Texts

Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools. Laurie Olsen, New York: The New Press, 1997, 276 pages, $25.00 (hardcover), ISBN 1–5658–4400–9, and $14.95 (softcover), ISBN 1–5658–4471–8.

The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America From a Small School in Harlem. Deborah Meier, Boston: Beacon Press, 1995, 190 pages, $12.00 (softcover). ISBN 0–8070–3111–9.

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Meeting the Challenge of Our Multicultural America & Beyond. Paul D. Christiansen and Michelle Young, San Francisco: Gaddo Gap Press, 1996, 376 pages, $29.95 (softcover). ISBN 1–8801–9218–7.     

出版技术与经典文本的历史迁徙

中国古代的学术传统偏重于阐释和整理,这一学风的养成也许源自孔子的“述而不作”,孔子在《论语》中说:“述而不作,信而好古。”这里的“作”指立论创说,是指前人所没有的,作者最早发现、发明而书写下来的;而“述”则是在前人创作的基础上进行解释,是阐述前人学说的。这一文明奠基时期的学术趋向深深地影响了中国学术的发展方向。孔子之后的两千年里,中国古代产生的述论类书籍远远超过创作类书籍,经部书籍尤为如此。     

Male Bonding and Female Pleasure: Refining Masculinity in Japanese Popular Cultural Texts

Over the past few decades, alternative constructions of masculinity have entered the Japanese popular cultural scene. These definitions are slowly chipping away at traditional constructions of gender and creating new subjectivities through which men and women may choose to define their gendered identities. This article explores some of these changing constructions through a case study of 1 particularly popular male celebrity, young male actor and singer Kimura Takuya. Examining his appearances on various Japanese media sites-from television dramas, to popular magazines, to concert videos-this article attempts to identify the different codes of masculinity emerging from Kimura's diverse characters, and considers their possible significance within the larger Japanese popular cultural environment in which they are distributed and consumed.