诗情丈亭渡

在浙东姚江与其最大支流慈江的交汇处，有一个渡口，叫丈亭渡。据夏侯曾先《会稽地志》记载，这里有石矶十七八丈，上面筑有一丈见方的亭室，作为老尉廨宇（古代军令尉的办公住所），所以叫“文亭”。夏侯曾先是陈、隋间人，可见丈亭之名至少有一千四百多年的历史了。     

Crossing cultures: Student travel and personal development

This paper is concerned with what students do and learn when they travel abroad. First, the behavior and daily routines of American college students travelling in Europe, while on a term abroad, are examined through their journals and travel logs and the researcher's observations. What the students learn about other cultures is often superficial, yet the experience is found to be educational in ways that were unexpected. Much of the personal benefit of travel comes not from what students learn about the places or cultures they visit, but from the need to continuously make decisions and deal with the demands of daily life in new and unfamiliar settings. It is suggested that these experiences foster personal development in several ways.     

Crossing cultures: Analysing the experiences of NZ returnees from the EU (UK vs. non-UK)

While there is growing scholarly interest in returned and cyclical migration, and on young adult cultural or adventure seeking migration, there is still a lack of systematic empirical insights into how the experiences of being abroad, and after return, are mediated by exposure to different cultural environments. Addressing this conceptual and empirical gap, the paper analyses the experiences of New Zealand return migrants, or sojourners, who lived and worked in European countries (other than the UK) for more than one year and compares them with the experiences of NZ returnees from the UK. Drawing on 20 ‘non-UK’ and 22 ‘UK’ in-depth interviews, the paper revisits [Rhinesmith, 1975] and [Rhinesmith, 1986] typology of cross-cultural, or intercultural, adjustment (largely ignored in studies of return migration) to assess sojourners’ experiences throughout the migration cycle and serve as a useful tool for identifying and reporting psychological and socio-cultural elements in the returnees stories. The findings of sojourners’ possible identity shifts during intercultural transition are discussed with reference to the four-member paradigm of Cultural Identity Model (CIM) (Sussman, 2010) while addressing Sussman's (2002) argument that overseas adaptation and repatriation experiences are not directly associated. This paper demonstrates the need to understand first that the costs and benefits of circular migration or sojourning are country-specific, and that they do not ‘just happen’ at a particular moment or in one phase but are forged through a veritable rollercoaster of experiences of intercultural adjustment.     

妈祖信仰在台湾

台湾妈祖庙最多 台湾是一个信仰多种宗教的地区，正式登记有组织的宗教活动有道教、佛教、回教、基督教、大同教、轩辕教等11种。由于宗教多，所以寺庙也多。据台湾媒体报道，目前全台湾3．6万平方公里的土地上，就有2万座寺庙，平均每1．8平方公里就有一座。而在这些寺庙中，妈祖庙又最多，