Jade Huang and Chinese Culture Identity： Focus on the Myth of＂Huang of Xiahoushi＂

This paper focus on the myth of ＂Huang of Xiahoushi＂ （~）：~ ~2_t~）, focusing on the distribution of Jade Huang （夏后氏之璜） since the early neolithic and its process of pluralistic integration. The paper explores the story of ethnic group, cultural identification and the significance of Jade Huang in the discourse construction of etiquette civilization behind the mythic narrative based on multi-evidence method and the local meaning of literature in ancient Chinese context.

From Learning for CET to ＂Study for Motherland＂： High-Stake of CET Accelerates the Forming of New National Identity of College Students

Since CET-4 （College English Test Band 4） is a high-stake test in China, the majority of students take passing CET-4 as their motivation of learning English. In this paper, the author would like to argue that CET, as a motivation of learning English and an assessment tool, is only a practical and realistic choice for Chinese government to satisfy the national and personal requirements of international development. Students are not learning English for passing CET, but gaining the benefits brought by English. However, the influence from English or western cultures accompanying with the high-stake of CET will form a new national identity of college students-study for motherland.

Analysis of Thai Chinese Businessmen’s Identification With China in the Context of Maritime Silk Road Development-Take a Cover Interview of@ManGu Bangkok,a Mainstream Chinese Language Magazine in Thailand as an Example

Thai Chinese businessmen are important practitioners and supporters of China’s construction of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road,serving as important trendsetters among ASEAN countries with great significance.In this context,this paper analyses and presents the image of Thai Chinese businessmen and their identification with China under the framework of the report and discourse by taking the cover interview of the Chinese mainstream magazine@ManGu Bangkok in Thailand as an example,to show the sentiment and sense of belonging of overseas Chinese to their ancestral homeland,and to provide an emotional“link”for China and ASEAN countries in the mutually beneficial cooperation.

Being Chinese in Lived Intercultural Experiences:A Discourse Analysis of Chinese Undergraduates’Perceptions of Chinese Culture

The current study investigates a group of Chinese undergraduates’perceptions of Chinese culture.It examines the discourses that the students drew on to assign meaning to Chinese culture and how the students used these discourses in constructing their Chinese cultural identity.A qualitative study was conducted collecting written self-reflective reports on critical intercultural incidents from 39 Chinese undergraduates at a university in Beijing.Questions designed to evoke reports from the students had them describe incidents in their past intercultural experiences that made them acutely aware of themselves“being Chinese”and specify aspects of Chinese culture that they felt such awareness could be attributed to.A discourse analysis reveals the multiplicity and contextuality of the students’notions of Chinese culture.The findings raise important considerations for contemporary Chinese undergraduates’cultural identity and their much debated“identity crisis.”

Ethnic Chinese Medicine,Borderless Civilization--On the Identity of Humane and Scientific Nature of Chinese and Western Medicines

The identity of Eastern and Western cultures should include aspects such as its concepts of societal development and science and technology.Though this is related to issues like history of the culture and regional cultural psychologies,the essence lies in the identity of social values at its core.

The Discussion of Connotation and Denotation of the Consciousness of the Chinese National Community

In order to promote research of the Consciousness of the Chinese National Community(CCNC),it is essential to unravel the historical logic and practical foundation of the concept of Chinese National Community(CNC).This necessitates a thorough analysis and contemplation of its connotation and denotation.The CCNC gradually emerged during the continuous development of the CNC.It connotes that all members of the CNC can consciously recognize the objective existence of the CNC and they cognitively,psychologically,and behaviorally have a sense of identity with and belonging to the CNC.From the perspective of the denotation of CCNC,its structural basis lies within the plurality and unity in the configuration of the Chinese Nation.The consciousness of national identity serves as its political expression,the Chinese cultural identity as its spiritual foundation and the consciousness of a community with shared future as its inherent attribute.

Being Chinese or Being Different:Chinese Undergraduates’Use of Discourses of Chineseness

Myths about“the Chinese learner”developed from an outsider perspective abound in the Western world.The focus of this article,however,is how discourses of Chineseness were used by the Chinese international students themselves who,as undergraduate students in a New Zealand university,were the subjects of my doctoral research.It examines the students’notions of Chineseness and how these served in explaining their own narratives,either through identifying with,or distancing themselves from,“Chinese”traits,indicating alternatively a shared experience of the challenges of the new academic culture,or marking themselves out as having a special ability to thrive within it.Whichever way they used them,the discourses seemed to serve a purpose of fortifying their sense of identity and membership.By the end of their study,they were able to reflect carefully on their experiences and discuss new third space identities in which both Chinese and New Zealand values were forging new realities for them.

Drawing the identity of architect:Liu Jipiao as an artistic architect in the late 1920s China

This article investigates the responsibility of architectural drawing in developing the professional identity of modern architects in the late 1920s when Chinese architects started to emerge and assume the title of“architect.”Using architectural drawing as both its subject and its method,this research interrogates how a representative figure-Liu Jipiao employed the power of drawing to establish the identity of the modern Chinese architect.This paper argues that architectural drawing,in establishing the identity of the Chinese architect,faced the requirement to build an affinity between the architect and the artist.The entangled history of these two professions offers up Liu as the representative figure of the artistic architect.Liu’s artistic drawing fulfilled the previously mentioned requirement and earned the architects the artistic power that distinguished them from their counterparts-the engineers.Under the perspective of multiple modernities,the paper challenges the contemporary misreading of Liu Jipiao as an irrelevant individual intellectual and of his practice as a minor failure.Furthermore,this article invites further reflection on the modernity of Chinese architectural drawing,and shows how such drawing made more attempts to convey subjectivity rather than to transmit modern technique per se.