Tea Art as Everyday Practice: Gongfu Tea in Chaoshan,Guangdong, Today

In recent decades a style of preparing and drinking tea modelled largely on gongfu tea associated with the Chaoshan region of north-eastern Guangdong Province, China, has been taken up as a contemporary tea art in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and elsewhere. This paper draws on fieldwork conducted in Chaoshan to examine gongfu tea as contemporary practice in its home setting. Three aspects are considered: gongfu tea as an everyday practice, as a refined practice, and as commercialised leisure in tea-houses. I argue that, as an everyday practice in Chaoshan, gongfu tea primarily serves to nourish social connectedness with family, friends and associates. It is regarded as an integral part of day-to-day life rather than a tea art. However, some people separate it from the everyday world by cultivating discernment and knowledge with regard to selected aspects, such as high-quality teapots or appreciation of different teas.     

“无厘头”的影片观看及审美效果的形成

对于“无厘头”影片作为一种文化现象的研究很多,但却少有涉及穿插“无厘头”桥段如何对影片造成影响以及如何形成最终审美效果等观影过程的探讨。自电影符号学之后开始出现影片细读和精神分析取向,而德勒兹哲学则试图对传统的精神分析模式进行改造,将电影的观看视为强度流的物质实践活动。基于此,“无厘头”电影的观看可以看作镜头流与观看的观众身体流的汇合。把镜头流视为叙述文本,通过内在于文本的叙述逻辑（符号意指链的断裂／重组）之间张力的解读,在大量的镜头分析中总结出影片穿插“无厘头”桥段、形成审美效果的规律,并在三阶段的区分中分析张力强度与剧情认同程度关系所造成的影片整体审美效果变动。     

Lena Finkle’s magic arc: hybrid influences in the Russian American graphic novel

ABSTRACT

The article examines Anya Ulinich’s graphic narrative Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel and the novel’s use of visual culture from both the author’s Russian and US American backgrounds. The article interrogates the use of history and timelines, Russian art history and Russian art education in Ulinich’s text. It also analyzes other literary constructs that influenced Ulinich’s novel: US American comics/graphic novels and their use of stereotype, and novels by Russian-speaking Jewish American writers, with their thematized Jewishness.     

Fighting words? Joning as conflict talk and identity performance among African American preadolescents

This study examines how preadolescent African American students in Washington, D.C., used a linguistic practice called ‘joning,’ a style of verbal play similar to ritual insults, in peer interactions. Sociolinguists have focused on how children socialize each other into vernacular styles appropriate for peer group use but often assume that they disalign with social and linguistic norms for classroom behavior. Drawing from a nine‐month ethnographic study that the author conducted in an after‐school program, this article analyzes the structure and function of joning as a vernacular style of African American Vernacular English and its uses in constructing classroom identities. Joning often facilitated student learning, but it was perceived as a socially and physically risky linguistic practice because of its uses as conflict talk in the local community. Focusing on preadolescence as a key stage of language socialization, this article shows how minority students modify peer‐learned linguistic practices to pursue academic success on their own terms.     

应用型本科艺术设计人才培养“底线”与“顶线”的思考 ——以徐州工程学院为例

在我国积极推进高校“应用型”本科院校改革与建设的过程中,科学发展观是决定其成败的关键问题。而建立科学发展 观的前提是理清高校日常教学工作与教育内容所依据和参考的标准——“底线”与“顶线”问题。而在以徐州工程学院艺术设 计专业为代表的“应用型”学科的发展过程中,由于院校间的差异,存在着制度和内容各不相同的“底线”与“顶线”问题。为此, 在应用型本科艺术设计专业办学过程中理清两条线各自的定位与标准,对于科学推进应用型高校本科层次艺术设计专业的教 育教学改革,提升应用型艺术设计人才培养水平有着十分重要的作用。     

试论宋代市民音乐及其历史意义

本文分析了宋代市民音乐的基本特征、成因及其历史意义。宋代市民音乐以其生动的多样性满足了当时广大市民阶层的需求;以其创新性丰富了中国古代音乐的表现形式与内容;以其兼容性推动了各民族、各种音乐形式的交流和提高。历史的经验表明,音乐之兴必须适应社会及其经济发展。     

儒家身心和谐思想及其现代意义

儒家身心和谐思想主要包括:身心合一的身心观,知、仁、勇统一的全面发展观,身心性命双修的修养观。儒家身心和谐思想对构建和谐社会、和谐世界的现实意义主要表现为自我身心和谐。这是实现人与社会和谐、人与自然和谐的基础;自我身心和谐,才能安顿生命、培育精神;自我身心和谐,才能激发人的潜能,提高人的创造力。     

人文关怀与构建"和谐河北"的价值取向--关于河北当代人文精神的社会化实践问题

本组专题文章继续从不同角度对河北人文精神进行深入解析.方伟对河北当代人文精神的社会化实践问题进行了探讨,认为,燕赵文化人文精神是悲情情结、英雄意识、兼纳包容、变异情势和保守朴实所集合同构而成的,河北当代人文精神建设需要在对之现代性的梳理与阐释的基础上进行其自身的置换和构建.方伟还认为,在河北经济文化与社会不断发展中的"和谐河北"建设,欲实现这种精神价值理念上的社会化转换,通过物质发展、经济生活本身去间接地感知、传达,当会起到直接地以精神思想和文化活动去宣传、灌输所不能起到的也不可被替代的实际作用.张川平认为,自古以来在河北人文精神的生成、传承过程中,战争起了潜移默化的作用,正是战争的磨炼才使得燕赵人养成了独特的民风民俗和精神气质.黄建生认为,人文精神是文学艺术的灵魂,文学艺术总是充溢着人文精神,因此,作为一种审美的意识形态和人类美好的精神创造,文学艺术在培育新的河北人文精神过程中的作用不可低估.马春香认为,河北人文精神的内涵可以概括为奉献进取、创新发展、诚实守信、质朴务实等四个方面,这一精神在河北努力建设文化大省及和谐社会的过程中将日益显示其作用.     

树立和落实科学发展观需要矫正的几个认识误区

矫正对科学发展观的认识误区,就是要辩证地认识到:不盲目追求GDP增长,不是说经济发展的速度和数量就不重要了;坚持全面发展并不否认以经济建设为中心;强调协调发展不是平均发展、同步发展;强调可持续发展并不否认改造自然的必要性,而是要通过改造自然,达到建设自然的目的;以人为本不是抽象人本主义。     

从颠覆童话创作传统到批判西方现代文明病——艾克絮佩里在《小王子》中的文体创新及思想

法国作家艾克絮佩里的《小王子》成为半个多世纪畅销书,其成功首先在于文体上大胆创新,颠覆了童话创作的传统,变写给儿童的童话为写给成人的童话;其次是它的两个思想内涵:一方面超前地批判了当时西方刚刚萌芽的现代文明病;一方面在古老而永恒的爱情主题中,倡导了新的生活艺术。作者是以赤子和童子的诚挚与清纯之心构建他的作品,字里行间浸透着作者的心路历程。