The League of Nations,Minorities, and Post‐Imperial Turkey

The Minority Treaties that were signed at the end of First World War were not only instrumental in establishing the status of minorities in their respective countries but also significant in terms of their impact on nation‐building processes. Through focusing on the post‐Ottoman lands, and specifically on Turkey, this paper examines the tension between the goals of the Allied Powers and the League of Nations, and those of the nationalist political elites in the newly‐created national states.     

民族高等院校大学生思想政治工作面临的问题及其对策

新时期民族高等院校思想政治工作面临着新形势、新情况和新问题。主要问题有 :一是学生中存在讲功利、图实惠现象 ;二是对邓小平理论学习的重大意义认识不足 ,存在思想模糊不清现象 ;三是学生中存在个人价值目标与社会价值目标割裂现象 ;四是学生因学习、生活和就业压力而产生的问题。主要对策有 :一是要提高思想政治工作队伍的整体素质 ;二是结合少数民族大学生的思想实际 ,以邓小平理论课和“两课”为主渠道进行理想信念教育 ;三是把思想政治教育融于学生管理工作全过程 ;四是以大学生心理指导工作促进思想政治教育工作 ;五是民族高等院校的思想政治工作要充分利用网络教育阵地。     

内蒙古牧区亲属制度变迁研究

半个多世纪以来,内蒙古蒙古族亲属制度经历了重大的变迁,其主要表现是蒙古族亲属称谓、范畴及其社会文化意义发生了明显的变革。这种变迁有多方面的原因,其中最主要的是受汉文化和解放以来各种政治变革以及社会结构重组过程的影响。     

如意钟与真空消失模铸造工艺

我国是钟的发源地之一，具有独特的钟文化背景和先进的制造技术，本文主要介绍辽代钟和真空消失模铸造技术（EPC）制造辽代如意钟的工艺特点。     

A discourse of civilization/culture and nation/ethnicity from the perspective of inner Mongolia,China

After tracking the Chinese historical trajectory on the discursive relationship between Chinese civilization and the northern nomadic group, this paper examines the official discursive construction of the ‘civilization’ and ‘culture’ of ethnic minorities in contemporary China. Through the analysis of the Grassland Culture Research Project (caoyuanwenhua yanjiu xiangmu), an official project conducted in China in recent decades in response to the emergence of nomadic civilization studies as a distinct academic field, this article aims to show the way in which the concepts of civilization and culture are utilized in order to correspond to the official discourse of nation state and ethnicity in China, and the process by which Mongolian culture is thereby transformed. Civilization as a larger body supposed to include cultures was/is entitled to Chinese nation (zhonghua minzu), and a culture (wenhua) of a certain ethnic minority could only be a part of the Chinese civilization in Chinese academia today. ‘Grassland culture ’ is defined as a culture that is static, ahistorical, and therefore has to be reframed within the larger system of Chinese civilization. The concept of ‘grassland culture’ seems to be based more on the particular territory, rather than on the types of culture that have created and are owned by different ethnic groups. Therefore, it might be concluded that the project emphasized the geo-body of the Chinese nation state in order to retain the culture within the territory of China.     

Engagements with the Past and Armenians' Settlement Journeys in Canada

Examinations of migrants’ experiences have traditionally been confined to host country experiences. More recent studies consider the homeland-hostland relationship as a dynamic one, while also paying attention to the impact of events that happen outside these two landscapes. This article seeks to build on these latter works by considering the homeland-hostland connection from a different angle and argues that, when it happens, the post-migration discovery of homeland communal and personal histories results in salient personal transformations. Moreover, these hostland experiences are largely facilitated by encounters with the larger ethnic community. The examination draws upon data collected on Armenian migrants from Turkey to Canada.