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The Relation between Zhang Zhi-dong and Kang You-wei and Their Cooperation in the Shanghai Qiangxue Association and the Qiangxue Journal

MAO Hai-Jian

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 1-10.

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Zhang Zhi-dong and Kang You-wei began to contact each other in Nanjing, in autumn of the 21st year of Emperor Guangxu’s reign. Zhang Zhi-dong took charge of Liangjiang (Jiangnan Province and Jiangxi Province) Governor because of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, opposing to the peace negotiation conducted by Li Hong-zhang et al. Kang You-wei became famous because he launched the Gongche Shangshu Movement and sent in memorials to Emperor Guangxu. The middleman between them was Zhang Zhi-dong’s assistant Liang Jing-fen. Huang Shao-ji also participated in their activities afterwards. After meeting each other, Zhang Zhi-dong helped Kang You-wei organize the Shanghai Qiangxue Association and issue the Qiangxue Journal. There were big disagreements between Zhang and Kang in terms of intellectual and political thoughts. Kang insisted on his own doctrines in the Qiangxue Journal and consequently broke with Zhang Zhi-dong et al, which was the turning point in their relation. This also shows they turned against each other politically because of their intellectual divergences. There are new historical data in “Archives of Zhang Zhi-dong” in the library of the Institute of Modern Chinese History in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which help us know more details of this process.

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On the History of the State Yu in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties

WANG Jin-Feng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 11-14.

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There was a state named Yu in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In the Shang Dynasty, the military leader called “little official Yu” was in the state Yu. People in the state had connection with a clan by marriage. The state Yu was located in Xiajin county, Shandong province in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. By examining the related inscriptions on bronze objects, we could know more historical details about the state Yu.

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Romantic Spirit of Religion: Zhu Qian-zhi’s Seeking for the Meaning of Life in the May 4th Period

DENG Jun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 15-23.

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Encountering the subversion of dominant values, the intellectuals in the May 4th Period were compelled to seek for new faith in order to settle the soul. Moreover, the twins of “faith and doubt” brought about a seesaw struggle in the mind of each intellectual in this period. Zhi Qian-zhi was famous for his romantic, unruly and even maniac image during this period. His sensitiveness of religion forced him to seek for the transcendence of life. As an intellectual in the May 4th Period, the tension of “doubt and faith” made him painfully move back and forth between revolution and suicide, and hope and despair. The thesis is aimed to unfold the complicated and rich spiritual world of intellectuals in the May 4th Period by analyzing Zhu Qian-zhi.

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Public Ethic and Personal Virtue: A Double Track Model of Ethics in the Transitional Period in Britain, Japan and China

GAO Li-Ke

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 24-31.

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The relation between modernity and tradition is crucial to ethics in the transitional age of enlightenment. The two great figures in Scottish Enlightenment, that is, D. Hume and A. Smith, created a double track model with “justice and goodness” dichotomy, responding effectively to the issue of the moral transformation from the ancient to the modern along with the rising of a commercial society. This double track model has been echoed in East Asia in Fukuzawa Yukichi’s “personal virtue-social morality,” Liang Qi-chao’s “personal virtue- public virtue” and “moral - ethic” and Li Ze-hou’s “social moral-religious moral.” In the enlightenment in Scotland, Japan and China, the double track with “public ethic and personal virtue” provided us with a theoretical framework to dialectically deal with the debate of the invariable and the variable in morality and that of creating modern public ethic and inheriting traditional virtues.

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Intention, Reason, Action and Related Claims of Pragmatism

CHEN Ya-Jun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 32-37.

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An action is a performance with an intention while an intention may constitute a reason for the action. However, it is not true that each intention will constitute a reason of an action. Whether an intention is qualified to be a reason is not solely determined by an individual agent. In contrast, this involves a social perspective. From the social perspective, we can legitimately claim a reason rather than an intention of an action. An individual agent is responsible for the intention whereas the society ensures the reason. In an ideal action, its intention is compatible with its reason. An intention is not rational unless it is a consequence of a material inference, which is by no means private but formed in social practice and followed by the public. A material inference does not need to be reduced to a formal inference. The main difference between new and classical pragmatism is that the former cares more about how reason (language) affects an action, whereas the latter pays more attention to how an action affects reason (language). New pragmatism not only supplements but also diverges from classical pragmatism to some extent.

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Dialectical Argument and the Dialectical Tier

JIN Rong-Dong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 38-45.

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Feng Qi’s concept of dialectical argument is closely similar to Johnson’s concept of argument that takes the dialectical tier as an essential component of argument, so it is possible for the two to combine and complement with each other. On the one hand, with the help of Johnson’s proposal for the typology of the dialectical materials and his elucidation of the criteria for the dialectical adequacy, we can better comprehend the contributions and limitations of Feng’s concept of dialectical argument; Feng’s seeing “achieving unanimity through the contention of diverse opinions” as a universal law of the contradictory movement of thinking and knowing can, on the other hand, lay a more solid foundation for the justification of the arguer’s dialectical obligation.

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Institutional Assessment from the Perspective of Political Philosophy

REN Jun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 46-52.

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The moral assessment of social institutions is a core subject in political philosophy. According to the conceptual distinction made by Simmons, legitimacy is about the way in which an institution is established, while justifiability refers to the virtues that institution has. To justify an institution is to show that it is not only just but also “stable for the right reasons.”

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On the Embodiment of Perceptual Experience: From the Perspective of Molyneux’s Problem

HE Jing

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 53-58.

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Molyneux’s problem was brought up more than 300 years ago, and it has been one of the main issues in the field of philosophy of mind and psychology. The answer of “no” to this question entails a perceptual principle of empiricism. In recent years, the research on the imitation of newborns triggered the rethinking of Molyneux’s problem and the traditional perceptual principle. This is a process of applying the embodied perceptual theory, and also a process of testifying its validity.

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A Study of Sentiment: Returning to the Root of Literature

YIN Guo-Ming

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 59-66.

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In 1950s, Prof. Qian Gu-rong put forward the doctrine that “literature is a study of human beings”; in 1980s, with his deeper understanding of the charm of literature, he claimed that “literary creating is thinking with sentiment”. The reason why literature remains flourishing in human beings’ life is that it experiences, witnesses and preserves the sentiment of human beings in history in a specific and vivid way, revealing the most subtle, most thrilling and deepest pulsation of humanity. Therefore, sentiment is not only the unique connotation of cultural psychology in literary creation, but also should be the fundamental subject in literature theories.

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The “Emancipation” of Ah Q and the “Reverse” of Enlightenment: Rereading The True Story of Ah Q

LUO Gang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 67-73.

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Based on Qu Qiu-bai’s examination of Lu Xun in “Preface to An Anthology of LU Xun’s Essays,” this thesis rereads The True Story of Ah Q. The discussion of “What is Ah Q’s surname?” becomes the starting point of Ah Q’s biography written by the “author”. the narration that “Ah Q wants to be surnamed Zhao, but Elderly Gentleman Zhao does not allow him to be surnamed Zhao” becomes the starting point of the whole life story of Ah Q. What’s more, if The True Story of Ah Q demonstrates Lu Xun’s most profound reflection of “the Revolution of 1911,” then he is taking the collapse of “rural space” as the starting point to reflect “the Revolution of 1911” in the discussion of “What is Ah Q’s surname?” and the narration that “Ah Q wants to be surnamed Zhao, but Elderly Gentleman Zhao does not allow him to be surnamed Zhao”. To interpret The True Story of Ah Q in this way is not to prove that Lu Xun refutes with foresight the “new theory of the Revolution of 1911” from “rural space” to “power of each province”, but to reveal that he foresees profoundly the revolutionary but simultaneously tragic result due to the collapse of “rural space”. That is to say, a multitude of Ah Qs will be expelled consciously or unconsciously from the patriarchal society under a tender veil. They are like ghosts wandering in wildness a group after another. This makes the “emancipation” of Ah Q become a key to a new understanding of “enlightenment”.

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On Some Puzzles in the Interpretation of Du Fu’s Shu Xiang

CHENG Yu-Hei

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 74-78.

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In interpreting Du Fu’s Shu Xiang, there have always been some divergences, one of which involves that the expression “pin fan” won’t fit with the whole poem if it is explained as “sorrow and painstaking”. In effect, “pin pan” must be understand as an adjective with the meaning of “frequent”, which won’t contradict “san gu” (visiting three times). The structure that there is no conjunction between the two clauses in the third verse of the poem can be seen in Du Fu’s poetry. The meaning of the second half of the poem is consistent. The connection between the third verse and the last verse is natural. There is no obstruction in meaning at all.

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Two Paradoxes of Happiness: Income Paradox and Desire Paradox

FU Hong-Chun, WANG Jin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 79-86.

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There is a formula of happiness: Happiness = income / desire. In order to “maximize happiness”, two completely contrary approaches are possible: one is to maximize the numerator in the formula, i.e., to increase income, whereas the other is to minimize the denominator in the formula, i.e., to lessen desire. The former results in an “income-paradox” (or Easterlin paradox) typically in contemporary West. In contrast, the latter brings out a “desire-paradox”, which can be easy find in ancient China. These two paradoxes can be understood and consequently solved within one framework of economics.

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Individual Ideas, Collective Ideas and Institutional Transition

JIANG Wan-Sheng, ZHANG Feng-Zhu

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 87-93.

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According to their existing form, ideas fall into two categories: individual ideas and collective ideas. When disseminated to a certain extent, individual ideas turn into collective ones through individual awareness, collective imitation and social opinions. Widely accepted by group members, collective ideas bring free individuals together into a cohesive community. Restraining the behaviors of community members, collective ideas enable community members to conduct consistent actions, which is essential to an institution. The change of collective ideas is the sign of institutional transition, and it can also direct institutional transition. When collective ideas start to change, original institutions will no longer adapt to the changed collective ideas. At this time, institutions and collective ideas will weaken each other, and collective ideas will promote the change of the existing institutions and the birth of new ones

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The Private Order in Online Transaction: Reputation，Enforceable Contract and Credit Evaluation System

YIN Hong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 94-102.

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Due to the deficiency of online transaction contracts, the lack of credit reporting system and the imperfection of law, public order could not solve the problem concerning credit in online transaction and the private order concerning reputation has gained wide attention recently. According to the principle of “incentives, coordination and authority”, the private order is analyzed into three kinds: “the spontaneous”, “the intermediary” and “the organized”. An online transaction model is established to theoretically prove the role of private order in preventing moral risk in online transaction. Therefore, according to the three kinds of private order, it is necessary to design and improve external mechanisms to guarantee that the private order plays a stable role in the place of public order to some extent.

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On Group Contradiction of Urban Inhabitants and Their Interest Expressing Channels in China

LI Jian-Zhong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 103-108.

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There are a lot of social strata and sub-groups among city inhabitants in China. They have different interest requirements, thus, social management in city has to face interest disputes among different groups, particularly the contradictions between officials and common people, between labor and management, between poor and rich. These interest contradictions are characterized by its complexity and increasing violence. Once an interest dispute arises, most urban inhabitants normally intend to express their interest demands and solve problems in legal ways. However, if these ways are ineffective, inhabitants involved will inevitably seek for expressing channels out of the system, and this may lead to group events. Urban government, social organization and inhabitants ought to jointly pay high attention to it.

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Knowledge, Institution and Interest: Understanding Chinese Reform from Three Dimensions

HU Jian

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 109-121.

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The past over 30 years has witnessed Chinese reform. However, the debate on the reform has never stopped up to now. This is mainly because different people understand reform in different ways. The ultimate goal of theoretical study is to make the society reach a new consensus in the understanding of reform. However, in recent years, Chinese academic circle tends to overgeneralize Chinese reform with labels such as “Chinese mode” and “Chinese way”. This results in some deviations in understanding the complicate social practice of Chinese reform. China's reform is an innovative process of system transition, which involves lots of issues, including the relation between knowledge stock and knowledge increment, methods of institutional innovation and its efficiency, and the adjustment of social interests. Therefore, we should understand Chinese reform from three dimensions: knowledge, institution and interest. Certainly, to understand the reform is not just to summarize the experience and lessons, but to help Chinese society to understand better the significance and urgency to deepen reform.

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Norms of Advertising Endorsement: To Learn from American Experience

YU Lin-Yang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 122-127.

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The criterion for identifying advertising endorsement is that we can discern the endorser’s true identity from the advertising. The essence of advertising endorsement is the commercial use of the personality right and the future of “speaking for the sponsor in public” makes the endorsement easily become the tool of false advertising under the drive of interest. America is the first country that has made norms of advertising endorsement with the duty-oriented idea of legislation. To fully protect the consumers’ interests is the typical character of the norms of advertising endorsement in America. Considering the social policy of protecting consumers’ interests and restricting false advertisements, we should integrate our intricate legal norms and make specific duty-oriented norms.

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Tobacco Control in Media Reports from the Perspective of Fear Appeal: A Case Study on Reports of Tobacco Control in People’s Daily

CHEN Hong & HAO Xi-qun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 128-140.

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May 31^st, 2012 is the 25^th World No Tobacco Day. Tobacco has become one of the most serious public health issues in the world. In order to persuade people to smoke less or quit smoking, the way of fear appeal is commonly used in the media reports. In the past six years’ reports on tobacco control in People’s Daily, the informing strategies are monotone, and the level of using fear appeal is low, which make them fail to achieve the best persuasive effect.

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On the Shift of the “Sound Changing Point” in Singing Art

SHI Guo-xin & CAO Xu

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 141-146.

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The shift of the “sound changing point” in singing art is one of the important skills in voice changing. However, for a long time people are lack of complete and correct knowledge of it, which causes sidedness and randomness in sound changing. In order to explore the basic law of the shift of the “sound changing point” in singing art, this thesis elaborates the issue from several aspects such as the shift phenomenon of the “sound changing point”, the voice condition of shifting the sound changing point, the restraining factors of shifting the sound changing point, etc.

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Feminine Voice and Its Power: On Musicological Expression of “Social Gender” in Chinese and Western Cultural Contexts

ZHONG Fang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (1): 147-150.

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From the perspective of musicology, this thesis takes an overall examination of expressions related to social gender in Chinese and Western cultural contexts, analyzing their relation, similarities and differences. Based on deep elaboration of western theories and deep understanding of the modes and objects of Chinese academic thinking, this thesis tries to probe into the meaning and purpose of the social gender theory for the research of Chinese musical culture.

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On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Transcendental-Pragmatics for Life

Gunnar Skirbekk

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 1-13.

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As the philosophical reflection on presuppositions inherent in speech-act, transcendental-pragmatics has both philosophical and practical significance. In the post-war intellectual constellation, transcendental-pragmatics, as a philosophical response to skepticism and civilization crises, seeks the ground for constructing a modern civilized society. A reasonably revised transcendental-pragmatics is capable to cope with its internal theoretical challenges on the one hand and the change of intellectual and institutional surroundings on the other, and consequently play a positive role in fostering and strengthening a spirit of enlightenment with self-critique and self-consciousness.

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On the Sinicization of Buddhism and the Relationship among the Three Religions in China

HONG Xiu-ping and HAN Feng-ming

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 14-21.

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The relationship among the three religions, i.e., Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, has always been an important issue in the history of Chinese philosophy. Examined in the context of the Sinicization of Buddhism, many significant perspectives of this issue will be understood appropriately. When Buddhism was first introduced into China, it had to depend upon and adapt itself to the local culture of China; then with the development of Buddhism, its conflicts with Confucianism and Daoism emerged; with the gradual communication and fusion among the three religions, sinicized Buddhism characterized by humanity eventually took shape. By analyzing the relationship among the three religions in the historical course of the Sinicization of Buddhism, this thesis attempts to put forward some new points of view and provide some methodological suggestions to the study of the history of Chinese philosophy.

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Two Concepts of Belief and Their Ideas of Power

LI Xiang-ping

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 22-32.

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Although belief is related to such characteristics as ultimate, transcending and holy, it can be reduced to the construction of a certain holy relation in terms of sociological theory of belief, and based on this “a theory of belief relation” is established, which examines the types of belief practices from the perspective of the relation between god(s) and human beings. In the process of construction, people have not only constructed the forms of belief such as religious belief and folk belief, but also have participated in the construction of mainstream culture and ideology, and finally have constructed a unique field of symbol power. Different belief concepts and different belief types effectively imply different god-human relations and different forms of the construction of the holiness. In terms of the relation between belief and power, there is a distinction between politics of belief and politics of skepticism. In addition, concerning how to construct a belief in justice in modern society, a public and civil belief paradigm, which surpasses both anthropocentric belief and god-centered belief, cannot be constructed until the constitutional democracy is constructed.

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Religion and Charity, Mirror and Practicing

LI Tian-gang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 33-40.

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Taking religious institution as a body for charity, this paper deals with some current affairs debating in the field of religious governance. The author suggests that religious institution has been the main body for charity in the history of world and China as well. The religious motivation and practicing has been the origin of charity. Then the paper takes the examples from an Italian Catholic charity organization of Community of Sant’Edegio and a Shanghai Protestant charity group from Pu’an Church to examine the relationship between religion and charity. The author suggests that the charity invested by religious institution should be distinguished as the “fourth section” when sociologists take charity as the “third section”.

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Reflection on the “Chan Buddhism Fever” in the Late 20th Century

GU Wei-kang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 41-45.

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The “Chan Buddhism Fever” in 1980s was impacted by the Zen of Suzuki, which was popular in Europe and America at that time. In the particular social and historical conditions, Chan was promoted as an effective medicine with which individuals can perfect their personalities on their own. The rising and spread of “Chan Buddhism Fever” was necessary and reasonable. However, there is still much to do about analyzing the positive and negative aspects of Chan as cultural heritage in cultivating ideal personality and treating the relationship between group and individual so as to serve for the rising of China in the post-modern era.

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The Ontological Concern of New Confucianism and the Trend of Chinese Philosophy in Future

JIANG Guo-bao

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 46-51.

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Although new Confucianism hasn’t been developed consciously to promote the process of modern Chinese philosophy, its ontological concern does make up the disadvantage of modern Chinese philosophy, that is, jumping over the age of ontology into the age of epistemology. In this manner, modern Confucianism has not only carried forward modern Chinese philosophy objectively, but also revealed the trend of Chinese philosophy in future. In the ontological constructing of Xiong Shili, Fang Dongmei, Feng Youlan, Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan, we can see the possible trend of Chinese philosophy.

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Kang Youwei’s Doctrine of Great Unity and World Political Order: A New Philosophical Dream

LIU Liang-jian

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 52-58.

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Kang Youwei develops a theory of world political order in his Book of Great Unity in an age of competing among nation-states. He advocates a world state with great unity to go beyond the separation and conflict among nation-states. Zhao Tingyang echoes Kang Youwei to some degree in his project of tianxia system. A dialogue among Kang Youwei, Zhao Tingyang, Kant, Habermas and Thomas Pogge leads us to have a new understanding of the significance of a world state, which is “a discarded choice” in Kant.

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《周易》研究；中国思想史源头；文化人类学；文化诗学

GU Zu-zhao

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 59-67.

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As the origin of Chinese thought, the Book of Changes has its lasting value. However, the lack of adequate knowledge of the particularity of the Book of Changes as the remains of primeval culture has resulted in frequent misunderstandings and misjudgments in its study. The perspective of cultural anthropology and poetics can help us critically think over such issues as whether Confucius wrote the Commentaries on the Book of Changes, whether the Commentaries were factually written after the Book, which school the Book of Changes belonged to, and who wrote the Book of Changes. With this perspective and method, a new prospect will open up for the study of the Book of Changes as well as Chinese literature in the Pre-Qin period.

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The Transfer of the Institute of History and Philology to Taiwan and the Academic Construction of Humanities in Taiwan in 1950-60s

HU Feng-xiang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 68-80.

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There is no doubt that it was the transfer of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica to Taiwan in the end of 1948 that has triggered the academic construction of humanities in modern Taiwan. This article is a fairly complete investigation into this process as well as its influence. Complicated mentalities and situations of the members of the Institute during this transfer are explored in detail. On the other hand, academic activities of the Institute in Taiwan are discussed with main focuses on archeology, ethnology and the influence of using methods of positivism.

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From “Sinicization” to “Localization”: An Investigation of the “Sinicization” Movement in Social Sciences in Taiwan from the Perspective of Academic History

WANG Dong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 81-91.

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In early 1980s, a “Sinicization” movement in social sciences was set off in the academic circle in Taiwan. It was first initiated by scholars of sociology, psychology and anthropology, but soon spread throughout the whole circle of social sciences and became the most important academic movement in modern Taiwan. Those important academic subjects brought out during the movement have been also the hot issues studied, discussed and argued continuously in Taiwan’s academic circle for the last 30 years. What’s more, this academic movement was later transformed from “Sinicization” to “localization” with the powerful intervene of various political and ideological forces in Taiwan society, and eventually intersected and overlapped with the “localization” movement in social and political areas. From the perspective of academic history, this thesis is aimed to systematically examine the detailed process of the movement and to analyze the internal and external causes of its transformation from “Sinicization” to “localization” and furthermore to discuss its academic value and experience.

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The Change of Liberal Economics in the 20th Century in China

HE Zhuo-eng & LI Xiao-bo

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 92-97.

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In modern Chinese, literalism is related to socialism at political and intellectual levels. Intellectually, the change of this relationship can be seen from the perspective of literal economics. When literalism was first introduced into China in the early ten years in the 20th century, the relation between literalism and socialism was external and there was no literal economics. In the following forty years, literalism absorbed social values of fairness and justice into its economic policy, seeking “political democracy and economic equality”. In the second half of 20th century, literalism was remnant in Taiwan, and literal economics trended to turn to liberal economy. Meanwhile, liberal economy was paid more and more attention for its importance to democratic politics. The literalism that immerged in mainland China in the late 20th century echoed this trend. This change had its social and historical causes at home and abroad and was also related to the role of thinkers as well as their thought resources.

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On the Government Action and Its Practical Significance during the Evolution of Guan Gong Culture

WU Xiao-feng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 98-103.

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The ideas such as “loyalty, rightness, benevolence, wisdom, honesty and courageousness” advocated in Guan Gong culture not only include oriental Confucian moral values but also are similar to some extent to the values such as “truth, good, beauty, fairness, justice and freedom” in Western philosophy. In the evolution of Guan Gong culture, the ruling class played an important role. To remold national core value system, which is essential to the construction of a harmonious society, the government should function as the leading promoter and executor in recalling the memory of common people and renovating traditional culture. Advocating Guan Gong culture guided by the government is conducive not only to the reconstructing of a socialist core value system but also to the re-rising of Chinese culture in the stage of the world.

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Loess Plateau, Steamed Bun, Breasts and Tombs: On the Images and their Implication in A Hungry Village

XIA Zhong-yi

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 104-111.

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Reading Prof. Wang Zhiliang’s long novel A Hungry Village is like appreciating a great play. When the stage curtain is open, at least three aspects worthy of attention: the beautiful setting, the framework of the story and the role performance, which are connected to each other on the one hand and different from each other on the other. The narrative factors which are still thrilling up to now are not constructive to the overall structure of the novel. They are only like glistening fibers woven into the bedding (the background of the story).The story is painstakingly arranged in another framework, namely, the overall poetical context crisscrossed with the images of “loess plateau, steamed bun, breasts and tombs” and the historical deliberation implied in this poetical context.

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Modernity of the Modern Old-style Poetry: On the Poetry Creation of Zhao Puchu

ZHOU Ping & BAI Li-na

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 112-119.

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China is always a country of poetry. Since the May 4th New Cultural Movement, especially since 1949, the “old style poetry” has almost disappeared in the narration of “the history of modern literature” because of the dominant doctrine that “the history of modern Chinese literature is the history of the development of new literature”. But as a matter of fact, while the new style poetry developed vigorously, the creation of different kinds of old style poetry had not ever stopped, and the old style poetry embodied its own unique value in the 20th century. The poetry written by Zhao Puchu, a later Buddhist leader, is a good example. Zhao wrote over 2000 works including various types of old style poetry and antithetical couplet in his life. Due to his continuous innovation in the style and content, his poetry displays another kind of modernity different from that in the new style poetry, namely, “the poeticization of daily life” and “the aestheticization of religious life”. Therefore, we can conclude that the old style poetry, as far as its surviving in modern times and its modern artistic spirit is concerned, do have its “modernity”. They should not be neglected in the history of modern Chinese literature in the 20th century.

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Narrative, Rhetoric and Time: On the Rhetoric of Repeating in Cao Naiqian’s Novels

HAN Lei

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 120-124.

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Cao Naiqian’s novels have a distinctive language style. A great amount of repeating rhetoric is one of its characteristics. His repeating rhetoric has excellent effect on pushing forward the development of stories, revealing the subjects of poverty and ignorance, containing psychological implication in behaviors and displaying a special idea of time. It helps to reach a high level in the discourse model and narrative model. Moreover, repeating rhetoric implies the author’s concept of Chinese villages as a pre-modern place: time in Chinese villages is stagnant or circulatory, and rural peoples in the bottom of society are fatefully within the cycle of poverty and ignorance. This one-sided denial of the oriental civilization constitutes a serious disadvantage of the author’s position, which is originated from a blind worship of the western civilization.

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A Comparative Study of the Modal Particle Ye in Notitia Lingae Sinicae and Ma’s Grammar

LIU Ya-hui

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 125-130.

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A comparative study of the descriptions of the modal particle ye in Notitia Lingae Sinicae written by French missionary Joseph de Prémare and those in Ma’s Grammar shows that Joseph de Prémare was the first scholar in the history of Chinese grammar who described the modal particle ye comprehensively from the perspective of grammar in 1728 and the descriptions of ye in Ma’s Grammar were not beyond Prémare’s framework. As for the methodology, Prémare mainly combined grammar and rhetoric based on the particularity of Chinese language. This comparative study also shows different concepts of grammar in eastern and western scholars.

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The Problems and Countermeasures of the Government Budget with Chinese Characteristics

LIU Xiao-chuan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 131-135.

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The government budget with Chinese Characteristics is featured by highly centralized financial authority, strong flexibility and powerful administrative guidance, which has played an important role in increasing the national strength at the early stage of China’s economic system reform. But in recent years, some problems concerning the government budget with Chinese Characteristics has emerged, such as budget deficit crisis, striving for interests against people, lacking of coordination with the development of enterprises, etc. All of these are harmful to our social-economic development. Therefore, it is urgent to amend the Budget Law to construct a feasible framework of the government budget with Chinese Characteristics and establish its disclosure and supervision system on the basis of taking an objective and comprehensive view of the government budget.

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Which has more impact on Analysts’ Investment Rating: Broker’ Interests or Information Advantage?

FENG Ti-yi

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 136-144.

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Taking broker as the research object, we get 63388 investment rating samples for 1597 domestic A shares made by 2805 analysts employed by 111 brokers in order to test the affection of broker’ interests and information advantage on the information contents and the optimism degree of analysts’ rating and market reaction. The results show that analysts’ rating for brokers’ self-trading stocks and institution investors’ heavy-holding stocks have less information contents and are more optimistic due to the conflicts of interests; underwriting relationship can’t add information contents; reputation has more pressure on individual analysts while less on brokers; star analysts provide superior recommendations; geography adjacent to headquarter location adds information contents; the market does react to investment rating. All these conclusions can be used to screen investment ratings, thus helping to protect the interests of investors.

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Research on the Perceived Value of the Second-hand Electronic Products in Shanghai

LV Jun & CHEN Hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (2): 145-149.

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With the increasing demand for a better environment, the concept of low-carbon and green life style has been popularized and filtered into people’s minds. Although the research on second-hand market is increasing, far less work has been down in empirical field than in academic one. This thesis selects the second-hand market of electronic products in Shanghai as the subject, makes hypotheses of research and designs questionnaires in the survey, and makes descriptive statistics analyses of 232 effective questionnaires with parameter evaluation and hypothesis investigation of regression model. The result shows that the key factors to affect the perceived value are brand, purchasing risk and environmental awareness. Therefore, we should attach importance to brand constructing, reduce customers’ purchasing risk and improve customers’ environmental awareness so as to promote the construction of the second-hand electronic products market in Shanghai.

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On John Fryer’s “Movement of Writing Up-to-day Novels”

CHEN Da-kang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 1-14.

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The “Movement of Writing Up-to-day Novels” initiated by English Missionary John Fryer has always received high evaluation in the research of novels in modern times. By analyzing John Fryer’s articles for soliciting and the articles he received, this thesis is aimed to reveal that this movement was quite religious, most of the authors who participated in this activity were Christians, most of the articles they wrote were not novels and consequently this movement did not have great influence on the development of novels in modern times and was not related to the “new novels” thereafter. However, these articles have a high value as historical documents, from which we can know about the thoughts and activities of foreign missionaries, the operation of religious organizations in different areas, the psychologies of Christians, the middle and lower classes’ understanding of the current situation and future of the nation and their understanding of literature, etc.

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A Tentative Study on the Improved Novel Press

SU Liang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 15-19.

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The Improved Novel Press was founded in 1908, the last year of Emperor Guangxu’s reign. It published about a hundred of books of novels. This volume was merely smaller than that of the Commercial Press and Novel Forest Press in the history of novels in the late Qing Dynasty. Among its published novels, 80% are original works. No other publishing house of its contemporary had issued so many original novels. Due to the difficulty in collecting and obtaining documents, the Improved Novel Press has been rarely mentioned in the academic circle for many years. Therefore, it is necessary to collect related materials completely in order to make a systemic examination of the rising, development and decline of the Improved Novel Press and the features of its published novels.

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An Interpretation of Mo Sou (Collected Essays on Calligraphy) of the Tang Dynasty from the Perspective of Folklore

CHANG Yun-he

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 20-25.

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Mo Sou (Collected Essays on Calligraphy) of the Tang Dynasty has been misinterpreted all the time: some claim it is vulgar, others believe it was written by the great calligraphy master Wang Xizhi. Taking advantage of the research findings of modern folklore, this thesis probes into the issues such as the author of Mo Sou, its completion process, the features of its writing technique teachings and its social background and finds out that Mo Sou was not completed in a short time by a single author. In fact, it was added, improved and eventually finalized to be its extant version during the popular spreading in the Tang Dynasty. Its writing technique teachings are as same as those of folk arts and crafts and characterized by being systemic, confidential and mysterious. The appearance of Mo Sou was closely related to the demands for writing in classic copying, imperial examination system and political administration in the Tang Dynasty.

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The Theme of Han Yu’s “Preface of Seeing off Li Yuan, Who Is Returning to Pangu”: Analysis and Correction

Shao Ming-zhen

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 26-31.

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As a masterpiece in the history of ancient Chinese essays, Han Yu’s “Preface of Seeing off Li Yuan, Who Is Returning to Pangu” has been always highly evaluated. It is believed that its theme is to praise hermits’ pleasure of living in mountain and forests, satirize arrogant people of higher status as well as those who shamelessly serve them and abandon themselves to power and money. However, a careful reading of the “Preface”, together with an examination in the context of Han Yu’s thoughts and life, shows that the common understanding of the essay is improper. In other words, “praising” and “revealing” are not Han Yu’s real intention.

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Liang Qichao’s Rediscovery of the Lyric Tradition in Chinese Literature in 1920s

ZHANG Guan-fu

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 32-37.

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In the context of the New Culture Movement, Liang Qi-chao corrected his position in earlier years of emphasizing reforming Chinese literature by learning from European literature with an undervaluation of traditional Chinese literature, especially the orthodox literature of poetry. He gave a new analysis and interpretation of the history of Chinese poetry in the frame of studies of ancient Chinese civilization. He argued that the lyric spirit is the fundamental spirit of Chinese literature. In clarifying and explicating the profound lyric tradition in ancient China, he spoke highly of Qu Yuan, Tao Yuan-ming and Du Fu because of their personalities and poetic achievements. Liang Qi-chao rediscovered the lyrical tradition in Chinese literature so as to take it as an important resource and paradigm for the construction of new literature and new culture. Here we will find some disagreement and dialogues between Liang and the mainstream discourse in the New Culture Movement and literary revolution.

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On the Heritage of Marx’s Concept of State

ZHANG Wen-xi

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 38-45.

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To explain a concept of state based on historical situations is better and more precise than from perspective of instrumentalism or expressionism. This thesis attempts to recognize the heritage of Marx in the intellectual history, clarify Marx’s concept of state in the tradition of Marxism and the tradition of western thought in general, and understand clearly the features and connotations of Marx’s concept of state. Hereby we recognize the relation between the self and history, and, more importantly, prevent the arbitrary dispelling of the self so as to transform the “personal” control to the “interdependence of united individuals”.

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Rethinking of the Three Mistakes in the Study of “Post-Marxism”

SUN Liang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 46-51.

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It is difficult to define the real connotations of post-Marxist and post-Marxist. Some scholars in China accept the view of J. Geras and Wood. Concerning this view, we should return to the methodology of “criticizing the premise of theoretical thinking” and then to reflect on such three questions: Should we give priority to the standards of “historical materialism” or the regression to the “democratic” context? How can we define the operation platform and the methodological limits of “post-modernism”? Post-Marxism has no theoretical contribution or we should “reasonably evaluate” its contribution to the innovation in the research paradigm of historical materialism? Obviously, after clarifying all the above-mentioned questions, we will find theoretical flaws in current study of “post-Marxism”. It is necessary to rethink the reasonability of the research paradigm of post-Marxism so as to promote the research on post-Marxism of Laclau and Mouffe.

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On the Classical Pragmatism from the Perspective of Fallibilism (By ZHANG Liu-hua)

ZHANG Liu-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 52-59.

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In the revival of pragmatism, a perplexing problem is how to get the point of the pragmatic maxim. This paper argues that falliblism is the kernel of pragmatism at least in the classical sense, and wherein pragmatism offers an appropriate conception of normativity against the prevalent logic of dogmatism or of scepticism.

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On Rorty’s Anti-essential Ethics and the Issue of Relativism

KONG Wen-qing

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 60-66.

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Through discussing Rotry’s pragmatist epistemology and ethics, this thesis examines the reason why Rotry’s anti-essential ethics is always labeled as relativism, and how he responds to this critique. Moreover, the thesis further discusses the issue that the virtue ethics is labeled as relativism as well. This critique is of no significance since it is built on essentialism.

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Three Kinds of Discourse of Daoist Liberalism

CAI Zhi-dong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 67-73.

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Daoist liberalism has obviously been an intellectual tendency in China’s society since the 20th century. To foster liberalism in the cultural soil of traditional Daoism, Daoist liberalism has developed three kinds of discourses: firstly, political liberalism, which put forward an argument from the idea of wuwei in Daoism that the ruling class should control its action on one hand, and respect the political subjectivity of people on the other; secondly, tiandao-liberalism, which equates the idea of tiandao (Dao of Nature) in Daoism with the Western concept of the law of nature; thirdly, a comprehensive liberalism based on spiritual freedom stressed by Zhangzi and other philosophers of Daoism, which helps to solve the weakness of political literalism in the construction of spiritual world. Which insights and blind spots are included in these arguments? Is Daoist liberalism possible? This thesis tries to answer these questions.

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A Tentative Study on the Legal Independence in Modern China

WANG Li-min

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 74-81.

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This article is divided into four parts. The first part discusses some general issues concerning the legal independence in modern China, which includes the definition of legal independence, its relationship with regime and sovereignty and its transformation during the Opium War. The second to the fourth parts cover other legal problems closely related to consular jurisdiction, concession, Hongkong and Macao in modern China. The discussion involves the immediate causes of China’s loss in legal independence and the consequences thereof as well as China’s efforts and achievements in restoring its legal independence.

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The Truth and Proposition in Law: Review On Patterson’s Law and Truth

SHAN Feng & CHEN Kun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 82-91.

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A great variety of propositions of law are used in legal practice. Does a proposition of law have its true value? What does it mean to say that a proposition of law is true? In answering these questions, Patterson criticizes legal formalism of Ernest Weinrib, moral realism of Michael Moore, semantics theory of David Brink, legal positivism of Hart and Dworkin and law interpretation theory of Stanley Fish. Moreover, combining the “modalities” (forms of argument) that Philip Bobbitt raised in constitutional interpretation and W. V. Quine’s “maxim of minimum mutilation”, he puts forward his own theory of propositions of law and explains the possibility of knowledge in legal field. Patterson also emphasizes the autonomous feature of the legal system and the judicial practice as well.

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The Institutional Obstacles in the Rehabilitation of Special Population and Their Countermeasures

WANG Rui-shan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 92-96.

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Special population’s most obvious symbol is their special social experience and living status. Some of them (such as the mental patients) lack competence, others have special social experience (such as a penalty). They have certain difficulties in adapting or returning to normal social life, and hence need special care and help from the society. This article focuses on the institutional obstacles, as well as their causes, for special population to return back to their normal social life, and put forwards suggestions about how to eliminate these obstacles and construct the management and service system of special population.

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On the Narrative Structure of Zuo Zhuan and Its “Implication” Based on the Historical Facts during the Reigns of Duke Yin and Duke Huang: An Interpretation of Zuo Zhuan from the Perspective of Historical Aesthetics (Part Ⅰ)

LU Xin-sheng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 97-109.

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Zuo Zhuan (Zuo’s Commentary on Spring and Autumn) is not only a “classic” but also the only book of “history” in the “thirteen classics”. As the origin and source of Chinese historical writing, Zuo Zhuan implies “historical aesthetics”, which not only has had a profound influence on the development of Chinese historical writing, but also will help us overcome the absence of human beings in the shadow of things in current historical study.

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On the Formative Education in the First Years of the Republic of China: A Case Study on Republic Textbooks Issued by the Commercial Press

QU Jun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 110-115.

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The establishment of new style school institutions and the vigorous rising of “printing capitalism” provided strong motivation of creating blended education system at that time. Moreover, the sudden occurrence of the Revolution of 1911 had solidified and deepened this education system. Textbooks, the core of this education system, had played an important role in the transformation of the formative education system in the first years of the Republic of China. The complexity of the compiling process of these textbooks and the richness of their forms and contents reflect multi-aspects of the formative education, as well as the society as a whole, in the first years of the Republic of China.

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Evolution of Gender-based Division of Labor in Rural Areas: A Case Study on Tangcun Village in Northern Hu’nan Province in the Collectivization Period

LI Bin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 116-120.

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In the Collectivization Period, the gender-based division of labor in rural areas experienced a change from “men working in the fields while women sitting at the loom” and “men responsible for external affairs while women responsible for internal affairs” to both men and women engaged in farming work. At the beginning of the Period, rural women were still engaged in traditional handicraft and subsidiary production. In order to solve the shortage of labor force in agriculture, young women were mobilized to participate in farming work. Women’s involvement in productive work will advance their emancipation- this is essential to the idea of women’s emancipation in China. However, women’s participation in farming work did not achieve gender equality, which the ideology had promised. There is no causality between women’s participate in farming work and their emancipation.

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On the Differentiation of Housing Price to Income Ratio in Chinese Cities

DING Zu-yu

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 121-127.

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As an important index that measures whether the housing price matches people’s income, housing price to income ratio has strong regional characteristics. The housing price to income ratio varies in China’s different cities. This thesis uses the rank-size analysis method to study the major trends of housing price to income ratio of 287 Chinese cities from 2006 to 2010, and then uses the principal component analysis and cluster analysis methods to divide Chinese Cities into five types and analyzes the detail of this ratio in each type city. The result shows that: (1) The differentiation of housing price to income ratio in Chinese Cities shows a trend of expansion from 2006 to 2010, and big cities’ ratios rose more obviously. (2) From the first-tier cities to the fourth tier cities, housing price to income ratio showed a downward trend; (3) Resource-based cities’ housing price to income ratio was between the third-tier cities and fourth-tier cities. (4) Regression analysis shows that urbanization rate had positive influences on housing price to income ratio, but GDP had weak positive influence.

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The Relationship between Real Estate and Financial Industries Based on I-O Model: Empirical Research on the Case of Yangtze River Delta

XIE Fu-quan & HUANG Jun-hui

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 128-136.

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It is crucial to quantize the relationship between real estate and financial industries and to make countermeasures against existing drawbacks for their development. Taking Yangtze River Delta as an example, using the input-output analysis to quantize the relationship between real estate and financial industries, and comparing with that in different countries, we find that in this area, real estate industry depends too much on financial industry; the dependency is much above the international level; and to some extent, the correlation between real estate industry, financial industry and construction industry has some unreasonable factors, which lead to weaken the relationship between real estate industry and construction industry. Also, real estate industry has too weak connections with itself. There are some differences among provinces in Yangtze River Delta, and causes of these differences are complicated. In the long term, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems in or even beyond Yangtze River Delta, we should start from two directions: one is “reform and innovation”, the other is “risk precaution”.

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Theoretical Model and Empirical Analysis of Early Warning on Shanghai’s Real Estate Market

WANG Sheng, DI Qing & BAI Yu-chen

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 137-144.

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The fluctuation of real estate market will perplex other sections and even the whole national economy. Therefore, the early warning of this fluctuation is very important. Combining the method of forecasting through statistical fitting and the 6-sigma early warning method, this paper selects key indexes of price, sales volume, investment and coordination degree in Shanghai’s real estate market to fit into the established model. The result shows that there is difference in the price affection model among several sub-markets in Shanghai. While the comparative price ratio of outside-ring district was mainly related with sales rather than investment factors, the comparative price ratio of inner-middle districts was more related with the matter of supply-demand and reasonable investment ratio. Thus, we can make respective forecasting models, alarming statistics, and early warning control charts reflecting the reality.

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The Fair Distribution of Public Rental Housing: A Case Study on the Netherlandish Mode and Its Inspiration

HU Jin-xing & CHEN Jie

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (3): 145-150.

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Fair distribution is the lifeblood of public rental housing allocation, which includes five dimensions such as allocation criteria justice, allocation process justice, information justice, interactional justice and distributive justice. The governments of the Netherlands have focused on the fair distribution of public rental housing since the end of the World War II, and have taken successively the distribution model and the choice-based letting model to improve the fair distribution. The Dutch experience provides inspiration for us in this field. The public rental housing allocation should adhere to the principle of fair distribution and should advance systematically fair distribution from the following five aspects: distribution mechanism, distribution system, distribution institution, distribution operation scheme and housing allowance system.

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Restoration Study on the Reading Method and Meaning of the Original Linear Text of The Zhou Book of Changes

FU Hui-sheng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 1-14.

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Confucius, in his understanding of The Zhou Book of Changes, took the linear text as the source domain to elaborate its philosophy, while the linear text was the target domain of the sixty-four hexagram system as the source domain. Therefore, the linear text became a double face mirror. After Confucius, people continued his way of elaboration, and formulated “the three two-line reading model” in The Appendices to The Zhou Book of Changes. Therefore, the original “two three-line reading model” as the historian-sorcerer’s method went into oblivion, and the original textural meanings became vague and fragmental. The later exposition and the annotation of the linear text up to now have long been unable to be close and appropriate to the original. In the perspective of history, before the sixties of the twentieth century, it was unimaginable to restore the original reading model and the textual meaning, even though many scholars tried hard. Now the development of linguistic philosophy and linguistics, especially the philosophy in the flesh and the cognitive linguistics, makes it possible for us to apply these knowledge and methods to the archaeological reading and study of the original text. Possibly some words in the text were revised or added for omissions in the past, but on the whole, the original method and meaning of the linear text have been basically restored through four steps: the two-trigram structure, vertical and horizontal image lines, dynamic holistic-partial integrated analysis and cultural and thinking characteristic analysis. The restored linear text demonstrates the three characteristics recorded in The Zuo’s Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals: changing images, Ji Dan’s virtue and the ideological foundation of hegemony of the Zhou Dynasty.

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A New Study on the Recognition Parameters of the Inquiring Act

CHEN Jia-xuan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 15-19.

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The tone of speaking has a function of speech act. Inquiring is an important tone and its basic function is “acquiring information”. Inquiring is not only related to a declarative act of “giving information”, but also related to an imperative act, which is act-demanding, and a promising act, which is act-giving. Then, how can we identify a certain speech act as inquiring? Besides the acceptable formal marks such as interrogative intonation, pronouns, patterns, and modal particles, there are other recognition parameters of the inquiring act: interrogative auxiliary word, single-noun sentence, incomplete sentence, contextual position, especially “punctuation” and the structure of adjacent pair.

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The Coherence of the Narrative at a Court Trial: A Cognitive Schemata Perspective

YU Su-qing

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 20-26.

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Due to the complicated narrative process of a court trial, the coherence of the narrative presents complexity and multilayer. Previous researchers have focused on its chronological sequencing, logic sequencing, and thematic sequencing. Since any narrative act involves an exchange of information, an analysis of the coherence of the narrative at a court trial from the perspective of the prototype and its variations in cognitive schemata is conducive to the understanding of the fundamental features of the narrative at a court trial.

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Language Expectation and Language Variation in Rural Areas in the Process of Urbanization: Based on an Investigation of Huaxi Dialect Pronunciation

Xiong Xianghua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 27-33.

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According to social linguistics, the transformation of a dialect is mainly restricted by social conditions such as population migration, the division of administrative regions and geographical environment on the one hand and by psychological factors such as language attitude and language emotion on the other. The investigation of the pronunciation transformation of Huaxi dialect in Guiyang shows that other elements, together with the above-mentioned factors, play an important role. The popularity of the mass media, which mainly uses mandarin, and the popularization of education in schools, which takes mandarin as the campus language, are more important social elements. In the process of urbanization, people’s language expectation deriving from their life expectation is an important psychological element in the pronunciation transformation of a dialect.

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Opening the Transcendent Perspective of “Being”: Overcoming the Misunderstanding in the Study of Parmenides’ Philosophy

ZHONG Jin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 34-40.

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Hegel led the study of Parmenides’ philosophy into a wrong path. He neglected the metaphysical nature of philosophy in his understanding of the concept of “Being”. It ought to be an inescapable duty for all historians of philosophy to take on the metaphysical perspective so as to probe into the deep implications of Parmenides in philosophy and the history of philosophy as well. This will make it clear that without the transcendent perspective, ontology, as an essential part of philosophy, will also lead to a wrong path.

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Is There “Transparent White”?: Philosophical Significance of Late Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour

JIANG Yu-hui

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 41-48.

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Remarks on Colour is no doubt one of the most controversial manuscripts of later Wittgenstein. To fully comprehend its profound but sometimes intricate arguments, we need to put it back into the overarching development of his thinking, that is, from Tractatus to Investigation and beyond. If the aporia of “colour exclusion” can be considered as the main motivation leading to the rupture of his early system, the indeterminacy of colour percept/concept which was originally proposed as a feasible solution has also some implicit meaning within its context. With the contributions from contemporary colour science, this thesis intends to bring this meaning to light.

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The Change of “the Other” behind the Theory of “Hermeneutic Circle”

SONG Jian

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 49-53.

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“The other” is related to both epistemological difference and ontological externality. In the stage of “words-text” and “text-historical context”, “the other” as epistemological difference received universal attention, and correspondingly, hermeneutic was regarded as the skill or art to understand “the other”. In the stage of “tradition-the subject in understanding”, “the other” as ontological externality became evident. It is clear that the benign development of the hermeneutic circle demands seeking common ground with “the other” at the epistemological level on the one hand, and reserving differences with “the other” at the ontological level on the other. It remains as a difficult theoretical problem for hermeneutics to keep the balance of these two levels.

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The Compromise between Socialism and Consumerism in China

GE Kai

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 54-60.

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How did the consumerism survive under the ideology of communism in China in 1950s? Consumerism continued to exist in a society with a different ideology after 1949. What were policies behind this continuity? What was the international influence from other socialist countries? Through examining the advertisements in 1950s, this thesis aims to illustrate that there were various continuities, rather than sharp breakage, in the societies around 1949. This can help us understand why consumerism re-flourished in a sudden moment in China after the practice of reform and opening up policy. This study can also be seen as a response to the changed international trend in the research of Chairman Mao’s, that is, from studying what had been changed to studying what had been inherited in Chairman Mao’s time.

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The Jiaozhou Bay Incident: Its Origin, Negotiation and Crux

MA Yong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 55-61.

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The Jiaozhou Bay Incident occurred in the end of 1897 had a great impact on China’s historical course after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. It brought a great test for the reform movement which was just initiated at that time. Young intellectuals such as Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong generally believed that China had fallen into a crisis of life and death. With reference to new and old documents, a careful analysis of the sequence of events, cause and effect of the Jiaozhou Bay Incident will reveal that there was little political hue of this incident. Germany had intention to set up a naval base in China so as to effectively protect its benefits in the Far East and its investment in China and seek the counter-balance with big powers. The Chinese government didn’t absolutely reject the requirement of Germany, but it had not found a win-win solution to this issue.

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A New Study on Civil Litigation in the Han Dynasty

ZHANG Zhao-yang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 62-71.

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The valuable documents of three cases excavated from Juyan, that is, “Kou En Case”, “Zhao Xuan Case” and the “Dead Foal Case”, are crucial for the study on civil litigation in the Han Dynasty. However, it has always been controversial in their interpretations: Does “Kou En Case” show that the Han government tended to penalize civil affairs? Why the repayment demanded in “Zhao Xuan Case” did not match the debts? And what is the nature of the sentence in the “Dead Foal Case”? With a thorough analysis of the bamboo slips of Juyan in the Han Dynasty and a comparative study of similar cases, we find that the Han government did not tend to penalize civil affairs, the mismatching of the repayment and debts in “Zhao Xuan Case” is a false impression caused by the wrong estimation of times of dun for debts, and the sentence of the “Dead Foal Case” is mainly civil in nature. Furthermore, we can discern the noticeable features of civil litigation in the Han Dynasty in the light of The Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year excavated from Zhangjiashan, Hubei Province. These features show that civil litigation was obviously different from criminal litigation, and civil litigation had entered the advanced stage of being heard according to the law.

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On UNESCO and OECD’s Discourses about Equal Access to Education

DOU Wei-lin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 72-81.

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As an important foundation of social fairness, equal access to education has been paid much attention by international organizations. UNESCO and OECD, the two typical and influential international organizations, issued a series of educational reports concerning equal access to education, which have deepened the understanding of equal access to education and influenced the educational policies in each country. With an analysis of related reports on equal access to education of these two international organizations, this thesis reveals the similarities and differences of these two international organizations in their understandings and policies of equal access to education, as well as what China can learn from them.

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On the Formation of China’s Image in the Field of Climate Change from the Perspective of International Communication

ZHANG Li-jun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 82-87.

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China hopes to build an image of a responsible country in the field of climate change, but the reality is far from this. China suffers from many negative labels, which have formed an international image of China as a climate threat. From the perspective of international communication, the image of “China as a climate threat” results from several elements, including the cooperation of diversified international communication bodies, the common transmission of diversified channels, and the adopted transmission ways fit to international public emotions and ethics. That China pays attention to this fact, builds an appropriate model of foreign communication and fights for China’s discourse power in climate diplomacy is the key to eliminating the rumor that China is a climate threat and reshaping China’s moral image in the field of climate change.

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Three Dimensions of the Communist Party of China’s Doctrine of Fairness

SONG Jin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 88-94.

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In the broad sense, fairness can be divided into fairness of the starting point, fairness of the course and fairness of the result. The doctrine of fairness of the CPC (Communist Party of China) includes all these three kinds of fairness. The CPC regards fairness of the socio-political system as the fairness of the starting point and as the precondition of the realization of social fairness. With regards to fairness of the course, the CPC emphasizes the crucial role of administrating by law in the realization of fairness, regarding administrating g by law as the basic guarantee for the realization of fairness of the course. Concerning fairness of the result, the CPC devotes itself to keeping the balance between fairness and efficiency, regarding the maintaining of people’s well-being as the basic method to promote fairness of the result. Respectively concerning social and political institution, fundamental state policy and fairness of distribution, Fairness of the starting point, fairness of the course and fairness of the result form the three dimensions of the CPC’s doctrine of fairness.

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Transcending the “Dualistic Predicaments”: Marx’s Analysis of Social Structure and Its Methodological Feature

DU Yu-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 95-101.

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Structural analysis is an important construction for Marx to solve the “historical puzzle” and create his theory of social structure. Unfortunately, for a long time, there have been various predicaments of “binary oppositions” in all kinds of Western theoretical analyses of social structure. As a result, although the analysis of social structure was used widely, a tradition of scientific and efficient methodologies has not been formed in fact. In this regard, we should return to Marxist classical tradition. By studying Marx’s analysis of social structure, we find that Marx’s method of structural analysis, which is characterized by the unity of totality and individuality, abstractness and concreteness, stability and dynamic, objectivity and subjectivity, will help us transcend traditional predicaments of “binary oppositions”.

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The Establishment of Aboriginal Consultative Organization in the Period of Whitlam Regime

WANG Shi-ming

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 102-110.

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In 1960s-1970s, the positive change of Australian policy towards aboriginals is closely related to the daily loosening of the “White Australia Policy”. In early 1970s, when Gough Whitlam held high the banner of reform and promoted the multi-cultural policy, Australian aboriginals met an unprecedented opportunity of changing their own fate. When the labor party regarded “autonomy” as the direction and aim of the reform of the policy towards aboriginals, the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee was established, which was the first step of the reform. The establishment of this organization to some extent reflects the fact that aboriginals as a whole hope to influence the policies of the government. However, due to the restricts of objective conditions, this organization, which has merely symbolic meaning rather than real influence, cannot play the expected role.

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Evaluation and Forecast of BRICS Cooperation

NIU Hai-bin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 111-117.

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With the deepening of BRICS’ cooperation, there are controversies about the prospect of BRICS’ cooperation, especially the arguments that the unity of BRICS will break, the unity is unworkable or have a conflicting agenda with the West. At the end of the first round of summit meetings of BRICS, it is conductive to the sound development of BRICS’ cooperation to understand the significance and prospect of BRICS’ cooperation properly. The past five years’ cooperation has proved that BRICS is an emerging force with an open, progressive and cooperative spirit. Its cooperation foundation has been consolidated, its cooperation mechanism has been deepened and its influence has benefits the world as a whole. How to integrate the influence of BRICS to current international institutions has become the key to the construction of an effective global governing system. In order to achieve a better prospect of BRICS’ cooperation, we need to improve the global governing system in a gradual way, which demands deepened internal cooperation among BRICS members and the cooperation spirit among leading powers as well. Which role will China play in BRICS cooperation? This is a crucial question.

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Globalization of Chinese Brand and the Brand Strategy of Embedding Chinese Elements: A Case Study on Li Ning

HE Jia-xun

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 118-124.

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The big challenge that Chinese multinationals face is how to build a global brand when they have already expanded their business on a global scale. For the enterprises, it is an important brand strategy to give consideration to Chinese and Western cultural differences and to blend the values and elements of the two cultures to build the global orientation of Chinese brands. With theoretical and practical analyses, this thesis elaborates on the important strategy of Chinese leading companies, that is, embedding Chinese cultural elements in the product design. This strategy has been successfully applied by Li-Ning since 1999. Chinese leading companies can learn more from Li’s practice in enhancing their value-added brand image in the world.

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Focusing on Main Business and Diversifying Investment: Compatibility or Contradiction?:A Case Study on Youngor

YE De-lei ＆ TIAN Yan-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 125-130.

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If Youngor simply and mechanically had focused on the development of garment industry in the time of listing, it would have been restricted by a series of environmental factors. In a specific stage of economic development in China, it is reasonable for Youngor to choose the three carriages of garment industry, real estate and financial investment as its industrial layout. Youngor’s practice should not be simply interpreted as ignoring its proper occupation. Focusing on main business does not mean that a company should not be involved in any other industry or business at any time. The development mode of Youngor brings enlightenment to others, but it should not be simply imitated. Youngor’s practice of investment choice actually reflects the development environment of China’s real economy. What we need to do is to clean up and optimize the economic environment rather than simply require enterprises to follow certain rules or disciplines.

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Short-term Wealth Effect and Performance Increase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Case Study on Shares of Shanghai Friendship Group Inc. Merged Shanghai Bailian Group Co.

WANG Xia & RAO Ying-ying

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 131-137.

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This thesis applies the event study method and accounting method to investigate the case that Shares of Shanghai Friendship Group Inc. merged Shanghai Bailian Group Co. This M&A created positive short-term wealth effect on both the amalgamated company and the target company. The financial situation and profitability of Shares of Shanghai Friendship Group Inc. has been improved. This thesis shows that market investors has affirmed Shanghai SASAC promoted the integration of advantage assets to realize the “Four Center Goal”. For shareholders, M&A has created the positive wealth effect and the short-term financial performance has been increased.

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Institutional Investors’ Activism, Venture Shareholders’ Control Rights Competition and Corporate Governance: A Case Study on NVC Lighting Technology Corporation

ZHANG Mu-bin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (4): 138-144.

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With the example of NVC Lighting Technology Corporation, this thesis examines the influences of institutional investors’ activism on venture shareholder’s control rights and corporate governance. This research reveals that constantly dispersed shareholding structure and increasingly powerful institutional investors will become normal in China. Whether institutions as large shareholders will improve corporate governance depends in part on their objectives, their preference and cost-revenue tradeoff. In the long term, institutional investors’ activism will promote corporation governance, and help to improve venture shareholders’ financial abilities and risk prevention abilities, and will contribute to a mature professional managers market and more powerful protection of stakeholders’ interests.

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The Transformation of the Role of China in Global Production Networks

Tang Haiyan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 1-9.

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Based on the theory of intra-product international specialization and the technique of value chain decomposition, this paper carries out an in-depth investigation of the transformation of the role of China in the global production network (GPN) from the aspects of quantity, products and regions. It shows that the role of China in the GPN has transformed from “a processing workshop” into “a production base” or even “a world factory” after over ten years’ efforts in industry upgrading. China has played a dominant role in the GPN of low technology products, but still played a subordinate role in the GPN of medium and high technology products. However, the subordinate degree of China is much smaller than many developing countries and even some high income countries. China acts as an important hinge in regional production networks and links these geographically separate networks into an integrate GPN through the bilateral “triangular trade”. The degree of collaboration with China, “a world factory”, determines the competitiveness of a regional production network to some extent.

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Influence Factors on Private Enterprises’ Contributions to Strategic Emerging Industries

CHENG Gui-sun, ZHU Hao-jie & ZHANG Yong

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 10-16.

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By using China’s strategic emerging industries panel data from 1998 to 2010, this paper constructs a theoretical model and makes empirical analysis on influence factors on private enterprises’ contributions to strategic emerging industries. The result shows that some factors, including industry profit, industry incomes and the number of enterprises, the R&D funds, the number of patents, the export delivery value and the R&D inputs of the government, will have positive influences on the market performance of private enterprises in developing strategic emerging industries; but the factors such as the number of employees, the industry output value, the output value of foreign companies and the number of the state-owned enterprises will have negative impacts. This paper also makes suggestions as to how we can encourage private enterprises to enter and develop strategic emerging industries.

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Structural Adjustment of China’s Financial Market: The Way to Avoid Crisis with the Liberalization of Capital Control

ZHOU Lian-shi

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 17-23.

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The countries in practicing the liberalization of capital control have roughly experienced three different consequences: no crisis, no crisis but the imbalance occurred in national economy, and financial crisis. China’s financial market has high similarities with the third category. Besides its small scale of the market with low resistance of risk, the speculative factor is quite active, which originates from the disproportion of China’s market structure. Therefore, according to the financial structure theory of Raymond W. Goldsmith, we need to carry out structural adjustment of financial market so as to avoid financial crisis with the liberalization of capital control. We should establish a structure of capital market with the core business of corporate bonds, set up a structure of monetary market with the note discounts as the major part, and strengthen the connection between fundamental and derivative financial futures markets.

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On the Hot Spots in China’s Employability Studies

JIA Li-jun, GUAN Jing-juan,& YANG Ya-bei

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 18-24.

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Based on co-term analysis, this paper explores the hot spots and their interrelations in employability studies as well as their social and economical implications. The hot spots mainly lie in higher education, higher vocational education, teaching reform and employment guidance. Driven by the knowledge-based economy, an ability-based society has been taking shape and employability has become a core element during the new round upgrading of human resources. As a result, in order to provide human resources with good quality for further development of economy, higher education must optimize its own personnel training strategy based on the trends of economic structure readjustment. Meanwhile, it’s also essential to accelerate the upgrading of higher vocational colleges and to comprehensively promote the guidance of career development and management throughout the process of personnel training.

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The Concept of Responsibility in the Textbooks on Self-cultivation in the Early Years of the Republic of China

GU Hong-liang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 25-32.

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The introduction of Western theories of free will and rights into China since the late Qing Dynasty helped to open a new perspective for modern intellectuals to understand responsibility. In other words, responsibility became a modern value. An examination on the concept of responsibility in the textbooks on self-cultivation in the early years of the Republic of China will show us an unfamiliar theoretical discourse. In the frame of moral responsibility, these textbooks give a more reasonable justification for the undertaking of moral responsibility in combing the theory of free will with the doctrine of the innate knowledge of good. The acceptance of legal obligation, besides moral responsibility, results in a modern transformation in Confucian idea of responsibility. While at the level of law, rights and obligations are equal, at the level of ethics, moral responsibility precedes moral rights: one can enjoy his or her moral rights only if he or she has borne his or her moral responsibility well. In teaching people a normal system of responsibility, these textbooks really attempt to lead modern Chinese people to become Confucians with a sense of responsibility. They are aimed at fostering modern Confucians rather than constructing the identity of modern national members.

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A Comparative Study of Mou Zongsan’s Early Theory of Perfection and Later Theory of Unity

YANG Ze-bo

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 33-39.

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Mou Zongsan’s theory of unity consists of two sections: the early theory of perfection and the later theory of unity. Although the latter is more improved and at a higher spiritual level, it has more mistakes in some crucial theoretical issues, especially taking formlessness as a new a priori principle of unity and explaining formlessness with the concept of “putting down”. Because of these mistakes, Mou’s later theory of unity is much more confusing and complicated so that it is less accurate than his early theory of perfection.

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Natural Way and Social Order: The Political Wisdom in Liji

ZHU Cheng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 40-45.

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Liji (The Book of Rites) elaborates on the Confucian wisdom of the unity between natural way and social order. In Liji, daily life and political life are founded on and then justified and authorized by the ultimate natural order in all things under heaven. Knowing the world and knowing human are united in connecting nature, life and politics. Therefore, we should take consideration of and show respect for the dimension of nature in human activities so as to achieve the harmony between human behavior and natural order.

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The Philosophical Implications of “Listening”: Centering on the relationship between “Listening”, “a Sound” and “the Human Being”

WU Long

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 46-51.

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It seems that we have ignored “listening” as an important way to know the world and ourselves. The ancient Chinese character for “listening” itself embodies well a deep philosophical understanding: by listening we reach and obtain something with our ears. In terms of the relation between “a sound” and “listening”, we can make a distinction between listening to “a sound” and listening to “silence”, i.e., the sound of heart. As the agent of listening, the human being exists in the whole practical process of listening, which cannot be merely understood as an instant action. One can also recognize a different world and a different self through “listening”.

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The Modern Significance of the Buddhist Concept of Death

LI Hai-bo

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 52-56.

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The traditional standard of cardiac death has been challenged with the advancement of modern medical technology. The newly proposed standard of brain death, which mainly caters for the demand of organ transplantation, wears a color of utilitarianism and is vulnerable to condemning from humanism. The uncertainty of the medical standard of death has brought about a lot of disputes in the fields of law, ethics, politics, etc. Buddhism holds a special concept of death, regarding “the being of death”, which constitutes one of the four life stages, as a clear boundary between life and death. Buddhism also uses “life, warmth, consciousness” as clinical indexes to judge death. The standard of death provided by Buddhism can effectively resolve the contemporary contradictions between the standard of death and organ transplantation.

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The Doctrine of “the Self-realization of the Original Enlightenment” in The Awakening of Faith

MENG Shu-yuan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 57-62.

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The structure of “the Two Aspects of One Mind” in The Awakening of Faith demonstrates well that Chinese Buddhism is characterized by its emphasis on the self-realization of the original enlightenment and the dimension of internal transcendence. Prominently promoting the subjectivity of a human being in his becoming a Buddha, The Awakening of Faith is a landmark in the process of humanization of Chinese Buddhism. Its theory of Mind-substance holds the unity of substance and function, mind-pollution and mind-purification, and enlightenment and non-enlightenment. It presents a new doctrine of “the original enlightenment of True Thusness”, according to which True Thusness can realize it’s self-salvation and return to its original purification through the cultivation practice of the self-realization of the original enlightenment.

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On The National Obligation to Provide Housing Security

LING Wei-ci

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 63-68.

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After the disintegration of the “public rental housing allocation system” under the planned economy system, China has gradually built a new housing policy system which regulates the free housing market on the one hand and provides affordable housing on the other. It has been an important issue in the institutional construction and theoretical study to what extent the state has the obligation to provide housing security under legal restrictions. This paper analyses two levels of the national obligation on housing security with legal concepts “basic life” and “basic housing need”, maintaining that the security of basic housing need should be strictly restricted by laws and the constitution, while the security of those beyond basic housing need should respect administrational discretion, which should be based on improved democratic elements in policy making.

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Fairness, Justice and Judicial Public Faith

JIANG De-hai

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 69-76.

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Being essential to judicature, fairness and justice constitutes the premise of judicial public faith. Judicature with no fairness and justice has no judicial public faith. The history of judicature witnesses not only constantly advancing fairness and justice but also continuously improving judicial public faith. In modern times, judicial public faith is not only the requirement of democracy, but also the demand that the judicature must meet in order to reach social stability and present human wisdom. The more advanced our society is, the more powerful judicial public faith it will have. To improve judicial public faith, fairness and justice of judicature must be built. It is absolutely the necessary courage and wisdom to hold the banner of fairness and justice highly and rightly in the process where judicature guards the implementation of the constitution and judicial public faith is enhanced.

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Moulding the Image of the Party-nation: The Movie Education Movement in Zhejiang Province in 1930s

FENG Xiao-cai

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 77-84.

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Since their introduction into China, movies have been closely related to political propaganda. When the Nanjing National Government was founded in 1927, movies were taken as a shortcut technological method to mould the image of the party-nation effectively and provide discipline education for the common people. Since the early 1930s, the authorities of the Nanjing Government had promoted the Movie Education Movement with great efforts. Hangzhou was an important center. Hangzhou Affiliate of China’s Association of Movie Education and Zhejiang Education Department jointly organized mobile movie projection teams, who went deep into towns and countries in the whole province to show movies. Movies became an important medium that made the common people know about “the image of the party-nation”. People could also come close to movies as modern invention. Obviously, both the choice of movies and the promotion of projection were closely connected with Nanjing Government’s purpose of “moulding the image of the party-nation”. However, this propaganda of the party-nation was paradoxical, and the mass education that skimmed over the surface had no practical effect in fact.

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Continuation and Transformation: China Welfare Institute in the Early Days of New China

XU Feng-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 85-97.

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In August 1950, with Zhou Englai’s support, Soong Ching Ling reorganized China Welfare Foundation and transformed it into China Welfare Institute, whose funds source was also changed from collected donations to financial grants from the government. Correspondingly, its function has been continued and meanwhile transformed: looking after women and children and the external promotion became its key points. With such an established role orientation, it was transformed from a non-government institution to an organization of people in the early days of new China. Its continuation is due to its social function and its contribution to the career of the Communist Party of China, and more importantly, due to Soong Ching Ling’s special status and her political influence. This practice of fitting a non-governmental organization into the national governmental political system weakens the original vigor of the non-governmental organization, reduces its effective social cushion space and increases the stress and financial burden of the governmental departments.

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Kojève and China: An Interpretation of Kojève’s Comments on Liang Qichao’s The Concept of Law and the Theories of in the Pre-Qin Period

XIAO Qi

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 98-105.

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This paper tries to interpret Alexandria Kojève’s view of China according to his unpublished book review written in 1927. In this review, Kojève denies Liang Qichao’s idea expressed in his History of Political Thought in the Pre-Qin Period that legalism is similar to Western theories of law. Kojève believes that the relation between Legalism and the Confucianism is merely that between a practical politics and a theoretical philosophy, and China and the Western world belong to two completely different worlds. In fact, the deeper reasons of Kojève’s belief of the particularity of Chinese culture can be found in his consideration of the particularity of the Russian road of development in 1920s. In his reflection on cultural universality and cultural particularity, Chinese culture obviously becomes a strong defense for the particular road in Russia. What’s interesting is that in all his life, Kojève has experienced intellectual transformation from the East to the West and again to the East, which is always accompanied by an attention to China or the East.

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How to Tell about Chinese Stories?: On Some Theoretical and Practical Issues in “Chinese Culture Going abroad”

HU Xiao-ming

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 107-111.

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Reflecting a new cultural strategy to meet new opportunities in the global information era, the new discourse “Chinese culture going abroad” has its own emphasis different from those in cultural exchange and cultural dissemination. By analyzing its relations between cultural dissemination, cultural exchange, cultural identity and cultural originality, we can see some mistakes in this discourse and try to find out some countermeasures. The first mistake is the unilateralization of the self, that is, to ignore or despise other dissemination powers. The second one is the exteriorization of the image. While cultural exchange is aimed to learn from other cultures with a perspective of the whole human beings rather than Chinesizing foreign countries, the “Chinese culture going abroad” policy emphasizes too much localism, or the so-called moralization and humanization advocated in ancient China. The third one is the overstress on cultural particularity. Even though there is no absolute, fixed and abstract universal value, it is formalist to refuse to learn what is beneficial for us with the excuse of the particularity of our culture and the need to “go abroad”. The fourth mistake is the cultural secularization. Therefore, first, we should separate appropriately the cultural China and the realistic China and the cultural China should keep relatively its transcendent meaning. Second, we should disseminate really good culture with connation, depth and thickness. Only with an explicit orientation in theory, we can direct our new culture strategy feasibly. Third, we should understand clearly core values in the main body of Chinese culture.

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The Absence of Subject Consciousness in Institutional Image Communication and Its Reconstruction: A Case Study on the Red Cross Crisis in the “Guo Mei-mei Scandal”

FAN Xiao-ling

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 112-122.

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An effective speech act involves both the element of speaking and that of listening, while “listening” is related to not only the behavior of the listener, but also the speaker’s paying attention to the listener’s voice. Furthermore, there are two types of listeners, that is, direct “target recipients” and indirect “non-target recipients”. In the “Guo Mei-mei scandal”, the Red Cross ignored its own subject position as a “non-target recipient”. It failed to listen effectively, so that it couldn’t speak directly, effectively, or immediately. This resulted in a gradual collapse of Red Cross’s image. Therefore, we should set up some NGO “green groups”, which pay attention to public life, public security and public interests, and help institutions listen and speak effectively.

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Shanghai Middle School Students’ Conceptual Structure of the National Images of Japan, the United States and Korea

HU Yi-ming

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 123-128.

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Any speech act is not only subjective, but also inter-subjective. The national rhetoric act is a response to the external national rhetoric act as well as an expression of domestic social will. Accordingly, “the national images of foreign countries in the mind of Chinese teenagers” is an important issue that may influence the national image cognition and international relations in future. The relevant studies in the academic circle still remain in the narrations of “individual examples” and “the impression of the author”. With a psychological and experimental “free association” method and weighting statistics, this paper tries to establish an objective analysis model to reconstruct the conceptual structure of the Japan image in teenagers. After testing some students in a middle school in Shanghai, we have following findings: first, the images of Japan, the US and Korea in the patients are positive in general; second, comparatively, the national image of Japan contains more negative information in the patients; third, the important difference between Japan and other countries is that there is a “mutual embedding” phenomenon between Japan and China in cognition. This research probes into the possibility of analyzing the images of countries in Chinese teenagers at the level of f “psychological structure” and provides a certain reference for the rhetoric of national images.

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The Dissemination of Each Chinese Province’s Image in Western Cyberworld

BAI Li-na

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 129-135.

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The image of a province is not only an important part of the image of a nation, but also an important resource for social and economic development in this province. The construction of the image lies in rhetoric, whereas the dissemination of the image relies on a certain medium. Network is the most powerful propagation medium in this age. It is an urgent task for us to know exactly the image of each Chinese province in the network, especially in Western network. With Chinese and English as the language media, this paper investigates the current dissemination of 30 Chinese provinces in Western cyberworld. It will provide references not only for the rhetoric and dissemination of the images of Chinese provinces, but also for the construction of China’s national image.

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The Oversea Newly Discovered Unpublished Historical Data about Mei Guangdi

YANG Yang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 136-143.

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Mei Guangdi is a spiritual leader of Xueheng School. The current study on Mei focuses on theoretical interpretation from the perspective of cultural conservatism and little work has been done in revealing his thought according to historical data. This is mainly due to the few extant historical data about Mei. My investigations in Harvard University Archives, Yanjing Library, Taiwan Archives of National History and Special Archives of the Kuomintang in Taiwan show evidently Mei’s excellent English when studied abroad, his initial teaching position in Harvard University as a lecturer of Chinese language, his political activities after coming back to China and the detailed information about his death because of illness.

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The Significance of Folk Custom to Literature

HUO Jiu-cang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (5): 144-147.

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What dose folk custom mean to literature? This core issue of the literary folklore has not been deeply discussed by now. In order to discuss the significance of folk custom to literature, we must understand the meaning of folk custom to contemporary life and figure out the essence of folk custom. As inherited culture of human life, folk custom originally is the legal resource of daily life. Externally, folk custom is a distinguishing feature of a special existence of life; internally, folk custom is a symbol of community identity. Only if a writer grasps the connation of folk custom, he or she is able to create excellent literary folklore works.

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The Revolutionary Era and the Rising of Philosophical Radicalism

GAO Rui-quan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 1-17.

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After a critical reflection on radicalism for 20 years, more positive discussion is in need about the Chinese radicalism in the 20th century. Radicalism, which forms a triangle with the conservatism and liberalism and serves as an instrument in analyzing the modern public intellectual history, not only shows an “attitude” or “tendency”, but also embraces some substantial theoretical “doctrine”. The social foundation for its birth can only be understood from the perspective of the social history of the “revolutionary era”. The revolution in China in the 20th century is not only political and cultural, but involves a fundamental transformation in social structure as well. The period from 1895 to 1995 has witnessed the whole “rising-declining” picture of the radicalism in the “revolutionary era”. Radicalism has political, cultural, philosophical and other dimensions. Philosophical radicalism not only provides the philosophical defense but also serves as the spiritual core for political and cultural dimensions of radicalism. The philosophical radicalism includes roughly four aspects: progressivism, the doctrine of social revolution, equalitarianism and utilitarianism. A deeper genealogical analysis is required to examine how these aspects jointly lay a philosophical foundation for radicalism.

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The Theoretical Characteristics and Practice of Chinese Cultural Conservatism in the 20th Century

HU Feng-xiang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 18-24.

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The cultural conservatism is one of the most important doctrines of cultural construction during the social transformation in China in the 20th century. Theoretically, it always insists that the construction of modern Chinese culture should be based on inheriting and transforming traditions so as to maintain the main characteristics of the nationality. In this way, the cultural conservatism is completely opposite to the cultural radicalism, which aims at “Westernization”. As a modern cultural thought, the cultural conservatism distinguishes itself from other obstinate conservatisms for its inheritance of the tradition is based on a modern self-consciousness. The performance of its representative schools such as nationalism, the Orient Culture Clique, Xueheng School and modern Confucianism shows that the contribution of the cultural conservatism mainly lies in the systematical construction of theories and modern cultural philosophy rather than in social practice, which explains well why it has been marginalized for a long time in modern society.

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Lv Simian and the Materialist Conception of History

ZHANG Gen-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 25-30.

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Lv Simian began to come into contact with the materialist conception of history in the early 20th century and expressed his agreement no later than 1920s. Especially, he advocated and performed the practice of explaining social and historical phenomena in terms of economic elements. However, differing from other materialist historians at that time, he refused to regard economic elements as the only factors and reduce all issues to them, let alone distort historical facts to adapt to a certain doctrine of historical evolution in explaining Chinese history. This bottom line of his advocating and applying the materialist conception of history was also used in his criticism of the “excessive believers of the materialist conception of history”. Such bottom-line has been not permitted in the academic and ideological situations since 1950s. In his old age, Lv seldom talked about the materialist conception of history. However, it is the fact that he adhered to the materialist conception of history in his whole life.

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Lv Simian’s Historical Study and Gu Yanwu: Inheritance and Development

LI Bo

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 31-38.

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Deeply influenced by the academics in the Qing Dynasty, Lv Simian inherits the traditional approach of reading classics first and then carrying on independent studies. Among the historical works of the Qing Dynasty, Gu Yanwu’s book Ri Zhi Lu (Record of Daily Knowing) has the most important influence on Lv Simian. Lv inherits well the study style of Gu Yanwu, who draws his conclusions according to numerous historical literatures, combines textual examination and the investigation of the reality, and emphasizes the practical function of historical writings in managing state affairs. In addition, Lv actively adapts to the trend of his time and studies history from the new academic perspective in new theoretical frameworks, which all contributes to his unprecedented achievements in the field of historical studies.

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Innate Knowledge and the Moral Foundation of Public Reason

LI Hong-wei

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 39-45.

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Similar to Kant, Rawls’ doctrine of public reason involves issues such as citizens’ cooperation intention and reciprocity. It has been ignored that the Confucian doctrine of liangzhi (innate knowledge) emphasizes the “common-sense” between the self and others: to hurt others is to hurt oneself. This contains not only the inborn sympathy (that is, the sympathy to others’ predicaments), the responsibility of mutual assistance, but also the sentiment of treating each other in a fair way. The ultimate empirical evidence for the “common-sense” of the personal experience is that “all things are one body”. This Confucian position is demonstrated in Confucius’ stress on “repay a good turn with a good turn”, especially “repay an injury with straightness”. The public appeal in the Confucian doctrine of innate knowledge makes it possible to be a foundation for the construction of public reason.

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The Progressive View of History and Traditional Spiritual Life: An Inherent Problem in Fung Yu-lan’s New Principle Learning

BAO Wen-xin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 46-51.

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From the perspective of the “concern for the times”, we can see an inherent problem in Fung Yu-lan’s system of “New Principle Learning”, i.e., the incoordination between the progressive view of history (Xin Shilun) and the transcendent sphere of Heaven and Earth (Xin Yuanren). This dates back to the divergence between the progressive Dao and the eternal Whole in Xin Lixue. This incoordination is embodied obviously in the argumentative difficulty of “revolutionary morals”. It reminds us that a common dilemma in modern China is also in Fung, that is, the dilemma of the “motivation of action to progress the history” and the “commitment of a present perfection”. Fung gradually inclines to the latter. However, the issue itself is still significant today.

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The History of Modern Chinese Literature in Light of a Rhetor: Basing on an Examination of Modern Vernacular Examples in Xiucixue Fafan

ZHANG Hong-qian & LIU Fei

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 52-61.

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It is well acknowledged that Xiucixue Fafan (An Introduction to Rhetoric) built the foundation for Chinese modern rhetoric. Chen Wangdao applies for the first time vernacular examples as a response to the bias that “rhetoric cannot be used in vernacular” in the May 4thPeriod, which plays an important role in the process of the institutionalization of modern Chinese. Therefore, by studying Xiucixue Fafan and analyzing the modern vernacular examples in the book, we can examine the history of modern Chinese literature from a new perspective. Moreover, from the selections and changes of language examples in different versions of Xiucixue Fafan we can also see Chen Wangdao’s value orientation in literature and the political influence on the standard of literature judgment.

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Wanxiang and the Literature in 1940s

ZHANG Li-bing

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 62-71.

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Wanxiang (Panorama) was a popular cultural magazine in Shanghai in 1940s, whose historical background are often described with the keywords such as “the anti-Japanese War”, “isolated island” and “enemy-occupied area”. The literature policy of the Japanese Puppet Regime, the editing principle and the market operation mechanism determine, the complicated culture environment and development of the different stages of Wanxiang and its three typical features in the followings: first, it adopts the narrative strategy of “implicit writing” about the war, containing the narration of nation state and the reflection on colonial modernity; second, literary creation turns to citizens’ daily life while the narrative language is filled with anxiety between “affirmation” and “criticism”; third, it promotes the “popular literature movement” that combines the tradition and the modern, and accommodates to both refined and popular tastes, and the “correct ideology”, “exquisite taste”and “common life” label the justified identity of popular literature. Wanxiang shows the complexity of literary history in the enemy-occupied area, enriches the literature in 1940s and presents the intricate development of modern Chinese literature.

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On the Soviet Union’s Policy of Compensation Claim against Germany after World War Ⅱ

LI Feng-yan

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 72-78.

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After World War Ⅱ, the compensation claim against Germany was greatly concerned by the Soviet Union, the U.S. and the UK because it was related to the national security and economic reconstruction of Soviet Union, the destiny of Germany, and the trend of international situations in post-war Europe. Since the Soviet Union’s compensation claim policy formulated before the Yalta conference had encountered the opposition of the U.S. and the UK, and the agreement reached by hard negotiation became a dead letter, the Soviet Union had no choice but claim compensation only in the German occupied area in the Soviet Union. The formulation, adjustment and implementation of the Soviet Union’s policy of compensation claim against Germany was reciprocal causation with the evolvement of major powers’ relations from cooperation to the Cold War after World WarⅡ. Meanwhile, it deeply changed the Soviet Union, Germany, and the post-war international situation in Europe.

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The Soviet Union and the Korean War: An Examination Centering on Soviet Activities at the United Nations

SONG Xiao-qin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 79-85.

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In the early period after World War Ⅱ, the Korean election under the UN inspection had to be held only in southern Korea due to the confrontation of the Soviet-American relations, which caused the separation of Korea into two parts. After the outbreak of the Korean War, the U.S. promptly intervened in the war in the name of the UN under the condition that the Soviet Union hadn’t returned to the Security Council in time. With the early military success of Chinese Peoples’ Voluntary Army, the Soviet Union rejected to accept the UN ceasefire suggestion, which led to the missing of a chance to end the War as early as possible. When the War came into a deadlock, the communication between the Soviet Union and the US through the UN channel promoted to open the door of the armistice negotiations. After the issue of prisoners of war (POW) was submitted into the UN, the Soviet’s adherence to the principle that all POWs should be repatriated unconditionally made the UN reach no conclusion. In short, the Soviet-American game on the Korean issue in the UN framework often results in a zero-sum rather than a win-win situation, which has had an important impact on the intensification of the Korean War and the delay of the armistice negotiations.

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The New Pattern of Urbanization: A Theoretical Interpretation of the Endogenous Development of Rural Areas

ZHANG Wen-ming & TENG Yan-hua

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 86-92.

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The new pattern of urbanization, proposed by the central government, is a new path to achieve a balanced development between urban and rural areas in the new era. This pattern hasn’t been deeply discussed in the academic circle. In 1991, Li Keqiang had proposed the basic prototype of new pattern of urbanization in the doctrine of the ternary structure of China’s economy. Borrowing the theory of endogenous development in Western sociology, this paper interprets the new pattern as “another type of development”. In essence, the new pattern attempts to provide rural society with sufficient motivations and rights, develop its self-control ability, to realize its self-sustainable mechanism so that rural areas can cope with the challenges of urbanization and industrialization, and ultimately achieve a balanced development between urban and rural areas.

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The Localization of Social Work from the Perspective of Practice Knowledge

AN Qiu-lin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 93-98.

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It is necessary and urgent to localize social work experience imported from the West in spite of its high speed development in China. Due to the lacking of enough attention to local social work practice and the deficiency of local social work experience, we still need new perspectives to find out how to localize social work in China even we know that we must do so. This paper attempts to introduce the new perspective of practice knowledge to the localization of social work.

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The Localization of Social Work from the Perspective of Practice Knowledge

AN Qiu-lin

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 99-106.

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It is necessary and urgent to localize social work experience imported from the West in spite of its high speed development in China. Due to the lacking of enough attention to local social work practice and the deficiency of local social work experience, we still need new perspectives to find out how to localize social work in China even we know that we must do so. This paper attempts to introduce the new perspective of practice knowledge to the localization of social work.

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On the Secularization in the Development of the Worldly Buddhism

TANG Zhong-mao

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 107-115.

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The “worldly Buddhism”, first promoted by Taixu and then developed by Yinshun and Zhao Puchu et al, has become the mainstream in Chinese Buddhism and been taken as a pattern accustomed to modern society. However, the current development of the worldly Buddhism has engendered various arguments and doubts centered on “secularization”. This is due to the fact that the word “secularization” itself has various interpretations, and different observers hold different stances and apply the word “secularization” in different contexts. In talking about the “secularization” of Chinese Buddhism, some observers are confined in the Chinese historical context of Chinese Buddhism with ignorance of the grand backdrop provided by theories of modernity; some believe in some Western religious sociology while neglect the difference between Chinese Buddhism and Western religions; others insist that secularization and religion are opposite to each other. Hence, it is conducive to the theoretical construction of the worldly Buddhism and the future development of Chinese Buddhism to clarify the conceptual history of the word “secularization” and its different contexts, and further to analyze and clear up the “secularization” issue in the development of the worldly Buddhism.

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The Research on the Act of Embezzlement of Controlling Shareholders of Listed Companies in China under Complete Circulation

LAN Fa-qin, LI Yong-mei & CHEN Xiao-peng

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 116-122.

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Based on the controlling shareholders decision model of the existing literatures, this paper constructs a three-stage model of controlling shareholders’ utility maximization to analyze the influence factors of the controlling shareholders’ tunneling, unloading and sustaining behaviors. Empirical studies show that the unloading behavior of controlling shareholders is primary determined by the controlling shareholders’ original shareholding ratio, injection or share repurchase ratio, private benefits multiplier of the controlling stake, and the external legal environment. Considering the embezzlement of the controlling shareholder under complete circulation and its principal causes, external legal system, information disclosure, corporate governance are all aspects that deserve much attention to protect the interests of the market participants, especially individual investors.

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The Ownership Nature and the Pay-performance Stickiness of Senior Executives

SUN Li & YANG Li-ping

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 123-131.

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The executive compensation of listed companies is characterized by secret stickiness, that is, the increase of salaries accompanied with the growth of operating performance is significantly higher than the decrease of salaries caused by the dropping of companies’ performance. This paper uses statistical regression method to analyze the data of 2475 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share market. By comparing the pay-performance stickiness of listed companies with different forms of ownership, this paper demonstrates that the pay-performance stickiness of state-owned companies is significantly stronger than that of private-owned companies. This study offers reference for further optimization for executives’ performance appraisal system in state-owned companies.

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A Macro-Economic Explanation of the Equity Premium: Evidence from China’s A-share Market

LI Wei &YAO Qiu-ping

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 132-139.

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Whether China’s A-share market exists “equity premium puzzle” has always been argued with controversy. Based on considering the impact of macroeconomic factors, such as currency liquidity, overall tax revenue and the price level on the surplus consumption ratio, and then consumer behavior habit, we construct an analytical framework. It shows that the estimated relative risk aversion coefficient of investor lies in a reasonable range (0, 10). This result revises the implausible value of relative risk aversion coefficient according to the negative correlation between the market rate of return and individual consumption growth. It also successively explains the equity premium characteristics of the domestic A-share market and hence demonstrates that China stock market does not exist the so-called “equity premium puzzle” from a particular perspective.

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RMB Internationalization Weakening the Effects on Interest Rate/Credit Channels of Monetary Policy

FANG Xian-cang

Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph 2013, 45 (6): 140-147.

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Currency internationalization not only lowers the sensitivity of investment to interest rate, but also increases the sensitivity of financial assets price to interest rate, which lowers transaction cost and promotes transaction efficiency for economic system. As a result, the IS and CC curves slope more steeply downward and the LM curve slopes more gently upward than they do without currency internationalization. So transmission mechanism of monetary policies and their effects are weakened in interest rate channel as well as in credit channel, but the latter have comparative advantage. Therefore, we must devote major efforts to developing and reforming financial structures (banks) and their credit under the currency internationalization circumstances. At the same time, currency internationalization may not be promoted hastily but gradually.

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