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Denmark held the bicentenary for Hans Christian Andersen on April 20 this year. When I reached Copenhagen in late July, threemonths had passed the grand gala, but the air was still full of memories of the great writer.My first impression of Denmark is tha…  相似文献   

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When green plums were in season, we paid a visit to Longquan, the ancient capital of celadon in China. Dayao Village is where workshops and kilns are located. When we stepped into the village, we saw broken celadon pieces everywhere: they were a raw material for building roads and walls. They shone in the bright sunshine, in perfect harmony with the blue sky, green trees, and clear streams. In the Song Dynasty, there were 48 dragon kilns stretching from the stream up to the top of a mountain near the village. It was a considerably big site of celadon kilns in Longquan. Relics of more than 300 celadon kilns can be seen in Longquan. Celadon is a name for bluish  相似文献   

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Shanghai,situated in the east of China,is a world-known metropolis with the largestpopulation,the most developed economy andthe most advanced technology in China.There have arisen in recent years a modemairport,the new bridge spanning the HuangouRiver,new elevated circuit roads,and thenumber one TV tower in the East...butwhile you are enjoying these wonders that youfeel proud of,you will also acknowledge thatthere is much to be improved in its environment:people need space for outdoor activiies,trees and flowers to please the eyes,fresh air to inhale,healthy water to drink...The environmental picture is grim.On apiece of land of 6,340 square kilometers,Shanghai has a population of 13 million,witha per capita average area of 48 m~2,only 1/3of the per capita area of city residents nationwide.Besides,this limited space is bearinghe weight of China's biggest industrial sys-  相似文献   

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Xin'anjiang is a boom town. During the first Five-Year Plan, hundreds of thousands workers came from all over China to build the Xin'anjiang Power Plant, the first large-size hydraulic in China. They set up their camps at a small ferry village six kilometers down the construction site. That's how the town came  相似文献   

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Financial imagination plays a fundamental, yet ambivalent role in the establishment of hierarchies within and between business schools, and in business life at large. This study examines this process in the ‘middle tier’ of business education: that is, in the social space in which students and instructors understand themselves to occupy a ‘mid-range’ position within an order of excellence and success. Largely articulated through business school rankings, this order strongly relies on the centrality of the financial curriculum, proficiency in which is understood as both a proxy for smartness and a sign of moneymaking capacity. In the ‘middle tier’, this order manifests in the form of an anxiety: an order that, though legitimate, is thought not to be attained, or hardly attainable. The study draws from ethnographic investigation in a ‘middle tier’ business school with attention to how finance is made sense of in relation to an alternative curriculum, and in connection with the aim of ‘making it to the top’. A comparison with a ‘top tier’ business school allows furthering understanding of how the order of business schools relies on the anxiety of finance in order to reproduce an acquiescence to dominant financial imagination.  相似文献   

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Peter Woelert 《Minerva》2013,51(3):341-362
More recent advancements in digital technologies have significantly alleviated the dissemination of new scientific ideas as well as the storing, searching and retrieval of large amounts of published research findings. While not denying the benefits of this novel ‘economy of memory,’ this paper endeavors to shed light on the ways in which the use of digital technologies may be linked to a distortion of the system of formal publications that facilitates the effective dissemination and collaborative building of scientific knowledge. Through combining three different strands of discussion that are often left separate – those pertaining to the cognitive effects of new technological memory systems, those pertaining to citation and publishing practices, and those regarding the effects of formalizing modes of research governance – it is also shown that this distortion is not merely a consequence of technological developments alone. Rather, such a distortion is inseparable from and potentially aggravated by the spreading of increasingly dysfunctional, formalizing research governance mechanisms. It is argued that these mechanisms run the risk of fostering the proliferation of knowledge practices that are characterized by an increasing degree of superficiality as well as the strategic publication of research that is of a decreasing degree of originality. If left unaddressed, this may pose a serious threat to the efficiency and effectiveness of the formal record of scientific knowledge as a tool for the dissemination of original research. By extension, this may in the long run seriously undermine the capacity of the publicly funded research system more generally.  相似文献   

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At the 4th Chinese New Year Lantern Festival held in New Zealand in 2003, the shadow plays staged by a troupe from Xieqiao, Haining, a coastal city in eastern China's Zhejiang province, caused a sensation. At the end of each show, curious crowds flocked to the backstage to peep into the secret of the magic play.  相似文献   

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A new possible methodology for recognizing the nature of gypsum in artworks, in particular for wall paintings, was developed. Calcium sulfate can be an alteration product of the calcium carbonate, or a component used by the Artist himself; the problem of identification of the presence and the nature of gypsum could be found detecting the presence of strontium. This element could be used as a marker since, differently from the alteration form, in mineral gypsum simultaneous presence of calcium and strontium occurs. The correlation between these two elements may be recognized using non-invasive in situ X-ray fluorescence measurements. In the present work, we tested this occurrence in various mineral samples of gypsum and alabaster as well in tempera, fresco and Egyptian paintings. Considering the new possible role of strontium indicating the presence of natural gypsum, we expect to provide a valuable tool for conservation scientists, restorers and art historians.  相似文献   

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How should we write about markets? What responsibilities does this writing bring upon us? This paper offers an immanent critique of ‘market studies’ scholarship, and through this a call to reflection and reformed action. Turning the intellectual framework of market studies upon itself, we come to see its texts as performative and agential. We discuss these qualities and the associated responsibilities via a reading of literature from the domain of ethnography. An auto-ethnographic sketch of market writing allows us to consider the problematic nature of expertise for market studies scholars and the agency and power of our texts. We find a dual moment of performativity from which our texts emerge more powerful than their authors. On this basis we offer a vision of critical interventions embedded in our texts, underpinned by the intellectual axioms of the market studies programme.  相似文献   

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Between 1939 and 1959, the regime led by General Franco pursued a policy of economic self-sufficiency. This policy inflicted great injury on Spanish science and industry, not least in Catalonia, and in its capital, Barcelona. In response, Catalan industry looked to a future made more promising by the advent of nuclear power. This paper describes the innovative role of an industrial body, the Official Chamber of Industry of Barcelona, in catalyzing one the first programmes of teaching and research in nuclear engineering in Spain.  相似文献   

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The essay provides a critical intercultural analysis of the 2008 trial of the “mercenary” Simon Mann, accused of instigating an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. The author argues that Equatorial Guinean President, Teodoro Obiang, tried to turn this trial into a tactical, neocolonial critique of mercenary activities that were allegedly supported by the United Kingdom, Spain, and other Western powers. Unfortunately, he was only partially successful. The growing influence of private security corporations and the suasory power of new military “rescue” tales meant that there were no shortage of defenders of these types of coups. This study demonstrates how certain actions can, at times, be simultaneously characterized as dominant strategies and subaltern tactics.  相似文献   

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Hamblin  Jacob Darwin 《Minerva》2000,38(4):393-423
This work explores the attitudes of American scientists towardsinternational scientific activity, with particular respect to theoceanic sciences, during the three decades after the First WorldWar. In the mid-1950s, the Eisenhower Administration favouredthe thesis that increased international collaboration wouldstrengthen the Free World, ease Cold War tensions, and promotethe growth of science. This essay analyses elements in thatthesis, namely, scientific chauvinism, humanitarianism, andscientific interdependence. The narrative traces these themesthrough key episodes in the history of international cooperationin oceanic science, revealing how this experience shapedstrategies and expectations for cooperative scientific research.  相似文献   

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“I've been to a great number of countriesin the world,but I've seldom seen sucha beautiful and tidy village as Teng Tou,”said Elizabeth Dodswell,the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and the executive of UN Environment Program on 3June,1993,after her inspection of the ecologicalenvironment in Teng Tou village,inFenghua City,Zhejiang province in China.Since then Teng Tou has been carryingthe title of“One of the Top 500 Global EcologicalVillages.”Arranged neatly on both sides of the village,the fields in Teng Tou are square inshape,each occupying 4 mu.Around thefields are straight and flat roads built speciallyfor tractors.Rows of orange trees make up  相似文献   

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Matthew N. Eisler 《Minerva》2013,51(2):225-251
The ambiguous material identity of nanotechnology is a minor mystery of the history of contemporary science. This paper argues that nanotechnology functioned primarily in discourses of social, not physical or biological science, the problematic knowledge at stake concerning the economic value of state-supported basic science. The politics of taxonomy in the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences in the 1990s reveals how scientists invoked the term as one of several competing and equally valid candidates for reframing materials sciences in ways believed consonant with the political tenor of the time. The resulting loss of conceptual clarity in the sociology of science traces ultimately to the struggle to bridge the disjunction between the promissory economy of federal basic science and the industrial economy, manifested in attempts to reconcile the precepts of linearity and interdisciplinarity in changing socio-economic conditions over a half century.  相似文献   

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In recent times there has been a surge in interest on policy instruments to stimulate scientific and engineering research that is of greater consequence, advancing our knowledge in leaps rather than steps and is therefore more “creative” or, in the language of recent reports, “transformative.” Associated with the language of “transformative research” there appears to be much enthusiasm and conviction that the future of research is tied to it. However, there is very little clarity as to what exactly it is and what criteria might be used to design policy instruments to make more of it happen. In this paper, we contribute to the construction of a framework within which some conceptual clarity might be gained. We develop four analogies, or metaphors, that are found in the discourse about “transformative research” and show what they imply for the meaning of the notion and, as a result, both the phenomena that might be associated with it and the levers that would be available to design policy instruments. The analogies serving as theoretical metaphors that we propose, and also document to be present either explicitly or implicitly in the discourse about “transformative research,” are the stock market highlighting risk; the process of evolution and its selection mechanisms; the process of popular culture and the power of “hot” events; and exploration of the frontier of the unknown. No single analogy covers all the relevant issues. Together they help identify a field of phenomena and the potential and challenges “transformative research” presents to policy.  相似文献   

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