Research on Factors Influencing on Children＇s Life Cognition

有关青少年生命认识的影响因素的研究在中国尚处于薄弱地位。通过对中小学生的生命认知及相关因素的实证研究发现：个体经历不同,在死亡认知上的表现差异显著,经历过人的死亡的青少年有更多表达了对死亡本质的认知,较少表达对死亡的具体形象认知;父母的应对方式不同．导致青少年对于死亡认知的表达有显著差异。日常生活中对死亡事件是否讨论,会影响到青少年对生命以及死亡的认知。生命认知方面,有过讨论经验的青少年有更多对生命表达态度的认知;死亡认知方面,有过讨论经验的青少年有更多对死亡本质和表达态度的认知。     

Research on Pre-Ant-tribe＇s Identificati--on on a semiotics perspective

蚁族话题自2007年起开始登上中国社会的话语舞台,在社会学领域被称作是继农民、农民工、下岗职工之后社会群体的第四次大发现。通过对准蚁族群身份认同的研究．发现个体媒介素养对身份认同产生分化作用的同时,也发现学校教育及社会舆论引导方面的不足。在对该群体身份认同的步骤和原理作出解释的基础上,针对该群体提出有益于社会和群体本身的建议。     

Pearl on the Plateau

IN the early 1920s, when Yosif Frantz Rock, an American botanist, traveled to Lugu Lake, he was amazed by its beauty. He said, "It's the last Place that God creates." Lugu Lake, 2,690 meters above sea level, is situated in Ninglang County, in northwest Yunnan Province. With an area of more than 50 square kilometers, the lake reaches 45 meters deep and is transparent down to 12 meters.     

Global Actions:Following Up on the World Gonference on Women

TWO and a half years after the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing once again embraced women from all over the world. This time, the mission was to exchange experiences on implementation of the "Beijing Declaration" and the "Platform for Action" formulated at the Conference; to see how the governments had put into action the commitments that they made then.     

International Exposition on Horticulture

Exterior of the Manking ＆ Nature Center.     

Wedding on the Lake

The bride is taken to the bridegroom's home by boat.     

Perspective on Juvenile Crime

JUVENILE crime is on the rise and has become a problem for schools, parents and society at large. According to the latest investigation and analysis by the public security department, 65 to 70 percent of criminal cases per year involve youth under the age of 25. Guo Xiang, executive director of China's Juvenile Delinquency Research Society, explained it was in 1970 that juvenile crime really became a social     

Carrying on the Tradition

EVERY Sunday. childish voices can be heard coming from the Erlizhuang Residential Quarter in Haidian District, Beijing. It is the children of the Benzhen Children's Peking Opera Art School. Wang Jinsheng, dean of the school, is not only a descendant of a well-known family in which several generations performed in the Peking opera, but also a teacher with more than 20 years' teaching experience.     

Years Spent on Mountain Roads

SONG Fangrong, the Tu nationality girl who grew up drinking water from mountain springs, walked into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to accept the highest prize for China's youth—the "May 4th Youth Prize." Not long before, she had been named one of the National Ten Outstanding Youths. She is the only individual to have won both.     

Juyongguan on the Great Wall

Juyongguan Pass on the Great Wall,one ofthe most important strategic passes of the oldcapital Beijing,is now repaired and a goodplace for tourists to see ancient Chinesemilitary and cultural facilities,as well asbeautiful local scenery.     

Artistic Wood Carvings on Buildings

Zhejiang's Chun'an County was first established in 208 A.D. In 1959, a large section of the region turned into Qiandao Lake when Xin'anjiang Reservoir was built. On the original Dragon Mountain (now Dragon Mountain Islet) stands a temple in memory of Hai Rui (1368-?), an upright official who worked as County     

Strangers Meet on Shanghai's Bund

TODAY's Shanghai is changing greatly day by day, year by year. I was quite astonished by these changes when I was there recently on assignment for our newspaper. The International Hotel had been the most modern building in the city ten years ago, but now it looked just so-so among the crowd of new buildings. The inner ring road has been built above countless shops and alleys. The Huangpu and Yangpu bridges have added to the elegance of this southern city, making it even more grand and beautiful. And a vast communications network has changed the face of the Bund entirely. Many Shanghai residents, who left for coastal cities when the policy of reform and     

Woman Carries on Traditional Arts

THE members of the International Olympic Bidding Committee in Monte Carlo were amazed at Lang Zhili's skill in dough modelling. That was in 1993, and the Chinese folk artist was showing her skill to the Committee members. Holding the dough figures that Lang gave them as presents, they could hardly believe that a simple piece of dough could be made into a peace dove so real it appeared ready to fly away. There was also a lovely rabbit, a Chinese boy with a football under his arm, the God of Longevity, the Buddha Maitreya... all looked completely lifelike.     

Views on Middle Aged Couples

AWOMAN calls a women's hotline: "My husband and I have always been compatible. Now our son is almost 10 and my husband still wants to have sex! This makes me sick. I don't know what to do. Help me!" Another woman calls in tears: "My husband is an ordinary man and used to lead a normal life like anyone else. One day, he told me he would try something else to develop his career. I supported him. Finally, his efforts paid off. But soon after, he began having an affair. He didn't deny it but he said he wouldn't divorce me. Why did this happen to     

Youth research on video self‐productions reflections on a social‐aesthetic approach

This article advances my thoughts on a social‐aesthetic approach within the field of youth and social research. These reflections are not primarily grounded in traditional approaches of visual sociology and anthropology but emerged from the context of media‐educational youth research in Germany. The main assumption of this article is that qualitative youth and social research in particular, which has audio‐visual self‐productions as the object, should—in view of the increasing influence media has on our perception and the way how the reality is experienced—be open to concepts of subject‐related self‐presentations. First I make an attempt to formulate a social‐aesthetic theory which focuses on the media‐ethnographical exploration of symbolic milieus. Next, I introduce projects run by media‐educational youth researchers in Germany, emphasizing the question of conceptions and methods when working with adolescent video self‐productions. The final section reflects upon the quality, the validity and the hermeneutics of self‐produced videos.     

Notes on a Trip to Japan

"WHAT'S your impression of Japan? How has it advanced?" I was repeatedly asked the same questions by my friends and colleagues after I returned to Beijing. As a neighboring country of China and a world economic superpower, Japan is still a remote and unfamiliar place to most Chinese. In November of 1996, I was invited by the Japanese government to participate in the Asian-Pacific Journalist's Seminar on Women and Media. My one-week schedule     

A Seminar on Curbing Family Violence

CURBING family violence has become a priority for Chinese women's federations since 1995, when the concept of family violence was accepted by Chinese women's organizations. At the basic level, it is one of many tasks for safeguarding women's