Science,society and the sea of fertility: new reproductive technologies in Japanese popular culture

Since the late twentieth century, assisted reproductive technologies have brought new challenges to our understanding of the family and gender relations. There are ever-widening gaps between medical practice, legal regulation and everyday understandings and practices. Some recent popular cultural texts in Japan have explored the issues raised by non-commercial surrogate motherhood. The background to these texts is a series of controversies concerning surrogacy and the use of assisted reproductive technologies and wider societal anxieties about family, reproduction and population management. In this article, I will focus on two novels by a medical practitioner and popular novelist who writes under the pseudonym Kaidō Takeru – Gene Waltz (Kaidō 2008) and Madonna Verde (Kaidō 2010) – and the associated film (ōtani 2011) and television series (NHK 2011). The fact that it was the national broadcaster Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) that dramatised Madonna Verde suggests that the discussion of these issues was thought to have wide social and cultural resonance. I will place these texts in their social and cultural context with reference to medical, legal and popular discourses on new reproductive technologies in contemporary Japan. These new reproductive technologies have the potential to force a rethinking of masculinity, femininity, parenthood, family and gender relations. The popular texts also, however, draw on pre-existing ways of thinking about masculinity, femininity, marriage, reproduction and the relationships among science, ‘nature’ and society.     

试论警务科学的学科结构和科学定位

警务科学是以警务活动作为研究对象的所有学科的统称。涵盖公安学、警察学的警务科学在中国经过30多年的演进发展,已经形成一系列分支学科、边缘分支学科。警务科学在总体上呈现出明显的交叉科学属性,有理由将其认定为介于数学自然科学与哲学社会科学两大知识板块之间的一个交叉科学学科门类。警务科学同法律科学、安全科学、军事科学等学科门类有着十分密切的亲缘关系,其未来的基本演进策略应是依托亲缘门类、强化薄弱阵线。     

¿Hacia una “nueva época” en los estudios de memoria social?

Social memory is currently a central topic at both the rhetoric and the academic level. This has led to a remarkable theoretical and conceptual effervescence in this field. While for some authors such state of affairs suggests a lack of precision and clarity –terminologically as well as conceptually– and even warns us about the imminent ‘fatigue’ of the field, our analytical perspective is consistent with those authors who point to a reconfiguration of the manifestations of memory and the social arenas associated with it. Through an analytical historicization of terminological and conceptual developments in memory studies, this paper outlines a first and second ‘era’ of memory studies, towards the beginning and end of the last century. It also points to the emergence of a third period, a ‘new era’ in memory praxis and theory. As part of broader processes of globalization and transnational flows, as well as hypermobility of individuals and cultural objectification, fuelled by increasing technological capabilities and media literacy, unprecedented mnemonic modes, practices, and spaces develop. This scenario suggests a need for new perspectives, which can dialogue with existing ones, and an expansion of the theoretical and conceptual focus on the transformations and continuities of memory.     

论“婉”:词学核心概念的字源学谱系分析样例

"婉约"为词学的核心概念,"婉"的含义,可从"夗-宛-婉"的谱系中寻绎。"夗"训"卧",在甲骨文及金文中,系由两个或一个弯曲的人体所构成的象形字。"夗"含有"屈、曲、圆、转"等义;"宛"从宀从夗,由宀(馆室)这一部件,增加并引申有"深、幽、凄、清"等义;"婉"从女从宛,增加了"顺、丽、娈、媚"等义。"宛、婉、惋、怨"等夗族字,可与意义相近或相关的字组成诸多双音节词,并进一步组成四音节词组,用以形容描写对象,或用以评论词人词作,并在漫长的演变过程中,选择出"婉约"一词,作为词学的核心概念。夗族字所组成的词语及词组,其分布及使用情况,提示"宛"、"婉"等字的构形,与该字实际使用时在特定语境中的意义高度相关。     

西南联大与中国彝学研究

抗日战争时期,西南联大的内迁,使其成为中国彝学研究的重要基地,以南开大学边疆人文研究室陶云逵、高华年、黎宗瓛和北京大学文科研究所罗常培、马学良以及西南联大袁家骅、曾昭抡等为代表的西南联大学者,在艰难困苦的条件下,对川、滇、康等西南诸省的彝区进行广泛的田野调查,取得了一批重要的研究成果,培养了一批年轻的彝学研究者,为中国彝学的发展作出了历史性贡献。     

从《妇女研究论丛》看中国妇女/性别研究进展——创刊20年来栏目、主题与内容的变化分析

本文对《妇女研究论丛》创刊20年来的栏目变化、刊文情况以及主题与内容进行分析,探讨中国妇女/性别研究进展。结论认为,中国妇女/性别研究经历了由浅入深、不断走向成熟的过程,学术性和实践价值都在不断增强。但仍需进一步加强妇女/性别研究的理论创新,加强有关妇女发展和性别平等的重大现实问题研究,加强妇女发展与性别平等法律与政策研究,促进中国妇女/性别学科建设。     

延安时期共产党人的调查研究工作

延安时期中国共产党人高度重视调查研究,为此建立了严密的组织架构,建立和完善包括科学的分工协作、成果分享机制和智力、财力支持制度,并采用科学合理、灵活多样的调查研究方式方法。这一时期的调查研究有力促进实现马克思主义中国化的第一次飞跃,保证了整风运动胜利开展,提高了全体党员干部的党性,实现了党群干群关系和谐。     

Forth Conference of Baltic Studies in Scandinavia

This paper analyzes representations of national identity in three museums dedicated to commemorating twentieth-century occupations in the Baltic States. Narratives presented in those museums can reproduce dominant forms of nationalism (the Estonian case), provide alternative models of discourse while paying respect to established identities (the Latvian case) or deconstruct the victim/oppressor binary altogether while contributing to other aspects of nationalist discourse at the same time (the Lithuanian case).     

宁夏生态环境立法的若干问题探析

当前,生态文明建设已成为中国特色社会主义建设的一个重要方面。要实现生态文明建设的目标和任务,必须加快有利于可持续发展的体制机制建设,进一步健全相关法律法规,为生态文明建设提供制度和法律保障。因此,研究和探讨可持续发展与完善生态环境建设立法的关系,对于促进宁夏节约型社会和环境友好型社会的建设,实现经济社会的跨越发展具有重要的现实意义。     

When the Poor Need Health Care: Ethnography of State and Citizenship in Turkey

This article is mainly about the everyday workings of the Green Card Scheme in Turkey, which is a social assistance mechanism providing free health care services to the poor. Through a scrutiny of interactions around the Green Card Scheme in the city of Ad?yaman in south-eastern Turkey, the article explores how the categories of state and citizenship substantiated at the local level by means of various discourses and practices and in the process of citizens' encounters with the Green Card bureaucracy.