写心之旨·自传之意·小品之格——徐燨《写心杂剧》的转型特征及其戏曲史意义

清代乾隆年间徐燨创作的《写心杂剧》,在杂剧史上是一部具有"范式"意义的作品.其体制形态上由"代人立言"到"自我登场"的转变,改变了以往杂剧创作追求"自喻"的表达方式.通过自我抒情言志和高扬主体精神的"写心"作法、因自传性艺术演述凸显出来的特殊意味,以及与晚明小品灵动自然、清新隽永之艺术格调的同构对应等,都充分显示出《写心杂剧》既徘徊于雅俗之间,同时又为普通文人提供了特殊的话语空间的艺术价值.     

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National Fervor for Writing Chinese Characters

THE second season of the Chinese Character Dictation Contest （also known as Character Hero） inspired great enthusiasm for Chinese characters last summer.The competition, in which middle school students write Chinese characters from dictation, became an instant hit after its debut on China Central Television （CCTV） in August 2013, and soon became one of the most watched TV shows in China.     

Is LEO ‘Orwellian'? Earnings,Willetts, OfS,Creative Arts,and the Cost of Higher Education

The cost of higher education to the taxpayer is determined in part by the choice of subject and institution made by students. The Augar report on higher education noted that there was an oversupply of ‘low value' courses and called on the government to ‘bear down on low value courses' and ‘target courses better aligned with the economy's needs'.¹ Until recently there was no reliable data to identify such courses or the institutions supplying them. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has utilised recently available longitudinal education data on earnings, courses and institutions to rectify this deficiency. Many of the lowest earning courses are in the creative arts. Not everyone is happy with using earnings to measure the value of courses. This paper discusses the IFS estimates of graduate earnings and the public cost of higher education, as well as the criticisms of using earnings data to measure the value of courses and institutions.     

Characteristics of Forensic Imaging Performance—An Analysis of Forensic Imaging Bottlenecks

Disk imaging involves copying all of the data from a source disk drive to a target. Typically, the target for the copy is another disk drive. Forensic processes developed years ago do not appear to be adequate for current storage technology. For example, with disk drive capacities now exceeding 1 Terabyte, a typical disk imaging can take over 8 hours at typical rates. With disk drive capacities increasing, forensic copying is expected to take even longer. Along with increase in disk capacity, the industry has also seen an increase in data transfer rates. In many cases, forensic imaging is taking longer than necessary. To identify the bottlenecks, an examination of different methods used to transfer data from a source disk was performed. Factors considered were differing disk access technologies. One finding is that the USB disk access technology (version 2.0 and earlier) is a significant bottleneck for data transfer rates, especially when the USB device is a write‐blocker. Other factors that contribute to the efficiency of a forensic copy are the file system used to write a forensic image and the data transfer size used when reading from a disk drive. Optimal parameters for performing a forensic acquisition from a disk drive are identified.     

Holiday Anomalies

正THE week-long National Day holiday at the beginning of October is a firm favorite among Chinese employees.It is a prime time for them to ask for leave to go traveling or visit relatives in other cities.However,if you are about to write an email to your Chinese boss to ask for 20 days of annual leave to travel somewhere in China,then I really have to stop you right