曲颈壶小考

曲颈壶多被收录于宋、清时期的金石学著作中,时代一般定在周或汉,考古所见不多。据山西侯马虒祈M2129所出结合铜蒜头壶的考证,可知其年代为战国晚期至秦,是秦文化的典型性器物。     

刘向《列士传》佚文辑校增补

西汉刘向<列士传>,或作<烈士传>,原书已佚,其佚文见诸南北朝以来书籍征引.清章宗源于<隋书经籍志考证>卷十三曾对<列士传>佚文做过考证,不过,他只列出徵引之书的书名篇目和引文所记之人物,兹引如下:     

永远的丰碑——纪念井冈山革命根据地创建八十周年

井冈山是中国革命的摇篮。虽然井冈山斗争距今已经80年,但人们对她关注的目光却从来都没停止过。据不完全统计,建国后有158个国家和地区的     

邓小平“什么时候政府都要管住金融”的论断及启示

邓小平认为,不论在革命战争年代,还是在社会主义建设时期,政府都要管住金融。因为经济发展、政治稳定、社会和谐均需要政府管住金融。在中国市场化程度日益提高的今天,政府必须比以往任何时候更加重视金融工作,提高金融管理能力,加大金融改革开放力度,促进金融和谐发展。     

Male ‘Providers’ and Female ‘Housewives’: A Gendered Co‐performance in Rural North India

Problems of measuring and public recognition of women's work are not merely statistical. This article highlights the co‐performance of stereotypical gender roles, where men and women jointly seek to establish the status of women as housewives rather than as farmers and of men as providers, thereby upholding a particular social order and simultaneously reinterpreting the meanings of existing norms to include new realities. Evidence from rural north India demonstrates the discernable disjunctures between social norms, narratives and action. Conscious of the growing insecurities faced by their husbands in the context of a rapidly changing economy, women try to allay rather than aggravate them. Instead of asserting their identities as ‘workers’, their strategies for gaining recognition and reciprocity from their husbands focus on reconstituting gender relations in the household, by expanding individual spaces and making incremental gains within the existing social order, rather than struggling for wider transformative changes.     

The Temple as a Symbol of Hindu Identity in America?

For overseas Hindu communities, the temple became an important symbol of ethnic regrouping. From the indentured expatriates of sugar colonies of the colonial era through the recent, highly educated, Asian Indian immigrants to America, the Hindu temple has served as a place of worship and, even more importantly, as a symbol of heightened cultural identity. Although the role of the temple in the Hindu regrouping in the diaspora has been previously examined, this paper reexamines this process in America in light of new data. Preliminary results indicate that the Hindu temple is not only an important religious focus for American Hindus, but also has generated links between Indian and expatriate Hindus in new ways. In fact, vigorous temple building activity among all Hindu diasporic communities could lead to a renaissance in temple building and possibly in Hinduism itself. We examine the Hindu temple as a component of the Hindu regrouping process in the postindustrial American context.     

An XFEM Model for Seismic Activity in Indian Plate

Empirical approaches based on the available earthquake catalog are popular among engineers to estimate seismic hazard. The seismic activity on individual faults inferred from these approaches is associated with a large number of uncertainties, especially due to lack of data. This article proposes a mechanistic approach to quantify seismic and fault activity, thereby overcoming the difficulties in the existing empirical procedure. A finite element (FE) model for Indian Plate, with the geological ‘cratons’ is developed and subject to plate driving forces namely, the ridge push and the slab pull forces. The material properties and the thickness of both plate and cratons are obtained through inversion using the recently available Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The tectonic faults are modeled using the well-known ‘extended FE method (XFEM)’. The simulated strains at fault level are compared with the computed strain rates from the earthquake catalog. Further, the procedure to quantify fault activity is demonstrated for Gujarat, India.