独具匠心妙笔生花--读《剑桥拉丁美洲史》第六卷(下)

中文版《剑桥拉丁美洲史》第六卷(下)的出版(当代世界出版社,2001),不失为拉美史学界的一大喜事,值得一读.     

拉丁美洲现代史上的经济与社会篇章--读《剑桥拉丁美洲史》第六卷(上)

《剑桥拉丁美洲史》是由伦敦大学拉美研究所所长莱斯利·贝瑟尔教授主编的一部系统研究拉美地区历史进程的权威性巨著,撰写者大多是在拉美史某个研究领域很有建树的国际知名学者.这套丛书从经济史、政治史、思想史、社会史、人口史等方面多学科、多层次地综合研究了欧洲和美洲两大文明汇合以来拉美地区的历史变迁.《剑桥拉丁美洲史》集中体现了当今国际学术界拉美史研究的较高水平,在国际拉美史研究领域有着举足轻重的地位.该套丛书英文版共分11卷,自1988年以来,在中国社会科学院拉丁美洲研究所的主持下,这部宏著已被陆续译成中文出版或即将出版,这无疑对这一领域的教学和研究起了较大的推动作用.     

The German community in 19<Superscript>th</Superscript> century Hong Kong

This article examines the development of the German community in Hong Kong between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War. It pays particular attention to the question of how the Germans, as a minority group in the crown colony, attempted to strike a good balance between integration and segregation, cultural assimilation and dissimilation, national identity and marginalization. Through investigating their social life, missionary activities and economic activities in Hong Kong, it shows that they, on the one hand, cooperated closely with the British who were in charge of key political and economic affairs, and on the other hand worked with the local Chinese on different social stratums. Although the unification of Germany in 1870 strengthened the sense of nationhood among German people in Hong Kong, they strove to strengthen the German cultural and economic network that already existed in and around the colony, without sacrificing their business and social interests which were interwoven with those of the British and the local Chinese. It is this strategy that enabled them to survive in Hong Kong until 1914.