The Singing Postman: The Mobility of Traditional Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

Nineteenth-century French traditional culture was not immobile. Nor was it a conservative impediment to ‘modernization’. Focusing on the ethnographic work of two folklorists – Félix Arnaudin (1844-1921) in the Landes, and Victor Smith (1826-1882) – this article explores the ways that traditional culture circulated, and the people that carried it. Far from sedentary ‘peasants’, many of the singers and storytellers the folklorists collected from were actively involved in modern transport networks and worked in new occupations. These hybrid networks suggest a picture of nineteenth-century culture ‘from below’ that flows along informal, regional conduits, both within and beyond the borders of France.     

敦煌古代的标点符号

标点符号的使用,提升了书面语言的明晰性和准确性,被称为非字而字,无声而语,是书面语言发展进程和语文学史上重要的里程碑之一。过去,我国语文学界很多人认为标点符号最早是从西方移借而来,然后参酌汉文的特点加以变通、改进而成的。     

The Idiom of Love and Sacrifice: Emotional Vocabularies of Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century Greece

In this article, I draw on a rich body of family correspondence from the second half of the nineteenth century in Greece. I perceive letters in correspondences as textual and material in-between places, and therefore as key sites for the creation and negotiation of maternal feelings. Switching constantly between small-scale autobiographical accounts and contemporary cultural perceptions of good motherhood, I argue that maternal love, the most crucial term of the emotional vocabulary at the time, overlaps with feelings and practices of self-sacrifice and suffering. Paradoxically, the rhetoric of selflessness, as a strong indication of a life-long maternal offering to children, requires specific obligations as a way of repayment. In researching the genealogy of maternal love, sacrifice and selflessness, the article shows the clear proximity of these notions to the wordings of Christian indoctrination and moral teaching of the period.     

南社佚名诗人稿本的发现

前时孔网上有两册旧抄本拍卖,标价其实并不高,但以所上图片影影绰绰之故,连续四次（事后查询得知）上拍而无人问津。笔者略略看出一件似是诗抄,一件为文论,语涉近代史实,感觉其中应有些意思,待第四次流拍之后,跟拍主商价要下。购品收到,视其书法、纸张,     

The Caurse of China''''s Contemporary Art

February 1989 "China Avant-garde Art"was exhibited at the China National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing,displaying China's modern art development since the mid-1980s. April 1991 "Symposium on Fine Arts Creation in the New Time China"was held in Beijing,reviewing the development of China's art since the 1980s.During the symposium,participants were embroiled in heated debates over China's modern art.     

孔子学《易》考

李学勤先生说：“孔子与《周易》关系如何,是中国学术化史上的一个重大问题。如果确如古代史籍所说,孔子长期研习过《周易》,并亲自撰作了《易传》,那么《易传》便是有关孔子哲学思想的重要依据,同时探讨《周易》这部举世重视的古书的性质,必须与孔子和儒家联系起来。这会使     

广州别称史源

广州城亦称五羊城、羊城。“广州”最早是作为一个州名出现的，三国孙吴黄武五年(226年)分交州之南海四郡置广州，治番禺县，自此始有广州之名。番禺作为广州治所，以后得称为广州城。广州城在历史上还有过番禺城、楚庭、南武城等称法，明清时期广东志书有所记载。