With strings attached: Gift-giving to the International Atomic Energy Agency and US foreign policy

In 1958 the United States of America offered two mobile radioisotope laboratories to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as gifts. For the USA, supplying the IAEA with gifts was not only the cost of “doing business” in the new nuclear international setting of the Cold War, but also indispensable in maintaining authority and keeping the upper hand within the IAEA and in the international regulation of nuclear energy. The transformation of a technoscientific artefact into a diplomatic gift with political strings attached for both giver and receiver, positions the lab qua gift as a critical key that simultaneously unlocks the overlapping histories of international affairs, Cold War diplomacy, and postwar nuclear science. Embracing political epistemology as my primary methodological framework and introducing the gift as a major analytic category, I emphasize the role of material objects in modeling scientific research and training in a way that is dictated by diplomatic negotiations, state power, and international legal arrangements.     

慈善与礼物圈——从拉尔夫·艾里森的《看不见的人》的主题谈起

从美国黑人作家艾里森的小说《看不见的人》慈善的主题出发，运用礼物经济的原理分析小说中诺顿和玛丽等人物对主人公的慈善行为的不同性质，以及慈善概念的不同内涵。     

两种延迟满足实验研究范式的分歧与整合

延迟满足研究在中国刚刚兴起，在概念界定、研究测量范式、理论探讨等方面不可避免地会产生歧义。针对可能发生的这种状况，我们从研究方法的角度对延迟满足研究两种典型的实验研究范式进行了分析比较，并对其结构效度展开了理论与实证两方面的分析与确认。在此基础上，结合延迟满足实验研究的生态效度。还引介了国外为整合两种研究范式而做的尝试工作。旨在使研究对延迟满足研究在理论及方法上有更开阔的视野．进而为确立中国本土化的研究范式提供依据。     

论司马迁的游侠观

司马迁在《史记》中第一次为游侠树碑立传,并对自己的游侠观作了系统阐发。他将游侠的精神特质概括为“侠客之义”,其内涵包括一言九鼎、诚实守信的人格,急人之难、舍生取义的精神和逡逡退让、不居功自傲的品质。同时,他还提出“布衣之侠”、“乡曲之侠”、“闾巷之侠”、“匹夫之侠”、“卿相之侠”等几个不同概念,对游侠进行类别划分,以明确其外廷。司马迁游侠观念中表现出强烈的抒情色彩,表面看来,是对个人身世遭遇的沉痛感慨,实则是其入世心理在强烈冲击下的现世宣泄。思想范畴属于儒家。司马迁游侠观的闻发具有里程碑意义,影响极其深远。分析其游侠观,对于认识游侠现象、游侠文学乃至于我们民族的意识形态均具有重要价值。     

英语语言观及教学观

人脑先天就具有掌握语言的机制,它是一种潜在结构,因而学习英语的过程是一种习惯的养成过程,其间离不 开基本的学习能力及自然而然的学习能力。     

“礼物”——“总体呈现”的典型代表

日常生活中,收礼、送礼、回礼都是习惯性的礼节。长久以来,人们习惯了这个礼节性的活动,习焉不察。而莫斯独辟蹊径,对这些习以为常的礼节性活动进行了诠释,使我们认识到收礼、送礼、回礼并不是随心所欲的,而是一种义务。     

试论国书馆赠与合同

针对图书馆赠与合同的背景、定义、特征、义务和权利结合读者服务活动进行探讨,并通过合同法的法学理论加以分析,认为图书馆赠与合同在读者服务活动和图书馆法制建设中是一种有用的角色.     

Seeking Gifts of Rare Materials: Things to Consider

ABSTRACT

Rare materials collected by individuals, in the past and in our own time, when given to research libraries become important public assets that, as cultural heritage collections, lend distinction to the institutions that receive them and benefit education and scholarship enormously. What motivates collectors to become donors is complex. Institutions seeking such gifts must consider a number of issues and activities when embarking on (or maintaining) an active program seeking gifts-in-kind, including the librarian's personality, development models, institutional realities, challenges (negotiating, tax issues, deeds of gift), headaches (difficult donors, deposits, saying “No”), fulfilling obligations, and de-accessioning gifts.     

邓小平的人才观论析

邓小平坚持以马克思主义的人的全面发展理论为指导，阐述了人才问题对中国改革开放和现代化建设事业的极端重要性，揭示了人才的德与才、贤与能的本质特征，指明了人才的发现、培养、使用的必要条件和现实途径。邓小平的人才观在邓小平理论中占有重要的地位。