A Study of Survival Predicaments in Graham Swift’s Waterland from the Perspective of Spatial Theory

In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritual collapse of the people.This paper attempts to explore the dilemma of human existence by starting from Henry’s spatial theory and dividing it into physical space,social space and mental space.

Roots of and Solution to Women’s Predicament in Hotel du Lac

Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dignity as independent human beings by refusing not only marriage of convenience,but the patriarchal values,thus fulfilling their self-seeking and selfdefinition.Beauvoir’s method after slight modifications is found to be the ultimate solution:the young girl and the young boy should be raised with the same ideology of male-female equality and friendship;then things like“male superiority”will disappear and“femininity”will really become part of human nature.

Survival Predicament and Recommendations for Second Generation Farmers in Northwest China

The second generation farmers in northwest of China have difficulties in employment after receiving general higher education,and vocational and technical education is not perfect on the whole. Besides,it is easy for them to become to marginal people in cities. However,returning home and business startup also face many obstacles. Selling land for money brings great hidden trouble for survival. It is recommended that the government should carry out reform from the aspects of quality of work,investment assistance,popularization of law education,rural policy,and people's livelihood. Through increasing the investment,policy support,and education leading measures,the government will make great efforts to improve the quality of life,to help ordinary second generation farmers get out of the survival predicament.

Alienation and Existential Predicaments of Clones:Interpreting Never Let Me Go in the Context of Posthumanism

The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of“donating”their vital organs to human three or four times before death.By depicting miserable fate of clones,the novel conveys deep concerns on the consequences of abusing technology in modern society.Ever since the burgeoning development of life science and artificial intelligence in the 1990s,the trend of posthumanism/transhumanism has emerged.Posthumanism promotes approaches to enhancing human body condition and organism,and extending human lifespan to augment human capacity and well-being by the advancement of technology.In literary field,contemplation on the relationship between human beings and technology has become a major concern of posthumanism.Putting Never Let Me Go in the context of posthumanism,this essay probes into the significant themes of the novel from three aspects:(1)clones’torments in the existential predicaments imposed by human;(2)human’s violation to the principles of bioethics causing the existential predicaments of alienated clones;(3)appealing to human to ruminate on the relationship between scientific technology and ethics.

The Complicated Security Dilemma and Armament Trends in the Middle East: The Order and Change Predicaments

The security dilemma is a common problem faced with the states in the ongoing anarchic international system.It does matter in the Middle East like the other ones and also has its impact on the arms races in the region too.Meanwhile there are some characters named as the order and change predicaments such as the colonial background,weak infrastructure of state construction,and the identity politics embedded in the region that do convert the current complex security dilemma into a complicated one.Not only does it have effect on the regional order,the arm race and disarmament,and also offense/defense paradox,but also does it get on the violent bandwagon in the region.Synergies of the both dilemmas did lead the region into the domestic environment change alongside of regional disorder too.Non-neutral involving the trans-regional powers into the(in)security situation in the region not only did not mitigate the situation but also volatile it too.In conclusion the paper does strive to introduce three phrased manners for transition of the complicated security dilemma.

Women’s Living Predicament as“the Other”in Wolf Hall

As the first book of“Tudor series”written by British famous historical novelist Hilary Mantel,Wolf Hall depicted the process of the blacksmith’s son Cromwell becoming a powerful minister.Meanwhile,with her distinctive writing style,Mantel also skillfully presented women’s living predicament as“the other”and created various typical female images.This paper will focus on those images and analyze their living predicaments under male-dominated society.

Turkey in Re-Orientation:Ambition and Predicament

In recent years,Turkey has turned from merging with the West to"returning to the Middle East"and become an ambitious but indispensible force in regional affairs.On the one hand,the extent of Turkey’s involvement in the regional affairs in the Middle East has never been seen before:supporting Islamic forces such as the"Muslim Brotherhood",which has made Turkey fall in enmity with the Sisi

ONGOING PREDICAMENTS OF CAPITALISM AND FUTURE TREND OF WORLD ORDER

According to the viewpoint of historical materialism,the economic base determines the superstructure.In the long process of its development,capitalism has not only shaped political and economic institutions within countries but also profoundly impacted the development and transition of the world order.However,since the international financial crisis

Mistress of the House——An Interpretation of Emma and Her Predicament in Jane Austen's Novel Emma

Published in 1815, Emma is considered to be Jane Austen's best and most representative novel. It tells the story of how the heroine acquires the knowledge of herself as well as the world, and finally steps to maturity. Attracting readers with its humor and vivacity, the novel, at the same time, repeatedly betrays a sense of frustration and incompleteness. Looking into Emma's role in the family, her moral judgment, and her relationships with male characters in the novel, we will be able to touch the root of her power, yearning and predicament. My paper attempts to explore into the above three aspects in order to discover the inherent ironies of the novel and Austen's profound reflections on the position of women.

Desire for, and Reality and Predicament of Right to Peace

To make peace an aspect of human rights is an idea that appeared within nearly half a century. Studies on this issue have not been enough, and those in China have just gotten started. In order to better safeguard and realize people’s right to peace, it is of great inspiration and significance to explore the general context of mankind’s pursuit of peace, trace back the development process of peace as a human right, observe the obstacles to the institutionalization of the right to peace, and analyze why these obstacles came into being.

Rethinking SMEs’ Financing Predicament

A waveofsharpcriticism has been aimed atthebanks concerning the difficulties for China’ss mallandmedium-sized enterprises(SMEs)in acquiring financing,whilethe Central Government began to strongly urge banks to provide loans for SMEs.Shouldall SMEs be financed while the bankst ake theblame?Is there anyother viable way to pull SMEs outof the financial predicament?Qiu Haiping,a professor with the School of Economics at Renmin University of China,recentlye xamined the issue and offered insights in the Guangming Daily.Edited excerpts

Decoding the SME Predicament

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China are facing a critical period of trying tosurvive the global economic slowdown. A recent government report shows a large number of SMEs in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions have closed some of their factories or suspended production for the time being.The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, rising inflationary pressure, higher costs for labor, rawmaterials and energy, and a stringent domestic monetary policy have all put enormous external pressure on China’s SMEs. But what is the root cause of the SME survival conundrum? And howcan they be rejuvenated? The 21st Century Business Herald interviewed Chen Naixing, Director of the Research Center for SMEs under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, for some answers.

新冠疫情下的欧洲战略困境与中欧关系

The COVID-19 pandemic has both posed challenges and brought about opportunities for Sino-European relations.While the ongoing fight against the pandemic has highlighted the importance of cooperation for both China and the EU,the two major economies are faced with the uncertainties in the recovery of industrial chain and supply chain.Meanwhile,the post-pandemic scenario will further cast new impacts on the China-European relations.

痛苦中的生命抒写——评罗勋《痛苦之门》

广西来宾诗人罗勋的诗集《痛苦之门》写出了诗人的痛苦体验以及对自我存在的思索。在倒立的思想中执着于自我灵魂的解剖,拷问生命存在的意义,既写出了残酷的现实对人们思想的肢解,也写出了一个孤独地执着于堂·吉坷德式理想信念的诗人形象。

Being or Nothingness:Value Choice in Mark Twain's Is He Living or Is He Dead

In the interpretation of Mark Twain’s Is He Living or Is He Dead,the author points out that in the cage of human predic-ament the choice for being or nothingness lies in the fundamental precondition of ensuring subjectivity first and foremost,with equal emphasis on the organic whole of the signifier and the signified in what he or she is doing,so as to realize the subject’s true value of life.

我国城市化的困境

城市化是我国现代化建设的重要环节 ,是提高我国综合国力和人民生活水平的基础条件。由于多种原因 ,一方面我国城市化水平还较低 ,另一方面 ,我国城市化发展表现出很多的非理性和无序性。本文分析了我国城市化面临的困境 ,提出了我国城市化理性化和有序化发展的思路。

Estrangement： A Possible Lens through which to Understand the Femininity of Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Women

The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of it manes to be a contemporary Chinese how popular cultural images of Chinese intellectual women articulated particular, historically-conditioned tensions. The paper focuses on the theoretical construction of ＂estrangement,＂ an important concept in the fields of psychoanalysis, socialist feminism and French feminism. My discussion of ＂estrangement＂ centers on the way in which the femininity of intellectual women is constructed, in particular, the degree to which they are depicted as adhering to or becoming estranged from the norms for feminine behavior. I focus on the female writer Huang Beijia＇s novellas, published between 1981 and 1994. The paper concludes that estrangement constitutes a haunting motif that is used to represent/understand Chinese intellectual women in the contemporary context and that the contemporary intellectual woman＇s predicament is, in turn, a telling motif for understanding historical changes in Chinese gender relations.