张謇生前身后事

江苏南通有一座栽种着近万株名贵树木的植物园—啬园。这里树冠蔽荫,竹叶摇风,绿草如茵,令人心旷神怡。园内有一座石坊,石额正面刻有“南通张先生墓阙”七字。在坐北朝南的方形陵台前,矗立着一尊铜像:身着大衣,手持书卷,目光深邃,遥望距此三公里的狼山支云塔。他就是中国近代著     

Stories Behind National Treasures

"Panorama of the Capital City" (Qing Ming Shang He Tu) of the Song Dynasty. "Five Ox" of the Tang Dynasties... So many invaluable and world famous paintings that have been often heard of but never seen now come close to the general public. From later last year to early this year, 72 painting masterpieces that are considered national treasures were selected from the Forbidden City, Shanghai Museum and Liaoning Museum to appear at an exhibition held in Shanghai Museum. Those exhibits attract visitors not only with their incalculable artistic value but also with incredible stories behind them.     

Yellow Crane Tower

Like many others, I have been long fascinated by the Yellow Crane Tower. The famous verses by Tang Dynasty ,poets praising this beautiful historic monument are included in Chinese textbooks which many Chinese people can recite.     

改姓趣闻

更改姓氏是姓氏的30多种来源之一。改姓使得姓氏复杂化、起源多种化、根源神秘化。改姓的原因多种多样，趣味横生。     

Stories for [Boys] Girls: Female Fans Read The X-Files

This article is a discussion of the ways that meaning is made by female fans of the (once) popular American television series, The X-Files. The findings are based on a year long ethnography case study with members of 3 private e-mail lists ostensibly dedicated to the former lead actor: The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigades. I argue that the interpretative practices of the participants, in the form of interaction on a list set up for research purposes, were imbricated with performances of both normative and oppositional femininities. Specifically, I examine the ways that the female participants worked to gain shared pleasures from texts produced predominantly by men for men. Two gendered communal practices are examined in detail in this article-"identification" with the characters and the reading of romantic story lines into the existing texts. I also consider the classed practice of reading the primary texts critically and the collective narratives produced as a result.     

灾难禳解故事中的习俗流传

罗香林先生的《客家源流考》一书中记载了一则“葛藤坑”故事：唐朝末年，黄巢起义大军进发到闽西，百姓纷纷逃难。黄巢见到一位逃难妇女，背上背着一个大孩子，手里却牵着一个小孩子，心中不解，询问才知，大孩子乃是其侄，父母双亡，因此准备在万不得已时牺牲自己的孩子，尽力为兄嫂保存血脉。黄巢大为感动，便告诉她在家门上插上葛藤，起义大军便不会骚扰。妇女回去告诉了全村的人，     

流失海外的西夏文明

20世纪中国在历史文献方面有几次重大发现，这些发现使人们对中国的历史文化有了新的认识，在人文科学很多重要领域有了重大突破，并产生了相应的新学科。其中有的已为学术界所熟知，如殷墟甲骨、敦煌石室文书和大量简牍的发现。然而还有一项重大发现应引起学界的足够重视，那就是上世纪初在西夏黑水城遗址出土的珍贵文书。     

消亡的天花

在20世纪,天花峰回路转,实现了“历史的终结”。1967年,世界卫生组织发起消灭天花的运动。1977年,最后一例自然发生的天花患者,在索马里出现。1980年,世界卫生大会正式宣布:天花被完全消灭,天花病毒在自然界已不存在,只有在世界各地的一些实验室中保存有天花病毒,以备意外之需。我们以天花在河南省的情况为例。1958年,郾城发现河南最后一例天花病人。1962年后,河南按免疫程序进行划片种牛痘,预防天花。世界卫生组织宣布天花消灭后,河南停止使用牛痘疫苗。     

解读西夏文钱币

西夏钱币存世稀少，历来受到收藏界珍视，可是并没有多少人能够真正读懂它，甚至还有的收藏者错误地称之为“托忒文钱”，这是把钱上的文字和蒙古西部地区的一种文字混淆起来了。