金庸武侠小说“侠客”形象之异变

金庸武侠小说研究成为时下的热门课题，在其十五部作品中，从陈家洛、郭靖到萧峰，再到令狐冲、杨过，最后通过韦小宝，展示了金庸武侠小说中“侠客”的形象在不断地发生着变化———从“侠之正”到“侠之变”再到最后的“侠之反”。     

Automobile prices and protection: The U.S.-Japan trade restraint

We examine the effects of the U.S.-Japan trade restraint on automobile prices and quality upgrading, for both Japanese imports and American small cars. From April 1981 to April 1984 the suggested retail price of all Japanese models increased by 15.8 percent, or 5.3 percent per year. We find that nearly the entire amount of this rise can be explained by the upgrading of individual models. This upgrading may benefit consumers who would purchase a luxury import in any case, but harms those who desire the basic imports. In addition to upgrading, we conclude that a second cost of the trade restraint has been to prevent the yen depreciation from being passed onto American consumers, in terms of lower imported auto prices. For U.S. small cars we find a 9.1 percent rise in the suggested retail price, or 3 percent per year, with a fraction of this amount due to model upgrading. If the yen depreciation had led to lower import prices without the trade restraint, then we expect that U.S. auto prices would have been lower, too.     

雪夜森林边的思考——罗伯特·弗罗斯特诗歌思想管窥

罗伯特·弗罗斯特作为二十世纪美国最伟大的诗人之一,其思想和观点在其诗歌艺术创作之中表现出来.本文仅以其诗歌来窥视其观点和思想,为进一步的了解和研究弗罗斯特提供些许研究素材和浅薄的理论认识.     

Evaluating a private foundation's health program

Public policy decisions in health are increasingly difficult and expensive. Although there will never be enough information available, private foundations can help to bridge the most important gaps in knowledge. Larger foundations may also wish to respond to those who doubt the value of foundation activities. This article reviews the experiences over the past eight years of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in employing evaluation and related social research procedures in the planning and implementation of a major philanthropic effort to improve the health and medical care of Americans. Discussed are the still evolving Foundation evaluation framework, the unanticipated problems in undertaking specific evaluations, and the substantive findings of some of the studies.     

生态视阈下的《怀河河畔》赏析

《怀河河畔》(The Banks of Wye)由著名的“鞋匠诗人”“农民诗人”罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德撰写,记录了诗人1807年于怀河河畔为期十日的旅程。通过描绘诗化的美景展现出怀河附近的风土人情,以及依怀河而居的农民在圈地运动前后的日常生活变化,表达诗人对资产阶级侵占农民土地这一暴行的批判和对农民阶层的同情。从作品内容出发,结合威廉·华兹华斯的著作《丁登寺》,在生态批评角度下,寻找圈地运动对怀河河畔居民的生活环境等方面的影响。     

Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening

Abstract

This article argues that the neo-Gramscian theory of hegemony is not as useful in explaining the rise and consolidation of the modern world system. In particular, while the force-consensus approach may indeed be relevant in examining relations among the Western countries, it is fundamentally wanting when applied to the third world. The two main reasons concern the persistent violence against the third world, and the dominance of race and racism as social forces in the production and maintenance of successive world orders. Neo-Gramscian theory needs to be broadened perhaps by paying attention to the relevant thinking in postcolonialism.     

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。     

战争创伤与后战争创伤——海明威与斯通小说对比研究

随着创伤文学在国内外的兴盛,创伤研究成为了一个新兴的文学理论研究方向。罗伯特.斯通与厄纳斯特.海明威分属两个不同时代的作家,在文学创作时针对不同方面的创伤各有所侧重。本文选取了他们各自比较有代表性的作品进行了深入细致的解理。首先分析各人作品中主人公不同的创伤遭遇,继而进行全面的梳理和对比研究,展示以迷惘为标志的海明威式"战争创伤"到以恐惧为主导的斯通式"后战争创伤"的阶段演进过程。最后从已得出的结论中,一窥两位大家的创伤文学创作与个人的成长经历间千丝万缕的联系,并挖掘出其心理状态和创作意图。     

On the mode of administering a questionnaire and responses to open-ended items

Concurrently administered personal and telephone surveys are compared to measure differences between the modes for identical questions. Speed of questioning is found to be greater in telephone interviews than personal interviews. The faster pace of telephone interviews is linked to shorter answers to open-ended items on the telephone. The tendency to reduce such responses is disproportionately exhibited by younger, affluent respondents who tend to provide detailed responses in personal interviews.     

理解毛泽东:一种结构主义的尝试——从阿尔都塞的《保卫马克思》谈起

深化毛泽东哲学思想研究,既要重视对其历史实践的把握、对其理论文本的阅读,还必须为这一研究领域引入新的理论范式。阿尔都塞从其结构主义的马克思主义出发,为我们提供了关于毛泽东的辩证法作品———《矛盾论》的一种"尝试性"理解。尽管这一尝试最终的理论成果不过是一种结构主义的"幻象",但其为毛泽东研究领域引入新的理论分析模式的尝试却是不无借鉴意义的。