The Han Dynasty was the foundation period of Chinese feudal society and an important period for the growth and development of imperial gardens.Therefore,the Han Dynasty has always been a hot topic in the study of Chin...The Han Dynasty was the foundation period of Chinese feudal society and an important period for the growth and development of imperial gardens.Therefore,the Han Dynasty has always been a hot topic in the study of Chinese classical garden history.This study analyzed the background and mainstream thoughts of the Han Dynasty,compared creative ideas,construction techniques,and garden construction achievements of imperial gardens in the Han Dynasty,and elaborated on the similarities and differences between creative ideas,gardening techniques,and social functions of imperial gardens in the Han Dynasty.It is hoped that through this study,the status of the gardening art of the Han Dynasty in the history of Chinese classical gardens can be evaluated more scientifically and objectively,and some reliable theoretical basis for modern garden design is provided.展开更多
Jingsheng Zhai:The studio of esteemed excellence;Jianfu Gong:The palace of established happiness;Yuanming Yuan:Old summer palace;Tai Yi Ling:Chief imperial physician;Shiji:the Grand Historian;Tai Yi Yuan:Imperial medi...Jingsheng Zhai:The studio of esteemed excellence;Jianfu Gong:The palace of established happiness;Yuanming Yuan:Old summer palace;Tai Yi Ling:Chief imperial physician;Shiji:the Grand Historian;Tai Yi Yuan:Imperial medical academy;Tai Yi Shu:Imperial medical office;Tai Yi Ju:Imperial medical bureau;Taiyiju Fang:Formulary of the imperial medical bureau;Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang:Formulary to benefit the people from the pharmaceutical bureau of the Taiping reign;Yuyaoyuan Fang:Formulary of the imperial pharmacy;Bencao Gangmu:Compendium of materia medica;Wengtonghe Riji:Diaries of Wengtonghe;Yizong Jinjian:Golden mirror of medicine.展开更多
A majority of contemporary Chinese historians focus on the so-called Capitalist sprouts to analyze the historical trends and potentials of late imperial China until late twentieth century.Some Western historians,on th...A majority of contemporary Chinese historians focus on the so-called Capitalist sprouts to analyze the historical trends and potentials of late imperial China until late twentieth century.Some Western historians,on the other hand,proposed several alternative approaches to overcome the obvious Eurocentric nature of these Capitalist sprouts approaches.Following a brief discussion of the problems with both approaches,this article argues that in terms of social structural and historical trends,late imperial China during the Ming and early Qing period should be taken as an imperial agro-mercantile society with unique structural features and potentials.To present such a hypothesis,this article,first of all,identifies the major novelties as well as irreversible and structural changes in the economic sector during the Ming and early Qing period to confirm that late imperial China was a society with significant development,rather than stagnation.Secondly,it points out that when profound changes were happening,mainly in the economic sector,the imperial rule was enhanced rather than being weakened or disintegrated by these changes in economy.Thirdly,the paper highlights the main features of the agro-mercantile society indicating that this is a changing society profoundly different from the contemporary West in terms of structure and potentials.展开更多
English linguistic imperialism is that the dominance of English as a world language and sets out to analysis how the language became so dominant. It looks at the spread of English, in order to ascertain whether the la...English linguistic imperialism is that the dominance of English as a world language and sets out to analysis how the language became so dominant. It looks at the spread of English, in order to ascertain whether the language has actively promoted as aninstrument of the foreign policy of the major English-speaking states, and if so, in what ways.Last, it will provide a description of language pedagogy, the scientific study of language learning and language teaching, has beenisolated from the social sciences and political disconnection.展开更多
WHAT is real politics?It means to establish theguiding principles and promulgate the nationallaws.These principles and laws should be hungon both sides of the front gate of the imperial palace andissued with dominant ...WHAT is real politics?It means to establish theguiding principles and promulgate the nationallaws.These principles and laws should be hungon both sides of the front gate of the imperial palace andissued with dominant legal status.The laws and decreesmust first be enforced inside the cour,then they can becarried out in cities and countryside through governmentofficials at various levels,to as far as the frontier regions.The laws must be ample and in great detail,well organizedand without omission of any possible aspect.展开更多
With the marked globalization of cultural transmission and wide opening of the Chinese market, Chinese movie & TV industry faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges as well. What we face is not only the eno...With the marked globalization of cultural transmission and wide opening of the Chinese market, Chinese movie & TV industry faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges as well. What we face is not only the enormous impact of the economic form of film industry; what is more, in the field of culture, we will also face the enormous impact of"cultural imperialism". This paper focuses on the"cultural imperialism"existed in global especially American films. To counter the cultural empirical globalization of American films growing in great intensity, this paper discusses the theory of"culture rebounds"presented earliest in France. Moreover, under the influence of the theory especially in Chinese film circles, it makes research and analysis to deal with the present situation.展开更多
BERNARDO Bertolucci’s film, The Last Emperor, drew its Western audience into a mystic, grandiose, oriental palace that was the Forbidden City, leaving them awestruck at the
The Tanzania Zambia Railway stretches 1,860 kilometers from the East African Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to New Kapiri-Mposhi in land locked Zambia.It is defined as a bi-national organization as opp...The Tanzania Zambia Railway stretches 1,860 kilometers from the East African Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to New Kapiri-Mposhi in land locked Zambia.It is defined as a bi-national organization as opposed to either transnational or multinational because it is jointly owned and managed by the Governments of Tanzania and Zambia.Its construction was made possible by Chinese interest-free loan to the two Governments.Few development projects in Africa have been charged with as much political and ideological dynamite as Tanzania Zambia Railway.To the Western powers,angry that the Chinese had entered territory which they considered their own preserve,it was a Red Railway intended to thrust communism into the very heart of Africa.For the white regimes in Southern Africa,grimly attempting to hold back demands for majority rule,it was seen as Africa’s Ho Chi Minh Trail,carrying guerrilla further,armed with Chinese thoughts and weapons to the banks of the Zambezi River.The Chinese regarded the project as a Friendship Route to strengthen the new African states against the forces of imperialism and for Tanzania and Zambia it was a Freedom Railway,which should prove an instrument in increasing their independence.These reactions underpin not only the complexity of the establishment and management of a bi-national organization but also present challenges to the two national trade unions on how best they can represent their members.Industrial relations literature has cited differences in countries’historical,social,political,economic,and ideological background as the main obstacles in the development of collective bargaining machinery in transnational or multinational organizations.A study in Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority has attempted to develop an integrated bi-national collective bargaining machinery whose collective agreements are likely to be legally enforceable in their respective countries.This paper explores the development of trade unions in both Tanzania and Zambia which can be divided in three phases:first,the construction phase;second,the consolidation phase;and the third and final phase,trade union liberalization and political pluralism which covers the development of a bi national collective bargaining model with its Joint Industrial Council structure and negotiation procedures.The paper compares and contrasts trade union development in the two contracting states and critically examines how each phase has influenced trade union development.It provides a brief historical outline of collective bargaining process and spells out advantages and limitations of bi-national collective bargaining machinery.The paper concludes by observing that one of the main objectives of regional groupings is economic integration and suggests that integrated collective bargaining machinery be adopted as an ideal industrial relations model for regional groupings such as the African Union(AU),Southern African Development Community(SADC),Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(COMESA),Economic Community for West African States(ECOWAS),Eastern African Community,and other regional groupings around the world since it localizes industrial relations function in general and collective bargaining in particular.展开更多
A study published recently by Graumans and colleagues(2021)reported James Bond's exposure to infectious agents across a number of movies[1].The authors took the initiative to use cinema as a source of hygiene lite...A study published recently by Graumans and colleagues(2021)reported James Bond's exposure to infectious agents across a number of movies[1].The authors took the initiative to use cinema as a source of hygiene literacy,pointing out common flaws and risks for individual and public health.Revisiting popular sources through the lenses of public health,can become an effective tool of science communication by providing readers with an amusing and simultaneously learning experience.The latter is a dire need,taking into account the mounting health disinformation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.展开更多
Built between 1368 and 1911, The Imperial Tombs of the Ming （1368- 1644） and Qing （1644-1911） dynaslies includes Xianling Tombs of theMing Dynast）. Eastern and Western Qing Tornbs, Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty.
Grandpa Qin, now 74, has returned to where he had lived for more than six decades in the company of his daughter. In front of him, the old dilapidated scenes have all disappeared. The former nine 1.9-meter-wide lanes ...Grandpa Qin, now 74, has returned to where he had lived for more than six decades in the company of his daughter. In front of him, the old dilapidated scenes have all disappeared. The former nine 1.9-meter-wide lanes have become 12 six-meter-wide roads. The former crowded courtyards, 11 stairs down the lanes, have completely changed their outlook. The only things that seem to have not changed are the old Beijing style of blue tiles and gray bricks and the imperial city walls nearby that are the witnesses to all these changes. Grandpa Qin is among the 300 households who have returned after the rebuilding project was completed. Qin’s family lived in the Nanchizi community for five generations. The big展开更多
As the imperial residences of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties （1368-1911）, the Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang were the centers of state power in late feudal China.
文摘The Han Dynasty was the foundation period of Chinese feudal society and an important period for the growth and development of imperial gardens.Therefore,the Han Dynasty has always been a hot topic in the study of Chinese classical garden history.This study analyzed the background and mainstream thoughts of the Han Dynasty,compared creative ideas,construction techniques,and garden construction achievements of imperial gardens in the Han Dynasty,and elaborated on the similarities and differences between creative ideas,gardening techniques,and social functions of imperial gardens in the Han Dynasty.It is hoped that through this study,the status of the gardening art of the Han Dynasty in the history of Chinese classical gardens can be evaluated more scientifically and objectively,and some reliable theoretical basis for modern garden design is provided.
文摘Jingsheng Zhai:The studio of esteemed excellence;Jianfu Gong:The palace of established happiness;Yuanming Yuan:Old summer palace;Tai Yi Ling:Chief imperial physician;Shiji:the Grand Historian;Tai Yi Yuan:Imperial medical academy;Tai Yi Shu:Imperial medical office;Tai Yi Ju:Imperial medical bureau;Taiyiju Fang:Formulary of the imperial medical bureau;Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang:Formulary to benefit the people from the pharmaceutical bureau of the Taiping reign;Yuyaoyuan Fang:Formulary of the imperial pharmacy;Bencao Gangmu:Compendium of materia medica;Wengtonghe Riji:Diaries of Wengtonghe;Yizong Jinjian:Golden mirror of medicine.
文摘A majority of contemporary Chinese historians focus on the so-called Capitalist sprouts to analyze the historical trends and potentials of late imperial China until late twentieth century.Some Western historians,on the other hand,proposed several alternative approaches to overcome the obvious Eurocentric nature of these Capitalist sprouts approaches.Following a brief discussion of the problems with both approaches,this article argues that in terms of social structural and historical trends,late imperial China during the Ming and early Qing period should be taken as an imperial agro-mercantile society with unique structural features and potentials.To present such a hypothesis,this article,first of all,identifies the major novelties as well as irreversible and structural changes in the economic sector during the Ming and early Qing period to confirm that late imperial China was a society with significant development,rather than stagnation.Secondly,it points out that when profound changes were happening,mainly in the economic sector,the imperial rule was enhanced rather than being weakened or disintegrated by these changes in economy.Thirdly,the paper highlights the main features of the agro-mercantile society indicating that this is a changing society profoundly different from the contemporary West in terms of structure and potentials.
文摘English linguistic imperialism is that the dominance of English as a world language and sets out to analysis how the language became so dominant. It looks at the spread of English, in order to ascertain whether the language has actively promoted as aninstrument of the foreign policy of the major English-speaking states, and if so, in what ways.Last, it will provide a description of language pedagogy, the scientific study of language learning and language teaching, has beenisolated from the social sciences and political disconnection.
文摘WHAT is real politics?It means to establish theguiding principles and promulgate the nationallaws.These principles and laws should be hungon both sides of the front gate of the imperial palace andissued with dominant legal status.The laws and decreesmust first be enforced inside the cour,then they can becarried out in cities and countryside through governmentofficials at various levels,to as far as the frontier regions.The laws must be ample and in great detail,well organizedand without omission of any possible aspect.
文摘With the marked globalization of cultural transmission and wide opening of the Chinese market, Chinese movie & TV industry faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges as well. What we face is not only the enormous impact of the economic form of film industry; what is more, in the field of culture, we will also face the enormous impact of"cultural imperialism". This paper focuses on the"cultural imperialism"existed in global especially American films. To counter the cultural empirical globalization of American films growing in great intensity, this paper discusses the theory of"culture rebounds"presented earliest in France. Moreover, under the influence of the theory especially in Chinese film circles, it makes research and analysis to deal with the present situation.
文摘BERNARDO Bertolucci’s film, The Last Emperor, drew its Western audience into a mystic, grandiose, oriental palace that was the Forbidden City, leaving them awestruck at the
文摘The Tanzania Zambia Railway stretches 1,860 kilometers from the East African Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to New Kapiri-Mposhi in land locked Zambia.It is defined as a bi-national organization as opposed to either transnational or multinational because it is jointly owned and managed by the Governments of Tanzania and Zambia.Its construction was made possible by Chinese interest-free loan to the two Governments.Few development projects in Africa have been charged with as much political and ideological dynamite as Tanzania Zambia Railway.To the Western powers,angry that the Chinese had entered territory which they considered their own preserve,it was a Red Railway intended to thrust communism into the very heart of Africa.For the white regimes in Southern Africa,grimly attempting to hold back demands for majority rule,it was seen as Africa’s Ho Chi Minh Trail,carrying guerrilla further,armed with Chinese thoughts and weapons to the banks of the Zambezi River.The Chinese regarded the project as a Friendship Route to strengthen the new African states against the forces of imperialism and for Tanzania and Zambia it was a Freedom Railway,which should prove an instrument in increasing their independence.These reactions underpin not only the complexity of the establishment and management of a bi-national organization but also present challenges to the two national trade unions on how best they can represent their members.Industrial relations literature has cited differences in countries’historical,social,political,economic,and ideological background as the main obstacles in the development of collective bargaining machinery in transnational or multinational organizations.A study in Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority has attempted to develop an integrated bi-national collective bargaining machinery whose collective agreements are likely to be legally enforceable in their respective countries.This paper explores the development of trade unions in both Tanzania and Zambia which can be divided in three phases:first,the construction phase;second,the consolidation phase;and the third and final phase,trade union liberalization and political pluralism which covers the development of a bi national collective bargaining model with its Joint Industrial Council structure and negotiation procedures.The paper compares and contrasts trade union development in the two contracting states and critically examines how each phase has influenced trade union development.It provides a brief historical outline of collective bargaining process and spells out advantages and limitations of bi-national collective bargaining machinery.The paper concludes by observing that one of the main objectives of regional groupings is economic integration and suggests that integrated collective bargaining machinery be adopted as an ideal industrial relations model for regional groupings such as the African Union(AU),Southern African Development Community(SADC),Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(COMESA),Economic Community for West African States(ECOWAS),Eastern African Community,and other regional groupings around the world since it localizes industrial relations function in general and collective bargaining in particular.
文摘A study published recently by Graumans and colleagues(2021)reported James Bond's exposure to infectious agents across a number of movies[1].The authors took the initiative to use cinema as a source of hygiene literacy,pointing out common flaws and risks for individual and public health.Revisiting popular sources through the lenses of public health,can become an effective tool of science communication by providing readers with an amusing and simultaneously learning experience.The latter is a dire need,taking into account the mounting health disinformation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
文摘Built between 1368 and 1911, The Imperial Tombs of the Ming （1368- 1644） and Qing （1644-1911） dynaslies includes Xianling Tombs of theMing Dynast）. Eastern and Western Qing Tornbs, Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty.
文摘Grandpa Qin, now 74, has returned to where he had lived for more than six decades in the company of his daughter. In front of him, the old dilapidated scenes have all disappeared. The former nine 1.9-meter-wide lanes have become 12 six-meter-wide roads. The former crowded courtyards, 11 stairs down the lanes, have completely changed their outlook. The only things that seem to have not changed are the old Beijing style of blue tiles and gray bricks and the imperial city walls nearby that are the witnesses to all these changes. Grandpa Qin is among the 300 households who have returned after the rebuilding project was completed. Qin’s family lived in the Nanchizi community for five generations. The big
文摘As the imperial residences of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties （1368-1911）, the Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang were the centers of state power in late feudal China.
