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.     

Police and Politics in Aesthetics-Based Urban Governance: Redevelopment and Grassroots Struggles in Enninglu,Guangzhou, China

Rancière's theorisation of police, politics, and aesthetics offers an illustrative framework to understand urban (re)developments. While extant works have examined separately the art of governing through aesthetics and the political subjectivities of those having no part in the frame of visibility and intelligibility, this study argues that hegemonic aesthetic regime and bottom-up aesthetic practices can be mutually constitutive and reside in relationships of co-existence and mutual negotiation. Drawing on over a decade's investigation in Enninglu, a neighbourhood district in Guangzhou that underwent several rounds of political struggles related to redevelopment and conservation, we reveal how local residents negotiated aesthetic norms enacted by the state. Particular attention is paid to the interactions between the aesthetic regime imposed by the state and grassroots people reclaiming their own aesthetic sensibilities, culminating in a contingent, inconclusive, and “impure” space of politics. Both political subjectivities and aesthetic norms are redefined ongoingly in this process.     

史家三巨擘 同门而异彩——傅斯年、范文澜、金毓黻的交往及学术人生论析

傅斯年、范文澜、金毓黻都是出身于北京大学国文门的著名史学家,都曾师从黄侃,得到黄侃的赞赏。但他们从北大毕业后,与黄侃关系亲疏不一。金毓黻与黄侃关系最笃,范文澜次之,傅斯年最淡。傅斯年、范文澜都有明确的政治立场,代表了史学发展之两翼,且在各自的学术机关居于领导地位。金毓黻与他们二人均有交往,对其学术亦有自己的评论,治学能谨守绳尺,本师说以为学,依违于二人之间。但国学功底深厚,重视民族气节以及对民族文化抱有深厚的情感,是他们立身行事以及学术著述的共同特点,反映了早年共同的师承对其学术的深层影响。     

贵州遵义杨粲墓出土地券的年代与性质

本文联系有关实物遗存和考古发现,提出贵州遵义南宋杨粲夫妇合葬墓附近所出石券,其年代并非南宋嘉定十七年(1224年),而是明世宗嘉靖二年(1524年);券石四周所刻用波浪形曲线相连之圆点,并非与天文星相有关之"星纹",而是川渝黔鄂地区宋元明墓葬较为流行之河图;该券并非生墓券,而是葬墓券;券主并非南宋杨粲夫人,而是明代嘉靖初年播州杨氏第二十七世土司杨斌之妻,生前因其丈夫身居三品之高位而被诰封为"淑人",死后皇帝遣官"谕祭旌表"。     

An analysis of spatial patterns of toponyms in Guangdong,China

The unique geographical environment and the historical waves of immigration of the northern Han Chinese to the Lingnan region have contributed to the development of a complex and unique culture in Guangdong Province. Four ancient ethnic groups, the Zhuang, Cantonese, Hoklo and Hakka, have resided in this area for centuries. As an important part of local culture, toponyms often survive changes in history and can reveal the temporal differences between the past and present in landforms and the spatial differences in the distribution of different ethnic group populations. In this study, two goals were sought: (1) the adoption of spatial smoothing and interpolation methods to reveal the spatial patterns of the Zhuang, Cantonese, Hoklo and Hakka toponyms based on comparisons among the proportions of those who speak various languages and (2) the investigation of the differences among toponymic layers under regional environmental conditions and the influences of geographic factors using an independent samples t-test and a binary logistic regression.     

Influence of Taoism on the invention of the purple pigment used on the Qin terracotta warriors

Until the 19th century, most pigments were based on naturally occurring colored minerals and dyes, with three significant exceptions: Egyptian Blue, Chinese Blue/Purple and Maya Blue. The former two are alkaline-earth copper silicates, and because of this similarity it has been proposed that the Chinese pigments were derived from Egyptian Blue. Herein, we analyzed clumps of pigment from the Qin warriors and discovered that in spite of the structural similarity to Egyptian Blue, the micro-structural morphology of Chinese Purple is very different. Therefore, we believe that the synthesis technology for the Chinese pigments was a by-product of high-refractive index glasses (artificial jades) produced by Taoist monks. Further, the disappearance of these pigments from Chinese art and monuments concurrently with the decline of Taoism not only substantiates the link between the two, but also gives a striking example of how cultural changes in the society affected the scientific developments in ancient China.     

对西藏清代藏银铸币衡制与成色的疑问

衡制、平色是研究金属货币的基础和重要组成部分。关于清代西藏银币是否采用统一的货币计量衡制与平色说法不一。一说清代两藏地方政府铸造银币衡制均为中央库平,“两藏钱币自始至终所使用的衡制,与中央完全一致”。     

一部特色鲜明、内容丰富的续志——评《高青县志》(1978～2004)

《高青县志》（1978-2004）（以下简称《高志》）,系《高青县志》（1948-1985）的续志。该志客观、系统地记述了1978-2004年27年间高青县自然、政治、经济和化等方面的历史与现状,突出地展现了高青县改革开放以来所取得的发展变化。全志观点正确,体例严谨完备,篇章结构设计合理,层次比较清晰,地方特色和时代特征鲜明,资料翔实,装帧精美,是一部有特色、有创新、内容丰富的高质量续志。它在许多具体问题上的处理方式和方法也都比较得体,对第二轮修志工作具有积极的参考和借鉴意义。[第一段]     

清代云南潞江流域瘴气分布区域初探

云南自古就是著名的瘴气之乡①。瘴气不仅分布范围大,存在时间较长,随社会历史发展及自然生态环境的变化而发生的变迁也经历了一个长期、渐变的过程,并对瘴区各民族的社会历史发展进程产生了重大影响。清代是中央王朝对云南边疆民族地区的统治和开发深入推进的时期,随地方文化事业的发展和方志纂修的兴盛、亲履瘴区人士的增多,云南瘴气得到了相对广泛和详细的记载,瘴气分布区也随生态环境的变迁逐渐被分割成一个个相对独立的小区域,这些区域交错集中于深山河谷中,纵贯于滇西、滇西南、滇南、滇东南的潞江、澜沧江、元江、南盘江流域等广大的…