Xi Jianying is unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Now in her late 60s, the woman in Shandong Province, eastern China, has suffered an unknown pain in her head since young. She is fortunate in that for the pas...Xi Jianying is unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Now in her late 60s, the woman in Shandong Province, eastern China, has suffered an unknown pain in her head since young. She is fortunate in that for the past 20 years, a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, the provincial capital, has done everything it can to relieve her of the pain. Believe it or not, the Dongfeng (meaning East Wind) Pharmaceutical Factory has been producing a "miracle" medicine just for one patient, for Xi, who lives in a mountainous village on the suburbs of Tai’an City, in total disregard of the huge cost involved and the loss thus incurred.展开更多
The American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is about a forbidden love between a Reverend Dimmesdale and a married woman Hester Prynne. There have been numerous studies about it from different pers...The American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is about a forbidden love between a Reverend Dimmesdale and a married woman Hester Prynne. There have been numerous studies about it from different perspectives since its publication in 1850. This paper aims to reveal how Hawthorne weaves witch's images and witchcraft's mysteries into his work The Scarlet Letter, and is relevant to the influence that these two mysterious elements have on this work.展开更多
We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated,...We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and展开更多
选取华东师范大学儿童语言研究中心zhou2语料库中的400名3-5岁学前儿童作为研究对象,运用国际叙事语言评估工具——MAIN(Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives)中《鸟》的故事作为研究材料进行数据收集,并使用MAIN从故事...选取华东师范大学儿童语言研究中心zhou2语料库中的400名3-5岁学前儿童作为研究对象,运用国际叙事语言评估工具——MAIN(Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives)中《鸟》的故事作为研究材料进行数据收集,并使用MAIN从故事结构、结构复杂性、内部状态术语、故事理解四个方面,重点考察3-5岁学前儿童讲述故事的叙事能力,以及各要素的叙事水平是否存在年龄差异。结果表明:儿童叙事能力随年龄增长呈不均衡发展态势,且4-5岁为儿童叙事能力发展的转折期;儿童对故事各要素讲述能力的发展具有显著年龄差异;儿童故事理解能力各要素均处于较低发展水平。展开更多
This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself c...This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself called"facetious."It revisits the young Lu Xun's uneasy en gageme nt with medical science as student documented in his lecture notebooks bearing corrections by his teacher as well as his early essays?This provides an analytical framework for discussing the stakes of his historical fiction as a critique of the discourse of scientific historiography which was increasingly gaining currency in May Fourth China.Lu Xun's historical fiction is conspicuously not meant to function as a stable medium between the past and the present but betrays its opaque and even arbitrary mediality,which disrupts identity in historical representation and thus critiqques ideological,"cultural"power inherent in scientific discourse that tries to establish that identity.The paper then reads Gushi xinbian as attempts at recovering history from such power and envisioning new possibilities of historical transmission in the midst of an aporetic search of a prehistory of Chinese modernity—attempts hinged on anachronistic textual moments whose meanings circulate in defiance of any identity of time with itself,thereby bespeaking an alternative power to"make"history.展开更多
Plot Summary of The Scarlet Letter: The Scarlet Letter has as its setting Puritan Boston during the mid-17th century.Young Hester Prynne,a“fallen woman”,is sentenced towear a scarlet A,signifying“adultery,”because...Plot Summary of The Scarlet Letter: The Scarlet Letter has as its setting Puritan Boston during the mid-17th century.Young Hester Prynne,a“fallen woman”,is sentenced towear a scarlet A,signifying“adultery,”because she has a lover whenher aged husband is not with her.Consequently she is driven out of theordinary relations with humanity,and is thus able to view critically thevarious aspects of the society.Hester is not overwhelmed by the展开更多
Brigitta Zeumer,an old friend of the Chinese people and a famous painter,died not long ago in Cologne,Germany.I was shocked at the news,since not long before,she had written to me that she was feeling better and plann...Brigitta Zeumer,an old friend of the Chinese people and a famous painter,died not long ago in Cologne,Germany.I was shocked at the news,since not long before,she had written to me that she was feeling better and planned to visit China to experience its changes and development and renew old friendships.I planned a warm reception and a series of展开更多
AS a university student in chemistry, Liu Jingyi worshiped the scientific achievements of Madame Curie and sought to emulate her. She became one of China’s first scientists in environmental chemistry and eventually r...AS a university student in chemistry, Liu Jingyi worshiped the scientific achievements of Madame Curie and sought to emulate her. She became one of China’s first scientists in environmental chemistry and eventually rose to be director of the Institute展开更多
文摘Xi Jianying is unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Now in her late 60s, the woman in Shandong Province, eastern China, has suffered an unknown pain in her head since young. She is fortunate in that for the past 20 years, a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, the provincial capital, has done everything it can to relieve her of the pain. Believe it or not, the Dongfeng (meaning East Wind) Pharmaceutical Factory has been producing a "miracle" medicine just for one patient, for Xi, who lives in a mountainous village on the suburbs of Tai’an City, in total disregard of the huge cost involved and the loss thus incurred.
文摘The American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is about a forbidden love between a Reverend Dimmesdale and a married woman Hester Prynne. There have been numerous studies about it from different perspectives since its publication in 1850. This paper aims to reveal how Hawthorne weaves witch's images and witchcraft's mysteries into his work The Scarlet Letter, and is relevant to the influence that these two mysterious elements have on this work.
文摘We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and
文摘选取华东师范大学儿童语言研究中心zhou2语料库中的400名3-5岁学前儿童作为研究对象,运用国际叙事语言评估工具——MAIN(Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives)中《鸟》的故事作为研究材料进行数据收集,并使用MAIN从故事结构、结构复杂性、内部状态术语、故事理解四个方面,重点考察3-5岁学前儿童讲述故事的叙事能力,以及各要素的叙事水平是否存在年龄差异。结果表明:儿童叙事能力随年龄增长呈不均衡发展态势,且4-5岁为儿童叙事能力发展的转折期;儿童对故事各要素讲述能力的发展具有显著年龄差异;儿童故事理解能力各要素均处于较低发展水平。
文摘This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself called"facetious."It revisits the young Lu Xun's uneasy en gageme nt with medical science as student documented in his lecture notebooks bearing corrections by his teacher as well as his early essays?This provides an analytical framework for discussing the stakes of his historical fiction as a critique of the discourse of scientific historiography which was increasingly gaining currency in May Fourth China.Lu Xun's historical fiction is conspicuously not meant to function as a stable medium between the past and the present but betrays its opaque and even arbitrary mediality,which disrupts identity in historical representation and thus critiqques ideological,"cultural"power inherent in scientific discourse that tries to establish that identity.The paper then reads Gushi xinbian as attempts at recovering history from such power and envisioning new possibilities of historical transmission in the midst of an aporetic search of a prehistory of Chinese modernity—attempts hinged on anachronistic textual moments whose meanings circulate in defiance of any identity of time with itself,thereby bespeaking an alternative power to"make"history.
文摘Plot Summary of The Scarlet Letter: The Scarlet Letter has as its setting Puritan Boston during the mid-17th century.Young Hester Prynne,a“fallen woman”,is sentenced towear a scarlet A,signifying“adultery,”because she has a lover whenher aged husband is not with her.Consequently she is driven out of theordinary relations with humanity,and is thus able to view critically thevarious aspects of the society.Hester is not overwhelmed by the
文摘Brigitta Zeumer,an old friend of the Chinese people and a famous painter,died not long ago in Cologne,Germany.I was shocked at the news,since not long before,she had written to me that she was feeling better and planned to visit China to experience its changes and development and renew old friendships.I planned a warm reception and a series of
文摘AS a university student in chemistry, Liu Jingyi worshiped the scientific achievements of Madame Curie and sought to emulate her. She became one of China’s first scientists in environmental chemistry and eventually rose to be director of the Institute
