Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)

"Film Propaganda" and "State Construction"——The Development of National-Government Films from 1927 to 1949

LI Dao-xin

2013, 30(1): 1-18.

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From 1927 to1949, the National Government tried to promote the nationstate building by the ideologies and strategies of "Three People's Principles", "Nationalism", "Fighting the War and Building the Country" and "CounterInsurgency general mobilization". During this period, a group of Nationalist Party officials, intellectuals and professionals from different fields laid an important foundation for the film communication of National Government through various ways of mail declaration, lectures, article publishing and personal practice. Meanwhile, the National Government and its related departments and organizations at all levels released letters, rules, creeds and proposals on film censorship, literature and art award and cultural development and literature and art propaganda and established Film Censorship Committee, Film Guidance Committee and related rules, regulations and standards. Through all these measures, the National Government intended to selfcriticize the feudal ethics of national films, boycott the humiliating ways to China of European and American films, guard against the "revolution" thoughts of Soviet Union's films and eliminate the "class" consciousness of leftwing films and exercise the central government's missions and responsibilities in film communication with the positive attitudes of "party education" and "cultural control". Due to various reasons in political, military, economic, ideological and cultural aspects, the film communication system of National Government failed to reach the expected depth, breadth and efficiency.

Early Film Theories and CityCulture Construction in Shanghai
——On the Evolution of Early Film Theories in Shanghai and Its Enlightenment

JIN Dan-yuan, YOU Xi

2013, 30(1): 19-30.

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As the birthplace of early Chinese films and film theories, Shanghai is also a window showing modern Chinese city culture to the world. Despite some paradoxes developed during the evolution process, Shanghai early film theories, through active participation in the modern construction of Shanghai city culture, are closely associated with city culture. This paper studies the relationship between early film theories and cityculture construction, deepens the understanding of how early film theories have influenced the growth of modern Chinese film theories and intelligent cities, thus contributes to the connotation construction of modern film theories and intelligent cities in China.

Why is "Happiness" Discussed?

GUO Chun-lin

2013, 30(1): 31-39.

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In recent years "happiness" has drawn much attention from Chinese and international society, but the reason for these discussions tends to be neglected. The root of such focus on happiness and its perception is actually deep in value crisis. "Happiness" as a popular research object of capitalist economic studies, especially of modern western mainstream economics, is also a concept of political economics. The perception of happiness in contemporary China has experienced two distinct stages, so the discussion of it cannot be intensive enough without consideration of the history of modern (revolutionary) China.

Paradox of Happiness in the Context of Materialism: Characters of Metropolis Buddhism in Shanghai

CHENG Qing

2013, 30(1): 40-51.

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With the highspeed social and economic transition in Shanghai, the new MiddleClass and Elite stratums have acquired considerable wealth and social status, and their strong "impulse to pursue material interest" has been satisfied during the past 30year reform and opening up. Against the background of rapid social change, however, they now find themselves confronted with new psychological problems including the confusion about value in keen competition and the loss of goal in wealthy life, which have largely influenced their measurement of personal "happiness". Suffering such psychological crisis, they start to try some experience of religion such as Buddhism. Nevertheless, their blind involvement in religious life is not only secularized and pancultural but utilitarian and superficial, which are also the main characters of metropolis Buddhism in Shanghai.

China' s Reform and Faith Transition

LI Xiang-ping

2013, 30(1): 52-66.

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While bringing impressive economic achievements, the past 30 years of reform and opening up have also drawn much discussion and concern on faith problems. Based on but different from traditional religious studies, this paper replaces the word "religion" with the concept of "faith" and reviews China's reform and opening up from the aspect of faith sociology. It is argued that the occurrence of three belief trends in current China, which respectively advocate national populism, nationalism and party fundamentalism, is basically due to the failure of faith transition while economy prospers. Such a bottleneck problem in contemporary Chinese reform is rooted in the fact that the belief mode of a revolutionary party has not realized its transition to that of a ruling party, so it is hard to unify beliefs through constitutional democracy. In this sense, the basic problem of China's faith is about the core faith of public power. When public power is disenchanted and rationalized, the national belief of law and constitution is constructed and the model of "belief politics" is broken, faith transition will become the inner power to promote social and cultural development as well as further reform.

A Comparison on the Focus of Education-Equity Research in China and America

DOU Wei-lin, SONG Gui-xia

2013, 30(1): 67-78.

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By comparing related articles in Education Research and Harvard Education Review of the past 17 years (1994—2010), the paper discusses the differences of educationequity focus between China and America. Statistics indicate that both of the two countries attach much importance to the issue of education equity, but, due to the gap in terms of development level and culture background, their research focuses differ significantly. While China emphasizes rural education and college entrance examination system, America sheds more light on racist, women's and special education. As to methodology, China tends to carry out policy review and macroexamination, but America always conducts policy investigation and microteaching research. Based on these findings, some implications and suggestions can be drawn from the present study to promote the development of education equity in China.

Cultural Capital and Role Transition
——A Knowledge-Sociology Study of Artist Groups in Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic China

HUANG Jian

2013, 30(1): 79-85.

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In late Qing Dynasty and early Republic China, the social role of Chinese artist groups experienced fundamental changes from "scholars" or "craftsmen" to professional artists in modern sense. Within the framework of knowledge sociology, the paper probes into the transition, as well as its underlying mechanism, of painting modality and value during that period, including how painting knowledge was justified, specialized and sanctified to be valid capital and to facilitate the socialrole switching of Chinese artists.

On the Theodicy Turn of Liberation Theology
——With A Theology of Liberation as an Example

GUO Chang-gang, ZHANG Kun

2013, 30(1): 86-95.

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When dealing with the social problems in Latin America, liberation theology creatively employs some arguments of Marxism and is therefore regarded as of special "relation" with Marxism. In fact, under its superficial closeness to Marxism, what drives liberation theology most is its inherent theodicy logic.

The Policy and Achievements of China' s Public-service Equalization

ZHANG Heng-long, MAO Yan-bing, QIN Peng-liang

2013, 30(1): 96-110.

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Governmental function is a responsibility of government who performed according to the needs of social development. It reflects behavior direction and basic tasks of government. It’s not invariable, and keeps changing with development of economy, politics and society. Building serviceoriented government is a performance of which the ruling party adjusts its leading conception. It’s a practice of construction of harmonious society, and it’s a direction of public service and management revolution of our country in the future. Equalization of public service is not only the aim of revolution, but also an important sign of achievements. Therefore, to study on the situation of our publicservice equalization, it’s necessary to study from the aspects of system of publicservice equalization, fiscal policy and the achievements of policy.

The Inverted “U-shape” Performance Pay Pattern in Research-Oriented Universities:
The Impact and Optimization of Hierarchical Pay Structure

MA Jun, SHAN Ming-feng

2013, 30(1): 111-124.

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Indications show that the current pay practices of university which is researchoriented is difficult to adapt to the strategic needs of building an innovative country. Through modeling and system simulation, this paper reveals that performance incentives have a doubleedged sword effect, and the best pay structure of s lies in maintaining a balance between fixed pay and flexible pay ratio of about 7/3, in order to effectively balance the “incentive effect” and “crowdingout effect” of the performance pay. Considering the reform of income distribution of institutions which is struggling to put forward, this paper finds that the post performance salary system itself is rational. However, the current pay level does not reflect the characteristics of human capital and post properties, so that the university pay mode of professors in China is suffering from the plight of the system: the acquiescing or lack of effective regulation to “outside system income” caused the upside down of pay structure. This paper argues that it is better to strengthen the functions and proportions of basic performance pay, improve pay structure, and urge the change of compensation policy curve from a steep type to a flat type on the basis of improving professors’ pay level, rather than correcting the distortion of performance assessment information with huge costs.

On Zou Zhimo' s Thought of Ci

CHEN Li-li

2013, 30(1): 125-131.

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"How to respect the literary genre of Ci?" is a major question that Ci studies have tried to answer and the center of Zou Zhimo's thought of Ci. According to Zou, a successful composition of Ci should be standard in the design of rhyme and intonation, effective in the expression of word and emotion, perfect in the integration of feeling and setting, and meaningful in the organization of structure and content. In Yuan Zhi Zhai Ci Zhong he argued that "tuning should not be regarded as an inferior rhetorical device" and thus promoted the respect of the literary genre of Ci in related studies in Qing Dynasty.

On the Construction of "Identity" in Literary Discourse

2013, 30(1): 132-140.

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The understanding of identity is critical in the development of selfawareness and national cohesion. While the effective construction of identity and the solution to identity crisis have been a popular concern in recent years, the author holds that language and discourse are the base and precondition for identity construction, and literature, which is characteristic in imagination, fiction and emotional expression, is a significant tool to enhance identity construction. Literary narrative is not only a special way to express feelings but represents the spirit of a nation as imagination community. Both the language and style in literature show cultural identity, and identity can be fully reflected in literature and related cultural aspects.

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