Transnational Mathematics and Movements: Shiingshen Chern, Hua Luogeng, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study from World War II to the Cold War

This paper reconstructs,based on American and Chinese primary sources,the visits of Chinese mathematicians Shiing-shen Chern陈省身(Chen Xingshen)and Hua Luogeng华罗庚(Loo-Keng Hua)4 to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in the United States in the 1940s,especially their interactions with Oswald Veblen and Hermann Weyl,two leading mathematicians at the IAS.It argues that Chern’s and Hua’s motivations and choices in regard to their transnational movements between China and the US were more nuanced and multifaceted than what is presented in existing accounts,and that socio-political factors combined with professional-personal ones to shape their decisions.The paper further uses their experiences to demonstrate the importance of transnational scientific interactions for the development of science in China,the US,and elsewhere in the twentieth century.

文献剧的“诗”与“真”——论《奥本海默案件》的创作形态和主题思想

基普哈特的《奥本海默案件》是一部文献剧名作。该剧的情境设计方式独具匠心,剧作第一场戏的内容构成了全剧的核心事件,确定了审讯中的人物关系,同时也引导读者去关注奥本海默的思想问题,以此暗示了作品即将深入揭示的意义。然而,当我们观照剧本的情节发展形态及其主题思想之时,便会发现这部作品的主题并不在于人物表达的精神理想;相反,文本通过案件讨论的内容和情节结构,完成了对人物抱持的虚假意识的否定。基于文本分析,并结合西方美学史各个时期关于“诗”与“真”的问题的论述,不难发现《奥本海默案件》对于文献剧创作法的启示:文献剧的创作不是对“真”的铺陈,而是对“诗”的建构。