在新的国际秩序中构筑中日关系的新平衡

中日两国在两千多年的交往过程中,双边关系既有处于平衡状态的时期,也有处于平衡状态被打破的时期。而对于中日关系的平衡状态起到巨大影响作用的主要有主客观两种因素。客观因素主要指不断变化的国际和地区秩序;主观因素主要指中日两国的历史记忆。世界金融危机的爆发开启了国际秩序的新的深刻变革,而在新的国际秩序中,中日两国间的新平衡状态也将不会超出准世界大国与经济大国间关系这一框架。而为了进一步促进中日两国间平衡状态的形成,则有必要通过增强"友好记忆",弱化"对立记忆"来改善两国间的历史记忆。     

俄罗斯诸共和国语言问题探析

苏联解体后,俄罗斯联邦诸共和国掀起语言改革浪潮,在此过程中出现主体民族语言虚无主义、民族语言文字拉丁化、俄语地位不稳定、少数民族语言生存堪忧等一系列语言问题。出现这些问题的原因主要有四个：一是语言问题的政治化;二是政治民主化和民族语言扩张的矛盾;三是共和国和联邦层面的立场存在分歧;四是语言政策的具体实施环节存在漏洞、缺乏力度。目前,诸共和国所面临的语言问题触及民族关系,须俄联邦政府和诸共和国政府共同努力才能解决。     

混合与分离：财产支配权与人身支配权之历史路径

财产支配权与人身支配权由混合走向分离,是财产支配权历史演进中的一条清晰脉络。从罗马法到日耳曼法,再到中世纪欧洲封建制法,财产支配权与人身支配权一直处于混合状态;欧洲封建社会后期,生产力的发展急迫地叩响了二者分离的大门,至资本主义法,二者便彻底走向分离。而在我国,二者混合的历史极其漫长,直至新中国成立才得以彻底分离。     

“美人之美”：多民族文化的战略选择

论文认为,中华民族文化是具有多层次多侧面丰富多彩的文化,汉族以外的各少数民族文化,与汉族文化形成互补、互渗、互相支持的内在机制,理应纳入我国文化输出和发生影响的战略思考中。由此论文提出“美人之美”是多民族文化的战略选择。具体到作为文化一部分的民族文学及民族文学理论领域则分别为：其一,民族文学理论中诸如朴素务实的文学艺术观、人与宇宙中万事万物等量齐观的思想蕴含着少数民族人生观和世界观,是我国文化思想的重要资源。其二,民族文学文本兼具民间口头文学和文人创作双重特性,并含有原始诗性智慧,对当代艺术想象和思想建设具有启示和借鉴意义。其三,民族文学的文化认同具有本民族认同和国家认同的双重性以及认同历史进步的民主性。是我国爱国主义思想非常有特色的组成部分。论文最后提出,“美人之美”不仅是认识和阐释,同时还是一种博大胸襟和深切关怀,对他民族文化的热爱、赞美和关切。质言之,“美人之美”存在于信仰中,是一种需要建构的姿态。     

Caddisflies assist with homicide case: determining a postmortem submersion interval using aquatic insects

Although few indicators of time since death for corpses found in aquatic ecosystems are comparable in precision to the insect indicators used in terrestrial cases, there are observations that can be useful in suggesting or ruling out an approximate PMSI (postmortem submersion interval). For example, the time intervals required for certain growth phases of aquatic insects, such as caddisflies, that may attach themselves to the submerged remains can be used to estimate a minimum PMSI. Approximately 8 of the 13 orders of insects containing species with aquatic or semi-aquatic stages are likely to be associated with carrion or corpses in aquatic habitats. We present a case study in which portions of a body from an adult male were discovered in a south central Michigan stream. The body was dismembered and portions were recovered from two bags floating and submerged in the stream. Insect specimens collected from mesh and plastic bags consisted of one fly larva belonging to the family Muscidae, and caddisfly larvae belonging to two families: the Limnephilidae. (case-makers) and the Hydropsychidae, (net spinners). We used unique case-building behaviors of the limnephilid caddisflies found on the remains to elucidate a PMSI range consistent with the disappearance of the victim. It is important for forensic investigators to understand that although some precision is lost in estimating a PMSI with aquatic insects, these organisms should not be ignored in gathering evidence from aquatic crime scenes, and in fact, they can provide valuable details in estimating a PMSI.     

论经济法模型世界的构筑——对经济法理念研究的历程回顾与评价

比之经济法,中国尚无其他法律部门如其般要经历生死存亡的考验,要从附属的阴影下挣扎出自己的独立,欲自立,必自足,经济法要走出被质疑的窘境,惟有通过基础理论的自足而自立。在此精神指引下,经济法理念研究形成了自己的特色:构建观点的现代化、探索视角的多元化和研究方法的创新化。于成就论,经济法理念研究确立了其与时俱进的探索基调,建立了其多音争辩的榷议模式,并开启了其制度指引的转化进程。当然,我们同时也要正视其在成果表现、理念总结、研究界限和探索路径等方面的不足,继续进行深度的研究。     

Mariano Arista and the 1850 Presidential Election in Mexico

Abstract – This article examines the 1850 presidential election in Mexico. It is divided into five sections: party political background, electoral regulations, candidates, campaign, results. General Mariano Arista was the successful candidate in what was the first genuinely contested presidential election since independence.     

Instrumentalizing the recent past? The new Cold War narrative in Russian public space after 2014

There has been much debate about whether the US and Russia are locked in a new Cold War, but much less attention as to how the term is used in Russian political discourse. Through a close analysis of public statements, I analyze how the Cold War narrative has been used in the Russian public space since 2014, and assess how the “resuscitation” of the Cold War paradigm has been used by Moscow’s political elites, in order to discuss its impact on foreign policy. I document a distinct shift in Russian policymakers’ use of the term in 2016 and trace this shift to domestic political considerations.     

Bending conventions: agency and self-portrayals in Japanese translator commentary

Abstract: The recent surge of interest in the figure of the translator has brought translator-authored writing into the spotlight in Translation Studies. Investigations into translator commentaries (in-book paratexts such as prefaces and afterwords) have generally mined them for data about translation history and procedures. Yet translator commentary also offers a potential space where translators can stake positions as cultural agents through first-person writing. This article investigates how translators present themselves in such texts, using Japanese literary translators as an example. It takes a random sample of Japanese translator commentaries from books in various literary genres, establishes their textual conventions, and then performs close readings of five commentaries to explore how translators write themselves into their text. The translators show themselves to be concerned with how their writing is received. Some use devices such as pastiches and anecdotes to entertain and inform readers, asserting their voice as writers. Others frame their identity as members of literary communities or socially conscious individuals. In so doing, they project identities as cultural agents. Consequently, this study argues that translator commentary should be re-examined in translation studies as a potential site of subjective expression and positioning in the literary field.     

Borders of memory: affirmation and contestation over Japan’s heritage

Abstract

This essay, introducing the special issue on ‘Borders of Memory’, aims to shed light on the links between memory and heritage in contemporary Japan. It does so by examining how heritage sites serve as spaces within which collective memory is both affirmed and contested. Heritage sites enable us to survey the contours of the borders of memory that exist between different memory collectives. An analysis of South Korean and Chinese objections to the Meiji Industrial Sites shows how these heritage sites work as borders of memory, spaces where the competing collective memories of neighbouring East Asian governments and societies clash and rub up against one another. This analysis is then extended to the four articles that make up this special issue. In each case, it is the competing meanings invested in the site, and the struggle over the narrative within which it is incorporated, that results in such sites coming to be demarcated as borders of memory. Understanding these heritage sites as bordered spaces allows us to see such them as being not only where antagonistic collective memories come into contact, but also spaces through which they connect. The existence of such spaces enables the political process of articulating the stories associated with different memory collectives.