1.Introduction History has endowed the Chinese people with a very influential and unique culture,which advocates harmony in diversity and integrates different cultures in practice.While unfolding a spectacular scene,a...1.Introduction History has endowed the Chinese people with a very influential and unique culture,which advocates harmony in diversity and integrates different cultures in practice.While unfolding a spectacular scene,and spreading benefits around the world,it also quietly nourishes ordinary households without even being noticed.More importantly,having witnessed many thousand years of vicissitudes。展开更多
Advanced Chinese culture today has three interconnected requirements: a) it is an organic component of today's advanced world culture; b) it critically absorbs all the best elements of foreign cultures in an organ...Advanced Chinese culture today has three interconnected requirements: a) it is an organic component of today's advanced world culture; b) it critically absorbs all the best elements of foreign cultures in an organic combination with the best elements of traditional Chinese culture; and c) it transcends the argument over "modernism" and "post-modernism." From a world- historical perspective, all other necessary features of advanced culture in contemporary China represent the logical unfolding of these three requirements. A full and correct grasp of the three elements constituting the world-historicality of this advanced culture is of important methodological significance in clarifying the world-historical mode of the construction of contemporary Chinese culture and the path to cultural innovation.展开更多
Russian writer Nicholas Tempered (1934) provided generations Ostrovski's novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model: a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image o...Russian writer Nicholas Tempered (1934) provided generations Ostrovski's novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model: a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image occupied a prominent place in the orthodoxy revolutionary education and literary imagination during Mao's era. Over the past decade, Pawel Korchagin has regained his popularity in Chinese media, his name and image have been appropriated by numerous artists and filmmakers to help in portrayals of the new generation's self-fashioning. The various (unorthodox) interpretations recently attached to Pawel's heroic story reveal a huge gap between Maoist ideology and the post-Mao ideas. This paper looks into the intricate relationships between Pawel Korchagin's revolutionary past and his varied contemporary representations. By doing so, I hope to gain a better understanding of the cultural politics of appropriating Mao's legacy to create new meanings for a changing Chinese society One example on which this paper focuses is the sixth-generation director Lu Xuechang's film Becoming a Man (1997), which rewrites the revolutionary Bildungsroman of Pawel in a startling different context.展开更多
文摘1.Introduction History has endowed the Chinese people with a very influential and unique culture,which advocates harmony in diversity and integrates different cultures in practice.While unfolding a spectacular scene,and spreading benefits around the world,it also quietly nourishes ordinary households without even being noticed.More importantly,having witnessed many thousand years of vicissitudes。
文摘Advanced Chinese culture today has three interconnected requirements: a) it is an organic component of today's advanced world culture; b) it critically absorbs all the best elements of foreign cultures in an organic combination with the best elements of traditional Chinese culture; and c) it transcends the argument over "modernism" and "post-modernism." From a world- historical perspective, all other necessary features of advanced culture in contemporary China represent the logical unfolding of these three requirements. A full and correct grasp of the three elements constituting the world-historicality of this advanced culture is of important methodological significance in clarifying the world-historical mode of the construction of contemporary Chinese culture and the path to cultural innovation.
文摘Russian writer Nicholas Tempered (1934) provided generations Ostrovski's novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model: a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image occupied a prominent place in the orthodoxy revolutionary education and literary imagination during Mao's era. Over the past decade, Pawel Korchagin has regained his popularity in Chinese media, his name and image have been appropriated by numerous artists and filmmakers to help in portrayals of the new generation's self-fashioning. The various (unorthodox) interpretations recently attached to Pawel's heroic story reveal a huge gap between Maoist ideology and the post-Mao ideas. This paper looks into the intricate relationships between Pawel Korchagin's revolutionary past and his varied contemporary representations. By doing so, I hope to gain a better understanding of the cultural politics of appropriating Mao's legacy to create new meanings for a changing Chinese society One example on which this paper focuses is the sixth-generation director Lu Xuechang's film Becoming a Man (1997), which rewrites the revolutionary Bildungsroman of Pawel in a startling different context.