青海省农牧业经济结构调整的现状与对策

本文对青海省农牧业现状以及在结构调整中存在的突出问题进行了初步分析,针对这些问题,围绕进一步加大结构调整力度,提出了一些建设性意见。     

论江泽民关于社会主义现代化建设规律认识的辩证法

江泽民关于正确处理社会主义现代化建设重大关系的论述,是科学分析国际国内形势、从我国社会主义现代化建设的实践中产生的。它是我国改革开放以来现代化建设经验的概括和总结,是社会主义现代化建设生动实践和客观规律的正确反映,具有全局性、战略性、时代性的特点。     

新时期党内纪律检查工作的卓越领导人——陈云

纪律检查工作是党建工作的一个有机组成部分 ,紧紧抓住党风问题 ,是陈云同志指导纪律检查工作的一个突出特点 ,中纪委在陈云同志有关指示精神的指导下 ,集中抓了为刘少奇同志平反和康生、谢富治两个阴谋家的审理案件 ,对于明辨“文革”中的是非 ,实现拨乱反正 ,起到了重要作用 ;进入改革开放时期 ,陈云同志一再提醒全党和各级纪委 ,一定要严防改革开放可能带来的消极东西 ;从严执纪 ,是陈云同志的一贯主张 ,在纪检队伍的建设中 ,陈云同志特别强调了干部素质问题 ,陈云同志对新时期党风廉政建设和纪律检查工作作出的贡献是十分巨大的 ,他所形成的思想成果 ,是邓小平新时期党风廉政建设理论的重要组成部分。     

旋子彩画小议

旋子彩画以旋子花的变形图案为基础单元,分布在梁枋藻头位置。本文就其类型、适用范围和时代特征等问题作了简要论述,并对清式旋子彩画严格的等级制度作了初步探讨。     

Selling bubbles at sea: pleasurable enclosure or unwanted confinement?

ABSTRACT

The insularity of super-sized cruise ships is simultaneously part of their appeal and a problem. Seagoing tourism enclaves offer a world of fantasy, consumption, familiarity, and diversion. However, problems encountered by passengers with respect to seasickness, boredom, and a sense of entrapment are noted within a range of publications. Selling the desirable aspects of cruise-ship enclosure co-exists with attempts to address the unease, discomfort, and uncertainty associated with bounded domains. These two currents, to use a nautical metaphor, characterize – or steer – the way in which shipboard experiences are sold to passengers. The concept of place marketing can be related to the thrust of the currents. Place marketing has been widely addressed in relation to urban and rural areas but not tourism enclaves such as cruise ships. The insular cruise-ship environment – a contained, consumption-driven place – is sold to (prospective) passengers in different ways. Those who study place marketing have yet to address dissimilar, but complementary, promotional messages (or currents) that are used to sell resort-style environments. Commercial imperatives explain the actions of cruise-ship companies with respect to selling the enclosed nature of their vessels, especially to North American consumers. The way in which place marketers manage place-based images – a response to intensified intercity or inter-town competition – mirrors the careful management of the promotion of shipboard spaces, often a response to intense competition within the cruise industry and part of initiatives designed to attract first-time passengers. This study addresses a research question: How are different but congruous promotional messages deployed as part of efforts to sell shipboard spaces?     

Reforming China’s polar science and technology system

ABSTRACT

Along with its modernization process, China has developed many interests in polar ecology and has connected the significance of the Antarctic and Arctic to its national interests. We present an in-depth analysis and assessment of the state of the art of China’s polar research from following points of view, mechanism of policy making on polar affairs, science diplomacy and polar governance, on-spot research expedition management, allocation of scientific funds, forming polar scientific team, especially on the management system of CHINARE. From an integrated perspective of social and natural sciences, we present a vision for future reform and development of polar affairs of China: to establish a macro and long term policy for the polar regions, to promote and establish a government-led, diversified polar scientific management system, to establish a reasonable and rule based evaluation system, to train, stabilize and expand polar scientific research teams, and to attract and encourage talents for polar science communication.     

“Comrade Mzala”: Memory Construction and Legacy Preservation

Adopting the broad inter-disciplinary concept of “memory” and its construction in a public sphere, I examine some of the ways in which memories of Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo, known as “Comrade Mzala” in liberation struggle circles, have been constructed and kept alive since his passing. A leading activist of the ANC, MK and the SACP, Mzala succumbed to an illness in a London hospital on February 22, 1991. A number of commemorative events and other activities, including grass-roots and branch-level initiatives, media releases, memorial lectures, colloquia and speeches and tributary statements, are analysed. Their tone, emotion, style and implicit objectives are explored. Notwithstanding the ubiquitous recognition of Mzala's liberation struggle credentials and intellectual prowess, there is no homogeneity in the manner he is remembered and celebrated; nor is there agreement in the reading of Mzala in a post-apartheid South Africa and its associated political and socio- economic context. Moreover, whilst it is predominantly organisations and individuals within the Tripartite Alliance who have been the main proponents of remembering, honouring and memorialising Mzala, there are others, outside of the Alliance and even antagonistic, who find inspiration in his radical world outlook, work and persona; and often use their memory of Mzala to critique the current political and economic conjuncture.     

Adopting ‘things of the little’: intangible cultural heritage and experiential authenticity of place in the Jewellery Quarter,Birmingham

The paper discusses notions and experiences of authenticity of place in relation to intangible cultural heritage. Drawing on qualitative informant interviews with representatives of traditional and new businesses in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham (UK), it analyses authenticity of place with regard to three key dimensions: the experience of origins, the experience of continuity and the experience of potentiality and actuality. Findings suggest that intangible cultural heritage activates and facilitates experiences of authenticity, often related to people’s individual identity constructs and associated benefits or detriments. Some heritage concepts have evolved from their narrowly defined historic context and inform experiences of authenticity in the present.