中华人民共和国和美国的中国学研究:50年

美国的当代中国学研究作为一个领域,大约与中华人民共和国同龄。在第二次世界大战以前,美国曾有几所大学开设研究中国古文的入门课,当时被称作汉学,但是开设中国现代史课的大学却寥寥无几,更不用说讲授当代社会科学了。直到1 949年中国共产党建立政权之后,美国政府、基金会和学术机构才开始重视发展当代中国研究的必要性。在这方面,福特基金会决定出资30 0 0万美元用于建设东亚研究领域起了关键性的促进作用;同样,《国防教育法》决定对学习所谓“重要语言”(包括现代汉语)的学生颁发政府奖学金也对这一领域的发展起了推动作用。然而,中华人…     

Lawrence R. Klein 1920–2013: Notes on the early years

Klein can well be said to have created the field of macroeconometric modeling almost singlehandedly. His international influence started at an early stage. The article offers scattered archive observations on Klein's early years from undergraduate study to the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. Klein was in 1944 recruited by the Cowles Commission in Chicago to construct the first macroeconomic model in the USA, drawing on the experiences of the interwar modeling work of Jan Tinbergen and the new path-breaking econometric methods developed by Trygve Haavelmo. The first Klein model was taken into use at the end of 1945 to shed light on the prospects for the US economy in the transition from war to peace. After two-three years in Chicago Chicago, Klein traveled for a year in Europe and initiated macroeconometric modeling work in Canada, at the University of Michigan, and at Oxford University. This was only the beginning of the lifelong influence exerted on modelers around the globe. The article pays attention to Klein's relation to Paul Samuelson, Jacob Marschak, Trygve Haavelmo, Ragnar Frisch, and others.     

在传统与现代之间徘徊前行——R．K．纳拉扬早期小说解读

R.K.纳拉扬早期创作的三部小说——《斯瓦米和朋友们》、《文学士》和《暗室》,以小镇马尔古蒂为背景,从日常生活、爱情及婚姻等方面揭示了西方现代文明对印度人民思想的影响,传统与现代之间的抗衡,以及印度社会从传统向现代过渡的转型状态。     

解脱与现实——论纳拉扬《萨姆帕特先生》中人物的文化内涵

《萨姆帕特先生》塑造了印度现代知识分子的形象室利尼瓦斯，他在现实生活中的经历及最后退回到个人世界是对印度教人生哲学的阐释，同时，这一人物也体现了印度现代社会的矛盾及知识分子内在的焦虑和无奈。     

Edward Thompson's contribution to eighteenth‐century studies. The patrician‐plebeian model re‐examined

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