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15 July 2021, Volume 38 Issue 4

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CPC Cadre Selection and Appointment System over 100 Years: #br# History and Experience#br# #br#

CHEN Jiaxi

2021, 38(4):  1-12. 

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 Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has won great victories in revolution, construction, reform and opening up, etc.. Its important secret lies in the possession of a grand cadre team that have firmly implemented the Party’s lines, principles and policies over the century, while the success of this team lies in an effective cadre selection and appointment system. Looking back at the centenary evolution of the system, it is not hard to summarize some valuable experience of CPC in the long-term practice of cadre selection and appointment: adhering to the CPC leadership over cadres, emphasizing both political competence and professional expertise, strengthening both democratic selection and performance orientation, and highlighting the selection and cultivation of young cadres. Looking ahead, the Party needs to further expand visions, stick to performance standards, select and appoint cadres on the scientific basis, clear the road for the growth of outstanding young cadres, and make use of talents pulled from all over the world.



The Evolution of CPC’s Nation-building Goals over the Past 100 Years and Its Fundamental Experience#br# #br#

XIONG Jue

2021, 38(4):  13-22. 

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 After the disintegration of the old imperial system, the historical mission for China was externally resisting foreign aggression, and internally unifying political powers so as to achieve national independence and prosperity. History finally chose the Communist Party of China (CPC) to lead the Chinese people on the road of building a modern socialist country with Chinese characteristics. As the explorer and leader of Chinese modernization drive, the CPC has constantly readjusted the goals for the big question of “what kind of country to build” over the past 100 years. The goals have evolved from vagueness to clarity, from vision to reality, from pilot reform to final model, and from deepening reform to breakthrough success. Today, China is at the intersection of achieving the Two Centenary Goals, signifying a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. It is essential to follow and develop Marxism all the time, adhere to and strengthen the overall leadership of the CPC, steadily promote socialist modernization and state governance modernization, so as to guarantee a stable and vigorous Chinese road of building a modern and strong socialist country.



Interaction between History and Literature and Arts: Rereading Revolutionary Film Critic Jia Ji#br# #br#

CHEN Xihe, WANG Meng

2021, 38(4):  23-37. 

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 Film critic Jia Ji’s literary and artistic activities can be divided into three stages: engagement with drama before 1949, film criticism and creations during the “Seventeen Years” (1949-1966) and film criticism and education in the new period starting from 1976. Through long-term revolutionary work, Jia gradually formed the thought of “literature and art serving politics”, which was strengthened by his criticism of the film The Legend of Wu Xun. However, in the new period, Jia abandoned the mindset of film criticism centering on “serving politics”. Rather, he began to rethink the role of film as an artistic expression. Jia’s thought on arts and literature reflects the mainstream value of the times and the spectrum of literary thought. In assessing the status and role of Jia’s thought on arts and literature, we need to adopt a dual historical perspective: considering both the specific context of the times and the responses to the questions at the time. 



Negotiating Modernity: Observations on MP&GI’s Family Melodramas

SU Tao

2021, 38(4):  38-49. 

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 MP&GI was one of the most important film production companies in  Hong Kong after World War II. Centering on such issues as family and marriage, the family melodramas produced by MP&GI were influenced by both early Chinese cinema and Hollywood, reflecting the changing values of the middle class after the war. This genre affirmed positive factors of traditional Chinese ethics, meanwhile stressing the universality of modern values. Through different women characters, MP&GI’s family melodramas reflected the negotiation between modern and tradition, thus projecting the cultural traits of Hong Kong mandarin cinema in the 1950s-60s against the Cold War context.



Generating New Characters of Silver Screen: #br# Reinterpreting Li Shuangshuang#br#

ZHANG Bing

2021, 38(4):  50-64. 

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 Li Shuangshuang, the selfless, beautiful and candid heroine of the film Li Shuangshuang, became a representative of new characters produced during the initial socialist period of China. In the film, Li Shuangshuang’s political consciousness is spontaneously integrated into farmers’ daily life and works in coordination with folk justice and common senses. Thus, in generating such a new character, traditional moral ethics, emotional structures and life experience in rural areas all play an important part. Under the pen of the screenwriter Li Zhun, Li Shuangshuang is depicted as courageous to fight and “generous to forgive”, an ideal type with new socialist subjectivity. Xiwang, on the other hand, represents an image of most farmers in the agricultural cooperative movements. Through the storyline of “getting married first and then falling in love”, Xiwang gradually turns to be a subject more in line with the requirements of the agricultural cooperative movement. In the marriage with Xiwang, Shuangshuang is depicted as a more equal partner compared with a traditional wife image. In the generation of the new characters with socialist subjectivity, certain tensions between the screenwriter, director, and performers arise, so do dialogues and conflicts between Shanghai and Yan’an film style.



Reviewing EVFTA in the Perspective of EU Highlighting Relationship with ASEAN and Its Implications for China#br# #br#

SONG Xixiang, SUN Qiqi

2021, 38(4):  65-84. 

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The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) came into effect on August 1st, 2020. EVFTA covers dozens of topics with a series of new and high-standard international economic and trade investment rules, following a Pan-European FTA text model, creatively adopting Pan-European “three-track” rules of origin, further reforming the “P-G” and “G-G” dispute resolution mechanism, etc.. In contrast, China is gradually establishing a global-oriented FTA system in a holistic and comprehensive direction and confronted with such problems as more generalized or simplified rules, more conservative and traditional text clauses, and lack of creativity or breakthroughs in system design when signing bilateral FTA with other countries. At this stage, it is essential to refer to and learn from the useful experience and reasonable components of EVFTA, meanwhile integrating with the experience of China’s FTA development in the past 20 years. It is essential to implement precise policies on FTA under different levels of economic development, flexibly choose the “dual-track” certificates of origin, to improve the legal system of labor protection, establish an environment and trade coordination mechanism as well as a dispute resolution mechanism based on “soft law”, and actively promote the construction of a high-standard Chinese FTA network system so as to effectively promote the “Belt and Road” international cooperation and actively participate in the formulation and guidance of international economic and trade investment rules. It is time to link closely with the latest comprehensive and high-standard international economic and trade rules, strengthen the rational layout of network development and design strategies in global, regional and bilateral free trade zones, ensure a stable and flexible FTA “paradigm” so as to promote the construction of free trade zones. In so doing, we may confront the challenges from current international trade and investment with a more mature Chinese free trade zone system.



The Structure of Neighbouring Right: Origin, Essence and Expansion#br# #br#

XU Cong, LI Zi’Ang

2021, 38(4):  85-97. 

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 Neighbouring right, an important part of the generalized copyright architecture, can be traced back to the Roman law era. Due to its statutory status and diverse types, neighbouring right has attracted the  academic attention from the very beginning. However, there has been neither consensus among scholars on its origin and essence, nor responses from China’s copyright legislation. The existing theory of the copyright law has failed to fully explore the normative significance of the neighboring right system due to the lack of systematic guidance of law doctrine, thus subjected to criticism. In view of this, the origin and essence of neighboring right is discussed and the common normative effect on all kinds of neighbouring rights is explored and emphasized. In so doing, we aim to better grasp the similarities and differences between the neighboring right and the copyright in the narrow sense, seek the value guidance within the limit of the expansion of the neighbouring right, and supplement and perfect the theoretical system of the copyright law.



The Judgment of Taste and the Inevitable #br# Application of Its Four Moments#br# #br#

LU Ka, CHENG Xiangzhan

2021, 38(4):  98-107. 

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The general form of the Judgment of Taste is “something is beautiful”. This is a priori synthetic judgment, which lays foundation for Kant’s analytic and deduction of the Judgment of Taste. Why and whether it is necessary to use the Four Moments to analyze the Judgment of Taste is controversial. “The First Critique” can shed light, but the Judgment of Taste is different from logically determining judgments, thus not suitable to be treated as a judgment that occurs linguistically (whether spoken or not) either from the angle of practical experience or from the perspective of strict logic, nor suitable to be simply analyzed formally or semantically. Moreover, what Judgment of Taste really judges and asserts is not to declare something is beautiful. Rather, it is a general form of judgment abstracted from our reflection on the aesthetic appreciation activity itself and the representation of both the reflection and the concept of Judgment of Taste itself. Because the elements constituting this form of judgment represent the characteristics of all aspects of Judgment of Taste, what the Four Moments illustrate are the characteristics of the Judgment of Taste. The Four Moments of Judgment of Taste are to take the appreciation activity itself as the cognitive object and analyze its concept, from which we can see the application of the Four Moments is inevitable.




Research on the Knowledge Genealogy of “Art Management” from the Perspective of Social Transformation

GAO Yinggang

2021, 38(4):  108-117. 

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 The research on the knowledge genealogy of “art management” includes not only  the composition analysis of the disciplinary knowledge system, but also the process of its formation. The former focuses on the logical level, aiming to analyze whether its knowledge architecture is reasonable or not. The latter focuses on historical retrospection, aiming to clarify the historical causes of its rise and the theoretical basis of its development. “Knowledge genealogy” is not only a system description, but also a research method, committed to the unity of “logical research” and “historical research”. The rise and development of any discipline is bound to be subject to the specific backgrounds of the times. The worldwide “social transformation” that has gained momentum since the 20th century and not yet been completed up till now, not only has exerted strong influence on the past and the present of the discipline of “art management”, but also will profoundly affect its future development trend.



China’s Smart Elderly Care Policy Based on Content Analysis#br# #br#

YANG Lianxiu, HU Kongyu

2021, 38(4):  118-127. 

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 Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, China’s elderly care services have made all-round progress. However, the “digital divide” between the ever-changing technological innovation and the continuous growth of the aging population is widening. In view of this, we focus on the “digital divide” by taking the Implementation Plan for Practically Solving the Difficulties of the Elderly in Using Intelligent Technology as the sample for analysis, adopting the content analysis method and setting policy tools and the varying needs of the elderly as the analysis dimensions. The results show quantitative differences in the distribution of policy tools, differentiation in specific combinations and matching and imbalanced proportion of meeting the needs of the elderly, which deviates from meeting the lower levels of needs from higher levels. Therefore, future policies should adjust the structure of policy tools and optimize their detailed distribution so as to meet the elderly needs of different levels.



Pragmatic Translation Studies with Chinese Characteristics in an Era of Great Change: Status Quo and Trends#br# #br#

FU Jingmin , YU Xudong

2021, 38(4):  128-140. 

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 Pragmatic Translation Studies (PTS) is an important branch of the discipline of Translation Studies. In an era of great change, PTS in China, with expanding research connotation and scope, more diversified research methods and increasingly salient features of interdisciplinary integration, has acquired a theoretical and practical significance unprecedented in the development of Translation Studies. However, a consensus is yet to be reached among the academia concerning the understanding of PTS. In view of this and based on the method of symptom reading and a descriptive approach, this paper reviews the present situation of PTS in China, not only identifying and analyzing its existing problems, but also clarifying its objectives and trends. PTS in China, with a self-consistent development logic rooted in China’s social, cultural and historical traditions, has developed into four dimensions of research: stylistic or typological studies, studies of pragmatic translation issues, theoretically based applied translation studies and studies of PTS discourse system. Additionally, PTS in China should meet the requirements of the era of globalization, technicalization and informationization with stronger awareness of serving the nation’s development strategies, so as to make due contributions in its trends such as translating Chinese cultures, forming Chinese knowledge discourse and integrating technologies and translation.