明末至清前期“子学”比附“西学”的境遇和意义

利用传统学术资源,与西学知识进行“比附”,论证“中西相通”或“西学中源”,是明末清初以来中国思想界认识西学的重要途径。以先秦诸子为核心的“子学”从一开始便充当了“中西比附”的依据和资料来源。士人通过“以子证西”,一方面认识了部分西学知识,维护了对“中学”的自信和坚守,但另一方面也因此阻碍了对西学的学习和利用。     

闽籍华侨与印尼华文报刊《生活报》关系浅探

印尼华文报刊《生活报》,创刊于1945年10月24日,1965年10月停刊,是印尼华侨社会较有影响力的华文报刊。在《生活报》的创办过程中,闽籍华侨扮演重要角色,发挥了举足轻重的作用。闽籍华侨的这些行为,是参与者听从时代召唤以及强烈的社会使命感使然,也与他们的地缘关系及社会网络密不可分。     

公民诉讼代理：立法者的艰难抉择

基于对公民诉讼代理弊端的考量,2013年《民事诉讼法》对公民诉讼代理进行了严格的限制。这种限制违背了实事求是和法制统一的立法原则,阻碍了公民诉权的行使。诚然,公民诉讼代理需要规制,但这种规制不能矫枉过正、因噎废食,违背法治精神。     

The Assyrians

This article deals with a largely unknown British officer of the Indian Army, who served between 1900 and 1928 in India, Tibet, Burma, north-western Persia and Waziristan. It focuses on his unpublished diary from the British military expedition to Tibet in 1903-04, to which the present author has gained access. The written legacy of Harvey-Kelly includes a report on north-western Persia, various correspondence and five photo albums.     

Powerhouses or pretenders? Debating China's and India's emergence as technological powers

Abstract

Are China and India emerging as innovative technological powerhouses in the twenty-first century? This essay reviews the interdisciplinary debate that has been inspired by this question in recent years. It begins by considering recent studies that are relatively impressed with China's and India's recent accomplishments and potential in this regard. Next, it reviews works that are less impressed with their track records and prospects. It then considers a series of more equivocal studies that remain more or less undecided about China's and India's technological trajectories. The final section evaluates the debate as a whole and proposes new directions for scholarship in this field.     

90后大学生政治认同的影响因素与对策探析

90后大学生作为中国特色社会主义事业的未来建设者和接班人,其政治认同不但影响到自身政治素质的提高与完善,而且关系国家政治的稳定和社会发展的前景。对影响90后大学生政治认同的多重因素进行深入探讨,提出具有针对性的解决措施如下:促进经济发展,创造新的政绩资源;倡导社会交流意识形态;加强思想政治教育改革与创新。     

Civil Society and Violence in India's Northeast

The dominant view of India's Northeast highlights violence as a predominant feature and presents civil society as non-existent. Nevertheless, between a militarily-willed state and violent insurgencies lie very many formal associations and informal networks that organize the space for a civil society. The paper attempts to highlight the existence of such relatively lesser-known institutions of civil society in the region. However, there seem to be differences in the very nature of associations of civil society. Homogenous, intra-ethnic networks of civil society in the rural Northeast seem to be more vulnerable to violence and nationalistic fervour. In contrast, formal associations or inter-ethnic informal networks in the urban Northeast seem to handle conflicts and violence better. While the contents herein are expected to inform public discourses on a fragile region, they might also help challenge popular notions about the potential of an existent civil society in similar regions.     

INDIA’S SOFT POWER DIPLOMACY UNDER THE MODI ADMINISTRATION: BUDDHISM,DIASPORA AND YOGA

This paper examines the Narendra Modi administration's use of three specific soft power assets of India – Buddhism, Diaspora, and Yoga – in diplomacy in service of the country's national interests. It attempts to address the following questions: What is the main purpose of the Modi administration's soft power strategy and the reasons behind the promotion and utilization of these three assets? What are the impediments to India's soft power projection ability? Finally, how can the Modi administration better exploit India's soft power advantages? This paper demonstrates how the Modi administration is making efforts to project India's soft power in the service of larger strategic goals. The use of soft power is designed to complement India's conventional diplomacy, boost its international image, project it as a peaceful rising power, improve relations with other countries, and help attract foreign investment, technology, and tourists in order to promote economic growth and development.     

THE PUNDITS: SURVEYING THE FRONTIERS OF INDIA IN THE GREAT GAME

This article provides an overview of the development of the exploration, mapping and surveying of the frontier territories of India in the 19^th century and the context of the Great Game with Russia. It pays particular attention to the Pundits, the native surveyors trained by British officers who made long surveying journeys into the borderlands of the Himalayas and Tibet. It gives an account of the explorations of pundits including Nain Singh, Kishen Singh, Sarat Chandra Das, Kintup, and Ugyen Gatso.     

Are the BRICS reformers,revolutionaries, or counter-revolutionaries?

This article argues that the five-nation BRICS group has played a significant role in pressing for reforms in the Western-dominated global order, as well as mounting some revolutionary (and as yet unresolved) challenges to that order. However, it also maintains that there is another (underestimated) aspect to the BRICS' role, viz, their conservative or counter-revolutionary challenges to liberal trends towards democracy, human rights and the progressive evolution of international law. It then discusses how ‘the West’ has responded to these pressures from the BRICS, and other rising powers, and points to uncertainties raised by the recent growth of ‘populist’ pressures within the West itself against aspects of the liberal economic, political and cultural order.