Imaginandose Mexicano: The Symbolic Context of Mexican American Ethnicity Beyond the Second Generation

This study explores how third-plus-generation Mexican Americans are able to perpetuate Mexican ethnicity within the relatively integrated environments they occupy in and around Phoenix, Arizona and San Jose, California. By using an imaginary approach in this analysis, I seek to demonstrate the limited applicability of the symbolic ethnicity approach for this group, in particular, as well as to downplay thinking about culture as a set of traits or fixed characteristics that define an ethnic subgroup. I do this through an exploration of how the third-plus-generation Mexican Americans interviewed for this study utilize a range of relational resources—specifically, religion, Spanish-language television, and cross-national encounters—to reinforce and recreate Mexican ethnicity in their day-to-day lives.     

悬崖边上的人生困惑－－塞林格《麦田里的守望者》的社会主题评析

在二战后美国文学中,遁世作家塞林格的长篇小说《麦田里的守望者》被公认为是"现代经典之一",他本人也在文坛上享有"当代风格独特的文学天才"的美名。这部小说深刻、艺术地再现了战后美国青年一代矛盾的精神状态:物质生活的极大丰富和精神生活的空虚匮乏。     

"政教分离"与美国政治哲学

"政教分离"被许多人视为美国宪法基本原则.由于种种原因,它在20世纪又一次成为公众激烈争论的焦点.如果从政治哲学的角度看,"政教分离"的核心是价值中立,而这并不是美国立宪者的主要关注点.但是现代以来,它确实已日益上升为政治哲学的一个重要原则.它的形成不是一个统一的自由主义理念的展开,毋宁说存在着许多不同的原因,其中既有来自世俗自由主义的,也有来自宗教本身的,甚至还有相当"反自由主义"的.故而,"政教分离"可以视为是政治哲学中常常有的复杂的"交叉共识"的一个典例.     

罗伯特*弗罗斯特《收落叶》之主题申说

通过结构-解构诗论对文本作出详细解读后认为,<收落叶>的主题是对"美国梦"的批判,而非一般意义上对田园劳动的吟唱.     

美国的浪漫主义文学

本文旨在阐述美国浪漫主义文学的特点.美国浪漫主义文学在一定程度上与欧洲浪漫主义文学之间有衍生性与启蒙思想相悖,强调感情、想象和主观性.但大部分美国浪漫主义文学作品还是典型的美国化的作品.本文结合美国浪漫主义文学产生的特定的社会、历史、文化背景探讨了美国浪漫主义文学的特点反映了美利坚民族一个"真正全新的经历"、深受美国清教主义运动的影响、信仰个人主义和直觉的价值、追求民主与政治上的平等、强调"使命感"以及多样化的创作形式.     

新中国成立前后美国对华政策的选择

新中国成立前后的美国对华政策正处于形成过程中。美国的对华政策存在着通过谈判在外交上承认新中国的可能性。在美苏冷战的两极世界格局下 ,美国为了加强其在全球遏制苏联的力量 ,在中苏之间实施“楔子战略” ,决定改变对华政策 ,即由二战后的“介入政策”转为“脱身政策” ,脱身国民党政权 ,撒手台湾 ,承认新中国。朝鲜战争爆发后 ,美国人认为苏联已开始在全球扩张共产主义 ,在目前情况下 ,中苏的分裂已失去现实基础 ,台湾也不能被中共控制 ,于是 ,美国对华政策走进了死胡同。     

美国学术界关于"第二次世界大战对美国西部经济发展影响”的争论

第二次世界大战对美国西部经济发展产生了深远影响,战时动员促使西部摆脱了在全国经济中的落后地位.1973年美国新墨西哥大学教授杰拉尔德@纳什在史学界率先提出了二战是美国西部发展转折点的观点.此后他又在一系列论文与专著中深入探讨了二战对西部社会经济发展的影响.与此同时,美国学术界围绕这一问题也不断提出不同的看法.概括起来说,美国学术界的争论主要集中在两个基本问题上:一是西部经济在战时迅猛发展的动力问题;二是战后西部的经济地位问题.     

Identity development and cultural production in the Chinese diaspora to the United States, 1850–2004: new perspectives

Diaspora studies have grown in importance in the modern world as world travel and relocation have become more feasible; as the numbers of persecuted peoples and those seeking exile or new beginnings in new lands has increased; as globalization has created new classes of diaspora movement based on economic motivations; and as technology and modern communication has linked people worldwide and made virtual diasporas and identities readily possible. In the present time, the concept of the diaspora has become the most relevant and usefully adaptable way to view global cultural interaction and human situational practices. This paper examines change and development in Chinese diaspora populations in the US, which have encountered the entire range of diaspora experience, old and new, from 1850 to the present day. The aim is threefold: (1) comparatively to sketch new ideas in diaspora studies, add to them where possible, and employ them in an analysis of individual and community identity construction in the Chinese diaspora, while comparing and contrasting these experiences with those of the Jewish and black diasporas; (2) to present a four-stage model of diasporic literary production and attendant personal and community identity construction, through which varied examples of Chinese American writing will be examined; and (3) within this model, to give extended attention to Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men (1980), a pivotal text defining and describing Chinese American diaspora identity and experience in the US. The paper concludes with a look forward, and thoughts about possible new conditions modifying ‘new diasporas’.     

英美法上的要物合同机制及其启示

关于我国民法典中要物合同的存废,英美法上的要物合同机制可带来不少启示。英美法的经验所传递的信息是,要物合同被确立下来依赖于其无偿的人际关系的产生背景,正是在此基础上,它适用＂没有给就没有还＂的法律逻辑。它被保留下来,很大程度上是法律传统使然。进一步分析,还可以补充上法律目的与法律伦理等方面的理由。在对待要物合同的问题上,建议以前述理由为据,保留无偿的传统要物合同,将有偿要物合同予以诺成化改造。