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15 May 2008, Volume 15 Issue 3

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On Reformation of Individual Income Tax in China

2008, 15(3):  5-13 . 

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With the change of individual wealth, there gradually appears the deficiency of current individual income tax system, including classified income tax and taxation modes. This phenomenon conflicts with the principle of fair and reasonable tax burden, and brings obstacles to tax collection. The thorough reformation of the system is imperative.


SPS Measures Impact on the Trade Model: a Case Study of China's Agricultural Products

liu hongmei

2008, 15(3):  14-19 . 

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SPS Measures Impact on the Trade Model: a Case Study of China's By adopting the partial equilibrium and compliance cost, this paper analyzes four models produced by SPS measures impact on trade. They are: a country discriminated by another, a trader discriminated by all importers, a large trader discriminated by all importers, and nondiscrimination. By demonstrating China's agricultural trade, the paper concludes that the compliance cost is maximized when small countries are discriminated by all importers, and is minimized when large countries are in a nondiscrimination situation. Accordingly, international standards are the best reference to reduce compliance cost and transaction cost.


Effect of the Historical Accumulation upon the Modern Urban Development

2008, 15(3):  82-86 . 

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The deep historical accumulation not only induces the modern cities, but also brings vitality to their developing space of modern cities. So, the historical accumulation is yet again a detector of the urban development. From some modern metropolis in the world, China can learn wonderful experience about how to do with historical accumulation, and to solve the problems appearing in the course of modernization.

A Probe into Modernity on Migration and Changes of Rural Literature and Art to MetropolisMIAO Tian

2008, 15(3):  87-91 . 

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The entertainment activities of the countryside and metropolis are classified into different features and function respectively. Rural performances implement cultural functions: the audience and actors share the historical sense of existence and historicity of reality. Theaters in the cities and metropolis are putting on various artistryemphasized performances. The heterogeneity of the rurality and urbanity is clearcutly presented in the great fission of knowledge status between the rural and the urban due to the reformation of educational system.


Rebuilding Community Culture to Upgrade the Cultural Maintenance of Community
——Research on the Construction Path in the Urban Community Selforganization

2008, 15(3):  92-98 . 

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As culture has a close relationship with community, its maintenance is an important representation of community selforganization. Although, with the propulsion of modernization, the original cultural feature in the urban community wanes, and the cultural maintenance weakened, it is not necessarily the case that the community culture is incorrigibly exhausted. Now that community culture has so many functions like: a carrier for modeling the communes and satisfying their diverse needs, a basis of community selfconformity, a spiritual tie of maintaining the union of community, and a precondition of the existence and development of community civilization achievements, rebuilding it is an effective path to the selforganization by perfecting cultural system, nurturing modern community spirit, establishing share mechanism, and highlighting cultural personalities.
Key words： community culture; community; mechanism of selforganization; selforganization ability of community

Reconstruction of Power Relations and the Solution of Policy Problems
——A Case Study of the Implementing Process of the DirectElection
Policy by City S Residents Committee in 2003YAO Hua


2008, 15(3):  114-119 . 

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The process of policy implementation is both a continuous interactive process and a policymaking one, and yet again that of power relation reconstruction. In carrying out the direct election of the residents committee, the policy problem of the contradiction between the local governing system and the selfgovernment of the residents is solved through the power relation reconstruction of the actors and by "designated candidates" and "democratic process". Therefore, the residents committee generated through direct election is still remaining certain administration characteristics. This kind of practice, on the one hand, solves the systematic contradiction; one the other hand, it partially diminishes the democracy enthusiasm of the residents.


Similarities and Differences in Jung's Psychology and Buddhist VijānamātraLIN Guoliang,GUAN Wenxian


2008, 15(3):  120-131 . 

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(School of Literal Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China)Abstract： According to Jung's preconscious psyche, the seventh (Manas), the eighth (Alaya), the Seeds, and the prior six consciousnesses in the theory of consciousnessonly (Vijānamātra), all belong to the unconscious. Jung's psyche unconsciousness, which becomes the cause of an abnormal personality, is mostly not related to the conscious. The conscious in Vijānamātra is the actuality of Seeds, while the seeds of attachments to egocentrism and dharma in the seventh consciousness and the eighth consciousness decide the contaminated nature and the worldling nature of the sentient beings. The critical difference of the two theories lies in Jung's psyche realism in which myth and religion are the product of mental activities of unconscious archetypes, and Vijānamātra's actuality in which both cycle of rebirth (Samsara) and liberation (Mukta) can be realized. From the viewpoint of Vijānamātra, Jung's theory is hypothesis including the archetypes and own ego, and its aim of curing abnormal personality is valuable, but hard to realize.


"Yinian Sanqian" and the Origin of Alayaconsciousness

2008, 15(3):  132-137 . 

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Vij ānamātra (Consciousnessonly theory) and Tiantai Sect view the reality world as Alayaconsciousness (Store Consciousness) and Yinian Sanqian (everything in a thoughtmoment) respectively. Yinian Sanqian in Tiantai Sect, not only of Ignorance but also of Dharmas, is basically consistent with "an undefiledneutral mind" in Alayaconsciousness and its distillation from defilement to purity (samkésavyavadāna), both of which can be included in the Buddhist idealism, only with different degrees. The pundit does not think himself of an idealist to the extent of arguing abont Consciousness which governs everything in Vijānamā. It be said that Vijānamā is Strong Idealism, Tiantai Sect Weak Idealism.


On Philosophy of Perfect Interfusion Governing all Dharmas


2008, 15(3):  138-149 . 

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The philosophy of perfect interfusion, put forward by Chihi, the defacto founder of Tiantai Sect, is the basis of Tiantai Buddhism. The paper summarizes Chihi's, perfect interfusion by reviewing the text structure and theoretical framework of The Lotus Sutra, the methodology and techniques to build his ideological system, and the contents and formation process of Buddhism philosophy.


Thetaroles, Arguments, and GF Revisited
——Comments on Casemarking Effects and Language Variations

2008, 15(3):  150-156 . 

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Based on a brief review of the working principles of casemarking effects, this paper reexamines the combinatory relations of grammatical functions in both Chinese and English under the condition of static logic and extensional deviation. Contrary to what is claimed in Casemarking Effects and Language Variations, further examination indicates that there is no significant difference in the selection and release of grammatical functions between Chinese and English, and the socalled differences are a result of the researcher's unclear definition and inadequate research methodology. Due to the lack of a unified criterion in treating the combinations in both languages and a narrow focus on atypical Chinese combinations that go against static logic, the researcher has failed to see that casemarking effects could hardly explain numerous examples in English where the release of grammatical functions is also not compliant with static logic. Therefore, it might be argued that the differences in the release of grammatical functions in both languages are parametric, rather than principled. It is noteworthy that, while conducting contrastive analysis, researchers should differentiate typical language samples from atypical ones and guard against overgeneralization.