Truncated Decision Making and Deliberative Implementation: A Time-Based Policy Process Model for Transitional China

The time dimension has not attracted enough attention in policy process research in China, yet speed is the most distinctive feature of China’s recent development. This article, based on observations of China’s policy practices, proposes a new research perspective for understanding how the Chinese government has been able to address policy challenges in an era of rapid transition. The approach adopted by the government allows decision makers to respond quickly to serious problems with a truncated decision-making process, and then implement the decisions through a more gradual deliberative process. The article examines China’s coal-mining industry reform as an empirical case to illustrate how this governance approach has been used to achieve major policy reform, namely property rights reform for coal mines, while simultaneously maintaining stability, regulating production safety, and stimulating industrial development. The article concludes with a discussion of the broad implications of this pattern for improving the effectiveness of public policy both in and outside China.     

Study on the strontium isotope standard in pig teeth excavated from Zaoshugounao site,Shaanxi Province of China

In archaeology, strontium isotope analysis is developing into an efficient scientific technique for tracing the movement of prehistoric humans and animals. Determining the local bioavailable ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio range is the key to distinguishing whether the human or animal is indigenous to the local area. It has been shown that the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio in the enamel of pigs can be an excellent sample to determine the range of local strontium isotope ratio at the site. However, pigs may not be all local at the site, and there is no special study on whether pigs’ different ages and tooth types impact the local strontium isotope characteristics. In this paper, the tooth enamel of 19 pigs from the Zaoshugounao site for strontium isotope ratio (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) by multicollector–inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. There were no significant differences in ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios of local pigs at different months and different molar types, which did not affect the determination of the local strontium isotope standard. Based on the local strontium isotope ratio range (0.711056–0.711476), we found that five pigs were non-local. The Jing and Wei river basins (in Guanzhong basin) and northern Shaanxi are likely sources of non-pigs.     

论先秦道家的"夜行"

《冠子》中的《夜行》篇主要讲述了道家的某些思想。所谓“夜行”即《管子》的《形势》篇中所言的“心行” ,具体而言 ,就是于内心行道 ,不待见于具体行事 ,已能达到招远亲近而有天下的效果。     

关于司马光民族观的若干思考

司马光充分汲取自先秦儒家与他同时代欧阳修等人民族观中的有益成份。他提倡了民族和睦观 ;发展了民族平等观 ;丰富了民族诚信观。司马光将孟子的“气节观”、“大丈夫”精神 ,渗透入其民族观中 ,大力倡导民族气节。     

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou

By focusing on Guangzhou's street‐vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics in China are undermined by those who it seeks to exclude and the progressive political climate that questions the exclusionary framework. The exclusion of street vendors in Guangzhou has been led by the National Sanitary City campaign as a revanchist project. It has been discovered that while the exclusionary strategies are rendered difficult to operate due to the resistance of street vendors who develop a flexible, individualized and small‐scale activism to maintain their livelihoods, the discourse of social harmony at national level has driven local authorities to seek alternatives expected to alleviate social resistance and address people's livelihoods. However, rather than an overturn of the punitive framework, an ambivalent approach, recognized in a recent critique of revanchism, has been adopted to mediate the tension between the needs to retain attractive city images and address the livelihoods of the poor in Chinese cities.     

THE METOK ROAD OPEN TO TRAFFIC

Metok in Nyingchi Prefecture was the only county that did not have a road in the past. On October 31st, 2013, the Road to Metok was officially opened to the public. The opening of this road signified that now all counties in China can be accessed by road.     

《叶赫那拉宗族谱》述评

那世垣先生撰修的《叶赫那拉宗族谱》以《那氏族谱》为底本,对其它支系多有衔接与添补,并加入了有关叶赫家族史的考述．首开叶赫那拉族谱中谱史结合之例。谱书理清了始祖奇玛瑚其人其事,使《那氏族谱》的许多问题迎刃而解,是叶赫家族史研究中的一个重要发现,《叶赫那拉宗族谱》在继承前人优长的基础上多有创新,必将促进叶赫家族史以及整个东北民族发展史的研究。     

《中国移民史》唐宋湖南移民实例考校

《中国移民史》列有109个唐宋湖南移民实例,本文对其中在史料和史实方面存在诸多问题的65例进行了考校,并归纳了其中存在的主要问题:一是对史料的理解与引用有误。这主要表现为一人误作二人,甲卷引作乙卷,姓名张冠李戴,牵强列入或列之无据,将移民与移民后裔相混淆,以及有关移民迁移的时间和地点等方面的问题。二是没有考察史料的史源。这主要表现在:引用后人史料,没注意到前人文献中已有相同的、甚至更为可靠的史料,没有甄别第一手资料和二手资料;没有考察相关史料,对引用史料中所提供的一些有关移民信息的线索没有追根溯源、旁征侧证。     

《登科记考》订补

本文据《册府元龟》《东观奏记》及《全唐文》等,补入清人徐松《登科记考》失收、后世学者未补及之唐代进士一十三人,订正《登科记考》卷十九徐氏关于钱徽下进士及第人数、重试及第人数、重试驳落人数辨正之误,并移正该书卷二十明经王淑之顺序。     

王安石《日录》与《神宗实录》

《日录》是王安石在熙宁年间执政时私下记录的君臣奏对之语 ;在绍圣年间由蔡卞纳入史局用以重修《神宗实录》 ,从而得以流布于世 ,也成为新党“绍述”的重要凭据 ,对北宋后期政治影响甚大。宋徽宗即位不久 ,陈、杨时等对《日录》进行批判。他们的批判 ,对揭露蔡京一伙假绍述以行其私不无积极意义 ,同时也暴露了党争的面目。史家的李焘在《续资治通鉴长编》中大量征引《日录》进行补缺、考异 ,同时又完全赞同陈说法而大量征引。这就把《日录》推向了被审判的位子。南宋再次重修《神宗实录》 ,是站在元祐史官的立场上。元修《宋史》沿用重修的《日录》。