矿山史的文学书写——读武翔《红颜绿煤》

《红颜绿煤》进退得宜,收放有度,既有时间线索,又不平铺直叙,插叙补叙间出,前后跳荡,摇曳多姿。作家具有非凡的驾驭大场面的能力。作品中的主要人物几乎都有着富于传奇色彩的经历,这不仅是结撰故事的需要,也反映出那些兵荒马乱、动荡不安的年月里,命运的不可捉摸、不可把握,从而饱含着历史的沧桑。作品对历史人物、历史事件没有做简单化的处理,多处表现了对传统的历史叙述的解构。作家秉承着古代叙事文学的优秀传统,善于在激烈的矛盾;中突中刻画人物性格。主要人物个性鲜明,特别是女性群像光彩照人。     

Does mother’s employment conflict with child development? Multilevel analysis of British mothers born in 1958

Does maternal employment, while children are very young, affect their development? We link cognitive and behavioral scores of school-aged children to mothers’ employment during preschool years using virtually unique data for two generations in the 1958 British birth cohort. Our multivariate, multilevel model controls for mothers’ own cognitive and behavioral scores in childhood. Results are mixed and minor, confirming other British studies at mid-childhood. Reading is, significantly, slightly poorer where less educated mothers work in the child’s first year of life. We found few other interactions with employment but did detect intergenerational transmission of behavioral and cognitive characteristics.     

Is giving or receiving psychologically beneficial to older mothers in South Korea? Importance of marital status

In order to understand intergenerational financial transfers and subjective well-being for older mothers, this study argues that marital status is an important factor to be considered. Using the first wave of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), this study finds that married older mothers report higher levels of life satisfaction when they provide economic support but widowed older mothers feel higher levels of life satisfaction when they receive economic support. Also, regular or irregular financial support appears to also matter in the associations between financial support and life satisfaction. These findings suggest that married and widowed older mothers have different viewpoints about the parent-children relationship.     

Through the Ages: Developing Relationships Between the Young and the Old

This article evaluates a program between students at a primary school and aged care residents. The aim of the program was to increase respect and appreciation between the groups. Visiting programs between children and the elderly are well documented, and assumes that the contact will benefit both groups. However the research is contradictory. To ensure that this program was achieving its goals, pre-post test data using the Children’s Perceptions of Aging and Elderly test was collected. Significant improvements in attitude were seen in two items. Overall, there was an improvement in attitude in 12 of the 18 instrument items.     

缓和与1973年中东战争的爆发

缓和是冷战时期的特定阶段,美苏对缓和的认知影响了双方在中东地区的政策及解决中东危机的进程。1973年中东战争的爆发,既与美苏对缓和的认知与推动有关,也离不开埃及对缓和的追求。美苏缓和虽缓解了彼此间的紧张关系,但由于美苏对缓和的追求漠视了埃及的缓和努力与阿拉伯国家对被占领土的诉求,这成为促发战争爆发的外源性因素。美苏缓和对阿以僵局的维持,埃及缓和外交的失败与以色列的强硬立场,使萨达特放弃了外交努力而发动了斋月战争。     

Social time preference revisited

The article reconsiders the implications of the choice of pure social time preference for intergenerational equity in the presence of a time-consistent utilitarian social welfare criterion. The analytic framework is a setting with overlapping generations, lifetime uncertainty, population growth and technical progress. The analysis identifies upper and lower bounds for the feasible range of social discount rates and draws a corresponding distinction between “gerontocratic” and “Stalinist” optimal plans. The paper corrects a number of inaccurate propositions in a related earlier contribution by Marini and Scaramozzino (2000) to this journal.

中国文化现代化的矛盾冲突

中国在追求现代化的过程中,从一开始就遇到了文化普遍性与文化特殊性之间的矛盾冲突。这种矛盾冲突表现为全球化的体验与本土化的抗争、同质化的隐忧与文化安全意识的觉醒、文化结构的等级化与去中心化、文化价值的蔓延与冲突的普遍化等形式。     

家庭结构对老年人代际支持的影响研究

本文利用中国老年健康影响因素跟踪调查（CLHLS）项目2008年的数据,分析了家庭结构的变迁（表现为居住安排与子女数量两方面）对老年人所获得的来自子女的代际支持的影响。研究结论显示,是否与子女同住会影响老年人获得的经济支持、情感支持与照料支持,而子女数量对代际支持的获得有正向作用。     

社会多元化转型期隐私权与知情权关系研究

当代中国,社会的思维方式、行为方式、评价模式发生着深刻变化,并具体对隐私权与知情权的发展扩展产生重要影响。今天,隐私权与知情权冲突问题日益突出,冲突本质在于两者在价值与利益问题上的紧张关系,并具体展现为公法领域冲突与私法领域冲突两大方面。为化解权利冲突,应明确人格尊严与自由、社会政治与公共利益的基本冲突协调原则,构建包括认定、确立、调整、评价四个层次的完整冲突协调体系。     

Exit, Voice, Loyalty in Transition: A Theoretical Framework

On the grounds of borrowing and reforming Hirschman’s terminology, ‘exit, voice, loyalty’, we show both a conceptual and a methodological framework that can be used to raise questions in transitology studies. These issues include the following points: are there any models being developed concerning the transition countries?; are there any similar models in Western Europe?; is there any convergence between the models of both Eastern and Western Europe? If the answer to the last issue is yes, then in which areas? Or if it is a no, is it true that a special economic, social and also political system is developing in Eastern Europe? Another issue concerns how strong the growth potential of the different models is. It also examines which are the successful models and which are not, and what is the role of the economic and political elite in the development of these models. This study includes only the theoretical framework.