马克思主义中国化的文化路径

出于实践与理论自身发展的需要,马克思主义必须与中国传统文化相结合。两者结合的基础在于它们内容上的共通之处以及各自的开放品格。马克思主义与传统文化的结合具有很强的实践取向与鲜明的时代特色。在两者的结合过程中必须坚持马克思主义的主导地位,同时也要谨防传统文化消极成分的渗入。两者可以在多个层面上以多种方式进行结合。     

建立民族文化自信开掘京剧文化的现代价值

独树一帜的京剧艺术根植于博大精深的中华文化,且具有浓郁的京味特色,是亟须抢救、保护、继承的国宝国粹。当前的关键在于增强民族文化的自觉意识,建立民族文化自信,开掘京剧文化的现代价值,为优化人类文明提供精神营养,使之走向世界,走向明天。     

人生与文学的二重奏——叶梅、叶广芩创作观念与文学风格比较

同为少数民族女作家,叶梅和叶广芩有着截然不同的文风。她们又有着许多契合之处,如对自身民族文化的坚持和对地域之美的成功描写。两人都善于把人情伦理刻画得细致入微。两人最大的共同处还在于相似的创作经历与对人的命运的积极探讨。她们的小说作品之所以能成为广受好评的杰作,主要是因为对文学使命的秉承,自身多元文化与复杂经历融合的背景,不屈的文学个性;另一方面,独到的艺术风格和民族性,也使得她们的作品非同凡响。     

傈僳族新创文字研究综述

新傈僳文自1957年创制试行,已历经半个世纪。有关傈僳文的研究积累了翔实的调查资料,并在此基础上取得了可观的研究成果,但尚存在一些不足之处:第一,视野狭窄,方法单一。当前的研究应从多学科的角度,运用多种、多重研究方法,力求在研究中有所创新和突破。第二,描述性研究较多,解释性研究较少。今后的新傈僳文研究应多关注傈僳族文化传承与发展、语言文字多样性保护、文化价值及现实意义等问题。第三,回顾性研究多,前瞻性研究少。学界应对新傈僳文的使用现状进行深层次的前瞻性研究,提出适合现代社会发展规律的、具有应用意义和可操作性的应对策略。     

Culture and identity: two different notions

A clear, precise conceptual distinction between ‘culture’ and ‘identity’ is an essential precondition for analyzing social processes. The anthropological concept of ‘identity’ has been built up over time and enriched by studies on interethnic relationships, ethnic borders and ethnicity. The objective of this essay is to add to an already well-defined concept of culture by incorporating decisive contributions from theories on the nation. Culture and nation are not only highly complex theoretical notions with a long history; they both deal with heterogeneous and conflictive entities. The essay asserts that culture and identity allude to analytically different aspects of social processes. No relationship between the two can be presupposed or generalized to fit all cases. It is necessary to analyze cultural and identitary aspects separately.     

Sofiia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria: the postcolonial neo-Gothic and Ukraine’s search for itself

ABSTRACT

Sofiia Andrukhovych’s 2014 novel Felix Austria (Feliks Avstriia) became Ukraine’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful work of literature published in the immediate aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution of 2013–14. It combined an ambitious historical reconstruction of daily life in the year 1900 in a mid-size city in the Habsburg-ruled part of Ukraine and an engaging plot skilfully employing multiple devices associated with the Gothic tradition, especially in its latter-day and postmodernist reinterpretations. The novel’s success is especially telling in the context of the rising interest in the Gothic in Ukrainian culture. Told by an unreliable narrator, the novel prompts readers to interrogate their assumptions. In the context of Ukraine, it is particularly subversive in its engagement with the nostalgic myth of the Habsburg Empire as a multi-ethnic utopia of tolerance, and by implication it challenges all imperial myths. The novel’s emphasis on the quest for (self-)discovery strongly resonated with readers in the context of a socio-political crisis, which highlighted the relevance of the distinct postcolonial overtones in its message.     

Effects of critical incident tasks on the intercultural competence of English non-majors

ABSTRACT

In this internationalised world, graduate employability in terms of intercultural communication skills needs to be taken into account in higher education. The present study aims to explore the effects of critical incident task instruction on English non-majored undergraduates’ intercultural competence. One group of students received ten weeks of instruction with one critical incident task per week and another group received standard English classes. Data were collected from the students’ pre- and post-test. The results showed a significant and strong effect of the intervention with critical incident tasks. Implications for educational practice are presented for further teaching with critical incident tasks.     

Stop the Beat: Quiet Regulation and Cultural Conflict1

This article explores a recent conflict over the youth phenomenon known as “raving” in the City of Chicago. By interviewing participants involved in the conflict, I set out to understand the extent to which the crackdown on raves in Chicago was similar to earlier social reactions to jazz, comic books, rock and roll, and Dead Head culture, as well as to more recent conflicts over punk, rap music, and raves in other cities. While most previous research on cultural conflict has focused on moral crusades, campaigns, and panics, the Chicago conflict represents an example of “quiet regulation.” Opponents refrained from highly visible, morally charged attacks; instead, in the absence of media hype and visible public discourse, public officials justified the crackdown in highly bureaucratic terms—avoiding risk, collecting taxes, enforcing codes. Nonetheless, they also drew on cultural schemas that linked raves and raving with drugs, sex, and deviance. As a result, officials selected a course of regulation that criminalized DJs and discredited the artform. In the absence of a highly visible moral campaign, the rave participants were unable to mobilize and resist the regulation and defend their lifestyle. Sociologists must move beyond highly visible campaigns and crusades and pay greater attention to quiet regulation, both because such regulation is likely to increase in the future and because it has significant consequences for power, cultural expression, and identity.     

构建高职院校校园安全文化体系的思考

本文论述高职院校校园安全文化体系建设的构想以及实现途径。