城市空间架构的文化维度

人类面对来自自身和环境的双重压力和挑战,无法回避城市化进程中的历史悖论,从城市空间架构的文化维度来审视城市的建设和发展,将具有重要的现实意义。城市文化空间由城市传统文化的历史空间、城市现实文化的多元化格局以及城市未来文化的伸展空间等方面构成,城市文化空间架构应注意城市空间的文化的绵延性、空间展开的多样性及其超时空性。     

中国文化现代化的矛盾冲突

中国在追求现代化的过程中,从一开始就遇到了文化普遍性与文化特殊性之间的矛盾冲突。这种矛盾冲突表现为全球化的体验与本土化的抗争、同质化的隐忧与文化安全意识的觉醒、文化结构的等级化与去中心化、文化价值的蔓延与冲突的普遍化等形式。     

民俗文化资源产业开发刍议

中华民族五千年的文明孕育了灿若繁星的民俗文化,形成了民俗文化资源产业开发的比较优势。深刻挖掘中国优秀的民俗文化资源,坚持可持续发展的原则,加强政府规制,以创意为核心,建立立体的民俗文化产业体系,有助于民俗文化的生态式健康发展,也会给经济建设和发展带来新的增长点。     

论宗白华的比较视界

理解宗白华的散步美学,探析其比较意识是一个重要的环节：因为他美学成就的获得建立在博取古今中外艺术文化众长的基础之上。所以本文从分析比较意识的原动力——文化使命感和比较意识表征中的“博”在文化参照与“专”在画学的结合入手,旨在述评比较意识与宗白华美学思想相交合的价值以及在文化心态和方法论层面带给当下美学研究者的启迪。     

试论新疆阿勒泰地区的两类青铜文化

本文的研究表明,在古代阿勒泰地区存在着两类青铜文化遗存:克尔木齐早期遗存和库希遗存。克尔木齐早期遗存主体年代范围很可能在公元前2千纪初至公元前2千纪中叶之间;而库希遗存的年代与境外的卡拉苏克文化的年代相当。从这两类遗存的总体特征来看,都与境外的相关文化存在着很大的相似性,它们的形成与境外的同时期青铜文化存在着紧密的联系。     

Chinatown 2.0: the difficult flowering of an ethnically themed shopping area

Right in Amsterdam’s picturesque Canal Zone, on and around Zeedijk, Chinese entrepreneurs have carved out a presence in what seems like the local Chinatown. The businessmen have been targeting Asian and non-Asian customers by offering products that – to an extent – can be associated with Asia, China in particular. Since the early 1990s, individual entrepreneurs and their business organisations have campaigned for official acknowledgement of Zeedijk as an ethnic-only district and for governmental support of the enhancement of Chineseness. Following Hackworth and Rekers. [(2005). “Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification. The Case of Four Neighborhoods in Toronto.” Urban Affairs Review 41 (2): 211–236], we argue that this case challenges traditional understandings of ethnic commercial landscapes. In sharp contrast to the current orthodoxy, which would conceive the proliferation of such an ‘ethnic enclave’ as part of a larger process of assimilation, we have approached Amsterdam’s Chinatown first and foremost as a themed economic space: Chinese and other entrepreneurs compete for a share of the market and in doing also for the right to claim the identity of the area. What is the historical development of the Zeedijk area, how did Chinese entrepreneurs and their associations try to boost Chinatown and negotiate public Chineseness, and how did governmental and non-governmental institutional actors respond to those attempts?     

论日本文化的双重性格与教育的交叉影响之本质

基于日本民族性格的杂种性以及日本文化深受中西方影响的双重性格而在日本教育中产生划一化与个性化、等级性和平等性以及功利主义与永恒主义的教育观,以及教育荒废现象。本文从文化学和系统论的角度来阐述分析,指明矛盾的本质是以对教育价值观的影响为媒介和渠道,以教育与文化之间互相影响、制约作为交叉点,并最终以对日本国民性格的塑造为落脚点,来进行看似断裂,但实际上逻辑性很强的过程。     

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。     

The perceptions of female media professionals in Kuwait about their job: an empowerment perspective

This study explores the perceptions of women who work in the media in Kuwait—a conservative, male-dominated society. It examines how female media professionals are treated and explores the factors that either encourage or discourage the empowerment of Kuwaiti women working in this field. In-depth interviews were conducted with five female media professionals and academics in Kuwait in order to develop measures of perceptions towards their profession, media organizations, and the general outlook of Kuwait society. The perceptions of a sample of 237 female media professionals were measured using a fifty-one-item questionnaire. An exploratory factor analysis shows that the respondents’ perceptions are grouped into eight sets of variables. The results show that, while the respondents feel empowered by education, regulations, and the current lifestyle in Kuwait, their cultural upbringing, self-image, and societal outlook discourage their empowerment.     

城市公共艺术与文化软实力的对接关系研究——以广州为例

文化软实力是一个国家除军事经济之外让别人主动接近的吸引力,城市公共艺术也是一种与大众有亲缘关系的艺术形态。某种程度上说,城市公共艺术是文化软实力在艺术领域的一种显象。广州城市公共艺术在器物层、行为层、制度层诠释了文化软实力的静态和动态的维度。