今日非洲马赛人

马赛人是个游牧民族,分布在肯尼亚南部和坦桑尼亚北部交界地区,人口约50-100万.传说18世纪,哈米特黑人为寻找肥美的草原,赶着牛羊从埃塞俄比亚南下.进入坦桑尼亚的一支部族,则发展成为今日的马赛族.如今,马赛人仍保持传统的生活方式.他们的服饰均以红色为基调,色彩鲜艳.男子手持标枪和盾牌,显得粗犷威武;女子爱美,浑身披挂串珠和项圈.     

China Today: Misguided Socialism Plus Crony Capitalism

The return of the Middle Kingdom to the center stage of history is the most significant geo‐civilizaitonal development of the 21st Century. China's rise raises anew the great question, thought settled after the Cold War, of what system of governance will stand on the right or wrong side of history. In this section the leading ideologists of the China model and its “peaceful rise” appear alongside the fiercest critics of China's way.     

古代中国体系的基本单位、结构及其特征

古代中国既是一个多民族的国家，也是一个多民族政治实体组成的国际体系。古代中国体系内存在着不断发展变化的多种政治实体，包括中央王国、独立的诸侯国家和少数民族政权实体等。这些不同的政治实体之间的互动形成了华夏体系、华夷体系和天下体系等子系统。古代中国体系与近代以来以民族国家为中心的国家体系不同，是一种以王权为中心的等级制国际体系；古代中国体系强调政治权威的重要性，观念分配对体系的稳定和变革起着至关重要的作用。     

Ancient Postmodernism

Takeshi Umehara, director general of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, is Japan's most famous philosopher, controversial for his idea of Japanese "uniqueness." Umehara, also a playwright, is author of such books at The Concept of Hell, The Exiling of the Gods and Japan's Deep Strata .
Back in 1990, I sat down with him in his office amid the bamboo forests that cover the hills surrounding Kyoto to get an Eastern view of the theme raised by Western thinkers from Arnold Toynbee to Lewis Mumford: the central role of the religious imagination in the rise and fall of civilizations.
Here, he sets out his ideas in an essay tracing his disillusionment with Western philosophy and his rediscovery of Japan's Shinto roots. Our conversation follows.     

雅尔塔体系的终结与当今世界格局

"雅尔塔体系"及其终结今年是反法西斯战争胜利60 周年,1945年5月苏美英攻克柏林标志着第二次世界大战欧洲战场的结束。而在二战结束前夕, 美、英、苏等国首脑在德黑兰、雅尔塔和波茨坦举行了一系列战略性会议,会议除了商讨影响战争全局的重大行动之外,也对战后的世界秩序做出了安排,形成了"雅尔塔体系"。所谓雅尔塔体系, 就是指第二次世界大战后,美, 英、苏(主要是美、苏两国)按照     

我国古代未成年人犯罪刑事政策初探

尽管我国古代没有明确提出未成年人犯罪刑事政策,但“恤幼”思想和宗法伦理却如现代的刑事政策一样, 直接影响着未成年人犯罪的定罪量刑。在“恤幼”思想的指引下,我国古代法律在刑事责任年龄、刑事诉讼等方面对犯罪未成年人给予一定的特殊照顾。同时,为了维护家族内部的“尊卑有序”,宗法伦理要求对违背家族内部等级秩序的行为予以严惩,据此,我国古代法律设立“不孝”罪、“准五服以治罪”等制度,它们虽不仅仅指向未成年人,但却是古代未成年人特定犯罪定罪量刑的重要准则。     

How to Help Russia

Lech Walesa is the former president of Poland and the founding leader of the Solidarity movement that brought an end to communism in his country and a Nobel Peace Prize to him. His comments here are adapted from a conversation with NPQ in October.