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Globalization and Humanism Pecora Vincent 2005, 37 (5):  1-6, 121.  Abstract ( 1302 )   HTML ( 6 )   Save The humanities in modern times are deeply rooted in European humanism, and also connected with the cultureal autonomy of a modern nation -state.It might not be such a straightforwardly imagined thing to realize their radical"globalization".Intellectual globalization cannot simply be under- stood as the expansion of horizons or the promulgation of greater inclusiveness or the insistence upon cultural diversity.Likewise, there is a dilemma between the universality of Western modernity and the modernity appeal of non-Western nation-states in a radical globalizing of the humanities. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Whither Shall We Go?——Some Examinations of the Birth and End of Modern Culture Takumasa Senno 2005, 37 (5):  7-11，121.  Abstract ( 1310 )   HTML ( 11 )   Save The issue of "modernity"covers various cultureal areas.So far as literature is concerned, its"modernity"has its own characteristics.To examine some understandings of "the true"in classical and modern literary works is helpful for us to think over the issue of "modernity"from a distinct angle. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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An Exploration of Endowment Insurance for Migrant Workers in Urban China Shi-xun GUI 2005, 37 (5):  12-17，121.  Abstract ( 1296 )   HTML ( 3 )   Save This paper attempts to introduce current explorations of endowment insurance for farmer migrant workers in a few cities, to comment on some pattern s such as "Shenzhen Special Area Pattern", "Shanghai Pattern" and "Beijing Pa ttern" about their advantages and disadvantages, to put forward a goal-pattern and a transitional plan of basic endowment insurance for migrant workers in urban Chin a, and to suggest that the transitional plan should be carried out compulsorily all over urban China in the national eleventh five-year program. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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The Model of Institutional Change: Interaction and Cooperation——A Case Study of the Community Reconstruction in District of Jianghan, Wuhan Jing-yao WANG 2005, 37 (5):  18-24, 121-122.  Abstract ( 1312 )   HTML ( 4 )   Save The transformation of a ruling model primarily results from institutional changes. The essence of community reconstruction lies in a transformation of the urban grassroots ruling model, a substitution of a new ruling institution in the background of market economy for the single-line administrative institution at urban grassroots in the context of planned economy, and a process of substitution, transformation and exchange from the starting-point model (original institution) to a goal model (a more efficient institution). Accordingly, the process of community reconstruction is virtually a kind of cooperation between government and public, and between state and society, which is a result of multisided interaction. Figures and Tables | References | Related Articles | Metrics

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An Analysis of the Population Resettlement Flow Based on the Integration of Spatial Statistics——A Case Study of Three Megalopoleis in Contemporary China Lu YU, Shan-yu ZHANG 2005, 37 (5):  25-31, 122.  Abstract ( 1594 )   HTML ( 5 )   Save For a long time the three megalopoleis have been centers of China's economy, culture and transportation. Through an analysis of migration data of 2000 census in China and using GIS and spatial statistical methods about migration direction and distance in the three large cities, this paper shows that there are four factors which effect population quantity of migration flow: economic gap, population quantity, geographical distance and climatological disparity. Here a model of population flow quantity is created in reference to Giffer's population gravity model. Figures and Tables | References | Related Articles | Metrics

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QU Qiu-bai's Theory of Mass Literature and Art and Gramsci's Thought of Cultural Hegemony Tie-xian WANG 2005, 37 (5):  32-35, 122.  Abstract ( 1386 )   HTML ( 8 )   Save In his expositions on literary and artistic popul arization in the 1930's, QU Qiu-bai put forward sharply an issue about leadership power of ideology. This idea was quite similar with the then Italian communist leader Gramsci's thought of "cultural hegemony". They both laid great emphasis upon the important role of ideology on politics. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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A Study on DING Ling's Meng Ke in the Perspective of Technologized Visuality Gang LUO 2005, 37 (5):  36-43, 122.  Abstract ( 1525 )   HTML ( 27 )   Save By means of a central concept, "technologized visuality", in recent visual culture to read DING Ling's first work, Meng Ke, we may realize that DING Ling, as a female writer who had a special relation to filmdom in her early years, rat her consciously employed words to resolve, embrace and enhance those stimuli and shocks from pictures as soon as she embarked on literary creation, thus inciting unprecedented visual potentialities of modern Chinese literature in a certain orientation. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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The Chinese-style "Pure Poetry": An Arduous Cultural Journey Yu GAO 2005, 37 (5):  44-49, 122-123.  Abstract ( 1205 )   HTML ( 4 )   Save The "pure poetry" represents a way to know the world by the mind. It seeks a supreme aesthetic sphere and an artistic ideal of pure beauty, appreciating the world with the visual image that is invisible, the loud voice that is unhearable, and the great beauty that is unutterable. The twentieth-century Chinese poems have found the Chinese nation's cultural memories of pure art traditions from French symbolist "pure poems" so as to look for diverse possibilities of poetical modernity. The desti ny of Chinese-style "pure poetry" has suggested that the road of modern poetry returning to literature as such in China in the twentieth century was really a rather arduous cultural journey. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Causes of the Rise of Landscape Poetry during the Period between Jin and Song Dynasties Yi CHENG 2005, 37 (5):  50-58，123.  Abstract ( 1931 )   HTML ( 8 )   Save The rise of landscape poems during the period bet ween Jin and Song dynasties was importantly attributed to those quite utilitarian techniques of lo ngevity advocated by the religious Taoist sect of the Celestial Masters, whose weird "practices" led people to natural mountains and waters. Such a religious faith produced great influence upon those powerful families and scholar-officials' wa y of life in the coastal southeast region of China. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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A Study on LIU Xie's View of Literary Development Feng LI 2005, 37 (5):  59-65, 123.  Abstract ( 1339 )   HTML ( 7 )   Save According to LIU Xie, changes of literary development in the past were substantially attributed to mutual quantitative changes between literary forms and contents that led to literary progress or decline.Specifically speaking, before the period of Shang and Zhou dynasties literature was in a progressive course, and after that it began its history of decline.It might be said that literary developments of form and content culminated in the period of Shang and Zhou.However, there was no absolute balance between form and content.Undoubtedly, the period of Shang and Zhou was virtually a turning point towards superiority of form over content. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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An Etymological Interpretation of Place Names in Terms of Ethnic History——Taking Europe and China as Examples Jian SHEN 2005, 37 (5):  66-74, 123.  Abstract ( 1481 )   HTML ( 10 )   Save The place name is a product of history. Its naming is to be expressed in specific ethnic words. Through an analysis of a verbal context of the place name we may come to recognize those ethnic traces of what once existed in history. The ethnic etymology of the place name implies important clues of its historical culture, which is an area to which we should pay serious attention when we study an ethnic history. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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A New Quest for American Amish Culture Yin WANG 2005, 37 (5):  75-81, 95, 124.  Abstract ( 1321 )   HTML ( 4 )   Save In America the Amish actively puts its religious ideas into effect, upholding its traditional values and stubbornly rejecting invades of modernity. Its firm religious faith, distinct group logo and flexible living strategy make its peopl e keep a subtle balance when they are attacked from both the traditional and the modern. In this way they have greatly protected their traditional culture in highly develop ed America and shared a wealth of modern material civilization without infecting ma ny evils of modern society. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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An Exploration of the Current Western Theory of "Ethnic Group" Jiang YE 2005, 37 (5):  82-88, 124.  Abstract ( 1193 )   HTML ( 5 )   Save It is basically accepted in contemporary Western academic circles that the so-called "ethnic group" is a named human community possessing common myths of ancestry and common historical memories and culture. Although some of Western scholars once generally treated the "ethnic group" as a sub-community in a larger society, more Western scholars agree to the argument that the "ethnic group" may also be a dominant or majority human community. Thus it will be quite correct to use "minority ethnic group" to translate the Chinese term, "shaoshu minzu". References | Related Articles | Metrics

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A Historical Survey of the Status of Ethnic Groups in New York City Guang LIN 2005, 37 (5):  89-95，124.  Abstract ( 1220 )   HTML ( 3 )   Save New York is a typical immigrant city, and every immigrant group has made more or less contributions to its expansions. "A Survey of New York's Ethnic Groups in 1992" has proven that the Jewish descendants have the greatest effect s upon the city's development, while the Spanish influence is the least. It is suggested that the status of an ethnic group is determined by its awareness of participating in political activities, economic position and public influence. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Leibniz's Philosophy and Phenomenology——From Leibniz to Husserl and Heidegger Jing-yu SANG 2005, 37 (5):  96-102, 110, 124.  Abstract ( 1565 )   HTML ( 10 )   Save It is seemingly unexpected that Leibniz's philosophy, which is always regarded as a model of rationalistic dogmatism, is paid great attention by phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger. In fact Leibniz's philosophy is multi-dimensional. His theory of intuition goes beyond the opposition between rationalism and empiricism in modern philosophy, and his monadology has elements of existentialism. Husserl and Heidegger, from their own phenomenological viewpoints, give different explanations to his philosophy. It is helpful for us to study their relations so as to reconsider Leibniz's thoughts. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Wittgenstein's Discourse on Meaningful Doubt——The Skeptical Idea in On Certainty Jian-bo CAO 2005, 37 (5):  103-110, 124.  Abstract ( 1514 )   HTML ( 15 )   Save On Certainty, as the most important work of Wittgenstein's late years, includes abundant thought of doubt. In it he holds that skeptical doubt is neither genuine nor meaningful, for it is short of a foundation of reasonable doubt and far away from the ordinary language game. It cannot build up relations of doubt and human activities, and completely overlooks and even denies those positive and unsuspecting elements of reasonable doubt. Wittgenstein's idea of doubt is theoretically based on practical foundationalism. References | Related Articles | Metrics