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15 January 2011, Volume 18 Issue 1

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China' s Film: Narration Economy and Significance Creation

NI Shen

2011, 18(1):  1-15. 

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China' s Film: Narration Economy and Significance Creation(Department of Film Studies, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing 100088, China )Abstract： Narration economy attaches importance to market benefit, and takes the full promotion of the box office as the target. But, at the same time, the film is supposed to accommodate the public aesthetics and take the responsibility of cultural construction. Since the inception of the new century, as the first breakthrough of narration economy, the system reform of the film has taken a decisive step of replacing the old with the new. As another evident achievement for quest for narration economy, China' s blockbusters of mainstream are successfully released, which go further to turn a series of production, causing the concern and comment of the wide audience. The third turningpoint witnesses the comingout of the new generation of the director group, which brings about the transformation and renovation of significance creation. Creative plan and screen writing, as a source of filmindustry chains, are primary links of producing films. Although, at the present time, China' s operation of creative films is short of filmizing the ready literary writing, there appears the production of independent creation and expressing significance. Since the beginning of 1990s, the plan consciousness and productive practice of the genre film is evidently displayed in China' s film. But, at the same time, in China' s production of the genre film, there are such problems as genre orientations and genre characteristics being unclear and standingout, and the categories of China' s genre films being too small. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the completeness and diversity of the genre film disposition. For China' s genre film, not only is emphasis put on the commercial benefit, but also importance is attached to significance creation. Only by way of the comprehensive benefit of narration economy and national cultural construction, is it helpful for the film to avail the wide audience and enhance the cultural character.
 

Hua Mulan: the Evolution and Dissemination of a Chinese Cultural Sign——From the Mulan Drama to the Mulan

TUN Bao-He

2011, 18(1):  16-26. 

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During a period of more than one thousand years, the story of Mulan' s joining the army for replacing her father has been undergoing a series of manifestations, such as folksongs, longandshort poems, novels, theatres, films, television series and compute games. And its content has also been developing, being augmented from initial hundreds of words to more than one million words. While the image of Mulan constantly changes and renovates, the related characters and story details continue to multiply. All this constitutes such an enormous story pedigree that the collective memory of nation and the essence of traditional culture are composed. For the restatement of the Mulan story, different ages embody different times characteristics, value concepts and cultural mentality. And to contemporaries, the most attractive is the spirit value of filial morality, heroic deeds and female identity. The theme of the Mulan story develops from typical filialmorality through typical faithfulness to one' s country and parents to typical love for one's father and selfsuccess. And the legend of the Mulan story shapes the main narrative pattern of the Chinese heroine story. Although, under the big background of China' s modern enlightenment and women's liberation, the female independence consciousness of the Mulan story is developed largely, the female identity and affirmation are neglected intentionally. By disclosing the development of the Mulan story, and by analyzing its contained spirit value and the different manifestations of different time contexts and cultural background, also by interpreting the values in many works about Hua Mulan, a process of development for a Chinese cultural sign and its realization of spirit value can be opened out.
 

The Influence of the "Dramatic Film" Tradition on the "17 years" Film Narrative

Liu-Chao-Yang

2011, 18(1):  27-35. 

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Although the "17 years" film (1949—1966) draws nourishment from the multifarious cultures of both China and foreign countries, thus producing a phenomena that can be said to comprise multiple resources, the "dramatic film", as a concept of the film, gives a deep, extensive influence on the creation of the film in new China, which can not compare with other concepts of the film. The tradition of the "dramatic film" can be described as the follows: the story narrative is primary, and a great importance is attached to the contradictory confliction, to the educational function of the film, and to the auxiliary role of the image, all of which can be found a specific parallelism in the "17 years" film. While the "17 years" film has a little change in the aspect of detailed expressions, the main body comes down in one continuous line with the tradition of the "dramatic film".
 　

A Superb, Colorful World of Beauty——On Aesthetic Modalities

CHEN Ba-Hai

2011, 18(1):  36-55. 

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 The world of beauty is superb and colorful, just because beauty has numerous modalities. And beauty, as the "revelation of original life state", not only possesses different life connotation for its life object, but also has different meaning for its mode of revelation Thus, based on the common life nature, aesthetic modalities are constituted, which embody various value functions of the beauty world and its entire value system. This essay, from the start of the principle of life philosophy, gives an investigation and analysis of such aesthetic categories as beauty, ugliness, sublime, daintiness, tragedy, comedy, novelty, eeriness, absurdness, amusement, revel and dizziness, and probe into the mode of their mutual dependence and transformation. For aesthetic modalities, not only exists the logic relation, but also appears the change of rise and fall in the process of historical development. Therefore, its value system continues to be regulated and renovated. Since different nation has different life circumstance and cultural tradition, the constituted aesthetic modality possesses considerable discrepancy. The argument here is limited in an interpretation of some idiomatic categories in the Western aesthetics, and, at the same time, makes some contrast with the tradition of China itself.
 

A CounterCriticism of the Recent Criticism about Practical Ontology
——An Initial Summary of the Criticism by Mr. Dong Xuewen and Others

SHU Li-Yuan, LI Yong-Qing

2011, 18(1):  56-78. 

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(Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)Abstract： The argument about "practical ontology" as being the patchwork of Marx' s view of practice and Heidegger'  ontology derives from a onesided understanding of "ontology" and a separation of the integrity of Marxist ideology. In view of Marx, "matter" and "nature" are merely "primary" in the sense of "origin" rather than "ontology." From the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 to his later critiques of political economy, Marx constantly inquiries into the question of "existence" (on, being, sein). His true revolutionary transcendence, beyond all classical philosophies and metaphysics including old materialism, is his ontological thinking closely combined with the "view of practice," rather than the socalled "substantial ontology."
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A Study of the Evaluation of the City' s Comprehensive Competitiveness in the Yangtze River Delta

XU Li-Yang, GUO Hong-Jing

2011, 18(1):  79-90. 

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 For the evaluating index system of the city' s comprehensive competitiveness in the Yangtze River delta, what we should consider is not only the city' s competitiveness but also the city's ability to accumulation and diffusion in the city group, that is to say, considering comprehensively the internal and external factors of influencing the city' s comprehensive competitiveness. The internal factors include comprehensive competitiveness, infrastructure levels and social harmony. And the external factors include the sharing degree of intercity infrastructure and the division of work and cooperation between cities. This essay, by way of factor analysis, makes an evaluation of the comprehensive competitiveness of the 25 cities in the Yangtze River delta. The conclusion is as follows: while the city' s comprehensive competitiveness of such 9 cities as Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Ningbo, Changzhou, Shaoxing and Jiaxing is above the average level in the Yangtze River delta, the city' s comprehensive competitiveness of other cities is below the average level in the Yangtze River delta. By a cluster analysis, these 25 cities can be divided into five categories. While the cities of the same category are close to each other in development, there is a distinct difference in development between the cities of the different category. And there is also a very close relationship between intercity collaboration and the city's comprehensive competitiveness. On the one hand, viewing from the evaluation of the city' s competitiveness, the degree of collaboration and the level of collaboration between different cities plays an important part in the city's comprehensive competitiveness; and, on the other hand, viewing from the strategy of different cities to enhance comprehensive competitiveness, although the strategy itself vary due to differences in their conditions, its internal demand for collaboration is common. Therefore, any city' s enhancement in the comprehensive competitiveness is inseparable from the full collaboration of its related cities.

An Empirical Analysis of the Double Spillover Effect of China' s Manufacturing and Service Trade

YAN Feng

2011, 18(1):  91-101. 

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Since the inception of 1980s, the global industrial structure has taken on a general tendency to transforming from the "manufacturing economy" to the "servicing economy". During the process of the continuous adjustment and upgrade of the industrial structure, the interaction between manufacturing and servicing becomes more and more evident. This essay has an empirical analysis of the relationship between China' s manufacturing and servicing since the reform and opendoor. The result of study on the basis of VAR model indicates that there is a longterm dynamic relationship between manufacturing and servicing but the mutual influence coefficient is smaller, which accounts for an unformed positive interaction of the both. The fact that the coefficient summation of the influence of manufacturing on servicing is less than the coefficient summation of the influence of servicing on manufacturing shows that China' s degree of specialized labor division is not high. On the one hand, a great deal of requirement of middle service has not been divorced from industrial chains; and on the other hand, the degree of dependency of manufacturing on servicing is lower. At the same tome, it is limited for the effect of supporting and driving. All this not only restrains the development of servicing but also holdbacks the enhancement of the value realization and competition. The situation becomes so, mainly because a harmonious mechanism between industries has not established. And by analysis of the computation model and the inputoutput, the author points out that there is a twoway spillover effect between China' s manufacturing and servicing, which is interactive. It is a great importance for China' s economic growth and structural transformation to promote the development of their corresponding interaction. In the coming years, China should go further to guide the enterprise and the whole society in understanding the relationship between manufacturing and servicing, greatly improving the ability to independent innovation, enhancing the industrial level and upgrade, pushing forward the innovation of system. mechanism and policy, deepening each reform related to servicing economy, working out the strategic programming and the supporting measure of industrial integrated development, establishing the positive interactive mechanism of manufacturing and servicing, constructing the environment of industrial integrated development, strengthening the connection and centralized development of manufacturing and servicing, setting up the trade credit, honest service system and public service platform that is propitious to the interactive development, carrying forward the integration of industrial chains, so as to acquire, on the basis of this, the greater space and biggest efficiency of industrial development.

An Economical, Strategic Reflection on the Exploitation of Water Resources in Tibet
——The Problem and Solution of China' s Water Resources in the 21st Century

HAN Dun-Yu

2011, 18(1):  102-114. 

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 For a long period of time, as far as the average annual runoff of the river is concerned, Tibet' s water resources are most abundant in China. It is the area where China' s major strategic storage of water resources or China' s most important potential of water resources will produce. During the 21st century, under the background of the global water crisis and China' s big shortage of fresh water resources, a great importance will be attached to water resources as national or international strategies. The reasonable usage and reproducible maintaining of water resources in Tibet will influence the durable development, the friendly relations, the regional corporation, the ecological security and the national defense between China and its neighboring countries. The water resources thus become one of the principal factors of restricting Tibet's economical development. Transforming the potential advantage of water resources in Tibet into the actual advantage is the best support to its economical development, also to China' s economical development. This project will be most important in strategy.

The New, Effective Realization Form of China' s Rural Collective Economy——A Case of Shaanxi Province

XUE Ji-Liang, LI Lu-Tang

2011, 18(1):  115-123. 

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The rural collective economy with its land ownership being predominant, after the disintegration of the people' s commune, does not produce any carrier as its effective realization form that can replace the people' s commune in the times of the planned economy. Thus a new, effective realization form of rural collective economy seems ready to come out, which is also a necessity for China to change the current situation where the centre government sets up policies directly for peasants, and where there is a disagreement between the macroscopic target of the government' s assisting agriculture by public finance and the microscopic target of the peasant' s economic behaviors. This essay, taking Shaanxi Province as the study case, gives an interpretation of the new connotation of rural collective economy. It also puts forward such five new effective forms of realization as the peasant' s selfdetermination for land flowing, the operation of the county governmental organization plus the peasant' s household; circulating industrial parks; various economic organizations for the peasant' s professional cooperation and Yangling' s new, high industrial park as an example, and, at the same time, makes a comparison to them. The author holds that, during a period of future time, the diversification of the realization form is the normal situation for rural collective economy. For the development of rural collective economy, the whole agricultural and nonagricultural resources need to be taken full advantage of, so as to create manifold realization forms of rural collective economy such as industrial parks, family farms, agricultural industries and economic cooperation organizations. And, during the process of creating these realization forms, an importance must be attached to the guidance of the government, which is also necessary for building new socialist villages and for developing modern agriculture. As for rural collective land ownership, its shortcoming is not the basic obstacle of realizing rural collective economy. It is necessary to be fully aware that, within the scope of the world, the private property of land is not the unique realization form of land right. Therefore, rural collective economy on the basis of rural collective land ownership can be equally vital.
 

"Religious Ecology" or "Power Ecology" ——To Begin with the Trend of the Theory of "Religious Ecology"

LI Xiang-Beng

2011, 18(1):  124-140. 

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 The social essence of China' s contemporary development of religion is not only the issue of religious ecology, but also the relationship between religious faith and social power, that' s to say, its deep problem being the problem of China' s contemporary power ecology, not being the problem of the interaction between Christianity and folk religion faith. The relationship between the development of China' s contemporary religion and its religious faith, or the contradiction or even conflict between them, in fact, concerns power ecology or social ecology. As far as China' s current trend of social change, it is actually a neglect of commonality and sociality of modern country and modern society to rewield the flag of the "Chinese tribes in the east", or to be exact, to use anxiously the Chinese tradition to construct orthodox faiths. In regard to its essence, than saying to give a space of development to folk faith or folk religion, we would rather say to open a religious relation to return a freedom of the social practice of religion and faith, if we want to settle the contradiction between China' s contemporary existence and development of religious faith. This essay, from the complicated relation of China' s contemporary religious faith, tries to sort out such issues of sociology as power ecology and the faith in the level of the nation.
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