In Memoriam: C. C. Aronsfeld (1910–2002)

ABSTRACT

Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech, delivered forty years ago, in April 1968, had a significant impact on British politics. Commentators are divided between those who have defended Powell's remarks and those who have condemned them. Hillman evaluates the responses, and reassesses the speech. He focuses on five key issues: Powell's motives; whether the speech was racist and/or racialist; the relationship between the speech and Conservative Party policies; Powell's electoral impact; and his forecasts with regard to numbers of people with minority ethnic backgrounds within the population.     

近代哈尔滨保险业探究(1900—1931年)

中东铁路的修筑和运营带动了近代哈尔滨保险业的发起和繁荣,使哈尔滨成为近代中国保险业比较发达的城市之一。哈尔滨的保险市场呈现了外商保险机构、外埠华商保险机构、本埠保险机构激烈竞争的局面。由于技术、资金、管理等先进性以及受不平等条约的保护,外商保险机构在竞争中居于绝对优势地位,民族保险业在竞争中艰难经营,但也难免破产倒闭的命运。     

张东荪社会主义思想的演变(1931—1949年)

20世纪三四十年代,张东荪的社会主义思想发生了一定的改变。他从提倡国家社会主义转为主张民主社会主义。其主旨是由强调"有计划的经济"走向"有计划的社会"。但在这近二十年中,张东荪的社会主义思想仍然受到五四时期他所主张的基尔特社会主义的若干影响。30年代,其国家社会主义主张中明显吸收了基尔特社会主义的经营管理精神。而后他在提出民主社会主义主张的同时,试图仿行基尔特社会主义而成立"教育公会"来保持文化上的自由,以与计划的社会相配合。这体现出其社会主义思想转变过程中不变的一面。其间演进痕迹历历可循,值得注意。     

民国初期黑龙江省女子教育简述(1912—1931)

民国是近代中国快速转变的历史时期。清末新政后,各个地区开始重视女子教育,黑龙江地区作为满清政府的"龙兴之地"和边陲重地,在各县区也大规模开展了女子教育,并取得了较大的成果,直到九一八事变之前保持着稳定发展。论文分析了黑龙江女子教育背景,具体分析了女子教育的不同层次;认为黑龙江女子教育的开创,突破了禁锢思想的束缚;提高了女性的自身素质,对民国初期全国女子教育的进步做出相应的贡献。     

Banking regulation (amendment) ordinance, 2017: A resolute ordinance?

This paper is a write up on the recent Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, which is yet another step in a series of initiatives taken to resolve stressed assets in the Indian banking system. An ordinance to this effect was promulgated over a “bad bank” idea as such an entity would itself be a warehouse of stressed assets and not a resolution mechanism. The paper provides an overview of stressed assets, aim of the ordinance, immediate steps taken by RBI after the promulgation of ordinance, and the looming questions that still remain pertaining to resolution of stressed assets.     

‘In God We Trusted,In China We Busted’: The China commando group of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)

In the summer of 1941, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Chinese government began a joint intelligence and special operations project called the China Commando Group. It was meant to be a grand scheme of military operation designed to benefit both the British and the Chinese in their common objective of thwarting the aggressive Japanese advances in Asia. Yet the China Commando Group evolved into a fiasco that lasted only eight months. The demise of the China Commando Group is a story that epitomizes the complex environment in which the war was fought on the East Asian mainland. This article tells a tale of policy failures in London, a thick cloud of mutual suspicions between Britain and Nationalist China, and the chasm between colonial and nationalist mindsets which led to the bitter end of the China Commando Group.     

Advancing “Ethnic Unity” and “De-Extremization”: Ideational Governance in Xinjiang under “New Circumstances” (2012–2017)

Journal of Chinese Political Science - The central role of ideology has been one of the key features of the political system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1949. One of the...