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15 September 2018, Volume 35 Issue 6

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Reflection on the Dislocation of Rural Public Services in the Process of#br#  Rural Revitalization: An Investigation of Five Villages in Chongqing

2018, 35(6):  1. 

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 As an institutional innovation of grassroot governance, rural community building is of critical importance to “Rural Revitalization”. At present, the imbalanced development between urban and rural areas is not only reflected in economic development and residential income gap, but also in public services and social security. However, due to the longterm influence of “citycentrism” and the habitual logic of urban community building, urbanoriented supply of rural public services inevitably neglects the actual needs and effective participation of rural residents, resulting in the dislocation of public services. Based on the local practice of rural community building in Chongqing, we proposes a threedimensional “statecommunityindividual” perspective to reconstruct public service system of rural communities based on the analysis of the practical predicament in the supply of rural community services in addition to further reflection on the potential unfavorable factors.

Migrant Workers’Sense of Social Justice in Contemporary Society:#br#  A Framework of Economic Sociology

2018, 35(6):  13. 

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 What social members feel about the allocation of social resources is sense of social justice which is of great significance for the normal operation of society. In the perspective of economic sociology, the impact of social economic status and community integration on migrant workers’ sense of social justice is analyzed with the multivariate regression method. Social economic status is discussed in terms of subjective and objective social economic status, and community integration is divided in tothree dimensions: community identity, community communication and community participation. The results show that both subjective and objective social economic status of migrant workers have an impact on their sense of social justice; all three dimensions of community integration have statistical significance to migrant workers’ sense of justice: the higher the community identity of migrant workers, the more frequent contacts with local residents and the higher the frequency of offering advice or suggestions to the community organizations, the stronger the sense of their social justice. Finally, based on the research results, some countermeasures and suggestions to enhance migrant workers’sense of social justice are put forward.

An Analysis of Urban Adaptation and Urban Orientation of Rural#br#  SchoolingAccompanying Migrant Groups: An#br#  Investigation in H County in Northeast ChinaHE

2018, 35(6):  23. 

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 A rare phenomenon of “schoolingaccompanying” has occurred since the inception of the 21st century as a result of increasing mobility of basic education as well as the adjustments, cancellation and merging of rural primary and middle school education. Different from the migrant workers who had already occurred, the schoolingaccompanying groups have to actively or passively adapt to urban life, the process of which includes role change, city perception and urban identification. Whether the groups can successfully adapt to the urban life or choose to be townspeople depends on the following important factors: family financial condition, duration of accompanying, individual life attitudes and social skills, adaptability and school performance of the child in schooling, townspeople's attitude towards them. At the end of the schoolingaccompanying period, the groups begin to divert into different subgroups in the light of their orientation towards unban life. In view of this, we should proceed gradually in accordance with group differences toward urbanization. The key issues that influence schoolingaccompanying group’s decision to or not to be city dwellers include the problems of farmland and homestead. So the perfection of the rural property rights system and related supporting systems will push forward the process of urbanization in China.

From Cinema of Attraction to Cinema of Experience: Perceptual#br#  Revolution in Screen Image Production and Exhibition

2018, 35(6):  35. 

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 Building on Tom Gunning's notion of “cinema of attraction,” and based on an analysis of recent changes and innovations in theatrical film exhibition and production, the authors of this article argue that these aesthetic experiments can be theoretically summarized as a trend toward what they call “cinema of experience.” In comparison to the cinema that foregrounds the importance of storytelling, recent filmic experiments (including VR installation) by Alejandro González Iárritu, Ang Lee, and Christopher Nolan paid more attention to creating an immersive environment in which screen images appeal directly to audience members’ affect and sensorium, thus enabling them to intimately, even bodily, experience what the characters see, touch, hear, and feel. These experiments or what the authors call “cinema of experience,” constitute the core of the “perceptual revolution” in recent theatrical film productions. Cinema of Experience offers theatrical film exhibition a competitive edge in face of the ubiquitous presence of streaming media platforms.

From Forms to Illusions: The Early Works of Sun Yu during the#br#  Transformation of Film Ontology

2018, 35(6):  45. 

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 The silenttosound film transformation in the 1930s significantly drove China’s cinematic development, comparable to the movements of “National Film Renewal” and the “Leftwing Cinema”. The exemplary figure who experienced the whole process of the transformation during the period was Sun Yu. Sun started his career in late 1920 sand was influenced by “Ying Xi” (“Shadowplay”). As both a writer and a director, Sun actively engaged in social reality, as can be seen from the films he produced. He absorbed western classic narrative techniques in filmmaking on one hand, and made active exploration into other forms of expressions and effects of conveying feelings on the other hand. As a result, his early film works appeared to be complex in forms and appearance, possibly indicating that these works were in the midway of the silenttosound film transformation.

Accelerationism and Digital Platforms: Srnicek’s Critique of#br#  Platform CapitalismDONG

2018, 35(6):  55. 

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 Contemporary accelerationists, such as Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, critique capitalism in the perspective of western Marxism. In their view, Marx didn't reject the occidental modernity, but rather, actively participated in it. For accelerationism, it is significant to accelerate the machine of contemporary capitals till its collapse. From the perspective of accelerationism, Srnicek examines the newest form of contemporary capitalismplatform capitalism, which accesses to power and takes profit from digital platforms. Srnicek classified digital platforms into five types: advertising platform, cloud platform, industrial platform, product platform and lean platform. The core of competition among various digital platforms is around three elements: data, position and users. The birth of digital platforms makes proletariats less paid, more marginalized, precarious in employment and vulnerable to mobility and dispersal than ever before. However, Srnicek strives for a road to go beyond platform capitalism by starting within itself, so as to achieve liberation for proletariats.
Key words： Srnicek；platform capitalism；accelerationism

From Formgiving to History#br# ——The Inner Logic and Predicament of the Transformation from#br#  Lukacs’ Early to Midterm Aesthetic Thoughts

2018, 35(6):  66. 

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 Totality, significant in overcoming the reification of capitalism, is the core concept that runs through Lukacs'early and midterm thoughts. Lukacs perceived totality within the framework of subjectobject relationship. In his early thoughts, he argued that totality can only be created through subjective formgiving in the light of NeoKantianism that separates subjects and objects. In History and Class Consciousness, by means of identifying proletariats as both the subjects and the object of history, Lukacs revealed the totality as the real reality of capitalist society, thus laying the foundation for his realistic literary theory in the midterm period. Realistic literature must reflect the totality of reality and reveal the true structure and real power of history. However, Lukacs’ failure to go beyond the logic of subject priority incurs questionings about his theory of totality.

The Role of PeopleCenteredness and Organization in Folk Drama in#br#  the Second Half of the 20th Century

2018, 35(6):  76. 

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  We cannot simply attribute the decline of folk opera at the end of the 20th century to modern media and social transformation. Through an ethnographic case study of shadow play in Hua County, we can find that there were three climaxes of the folk opera in the central Shaanxi Plain after the founding of new China: about 1956, 1963 and the early 1980s. The exploration of the social reasons behind it may help us sort out the development of Chinese folk culture in the second half of the 20th century. Peoplecenteredness and organization are found to be two major clues that underpinned the development of folk opera. Organization is important in that it is the requirement of socialist art and literature to ensure the prosperity of folk opera by organizing the artists and providing them with organizational, institutional and institutional guarantee. Peoplecenteredness means that all is for people and relying on people, under which history and the given times met and merged in a better way, thus enabling artists and farmers to conduct indepth exchanges to explore the direction of the future cultural development.

China’s Labor Model System in the Perspective of Political Economics：#br# Case Study of Lu Agou and His Model TeamLIN

2018, 35(6):  88. 

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China's labor model system, established in the 1950s, was significant not only in morality exemplification, but also in political economics, thus deserving further study. Lu Agou, once a model worker in Shanghai hardware industry, together with his model team, is a microcosm of Chinese labor models. The emergence of labor models is, above all, the result of labor competition, through which national political and economic objectives have been achieved at each stage. The significance of labor models and model teams lies in warding off potential slackness in collective action and aiming at the most advanced quota. For model workers themselves, material rewards or potential profits are secondary. What really counts is the identity as a labor model which facilitates job promotion.

Author, Narrator and Readers:Creation of the Poet’s#br#  Masks in Lyric Poetry

2018, 35(6):  103. 

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 The styles of different literary genres result in changing distances between the narrator and the author in a text. Poetic texts are different from nonpoetic ones in that readers of poetry are influenced by two factors in their interpretative efforts. For one thing, it is often the case where the poet and his readers regard the “I” in the text as the poet himself although the poet has in fact created his variants wearing different masks. For another, the poet is nonetheless able to control the readers’ interpretation of his poetry and displays his alternative images by means of poetic rhetoric, internal restructuring, and paratextual devices like introductory remarks and authorial notes.

The Thunderbolt Splitting the Religious Barriers and Ethical Dilemma:#br#  On the Feminist Tendency of Wallach's PoetryYU

2018, 35(6):  113. 

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 Yona Wallach was a major figure of Israeli “Tel Aviv Poets” who rose to fame in the 1960s. Wallach led a tough and hard life. Her life experiences mirrored a generation of young women who threw themselves into the social reform around the founding of Israel. She developed a peculiar poetic style together with a daring spirit of exploration and artistic pursuit, thus possessing a unique position in modern history of Hebrew poetry. The contents of her poems are extremely expressive and awakening because she made a bold breakthrough against the traditional religious doctrines as well as ethical creeds. Meanwhile, the writing techniques that she vigorously developed show that she had a profound understanding of the function of poetic forms. In terms of the succession of traditional legacy, we find vague influence of ancient Jewish classics on Wallach judging from the ultimate care expressed in her poems.

The Impact of Educational Human Capital and Its Spillover Effects on#br#  China’s Scientific and Technological Innovation: An Empirical#br#  Analysis Based on Interprovincial Panel DataLIANG

2018, 35(6):  122. 

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Scientific and technological innovation is indispensable in achieving the goal of national strength through economic prosperity. Based on the interprovincial panel data from 2000 to 2015 in China, the paper, adopting human capital theory and human capital spillover effect model, examines the impact of educational human capital and its spillover effect on scientific and technological innovation in China based on an empirical analysis. The results show that the educational human capital and its spillover effects are positive in lifting overall level of scientific and technological innovation in China. To be more specific, if the spillover effect is not added, the level of scientific and technological innovation will increase by an average of 0. 2233% with 1% increase of the stock of educational human capital which is judged by the average number of years of education. If the spillover effect is taken into account, the figure will rise to 0.3648%. It is important that we should break the mobility barriers of human capital among different regions while increasing educational investment and the level of educational human capital. We should guide, encourage and pull together highquality talents for exchanges so as to further expand the positive spillover effect of educational human capital on scientific and technological innovation.

Behavior Strategies in the Functional Evolution of Community#br#  Organizations in the Process of Urbanization:#br#  A Resource Dependence Theory

2018, 35(6):  132. 

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 Centralized resettlement community is a unique phenomenon in China’s urbanization process, which has aroused much attention from various circles. Resource Dependence Theory, a classic theory used to account for the relationship between organizations and environment, is introduced to analyze the functional evolution of community autonomous organizations. Judging from their functional development after the demolition, community autonomous organizations have mainly experienced three phases: the founding of secondary organizations with dramatic expansion of public functions, the expansion of economic autonomy through the introduction of expertise management, and the increase of expertise community services with tightening autonomy. Accompanying the three phases are such behavior strategies as integrating various demands, seeking pluralistic development and depending on alliance. It may shed light on how to coordinate between the government and the communities to trace the development of the behavior strategies of community organizations.