1. In many parts of the world, there are four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. In the U.S., there are only three: football, basketball and baseball. That’s not completely true, but almost. In every season, A...1. In many parts of the world, there are four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. In the U.S., there are only three: football, basketball and baseball. That’s not completely true, but almost. In every season, Americans have a ball. If you want to know what season it is, just look at what people are playing. For many Americans, sports do not just occupy the sidelines. They take center court.展开更多
■It is common in Shanghai to seeimpressive works of art from Chinese artists.What is not so common however,is thechance to see top quality works from aninternational field.MoCA's Art in America:Now exhibition goes
This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and res...This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.展开更多
At the invitation of the Center for Foreign Journalists (CFJ) in America, seven other Chinese women journalists and I attended a monthlong work/study program in the United States that focused on women and development....At the invitation of the Center for Foreign Journalists (CFJ) in America, seven other Chinese women journalists and I attended a monthlong work/study program in the United States that focused on women and development. The program was organized and administered by CFJ and was carried out in Washington D.C., New York and San Francisco. The head of our delegation was Chen Xiuxia, the vice-chairwoman of the All-China Journalist’s Association Subcommission for Communication. The six other members were representatives of major national newspapers based in Beijing. They were: Chen Yi from Economics Daily, Hu Shuli from China Business Times, Li Xing from China Daily, Mu Ya from People’s Daily, Wang Weiqun from China Youth Daily and Xiong Lei from Xinhua News Agency.展开更多
Rosemary, Glad to read your answers to the questions raised by the readers across China！Mydaughter is now in the states.she wrote home an email a day.Reading her email hasbeen a great pleasure fot my family.This is h...Rosemary, Glad to read your answers to the questions raised by the readers across China！Mydaughter is now in the states.she wrote home an email a day.Reading her email hasbeen a great pleasure fot my family.This is her latest message sent from the States:展开更多
Political coverage of the US presidential election of 2016 involved numerous theories about the motivations of Donald Trump’s supporters.These theories were often tied to racial and socioeconomic demographics,and bas...Political coverage of the US presidential election of 2016 involved numerous theories about the motivations of Donald Trump’s supporters.These theories were often tied to racial and socioeconomic demographics,and based in speculations about racism and prejudice.Some of the rhetoric in these speculations,such as Hillary Clinton’s“basket of deplorables”analogy and the informal term“Trumpen Proletariat,”echoes political rhetoric found in Marxist discussions of the lumpenproletariat,a social class characterized by abject poverty,ideological ambivalence,and criminality.In the US,the lumpenproletariat was a subject of great importance to a small number of Depression-era writers,including the African American novelist Richard Wright,whose novels Native Son and Lawd Today!documented and analyzed the fascinating contradictions of race,class,prejudice,and political ideology.This essay asks what Wright’s depictions of the lumpenproletariat can teach us about contemporary political rhetoric in general,and about the intersections of race and class prejudice in particular.It argues that Wright’s refusal to politically abject the ignorant and alienated lower classes can teach us much today about the limits of current US political discourse.展开更多
In the early 1950s,at the height of America’s McCarthyite witch hunts and anti-communist hysteria,Trinidad-born C.L.R.James,who had been living in the United States illegally since 1938,was arrested and held for depo...In the early 1950s,at the height of America’s McCarthyite witch hunts and anti-communist hysteria,Trinidad-born C.L.R.James,who had been living in the United States illegally since 1938,was arrested and held for deportation on the basis of his Marxist philosophy and activism.While imprisoned on Ellis Island,he drafted the text of Mariners,Renegades and Castaways:The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In,a book that is equal parts literary criticism and argument for the very Americanness of James’s revolutionary thought.This essay examines the discussions within James’s revolutionary organization surrounding the composition of that work,and the centrality of Melville to their visions of a revolutionary America.展开更多
文摘1. In many parts of the world, there are four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. In the U.S., there are only three: football, basketball and baseball. That’s not completely true, but almost. In every season, Americans have a ball. If you want to know what season it is, just look at what people are playing. For many Americans, sports do not just occupy the sidelines. They take center court.
文摘■It is common in Shanghai to seeimpressive works of art from Chinese artists.What is not so common however,is thechance to see top quality works from aninternational field.MoCA's Art in America:Now exhibition goes
文摘This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.
文摘At the invitation of the Center for Foreign Journalists (CFJ) in America, seven other Chinese women journalists and I attended a monthlong work/study program in the United States that focused on women and development. The program was organized and administered by CFJ and was carried out in Washington D.C., New York and San Francisco. The head of our delegation was Chen Xiuxia, the vice-chairwoman of the All-China Journalist’s Association Subcommission for Communication. The six other members were representatives of major national newspapers based in Beijing. They were: Chen Yi from Economics Daily, Hu Shuli from China Business Times, Li Xing from China Daily, Mu Ya from People’s Daily, Wang Weiqun from China Youth Daily and Xiong Lei from Xinhua News Agency.
文摘Rosemary, Glad to read your answers to the questions raised by the readers across China！Mydaughter is now in the states.she wrote home an email a day.Reading her email hasbeen a great pleasure fot my family.This is her latest message sent from the States:
文摘Political coverage of the US presidential election of 2016 involved numerous theories about the motivations of Donald Trump’s supporters.These theories were often tied to racial and socioeconomic demographics,and based in speculations about racism and prejudice.Some of the rhetoric in these speculations,such as Hillary Clinton’s“basket of deplorables”analogy and the informal term“Trumpen Proletariat,”echoes political rhetoric found in Marxist discussions of the lumpenproletariat,a social class characterized by abject poverty,ideological ambivalence,and criminality.In the US,the lumpenproletariat was a subject of great importance to a small number of Depression-era writers,including the African American novelist Richard Wright,whose novels Native Son and Lawd Today!documented and analyzed the fascinating contradictions of race,class,prejudice,and political ideology.This essay asks what Wright’s depictions of the lumpenproletariat can teach us about contemporary political rhetoric in general,and about the intersections of race and class prejudice in particular.It argues that Wright’s refusal to politically abject the ignorant and alienated lower classes can teach us much today about the limits of current US political discourse.
文摘In the early 1950s,at the height of America’s McCarthyite witch hunts and anti-communist hysteria,Trinidad-born C.L.R.James,who had been living in the United States illegally since 1938,was arrested and held for deportation on the basis of his Marxist philosophy and activism.While imprisoned on Ellis Island,he drafted the text of Mariners,Renegades and Castaways:The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In,a book that is equal parts literary criticism and argument for the very Americanness of James’s revolutionary thought.This essay examines the discussions within James’s revolutionary organization surrounding the composition of that work,and the centrality of Melville to their visions of a revolutionary America.
