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    WANG Yi’s Annotation on The Songs of Chu and the Political Situation in Emperor An’s Reign
    Xing-lu ZHOU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 106-114.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.011
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    WANG Yi’s Annotation on The Songs of Chu not only laid a foundation for the study of The Songs of Chu, but was also significant in the history of literary criticism in the Han Dynasty. During Emperor An’s reign that lasted for around two decades, the political situation was messy and sycophantic. In the court, however, many ministers were brave enough to admonish the emperor severely. The imperial court encouraged political criticism. In such an atmosphere, as a collating officer, WANG Yi developed his thought while collating classic books. Different from the moderation of YANG Xiong and BAN Gu, WANG highly praised QU Yuan’s spirit of satire. The royal family in Nanyang emphasized the responsibility of protecting the country of the Han Dynasty by developing the idea that “the sons of Duke had no righteousness to leave the country” from Chuqiu Fanlu while compiling ritual propriety of the Han Dynasty. This affected WANG to elaborate for the first time on QU Yuan’s idea that people with the same surname of Chu would be not righteous to leave the country.

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    On Scholars′ Paintings:“Implication in Rock Paintings” for 700 Years from SU Shi to ZHENG Ban-qiao
    Zhong-yi XIA
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (5): 63-79.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.05.007
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    In this paper, the “rock” (modeling element) in the traditional flower and bird paintings is aesthetically divided into two categories, that is, “implication in rock paintings” and “rock worship and pleasure” regarded as an instrumental symbol to mark the distinction between “scholars′ paintings” and “literati′s paintings”. This is significant in three aspects. First, from SU Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty to DONG Qi-chang of the Ming Dynasty, the paintings of men of letters that express their feelings and interests are known as “scholars′ paintings” and “literati′s paintings”. However, in the painting world after DONG Qi-chang, the title of “literati′s paintings” vaguely “cover” “scholars′ paintings”. The “implication in rock paintings” refined in this paper is to prove that “scholars′ paintings” are different from “literati′s paintings” because the former pays more attention to the artist′s moral feelings than the interest in brush and ink skills. Second, from the perspective of “implication in rock paintings”, the history of Chinese paintings from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty can be divided into “scholars′ paintings” and “literati′s paintings”: the former from SU Shi to ZHENG Ban-qiao, and the latter from MI Fu to CHEN Hong-shou. This is the life roles of the ancient sages represented by rock paintings. Third, from the “Dongpo′s grotesque rock” and “Banqiao′s bamboo, orchid and rock” in the “implication in rock paintings”, we can not only know the ancient inheritance of exemplary persons′ poetry and philosophy, but also learn that the “rock” in the eyes of the worthy has not been a cold object in nature since ancient times, but a symbol of the spiritual foundation of the worthy when they deal with the turbid world.

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    A New Perspective to Observe the “Occurrence of the Cold War”:Before the Publication of Economic Vortex:A New Prospective to Observe the Cold War
    Zhi-hua SHEN
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 53-60.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.005
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    The origin and occurrence of the Cold War, especially the role of the Soviet Union, has always been a heated topic in the academic circle. If observing from the new perspective of economy, especially from the notion of economy and economic strategies of the Soviet Union as well as economic relationships between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, we will find a different logic chain, develop a different historical narrative and eventually form a new framework to explain how the relationships between the U.S. and the Soviet Union changed and how the Cold War pattern formed and developed. The mission of historical research is to find out how the Cold War happened, what were the motivations of the U.S. and the Soviet Union and what caused such results. In fact, there were opportunities and possibilities to reverse the trend at each stage, but eventually the U.S. and the Soviet Union sank into the abyss of the Cold War.

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    Cold War History Studies in the English Academic World in Recent Twenty Years:Retrospect,Critique and Prospects
    Ya-feng XIA
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (1): 82-94.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.01.008
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    Three correlative traits stand out in the Cold War history studies in the English world in the first 20 years of the 21st Century. First, with the “decentration” in the Cold War studies, the relationship between the Cold War and the Third World becomes a hotspot issue. Second, renewed attention is paid to the Cold War history in Europe, putting Europe in the central place rather than treating it as an object in great-power confrontation. Third, there are still lots of influential works on U.S.-Soviet Cold War History, in particular, on the peaceful end of the Cold War. Although scholars continue to debate on some of the very basic issues regarding the Cold War, Cold War studies will be an eternal field of inquiry. It will be remembered and studied like such historical events as World War I and World War II.

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    The Retrospect of Contemporary Linguistic Theories
    Bao-jia LI
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2021, 53 (6): 77-95.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2021.06.008
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    Western semantics history could be summarized as historical orientation, psychological orientation and contextual orientation. In other words, Western semantics of the 19th century has been successively overlapped with biology, psychology and sociology. All “new theories” in modern times we are worshipping, including psychology, subjectivity, sociality, form and function, statics and dynamics, context and situation, metaphor and metonymy, and meaning domain and prototype theory, are beneath previous masterpieces. Owing to the three trends of formalism in the 20th century, three cracks formed in Western humanistic view of language. Not until the 1960s, did a return to traditional humanistic view of language in contemporary Western linguistic study emerge. Based on dozens of previous original works of German, French, English and Russian languages, this paper traces the origins of these “new theories” in order to promote the research of the linguistic and intellectual history.

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    National Security Governance Strategy in the New Era:Its System,Idea and Path
    Hua-fu JIANG, Jun LIU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 105-111.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.012
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    National security governance is related to the long-term governance of the Party, the long-term stability of the country, and people’s life and work in peace and contentment. The strategic system of national security governance in the new era is a set of systematic institutional arrangements for maintaining and shaping national security, and it is the specific application of the national governance system in the field of national security. The strategic concept of national security governance in the new era is mainly reflected in the trinity of XI Jin-ping’s overall national security concept, with the purpose of people’s security, political security as the foundation, and national interests as the criterion. As for the practice path, we should adhere to safe development, promote the dynamic balance between high-quality development and high-level security, adhere to overall warfare, and coordinate traditional and non-traditional security, stick to the path of peaceful development, and promote the coordination of our own security and common security. To exactly grasp the strategy of national security governance system, follow the strategic path of national security governance system and promote national security governance in a comprehensive way is significant for us to realize the goal of the second century and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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    Culture Reproduction and Social Reproduction: An Illustration of Bourdieus Sociology of Education
    ZHU Guo-Hua
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph    2015, 47 (5): 173-189.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000--5579.2015.05.018
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    As a theory of symbolic violence, Bourdieus sociology of education is based on the theoretical hypothesis of culture arbitrariness. Its main point is that the secret purpose of culture reproduction is to push social reproduction. Through the concepts of teaching activities, teaching authority, education work and education system as well as their logical connections, we can grasp the internal texture of Bourdieus sociology of education. The nature of education in each stage is related to its location in social space. The education system justifies social divisions by transforming social divisions into academic divisions. The education system monopolizes special capital, mainly the production, distribution and transferring of diplomas, and exerts symbolic violence to the society. The field of power penetrates deeply into the field of education and further threatens educational autonomy. Bourdieus sociology of education and its experimental research arouses heated debates and is worth further considering.
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    Burgundy in the Late Middle Ages and the Construction of a French Nation State
    Ming ZHU
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (5): 35-47.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.05.005
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    Traditional opinion is that the Hundred Years’ War between England and France in the late Middle Ages consolidated the national consciousness of Western European countries and facilitated the formation of two nation states, i.e., England and France. However, the construction of the Burgundy state indicates that a homogeneous French nation-state was far from being formed during this period, and Valois France did not complete its national construction. The Duchy of Burgundy, located in the eastern part of France, not only gained independence from the Kingdom of France through marriage and expansion, but also strengthened regional national identity through construction of institution and capital city, almost becoming an independent kingdom that included regions such as northern and eastern parts of France and Belgium. The Duke of Burgundy made efforts to expand and integrate his feudal territories, laying the foundation for national construction and leaving behind longue-durée influence. In the late Middle Ages, the territorial states derived from feudal territories facilitated the transformation of urban and regional spaces, reflecting the complexity and diversity of the Western transition from feudal times to the era of modern states.

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    From Being Crazily Drunk to Lying Drunk:The Evolution of Chinese Wine Spirit
    Hua-nan GONG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 11-21.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.002
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    The phenomenon of drunkenness exists in various civilizations, and is understood, regulated and shaped by them. In China, the long history of civilization endows drunkenness with various spiritual connotations. With the continuous evolution of the intellectual trend of the times, the concept of drunkenness was formed in an intermittent manner. From the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Han Dynasty, being crazily drunk was a normal state, and drunkenness fell down from sacredness to pure desire and hobby. After the Han Dynasty, lying drunk became the mainstream. With the establishment of taste thought in China, drinking has become the thinking method for the drinkers, and lying drunk has become their conscious inward spiritual exploration, and the sacredness of drunkenness was restored to a certain extent. Being crazily drunk is aggressive and opposing the world, while lying drunk is a state of doing nothing and being comfortable inside and outside. Those lying drunk refuse to find their stance in the secular society, and consciously approach the quiet and tranquil world of drunkenness, which shows that their pursuit transcends the worldly life. In this process, the body is disciplined and becomes weak and feeble, so that it no longer stands or acts, and the mind is free of thinking, full of leisure and joy. The evolution towards lying drunk reveals the Chinese people’s introverted and inward-turned cultural psychology, which suppresses the impact of wine, but also makes it difficult for the drunk to be strong and upright.

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    Community Interaction Ritual,Emotional Energy and Fans’ Loyalty
    Hai-bo XUE
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2021, 53 (3): 134-145.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2021.03.011
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    It has been recognized that brand community plays an important role in attracting loyal fans both online and offline. This paper explores the mechanism through which community interaction rituals, a fundamental component of brand community, influence fans’ loyalty. Based on the valid scales, combining with the fan group interview, a questionnaire was designed and investigated. With collected valid samples, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation model analysis and hypothesis testing were conducted by partial least square method. The results show that interpersonal-interaction ritual and individual consumption ritual of self-interaction with communal material resources are two dimensions of community interaction rituals that have significant positive impact on fans’ loyalty. Emotional energy mediates the influence of community interaction rituals on fans’ loyalty. In addition, this loyalty is also moderated by network density. The practical managerial implications of these theoretical findings are also discussed.

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    Evocation Funeral and Five Rites System in the Eastern Jin Dynasty
    Man-cang LIANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2021, 53 (4): 55-65.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2021.04.006
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    According to Confucianism, the soul of a human being exists and the body and soul rest in the grave and the ancestral temple respectively when a person passes away. This provides the theoretical foundation for Confucian rites system to distinguish fortune rites from unfortune ones. In the late Western Jin Dynasty, due to the invasion of northern foreign tribes, many people in Central China moved to the south and even the court moved to Jiankang. For some official-scholars, when their families moved to the south, they lost their lives in the war in the north and their corpses could not be found. Hence, the evocation funeral was advocated. Differing from the traditional evocation custom, there was no corpse placed in the coffins in the grave but only souls in the evocation funeral in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This funeral ceremony conflicted with the idea of body and spirit in traditional Confucianism and threatened the Five Rites System which was under construction at that time. Therefore, the evocation funeral was denounced fiercely by Confucian officials in the court and was forbidden in the end. However, it became prevalent in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which was related to the maturity of the Five Rites System.

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    On Two Early English Versions of Huang Di Nei Jing
    Yu YANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2023, 55 (1): 46-52.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2023.01.004
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    Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic) is the fundamental classic of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), from which the Western academic circle begins to understand the theory of TCM. Prioritized as the primary TCM work by Western sinologists, Huang Di Nei Jing had been translated into Latin, French, German and other languages before the 20th century. This paper investigates its two early English translations that have scarcely been emphasized or even noticed. Through figuring out the brief history of these two translations, examining the misunderstandings especially on terms by comparing them with the source text, and analyzing what motivated the translators to translate it and how they had first established their knowledge on TCM, this paper explores the special aspects during the transmission of TCM knowledge in the West.

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    Kant’s Discussion on “Crooked Timber” and “Straight Wood”
    Yong-ling BAO
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (1): 60-68.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.01.006
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    In “The Universal Concept of History from the Perspective of World Citizens”, Kant puts forward the famous “crooked timber” puzzle, believing that the paradox reflected in it is the most difficult problem and the final problem that can be solved by mankind. Accordingly, Kant systematically interprets the complex interactive relationship between individual freedom and social legal order by using the core metaphors of “crooked timber” and “straight wood in the forest”, which seem to be contradictory. The metaphor of “crooked timber” can also be regarded as a variation of Plato’s “cave metaphor” describing human perceptual defects. It implies that man, above all, is an existence in the order of nature, which is an empirical issue concerning “what it is in reality”, that is, “what human beings are in practice”, whereas “straight wood” demonstrates a value pursuit of “what it should be”, that is “what human beings should be like”. It shows that individuals’ potential to develop independent personality in social community and hence highlights human beings’ individuality, awareness of being independent, human dignity and value. The metaphors of “crooked timber” and “straight wood” together with other subordinate metaphors help to approach Kant’s unique anthropological concept and play an important role in Kant’s reflection and reconstruction of the concept of “nature”.

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    Post-human Social Landscapes and Artificial Intelligence
    LI Heng-wei, WANG Hao-sheng
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2020, 52 (5): 80-89.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2020.05.008
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    Under the impact of intelligent technology represented by AI, the belief that human nature is unshakably stable held by traditional humanism is shaken, with concepts such as "post-humans" and "post-human society" emerging in various intellectual trends of technology and culture. For most post-humanists, technology is the key to leading humans to a post-human society. From the perspective of reflective interaction between humans and technology, we can divide post-human society into three different landscapes, namely, Industry 4.0 society, Cyborg society and technology singularity society. Various intellectual trends of technology and culture such as human-centralism, super-humanism and the idea of technology singularity supporting different post-human social landscapes are worth further exploration.
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    In Pursuit of Chinese Road to Modernization and Human Civilization in a New Form:China’s Exploration since Modern Times
    Wei-ping CHEN
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (6): 17-23.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.06.003
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    Taking “the creation of human civilization in a new form” as “the essential requirement of Chinese modernization” in the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, President XI Jin-ping reveals their intrinsic link. This is the achievement of historical accumulation of exploring China’s road to modernization and human civilization in a new form since modern times. The historical logic of this exploration since modern times in China is clear. From Westernizationists to reformists and then to Revolutionaries, it shows the starting point and twists of the exploration of modernization and civilization in a new form. In other words, Chinese people began to turn to socialism in order to make China catch up with other nations in the process of learning the modernization of Western capitalism. After the May 4th Movement, CHEN Du-xiu, LI Da-zhao and MAO Ze-dong all stated that China had to realize modernization and build civilization in a new form in the framework of socialism. It was in the first leap of the sinicization of Marxism that the exploration of Chinese modernization and human civilization in a new form has been closely and substantially related to the leadership of the CPC, its historical mission, the prospect of socialism and its firm stance of the masses of people. After the foundation of PRC, the exploration of socialist modernization and civilization in a new form experienced turns and twists and eventually generated a new leap of the sinicization of Marxism in the “second combination of Marxism and China’s condition” during the two periods divided by reform and opening-up. It has integrated Chinese modernization, socialism with Chinese characteristics and human civilization in a new form into a whole.

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    “Diverse Life Experiments”:John S. Mill’s Thinking on Individuality
    Hong-tu LI
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (4): 44-58.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.04.005
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    In his work On Liberty, one of the most influential classics in the intellectual history, the nineteenth-century British thinker John S. Mill proposed the pivotal idea of “individuality”, which thereafter became the central element of the modern society, by laying the issue of individual rights within the framework of relationship between society and individual. According to Mill, individuality not only represents a way of life, but also has multiple implications, including that of “taste”. It aims at the “self-development” of each individual through his or her own choice. By virtue of Mill’s formulation, “individuality” is no longer an empty concept, but turns out to be one with rich content and specific reference. It grows from its own internal natural character instead of being given externally. Once each individual in the society has the rights to make their own choices, their “taste” and unique ways of life are safeguarded, and the progress and development of the society will be greatly promoted.

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    Shame,Reparative Reading and Literary Affect Studies
    Mu-ren ZHANG
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2022, 54 (1): 27-36.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.01.003
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    The publications of the American scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick between 1993 and 2003 contribute to the burgeoning of literary affect studies in the Western academia. Combining psychologist Silvan Tomkins’s affect theory and Michael Franz Basch’s discussion on narcissism, Sedgwick reconstructs the destructive self-experience of shame as a politically productive affect. As a strong embodied experience, shame not only efficiently questions the personal identity, but also constantly negotiates the relationship between the self and the other. Through the example of shame, Sedgwick advances debates about “the politics of discomfort” in the field of affect studies. The exploration of the role of interpersonal relationship – as opposed to social structure – in political transformation also resembles her call for the shift of critical practice from “paranoid reading” to “reparative reading”.

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    From “Structure-oriented” to “Relationship-oriented”:Reconstructing the Globalization Theory Facing an Era of Uncertainty
    Jun WEN
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)    2021, 53 (5): 159-173.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2021.05.011
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    In today’s world, the spread of the uncertain trend of global development not only gives birth to brand-new social facts, but also impacts the intellectual foundation and theoretical soil on which globalization research is rooted. Facing the realistic tension brought by a series of global shocks and continuous uncertain development, we must critically reflect on and reconstruct globalization theory at the theoretical level. At the epistemological level, the existing globalization theory is still limited to empirical deduction and circular demonstration of “meta-problems”, representing the dualistic mindset of “structure-action”; while at the ontological level, it still stays in the formal debate and repeated game of meta-logic, representing the dualistic opposition of “time-space”, which eventually leads to the methodological falling into the shackles of “structure-oriented” speculative logic and research. In order to effectively cope with the new trend of global uncertainty, we can try a new path of paradigm transformation and theoretical research from “structure-oriented” to “relationship-oriented” in the theoretical research of globalization.

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    The Class Difference of Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Capital and Its Influence: A Comparative Study of the Middle Class and Working Class Families in Shanghai
    WEN Jun, LI Shan-shan
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph    2018, 50 (4): 101-113.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2018.04.011
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    When the class differentiation is becoming more and more obvious in current China, the role of cultural capital in educational inequality and social stratification has attracted scholars' extensive attention. This paper compares the operation logic of cultural capital in the middle class and working class families so as to explore how the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital shapes the class difference and promotes social class reproduction. The result shows that middle class and working class parents have different behavioral patterns in the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital and the "triple reproduction" of cultural capital is realized in family, school, and educational institutions. It results in children's differences in terms of their cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. Both parents and children are participants in educational inequality and social reproduction. The intergenerational transmission of cultural capital further defines class boundaries, increases class gaps and inequality, reduces class mobility, and even forms class barriers.
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    On Urban Historiography
    CHEN Heng
    Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph    2019, 51 (5): 194-200.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2019.05.022
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    Urban history is different from urban historiography. The former is an object of study, whereas the latter, is a subdivision within the modern discipline of historiography. Urban historiography studies the origin, development, and transformation of cities as well as the process of urbanization from the perspective of historiography. The rise of urban historiography results from the great impact of rapid urbanization upon society, the rapid development of historiography, and the influence of other academic disciplines. Arising since the end of World War Ⅱ, "urban historiography" as a discipline has been generally accepted in the academic circle. It is giving inspirations to observe the transformations of human civilization from the urban perspective. If stretching the time scale of urban historiography to cover the whole of the 20th century, we may find that it has gone through several important changes as the time goes by. Therefore, critical studies of urban historiography for the purpose of learning experience from others and establishing our own theoretical frames and conceptual systems of urban historiography are theoretically and practically significant.
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