THE IMMORTAL COSMOPOLITAN

The 1990s, internationally co-produced, television series Highlander was an early, successful example of everyday television produced under the pressures of negotiating the dictates of internationally conceived agreements concerning culture, representation, finance, and circulation. This essay parallels an institutional analysis of the series with a textual analysis of its fictive world and characters to examine the series’ attempts to elide the structural conditions and textual constraints underwriting its existence. To do so, the essay teases out the intricacies and implications of a new take on the colonial-era fantasy of cosmopolitan existence embraced by the series and embodied by the program's hero. It argues that this immortal cosmopolitanism offers a means for understanding the series as characteristic of transformations in the practice of transnational television production and circulation as a response to the globalization of neo-liberal economies. The machinations behind what gets displayed on screens around the world reveal a great deal about the substance of the global circulation of culture. At the same time, the text itself negotiated the pressures of attempting to appear constantly local and amenable as it traveled around the world. Highlander is significant for the specific ways in which it negotiated these pressures, revealing something of an allegorical take on its own existence as it imagined a hero that was relevant and interesting to globally-dispersed audiences in the 1990s: the immortal cosmopolitan.     

常州市失地女性的非农就业状况调查

随着城市化进程加快,大量农用土地变为非农用地,依附于土地之上的农民失去土地,陷于失地、失业的境地.其中的女性失地者更是面临着就业难的困境,自身的经济独立和人格独立难以实现,成为新的弱势群体.常州失地女性自身人力资本不高和就业层次低,在城市化的大背景下失地女性实现非农就业十分迫切;要从宏观政策和微观操作两个层面着手来提高失地女性非农就业的实效性.     

信息传递与中国传统官僚的政治心理——以马戛尔尼访华为中心

本文从信息传递的角度对马戛尔尼访华事件进行重新的解读,认为这一历史事件之所以呈现如此的面貌,与双方信息传递的效率和准确性有关,中英双方在信息传递的过程中均存在模糊、欺骗和不及时等问题。就中方信息传递的过程而言,这些问题的出现与中国传统官僚的政治心理密切相关,中国传统官僚在忠君和明哲保身思想的双重考虑下,往往会故意或不故意对信息的内容进行改动。这些改动既是历史事件的主要内容,同时也是重要的决定因素。     

失业与就业:一个世界性的难题

在世界经济日益一体化的今天，综观全球，人们会惊奇地发现，失业———这一伴随资本主义生产方式和市场经济的产生而出现的社会现象，已经成为一个困扰许多国家经济和社会发展的严重问题。从西欧到东欧，从北美到南美，从发达国家到发展中国家，失业与就业成为人们关注的焦点，“创造就业机会”、“制定反失业对策”成为各国经济政策的首要目标。可以毫不夸张地说，当今世界几乎所有的国家，都不得不面对失业与就业这一世界性的难题。本文试图从宏观的角度，对世界各国不同类型的失业，以及主要资本主义国家治理失业与贫困问题的社会政策，进行分析与考察，从中总结出一些带有普遍性规律性的问题，为我国实施再就业工程提供决策思路和有益借鉴     

大学毕业生搜集就业信息的原则和方法

就业信息搜集是大学生择业的第一步 ,它直接关系到择业最终能否实现。搜集就业信息的关键在于遵循正确的原则与掌握适当的方法。毕业生在搜集就业信息时 ,只要按照准确真实、适用针对、系统连续与计划条理原则 ,采用地毯式访问、连锁介绍、中心开花和供需见面等方法 ,就一定能获取大量有益的就业信息 ,为顺利实现就业打下良好的基础。     

供给因素、结构变化、汇率与中国的机电产品贸易

基于考虑供给因素、结构变化的出口决定模型,采用两方程方法研究了外国GDP、中国GDP、结构变化、汇率与中国机电产品贸易之间的关系。研究表明：供给因素、结构变化对中国机电产品贸易有重要影响,供给因素对中国机电产品贸易的影响存在不对称性,结构变化对中国机电产品贸易的影响基本对称,汇率对中国机电产品贸易的影响存在不对称性。     

Directional mixture models and optimal estimation of the mixing density

The authors develop consistent nonparametric estimation techniques for the directional mixing density. Classical spherical harmonics are used to adapt Euclidean techniques to this directional environment. Minimax rates of convergence are obtained for rotation ally invariant densities verifying various smoothness conditions. It is found that the differences in smoothness between the Laplace, the Gaussian and the von Mises‐Fisher distributions lead to contrasting inferential conclusions.     

金融海啸背景下我国经管类毕业生的就业形势分析

文章首先就金融海啸对当前中国各行业的冲击进行分析，进而探析本次金融海啸对我国高校经管类毕业生的就业影响。在此基础上，提出现阶段我国高校毕业生就业工作的相应对策。     

论1954年宪法的时代特征——纪念新中国第一部宪法诞生

1954年制定的《中华人民共和国宪法》是新中国第一部正式宪法,它上承1949年《中华人民共和国政治协商会议共同纲领》,下启1982年宪法。这部宪法有其独特的时代特点,它是毛泽东宪法思想影响下的宪法,过渡时期的宪法,以《中华人民共和国政治协商会议共同纲领》为基础和发展的宪法,基本权利单列成章和其后置的宪法,全民大讨论的宪法。准确认识和把握中华人民共和国首部宪法的特点,对理解我国现行宪法体制、树立宪政文化意识、普及宪法知识是有所裨益的。     

Parental choice and the rural primary school: Lifestyle,locality and loyalty

This paper discusses the geography of parental choice in a rural locale and shows how a group of parents negotiated their way through the process of primary school choice. Using ethnographic data collected through interviews and observations with parents and staff from three rural primary schools in England, the research utilises Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus and field to show how the resources and values the parents held affected the school choices they made. The paper demonstrates that the longer-term resident local parents were influenced not only by their cultural capital but also by familial ties and an emotional commitment to the rural locale and these parents were therefore more inclined to support their local school. In contrast, the more recent newcomer parents used their cultural capital and spatial power to shop around to find what they believed to be the ‘right’ school. The paper argues that the newcomer parents had less allegiance to place and hence to the symbolic position that the school holds within the rural community within which they lived.