从文化视角看中国的“新民乐”

作为传统音乐与现代音乐相结合的一种新音乐形式,中国"新民乐"受到社会各界人士的广泛关注.它的出现,在一定程度上顺应了社会发展的某种客观规律,其是非曲直应放在社会文化背景下去讨论和探究.中国"新民乐"在自身发展的同时,应注意对本民族文化信息的传递,符合民族文化发展的长远利益."新民乐"的发展尚有待于进一步完善,以及文化界和音乐理论界的关注与指导.     

从马克思主义文化观审视大众文化

大众文化是一种新兴知识分子文化观念之产物,它充分地体现了大众的文化创造精神,是文化发展从自在到自觉的转变,鼓励大众的文化创造精神,利用大众文化形式是马克思主义文化观发展的必由之路,也是构建社会主义核心价值体系的重要形式。     

陕西甘泉出土晚商青铜兵器及相关问题

《考古与文物》2007年第3期,刊载了陕西甘泉县下寺湾镇阎家沟村2005年6月出土的一批晚商青铜器。由于文物是在机械施工中发现的,残损非常严重,出土地点的原始状态也完全被毁坏,经过整理,此次共出土文物70件,其中青铜器57件,包括礼器、兵器、杂器等。本文试就此次所出青铜兵器及相关问题作以探讨。     

"突击文化"的历史内涵及其对延安文学研究的意义

"突击文化"是对延安文学发生语境的一种概括。它集中反映了抗日革命根据地社会日常生活的军事化色彩、为建立现代民族国家的"焦虑"心态,以及潜在的"突围"心理。从"突击文化"的角度研究延安文学,能够使延安文学研究从"政治"的视野步入更深入的"文化"空间,进而丰富我们对延安文学内在复杂性的认识。通过"突击文化",我们可以更新对于延安文学的认识结构。     

真实与想象 ——中国古代易装文化的嬗变与文学表现

20世纪以前世界各国的易装文化都以女扮男装为主流,中国古代易装文化非常丰富,又有不同于欧洲的特点。历史上的妇女易装个案与战争、民族融合及科举制度密切相关。至明清时代,添加了反叛礼教和市民文化的色彩,又有遗民、边缘文人“女性化”心态的作用,加上文学上闺秀传统及才女“文人化”的形成,文学易装题材的创作达到高峰,尤以女作家所创作的叙事作品表现女性意识的崛起和追求个性解放、男女平等的理想,而显得意义深远。     

暨南大学南洋文化教育事业部的历史成就与贡献

暨南大学南洋文化教育事业部 (192 7～ 194 9)是一个曾经称誉海内外的华侨研究机构 ,该部担负研究华侨、服务华侨、帮助华侨摆脱危机的特殊使命 ,是当时中国境内研究华侨的唯一机构。本文探讨南洋文化教育事业部成立的时代背景 ,对它在研究华侨、服务华侨 ,推动华侨教育事业发展等方面的历史成就与贡献作出回顾与总结     

Caesarean delivery before 39 weeks associated with selecting an auspicious time for birth in Taiwan

BackgroundCaesarean delivery before 39 weeks of gestation increases the risk of morbidity among infants. Taiwan has one of the highest caesarean rates in the world, but little attention has been paid to this issue. This study aimed to describe the rate of caesarean delivery before 39 weeks gestation among women who did not have labour signs and had a non-emergency caesarean delivery in Taiwan and to examine whether the phenomenon was associated with the Chinese cultural practice of selecting an auspicious time for birth.MethodsWe recruited women at 15–28 weeks of pregnancy at 5 hospitals in northern Taiwan and followed them at 4 or 5 weeks after delivery using structured questionnaires. This analysis included 150 primiparous mothers with a singleton pregnancy who had a non-emergency caesarean delivery without the presence of labour signs.ResultsNinety-three of these women (62.0%) had caesarean deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation. Logistic regression analysis showed that women who had selected an auspicious time for delivery (OR = 2.82, 95% CI: 1.15–6.95) and delivered in medical centres (OR = 5.26, 95% CI: 2.25–12.26) were more likely to deliver before 39 weeks of gestation.ConclusionNon-emergency caesarean delivery before 39 weeks of gestation was common among the study women, and was related to the Chinese cultural practice of selecting an auspicious time for birth. Further studies are needed to examine the risks and benefits associated with timing of caesarean delivery in Taiwan in order to generate a consensus among obstetricians and give pregnant women appropriate information.     

Freedom within bars: maximum security prisoners’ negotiations of identity through rap

This paper examines the construction of prisoners’ identity through rap in England’s high security prisons. While hip hop studies has often addressed rap’s connection to the social practices of criminalized youths, prison rap cultures have received scant attention. This paper draws on a series of rap workshops and interviews with prisoners to investigate the experiences of black prisoners in high security prisons and how identities are produced and negotiated through rap. Rap is associated with the production of a range of identities and identifications, enabling prisoners to accommodate themselves to the conditions of their incarceration and to challenge aspects of the criminal justice system that they experience as unfair or illegitimate.     

Competing Values Framework: A useful tool to define the predominant culture in a maternity setting in Australia

Objective

To identify the predominant culture of an organisation which could then assess readiness for change.

Culture, state and varieties of capitalism: a comparative study of life insurance markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan

This article examines the interplay between local culture, the state, and economic actors' agency in producing variation across markets. I adopt a political-cultural approach to examining why life insurance has been far more popular in Taiwan than Hong Kong, despite the presence of a cultural taboo on the topic of premature death in both societies. Based on interview data and documentary references, the findings reveal that as an independent state, the Taiwanese government heavily protected domestic insurance firms during their emergence. These domestic firms adopted a market-share approach by re-defining the concept of life insurance to accommodate the local cultural taboo. The colonial Hong Kong government, on the other hand, adopted laissez-faire policies that essentially favoured foreign insurance firms. When faced with the tension between local adaptation and the profitability of the business, these foreign firms chose the latter. Their reluctance to accommodate local cultures, however, resulted in a smaller market. I argue that state actions mediate who the dominant economic players are and that the nature of the dominant players affects the extent of localization. Specifically, the presence of competitive domestic players alongside transnational corporations is more likely to produce varieties of capitalism.