开拓性的史观与史识——评范伯群《插图本中国现代通俗文学史》的史学价值

范伯群的新著<插图本中国现代通俗文学史>是按照历史推进的线索和通俗文学发展的周期来建构现代通俗文学史的科学体系的.作者通过图文结合的方式,从中国现代通俗小说的萌发一直写到20世纪40年代雅俗融合的新市民小说,把通俗文学的发展轨迹系统地梳理出来,清晰地勾勒出中国现代通俗文学的流变过程.作者指出知识精英作家是借鉴革新派,通俗文学作家是继承改良派,认为中国文学的现代化的萌芽与小说转型的任务主要是由通俗文学来承担的,并提出了"都市乡土小说"的概念.     

《中国少数民族文艺理论集成》注释误漏举隅

《中国少数民族文艺理论集成》一书的出版填补了我国文艺理论研究史上的不少空白.但由于此书成于众手,错舛之处亦在所难免,按页码顺序从该书中可拣出除刘禹锡部分(刘禹锡部分有另文论之)之外的、有明显误漏的注释十二条,并有翔实的史料可为此举证.     

Reading your Counterpart: The Benefit of Emotion Recognition Accuracy for Effectiveness in Negotiation

Using meta-analysis, we find a consistent positive correlation between emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) and goal-oriented performance. However, this existing research relies primarily on subjective perceptions of performance. The current study tested the impact of ERA on objective performance in a mixed-motive buyer-seller negotiation exercise. Greater recognition of posed facial expressions predicted better objective outcomes for participants from Singapore playing the role of seller, both in terms of creating value and claiming a greater share for themselves. The present study is distinct from past research on the effects of individual differences on negotiation outcomes in that it uses a performance-based test rather than self-reported measure. These results add to evidence for the predictive validity of emotion recognition measures on practical outcomes.

李明《中国近事报道》与礼仪之争

明末清初是中西交流史上一个辉煌的时期,然而礼仪之争使双方的交流陷于停滞,最终东西方都失去了机会:基督教失去了扩大在中国传教的机会,中国失去了向西方学习的机会。李明的《中国近事报道》(A Compleat History of the Emprie of China)是将这场争论推向高潮,并在这场争论中起重要作用的一本著作,所以了解这本书对了解那场著名的争论不无裨益。     

论博学鸿儒《明史》之独特价值

康熙朝的博学鸿儒集体纂成的《明史》初稿,在材料的搜集、编纂体例的设定、史实的考核等方面作了大量的工作,是今《明史》的基础。鸿儒史臣深受清初遗民史家的影响,加之朝廷为修史提供了宽松的环境,能够在一定程度上秉公直书、坚持公论,使初稿有别于其它几稿《明史》,具有独特价值。     

Graphical Presentations of Data Envelopment Analyses: Management Implications from Parallel Axes Representations*

The conversion of multivariate data analysis into information that managers can readily use in their decision making has always been a challenging task. In this paper we provide a parallel axis representation of multivariate data and demonstrate how this representation may be used as a tool for implementing the results of data envelopment analysis. We use an analysis of the efficiency of electricity generating plants to illustrate the technique.     

Faculty Performance Evaluation: Modeling to Improve Personnel Decisions*

Based on likely future changes in faculty evaluation practices, this paper examines how institutions of higher education might operationalize performance evaluation as related to research, teaching, and service. A model is developed that allows coupling performance evaluation and relevant market considerations with merit pay, tenure, and promotion decisions. The approach is specifically applicable to tenure-track faculty members in colleges and universities.     

‘I FELT DEAD’: applying a racial microaggressions framework to Black students’ experiences of Black History Month and Black History*

This paper uses a Critical Race Theory perspective to explain the everyday racisms – racial microaggressions – directed towards students of African and Caribbean descent during a non-statutory Black History unit, at an English secondary school. Applying a racial microaggressions framework to ethnographic data, this paper finds that experiences of studying Black History by students of African and Caribbean descent are dominated by various types of racial microaggressions including: micro-invalidation, micro-insults and micro-assaults. These experiences are symptomatic of wider racist structures and processes within the National Curriculum for History, based upon the ideology of white supremacy. This paper concludes that the racial microaggressions framework allows for useful ways of thinking about the function and purpose of Black History Month and Black History in schools, and its opportunities for exposing wider institutional and ideological underpinnings that legitimate deficit understandings about black people in school classrooms.     

The triggers of local and distant search: Relative magnitude and persistence in explaining acquisition relatedness

Research on problemistic search has assumed negative attainment discrepancy to be the trigger of both local and distant search. Extending this research, we present and compare two additional triggers: (1) relative attainment discrepancy, which reflects how much a firm's attainment discrepancy deviates from its past negative attainment discrepancies; and (2) persistent attainment discrepancy, which reflects how often the firm experiences below-aspirations performance. Our triggers for distant search model a behavioral explanation for the timing and relatedness of acquisitions. We find support for baseline arguments of problemistic search whereby firms increase both industry- and skill-related acquisitions when they perform below aspirations. When they persistently perform below aspirations, however, this likelihood is reduced and firms engage in acquisitions that are more unrelated, thereby providing support for the notion of expanding search boundaries from local to distant search. Of the two triggers of distant search proposed, relative attainment discrepancy does not induce firms to expand search boundaries. Our results indicate that persistent attainment discrepancy is a key construct to consider when studying the expansion of search boundaries.