葱岭奇道行

我国古书把从新疆喀什到巴基斯坦拉瓦尔品第这段长一千余公里的“丝绸古道”称为“葱岭奇道”。昔日的葱岭奇道地势高陡 ,道路险峻 ,令人望而生畏。如今的奇道处处名胜 ,车来人往 ,变成了我国高原人民致富的康庄大道和中外人民友好往来的桥梁     

丝绸之路与麦积山石窟

麦积山石窟是中国六大石窟中修建较早的具中国化特色的一座石窟。本文将这一石窟放在中国佛教文化传播的大背景上 ,探讨了它的建窟时间、艺术特色及历史作用     

秦代谪戍岭南商人对中原商业经济意识的传播

秦始皇在南征岭南的过程中,化大量的战国高人和战国商人子孙作为“七科谪“的对象,谪戍至商品经济极度落后的岭南地区;这些商人的到来,不仅使得岭南出现了商人这一新的社会阶层,出现了商业经济的突飞猛进局面;而且也通过他们的商业活动,把中原地区自春秋、战国以来积淀下来的先进的商业经济意识借助岭南“陆事寡而水事众”和“以舟辑为食”的优势,得以在海内外发扬光大,并直接促进了汉初“海上丝绸之路”的萌芽和发展。     

天宝十三载封常清在交河郡的行程

吐鲁番阿斯塔那506号墓中出土的一批马料文卷,其中有几件是天宝十三载(754)交河郡柳谷馆、石舍馆、礌石馆、银山馆的马料帐,文书中记录了封常清在交河郡的行程.学界对此多有探讨,但均未考证出其中几件缺名马料帐之驿馆名称和地点,对封常清行程存在较多误解.实际上,四驿馆记载封常清在天宝十三载(754)往返北庭、安西并途经交河...     

旅游危机管理:构建目的地层面的动态框架

安全是一个目的地、区域或国家发展旅游业的基本条件,也是旅游增长的基本决定因素。目的地处于危急事件中时,其旅游业的发展受到旅游者自身决策以及国家或社会组织对待和处理危机事件的政策或手段的影响,会陷于低迷。本文对目的地旅游业受危机事件影响的机理进行了分析,设计旅游危机决策链,从而构建动态的、有机联系的旅游危机管理战略框架。     

情满丝绸之路

丝绸之路沿线风景独特 ,名胜古迹众多 ,为全世界所瞩目。文章向我们展示了敦煌莫高窟、阳关 ,新疆火焰山、葡萄沟、高昌故城等一系列风景名胜的迷人风采。     

转轨时期中国居民消费行为规律及调整对策

消费需求不足是制约转轨时期中国经济发展的一个关键因素。有效扩大居民消费,实现经济可持续发展,是经济学界关注的重要学术问题。本文借鉴西方消费理论以及国内外相关研究成果,全方位、多视角分析转轨时期中国居民消费行为规律及其变化趋势,探究扩大居民消费的基本对策,以期提高国民生活质量,实现经济的持续增长和社会的和谐发展。     

“They will not automatically benefit”: The politics of infrastructure development in Laos's Northern Economic Corridor

At a time when the shortcomings of neoliberal development are well known, China's Belt and Road Initiative offers both an opportunity and a requirement to revisit the question of a more inclusive, equitable approach to infrastructure development. This article examines the case of the Northern Economic Corridor, a highway-centered regional trade corridor constructed through northwestern Laos in the early-mid 2000s that was co-financed by the Asian Development Bank and the governments of China and Thailand, and that has been subsequently included in the BRI as one of a group of regional corridors following the historical trajectories of the Silk Road. By examining the discursive politics of infrastructure's formal geography – and focusing on the practices that manage how publicly funded projects address predictable, negative impacts – this paper engages with emerging research on the BRI, wider scholarship on infrastructure, and the political geography of transnational development cooperation and financing at multiple scales. Specifically, I show how vulnerable populations were excluded from the protections of infrastructure mitigation along an early BRI project, and use this to argue that scholars, community advocates, infrastructure planners, financiers, regulators and others engaged with the BRI and other new infrastructure initiatives should rethink established conventions that demote the attention paid to “indirect” impacts. I highlight the arena of formal-geographic mitigation planning as a key field of engagement in the struggle to make new infrastructure live up to expectations about inclusive and equitable development.     

How Road Traffic Injuries Affect Household Welfare in Cambodia Using the Millennium Development Goals Benchmarks

This paper reveals the welfare costs of traffic injuries in Cambodia at the beginning of a decade in which greater research and resources will be focused on road safety. The results quantify how road traffic injuries affect progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) using survey data from 100 Cambodian households. The median age of the police-reported casualties was 28 years and 68 per cent were male. In terms of poverty (MDG1), injuries resulted in a 21 per cent loss of income for the 542 household residents. The poorest households, and those with a seriously injured resident, were worst affected. Primary education (MDG2) drop-out rates were eight times the province average. The gender (MDG3) income gap widened by 28 per cent, whilewomen bore 88 per cent of the burden of care for the injured. In terms of child health and mortality (MDG4), 31 per cent of respondents reported adeterioration in child health, while 24 per cent of respondents reported a deterioration in maternal health (MDG5). The households reported rates of priority diseases (MDG6) at twice the national average. Environment (MDG7) outcomes included increased wood fuel use and stagnation in improving drinking water access, with no apparent development partnership (MDG8) to address the negative welfare impacts of road traffic injury.     

Going West and Going Out: discourses,migrants, and models in Chinese development

Abstract

In 1999 China announced the launching of the Open up the West campaign, sometimes called “Going West,” to help western China finally catch up to the much wealthier eastern, coastal areas after several decades of lagging behind. The same year, China also announced a “Going Out” strategy to encourage Chinese investment abroad. The 15 years since then have witnessed dramatic Chinese government investment in various development activities in western regions of China, as well as around the world. Though rarely considered together, we argue that there are significant parallels in development discourse, the centrality of physical infrastructure, the characteristics of Chinese labor migration and the nature of migrant-local relations, and the application of “models from elsewhere” in Going West and Going Out. Considering these parallels can help shed light on Chinese development discourse and practice, as China becomes increasingly important in the field of development once dominated by Western countries. Finally, we also consider direct connections and convergences between the two strategies in China’s neighboring countries of Asia and in the One Belt One Road initiative.