留法学人的历史

与17世纪的中法交流中介者一传教士一样,中国留学生在中法两国文化交流以及中国现代化过程中起到了重要的作用.然而对于这一群体的研究,除19世纪20年代的"勤工俭学生"之外,似乎还未得到足够的重视.本文尝试梳理1978年以前"留法学人"的历史希望鉴往知今,对当代的留法教育有所启示.     

“越南苏武”黎光贲及其在华诗作《思乡韵录》

明嘉靖时期,越南著名文人黎光贲,作为莫朝正使来华朝贡。因明朝尚未确认莫朝新国王,对黎光贲使团身份产生怀疑,遂将之扣留于广西南宁。18年后,该使团始得赴北京完成使命。黎光贲滞留中国长达18年,后世称其为"越南苏武"。黎光贲在南宁滞留期间所著诗集《思乡韵录》,以纪念家乡先贤的方式,疏解思乡之情。该诗集为研究越南著名的进士之乡唐安慕泽提供了丰富资料。     

Government Enterprises & Industrial Relations in Late Qing China

This study examines the development of labour organisation and industrial action among workers in government enterprises in the late Qing (1860-1912). Because these were the largest industrial enterprises using the most advanced machinery, one expects that the workers in them would play the leading role in labour organisation. Further, during the centuries-long gestation period, the period of embryonic capitalism, workers in traditional enterprises had already developed a tradition of industrial action. Yet this tradition of protest did not appear to have contributed much to labour activism in the modern government works. Quite the contrary, it was in private industries, whether Chinese- or foreign-owned, that we find a higher level of labour organisation and activism. This is an unexpected discovery, for which an explanation is attempted.