“情兼《雅》怨”还是“情兼雅怨”——关于钟嵘《诗品》“情兼雅怨”的校释问题

“情兼雅怨”是钟嵘《诗品》评价曹植诗歌的重要特征,也是他评价其他诗人的一个重要标准,因而具有重要意义。但是,各注家对“雅”的点校存在很大分歧。本文指出,“雅”应是与“怨”两两相对的一种美学风格,而不是指《雅》(即《小雅》)。     

China's Exchange Rate Controversy: A Balanced Analysis

A noted American authority on China's economy and monetary policy presents a statistical as well as theoretical analysis of a variety of perspectives on the controversy surrounding China's currency, basing his paper on both. The author provides the historical background and comprehensive summaries, focusing on different viewpoints about whether China's currency is undervalued, and thus may contribute to global imbalances. In the paper, he divides observers involved in the controversy into two main camps, namely the ones who find China's trade balances to be sensitive to price effects through exchange rate adjustments and those who emphasize other factors as bearing the responsibility for China's large surpluses, including the U.S. credit bubble emerging before the global financial crisis, as well as a version of Dutch disease.     

Between the Living and the Dead: Trauma Medicine and Forensic Medicine in the Mid-Qing

This paper analyzes the influence of forensic medicine on therapeutic medicine through a case study of Qian Xiuchang and Hu Tingguang, two Chinese doctors who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. During the early nineteenth century, both men compiled medical treatises that sought to improve on a scholarly model of “rectifying bones” articulated in 1742 by the Imperially-Compiled Golden Mirror of the Medical Lineage. Both texts also incorporated information from forensic medicine, including official inquest diagrams and checklists promulgated by the Qing government. I show that they drew on these forensic materials to help address two interlinked medical issues: understanding the effects of injury on different parts of the body, and clarifying the location and form of the body’s bones. Overall, I suggest that the exchange of ideas between the realm of therapeutic medicine and forensic medicine was an important epistemological strategy that doctors and officials alike employed to improve their knowledge of the material body.     

章开沅教授与中国近现代史写作

选题是历史学论著写作成败的关键,要有创新并考虑研究的可持续发展。历史研究及写作需要史实的实证和史识的阐述来支撑。缺少史实的实证,历史就变成一个空架子,但要避免史料的堆砌。史料工作不是机械的工作,而是高层次的智力劳动。转引材料应该注明出处,以示尊重别人的劳动。至于史识,也即史学家的思辨,这有很高的甚至是很残酷的要求,真正的史学家(例如司马迁),能够达到历史哲学方面的理解,甚至是对宇宙生命的终极诉求,这也要求史学家应该有史学的参与意识。此外,文字表达是一件很重要而又很痛苦的事情,历史学家不应该原谅自己在文采方面的缺失,而应该提高文字表达能力,适当地强调史感,以达到设身处地地与古人对话、交流、沟通。总之,史料、史识、文采三者应该达到完美的统一。     

隋代东都洛阳城四郊地名考补——以隋代墓志铭为基本素材

对隋代东都洛阳的历史地理研究,特别是关于城坊的考订,前贤已多有用功并成就斐然,而对东都洛阳四郊地名的整理,鉴于传世文献相关记载的匮乏,尚待掌握较为充分的出土墓志资料方得展开。新近出版的《隋代墓志铭汇考》,适为本文的研究及撰述提供了良好的平台,本文旨在以隋代墓志铭为基本素材,并结合传世文献与今人成就,对隋代东都洛阳城四郊的河南与洛阳两县所辖乡、里、村、原、园、桥、山、屯等地名,分门别类,稽考订补,期能继踵前贤,略进一程。     

济南惨案后刘侃元的对日认识

济南惨案爆发后，中国舆论界对日本军国主义仍缺乏应有的认识，主要表现在对日本民众及在野党派存在不切实际的幻想。刘侃元坚持独立的思考立场，充分展其所长，针对前期普遍存在着的“博取日本民众同情”之舆论，撰文揭示日本国内的真实情形，在当时影响极广，在某种程度上扭转了对日本军国主义及其民意基础的模糊认识。他偏于激进的主张引领了社会舆论，并对南京国民政府的一味妥协形成制衡，应该肯定其积极意义。