The political is the personal: women’s participation in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement

This article examines women’s lived experiences as new activists in social movements. Taiwanese women – many of them housewives – joined the Sunflower Movement, a large-scale protest against a trade pact with China, and a related anti-nuclear movement in 2014. This study demonstrates how new women activists’ everyday political practices mutually construct the public and private spheres in the Taiwanese context. By ‘making private public’, these new activists use discourses of citizenship and maternalism to connect politics to social issues and daily life. Public participation makes these women feel empowered, and their daily actions transform politics from a set of formal, institutionalized practices to a practical fact of everyday life. This research also challenges the reproduction of a rigid private/public division in previous feminist scholarship that regards family and childcare as a separate realm that hinders women’s public participation. In a marked break from past accounts, these women don’t separate their caring responsibilities from their political actions. By focusing on new activists’ political action in and through their family and childcare, this research calls into question scholarly discussions that view maternalism primarily as a public discourse for mobilizing women or a visual strategy for collective protest. By considering the disruptive potential of all acts of mothering, this study paints a more complex and nuanced picture of women and mothers as protesters and reveals how activist women’s actions in the family and private social networks can be a central part of maternalist strategies’ radical potential.     

Linguistic instrumentalism and national language policy in Mainland China’s state print media coverage of the Protecting Cantonese Movement

This article examines the Chinese government’s use of the print media to justify the national language policy and address individuals’ concerns about the vitality of regional varieties of the Chinese language (i.e., Cantonese) in its coverage of the Protecting Cantonese Movement (July 2010) in Guangzhou. The analysis revealed that the Chinese government adopted a relatively reconciliatory response to the Movement, which apparently contested the relevant language policy. However, the media texts maintained the national policy of promoting Putonghua as inviolable, whereas they assigned Cantonese the role of the carrier of cultural tradition and stressed that the rise or fall of particular regional language depended on regional socioeconomic developments. Such media discussions showed that the state carefully managed relevant discussions about the vitality of regional Chinese varieties within the discursive space defined by legalistic, cultural, and socioeconomic development discourses. These discursive boundaries reflect the dominance of linguistic instrumentalism in the Chinese government’s language policymaking.     

革命的五四观的萌芽——五四后期陈独秀、李大钊对五四的认知

五四运动爆发后几年,以陈独秀、李大钊为代表的中国最早的马克思主义者对五四作出了初步的解说。他们极力凸显其政治意义,赞扬五四政治运动中“直接行动”的精神,昭示了马克思主义者把五四视作一场“革命运动”的萌芽和共产党人五四激进革命话语的产生。     

晏阳初:平民教育从中国到世界的历程

晏阳初先生是我国,也是世界著名的平民教育家、社会改革家,是我国早期社会学中乡村建设学派的最重要的创始人之一。他的平教运动和乡村改造事业具有重要的历史意义,至今闪耀着进步思想的光辉。本文从晏阳初人生观的形成,其成功之道,以及反映晏阳初晚年平教业绩的国际乡村建设学院等几个侧面,对晏阳初及其事业进行了客观评述和简要分析,并对国外的一些评述进行了回应。     

启蒙主义与十八世纪英国文学

英国18世纪的社会文化生活与启蒙主义运动有着千丝万缕的联系。18世纪前半期,以启蒙主义理性为核心的新古典主义思潮统治英国文坛,并促成了散文的兴盛和小说的兴起。诗歌的创作也呈现出散文化的特点。到了18世纪后半期,新古典主义思潮开始衰落,感伤主义开始流行,英国文学中也出现了感伤主义诗歌、哥特式小说等文学样式。     

“五四”后西方伦理学在中国传播途径考略

"五四"后,封闭国人心灵的精神枷锁被进一步砸烂,西学以更猛烈的速度和更大的规模涌入中国.西方伦理学便是在这一时期以多种途径大规模传入中国,翻译西书、著书介绍、撰写文章;邀请欧美哲学主要代表人物来华讲学;西方伦理学进入中国大学课堂,通过课堂教学得以传播,这些都成为西方伦理学在中国广泛传播的重要途径.     

"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。     

民族国家、本土性与女性解放运动——以晚清中国为中心的考察

中国女性解放运动的本土前提——民族国家建构,其重要性亟待以更合乎逻辑的形态被阐释出来。通过对晚清中国女性解放运动进行考察,可以发现,中国女性解放运动得以产生的问题意识建立在"民族国家"危机转化而成的"性别"文化危机上,性别文化危机并未构成独立的问题意识,因此女性解放运动必然要与民族国家建构运动相交叉,并以此作为确立自身合理性的重要依据;中国女性解放运动也因此形成了主体角色追求上的"女国民"、形态设定上的"群体性"两大特点,构成了与发达国家女性主义不同的价值追求、资源利用与路径设计。中国女性主义的未来发展不能建立在对西方女性主义资源的简单横向移植上,而应该落实在对本土资源批判性的反省与汲取上。     

约瑟芬.巴特勒与维多利亚时代废除《传染病法》运动

约瑟芬。巴特勒是维多利亚时代的女权运动先驱。为了废除针对社会下层女性的《传染病法》,她成立全国妇女协会并出任领导人,通过到处演讲、报刊发文、组织请愿等方式反对国家规范卖淫;她谴责《传染病法》违背道德、法律、歧视社会下层女性,主张提升女性的社会地位,为女性积极参与社会事务、争取男女平等提供了基础。