苏州老宅散记(二)

耦 园“耦园住佳耦”,这是刻划在耦园长廊里的句子。这个句子,和不远处生长在池塘里的几枝荷花,没有更多的关系,这个句子和爱情有关。“耦”是两个人一起耕种,他们在一起耕种爱情。耦园的主人是自安徽巡抚任上归隐的沈秉成(1822～1895年),他第一次见到严永华是在好几年以前,对着眼前亭亭玉立并且才华横溢的严永华,沈秉成忍不住倾叹不已。数年后,沈秉成妻过世。严永华走到了沈秉成的身边。他们在耦园安家,住在耦园的沈秉成说:“何当偕隐凉山麓,握月担风好耦耕。”住在耦园的严永华说:“名花如好友,皓月是前身。”更多的时候,朋友们聚会耦园,…     

The story of xiao jie ('working' girls)

Abstract

This essay examines a moment of institutionalization in cultural studies, and argues that questions of gender have a significant place in this interdisciplinary domain. The issue is discussed in a pedagogic context that has almost normalized feminism, seeing its political contributions as belonging to the past. The essay argues that the conceptual conjuncture of culture and gender which has been central to feminist theorizing in India needs to be rethought. This conjuncture arose from thinking about culture in the framework of nationalism and the anti‐colonial struggle, and the alignment of women with national culture. I discuss briefly the trajectory of how we have gone about investigating the culture‐gender conjuncture, present a reformulation of what I think we're up against, and introduce some new research projects which are trying to take this on board. The focus in these projects is on the question of translation, and how the issue of ‘regional’ languages poses a challenge to prevalent ideas in the women's movement and in feminist teaching. The larger proposition is that we need to formulate curricula based on new kinds of research if we are to take feminism into the cultural studies classroom of the future.     

The emerging (national) popular music culture in China

ABSTRACT

Before the emergence of the modern sense of popular music in China, the uses of music in that country have been instrumental in serving political purposes for the state. The modern form of popular music began to enter China through Hong Kong and Taiwan – the two very political locales in which we could observe China’s political economy through the reception of their music in mainland China. How the Chinese authorities coped with the production, distribution and consumption of this ‘foreign’ popular music, is reflective of the swing of the pendulum between relaxation and control, and hence the changing ideologies of the state. Based on the cultural and institutional analysis on a few classical Chinese popular singers since the mid‐1980s, this paper illustrates such a transformation. The paper argues that the Chinese authorities have evolved from a dictatorial authority, which chose to control popular music by means of direct bans and censorship, to an active agent, through various strategies, managing and producing a kind of popular music that can be conducive to, and be resonant with, the national ideologies.     

诸葛氏溯源

关于“诸葛”一姓的来源，大体上有三种说法：一是《世本》卷三《氏姓篇》云：“有熊氏之后为詹葛氏，其后齐人语讹，以詹葛为诸葛。”“詹葛”一作“瞻葛”，该文并举例说：“宋景公时有大夫瞻葛祁。”     

The Heuristic for Thinking About Culturally Responsive Teaching (HiTCRiT)

Michèle was hurrying to class. How, she thought, could she offer the students in her African American English in Society and Schools class a method of understanding, comparing, and abstracting the studies they had been reading in class? The heuristic described in this study evolved from a desire to capture aspects of several seminal studies that illustrated how African American English was deployed in classrooms for productive work with African American students. Michèle recalled that whenever she asked graduate students or practicing teachers what they, other teachers, and schools might do to improve the schooling of students of color, one of the most consistent responses was Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). However, when pressed and asked what one would detect in classrooms where CRP is being put into practice, few were able to specify what an observer might see. Specifying the dimensions of CRP and its relationship to the heuristic had not been on Michèle’s mind. Even so, it was during the class discussion that the heuristic’s relevance to CRP became clearer. Jonathan, who had been tapped as a teaching assistant in an English language arts methods class, believed HiTCRiT could be modified to use with teacher education candidates, as a substitute for the standardized lesson planning tool used in the department. He piloted its use with the class the following semester. Utilizing HiTCRiT to explain research and existing practices as well as to assist teachers in creating culturally relevant instruction modified and shaped it, creating a more robust tool. Thus, the HiTCRiT came into being and came to inform our thinking and teaching practice.     

是姓探源

是姓，是已有1800年历史的姓氏，《中国姓氏大全》将其列为“罕见姓”。据统计，目前全国是姓人口约有8000余人，许多县、市没有此姓，而在常州及其邻近的无锡、江阴、宜兴等地，是姓人口约有4000多人，可见常州的是姓为全国是姓人口的50％。     

何姓探源

“东海家声远，庐江世泽长”，这是收藏在北京国家图书馆地方志和家谱中心内《庐江何氏大同宗谱》扉页上的联语。它告诉世人：华夏何氏，源于安徽庐江．     

道教名山龙虎山

我国古代四大文学名著之一的《水浒传》，开篇的楔子是“张天师祈禳瘟疫，洪太尉误走妖魔”。说的是宋徽宗时天下瘟疫盛行，洪太尉奉旨来到信州龙虎山上清宫，宣请张天师虚靖先生赴京祈禳瘟疫。洪太尉费了许多脚力攀登到山上。     

讀《文史通義·易教·書教》

夫史之為用,亦大矣哉!上通干百年之事,下垂千百世之例.借事喻物,以明治國之大道;按制依度,以應鄉里之瑣事.至其使命,則為"究天人之際,窮古今之變.     

The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal (1496–1497)

The expulsion of the Muslim minority from Portugal, decreed by King Manuel I in December 1496, has been one of the most overlooked aspects of the end of religious tolerance in the Iberian Peninsula at the close of the Middle Ages. Using unedited documentary sources preserved in the national Portuguese archives, this article focuses on the expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal and seeks to challenge a number of assumptions concerning this unprecedented event. Three major questions concerning this expulsion are examined. What evidence is there that the expulsion of the Muslims did take place? Where did the expelled Muslims seek refuge? What were the causes of this expulsion? This article will endeavour to present a new hypothesis relating to the causes of this expulsion, which radically differs from that advanced by modern historians.     

江西义门陈

江西省德安县车桥镇义门陈氏是中国历史上最为罕见的家族，3900多人曾聚居一堂，合炊300多年不分家；还创造了我国历史上规模最大的家族大迁徙，也是我国历史上唯一一个由皇帝颁旨并派官员监督分家的家族。