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15 May 2013, Volume 30 Issue 3

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On the Duality of Human Nature

QI Zhi-Xiang

2013, 30(3):  1-14. 

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As a major theoretical and practical issue, humanity is hard to illustrate but easy to describe. The nature of human beings, who are essentially special animals, is composed of basic animal instinct and other manunique properties. While the former is mainly about the negative lust for food and sex, which is realized by being selfish, lazy, cowardly, greedy, etc., the latter are basically about the positive nature of consciousness and wisdom, which develops with the brain and is reflected in various aspects, such as to be morally kind, socially altruistic, consciously industrious, culturally metaphysical, mentally noble, etc. These two aspects of human nature are opposite to but dependent on each other, and a good understanding of them will benefit us a lot in acquiring the wisdom of life.

On Ren in The Theory of Moral Sentiments

ZHOU Guo-Zheng

2013, 30(3):  15-26. 

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In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith founded his ethics on "sympathy", an approach appealing to the affective rather than the rational domain. Being so similar to that of ren in Confucism, it has been noted by scholars that Adam Smith may be under the influence of Mencius. Starting from tracing the academic links of Adam Smith, this article attempts to explore the convergence of his theory and ren of Confucism, which include: sympathy(ren), do to others as you would like others to do to you, natural human affection as moral standard, man as one should be, self-sufficient internal value, Nature, universal value, etc.

Movie Stars' Body Representation and Visual Politics

CHEN Xiao-Yun, JIU Bei

2013, 30(3):  27-37. 

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Although studies on movie stars can be conducted from aspects such as production, consumption, industry and criticism, body representation, which is the key for movie stars to build images in performance, is a basic research angle. The face, owing to its expressiveness and the wide use of closeup shots, is the major ideographic element in an actor's body. Also, as an important part of the actors' body performance, body modification tends to resonate with the popular taste. The bodies of movie stars, while reflecting the development of film history and concepts as well as the change of public taste, have aroused all sorts of meaningful social and cultural issues through its competition with all kinds of power mechanism.

Cold War Mentality and the Construction of
Aliens in American Science Fiction Films

NIE Xin-Ru

2013, 30(3):  38-47. 

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The construction of aliens in American science fictions can be roughly divided into three periods: the aliens in films before 1960s are basically characterized as invaders or enemies, which clearly mirrored cold war mentality; most aliens in films between the 1970s and 1980s aliens were described as kind and friendly, which was the result of the cultural revolution movement in America and the end of the Vietnam war; the aliens in films after 1990s tend to be depicted either as kind or as hostile, which is due to the need of the United States to have new enemies after the cold war.

The Image Construction of Cultural China and Its Contradictions
——On Chinese Imagination in Ang lee' s Films

XIANG Yu

2013, 30(3):  48-59. 

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Bearing discrete imagination like those mandarin films in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1950—1970s, Ang lee' s films try to attract Chinese people all over the world through the construction of cultural China. As a cultural community independent on regions and politics, cultural China is represented in Ang lee' s films by distinctive culture symbols, reoccurrence of panChina space and depiction of panChinese fathers. Essentially speaking, the imagination of cultural China can be viewed as a kind of power discourse as well as a cultural and political tool. It is the way in which Lee communicates with both other cultures in the multicultural world and with Chinese regional cultures of the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Therefore, the Chinese imagination in Ang Lee' s movies not only explores the cultural differences between China and western countries but also tries to go beyond those within China. Although it means Ang Lee' s movies have to construct a kind of generalized cultural imagination, but their production and reception show that the imagination of cultural China cannot separate itself from the diversified and differentiated Chinese identity and experiences.

On the Reform of Supervision System Against
Corruption in Stateowned Economy

LI Ji-An

2013, 30(3):  60-76. 

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Basically speaking, the highlevel corruption in stateowned economy results from unscientific supervision systems: various irrational concepts and work mechanisms lead to the arbitrary decisionmaking of leaders; the supervision systems in stateowned enterprises tend to be unserviceable; management operating systems are far from perfect; restrictions on supervisors of state assets are not strict enough. To effectively prevent the corruption in stateowned economy and other unreasonable behavior, revolution must be carried out in the supervision system against corruption in stateowned economy, such as to restrict power with power, to advocate democracy, to limit the power of officials in charge of state assets, etc. Also, some misunderstandings, such as those of entrepreneurs, government intervention, modern enterprise systems and corporate governance, owner representatives, etc., should be abandoned.

Policy Evolution and Theory Origin of
Strategic Emerging Industry in the Perspective of History

HU Hui-Fang

2013, 30(3):  77-86. 

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]Strategic emerging industry is a new and hot word in China' s economics. Due to the underdevelopment of related theoretical research, it is doubted and considered as "concept boast" or "old wine in a new bottle". From the historical perspective, this paper analyzes the strategic emerging industry with consideration of China' s economic system reform, the dynamic evolution of space and time as well as the consciousness in active choices to find its policy and theoretical bases. It is expected that we can, to some degree, solve the confusion in theory and practice as well as unify the understanding of strategic emerging industry. In this way, the intrinsic mechanism of strategic emerging industry can be explored, which ensures the industry to be cultivated and developed.

Collision Between Literature and Politics

TUN Zhong-Jie

2013, 30(3):  87-109. 

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The injustice in the case of "Hu Feng' s counterrevolutionary cliques" has been commonly agreed on since China' s reform and opening up, but, due to the impact of some habitual thoughts, Hu Feng' s literary theory is still considered as wrong for its difference from mainstream ideology. But a theory should be judged by practice rather than by another theory. Hu Feng' s literary theory, which supports Lu Xun' s literary views and carries forward the culture spirit of May the Fourth, has greatly contributed to the development of new Chinese literature and proved through the past decades more reasonable and beneficial than the mainstream one. Although Hu Feng was overthrown as a person, his theory has been borrowed by many writers while seeking for the way to develop literature and art. Therefore, Hu Feng' s literary theory is of much practical value and needs new illustration.

Academic and Stylistic
——Two Perspectives of Chinese Traditional Novel Studies

WANG Ji-Zhou, WANG Li-Juan

2013, 30(3):  110-121. 

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Han Zhi, which describes novelists according to "how academic their works are and on which are their works based", views novels from the academic, rather than the literary or stylistic, perspective. Comparatively speaking, popular novels, which depend on storytelling skills and strive to be aesthetic and amusing, are considered as with more stylistic characteristics. In fact, there is no absolute split but many similarities between academic and stylistic novels. The study of Chinese traditional novels, which has been made complicated by the collision and overlap between the two research perspectives, should be carried out with respect for history and efforts to reveal how novels were actually understood by ancients. 

Aestheticization of Everyday Life from Leisure

XU Yun

2013, 30(3):  122-130. 

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From the leisure point of view，"Aestheticization of Everyday Life", whose essence is the leisure of everyday life, enjoys certain rationality but suffers much blindness. The intense debates on it in the contemporary circles of Chinese literature, aesthetics and culture are actually rooted in the misuse of aesthetic concepts. Aesthetics is the highest level of leisure; the current everyday life is of leisure, but it is too early to be affirmed as aesthetic. Inspired by the debates, we should adhere to the aesthetic orientation of leisure and try to improve everyday life leisure to be aesthetic.

Functions of Criminal Second Instance Procedure in View of Review Manner:
With Special Regard to Article 223 of China' s New Criminal Procedure Law

LIU Mei, GENG Zhen-Shan

2013, 30(3):  131-140. 

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Review manners have a natural connection with the functions of criminal second instance. The balance of criminal second instance functions is reflected by the design of review manners, and the practical application of review manners influences, even determines, the actual status of second instance functions. The new Criminal Procedure Law keeps the complete review principle, which indicates that there is little adjustment in the area of second instance functions; however, the original provision of review manners is changed, the result of which is that opening a court session is no more a fundamental requirement. A gap emerges between the expectation of second instance functions and the review manners. According to the orientation of criminal second instance functions, when the review manners are applied in particular cases, the following aspects should be attached importance to: strictly qualifying the situations where opening session is not required, regulating the court' s discretion in choosing review manners, as well as guaranteeing the quality of opening session.