗战后期美洲华侨中的三股主要力量——中国共产党、中国国民党以及以美洲洪门致公堂为代表的美洲华侨主体,引起蒋介石与国民政府的高度关注和直接干预。在美洲洪门致公堂以社团形式还是政党形式存在的问题上,中国国民党与美洲洪门致公堂出现了无法调和的矛盾。相较于中国国民党不愿承认致公堂作为独立政治团体的身份,中国共产党联合政府口号则使致公堂看到回国参政的可能性,由此获得了致公堂的政治认同。