论实现档案价值为经济建设服务

档案是人类枉会各项实践活动的真实记录,它具有其独特的价位和作用。在全面建设小康枉会的进程中,只有重视档案价值,深入开发档案信息资源,发挥档案工作的枉会功能,才能充分地实现档案的价值,为社会经济建设服务。     

宋代国子监刻书考论

宋代国子监既是中央教育机构,也是国家主要刻书机构,并兼有管理各地图书刻印之责。为满足其政治、思想统治,宋廷对国子监刻书之内容及其质量控制、机构设置及其管理、图书刻印发行出售等方面都订有颇为详备之制度,从而对当时各地州县官学大量印行图书,以及后世国子监刻书产生了重大影响。     

The Pahlavi National Library Project: Education and Modernization in Late Pahlavi Iran

This paper examines the Pahlavi National Library, the planning for which began in 1972 and expired in 1978 on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. The Pahlavi National Library was to rank in size and eminence with the great libraries of the world, yet this extraordinary project has hitherto received little to no scholarly attention. Using documents primarily from the archives of the shah’s cultural counsellor at the imperial court, Shojā?eddin Shafā, this paper looks in detail at a number of initiatives spearheaded by Shafā from the early 1960s, which essentially laid the groundwork for the Pahlavi National Library, in order to understand how the shah’s regime used culture and scholarship to further its political goals. The paper proceeds to investigate the Pahlavi National Library, analyzing it in the context of the shah’s domestic and foreign policy objectives.     

Breeding for insect-resistant cotton across imperial networks, 1924-1950

This paper investigates the elevated expectations and dramatic downturns of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation’s African experimentation program. It follows the trials of U.4, an insect-resistant variety bred to withstand continental growing conditions, whose expansion through east and southern Africa was filled with promise but ended in disappointment. My argument has two strands. First, U.4 was a product of imperial connections. It was an amalgam of breeding knowledge accumulated in India, specialized training received in Trinidad, and specimens imported from across the empire. Transnational scientific networks were crucial to the Corporation’s initial breeding successes. Second, the story that follows suggests that imperial scientific experts did not impose the Corporation’s research goals monolithically across a wide range of African environments. Rather, Corporation scientists recognized the diversity of African environments and adapted their breeding programs to match local agro-ecological realities. I suggest that the ECGC breeding program is a story of expert knowledge that incorporated rather than undermined ecological specificity.     

辽代平原公主墓志考释

在辽宁阜新县八家子乡乌兰木图山南麓,有一处辽代后族萧氏的家族墓地,即乌兰木图辽墓群。1981年1月在此发现了辽圣宗太平九年(1029年)的萧仅墓[1],1996年7     

Food for Rome: A stable isotope investigation of diet in the Imperial period (1st–3rd centuries AD)

During the Empire, the population of Rome was composed mostly of lower-class free citizens and slaves. Viewed from historical records, the Roman diet included primarily olives, wine, and wheat, but poor and enslaved Romans may have eaten whatever they were able to find and afford, leading to significant heterogeneity in the Roman diet. Previous carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of skeletons from Imperial Italy have begun to reveal variation in diet, but little is known about what people ate in the capital city. This study complements previous work by adding new isotope data from human skeletons found in two Imperial-period (1st–3rd centuries AD) cemeteries in Rome. These data suggest that urban and suburban diets differed, most notably in the consumption of the C₄ grain millet. Comparing these new data with all published palaeodietary data from Imperial Italy demonstrates that significant variation existed in the diet of the common people.     

山西太原青阳河北汉太惠妃墓发掘简报

2009年底～2010年初,太原市文物考古研究所在山西省太原市晋源区青阳河村抢救性考古发掘了一座墓葬,墓葬墓室绘有壁画,并出土墓志一合,经确认为北汉太惠妃王氏之墓。该墓葬纪年明确,是目前唯一一座经过科学发掘并公布资料的北汉墓葬,为近代墓葬研究提供了重要的实物资料。     

殿试制度起源考辨

殿试制度是科举制度研究中一个非常重要的问题,而关于殿试制度的起始时间学界一直说法不一。本文以三级考试为参照系,以此前一直被忽略的覆试制度为切入点,通过对与殿试起源相关诸问题的详细辨析,彻底澄清了殿试与覆试的联系与区别,否定了武则天载初元年、南唐乾德二年及宋开宝六年为殿试之始诸说,从而最终确定殿试制度正式开始的时间是宋太祖开宝八年。     

河间古文、孔壁古文和中秘古文——汉代古文经籍流传考

河间古文、孔壁古文和中秘古文,是汉代古文经籍流传三个重要环节,三者关系不明,汉代古文经籍流传和学术不明。河间王国学举六艺,二十六年间,学者云集,天下古文尽在河间。孔安国亦游学献书河间,是析清古文经籍流传的关键。孔安国与河间有着很深的学术渊源,河间在中央极大压力下,部分古文珍本由安国收藏,后由安国家人献于朝廷充入秘府,遂为中秘古文。