理论的张力与学科的悖论

《现代中国与少数民族文学》是一本由理论织成的网,从现代性到后现代性,从民族文学到神话学,从政治学到历史学,从地理学到语言学,开拓了思维,增加了学术深度,扩张了理论的想象力,开辟了少数民族文学学术发展的新思路,促进了少数民族文学学科的发展。《现代中国与少数民族文学》在总体思维的控制下,有可能陷入了绝对主义和普遍主义的陷阱,也有可能使少数民族文学研究走向非文学化和非历史化的误区。     

印度本土文化与全球化

全球化打破了民族的藩篱,把各民族文明都卷入了大交流、大融合的浪潮。印度社会正由农业文明向工业文明转型,印度文化受到前所未有的冲击和挑战。以印度教为主体的印度多元文化,具有顽强的生命力、高度的凝聚力和极大的同化力,在外来文化的冲击面前不会丧失自我,将重新反思和整合,嬗变出使人耳目一新的、不失民族特色的独特文化。     

全球化与学校教育

本文研究了全球化的主要特征 ,深入分析了它对学校教育的冲击和影响 ,提出了学校应对全球化挑战的策略和措施。并得出了重要的结论     

Regulating Transnational Flows of People: An Institutional Analysis of Passports and Visas as a Regime of Mobility

This article challenges the widely held "mobility thesis" by examining the current regime of mobility in regulating transnational flows of people-namely, passports and visas-from an institutionalist perspective. An institutional device linking individuals to the state, the passport is a manifestation of both citizenship and sovereignty. As such, the passport has to be situated in a broader international context in which "organized hypocrisy" (Krasner 1999) underlies the principle of sovereignty. Furthermore, through the "rite of institutions" (Bourdieu 1991), the passport provides foundations for identification, classification, and trust for individuals. The Taiwan passport provides vivid illustrations of how identification, classification, and trust have been breached by organized hypocrisy and how such a breaching has been experienced by individual citizens. However, it is also shown that some capable individuals, through the leverage of their economic power, are able to circumvent or even take tactical advantage of the current system. The political overtone of the Taiwan passport has exposed the nature of the regime of mobility that has often been depoliticized and undertheorized. Just as passports issued by different states are of different values, there has been an inequality of mobility structured by power asymmetries and economic inequalities in the world system. Such an inequality of mobility may have become enlarged under the impact of globalization but has gone mostly unnoticed. Individuals may try to increase their mobility through various economic means, but differentiated access to mobility may have further reproduced and enhanced unequal social, economic, and political relations.     

如何保护与传承少数民族文化——以贵州省锦屏县平秋镇侗族为例

一个民族的文化,是该民族智慧的结晶,体现了民族的精神,是一个民族长期共同生存和生活的产物,是维系一个民族生存、延续的重要因素,而且是民族个体在社会化过程中影响主观民族认同的重要因素。当今在全球化和现代化的冲击下,在民族自身发展的同时,少数民族文化的保护日趋重要。本文想通过“文化界定的误区”来解释本民族文化在民族个体在选择文化认同时显得弱势的原因,以及想以贵州黔东南平秋九寨侗族村为例,初探少数民族文化保护与文化主体性的问题。     

Divided we stand: Defying hegemony in global public relations theory and practice?

The last decade has seen the world becoming increasingly complex. One way of dealing with complexity, according to Schwab (2010a), is to look for certainties or solutions that impose order by simplifying. The authors contend that this is a risk in public relations practice and the academy. While recognizing their benefits they warn against attempts to produce global models which also seek to impose hegemony and argue for maintaining a diversity that reflects reality. They take the cases of the UK and Singapore as respective exemplars where hegemony has arguably occurred and where it can still be resisted. They call for a professional and epistemological stand against hegemony.     

'SALSA NO TIENE FRONTERA': ORQUESTA DE LA LUZ AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF POPULAR MUSIC

This article discusses key dynamics in the globalization of popular music, more specifically the interplay between technology, social and commercial structure, and meaningful sound forms. It analyses Orquesta de la Luz, an all-Japanese salsa band, as an example of the transgression of ethnic, geographical, linguistic and national boundaries of Latin American music. The band demonstrated the intertwined nature of the global and the local, in addition to the historical formation of modern Japanese culture. Their worldwide fame derived from their musicianship, their synchronicity with the world music boom, and finally the diffusion of digital technology in popular music production and consumption. This article argues that economic and technological conditions are as much constitutive of the band's unique practices as are aesthetic ones. It then goes on to question the dichotomies, ‘universalism vs. particularism’ and ‘creativity vs. copy’. This discussion builds towards an examination of the relationship between purist aesthetics (hyperrealism) and the Japanese concept/method of learning; it also explores the notion of cultural authenticity that located the activities of the band. Paradoxically, Orquesta de la Luz demonstrated that Japanization does not necessarily imply synthesis with vernacular elements for purist musicians. Theoretically, this ‘becoming Other’ reveals a parallel capacity for self-exoticization and self-orientalization with respect to Japanese identities. Orquesta de la Luz's musical search for the roots of otherness is closely tied with the feeling among many Japanese youth for the loss of Japan's ‘genuine’ cultural identity. Another focus of this study, then, is to shed light on the relevance of exoticism in the band's foreign reception and to assess their Latino image in the Japanese context.     

全球化与世界资本主义和社会主义

资本主义和社会主义同全球化的历史进程是互动的,它们之问存在着历史的渊源关系和深刻的内在联系.当代世界全球化的主导者是西方发达资本主义国家,但历史终将证明全球化的尽头是资本主义的历史终结,是社会主义和共产主义的灿烂辉煌.     

Antecedents and performance outcomes of global competence: An empirical investigation

We examine the role of commitment to supply chain management (CSCM) and information technology (IT) in the achievement of global competence (GC). Through an empirical examination of 667 manufacturing business units in the U.S., we confirm the importance of global competence using two objective measures of firm performance. We investigate the direct effects of CSCM and experience with IT on performance, in addition to their indirect effects through global competence. We show global competence to be linked directly to objective measures of sales, and indirectly to return on assets (ROA). Despite manufacturers’ hefty investments in IT, we find that experience with IT does not drive ROA directly, but only indirectly through global competence and sales.