铁路枢纽客运构成与旅游关系的初步研究——铁道部上海客运站旅客调查问卷分析

本文以上海站为案例,采用问卷调查的方法,着重探讨了铁路车站客运构成与开发旅游功能的关系,涉及旅客职业、收入、性别、年龄和住地等背景,以及旅客对车站吃、住、行、购、娱、游等游憩活动的直观体验评价;进而提出旅游服务思想和车站多功能的综合开发相结合,是社会经济发展的一种必然趋势,也将是今后提高车站窗口作用的重要途径。     

An English chronicle entry on Robin Hood

This short article introduces a previously unknown pre-Reformation chronicle entry about Robin Hood. Until now, no English chronicle entry has been discovered, and only Scottish authors are thought to have set Robin in a chronological context. The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I's reign, thus supporting the belief that his legend is of thirteenth-century origin. It contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw, and provides rare evidence for monastic attitudes towards him (topical, in light of the outlaw's anti-monastic behaviour). By mentioning Sherwood it buttresses the evidence for a medieval connection between Robin and the Nottinghamshire forest with which he has become so closely associated. It also constitutes more evidence for the strength of West Country Robin Hood traditions in the late middle ages.     

民国时期乡村教育问题研究述评

20世纪二三十年代,是乡村教育发展的黄金时期。新中国以来,人们对乡村教育问题的研究,主要集中在乡村教育思潮和乡村教育实验区及其代表人物、乡村私塾与乡村学校的关系、乡村教育经费、乡村教师及其待遇、乡村师范、乡村社会教育等方面。由于资料限制和意识形态的影响,人们对民国时期乡村教育问题研究不够全面和深入,评价有失偏颇,需要做进一步的工作,才能有所创新和突破。     

从区的视角对"撤市设区"的绩效研究——以广州市番禺区为例

在5年的时间里,番禺经历了“撤市设区”和被拆分为番禺区和南沙区两次大的政区调整。在如此大力度和频繁的行政区划调整中有许多问题值得思考。无论从广州市还是从番禺区的视角来看,“撤市设区”总体上都是成功的。但是受政府职能转变和管理体制改革滞后的影响,“撤市设区”只能作为整合区域资源的途径之一,其作用是有限的。从番禺区视角来看,创新管理体制、转变思维尺度,重视区域差异、对撤市设立的区实行以人为本的管理模式,在优化产业结构中关注失地农民就业问题,进一步完善土地使用制度,有序、有度地推进农村城市化和提高农村城市化质量是提高行政区划调整绩效的重要途径。     

寓通识于创见——刘体仁《通鉴札记》史论的特点

清末民初刘体仁所著"辟园史学四种"之一《通鉴札记》是继王夫之《读通鉴论》之后的又一部史论著作.全书以《通鉴》所书史事为据发表评论,对治乱盛衰、社会风俗、民族关系等问题尤为关注,许多论点反映了作者的通识与创见,其特点是寓通识于创见之中.     

邓小平“一国两制”构想的形成与发展

"一国两制"构想是邓小平理论中最具有创新意义的内容之一."一国两制"构想孕育于20世纪50、60年代,周恩来对毛泽东关于和平解决台湾问题的思想所作的概括即"一纲四目",是邓小平"一国两制"构想的直接思想渊源.从党的十一届三中全会前后邓小平提出和平解决台湾问题思想,到1984年5月第六届全国人民代表大会第二次会议确认"一国两制"的构想,使之成为一种具有法律效力的基本国策,是邓小平"一国两制"构想的形成阶段.1984年6月以后,邓小平"一国两制"构想又得到了进一步丰富和发展.而且由理论变为法律、变为实践.     

《国语》方言词研究

通过考察,本文认为《国语》中存有部分方言词。联系上古方言词的一些材料我们梳理出了40余个《国语》方言词,并在对它们所在国别和方言区对应关系调查的基础上对《国语》作者、《国语》方言词的历时层次以及战国中前期稚言和方言关系等问题进行了推断和解释。     

What drives the spatial wage premium in formal and informal labor markets? The case of Ecuador

This article investigates the incidence of agglomeration externalities in Ecuador, a small-sized, middle-income developing country. In particular, we analyze the role of the informal sector within these relations, since informal employment accounts for a significant part of total employment in the developing countries. Using individual level data and instrumental variable techniques, we investigate the impact of spatial externalities, in terms of population density, local specialization and urban size, on the wages of workers in Ecuadorian cities. The results show that spatial externalities matter also for a small developing country. Moreover, analysis of the interaction between spatial externalities and informality shows that, on average, workers employed in the informal sector do not enjoy significant benefits from agglomeration externalities. Finally, by investigating the possible channels behind spatial agglomeration gains we show that the advantages from agglomeration for formal sector workers may well be accounted for by better job-quality matches and, to a lesser extent, by learning externalities. For informal sector workers, our findings also suggest possible gains from job changes, which offset a penalty for remaining employed in the same occupation.     

Burst of the property bubble and Hong Kong’s changing land and housing policies post-1997

Momentous events have characterized the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since its founding in 1997. Among these were drastic and repeated changes in housing and policies, shifting from one emphasizing the role of the state to one purportedly relying primarily on market forces, and then back to a more proactive stance of the state. Associated with these changes were roller-coaster movements in residential prices and housing completions. These developments took place in the context of phenomenal upheavals within and beyond Hong Kong: the Asian financial crisis and the burst of Hong Kong’s property bubble; the contestation of Hong Kong’s autonomy under “one country, two systems”; and the flooding of “hot money” consequent upon repeated rounds of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve of the United States to counteract the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the Great Recession that followed.     

Hume's oscillating civilization theory

Hume's repeated mentions of the vicissitudes of civilization have thus far been neglected, overlooked, or misinterpreted by Hume scholars. Although his references to the “death” or “ruin” of a nation are somewhat hyperbolic, his cyclical view of history was neither mere rhetoric nor necessarily pessimistic. This paper aims to show that Hume's notion of historical fluctuations was deeply connected with his understanding of the universality of human nature. It also placed Hume in a strategic position from which he could criticize both those who believed in the possibility of perpetual progress and those who forecast the successive decline of the human world. To explore Hume's position in more detail, we must first examine the reasons his argument was often misunderstood, especially in the context of the “rich country–poor country” debate. We also need to examine how Hume's view of the cyclical nature of history, consistently held, can be reconciled with his status as one of the champions of modern civilization.