Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies: An Introduction

This is the Introduction to the special issue entitled "The Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies.”     

飞行时间太赫兹断层成像

介绍了利用超短激光脉冲的高分辨飞行时间太赫兹断层成像的发展。其基本原理是,首先非线性光学晶体获得的宽带太赫兹脉冲进入到样品,随后检测每一层反射回来的回波脉冲。利用高斯窗口的去卷积过程我们可以获得清晰、高分辨的断层成像谱图。与聚四氟乙烯薄膜机械厚度测量的结果比较,如果一个样品的折射率为n,则轴向分辨率低于10/nμm。     

Star Architects,Urban Spectacles,and Global Brands: Exploring the Case of the Tokyo Olympics 2020

Olympic stadia are often regarded as political showcases stemming from a range of influences: the host nation's international politics, the interests of transnational capitalism, site‐specific meanings, and the power of iconic architecture. By examining the 2020 Tokyo Olympic main stadium as a case study, this article analyzes the controversial Zaha Hadid Tokyo stadium design in relation to the Japanese national branding initiative. The article argues that branding should be seen as part of an economic and cultural system that seems to enhance the global value of iconic architects and their buildings. Yet the power of brands can be understood as contingent. Their ambivalent nature entails a tension between exclusiveness and banality; additionally, branded architects may find it difficult to work across the different regimes of global and local politics, and they are of course also constrained by the logic of neoliberal transnational capitalism. By investigating a major global branded architect, Zaha Hadid, the article considers why a new image of Japan could not be adequately created by Hadid's aesthetics and narratives of the Olympic stadium, which could have been regarded as a national cultural legacy. The article then discusses the contested processes of image‐making and narrative creation in relation to the representation of Japan in contemporary Olympic culture. The article concludes with an examination of Kengo Kuma's architecture language in his 2020 Tokyo Olympics stadium design.     

日记(英文)

我们中的许多人都曾有过这样的经历——背起行囊.远赴重洋.去学习、去工作.去闯出自己的一片天。在与亲人朋友们相隔千里之外的陌生土地上.尝试去享受一种自由与寂寞同在的生活……"日记".作为本刊开设的新栏目,将与您分享一些读者朋友们的海外经历。     

中日实学的交流:新井白石与朱之瑜

新井白石曾求学于儒学学者木下顺庵,而木下顺庵与浙江余姚的朱之瑜有交流,新井白石因顺庵举荐,曾出仕德川纲丰的甲府藩,白石一生著述甚丰,其语言学著作有<东雅>、<同文通考>、<东音谱>等书,<东雅>是一部关于古语名词语源的辞典.白石不仅关注一种语言内部的诸种变化,更注意到了多种语言间的相互影响.白石的研究语言的方法,一方面是木下顺庵那种广泛涉猎文献的实证学风的继承,另一方面也是吸收中国明代学术成果的结晶.朱之瑜在日本住了23年,白石著作中多处引用了朱之瑜的话,新井白石与朱之瑜的学问交流,对东亚各国的实学文化的比较研究具有一定的意义.     

The spatial separation of the poor in Canadian cities

We used the 1991 Canadian census to examine the extent of spatial separation of the poor in Canadian cities. Although there were no extensive areas of blight, decay, or housing abandonment, we found high spatial separation of poor visible minorities in the selected cities. The index of dissimilarity indicates high segregation of poor blacks and moderate separation of poor Asians from the nonpoor population. We tested the effects of three major structural factors--racial and ethnic segregation, income segregation, and urban redevelopment--and found that racial and ethnic residential patterns are related strongly to the spatial separation of poor persons. The relationship between income segregation and spatial separation of the poor is not significant, however. We also found that the relationship between urban redevelopment and spatial separation of the poor pertains only to blacks. These findings suggest that blacks are vulnerable in the process of urban redevelopment.     

研究能力与环境的评价模型

知识科学已经产生了研究成果,如知识转化理论、知识系统化方法和知识创造力开发方法.预计近期研究者将在重大自然科学领域,在现有知识科学的协助下,获得创造性的理论研究成果.为此,必须建立一个"Ba"或者一种情境,它可以支持科学知识创新的发展和实践.文章在i系统和三重螺旋模型的基础上,提出一个研究能力和研究环境的一览表,旨在设计和评价学术团体技术创新的"Ba".文章采用调查问卷形式,对象是知识和信息科学研究领域的研究生的研究能力及其环境.文章运用模糊对应分析方法进行数据分析,并向管理人员提供有益的数据解释和说明.     

Economic Changes in Canadian Neighborhoods

Population Research and Policy Review - In this paper, we addressed three questions. First, how transient are poorneighborhoods? Second, is the distribution of different racial and ethnicgroups...     

Between the state and global civil society: non‐official experts and their network in the Asia‐Pacific, 1925–45

This article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its ‘expert knowledge’. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia‐Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state‐centred and North Atlantic‐centred dominant structure of international politics, and became ‘global’. In this article I argue that this particular network largely reinforced the dominant structure. This meant that it remained inter‐national and colonial, and served the interests of the state/empire, neither becoming global nor advancing a universalist cause for the global civil society. The failure owes a lot to historical circumstances. Yet this case study also demonstrates that the structure in which the expert network produced specific knowledge is still dominant and that a constant scrutiny of the role of an expert network remains critical.     

Migration among East and Southeast Asian Economies

Conventional studies focus on why migration occurs between a particular pair of places. Our study asks a different question: what characteristics of the origin and destination places can explain migration flows between any two places in a region. Our study explores how economic, political, and geographic factors influence bilateral migration flows within a region in which various countries are increasingly being integrated into the regional as well as into the global economy. Drawing from diverse data sources, we explore migration flows among various economies in East and Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2005 and 2005 and 2010. Our analyses yielded two major findings. First, the relationship between economic factors and the volume of migration flows depends on the overall economy in the region. Second, the findings reveal a consistently robust and significant relationship between geographic proximity and migration flow. Implications of these findings are discussed.