INTERFACING FEMINISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN HONG KONG: A CASE OF EVERYDAY LIFE POLITICS

Cultural studies, as a cultural and political re-articulation of common sense, knowledge and community practices, aims at opening up new cultural space for criticisms, reflections and action. Originating from the women' movement and later flourishing in the academy as well, feminism espouses similar aims to cultural studies. Both cultural studies and feminist/gender studies have a strong sense of intervening into everyday life politics. This paper is an attempt to discuss how feminism and cultural studies interface with each other, largely based on examples of gender-related everyday life politics taken from the feminist movement in Hong Kong. It will examine issues concerning the conflict of consumption and female subjectivities, the reconceptualization of home and housewives, and the representation of everyday life for women and history writing. It is argued that by blurring, negotiating or deconstructing the boundary or division between positions, identities and domains–such as subject and object, housewives and workers, private and public, personal and political, consumption and production–the re-articulation of knowledge about ‘victim’, ‘exploitation’, ‘home’ and ‘history’ in the feminist movement will not only provide the movement with new impetus and insight to reconsider its strategies in fighting for more cultural, social and economic space for women and other marginal groups at large in Hong Kong, but will also ‘metabolize’ the newly developed discipline of cultural studies in Hong Kong by providing a platform to strengthen the dynamic arm of cultural studies education and research. Based on her feminist and teaching experiences in Hong Kong, the author has highlighted activism and pedagogy as the two important dimensions of feminism and cultural studies in this paper.     

NANNY/MAMMY: COMPARING LADY GREGORY AND JESSIE FAUSET

The article constructs a framework for future inquiry about the role of the servant class in the works of Lady Augusta Gregory and Jessie Redmon Fauset. Irish writer Lady Gregory, like her African American counterpart, regarded the working classes with marked ambivalence. The elite of their respective societies, both artists patronized those of lesser social stature to varying degrees. At the same time, however, they both faced powerful adversaries and colleagues alike who sought to keep these female writers themselves ‘in their place.’ As a result of their complex identities, the servant figures perform deeply provocative roles in their writing. The nanny/mammy, with all of the attendant problems of race, class, and gender, embodies the sometimes similar and sometimes divergent battles waged by these two pioneering artists. Questioning notions of ownership and the labor of literary production, the essay also uses the nanny figure as a metaphor to probe Fauset's and Lady Gregory's remarkable trials of dispossession.     

WHOS EMMA AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural studies is a response to political crisis: it is the institutional memory of failed revolutions. Can cultural studies move beyond memory to action? This article describes the writer's involvement in a non-profit, volunteer-run punk storefront in Toronto.     

INSTITUTIONALIZING CULTURAL STUDIES IN AUSTRIA: A VIEW FROM AFAR

The article explores institutional settings for teaching and practicing cultural studies from the point of view of the author's personal experiences at universities in Austria, Canada and Hong Kong.     

Experiences of disabled people making the transition from vocational training to employment in Sri Lanka: an exploratory study

This study examines the experiences of disabled people in Sri Lanka as they make the transition out of vocational training programmes into employment. This study was carried out using purposive sampling method to select ‘good practice’ cases and semi-structured interviews with 12 disabled people. The study applied thematic analysis to the qualitative data using NVivo software. The disabled people were found to have distinctive employment experiences following vocational training such as gaining work satisfaction, earning and spending income, presenting workability, expanding social relationships, and facing challenges. This study also identified key factors related to the transition process, including skills acquired through training, job opportunities, participants’ strengths and empowerment, supportive environments, and suitable work. These findings have important implications for both policy and practice.     

翻译主体间性影响因素的研究

近年来翻译主体间性成为学者关注的焦点,但是对于译者主体性的过多关注,导致了对作者主体性和读者主体性研究的缺乏。结合翻译主体间性,通过对比分析《论读书》的两个中译本,深入探究作者和译者之间以及译者和读者之间的关系,得出在《论读书》两个中译本产生过程中,影响翻译主体间性的主要因素是原作者的写作风格、译者个人经历和语言能力以及目的语读者的期望。     

阳翰笙研究述评

七十年来的阳翰笙研究可分为四个阶段:30年代对<地泉>的批评;三四十年代对电影和戏剧的批评;60年代对戏剧和电影的批评;新时期阳翰笙研究的拓展.阳翰笙研究逐渐从零散走向整合,从单一走向多侧面,随着文学理论和研究方法的更新,研究视野的扩大,阳翰笙研究将会出现新的面貌.因此现在的阳翰笙研究还仅仅是开始,而非结束.     

“台社”知识社群的问题意识及方法论

《台湾社会研究季刊》作者群是当代台湾思想史上十分重要的知识社群：他们的论述实践重构了“台湾研究”的问题意识。台社知识社群接合传统左翼、自由主义、后现代主义、后马克思主义、女性主义以及文化研究等论述资源,力图恢复政治经济学批判和意识形态分析的历史关联,进而确立“民主左翼”的知识立场。     

俄罗斯科学院远东所与中国问题研究

成立于60年代的俄罗斯科学院远东研究所,是俄罗斯最权威的中国问题研究单位之一,是政府制定对华政策的智囊机构.这里的研究热点和范围,代表了俄罗斯对华研究主流和方向.了解俄罗斯研究中国的情况和前沿信息,就一定要对远东所有比较全面的了解.     

延安学研究述评

延安学是从20世纪90年代兴起的一门新学科。近年来,学术界从延安学总体性研究、延安学分支学科研究、延安学历史学科研究和延安人物研究四个方面对延安学进行了较为深入、全面的研究,取得了一定成果。但延安学尚处于初创阶段,有分量的学术著述和论文较少,还须进一步拓宽延安学研究的视野,开拓其研究空间,努力探寻新的研究方法,加大史料发掘、收集整理的力度．