出使埃塞俄比亚札记(四)

合作结晶 新世纪之初,中方扎实推进各个领域合作在埃塞俄比亚赢得的不仅是友好情谊,还有埃方对中方巩固和加强同非洲国家友好关系的重大举措--中非合作论坛的积极回应与有力配合.     

I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora,local entanglements and entangled locals

ABSTRACT

Drawing on the sensory, self-shifting approach of Lorna Goodison’s 1986 poem ‘I am becoming my mother’, and on quantum theory for brief insights into entanglement, this article gazes into the still visualities of family photographs of my own Birmingham childhood (my mother died that same year) to push towards a more entangled conception of (post)diaspora. I use this highly personal entanglement to take issue with three troublingly disentangled ways in which postdiaspora has been imagined in recent academic literature: as the culmination of a teleological movement from migrant to diaspora to post-diaspora; as the slowly weakening pull of diasporic responsibilities and remittances; and as a means to archaise and de-link from ties to a forgetful and irresponsible diaspora. Ultimately, the article pushes towards a more deeply materially and personally entangled version of (post)diaspora.     

出使埃塞俄比亚札记(五)

编者按:本文是艾平同志在出任我国驻埃塞俄比亚大使(2001年3月至2004年8月)回国后所撰写的札记.它记述了艾大使在该国的生活和工作状况,反映了我国和平外交政策和中埃两国人民之间的友好情谊.本刊将陆续刊出,以飨读者.     

为朱德同志翻译的点滴回忆

我总共为朱德同志翻译过6次,其中记得比较清楚的只有4次,时间都不长,连翻译在内最短的一次不到10分钟,最长的一次也只有一个小时左右,但是朱德同志平易近人的长者风范、语言质朴而涵义隽永的谈吐,却给我留下了难以磨灭的印象.     

Prisoners' Wives in Post-Soviet Russia: ‘For my Husband I am Pining!’

The identity of a prisoner's wife is often a shameful societal stigma. Yet Russia's unique history of imprisonment has provided an unusually positive trope for women who have to come to terms with their partners' incarceration: the ‘Decembrist wife’ (dekabristka). This trope originated in the aftermath of the 1825 ‘Decembrist’ uprising—the first anti-monarchist revolt in modern Russian history. A handful of wives of the perpetrators voluntarily joined their husbands in Siberian exile and, in leaving behind families and comforts, created a precedent to be glorified for future generations. Upheld in Russian national mythology as a model of the exemplary wife, the dekabristka identity lives on. This paper examines its enduring power and significance in contemporary Russia.     

“They cut my son’s head,legs and hands before me”: pre- and post-terror experiences among returnee victims of Boko Haram in Orlu,Imo State

ABSTRACT

This research note offers first-hand accounts of the plight of “non-indigenes” who became victims of Boko Haram terrorism in the North, and their resettlement back in their “homeland” in Orlu (Imo State). As “strangers” in various towns of the North, they were victimized by Boko Haram and had to develop various strategies to survive. Many of them, however, returned to their “homeland” only to become victims of new forms of social exclusion, as “strangers in their own land.”