第一章 母亲河发出的“SOS”序(茅于轼 著名经济学家)人类以传统方式生活了几千年。在此期间寿命、人口数、生活水平都没有什么改进。一直到二三百年前,事情逐渐起了变化。在这二三百年中,平均寿命翻了一番,人口增加了六七倍,人均GDP增加了十多倍。这样的进步是过去几千年所从来没有过的。如果以更长的历史眼光来看,几万年以来,人类的发展几乎是一条水平线,但十八九世纪以来出现了突然的上升。是什么原因造成了这样的变化?我认为是市场制度引起的。市场是以交换为特征的。在这以前也有个别的交换,但始终未能形成制度,因为有皇权的经常性的侵犯,人身权就没有保障,更谈不上财产权和公平竞争。后来由于人权的逐渐被确立,交换成为生活中最普通的事情。这样才有了分工,有了专业化,有了科学技术。人类从此进入了现代文明。...
The Red Acornby John McElroyPrefaceThe name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and borne upon their battle flags. There are few gatherings of men into which one can go to-day without finding some one wearing, as his most cherished ornament, a red acorn, frequently wrought in gold and studded with precious stones,
温州的非法移民有两大怕:警察抓,没活儿干。当我问到在法国什么时候最难受时,每个温州黑移民都会毫不犹豫地回答:没活儿干的时候。没活儿干,没有进项,就会更让人感到债务的沉重和前景的渺茫,无所事事的日子即是痛苦的折磨。在巴黎,两个温州熟人在街上碰到,相互招呼已经全然不是在老家时的"吃了吗?",而是"有做没做?",回答若是"有做",那就会换得称赞:"有做就好,有做就好。"一般不会有人回答"没做",只会以"嬉那,嬉那"来掩饰:温州方言仍然是用古老的汉语"嬉"来表达"玩玩"的意思。对方也会用程式化的"歇歇也好,歇歇也好"来结束这次相逢。不管是在温州小超市、温州餐馆、温州人的家中或者是华人区的街上,我耳朵里总是远远近近地听见"有做没做","有做没做"……在电视机前熬了几天,终于到了"有做"的日子:小老板领回来3000条裙子和五六百条裤子,必须在三四天内加工完。...
在19世纪30年代早期的某个时候,一位名叫威廉鲁塞尔的耶鲁大学生——后来作为成绩最优秀的学生代表耶鲁1833级毕业生致告别词——前往德国游学一年。鲁塞尔出身于一个极为富有的家庭,他的家族操纵着19世纪美国最声名狼藉的商业机构之一——鲁塞尔公司,一个鸦片王国。鲁塞尔后来曾经出任康涅狄格州议会议员、康涅狄格州国民警卫队将军,并且在纽黑文成立了商业学院。在德国的时候,鲁塞尔结识了德国一个暗中为害的地下社团的领导人,并且与其交上了朋友。这个社团以骷髅图形为自己的标记,而这个社团本身是18世纪臭名昭著的组织“光照派”一个邪恶的分支。很快鲁塞尔就迷上了这个组织。当鲁塞尔回到美国后,他发现当时美国国内存在强烈的反共济会气氛,以至于他深爱的大学优等生协会也已经被轻易地剥夺了其秘密状态。他感到十分愤怒,于是召集了自己班上一群最有才华的学生——其中包括阿方索塔夫脱,此人后来历任陆军部长、司法部...
第一部分自序(1)在清朝268年的历史行程中,康熙、雍正、乾隆三朝共134年,恰好占清朝全史的一半。史家把这一历史时期概括为“康乾盛世”。那么,我们是怎样评价的呢?改革开放前,我们的学术研究贯彻“阶级分析法”,自然否定“康乾盛世”,认为是对封建地主阶级的“美化”,也是对封建社会的歌功颂德。一提“盛世”,讳莫如深,视为禁区,没有人去研究它。在改革开放后的二十余年中,康雍乾作为有清一代的一个重要历史时期,逐渐成为学者们研究的热门话题,有关“盛世”的讨论,却存在尖锐的分歧。一种意见认为,如果与明末大乱相比,说康乾盛世也可以。一种意见则认为,如果有“盛世”,也是地主阶级的“盛世”。又有一种说法是,与清以前历代相比,可以把康乾看成为“盛世”,但跟同时期的西方相比,就不能称为“盛世”。这类观点未免有些模糊,也有点“阶级斗争为纲”的味道。更有甚者,断然否定康乾盛世的存在,竟说这个盛世...
A Plea for Captain John Brownby Henry David Thoreau[Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859.]I trust that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish toforce my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as Iknow of Captain Brown, I would fain do my part to correct the toneand the statements of the newspapers, and of my countrymen generally,respecting his character and actions. It costs us nothing to be...
EXTRACTS(Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm ofa poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the longVaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever randomallusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever,sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least,take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, inthese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As.
TWICE-TOLD TALESYOUNG GOODMAN BROWNby Nathaniel HawthorneYOUNG GOODMAN BROWN came forth at sunset, into the street ofSalem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, toexchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wifewas aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, lettingthe wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap, while she called to...
His Own Peopleby Booth TarkingtonI. A Change of LodgingThe glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifiquein Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow greenlight which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tallpalms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing ordisplaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the lookof under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed. They appear,however, to be unaware of their condition; ev
STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS: LONDONFrom ScribnersCONTENTSTHE INCONSIDERATE WAITER, J. M. BarrieTHE BLACK POODLE, F. AnsteyTHAT BRUTE SIMMONS, Arthur MorrisonA ROSE OF THE GHETTO, I. ZangwillAN IDYL OF LONDON, Beatrice HarradenTHE OMNIBUS, "Q" [Quiller-Couch]THE HIRED BABY, Marie CorrelliTHE INCONSIDERATE WAITERBYJ. M. BARRIEFrequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of the man...
好的酒似乎不应该离开好的诗。“清明时节雨纷纷,路上行人欲断魂。借问酒家何处有?牧童遥指杏花村。”提到晚唐诗人杜牧的这首诗,很多有学问的人,都为诗中的“杏花村”究竟在什么地方,吵得不可开交。安徽贵池,湖北麻城,山西汾阳,都为将杏花村归自己所有,说得头头是道。山西人更是明目张胆地在电视上大做广告,活生生把杜牧笔下的杏花村据为己有。有充分的证据,可以证明杜牧的杏花村就在南京。迄今为止,记载杜牧在杏花村沽酒的文献,最早的一条应属宋代《太平寰宇记》,文中有关江宁的一条写道:“杏花村在县理西,相传杜牧之沽酒处。”杏花村的确切地址,应该是在“新桥西信府河、凤凰台一带”,这里在当年不但是风景名胜,而且是文人骚客沽酒的好地方。李白登孙楚酒楼,在凤凰台上饮酒赋诗,这孙楚酒楼和凤凰台都与杏花村毗连。明嘉庆年间编纂的《金陵历代名胜志》,也确证杜牧沽酒处的杏花村在南京无疑,并附诗一首:“江南春雨梦无垠,沽酒旗亭白...
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English verseby Edward FitzgeraldContents:Introduction.First Edition.Fifth Edition.Notes.IntroductionOmar Khayyam,The Astronomer-Poet of Persia.Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half ofour Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our TwelfthCentury. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that...
The Filigree Ballby Anna Katherine GreenCONTENTSBOOK ICHAPTERI "THE MOORE HOUSE?"II I ENTERIII I REMAINIV SIGNED, VERONICAV MASTER AND DOGVI GOSSIPVII SLY WORKVIII SLYER WORKIX JINNYX FRANCIS JEFFREYBOOK IIXI DETAILSXII THRUST AND PARRYX1II CHIEFLY THRUSTXIV "LET US HAVE TALLMAN!"XV WHITE BOW AND PINKXVI AN EGOTIST OF THE FIRST WATERXVII A FRESH STARTXVIII IN THE GRASS...
Chapter the LastA parting glance at such of the actors in this little history asit has not, in the course of its events, dismissed, will bring itto an end.Mr Haredale fled that night. Before pursuit could be begun, indeedbefore Sir John was traced or missed, he had left the kingdom.Repairing straight to a religious establishment, known throughoutEurope for the rigour and severity of its discipline, and for the...