晚清首批留德军事学生再考--以《李星使来去信》为中心的考察

光绪二年,七名淮军军官受李鸿章派遣赴德留学。北京大学图书馆所藏《李星使来去信》对此有着详实的记载。七名学生中,卞长胜与朱耀彩因品行不良提前回国,余者虽完成了学业,但所学非常有限,后来也大多没有晋升到较高的职位上。此次留学没有达到预期目标,症结在于学生个人素养不足,集中表现为德语水平低下。     

“Riding the rip”: an experiential and integrated human–physical geography curriculum in Costa Rica

Integrating research into short-term study abroad programs is challenging because of language, fieldwork logistics, and traditional learning models based on passive classroom experiences. Experiential learning often makes use of research as experience, but relatively few examples integrate human and physical geography. Here, we describe an experiential and integrated human–physical undergraduate geography curriculum in Costa Rica. We combine rip current morphodynamics, beach-user surveys, and cultural landscape in a 3-week program in Costa Rica. Emotions associated with the direct and indirect experience of “riding the rip” positively influenced the cognitive domain of student learning.     

关于留学人员地位和作用的若干思考

本文在对中国留学生地位与作用进行简要回顾的基础上 ,结合对优秀归国留学人员进行的统计、分析 ,对改革开放以来的归国留学人员在中国未来政治生活中将扮演的角色、留学人员回国和居留海外所发挥的不同作用 ,以及留学人员的作用将随着中国现代化的发展而渐趋缩小的趋势等问题进行了论述和探讨 ,以期对改革开放以来中国大陆留学人员的地位和作用有一定的认识。     

谌湛溪先生生平考证三则

本文考证确定：谌湛溪先生于1904年至1908年就学于京师大学堂,1910年至1917年留学美国纽约哥伦比亚大学,为第二批70名庚款留美学生之一;谌湛溪先生没有担任过清朝的矿务大臣;谌湛溪先生曾参加了中国科学社和中华国民中央研究院的筹建。     

南京国民政府前期官费留学经费考察(1927-1937)

近代中国留学事业蓬勃兴起.南京国民政府成立初期,在留学管理政策等方面基本延续了晚清和北洋政府时期的相关政策,但还是有一定的区别,主要体现在留学经费的来源与使用方面.南京国民政府初年留学经费来源渠道不一,在经费拮据的前提下,政府实行了严格的预决算制度.此外,政府还通过鼓励团体和私人资助等形式多方筹措资金,以保障公费留学生的培养所需.经费使用方面,政府在保障学费供给的前提下,为鼓励留学生学业更进一步,对于继续深造的学生往往给予一定资费补助,同时加大了对自费留学生的奖励和扶持.通过对南京国民政府初年留学经费来源和使用情况的考察,发现其经费虽捉襟见肘,但经费的筹措与使用逐步明晰化、制度化,因而在留学生培养上取得了一定成效.     

20世纪80年代以来国外三线建设研究综述

20世纪80年代以来新中国的三线建设逐渐受到国内外学术界的广泛关注。国外学者对三线建设的基本概念、三线建设与中国国防军事工业及经济发展的关系等问题都做了不同的解读,这为我们借助国外研究成果,审视当前国内三线建设研究的成绩与不足提供了参考。中国学者既要积极借鉴西方学者研究三线建设的新视角,也要认清国外学者研究中的不足及其存在的问题,深入挖掘三线建设的精神、内涵及其在新中国历史中的地位、价值与意义。     

中外饭店集团发展态势对比研究

本通过对中外饭店集团发展态势的对比研究,分析了国外饭店集团发展的新动向、新举措,以及我国饭店集团的发展、现状及发展趋势。     

中国人日本留学史料补遗--兼谈日本亚细亚大学的中国留学生教育

笔者在日本亚细亚大学任教期间,通过资料查询和走访调查,发现了被我国中日关系史及留学日本史研究界忽视了的有关日本战后首批正式招收中国留日学生的史料。史料证明,战后第一批留学日本的是中国香港地区的学生,这既是中日两国在战后文化交流的一个重要侧面,也为战后日本亚细亚大学的成立与发展提供了一个契机。     

谈宋初之"欲武臣读书"与"用读书人"

有关宋太祖欲“武臣尽读书以通治道”以及“宰相须用读书人”的说法,于宋初国家走向文治的导向意义,为历来的治史者和读史者着意阐发。对于与此导向相关的一些说法,我们既要注意其话语,又须把握其寓意;既要注意其说法,又须观察其做法,方能将层层包裹的解释与史实本身剥离开来。事实上,宋初国家政治秩序建设中“文治”导向的确立经历了曲折反复的渐变过程。     

The Swiss community in Genoa from the Old Regime to the late nineteenth century

Abstract

Drawing on extensive and original archival research, this article is the first to reconstruct the origins and historical development of the Swiss community of Genoa from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. During these four centuries, the Swiss were constant and significant agents of the Genoese economy and society. The Swiss presence in the city dates back to the mid 1500s, when Swiss soldiers were the predominant component of the army of the Republic. In the 1700s the Swiss community broadened its economic scope and varied its social configuration. It consisted of both a well-established Protestant, élite of merchant-bankers and textile entrepreneurs and a lower layer of craftsmen, confectioners, street vendors and servants. By the end of the 1700s the Swiss élite was such a thriving and well-integrated group that in 1799 Genoa was selected to be the seat of the first Swiss consulate of the Italian peninsula, the second in Europe after Bordeaux (1798). From the Restoration (1815) to Italian Unification (1861), the Swiss merchant-bankers and textile industrialists continued to be active promoters of the city's economic and trading system. In the decades after Unification (1861–80s), Swiss capital investments moved into new economic sectors (steam-shipping and maritime insurance) that contributed to the modernization of the Genoese and Italian merchant fleet. During the nineteenth century the Swiss community created its own social spaces and identity within the city – a church, a cemetery, a school, and a charitable foundation. As in many other northern Italian cities, the consolidation of the community's external image did not weaken the Swiss élite's integration with the local Genoese upper class.