Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)

The Epistemological and Methodological Comparison of Science and Technology in Contemporary Times

CHEN Qi-rong

2007, 14(6): 5-5~14 .

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Contemporary scientific practice, new philosophical trends, and the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, surpassing philosophical views of representationalism, offer man with new science and technology. But the digital technology extends the forms of practice from the realistic to the virtual, which, thereupon, changes the cognitive models of the science and technology. This transition makes the cognitive procedure of the science and technology into that of the describing, the constructive, and the virtual cognitions, pushing man's scientific and technological cognition into a brandnew step.

Seeing the“Brane New World”from the Descriptive Point of View

Wang Tian-si

2007, 14(6): 14-18 .

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Quantum theory and membrane theory indicate two kinds of typical descriptions of the world. The quantum description is quantity-based. This quantity-based and formalized description has come across the infinity problem hard to deal with besides incompatible with the theory of relativity which owing to, in the final analysis, the description in quantum mechanics is merely quantity-based, and the description in the theory of relativity is mainly shape-based. The membrane theory as a shape-based description has adopted the membrane limited size instead of particle, which makes our description to the world consistency. The shape-based description built upon the foundation of geometry will not only extend the function of describing the world, and provided the possibility for an unified description in different scale. It’s at least a kind of hopeful extension to describe the external world to develop the shape-based description.

A New Perspective of the Engineering Philosophy—— The Existential Explanation of the Relationship between Subject and Object in Engineering Practice

ZHOU Li-yun

2007, 14(6): 19-23 .

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The “relationship” between subject and object is the key of understanding engineering practice and engineering philosophy. In engineering practice, the subject is multi-subject and the object is multi-object, the boundary between subject and object is faint as well. The practice in the sense of existential meaning is the point of understanding the “relationship” between subject and object in engineering activities.

Croce and the Modern Transformation of Western Aesthetics

——The Significance of Croce's Theory in the History of Western Aesthetics

Zhang Min

2007, 14(6): 24-29 .

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Croce is the most influential expect of aesthetics in the west after Kant and Hegel . As the turning point of western aesthetics’ modernization, Croce aesthetics observes intuition on the basis of subjectiveness. It not only sums up the traditional aesthetics critically, but also accomplishes developments for modern aesthetics expansively. And in this way, western aesthetics has been pushed to achieve its modernization from epistemology to axiology.

The Contemporary Vision of Chinese Aesthetic Transformation

ZHOU Jiwen

2007, 14(6): 30-34 .

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Transformation has once been one of the hottest topics in Chinese aesthetics; taking the now opportunity of constructing a harmonious culture, it clears the developing core of contemporariness. There are two levels as to the interpretation of the aesthetic contemporary development: one is the level of the contemporary culture in which the probe into the aesthetic culture is the most highlighted, and the other is that of the history development, which proposes the building and rebuilding of contemporary aesthetic ideals and value systems.

Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process

Simon Byers;Lorrie Cranor;Dave Kormann;Patrick McDaniel;Eric Cronin

2007, 14(6): 37-42 .

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Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some time, low-cost, high-bandwidth Internet connections and peer-topeer file sharing networks provide highly efficient distribution media.

An Economic Analysis of the Movie Industry in Japan

Sang-Woo Lee

2007, 14(6): 43-48 .

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Using a home market economic model, this article explains the changing competitive balance between the U.S. and Japanese film industries. I test the hypothesis that the domestic movies' market share in Japan has decreased because consumer movie spending has increased more rapidly in the United States than in Japan. The results of using information from a database (1955-2000) of media industry development in the United States and Japan generally support the economic hypothesis.

A CrossNational Study: Cultural Diversity in the Movie Industry

Franois Moreau;Stéphanie Peltier

2007, 14(6): 49-55 .

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For many years, the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity has remained a core issue in international debates about free trade. In this paper we propose a framework to assess cultural diversity that is used to compare this diversity in the movie industry between 1990 and 2000 in European Union, United States, France, Hungary, Mexico and South Korea.

The Effect of Screen Quotas on the Self-Sufficient Rate in Recent Domestic Film Markets

Byoung kwan Lee;HyuhnSuhck Bae

2007, 14(6): 56-62 .

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This study examined the impact of the screen quota system and other determinants on the self-sufficiency ratio. The regression models show the quota system is not a significant predictor of the self-sufficiency ratio, suggesting the system may not be an effective mechanism to limit the number of foreign film screenings in domestic theaters.

The Sociological Analysis on Media Role

DAI Yuanguang;YOU You

2007, 14(6): 63-67 .

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There are two ways to investigate the media role, one is to change it into media function, effect or power , the other is to bring it into development sociology. But we think that understanding the media role under Chinese circumstance is the better direction through packing up the above ways.

Analysis of The Network News' Reliability

YOU hong-bin;WANG hong

2007, 14(6): 68-73 .

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As the fast development of internet,the scholastics are paying more attention to the research of network news' reliability. This essay analyses the question from three aspects:the raise of network news' reliability and expatiation on the relevant questions,network news and their characters, the improvement of the news' reliability.And the conclusion is that more and more people will take a positive view on the network news.

The Key Conception Formula of Journalism Credibility

Shen Hui;Ni Lin

2007, 14(6): 74-80 .

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This study aims to discuss the key conception formula of journalism credibility by basis on three related terms communication believability, news objectivity and journalism professionalism. Although there are similar elements and analogous meanings, it shouldn’t be determined that they are completely equivalent. Therefore, the study constructs the key conception formula by technological dimension and ethical dimension, and concludes that journalism credibility is integrated conception composed of technological references of communication believability, reporting rules and behavior standards of news objectivity, self-disciplined and moral values of journalism professionalism.

A Quantitative Analysis on the TimeandSpace Distribution of
Demotion in Tang Dynasty and Wu Dai periods

SHANG Yong-liang

2007, 14(6): 81-94 .

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For more than 340 years of Tang dynasty and Wu Dai periods, there were 2828 persons demoted according to the record. In the temporal distribution of demotion, most of them lived in the midor lateTang Dynasty, and in the spatial distribution, the south, like Lingnan and Jiangnan which are remote and isolated, is the main area chosen as the demotion place especially in Tang Dynasty, which is the most worthy of studying.

A Study of the Changes of Being Officialdom in Sichuan Scholar's Mind during the Tiansheng(1023-1031) Period of Northern Song Dynasty

FUNG Chi-wang

2007, 14(6): 95-100 .

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There were not many Sichuan s people being official-scholars before the Tiansheng period. Afterwards, the concept of “Yingshiwuyong” (Practical and Application) has been developed as a dominate trend. Therefore, it fosters the study of the Han and Tang s traditional prose-writing of Sichuan s scholarship into a significant movement in the Tiansheng period. This is the important background where San Su s prose writings and Ouyang Xiu s literary renovation in traditional prose-writings can be blended in well with their mutual literary perspectives.

LIU Xianxin's Theories Of Prose and his Works Ideas on Literature

CI Bo

2007, 14(6): 101-106 .

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LIU Xianxin was erudite but was obliterated for a long time, and the same to his works IDEAS ON LITERATURE .This book which is abundant and of great academic significance tackles many problems, such as noumenon, creation, literature evolution , style, genre, etc. These achievements are useful to prose research.

The Symbol Transformation of the Christianity's Creator in Chinese

FU Jing-min

2007, 14(6): 112-118 .

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The Christianity roots itself in the worship of the personified Creator that surpasses all in the world. However, in the process of translating the Bible into Chinese, the term of the Creator has experienced various symbolic transformations, which, according to the author of this paper, reflects not only the dilemma of language and translation, but also the issues of religions and social powers.

The Chinese Phonetic System and its Shortcomings and Rectification in the
Teaching Chinese to Overseas Students

DING Di-meng

2007, 14(6): 119-122 .

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The Chinese Phonetic System has been used for half a century since its birth, and it contributes much to Putonghua and simplification of Chinese characters. But, in the Teaching Chinese to Overseas Students, the research found that many overseas students have wrong pronunciations because of the system's shortcoming. This phenomenon also exists in many other related fields. The essay exemplifies some of the shortcomings and puts forward some advice to them aiming to better off the work of Chinese teaching.

On China's Trade Frictions with Other Developing Countries under the Global Background

SHEN Yao

2007, 14(6): 123-129 .

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In recent years, China's trade frictions with other developing countries are increasing rapidly. In Complying with Uruguay Round Agreements to realize economic globalization and trade liberalization, the unbalanced development among countries arouses the unbalanced trade benefits. The frictions reflect developing countries' selfinterest appeal in economy and politics under the global background. China is obliged to fully comprehend and consider the interest appeals of other countries, to rightly deal with trade frictions, and to further safeguard national interests on the changeable, complicated, international economic and political framework.

City Service Culture: a New Way to the Construction of a Harmonious City

WEI Nong-jian;TANG Jiu-yi

2007, 14(6): 130-135 .

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The article investigates that city service culture is a new path to constructing a harmonious city from the viewpoint of service economic society, because it integrates all elements in the urban construction and helps with connection and cooperation. The cultural orientation makes a city unique; historical characteristics form its process property; city's structure shows man's physiological and psychological feelings. Service culture is simultaneously an agreed rule among city subjects, an actual reflection of material base, and city's logo and symbol. It collects, drives, and exerts those elements of a city, and is thus a scientific way to city's construction.

Exploring the Performance-based Pay of Higher education institutions

SHAN Ming-feng;ZHANG Ying-zi;ZHU Ming-yuan;LI Feng

2007, 14(6): 136-140 .

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The study explores characteristics of income system of higher education institutions and also the structure of performance payment and the design principle of salary structure according to the practice of post-performance based payment in one university. The essay advises building a long-acting increase mechanism by coordinating three functions of incentive, security, and adjustment.

Symbiosis and Separation of the Study on Popular Literature and folk Literature

ZHOU Zhong-yuan

2007, 14(6): 141-144 .

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Although the study of popular literature in the 20th century undergoes a complete course of start, development, establishment, prosperity, depression, and regrowing, it has not found its own disciplinary position. The main reason is that the study of popular and folk literatures is in an intertwined state of symbiosis and separation. Only when this state is distinguished, can the disciplinary construction of popular literature be advanced.

On the Effect of Market Economy on the Historical Novels in Minguo Times

REN Xian-pin

2007, 14(6): 145-148 .

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It is twosided that the effect of market economy on the historical novels about the Minguo Times. On the one hand, restricted by the operation of the market, writers could only treat the reality and history with the view of the masses'. They saw and expressed the stableness of the Minguo Times, the accustomed daily life and the historical continuity, which shows the traditional culture and spirit permeating and affecting people's life and behavior. On the other hand, from the masses' view point, the narration about the Minguo Times in this period emphasizes such contents as pornography, violence and mystery.

A New Interpretation of the Regional Architectural Context

WEI Qin;WANG Zhu

2007, 14(6): 149-151 .

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Through the discussing of the inheritance and development of the regional architecture and the continuity of the architectural context, this paper analyzes the origin of the architectural context and the relationship between the architectural context and traditions, and further interprets the essence of the regional architectural context, and the basic architectural principles by researching the archetypes of regional architecture, and finally explores their deep connotations and the principles of inheriting regional context from all perspectives.

A Brief Discussion of the Modern NeoConfucianism in the First Half of the 20th Century

LIU Xue-fei

2007, 14(6): 152-154 .

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1949 or 1950s marked a watershed in the study of modern neoConfucianism. Before that, home scholars did not regard neoConfucianism as a school or thought trend, and studies ware just sorts of case study of contending and selfconsciousness, putting more attention to a single person's thoughts and academic achievement, and bluntly contending the research result as a school of thought. This phenomenon reflects the coexistence and interaction of multiculture then. The modern neoConfucianism in the first half of the 20th century bears inspiring and referential meaning to the late 1980s' neoConfucianism study.

The Media Image of College Students in Shanghai from the Perspective of the Framework Theory

Xia Wen

2007, 14(6): 155-156 .

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This paper analyzes how Shanghai media report on college students by content analysis, and explains the media image of college students by using Frame Theory.

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