The Pathologies of Modernity:Liberalism,Nihilism,Conservatism,Postmodernism,Intersectionality/Identity Politics,and Secular Humanism

In this article,Mocombe highlights what he calls the pathological-pathogenic purposive-rationalities(liberalism,nihilism,conservatism,postmodernism,intersectionality/identity politics,and secular humanism)that emerge out of modernity as constituted by the West under American hegemony.In the place of these pathological-pathogenic responses to the vagaries of modernity,Mocombe calls for an antihumanism,associated with what he calls libertarian communism,as a panacea to the aforementioned malaises.

Foshan:Confluence of Tradition and Modernity

FOSHAN is an ancient city endowed with a bountiful culture.Located in the heartland of the vibrant Pearl River Delta,Foshan is west of Guangzhou,the capital of Guangdong Province,and gazes upon Hong Kong and Macao from the north.For centuries,Foshan has been the economic and trade center in this region,and known for its high-quality ceramic products throughout the country.In modern times,it has witnessed a growth

Renovation and Involution — Paradox of Chinese Literature in Modernity

With a special matter, Chinese literature has differences with traditional theories from western countries in essence, so that Chinese literature demonstrates its renovation and involution. The main reason is its trends of modernity. The transformation from oversea exchange is very important. This paper mainly explains the specific content of paradox of Chinese literature in mo dernity, and explores the reasons for differences between China and western countries.

A Brief Analysis on the Differences between the Aesthetic Modernity Pursuits of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art and the Modern Art of the West

Aesthetic Modernity is a western concept.It was based on the development of the historical view.This article focuses on the aesthetic modernity pursuits of modern and contemporary Chinese art and compares it with the western culture and modern art under the concept of aesthetics.It also analyses the problems and causes in the process of modernity of Chinese modern and con⁃temporary art,and presents the advice to the further development of Chinese art.

Research on Chinese Urban Modernity Issues From the Perspective of Technology Rational Critique

With the development of urbanization,metropolises and megapolises are emerging.Urbanization is being completed with the driving force of capital;meanwhile,technology has achieved the quest of capital.In this thesis,in light of Henri Lefebvre’s ideology of technology rational critique,Chinese urban modernity issues under the perspective of technology rational critique were analyzed,including issues like eroded urban texture,urban mechanization,and urban segregation.The technology rational root of Chinese urban modernity issues was discussed from the turn of technical artifacts from design intention to application intention.In the end,possible methods to solve these Chinese urban modernity issues were illustrated based on Henri Lefebvre’s urban development theory.

Facing Modernity

China＇s booming Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region marks the 70th anniversary of its foundation.

Bringing Buddha Into Modernity

WU Quan （pseudonym） made up her mind to follow a Buddhist path after she watched the animated film Renunciation - released by Longquan Monastery, sometimes known as Dragon Spring Monastery. in Beijing.

Assimilation and Modernity——A Case Study of Abraham Cahan's “The Imported Bridegroom”

In the modern era, the Jewish-Americans were faced with challenges because of the assimilation and modernity environment in the US, and as a result, many of them were in a double bind—to be an assimilated American citizen or to be a traditional Jew. With his work"The Imported Bridegroom", Abraham Cahan contemplated on the subject of Jewish immigration and assimilation and he made a ground-breaking contribution to the establishment of American modernity. This paper intends to analyze Cahan's attitudes towards assimilation and modernity and how he builds up modernity for all of the Americans. Three characters in"The Imported Bridegroom", who stand for three prototypes of modern Jewish-Americans confronting the overwhelming flood of assimilation and the duty for retaining their traditions, will be analyzed. Through the composition of this work, Cahan tried to spread the Jewish culture on the one hand, and on the other, he warned the peripheral that it was difficult to be assimilated without disasters even if they had made contribution to the formation of modernity.

The Solution to Current Psychosocial Problems and the “Unfulfilled Enlightenment” of Modernity in the New Era

The transition period of Chinese society has spawned many psychosocial problems in China,which are characterized by high incidence,universality and growth. Compared with social and economic development,the devel-opment of social psychology has been relatively slow for a long time,which has led to the prevalence of psychosocial problems and the lack of modernity cultivation in China's modernization. Xi Jinping theory on socialism with Chi-nese characteristics(SCC) in the new era is a scientific plan for the all - round development and modernization of SCC,and it contains rich ideas of modernity. It is also the ideological inheritance and innovation of Marx's "full and free development of human beings",and the basic strategy of cultivating the modernity of the new era. Therefore,it is an important way to solve the current psychosocial problems in China through the Marxist theory and the "unfulfilled enlightenment" of the theory of the new era.

Struggling Between Tradition and Modernity: A Feminist Interpretation of Yu Opera China Women

Yu Opera China Women (some translated it into Our Company)(2000) has been well received by audiences for its simple folk description, vivid characters, touching story lines, stunning stage backgrounds, and exquisite stage performances. The opera describes a story of Xiangxiang and Huanhuan, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, two generations of women in the reform and opening up years in the 20th century in China. These Chinese women try to break the shackles of fate, with the strength to overcome hardships, work hard to gain wealth, and be brave to pursue true love, so it has a strong sense of feminism. However, rooted in the deep traditional Chinese culture, Xiangxiang and Huanhuan are always struggling between tradition and modernity and they make difficult choices along with the awakening of women’s consciousness.

The Modernity of Ibsen's Plays ——An Psychoanalytic Approach to A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler

Concentrating on two of Ibsen's most famous plays—A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler,this paper examines Nora’s sudden change of character and the underlying psychological motives for Hedda’s terrible behavior with a psychoanalytic approach,and comes to the conclusion that Ibsen's modernity lies in his pioneering exploration into human's inner world.

Woman as the Trope:Perceiving the Altering Conceptions of Chinese Modernity from Females’Posters before and during Mao’s Era

Woman as a political trope had been essential to the Chinese Communist Party’s state vision of socialist modernization after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.The Party valued women’s labor and devoted to emancipating it from the domestic realm so that women could be mobilized to actively participate in the collective socialist construction.Associating the figure of women with modernity is not an unprecedented strategy,for during the early twentieth century the“Modern Girl”embodying the essence of Chinese modernity had already become a conspicuous cultural icon in various kinds of visual cultural products.This paper investigates the ways in which females’public visual images were consciously constructed in the two different historical periods in order to cater to particular political or commercial schemes.It argues that while those images objectively capture the reality of social modernity to some extents,they also imply the artists’imaginary of an ideal vision of modernization.By registering female figures as the center for presentation,they were inscribed with males’desires through envisioning desirable female images that would correspond to their expectations of the concreteness of modernity.

The Rise of Women’s Education and the Modernity of East Asia:Focusing on the Education of“Virtuous Wives and Worthy Mothers”in China and Japan

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.Looking back on the past and forward to the future,we realize modernity has become a critical issue that not only China and Japan,but the whole East Asian region should pay attention to.China and Japan are both within the“Circle of Confucius Culture”and are both modern latecomer countries.As they were coerced by western countries to enter the modern age,they shared multiple common features.An exploration of the two countries’respective rising of modern women’s education is an important path to discuss the reconstruction of gender and an important method of the course of the embodiment of east-Asian women into modernization drives.With regards to conclusion,entering the modern age,Chinese and Japanese intellectuals reshaped the female gender in terms of interpersonal relationship,value system,and knowledge structure by advocating the idea of“virtuous wives and worthy mothers”education.In the concept of virtuous wives and worthy mothers in East Asia,the Confucian ethics of“docility and virtue”is the soul,and modern scientific knowledge serves this core value.On the other hand,in the course of localization in China and Japan,this imported concept from the West has encountered a completely different historical fate.

Embodiment of Tradition and Modernity:Reading the Notion of Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ba Ba Ba

Compared masterpiece of the Latin American Literature--One Hundred Years of Solitude with traditional Chinese significant novel--Ba Ba Ba written by Han Shaogong,the author suggested the notion of time in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ba Ba Ba consists of two levels of narrative:static time and dynamic time. They provide readers with different perspectives in evaluating the thematic issues of the novels.

The Pursuit of the Source of Romantic Modernity and New Modern Romanticism

Based on the romantic literary theory,this paper studies the signs of the modern romantic literature. Scholars have tried to connect the issues of romanticism with those of modernity since the climax of the post - modernist cultural studies. With the increasingly deep discussion of post - modernism,people happen to find that romanticism revived quietly in the so - called post - modernist aesthetic purpose and interest. It is not difficult to find in all sorts of discussions of post - modernism the trace of many problems and the thinking styles where romanticism has been involved. The seemingly same source lies in the problems of modernity, which has aroused widespread concerns from the academia. In this paper,the author believes that romantic literature focuses on portraying typical characters to express their emotional tendency. Modernity,especially aesthetic modernity,expands a new vision for us to re - examine romanticism. In other words,to study the signs of modernity from romanticism can blaze a new path for the study of modernity.

On Signs of Romantic Literature Modernity

From the romantic literary theory,this paper studies the romantic literature modernity signs linking with the problem of romanticism and modernity originated in postmodern culture research upsurge.With the gradual deepening of postmodern discussion,we suddenly found that the romantic quietly rose in the postmodern aesthetic purport.In all kinds of modernism,it is easy to find a lot of elements of romanticism involved in the trace of style.The root of similar between them is that the modernity still causes wide attention among academics.According to the article,the romantic literatures focus on typical character and expression which contains the ideas of some emotional tendencies.Especially the introduction of the aesthetics of modernity makes us reexamine the romantic and also expands a new field of vision.From the other hand the romanticism to study the signs of modernity opens up a new path.