唐高力士传记资料辨析

本通过近年考古出土的有关高力士的两种碑志资料，进而重审有关高力士的传世传记资料，与《两唐书》、《资治通鉴》等正史比勘汇校，尝试对于唐玄宗一代政局的突变作出新的分析，对于高力士以及唐玄宗的评价提出新的评判。     

《全宋词》虞俦小传订补

南宋名臣、文学家虞俦,<宋史>无传,清陆心源<宋史翼>亦未之补.<全宋词>虞俦小传因属草创,故甚简略,且有讹误,兹予订补.     

Visions of Tsafendas: Literary Biography and the Limits of “Research”

Abstract

Research seminar, research cluster, research output. The word is almost a fetish within the contemporary academy—but what does “research” actually mean in a discipline like literature? And what happens when a research project overspills its bounds, or pushes up against disciplinary limits and protocols? In this piece, I explore such questions via the figure of Demetrios Tsafendas, the "mad Greek" who assassinated apartheid Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1966, supposedly acting on instructions from a tapeworm inside him. It is one of the strangest facts in South African history; it is also, of course, a kind of fiction, and one that has been refracted into a range of literary and artistic works. Reading across both official and “creative” archives, I address a range of methodological problems that I encountered in attempting an academic treatment of Tsafendas and his (as the presiding apartheid judge put it) “useless life”.     

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The Social Life of Things and the Methodology of Material Culture Studies

Commodity is the key subject of material culture studies. In the1980s, scholars in the field of cultural anthropology started discussing the social life of things and the cultural biography of things, and tracing the path of things in society and culture: “commoditization/de-commoditization/re-commoditization”. Different values of things have been produced in the process of commoditization. Unceasing change of value means things as agencies are deeply involved in the cultural orders and people’s social life, thereby developing the politics of value. Studies on the social life of things, led by Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff,embody not merely the positivity and activity of things, but also a kind of symbiosis between people and things. What is more, they offer a new approach to material culture studies.     

‘We who strive for the foundation of a principle’: feminism and suffrage in the biography of Bessie Parkes Belloc

ABSTRACT

Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc, 1829–1925) was a central figure in British women’s rights activism during the 1850s and 1860s. She was founding editor of the feminist English Woman’s Journal and one of the organisers of the pioneering 1866 petition for women’s suffrage. She lived long enough to witness some women gaining the vote in 1918, by which time her children, Marie Belloc Lowndes and Hilaire Belloc, were themselves public figures who had taken up opposing positions on women’s suffrage. This article takes as its starting point 1866, a pivotal moment in nineteenth-century agitation for women’s suffrage and in Parkes Belloc’s individual biography, before moving to a longer view of her feminist life before and after this date. It demonstrates the value of a biographical approach to exploring the diversity of perspectives and experiences of women within first-wave feminism and the suffrage movement.     

梁赞诺夫对马克思传的四大贡献——《马克思恩格斯合传》评析

梁赞诺夫为马克思传记的研究与出版做出了四大贡献:第一,首倡将马克思传记列入马克思恩格斯著作全集;第二,最早将马克思传记作为独立的研究对象,与梅林进行了意义深远的历史争论;第三,MEGA1的编辑出版为马克思传奠定坚实可靠的文献基础;第四,《马克思恩格斯合传》注重马克思恩格斯生活、思想、革命的世界历史背景介绍,是了解马克思恩格斯生平思想的极好入门书。     

民族化的艺术创造——《大刀记》艺术论

郭澄清《大刀记》的主要艺术成就在于成功地塑造了富有民族英雄特色的人物形象。作者汲取了古典文学的有益经验,采用了纪传体的手法,设置了富有传奇色彩的故事情节,使得小说具有浓郁的民族风格。     

Colonial Existence,Home and Nationalism in the Narratives of British Cameroons’ Exiles in the United States

This article explores the personal meanings and public expressions of colonial existence, home and nationalism among exiles of British Cameroons from the standpoints of 11 biographies of British Southern Cameroons’ first-generation exiles living in the United States. Examining their narratives reveals why the exiles actively resist a public categorisation as being Cameroonians. This article provides a new type of research regarding British Cameroons’ exiles and their vision of the restoration of the statehood of British Cameroons, a former United Nations trust territory deserving its separate sovereignty and independence in accordance with the UN Trusteeship Agreement (1946) and UN Resolution 1514 of 1960 on the independence of colonial people. Significant about this study of the narratives of British Cameroons’ exiles is its focus on biography for portraying particular facets of nationalist resistance, including questions relating to the processes that surround the right to define the community one calls home.     

Ahmed İhsan and the ‘Wealth of the Sciences’

In the past, weekly journals often served as the primary vehicle for the publication and dissemination of high-quality literature. Novels and plays were often serialized in such periodicals, which also featured items of poetry, essays and even political analysis. The Turkish weekly Servet-i Fünun [Wealth of the Sciences] which began publishing in 1891 and closed down in 1944 attracted contributions from the best Turkish writers of its time, and its very name became a banner for new currents in Turkish literature, whether poetry or prose. Part of its success was due to the single-minded labours of its founder and editor, Ahmed ?hsan, a journalist and novelist of distinction. The article attempts to assign to the journal and its editor their proper place within the history of Turkish literary journalism.