The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper ana...The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper analyzes two of these leading paradigms,designated here as Regressivism and Progressivism.Other theorists have long chronicled the differing strengths and weaknesses of these paradigms,taking the former as expressing more conservative,traditional,and nationalistic values,and the latter as expressing more liberal,pluralistic,and cosmopolitan values.Going beyond these perennial distinctions,I argue that Progressivism is more benign and beneficial than the former-by meeting basic human needs better and supporting more effective adaptation to changing exigencies.I also argue that Progressivism does not express merely subjective or relativistic preferences and values,but objectively preferable and quantifiable ones,that benefit not only our personal lives more but also our global village and communal lives more.展开更多
The Lost Generation is actually a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900s.The Lost generation tendency and Lost generation writers are of great importance to the Ameri...The Lost Generation is actually a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900s.The Lost generation tendency and Lost generation writers are of great importance to the American and world literature.This article serves as a brief introduction to the Lost generation and its significant writers.展开更多
Due to its construction of an image of modern Chinese philosopher who comments and reflects on what he has seen in England in comparison to China,Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World(1760)has contradictorily b...Due to its construction of an image of modern Chinese philosopher who comments and reflects on what he has seen in England in comparison to China,Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World(1760)has contradictorily been interpreted in two ways:One considers it as an orientalist discourse denigrating Chinese culture,while the other takes is as an utopian fabrication idealizing Chinese culture.Seeking“difference”between English and Chinese cultures is the underlying logic of these two types of interpretations.On the contrary,rooting on the“sameness”between them,this essay offers a new understanding about The Citizen of the World through a close textual analysis.The aim is to demonstrate how The Citizen of the World makes use of the image of Chinese philosopher to represent English cosmopolitanism featured with“polite”and“universal”and how the principle of equality operates through English cosmopolitanism.展开更多
作为世界上销量最大的年轻女性杂志,《COSMOPOLITAN》(中文刊名:《时尚·COSMO》以其乐观的风格、对年轻职业女性的关注和坦诚面对当代社会两性关系而独树一帜。创刊于1886年的《COSMOPOLITAN》,其初衷是一本面向“上层阶级家庭”...作为世界上销量最大的年轻女性杂志,《COSMOPOLITAN》(中文刊名:《时尚·COSMO》以其乐观的风格、对年轻职业女性的关注和坦诚面对当代社会两性关系而独树一帜。创刊于1886年的《COSMOPOLITAN》,其初衷是一本面向“上层阶级家庭”的杂志,以报道当代社会时尚潮流为主旨。从20世纪60年代开始,在时任主编、富有传奇色彩的女强人 Helen Curley Brown 的倡导下,《COSMOPOLITAN》率先向女性读者提出“勇敢面对生活,大胆追求生活目标,在生活的各个层面做到尽善尽美”这个在当时看来惊世骇俗的理念,现在,它已经成为大多数职业妇女的生活写照。今天,《COSMOPOLITAN》已不仅仅是一本杂志,在全世界热心读者的心目中,她已经成为一种生活方式,被越来越多的人所喜爱。目前,《COSMOPOLITAN》展开更多
This paper investigates the experiences of UK undergraduate students who have undertaken a one year paid internship abroad within the hotel sector by using a phenomenological approach.Semi-structured interviews were c...This paper investigates the experiences of UK undergraduate students who have undertaken a one year paid internship abroad within the hotel sector by using a phenomenological approach.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 final year undergraduate students.The findings shed light on the alignment of key elements of the constructs of positive psychological capital and cosmopolitan human capital,along with strong self-belief in employability as a consequence of the experience.A theoretical model of international experience and positive psych-social development is postulated and contributes to improved practice in internship and employability mentoring and policy decision-making with respect to current internationalisation and employability agendas in the UK’s higher education system.展开更多
The purpose of the present paper is to explore the ways in which John Steinbeck utilizes the ideas of cosmopolitanism and socialism in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath(1939)interweaving them into the U.S.reality of...The purpose of the present paper is to explore the ways in which John Steinbeck utilizes the ideas of cosmopolitanism and socialism in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath(1939)interweaving them into the U.S.reality of the 1930s.It also deals with the term“global literature”,taking it as a starting point for the analysis of Steinbeck’s novel.Taking the lead of Wai-Chee Dimock,the author views American literature as no longer a sovereign literary domain,but as a blend of literatures that are ever evolving and multiplying,interweaving with other cultures.From this standpoint,the paper discusses The Grapes of Wrath in terms of transnational imagination,placing it into the scope of the“world literature”.It is an attempt to identify the“connective tissues”that make the novel belong to the global literature and investigate how they are represented in the text.展开更多
Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis is a widely reported species of marine red algae, with records from around the world. Particularly in Mexico, it has been recorded along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Ca...Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis is a widely reported species of marine red algae, with records from around the world. Particularly in Mexico, it has been recorded along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean as well as the Tropical Mexican Pacific;so, its current distribution on the Mexican coasts is disjunct. From its molecular characterization with COI-5P and rbcL sequences of specimens collected at sites in Mexico where this species has been most frequently recorded, our aim was to re-evaluate the current distribution of Gp. lemaneiformis on the Mexican coasts and discuss the taxonomic implications. Phylogenetic analysis, supported by DNA species delimitation methods, genetic distances and morphological comparisons, showed that the current disjunct distribution of Gp. lemaniformis in Mexico is a consequence of taxonomic misidentifications. From our results, Gp. lemaneiformis is the only species of the genus with a distribution in the Tropical Mexican Pacific, whereas Gp. tenuifrons is the only species with a distribution in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean. Also, we propose that Gp. cata-luziana is to be merged with Gp. tenuifrons, while Gp. costarisensis is to be merged with Gp. lemaneiformis.展开更多
In contrast to the continued decline of liberal arts education in the US,there has been a revived interest in liberal arts education in Asian countries in recent years.Grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the ...In contrast to the continued decline of liberal arts education in the US,there has been a revived interest in liberal arts education in Asian countries in recent years.Grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the central tenets of liberal arts education in the West,this paper looks into the struggles Asian countries face in their exploration of liberal arts education and provides a direction for Asian countries in their efforts to practice liberal arts education.This paper establishes the deep connections between humanistic approaches of the Confucian tradition and liberal arts education by pointing to a common ground for the education of humanity.Ultimately,the purpose of liberal arts education,in the East as well as in the West,should be the liberation of human beings from the constraints of ignorance,prejudice and traditional customs and through the cultivation of a cosmopolitan morality that emphasizes unity,solidarity and the fusion of humankind.Chinese universities should contemplate the purpose and value of higher education in the 21st century and tap into the rich resources of Confucianism in order to give its liberal arts education a“soul.”展开更多
The authors,one from China and one from the United States,present a theoretical framework for understanding the discursive fields of citizenship education as composed,in large part,of the discourses of nationalism,glo...The authors,one from China and one from the United States,present a theoretical framework for understanding the discursive fields of citizenship education as composed,in large part,of the discourses of nationalism,globalization,and cosmopolitanism.The framework is illustrated by examples from citizenship education in China and the United States.Citizenship education in these examples is largely influenced by the discourse of nationalism.The discursive fields are fractured,context-specific,and dynamic.In conclusion,the authors call for awareness of how these discourses operate,and propose that the discourses of globalization and cosmopolitanism merge and strengthen within citizenship education.The effect could be a new citizenship education that is responsive to the current needs of local and global democratic communities.展开更多
This paper follows the life of an idea, a fundamental concept in modern Chinese intellectual life: socialism. It explores this idea as an alternative form of Chinese cosmopolitanism, drawing from Pheng Cheah's ident...This paper follows the life of an idea, a fundamental concept in modern Chinese intellectual life: socialism. It explores this idea as an alternative form of Chinese cosmopolitanism, drawing from Pheng Cheah's identification of two kinds of Chinese cosmopolitanism: mercantile and revolutionary. If part of what we mean by cosmopolitanism is the local use of an external, or international, or otherwise "independent" (relative to local power and practice) ideology or discourse to promote an agent's sense of social good at home and connection to the world, then the ways that socialist thought, ideology and praxis have been employed in China in the twentieth century constitute one such strain of cosmopolitanism. Shehuizhuyi (socialism) meant related but significantly different things to Chinese in the twentieth century. This essay argues that Chinese socialism can be viewed as a version of vernacular cosmopolitanism through two examples: Wang Shiwei in the 1940s and Deng Tuo in the 1960s, as well as the discourse of Pan-Asianism before and after the Mao era. Chinese socialism was as much a terrain of debate and contestation about what it means to be "Chinese and modern" as it was a shared vocabulary and set of aspirations. All along it has been able to play the role of cosmopolitan thought for some influential Chinese thinkers and doers--connecting China to the world in order to pursue universal values.展开更多
This paper examines the inextricable relationship between the uncanny effects of knocking down Shanghai’s central district and their traumatic post-colonial implications.The value of the Chinese ruin,with its apocaly...This paper examines the inextricable relationship between the uncanny effects of knocking down Shanghai’s central district and their traumatic post-colonial implications.The value of the Chinese ruin,with its apocalyptic and contemporary imagery,begs to be discussed from a western perspective of ruin admiration as a metaphor for decadence and melancholy.This points to a new consciousness of globalization as means of conceptualizing well-established post-colonial orders at the heart of the urban deterioration of cityscapes.As a potential concept to spark a dialogue of cosmopolitanism between China and the west,urban ruins can be analyzed as a transnational,creative ethos that reimagines the Chinese city as never before.Taking the work of the Canadian photographer Greg Girard(born 1955),this article examines how his photograph book presents a cosmopolitan image of Shanghai’s derelict‘community lanes’(longtang or lilong)built in the city’s International Concessions(1842–1949),in which the past,present,and future are interwoven and redeemed.The authors argue that his ruin photography not only retriggers material knowledge of the city but also repurposes transcultural and creative expressions of mutually spectral moments of destruction and production between the east and the west,in which a myriad of potential features are discovered.展开更多
The essay attempts to conceptualise the adverse repercussions of coronavirus in an unequal global order.The changing security regime has intensified the increased probabilities of potential non-conventional threats Th...The essay attempts to conceptualise the adverse repercussions of coronavirus in an unequal global order.The changing security regime has intensified the increased probabilities of potential non-conventional threats The coronavirus has uncovered the unpleasant realities of the socio-economic and political structure of theglobal north encountering financial crises and lack of health care resources.Contradictorily,the Pandemic has pushed the developing countries into the realm of extreme poverty,destroyed their minimum living conditions with the marginal provision of financial assistance.The contemporary unequal scenario exposed the unequal treatment for different social and economic classes questioning the neo-liberal policy discourse.Therefore,the central theme of the essay is to understand the multidimensional underpinnings of the health crises and global inequality upholding the relevance of cosmopolitan justice,adopting an analytical and deductive methodology of driving conclusions from general premises.展开更多
The concept of World Citizen was not introduced to China by Lu Xun, but it is an important term in his thought. The most obvious difference between Lu Xun and other cultural pioneers during the May Fourth period is th...The concept of World Citizen was not introduced to China by Lu Xun, but it is an important term in his thought. The most obvious difference between Lu Xun and other cultural pioneers during the May Fourth period is that rather than understanding and promoting cosmopolitanism as a social or systematic phenomenon, he was mainly interested in human nature and therefore attempted to formulate the concept of World Citizen in terms of a humanistic or spiritual dimension. In so doing, he profoundly expressed an ideological appeal for the significance of the human consciousness, understood within its historical context. This particular conception of cosmopolitanism is symbolically valuable and relevant to the present ideological reality.展开更多
文摘The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper analyzes two of these leading paradigms,designated here as Regressivism and Progressivism.Other theorists have long chronicled the differing strengths and weaknesses of these paradigms,taking the former as expressing more conservative,traditional,and nationalistic values,and the latter as expressing more liberal,pluralistic,and cosmopolitan values.Going beyond these perennial distinctions,I argue that Progressivism is more benign and beneficial than the former-by meeting basic human needs better and supporting more effective adaptation to changing exigencies.I also argue that Progressivism does not express merely subjective or relativistic preferences and values,but objectively preferable and quantifiable ones,that benefit not only our personal lives more but also our global village and communal lives more.
文摘The Lost Generation is actually a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900s.The Lost generation tendency and Lost generation writers are of great importance to the American and world literature.This article serves as a brief introduction to the Lost generation and its significant writers.
文摘Due to its construction of an image of modern Chinese philosopher who comments and reflects on what he has seen in England in comparison to China,Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World(1760)has contradictorily been interpreted in two ways:One considers it as an orientalist discourse denigrating Chinese culture,while the other takes is as an utopian fabrication idealizing Chinese culture.Seeking“difference”between English and Chinese cultures is the underlying logic of these two types of interpretations.On the contrary,rooting on the“sameness”between them,this essay offers a new understanding about The Citizen of the World through a close textual analysis.The aim is to demonstrate how The Citizen of the World makes use of the image of Chinese philosopher to represent English cosmopolitanism featured with“polite”and“universal”and how the principle of equality operates through English cosmopolitanism.
文摘作为世界上销量最大的年轻女性杂志,《COSMOPOLITAN》(中文刊名:《时尚·COSMO》以其乐观的风格、对年轻职业女性的关注和坦诚面对当代社会两性关系而独树一帜。创刊于1886年的《COSMOPOLITAN》,其初衷是一本面向“上层阶级家庭”的杂志,以报道当代社会时尚潮流为主旨。从20世纪60年代开始,在时任主编、富有传奇色彩的女强人 Helen Curley Brown 的倡导下,《COSMOPOLITAN》率先向女性读者提出“勇敢面对生活,大胆追求生活目标,在生活的各个层面做到尽善尽美”这个在当时看来惊世骇俗的理念,现在,它已经成为大多数职业妇女的生活写照。今天,《COSMOPOLITAN》已不仅仅是一本杂志,在全世界热心读者的心目中,她已经成为一种生活方式,被越来越多的人所喜爱。目前,《COSMOPOLITAN》
文摘This paper investigates the experiences of UK undergraduate students who have undertaken a one year paid internship abroad within the hotel sector by using a phenomenological approach.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 final year undergraduate students.The findings shed light on the alignment of key elements of the constructs of positive psychological capital and cosmopolitan human capital,along with strong self-belief in employability as a consequence of the experience.A theoretical model of international experience and positive psych-social development is postulated and contributes to improved practice in internship and employability mentoring and policy decision-making with respect to current internationalisation and employability agendas in the UK’s higher education system.
文摘The purpose of the present paper is to explore the ways in which John Steinbeck utilizes the ideas of cosmopolitanism and socialism in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath(1939)interweaving them into the U.S.reality of the 1930s.It also deals with the term“global literature”,taking it as a starting point for the analysis of Steinbeck’s novel.Taking the lead of Wai-Chee Dimock,the author views American literature as no longer a sovereign literary domain,but as a blend of literatures that are ever evolving and multiplying,interweaving with other cultures.From this standpoint,the paper discusses The Grapes of Wrath in terms of transnational imagination,placing it into the scope of the“world literature”.It is an attempt to identify the“connective tissues”that make the novel belong to the global literature and investigate how they are represented in the text.
基金supported by the projects:UAMI-CBS2019-2022:session 15.18-281118UAMI-CA-117,PRODEPcontains some results from the PhD project of Oscar E.Hernandez in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biologicas y de la Salud graduate program of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.
文摘Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis is a widely reported species of marine red algae, with records from around the world. Particularly in Mexico, it has been recorded along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean as well as the Tropical Mexican Pacific;so, its current distribution on the Mexican coasts is disjunct. From its molecular characterization with COI-5P and rbcL sequences of specimens collected at sites in Mexico where this species has been most frequently recorded, our aim was to re-evaluate the current distribution of Gp. lemaneiformis on the Mexican coasts and discuss the taxonomic implications. Phylogenetic analysis, supported by DNA species delimitation methods, genetic distances and morphological comparisons, showed that the current disjunct distribution of Gp. lemaniformis in Mexico is a consequence of taxonomic misidentifications. From our results, Gp. lemaneiformis is the only species of the genus with a distribution in the Tropical Mexican Pacific, whereas Gp. tenuifrons is the only species with a distribution in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean. Also, we propose that Gp. cata-luziana is to be merged with Gp. tenuifrons, while Gp. costarisensis is to be merged with Gp. lemaneiformis.
文摘In contrast to the continued decline of liberal arts education in the US,there has been a revived interest in liberal arts education in Asian countries in recent years.Grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the central tenets of liberal arts education in the West,this paper looks into the struggles Asian countries face in their exploration of liberal arts education and provides a direction for Asian countries in their efforts to practice liberal arts education.This paper establishes the deep connections between humanistic approaches of the Confucian tradition and liberal arts education by pointing to a common ground for the education of humanity.Ultimately,the purpose of liberal arts education,in the East as well as in the West,should be the liberation of human beings from the constraints of ignorance,prejudice and traditional customs and through the cultivation of a cosmopolitan morality that emphasizes unity,solidarity and the fusion of humankind.Chinese universities should contemplate the purpose and value of higher education in the 21st century and tap into the rich resources of Confucianism in order to give its liberal arts education a“soul.”
文摘The authors,one from China and one from the United States,present a theoretical framework for understanding the discursive fields of citizenship education as composed,in large part,of the discourses of nationalism,globalization,and cosmopolitanism.The framework is illustrated by examples from citizenship education in China and the United States.Citizenship education in these examples is largely influenced by the discourse of nationalism.The discursive fields are fractured,context-specific,and dynamic.In conclusion,the authors call for awareness of how these discourses operate,and propose that the discourses of globalization and cosmopolitanism merge and strengthen within citizenship education.The effect could be a new citizenship education that is responsive to the current needs of local and global democratic communities.
文摘This paper follows the life of an idea, a fundamental concept in modern Chinese intellectual life: socialism. It explores this idea as an alternative form of Chinese cosmopolitanism, drawing from Pheng Cheah's identification of two kinds of Chinese cosmopolitanism: mercantile and revolutionary. If part of what we mean by cosmopolitanism is the local use of an external, or international, or otherwise "independent" (relative to local power and practice) ideology or discourse to promote an agent's sense of social good at home and connection to the world, then the ways that socialist thought, ideology and praxis have been employed in China in the twentieth century constitute one such strain of cosmopolitanism. Shehuizhuyi (socialism) meant related but significantly different things to Chinese in the twentieth century. This essay argues that Chinese socialism can be viewed as a version of vernacular cosmopolitanism through two examples: Wang Shiwei in the 1940s and Deng Tuo in the 1960s, as well as the discourse of Pan-Asianism before and after the Mao era. Chinese socialism was as much a terrain of debate and contestation about what it means to be "Chinese and modern" as it was a shared vocabulary and set of aspirations. All along it has been able to play the role of cosmopolitan thought for some influential Chinese thinkers and doers--connecting China to the world in order to pursue universal values.
文摘This paper examines the inextricable relationship between the uncanny effects of knocking down Shanghai’s central district and their traumatic post-colonial implications.The value of the Chinese ruin,with its apocalyptic and contemporary imagery,begs to be discussed from a western perspective of ruin admiration as a metaphor for decadence and melancholy.This points to a new consciousness of globalization as means of conceptualizing well-established post-colonial orders at the heart of the urban deterioration of cityscapes.As a potential concept to spark a dialogue of cosmopolitanism between China and the west,urban ruins can be analyzed as a transnational,creative ethos that reimagines the Chinese city as never before.Taking the work of the Canadian photographer Greg Girard(born 1955),this article examines how his photograph book presents a cosmopolitan image of Shanghai’s derelict‘community lanes’(longtang or lilong)built in the city’s International Concessions(1842–1949),in which the past,present,and future are interwoven and redeemed.The authors argue that his ruin photography not only retriggers material knowledge of the city but also repurposes transcultural and creative expressions of mutually spectral moments of destruction and production between the east and the west,in which a myriad of potential features are discovered.
文摘The essay attempts to conceptualise the adverse repercussions of coronavirus in an unequal global order.The changing security regime has intensified the increased probabilities of potential non-conventional threats The coronavirus has uncovered the unpleasant realities of the socio-economic and political structure of theglobal north encountering financial crises and lack of health care resources.Contradictorily,the Pandemic has pushed the developing countries into the realm of extreme poverty,destroyed their minimum living conditions with the marginal provision of financial assistance.The contemporary unequal scenario exposed the unequal treatment for different social and economic classes questioning the neo-liberal policy discourse.Therefore,the central theme of the essay is to understand the multidimensional underpinnings of the health crises and global inequality upholding the relevance of cosmopolitan justice,adopting an analytical and deductive methodology of driving conclusions from general premises.
文摘The concept of World Citizen was not introduced to China by Lu Xun, but it is an important term in his thought. The most obvious difference between Lu Xun and other cultural pioneers during the May Fourth period is that rather than understanding and promoting cosmopolitanism as a social or systematic phenomenon, he was mainly interested in human nature and therefore attempted to formulate the concept of World Citizen in terms of a humanistic or spiritual dimension. In so doing, he profoundly expressed an ideological appeal for the significance of the human consciousness, understood within its historical context. This particular conception of cosmopolitanism is symbolically valuable and relevant to the present ideological reality.