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15 January 2012, Volume 29 Issue 1

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2012: A Review of Literature Science: Retrospect and Prospect

ZENG Jun

2012, 29(1):  1-13. 

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After over a decade' s ardent controversy in the new century, the field of literature science in China has gradually calmed down, and some important problems get foregrounded. The present paper elaborates on such basic issues as the relationships between literature and other subjects, between literary theory and cultural reality, and between Chinese and western literary theory resources. It proposes that "the unworthiness of the name" provides literature science with expanded space for interdisciplinary research, targeting  "returning to the literary per se" and enhancing historical consciousness in literature science. The new cultural reality asks for new literary research theory and methodology to achieve more effective interpretation, which is right one of the tasks of literature science. A view of both the academic history based on Chinese and western literary theory resources and a revisit to the basic problems in literary research will contribute to eradicating our academic position and questioning approach in face of the '"new cultural reality".

On the Motivation and Cultural Psyche of the Globalization of Chinese Films

LI Yi-Zhong

2012, 29(1):  14-21. 

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The globalization of Chinese films has undergone four phases. The process of globalization, on the whole, has been rather slow, constrained by its different historical contexts, reflecting its respective motivations and cultural psyche. Before 1949, there were only a few individual cases of Chinesemovie export. Between 1949 and 1966, the Chinese movie was characterized by being introverted of the socialist economy. Since the 1980s, the Chinese movie has been internationally popular but nationally unpopular. Now is an historical opportunity as well as an historical mission for Chinese movies to globalize. 

Cultural Imagination, Identity, and Difference: The value and approach of the ethnic minorityrelated films in the context of globalization

CHEN Xu-Guang, HU Yun

2012, 29(1):  22-32. 

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The paper first makes a clarification of national film, ethnic minorityrelated film and ethnic minority film; categorizes the ethnic minorityrelated film into three phases of development in the global context, summarizes their respective characteristics in cultural imagination, identity and ideological representation; and lastly, considers the possible strategies and approaches for the ethnic minorityrelated film development from the perspective of cultural pluralism and global representation of ethnic heterogeneity in the hope of specifying strategies and approach of ethnic minorityrelated film in the global context.

The Composition of Film Pictures
——On Gilles Louis René Deleuze' s Theory of Film Picture

XU Hui

2012, 29(1):  33-41. 

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Review on The Draft of The Criminal Procedure Law Amendment

XIE Jing- Wang-Xiao-Hua

2012, 29(1):  42-59. 

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Review collection on The Draft of the Amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law, publicized by the NPC Standing Committee in September 2011, is being conducted nowadays from all circles of Chinese for its revision since the 15th amendment in 1996. This revision has an added 62 articles, revised 58, and deleted 2, making article total 285 from the present 225. The present article reviews, one by one, on the merits and demerits of 60 new articles on such basic lawsuit systems as the defense system and the evidence system, covering criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, execution, and other stages alike in litigation. It aims at providing constructive advice for the further revision of the law under discussion.

Conviction and Sentencing of Status Crime and Its Accomplice

ZHANG Bin-1, ZHANG Ben-Yong-2

2012, 29(1):  60-73. 

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The distinction between pure status crime and impure status crime, and the confirmation of the complicity by offenders without special status and pure status offenders are among the major issues of status crime research, which also focus on the conviction and punishment of jointoffense committed by offenders without special status, pure status offenders, and that of jointoffense by mixed status ones. The judicial practice home is opting to adopt severe penalty, confirming the complicity of offenders without special status in jointstatus offenses. It's also commonplace that offenses committed by mixed status offenders should be convicted and sentenced according to principal offenders or major offenders, suggesting severe sentence doctrine and judicial arbitrariness. Chinese criminal law circle investigate into international statuscrime theories from a whatis perspective. On the other hand, they probe into jointoffense in status crime in light of the 382 article of the Criminal Code and its legal interpretation. Conclusions drawn hence segregate stipulations of jointoffense in the Criminal Code. Nor can they suffice reference to the balanced rationale in sentencing after equalizing conviction of offenders without special status and status offenders in foreign judicial practice, let alone the ignorance of relevant rational traditional specifications passed down from Tang Dynasty. The present article, from a whatshouldbe perspective, argues that just as corruption offense does not fall into the category of pure status crime, nor do nonstatus offenders into the category of status offenders, and that nonstatus, impure status, and mixed status offenders should be convicted and sentenced separately except for express provision.

The Characteristics, Status and Influence of PreTang Fu De Poetry

ZHANG Meng-Hua

2012, 29(1):  86-96. 

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Fu De poem is a category of poetry newly coming into being during Yongming Period in Nan Dynasty as a result of literati' s impromptu chanting songs on different subjects. The title formats of PreTang Fu De poem include 'Fu…De…Poem', '…Fu De…Poem', 'Fu De…Poem', all meaning'a Fu De poem on…' The subjects of PreTang Fu De poetry are mainly chanting things, rymes, Yue Fu, and parting feelings. The meters of PreTang Fu De poem are typically Wu Yan Si Yun, Qi Yan, and Za Yan, with Wu Yan Si Yun as the majority. As for their rhymes, most have a Ping tonal rhyme, while Ze tonal rhyme and rhyme shifts are rare. Poem composition with shared rhyme and rhyming in the title also appeared during that time. The works of PreTang Fu De poetry promoted the establishments of the three representative poem groups of Nan Chao Yong Ming style, court style, and Chen Hou Zhu style, all of which exerted farreaching influence on the pursuit of initiative new changes of Nan Tang Poetry. They also contributed to the great progress of poetry after Qi and Liang dynasties by making it a feature for QiLiang poetry to be short in verse style, accurate and elegant in meaning, highly refined in prosody, beautiful and gorgeous in language, and etc.

On the Metaphorical Tradition in Chinese Classical Poetics

JIANG Yu-Qin

2012, 29(1):  97-107. 

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Chinese classical poetics is a theoretical interpretation tradition different from its Western counterpart, the formation of which is in close relation to the cognitive way of ancient Chinese poetic critics: They don't look at things as a unilateral linear relationship, but a multiplelateral, or rather, onetotwo, onetothree, or even onetoinfinite relationship. Therefore, the construction of Chinese classical poetics has little in common with the direct and hardeyed logical deduction technique of western poetics. On the contrary, it seeks development from the flexible metaphorical discourse system, to shape a theory lineage and idea communication tradition which will exactly express the "meaning", but not in bondage to the former.

 Significance of the Ancient Chinese Essay to Literary Narration

LI Han

2012, 29(1):  108-118. 

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As a literary genre, the essay is a concept that came into being in modern times. It has, however, a long history with the first climax in the Wei, Jin, the Northern and Southern dynasties, and reached its heyday in the Ming dynasty through the development of Tang and Song dynasties. In terms of the style of writing, the essay puts emphasis on conciseness and tasteful appeal to feelings as a result of the influence of historic works and Chinese metaphysics, both of which focus on conciseness and perspicuity. Its theory stems from Zhuangzi′s ideology which advocates artistic life and individual ease. This artistic life attitude endows the essay with an aesthetic and entertaining function. The twofold origins literally transformed verbal expressions into aesthetic symbols, and aesthetically featured the essay narration with an artistic conception. Thus, the essay is differentiated from fiction narration characterized by conflicts in plot and character development. It has played an important role in the establishment and development of the essay in the ancient Chinese essay' s transformation from applied narration to literary narration. The present paper is a historical and critical review of this genre' s in Wei, Jin, and Ming dynasties, aiming at the abovementioned conclusions.

WellbeingOriented: The Content Construction for Community Education

QIN Na

2012, 29(1):  131. 

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Community education shoulders the mission of providing education service to meet the needs of community members, so it's closely related to people's livelihood. In the process of social transformation under the background of reform and opening up, the problem of people' s livelihood has been foregrounded, and naturally, the outstanding wellbeing issue has become a challenge for community education. The present article argues that the content construction of community education should be done with a view of people's livelihood, with measures to enlarge mass participation, nurture community education teams, and expand volunteer organizations. The content construction is supposed to enhance community awareness and sense of belonging, and to promote community development in the hope of building a learning society stepbystep.