Fighting for Fame: The ‘Heroines of Pervyse’ and the Disputed Construction of a Public Image

Abstract: This investigative analysis bases itself on an array of documentary material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum in its effort to recover the intricate story behind the two British volunteer nurses who made their name during the First World War with the first-aid station they set up in Pervyse, a mere stone's throw away from the Belgian firing line. The essay juxtaposes a variety of documentary sources—the unpublished diaries of the two women, Geraldine Mitton's reconstruction of the story out of the nurses' journals and letters in The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916), and two photograph albums, ‘The Women of Pervyse’, bequeathed to the Imperial War Museum—in a quest to understand how the two nurses came to acquire their status of national heroines. Sifting through the source material, this investigation reveals the numerous inconsistencies and gaps that exist between the published and the unpublished accounts of the dressing station, whose true genesis is obscured by several competing narratives. A close reading of Mitton's account and the photographic portraitures discloses that neither of these documents ought to be taken at their face value. They need to be understood as valuable tools in the nurses' own battle for authority, public recognition and their opportunity to feature as genuine protagonists in the arena of war.     

自我拯救：世界历史进程中个人认同的重构

当今世界历史的进程引起了个人认同的诸多危机,重构个人认同应立足于个人现实生活的整体,创建个人认同的＂内生＂模式。这既要求个人在现实生活进行自我提高和完善,也要求个人处理好自我与他者的关系,在维护公共利益的前提下,尊重个体的多元和生活方式的自主,从而构建一种开放式的社会互动机制。在这个过程中,个人应坚持独立自主、共存共赢、理想和现实统一等原则。     

试论我国加入WTO对公安工作的影响及其对策

通过了解WTO组织及其原则规定,分析加入WTO后我国政府承诺的削减关税、开放服务贸易、扩大知识产权保护范围、放宽引进外资限制、开放文化经营领域、开放旅游市场、开放农产品市场等七个方面将对公安工作带来的影响,提出了提高认识、熟悉规则;加紧准备、优化警力、装备、信息资源配置;加大对跨境犯罪和经济领域犯罪的预防和打击力度的对策。     

智性与人类风险

从多元矛盾组合论出发，通过梳理人类社会面临的风险，胡国亨立足风险论视角，提出“大孔子学说”作为纾解智性风险的文化策略，是一个有价值的创见，对于重新审视智性与人类风险的关系具有重要意义。     

Twentieth Century Benchmark Dates in International Relations: The Three World Wars in Historical Perspective *

This paper builds on the author’s earlier work on benchmark dates in International Relations. The Introduction summarises this work and explains how this paper extends the analysis from suggestions made, but not developed, in earlier publications. The second section looks in detail at 20 th century benchmark dates centred on the three world wars (First, Second and Cold). It argues that the changes clustered around the Second World War are both deeper and more extensive than those clustered around either the First World War or the Cold War. The third section uses these insights to open-up a macro-historical perspective on the 20 th century, demonstrating the ways in which choices in relation to both time and scale affect the construction of macro-historical perspectives. The fourth section demonstrates the advantages of a two-century perspective on the 20 th century. Here, and in the conclusion, we argue that the key issues that underpinned world politics in the 20 th century are best seen as the downstream consequences of the dynamics and challenges ushered in by the 19 th century “global transformation.”     

试论政府“有权不可任性”的三重政治意蕴——兼谈2015年《政府工作报告》学习体会

"大道至简,有权不可任性"是李克强总理在作《政府工作报告》时的幽默表述,这不仅是一句流行的话语,更是建设现代政府的宣言,有着深刻的政治意涵。从宏观上讲,"有权不可任性"要求优化政府职能,实行简政放权;从中观上讲,"有权不可任性"要求建立健全科学合理的政绩考核体系;从微观上讲,"有权不可任性"要求党员干部树立并践行正确的权力观。     

Between competition and centralization: the new infrastructures of European finance

Ongoing European financial market integration relies on the creation of harmonized and centralized market infrastructures: the little-known institutions and systems that settle financial transactions across borders. Since the constitutional conception of market integration within the EU entails creating ‘a level playing field’ for competition, a fundamental problem emerges of how to provide that centralization and harmonization without violating the core principles of an open market economy either through private monopolization or public privatization. The paper presents a socio-technological study of a recent major infrastructure initiative by the European Central Bank, called Target2 Securities (T2S). Embedding the analysis of the struggles and debates around the birth and development of T2S in an analysis of the structural problem of competition and centralization in European financial market integration, the paper suggests an alternative perspective to that of performativity currently dominating the research field.     

国际机制与和谐世界构建：基于亚太地区的视角

国际机制是和谐世界构建的重要路径,也是实现国家利益与世界利益和谐互动的基本手段。构建和谐亚太是推动和谐世界建设的切实步骤,积极参与和完善亚太地区有关合作机制,是保障中国与本地区其它国家共享和平与繁荣的重要条件。当前亚太地区的合作机制建设已取得较大进展,但也存在若干不足。未来中国与其他相关方仍需立足于地区实际,稳步推进本地区相关合作机制建设,通过和谐地区建构为中国的和平发展创造一个良好的周边环境和战略依托。     

世界城市与青年发展战略思考

随着全球化浪潮不断向纵深发展,世界城市建设步伐日趋加快。当前世界城市内涵不断丰富,呈现出与传统世界城市建设内涵不尽一致的特征和趋势。青年群体是当代世界城市建设的重要力量,青年发展在本质上与世界城市内涵具有内在一致性;青年问题与世界城市化问题存在同构现象;青年事务与世界城市变迁走向具有同塑化趋势。因此,为更好地促进青年积极贡献于世界城市建设,应该坚持科学发展观,指导当代青年工作和青年发展。     

A crisis of trust: history,politics, religion and the polio controversy in Northern Nigeria

ABSTRACT

In the middle of 2003, disagreement over the safety of the oral polio vaccine pitted ordinary citizens and community leaders in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria against the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and Nigeria's federal authorities. During the crisis that ensued, five northern states (Niger, Bauchi, Kano, Zamfara and Kaduna) banned the use of the controversial vaccine on children in their respective domains. Underpinning Obadare's paper is the assumption that the immunization crisis is best understood after considering developments in the broader politico-religious contexts, both local and global. Thus, he locates the controversy as a whole against the background of the deepening interface between health and politics. He suggests that the crisis is best seen as emanating from a dearth of trust in social intercourse between ordinary citizens and the Nigerian state on the one hand, and between the same citizens and international health agencies and pharmaceutical companies on the other. The analysis of trust is historically embedded in order to illuminate the dynamics of relations among the identified actors.