Worn Grooves

Drawing from visual, material and written archival sources, this article critically explores some of the functions, uses and perceived values of recorded sound during the First World War and in its aftermath. An instrument of communication as well as commemoration, the gramophone helped bridge geographical (and, in some cases, cultural) distances between the home front and the rear, providing civilians with the fleeting illusion of presence, proximity, or even sentimental communion with the front. The article analyses (a) the affective and connective, but also propagandist, values of commercial wartime recordings as they circulated between the home and the front, (b) the popular notion of gramophones as regulatory instruments of civilisation, (c) the commemorative exploitations of recorded sound in the interwar period. The article focuses on the British experience, contrasting it with examples drawn from French and German experiences.     

正确认识"五四"运动反帝反封建的彻底性

正确而全面地认识五四运动反帝反封建的"彻底性",对科学地评价五四运动的历史意义和继续五四运动未能完成的反封建的历史任务有着极为重要的作用.     

The “sacred” standing for the “fallen” spirits: Yasukuni Shrine and memory of war

This essay examines the rhetoric/politics of Yasukuni Shrine as an experiential memory-scape, a material and discursive ground to frame and enact banal patriotism and militant nationalism. As a powerful mnemonic and rhetorical institution, Yasukuni Shrine (re)produces a nationalistic narrative and identity by (con)fusing natural feelings of individual grief and cultural tradition of commemoration with national heritage of banal patriotism. By (con)fusing what is “particular” and “universal,” Yasukuni Shrine establishes its rhetorical ground to justify a “banal” sense of patriotism that slips into the “ordinary yet honorable” fervor of militant nationalism, while effectively evading its moral/ethical reflexivity.     

Asian Martial Arts: The Anarchic Legacy of the War Machine

Abstract

The renaissance of Asian martial arts is a conspicuous example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. Globalization brings these arts under the dual sway of cinema and sport to a degree unprecedented in their history. This pull, which I describe in terms from Deleuze and Guattari as deterritorialization, creates new challenges for Asian martial arts practice. To explore these challenges and their stakes, I demonstrate the relevance of the concept of the war machine from Deleuze and Guattari, and discuss their distinction between weapons and tools as it bears on Asian martial arts history and practice.     

中苏论战对毛泽东转变世界战争认识的影响--从"世界大战可以避免"到"世界大战不可避免"的观点变化

20世纪60年代后,毛泽东改变了原先“世界大战可以避免或推迟”的判断,突出地强调战争爆发的危险性,从而对中国的建设走向产生极大的影响。毛泽东这一判断变化的过程,与中苏两党关系的演变有着密切的关系。中苏两党从产生分歧、摩擦到公开论战,在一系列问题上形成对立,其中包括关于战争与和平问题的认识。中苏论战产生的影响是多层面的。从中苏论战的影响这一大背景,厘清毛泽东改变判断的原因,有助于更准确和更科学地作出历史的评价。毛泽东形成“战争不可避免”的观点以及对战争的高度警觉,决不是其个人主观意志的产物,而是在特定时代背景影响下、特殊历史事件作用下的结果。     

浅议抗日战争时期广西土产的损失

在整个抗日战争中，日军两次进犯广西，给广西人民财产造成重大损失。笔者以广西土产为例分析了它在抗战中的损失，认为抗日战争给广西带来的影响是深远的，损失是全方位的。包括沦陷时所遭的破坏损失。也包括未沦陷时给土产带来的损失，以及战争带来的间接损失与影响。     

孙膑对孙子兵学的贡献

孙膑是继孙子后战国时期的著名军事家,有兵书《孙膑兵法》传世。《孙子兵法》所反映的战争理论带有明显的战国色彩,孙膑是孙武兵学的宗室传人。同时,孙膑又是一名杰出的战将,在历史上留下了诸多运用兵法的典型战例,在丰富作战经历基础上总结而成的《孙膑兵法》,在战争观问题、战略战术问题、治军建军问题上都对孙子兵法有所继承和发展,孙膑对于孙子兵法的丰富和发展有着显著的贡献。     

孔子、老子的战争观与方法论之比较

孔子是儒学的创始人,老子是道学的创始人,两人都是中国文明发展史上的杰出人物。孔子和老子都生活在战事频繁的春秋时期,他们的传世著作或言论中不乏对战争和军事问题的探究。两人在战争观上有相同观点:反对暴力,拥护正义战争,主张““慎战““。但在方法论上侧重点有所不同:作为教育家的孔子提倡““教战““的思想;作为哲学家的老子通过对历史上兴亡更替的深刻考察,就军事辩证思维、战略战术等方面提出了自己的““兵道““思想。     

企业家与微分学

1997年经济日报的一篇报道“彩电价格战”蕴含了微分学在经济领域的应用,作为一名企业家不但应知道经济学的有关知识还应学习微分学。     

信仰与现实间的选择——第二次世界大战期间的英国和平主义者

不惜代价地追求和平 ,是 30年代英国一种普遍的社会思潮。战争的爆发 ,标志着轰轰烈烈的和平主义运动的失败。面对着信仰与现实的冲突 ,和平主义者陷入了两难选择之中。他们修正了自己的立场 ,不再妨碍国家的战争努力 ,同时继续探索和实践实现理想目标的途径和方法。他们的乌托邦理想 ,与社会实际脱节 ,结果 ,不是和平主义者改造了现实 ,而是现实改造了和平主义者