Assessing the Tongzhi Label: Self-Identification and Public Opinion

Tongzhi is one of several Chinese terms that refer to individuals who are attracted to the same sex. Using data from two different surveys in Hong Kong, this research note examines how the term tongzhi coexists with other terms. We investigate the prevalence of self-identification as tongzhi, and we explore the extent to which using the term tongzhi influences public attitudes toward gay people and gay rights. Activists began popularizing the term tongzhi in the late 1980s, but less than one third of the participants in our 2008 survey of sexual orientation minorities (n = 728) described themselves as tongzhi. Using a split-ballot experiment in a 2013 public opinion poll (n = 831), we found that attitudes toward gay people and gay rights were not significantly impacted by whether questions were phrased in terms of tongzhi or the main alternative term tongxinglianzhe. We discuss how our findings can enrich understandings of earlier research and illuminate avenues for future study.     

Un-imagining the local/future: cinematic engagement with the absence of hope

ABSTRACT

With reference to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s uncertain fate come 2047, I ask how one un-imagines the cultural future of inhabiting the locality. As people take prompts from the present predicament to cope with real possibilities about the future, they realize that a strong embodiment of local consciousness permeates the sociocultural space. I discuss how such engagement takes place through cinematic experience, and examine tactics of the spectator’s critique centring around the erosion of hope at the core of everyday, intellectual and affective imagination. I trace the ways in which postcolonial subjects engage with hope and with the shock of hopelessness in a lived social imaginary. Examining in detail three differently representative recent films, namely, The Midnight After (2014. Dir. Fruit Chan, The Midnight After Film and One Ninety Films), Overheard 3 (2014. Dir. Alex Mak and Felix Chong, Sil-Metropole, Bona Film and Pop Movies) and Ten Years (2015. Dir. K. L. Ng (‘Local Egg’, Boon-deh dan), J. Au (‘Dialect’, Fong-yin), K. Chow (‘Self-Immolator’, Jee-fun jeh), F. P. Wong (‘Season of the End’, Dong sim), and Z. Kwok (‘Extras’, Fau gua), Ten Years Studio), I depict the modes in popular imagination that invoke people’s engagement with the ‘local’, albeit in its affective state. Accordingly, in the context of ‘externalized’ social realities, I identify three interlocking modes of cultural engagement, which I characterize as figurative, performative and prefigurative, respectively. In their ‘future’ imaginary, I look for ordinary people’s ways to face the absurdity of the status quo and the performativity of local struggles with the self.     

儒家礼仁之治施政方略的主要命题及其思维方式——以《五经正义》为典型个案

刚柔并济、礼乐相须、仁义相成、德刑相辅、宽猛相济、劳逸相参等命题,共同构成了《五经正义》礼仁之治施政方略的主要内容,相关政治范畴也构成阴阳互补、刚柔并济的关系。这就在维护尊卑贵贱的前提下,以张扬"仁义"的形式,囊括了包括刚克、猛政、严刑、役使在内的各种统治手段,并为政策选择上的灵活性提供了理论指导。在评说儒家的"仁政"、"合和"时,必须充分注意到这一点,否则就难免导出皮毛之论。     

《红楼梦》英译与中国文化传递

<红楼梦>英译工作始于1830年,至1986年结束,大致可分为四个翻译期:即发轫期、断残期、编译期和全译期.文化传递也从无到有,从部分到全面.本文着重分析一个编译本和两个全译本,指出中国文化传递的真正开始是以王际真的编译本为标志,而杨译本和霍译本则采用各种翻译策略全面传递了中国文化.     

房地产税的改革:香港地区经验与制度构建

香港地区和大陆地区都实行土地国有制度与土地批租制度,其房地产税制度是世界上比较完备的地区之一,它的房地产税在保有环节主要体现为物业税和差饷税。借鉴香港地区房地产税模式的相关经验,从征税范围与纳税人、计税依据与税率以及税收减免等方面来完善大陆地区的房地产税制度,以此来解决大陆地区的不具有可持续性的"土地财政"现象。     

从认知视角解读《红楼梦》中的“性”委婉语

委婉语被大量使用在日常交际和文学作品中。《红楼梦》中的性场面描写,大量采用委婉语。利用认知语言学中的原型范畴、隐喻和转喻理论探析了“性”委婉语的生成机制,这些机制通过制造认知过程阻碍,婉曲提及禁忌语来实现委婉效果。     

红柯小说的神性书写

红柯小说以新疆草原大漠为背景,极力彰显人的神性,使读者从生命的自由舒展中获得了神性存在和人性本真的意境与快意。在普遍的欲望化书写中,红柯小说很好地诠释了文学书写的神圣功能,他超越了文学的世俗教化和娱乐功能,进入了文学叙述的神圣化自我救赎和他者救赎。     

洪江十大会馆神祉文化解读

洪江十大会馆的主要功能是祀神,祀神既是会馆的教化方式,又是会馆移民的精神寄托所在。洪江十大会馆神祉文化具有区域性、世俗性、象征性和兼容性等特征。     

也评洪秀全

洪秀全是伟大的农民革命英雄。他的一生是充满矛盾的一生,他既是反封建的旗手,又是皇权主义的继承人;既是反侵略的英雄,又是宗教迷信的鼓吹者与受害者。他创造了英雄的业绩,也留下了历史的遗憾。     

身份政治与民族国家认同焦虑——对香港国际学校的一种解读

以香港的身份政治为背景,探讨香港国际学校是如何在一种奇特的身份政治中运作,以摆脱民族国家认同焦虑。