Making Space for the Maid

Chinese television dramas over the past decades have seen the rise and decline of various narratives, but no other narratives speak to the emerging urban middle class's fear and anxiety more palpably than the stories of the maid. However, despite the growing popularity of the maid stories among urban viewers, most of these stories do not resonate with domestic workers themselves. How do we make sense of the growing popularity of the maid stories among urban viewers? And how do we account for the differentiated capacity to resonate and identify with the characters among viewers? These are important questions to consider if one is to understand the new cultural politics of power and social formations in post-Mao China. In this paper, I explore some of the crucial ways in which a controlling gaze is facilitated and naturalised by the visualisation of place and space in these dramas. Then, through both critical analyses and engaged ethnography, I demonstrate how two sets of controlling gaze—everyday and televisual—reinforce and justify each other. Finally, I advance the concept of “peripheral vision,” which, I show, denies the modernist “master” narrative of the city and, instead, empowers the subaltern figure with an epistemological position of “eye-witness” and anthropologist of the city.     

审议制在欧盟食品安全监管中的运用

对于国务院的改革，杜钢建教授提出了专家参与的审议制。但是从理论到实践，我们需要考虑的是对于这个由杜钢建教授提出的政府内部专家、专业领域专家和代表民意专家参与的审议制该如何制度化，又该如何在实践中运用。对此，欧盟食品安全监管中的专家参与给我们提供了可资借鉴的经验，尤其是在疯牛病危机中它所经历的教训和由此进行的改革更是值得我们参考。     

老庄艺术技巧论

老庄哲学本意并非论艺术技巧,而是论"道"。"道"是他们为实现现实生活中不能实现的自由而找到的一种实现精神自由的方式。先秦学术文、史、哲不分,老庄的艺术技巧理论就融汇于其道学思想,其本体是其哲学范畴之"道"向艺术层面的演化。老庄没有直接论艺术技巧,但其道学处处展示着如何实现自由的技巧和方法,对文艺创作技巧产生直接影响,甚至相通。"道"之"无"的特性揭示了艺术技巧的本质与表现形态;通过无目的而达到目的技术创造论阐发了艺术创作主体理论,触及了艺术技巧的实质;"道"的社会实践性理论阐发了艺术技巧的社会实践基础,并论述了背道的艺术技巧反面存在。因此老庄的"道"技论也就演变成了艺术技巧论。     

试论在西夏的藏传佛教僧人及其地位、作用

12-13世纪初,藏传佛教噶举派、萨迦派僧人纷纷到西夏传法,使藏传佛教当时流行的主要密法传播到西夏并形成一定规模。西夏政府亦对藏传佛教显示出极高的热情,给予吐蕃僧人以很高的待遇,并在法律上享有诸多特权。藏传佛教僧人在西夏除了传法译经外,还在政府机构中担任职务、在外交活动中充当使臣等,对加强吐蕃民族与西夏境内各民族间的相互了解和联系有着积极的意义。     

对赫哲族聚居区"十五"期间经济和社会发展的调查分析

本文作者在"十五"期间深入赫哲族聚居区,对赫哲族人民在"十五"期间经济和社会生活各方面所取得的成就进行了调查和分析,向我们展示了赫哲族在"十五"期间全面建设小康社会取得的新成就.     

高梁──苏丹草杂交种干物质积累分配及光合性能的研究

研究表量，高粱—苏丹草杂交种的单株生物量高，其干物质积累量高于甜高粱杂交种和粒用高粱杂交种．各器官的干物质积累量以分蘖茎为最高．并且增长迅速．主茎和分蘖茎的干物质分配率在生育后期无负值．高粱—苏丹草杂交种获得较高生物量的原因是分蘖性强，致使产生较高的ＬＡＩ和ＣＧＲ．     

Optimal Digital Rights Management with Uncertain Piracy

Many firms that sell digital copies of copyrighted materials online face a common dilemma: the use of digital rights management (DRM) to impede pirates can impose restrictions on legitimate use. We introduce a two‐period model in which the use of DRM in the first period affects the probability that a consumer finds a pirated copy in the second period; the threat of legal action reduces consumers’ consumption of pirated copies; and firms choose whether to sell, and at what prices, either strongly or weakly DRM‐protected products, or both. Furthermore, we incorporate the role of uncertainty concerning future levels of piracy. Using a two‐period model with uncertainty, we investigate a firm's optimal DRM strategies and present the optimal pricing strategy as well as product launch strategy under different market conditions. We find that one important characteristic of the optimal strategy is that it is optimal to maintain the same product line configuration strategy for both periods. We also characterize the conditions under which each strategy is optimal.     

异质性视角下中国农村居民减贫效应研究——基于FGT贫困指数的分解新方法

在我国即将完成脱贫攻坚背景下,异质性在居民减贫并防返贫进程中逐渐起到关键作用。本文通过反事实分析法将收入分布变迁分解为均值、方差以及残差三种变化,进而将其引入贫困分解中,对我国农村及区域贫困进行分解。研究表明,引入收入分布变迁贫困分解结果具有稳健性,且农村居民收入增长效应与离散效应存在非对称性,提高收入已不足以弥补收入差距扩大带来的贫困加深效应,而异质效应和离散效应间存在对称性,居民异质性在减贫进程中逐渐起到关键作用。同时从区域视角看,东部区域异质效应减贫效果明显高于增长效应;中部区域增长效应和异质效应均具有显著减贫效果;而西南区域增长效应的减贫效果最显著。     

苏轼南贬儋州经行路线考论

苏轼一生南羁北宦、颠沛流离,其中南贬儋州乃宦迹的最后一站。他于绍圣四年（1097）四月十九日离开惠州,同年七月二日到达儋州;元符三年（1100）六月上旬遇赦北归,建中靖国元年（1101）一月四日到达大庾岭,结束了岭南贬谪生活,回到内地。其间所经行的路线、交游的人物及创作的诗文,班班可考,无不彰显了诗人坎坷的心路历程与丰富的情感内涵。我们通过察考苏轼南贬儋州经行路线,兼及其交游人物与所作诗文,对深化晚年苏轼研究,探讨宋代交通与文学关系研究均不无禆益。     

A Seemingly Unrelated Nonparametric Additive Model with Autoregressive Errors

This article considers a nonparametric additive seemingly unrelated regression model with autoregressive errors, and develops estimation and inference procedures for this model. Our proposed method first estimates the unknown functions by combining polynomial spline series approximations with least squares, and then uses the fitted residuals together with the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty to identify the error structure and estimate the unknown autoregressive coefficients. Based on the polynomial spline series estimator and the fitted error structure, a two-stage local polynomial improved estimator for the unknown functions of the mean is further developed. Our procedure applies a prewhitening transformation of the dependent variable, and also takes into account the contemporaneous correlations across equations. We show that the resulting estimator possesses an oracle property, and is asymptotically more efficient than estimators that neglect the autocorrelation and/or contemporaneous correlations of errors. We investigate the small sample properties of the proposed procedure in a simulation study.