Liang Qichao and the May Fourth New Cultural Movement

In past studies the positive role Liang Qichao played during the May Fourth New Cultural Movement was underestimated. As a matter of fact, Liang Qichao was not a conservative during the May Fourth Movement. He supported the literary revolution and earnestly practiced what he advocated, being a comrade of Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi in the Vernacular Movement (1917-1919). He adhered, as always, to the     

The May Fourth Spirit:Re-evaluate or Reiterate?─Comments on a Seminar on the May Fourth Spirit and Traditional Culture

Inrecentyears,underthebannerof"de-ideologization,"ahistoricalcriticismoftheolddemocraticrevolution,thenewdemocraticrevolution,andrevolutioningeneral,hassunginharmonywithculturalconservatisminChinaandabroad.Providingfertilegroundforthisculturalconservatism,variousdifficultiesandspiritualperplexitiesinreallifearecleverlybeingusedasevidencethatrevolutionandMarxism,whichspreadtoChinaaftertheMayFourthMovement,arewrong.Againstsuchabackground,theChineseAssociationofContemporaryCulture,theChineseL…     

The Neo-Documentary Movement: Its Strengths and Its Travails

When the Neo-Documentary Movement arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it represented a rebellion against the old utopia, being both a deconstruction of traditional political ideology and a reexamination of the idealist utopia that had looked up to the West throughout the 1980s. The significance of Tibet, as a symbol of distance and of fundamental difference from modern civilization,     

Deconstruction and Reconstruction—The Formation and Evolution of the Pattern of Discourse of May Fourth Literature

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A Debate on China's Condition and the WayOut——Revisiting the Great Debate on Socialism Subsequent to the May Fourth Movement

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May Fourth Literature:A New Look at Its Spiritual Resources

人文主义是五四文学的旗帜与象征,也是中国现代作家的梦想与追求。因为它不仅代表着与传统价值观完全不同的现代性意义,也标志着中国文学与世界接轨的现实可能性。然而,人文主义原本是西方文化的历史传统,它究竟通过什么渠道和方式传入中国并产生影响,新文学作家又是怎样对其加以理解和运用的?这一关键问题,至今没有引起学界的重视,本文对五四文学的精神资源进行反思,认为五四文学是本土意识深度介入西方现实主义文学思潮等的结果。     

Social Work Research and Its Relevance to Practice: “The Gap Between Research and Practice Continues to be Wide”

The social work profession requires a body of scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions; yet, the social work scientific community could benefit from strengthening its contribution to the profession's body of evidence. Through twenty qualitative interviews with social work professors who are employed at four-year academic institutions (referred to as “social work academics”), this study explored how academics define social work research and how they perceive research to inform practice. The data were analyzed along the six steps of thematic analysis, resulting in 13 themes and six sub-themes in relation to the definition of research activity and social work research, the extent to which research informs practice, and the barriers and facilitators to research informing practice. The findings revealed that social work continues to lack a clear definition of research and produces research that only minimally influences practice, often due to the pressure for social work academics to research and publish in support of their career trajectory within academia versus writing for practitioners. The social work profession should take action to address and further research the research-practice disconnect by establishing a clear definition and aims of social work research, and training academics in effective research-to-practice translational methods.     

Enlightenment Reason and Modernity: Marx’s Critical Reconstruction

Reflection on and criticism of enlightenment reason is an indispensable part of the Enlightenment itself. It is an important counterbalance to the Enlightenment myth and the crisis of modernity, as well as being a major theoretical subject for political philosophy in the age of globalization. This reflection and criticism must be grasped and examined from both the external perspective of socio-historical requirements and the internal perspective of intellectual history. While giving full credit to the achievements of Enlightenment reason and modernity, we need to review their inherent conflicts, reveal the resultant social crisis, and sort out, reflect on and reference postmodernism’s denunciation of Enlightenment reason and the crisis of modernity in order to provide a more far-reaching solution to these issues. Marx turned the critique of Enlightenment reason and modernity into a critical reconstruction of the logic of capital and the capitalist mode of production, seeing the resolution of these evils as lying in transcendence of capitalist private ownership. In this way, he brought the critique of Enlightenment reason to a climax and showed modern society a way to more advanced development.     

Economic Philosophy: The Overlap Between Economics and Philosophy ──A Summary of the “National Symposium on Economic Philosophy”

TheNationalSymposiumonEconomicPhilosophy,jointlyorganizedbySocialSciencesinChina,theShanghaiPhilosophyAssociation,theShanghaiEconomicsAssociation,theAirForceInstituteofPolitics,andthePudongHuaxiaSocialDevelopmentResearchInstitute,washeldinShallghaifrom26thto29thMay1998.DelegatestothesymposiumdiscussedChinesestudiesineconomicphilosophyfocusingonthefollowingfouraspects:I.TheRiseofModernEconomicPhilosophVZhangXiong,ProfessorofPhilosophyattheAirForceInstituteofPolitics,suggestedt…     

Lu Xun’s Ideological “Heresies”and the Tradition of Yue Culture

Before his death Lu Xun was sub-jected to every kind of taunt, abuse, cursesand attack, and even after his death he couldnot rest in peace: unintentional misunderstand-ings and deliberate distortions have followedone another without end. Lu Xun’s failureto be understood by others is rooted in hisideological “heresies.” These heresies arerelated to the progressiveness, rebelliousspirit and tenacity of the Yue culture, a localculture of the Chinese nation, and are morecorrelated spiritually…     

The Jesus Family Movement(1921-1952):AChristian Utopiain China

1927年至1952年间以山东泰安马庄为中心的耶稣家庭,受当地五旬节派教会神召会活动的影响,将宗教与世俗生活结合起来,并声称按圣经中耶稣的教导,在团体中废除私产和血缘家庭,组织信徒在“共产式”的大家庭中共同劳动,过平均主义的集体生活,走上了建设基督徒理想社会的乌托邦道路。虽然在严酷的岁月中这个团体得以维持和发展,但终因其内在矛盾和社会变化而解体,在实践中充分展示了乌托邦道路的魅力与局限。     

The Differences and Similarities Between Mao Zedong and the Eighth Party Congresson the Principal Social Contradiotions

FormanyyearspeoplehavegenerallythoughtthattheviewsofMaoZedongandtheEighthNationalCongress(ENC)oftheChineseCommunistParty(CPC)(1956)ontheprincipalcontradictionsinsocialistsocietywerenotoriginallyidentical.Inrecentyears,somescholarsoverseashavemaintainedtha…     

The "Equilibrium" and Political Contention Between Kuomintang and Communist Forces from 1944 to 1946

ThegrowthoftheCommunistPartyofChina(CPC)from1944to1946putthesystemof"politicaltutelage"underasingleparty,whichwaspursuedbytheKuomintang(KMT),toa-stiffchallenge,Posedbythecallforamulti-partycoalitionsystem,TheKMTandtheCPCheldaseriesofnegotiationscentering,…     

SPECIAL ISSUE： THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE The Mercantile Enlightenment in Late Qing and Early Republican China

近代中国虽然没有近代欧洲那样比较完整的启蒙运动,但的确经历了自己的思想启蒙过程。其中,与工业化潮流和资本主义兴起密切相关的重商思潮,即为中国近代思想启蒙过程中一股不容忽视的思想潮流以重商思潮为标志的近代商业启蒙大致经历了兴起、嬗变与深化的演化过程,在此过程中,封建农耕社会的价值观念遭到否定与批判,新兴工商社会的价值观念得以萌生和揄扬。近代商业启蒙尽管有其历史的局限性,但对中国走向工商业社会和实现近代化则起到重要推动作用,对当今商业道德重建具有历史借鉴意义。     

Several Problems Related to the Study of China's Modern History-Preface to the Second Edition of From the Opium War (1840-1842) to the May Fourth Movement of 1919

InNovemberandDecember1995,whenIwasawayfromworktorecuperate,IpickedupFromtheOpiumWhr(1840-1842)totheMayFourthMovementof1919,whichIhadwrittenatthebeginningof1980.ThiswasthefirsttimeIhadreadthebookfromcovertocoversinceitcameoffthepress.Thebookcontainsapproxi…     

The Genesis of “The Meaning of the Classics”:On the Objectives and Methods of Jingxue Hermeneutics

In terms of the construction of meaning, what jingxue(study of the classics) deals with is precisely the hermeneutics of the Confucian classics. Jingxue hermeneutics is fundamentally practical statecraft; therefore, its specific objectives do not point to an objective existence unrelated to human beings, but to yi(meaning) or yili(principles), otherwise known as jingyi(meaning of the classics) or dayi(profound significance). “The meaning of the classics” is the product of interpretation. In jing...     

The Numerological Tradition and Mathematical Beauty in Ancient Chinese Literature-Concurrently on the Mathematical Critique of Ancient Chi-nese Literature

中国上古重数,以数为宇宙化生的关键和万象联络的枢纽。先民由卜筮之数创为八卦——《易经》,开创我国文献-文学倚数编撰的传统。包括《易经》产生的商周之际,文献-文学中数的传统经六次变迁而贯穿始终,表现由文献而文学,由诗文而小说、戏曲,由外及内,由明转暗,由粗转精等逐步深入的过程。这一过程因久被忽略而显得隐晦。其隐晦之故有社会、哲学及文学批评诸方面的原因。从作品的不同层面看,这一传统表现为编撰“倚数”称名和布局谋篇,“倚数”行文的模式与技巧等,综合而成中国古代文学的数理机制,表现出数理美的特点。中国古代文学作品的数理与形象互相含蕴而相得益彰。中国古代文学的数理批评不单纯是文学形式的探讨,而将为文本的阐释提供新的可能,有时本身就是这种阐释。本文主张建立写人与叙述并重、形象与数理结合的新的古代文学批评和研究模式。     

“World Risk Society” Governance: The Paradigm of Complexity and Chinese Participation*

全球正在进入具有高度不确定性的”风险社会”时代,风险成为现代社会的重要 特征,并正在改变现代社会的运行逻辑与规则,人类社会的价值理念、行为方式正在 被系统化地重构,全球治理演变为”全球风险社会”治理。当前,全球风险治理的碎 片化、低效率现象严重,现有公共管理、国际治理方式还不能适应风险社会治理的要 求。现代社会是一个具有内生复杂性、测不准性、脆弱性等特征的复杂系统,复杂性 是全球风险社会形成的根本机理,全球风险社会治理离不开复杂性范式与中国参与。 系统研究全球风险社会形成的复杂性机制,构建面向全球风险社会治理的价值、文化 与机制,形成辨识、化解风险的协同治理及反脆弱能力,在理论和实践上具有重要的 价值。