2018 witnessed some unprecedently strict regulations on national media content production and distribution by the Chinese National Radio and Television Administration(NRTA).On its annual recommended lists of excellent...2018 witnessed some unprecedently strict regulations on national media content production and distribution by the Chinese National Radio and Television Administration(NRTA).On its annual recommended lists of excellent national TV series,there is a noticeable increase in historical series in line with core socialist values.Since late 2019,there has been a strict home-quarantine policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Accompanied by the newly introduced three-child birth policy in the context of the country’s low fertility rate and significant ageing,a re-emphasis on traditional Confucian ideologies incented by the Chinese authorities emerged:the primary identity of women being an understanding wife and loving mother.Furthermore,thus,a manifestation of such enforced patriarchal ideologies and cultural values is visible in the country’s strictly regulated media content.This study sets off from a corpus of national recommended TV lists to investigate the myth of women’s fates in amid-pandemic Chinese TV series that are appraised and supported by authorities to explore how their identities are constructed and potentially abused under patriarchal media production.展开更多
Purpose:This study re-examines the relationship between jiao(lit.teaching)and xue(lit.learning)—the foundational education concepts in the traditional Chinese cultural contextto enlighten our contemporary understandi...Purpose:This study re-examines the relationship between jiao(lit.teaching)and xue(lit.learning)—the foundational education concepts in the traditional Chinese cultural contextto enlighten our contemporary understandings of education and educational research.Design/Approach/Methods:This study first lays its foundation on an etymological investigation.It then integrates two mutually connected approaches-the classics and the self as method-to present a comprehensive analysis.Finally,it critically reviews the methodology used in this study.Findings:The interdependency of xue and jiao has an etymological foundation,supported by canon-ical doctrines and verified by individualized experiences.The interpretation of xue as xiao(to imitate)describes the origin and process of education in which the junior imitated and followed the elder,while the extended interpretation of xue as jue(to awaken)stresses the effects and functions of edu-cation.In the classical Chinese context,greater significance was placed on xue the keyword concur-rently connoting the meaning of teaching and learning in the modern sense.It is misleading to narrowly render the originally meaningful word group xuexi as learning in modern English.展开更多
文摘2018 witnessed some unprecedently strict regulations on national media content production and distribution by the Chinese National Radio and Television Administration(NRTA).On its annual recommended lists of excellent national TV series,there is a noticeable increase in historical series in line with core socialist values.Since late 2019,there has been a strict home-quarantine policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Accompanied by the newly introduced three-child birth policy in the context of the country’s low fertility rate and significant ageing,a re-emphasis on traditional Confucian ideologies incented by the Chinese authorities emerged:the primary identity of women being an understanding wife and loving mother.Furthermore,thus,a manifestation of such enforced patriarchal ideologies and cultural values is visible in the country’s strictly regulated media content.This study sets off from a corpus of national recommended TV lists to investigate the myth of women’s fates in amid-pandemic Chinese TV series that are appraised and supported by authorities to explore how their identities are constructed and potentially abused under patriarchal media production.
文摘Purpose:This study re-examines the relationship between jiao(lit.teaching)and xue(lit.learning)—the foundational education concepts in the traditional Chinese cultural contextto enlighten our contemporary understandings of education and educational research.Design/Approach/Methods:This study first lays its foundation on an etymological investigation.It then integrates two mutually connected approaches-the classics and the self as method-to present a comprehensive analysis.Finally,it critically reviews the methodology used in this study.Findings:The interdependency of xue and jiao has an etymological foundation,supported by canon-ical doctrines and verified by individualized experiences.The interpretation of xue as xiao(to imitate)describes the origin and process of education in which the junior imitated and followed the elder,while the extended interpretation of xue as jue(to awaken)stresses the effects and functions of edu-cation.In the classical Chinese context,greater significance was placed on xue the keyword concur-rently connoting the meaning of teaching and learning in the modern sense.It is misleading to narrowly render the originally meaningful word group xuexi as learning in modern English.
