Digital thombos: A new source for 18th century Sri Lankan family history. Research note

The Sri Lanka National Archives (SLNA) in Colombo preserve under the names of head thombo and land thombo several hundreds of eighteenth-century registers on family composition and landownership. At the time of their compilation by the Dutch East India Company or VOC the thombos suited a general administrative purpose; currently they are used only in genealogical research and in court cases concerning land disputes. Demographic, family and colonial history, however, can profit considerably from this neglected source. In the following we describe a project to digitize the registers of the Colombo province, and we discuss and evaluate the variables in the database by focusing on the family groups of a relatively small district.     

关于创意农业学科体系的初步构想

创意农业属于应用性学科、实践性学科；创意农业有它的学科基础，如创意经济学、农业美学、创意产业发展理论、农耕文化、农业科学等；创意农业的打造方法有功能创意、产品创意、园区创意、文化创意、营销创意等；它可通过组织现场展示活动、开展农民专题培训、在各级学校开设课程或高校举办专业、举办技能和成果大赛，以及发展专职机构来推广和发展创意农业。     

后农业税时代农村公共产品供给不足的对策研究

随着《中华人民共和国农业税条例》的废止,我国进入了后农业税时代。农业税的取消,在减轻农民负担、增加农民收入、缓解农村社会矛盾的同时,也给农村公共产品的供给带来了很大的冲击,使得本已不足的农村公共产品供给面临着更大的危机。为此,本文就取消农业税后我国农村公共产品供给不足的一些问题进行了探讨,在揭示农村公共产品供给不足的现状的同时,指出增加农村公共产品供给的意义及对策选择,以保证向农村提供充分的公共产品,从而促进农村经济的持续发展。     

关于构建农民增收长效机制的思考

“三农”问题的核心是农民问题,而农民问题的核心是农民富裕。当前农民增收的大部分是政策性保护增收措施实施的效应,属于政策性措施的延续,要想实现全面的长效性增收仍受到政策局限性和市场局限性约束。这就需要我们既从农业内部深挖增收潜力,增强农业和农村经济内部自主活力,也需要从农业外部寻找突破,形成可持续的外部推力和良好的增收氛围,形成内、外共促增收的良好机制。     

Constructing a Feminist Cinematic Genealogy: The Gothic Woman's Film beyond Psychoanalysis

The Gothic woman's film, as a particular 1940s phenomenon, responded to the social changes caused by the upheavals of the Second World War. It featured female protagonists, expressed anxieties about marriage and complicated the classic realist premises of narrative and heterosexual closures. As the Gothic narrative trajectory revolved around the heroine's pursuit of marital happiness, these films are often theorized in the sexually differentiated terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As a result, they are interpreted as cinematic manifestations of paranoia, primal scenes, passive female desires and the impossibility of female subjectivity. Tay considers how the Gothic woman's film may resist such psychoanalytic codifications by considering critiques of psychoanalysis and investigating the ways in which Gilles Deleuze's cinematic topography may apply to the genre. This engagement with Deleuze reveals how 1940s Gothic films--such as Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941), Gaslight (Cukor, 1944), and Sleep, My Love (Sirk, 1948)--breach the narrative normativity of classic realist love stories like Random Harvest (LeRoy, 1942). Culminating in a detailed analysis of Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) as a film that sustains female transgression in its textual operation, Tay posits possibilities for furthering a feminist cinematic discourse beyond psychoanalytic codifications.     

从可持续发展的战略高度认识农业综合开发在西部大开发中的作用

农业综合开发作为国家支持和保护农业的一项重要措施,在西部大开发中,对改善和保护西部地区农业生态环境,推进西部地区农业科技进步,加强西部地区农业基础设施建设,促进西部地区农业结构调整,合理开发利用农业资源等方面,将充分发挥其优越性。     

华侨与近代侨乡农业变迁——广东省梅县个案研究

近代以来,中国侨乡农业经历了一个由传统向近代转型的过程.在这一变迁过程中,华侨起了积极的推动作用.本文将田野调查与历史研究结合起来,以全国著名侨乡--广东省梅县为个案,从种植业这个视觉切入,阐述和探讨华侨在侨乡梅县农业变迁中所起的作用.本文认为,在传统粮食作物和经济作物的生产以及山林业的发展诸方面,华侨通过多种形式的努力,或引进并推广优良品种,或传播先进生产技术,或身体力行改变经营管理方式等等,推动了传统种植业的更新.正是由于华侨这一资源,农业中近代新因素(新品种、新管理、新的经营方式、新的技术与人才)开始在侨乡梅县出现并日渐成长,有力地推动农业近代化转型,促进了经济的发展.     

The International Labour Organisation and film

ABSTRACT

This article contributes to discussion of continuity and change in the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) history, asking how the organisation and worker activities have been depicted in film. Since the 1920s, the films in which the organisation portrays itself have placed less emphasis on its European base, the largely male culture that once dominated it and the precise nature of its role in the world. In more recent years, the ILO’s cinematic output has made an effort to emphasise work, workers and their collective activity. Their short films have also come to overtly advocate ‘partnership’ trade unionism within a wider international and perspective while paying much more attention to matters of racial and gender diversity. These changes have been framed within the organisation’s constant assertion of continuity in its values and explicit use of its own history. Film has therefore contributed to consistency and continuity in its self-projection, providing parameters within which change has occurred.     

Peripheral modernity and anti-colonial nationalism in Java: economies of race and gender in the constitution of the Indonesian national teleology

This analysis investigates the limits of colonial modernity in the 20th century Dutch East Indies at a time that coincided with the building of the Indonesian national project. I am interested in the constitution of the national teleology as an inexorable socio-political project, deploying specific racial and gendered economies. As a locus of investigation I choose the literary narratives of two celebrated Indonesian intellectuals (and participants in the anti-colonial struggle), Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet and Mangunwijaya’s Durga/Umayi. Were the impulses of anti-colonial resistance intrinsically national in their orientation? Through what erasures and re-appropriations has the nationalism/modernity paradigm become the medium of decolonisation?     

英国殖民初期缅甸掸邦土司制度下的茶叶贸易

英国殖民初期缅甸掸邦的茶叶贸易在殖民者＂分而治之＂政策的统治下,在当地土司头人和代理商的重税盘剥下艰难地向前发展,最终迫于各种压力,困扰茶商的税费问题得到解决。同时,茶叶生产和茶叶贸易也带动了掸邦山区社会经济的发展。