“Identity Crisis” and National Security——A Comment on Samuel P. Huntington’s Who Are We?

Post-Cold War realities indicate that the "identity crisis" poses a new challenge to national security. It is against this background that Huntington's new book Who Are We? brings to light the relationship between national security and the "subnational" and "transnational" identities brought about by immigration from the perspective of identity and an examination of the realities of "national identity crisis." Huntington is convinced that the present era is one of "global identity crisis" and that the dual identity, dual loyalty and dual citizenship that come with the American social mosaic created by immigrants intensify the weakening of the sense of "national identity" among America's citizens.     

Personnel Reform in Grassroots Courts

Under present conditions in China, the staffing formula for the number of judges in a court is closely related to the reduction of their numbers, but not to this variable alone. For a particular court, how many judges are needed is decided by two factors: one is the number of cases received in a year; the otheris the number of cases handled by one judge in a year. In a static state,     

Introduction

The Korean War can be said to be the hottest topic in studies of international Cold War history. At least, this is the case in China. More files and documents about the Korean War have been declassified in recent years in different countries than about any other crises and events, providing fertile ground for the mushrooming of numerous research findings in various countries and languages. On the one hand, as the first large-scale     

Introduction: Legal Transplantation in Contemporary China

Putting a socialist legal system in place in China since the 1980s has been a process of "legal transplantation," one which was in fact rooted in the legal reforms of the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). While widely subscribed to in legal scholarship, the farreaching impact of this transplantation has lacked careful theoretical reflection. This     

Tieling,A Big Granary in Liaoning

Tieling, a big granary in the northern part of Liaoning Province, teems with maize, soybean, paddy, etc. and is one of the national four bases in grain production. Its grain yield occupies the one fifth of the total output in Liaoning and the export of grain amounts to the half of the provincial total. Therefore Tieling is famous in China for farm produce.     

Special Issue: Logic and Cognition: The Progress in Logical Study in China

Ever since the late 20~(th) century, the de-velopment of computer science has entered anera of knowledge processing and intelligencesimulation. On the one hand, building logicalsystems to describe the characteristics ofadvanced cognitive process for knowledgerepresentation as well as the processing andexploration of new software has become themainstream of logical research. On the otherhand, the development of mathematical logic,     

An Investigation of De-agriculturalization and Changes in the Position of Rural Women in the Family──The Example of Zhejiang Province

I. IntroductionThe rural areas of Zhejiang province in China are one of the regionswith a higher degree of de-agriculturalization, which roughly correspondsto that in rural areas throughout the country. De-agriculturalization inthese areas has gone through five stages: From 1949 to 1957, which wasthe embryonic stage of rural industry; from 1958 to 1959 was the stage ofthe people's commune industries; from 1959 to 1965 was a period ofreadjustment to non-agricultural enterprises; from 1966 to 1…     

From Equal Rights to Equal Opportunities——The Trajectory of Equity in Education in New China

The course of educational development in New China demonstrates two different strategies for the development of education: the one, the pattern of gradual development frequently seen with the first nations to modernize, first makes compulsory education universal, and then uses it as the foun- dation for an orderly,     

主持人的话（英文）

Industrialization and urbanization are stages that no nation’s economic development can bypass.They should be complementary and coordinated,but since the founding of New China in 1949,including the decades since reform and opening up in 1978,the two have become decoupled.On one hand,as has been widely noted,urbanization has lagged behind industrialization;on the other,people are uneasy about the race to urbanize,and especially about new-type urbanization,fearing that it may lose impetus unless supported     

Trends in Fiction over the Last Two Decades

ICritics use" conflict between civilization and the savage,"discovery and recasting of the national soul," anti-faudalism,"humanism," etc., to describe the main literary currents of the firstdecade of the New Period. By these labels they refer to such trends as"Scars," "Introspection," "Reform" and" Roots." We can actually putthem all under one single heading, "Enlightenment," considering theprevalence of the enlightenment ethos in the 1980s. In fact, all the fourfictional trends from" …     

Persist in Wide Opening Up, Develop Big Industry, Create Big Seaport and Build Big City

Yingkou, an opening coastal city, is one of the 40 advanced cities in China for its construction of investment environment, and also the second largest port in northeast area. The city Party committee and the government will carry on the request by the provincial Party committee and the government. Yingkou will develop big industry, create a big port, build up a big city and try to give an important support to the export-oriented economy of the Liaodong Peninsula. In order to widen the openi…     

A Sociological Report on the Present Conditions of the “New Group of the Unemployed”

The fixed pattern of thought in stud- ies on laid-off workers and unemployment over recent years is that in talking about this problem people tend to refer only to laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises, or at most include those from enterprises that were originally collectively owned. However, there exists in our society another huge group of the unemployed, known as the “new group of the unemployed,” which has received little attention. For the members of this group we lack not only…     

New Upsurge of Opening Up in Jinzhou

Jinzhou will start a new upsurge in opening up to the outside world. Jinzhou will mainly develop the Jinzhou Bay so as to hasten the regional economic development and make new contributions to the whole province. On the one hand, Jinzhou Port will develop into a 100-million-ton port, give more investment to the port and open the market of goods supply wider than before. To the year 2007, the port’s throughput will breakthrough 50 million tons and transportation over 250000 standard- sized c…     

The Error in the Theory of Quantifying Every Variable in Economic Studies:With Transaction Costs as an Example

It should be said that the issue of how to measure transaction cost has existed ever since the day the idea of transaction cost came into being, although the concept was only formally put forward as late as 1960 by Kenneth J. Arrow. According to Ronald Coase, "The main reason why profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism." "The explanation for the existence of enterprises that allocate resources through internal managerial decisions lies in the avoidance of the cost that would be incurred if the transaction was carried out through the market." Obviously, what needs to be done next is to quantify the "cost of making use of the price mechanism."     

Research on the History of the Western Regions:A Retrospective and Prospects

The term "Xiyu" or the "Western Regions" first appeared as thetitle of a chapter in Ban Gu's History of the Han Dynasty (Han shu ),published in the early years of the Eastern Han dynasty. It was defined inthe book as an area "lying to the west of the Xiongnu and south of theWusun peoples; an area flanked by large mountains on its northern andsouthern sides, with a river flowing through its heart; an area measuringmore than six thousand li from west to east and over one thousand lifrom nort…     

明代学者论历史撰述中的“心术”与“公议”

史家品德和史书公正性问题,为历代史家所重视。明代学者从对作史之难的探讨出发,不仅对史家＂心术＂予以特别的关注,并使之逐步成为史学批评的一个术语,同时,他们还认为史书有＂明公议＂的社会功用,而史家有＂持公议＂的社会责任。明代学者的这些论述在一定程度上丰富了前人对史学的认识,同时亦引起后人对史学社会价值的深入思考。

Abstract：

The historian’s morality and the impartiality in the writing of history are widely regarded as im-portant factors in the field of the historiography.Starting from the discussions about the difficulties of com-piling historiography,the scholars in Ming Dynasty have paid special attention to ＂Xinshu＂and gradually make a nomenclature of it in the field of the historical criticism.They also consider that the historical work should be endowed with the public benefit of specifying ＂Gongyi＂,while the historians should be endowed with the social responsibility of holding ＂Gongyi＂.These discussions have enriched the understanding of historiography in the ancient time to a certain extent,and have their significance to the society.Through an elaboration of the discussions of ＂Xinshu＂ and ＂Gongyi＂ of the scholars in Ming Dynasty,an evaluation of the achievement of these discussions in the field of the historical criticism will be made.     

Khmuic Funerals: A Cultural Interpretation

The Khmus, a small ethnic group of about 2, 700 people, arescattering across the two counties of Mengla and Jinghong which lie onthe Chinese-Laotian border. Research reports on this community beganto appear in China in the 1980s. The author conducted seveninvestigations in Mengla County over a span of three years, from August1995 to August 1998. The results of these investigations are presentedbelow. I. The Khmus"Khmu," meaning"man" or" people," is the term used by theKhmu to refer to th…     

An Analysis of Low Public Confi-dence in the Judiciary in Taiwan

Lin Duan pointed out in his paper “Lawand Society in Taiwan” published in Qinghuafazhi lunheng, no. 5, that one of our con-cerns is whether the public have faith in thejudiciary in Taiwan and what the public’sopinion is of legal personnel such as judges,procurators and policemen. Forensic soci-ology has put an end to the “forensic myth.”Through forensic sociological studies we notonly have an understanding of the limitedusefulness of lawsuits but know that law-suits are not necessarily …     

A Study of the "Purge" of the Guomindang in Nanjing in 1927

In order to resist the measures taken by the Wuhan government to weaken their power, the Nationalists in Nanjing represented by Jiang Jieshi began in the spring of 1927 to use underworld forces to indirectly seize party and administrative power in the areas under their control. After repeated consultations with some of the founding members of the Guomindang, Jiang Jieshi, motivated by the desire to establish a separate central organ and to legitimize his own position, launched the so-called "purge" marked by the April Twelfth Massacre. After realizing     

The Partition of the West: International Conditions and the Chinese Mind During the May Fourth Movement

The West" originally referred to the whole or part of a regionalcultural entity. From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the1920s most Chinese scholars saw it as a whole, every "ism" from the Westwas seen as an integral part of this whole, and a specific new and goodwhole at that. 1 It was not until World War I when the Western nationsfought one another that something went wrong with the beautiful blueprint the Chinese had found: the West was dividing, going bankrupt, andwas no…