上游沿江城市融入长江经济带发展研究——以泸州市为例

泸州地处川滇黔渝结合部,长江、沱江交汇处,是长江上游重要港口城市,是成渝经济区连接南贵昆经济区走向东南亚的重要门户,也是大西南融入长江经济带和海上丝绸之路的桥头堡。该文从城乡规划、流域规划、产业规划的视角出发,遵循科学发展观和城乡统筹发展的原则,运用了区域经济学、发展经济学、城市经济学和产业经济学等相关理论,采取了理论和实践相结合,实证与对策研究为主的研究方法,研究泸州如何融入长江经济带建设,实现泸州又好又快发展,同时为长江上游港口城市发展提供可供参考的模式,为中国区域经济协调发展发挥实践作用。     

12 Girls Band: Innovating Traditional Chinese Music

ON October 17,2014,the 12 Girls Band performed successfully at the Oriental Theater in Changchun,capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province.Their show was a feast for the eyes and ears:12 exquisitely dressed beauties performed classical pieces,such as Liberty and Radetzky March on traditional Chinese instruments like the yangqin(hammered dulcimer),pipa(four-string Chinese lute),erhu(a two-string violin),bamboo flute,xiao(a vertical bamboo flute),hulusi(cucurbit flute)and the duxianqin     

Money,Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.     

Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts: Food Safety,Rule of Law and China's Networked Public Sphere

Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citizens' legal consciousness via propaganda, this analysis shows that the construction of legality by the Tianya public was not a top‐down process, but a complex negotiation involving multiple parties. The Chinese state had to compete with lawyers and outspoken media to frame and interpret the scandal for the Tianya public and it was not always successful in doing so. Data show further how the online public framed the food safety incident as indicative of fundamental problems rooted in China's political regime and critiqued the state's instrumental use of law.     

论美国联邦最高法院对正当程序的阐释——以自然法为视角

自然法蕴含的理性、正义、法治、权利等观念塑造了西方法治精神。发端于英国的正当程序作为西方宪政与法治传统中极其重要的理念和制度,与英国的"自然正义原则"密切相关。自然正义源于自然法,自然法要求的采取回避和听取申辩原则,构成了正当程序的核心内容。美国宪法第五和第十四修正案将自然法原则法定化。在联邦最高法院有关正当程序尤其是实质性正当程序的司法实践中,经常从自然法的视角对其进行阐释,使正当程序成为捍卫自由主义、契约自由与个人基本权利的有力武器,并在这一过程中,实现了对自然法的继承与超越。     

习近平文艺思想探析

习近平的文艺思想包含非常丰富的内容,如文艺作品的创作应坚持把社会效益放在首位、弘扬爱国主义主旋律、体现社会主义核心价值观的要求等。当前,深入探讨分析习近平文艺思想,对推动社会主义文化大发展大繁荣、增强中国特色社会主义理论自信、实现中华民族伟大复兴具有重大的现实意义。新形势下,要坚持和发展习近平文艺思想,必须坚持为人民服务的基本原则,从传统文化中汲取清水活源,努力培养大批德艺双馨的艺术家。     

Saving Face

正Facial recognition is omnipresent in China’s everyday life, used for purposes from mobile payments to compound entrance. With the broader application of the technology, related disputes, too, are on the rise.