The Anti-Axial Age

Karl Jaspers famously characterized the period from the beginning of the eighth to the end of the third century before Christ as an “Axial Age” in which intellectual freedom and creativity blossomed as never before. This article argues that it was followed, five hundred years later, by an “Anti-Axial Age”, which devised a novel formula for intellectual and political repression. Its essence was the state’s capture of the millenial narrative, which had first been developed as religious doctrine within Zoroastrianism and Christianity. Involving the two great classical empires of Western Eurasia, Persia and Rome, and then empowering the expansion of Islam, the Anti-Axial Age left an ideological legacy that continues to haunt the contemporary world.     

高等教育问责:概念及其要素

高等教育问责的相关研究渐趋成熟,但仍存有提升空间.通过对CNKI数据库相关研究文献的文献计量分析发现,高等教育问责研究的相关基础理论研究趋于弱化,凸显概念上的不明晰.依照知识理论体系的建构逻辑,高等教育问责的概念应是高等教育问责研究的逻辑起点,只有建基于此基点上的理论体系才具有合法性与合理性,进而为相关研究提供支撑.高等教育问责是一个多维概念,是高等教育机构向利益相关者说明其职责履行状况、并接受监督、质询与判定的过程.高等教育问责的概念主要包括问责主体、问责对象、问责内容、问责方式和问责结果五大要素.     

Police Perceptions of Irrational Unstable Behaviours and Use of Force

Police identification of people experiencing mental illness is usually based on either the person having an official contact history with police or through observing behavioural indicators commonly associated with mental illness during an encounter. Police have voiced concerns with their ability to identify and respond to people experiencing mental illness in a timely way and report that they commonly resort to more coercive tactical options to resolve encounters. The present study employed a mixed method design to examine 286 police use of force incidents to investigate the association between force used on and by offenders displaying irrational-unstable behavioural characteristics. The irrational-unstable offenders were two times more likely to be perceived by police to have an apparent mental disorder and almost four times more likely to have a known mental health history; one in six had an official record of contact with mental health services. There were few differences in police and offender use of force, considering force as both a categorical and a continuous variable, while incident-level comparisons suggested that police force was generally proportional to offender resistance. Implications are discussed in terms of the need to redress limitations with the traditional police approach style.     

Monsters In the Palace

正Chinese children's book publishers find new waysto reach international readers A series of children's stories about the mysterious adventures of Li Xiaoyu,an11-year-old girl from Beijing and all kinds of mythical creatures in the Palace Museum in Beijing,the Forbidden City that was home to 24 emperors across Ming and Qing dynasties     

New Movie Town

正A new TV and movie center is rising in north China What do you get if you have a dead wolf,an elephant and a horse? No, it’s not the start of a bad joke but just some of the artifacts on display at a special effects makeup studio located in the Dachang Movie Town in Dachang Hui Autonomous County of Langfang City, north China’s Hebei Province.Xiao Jin Special Effects Makeup Studio,     

On Jordan Peterson,Postmodernism, and PoMo-Bashing

Jordan Peterson says that postmodernists say no interpretation is better than another. I would no sooner identify Peterson’s adversaries as those who have been misled by “postmodernism” than I would identify them as misled by “sustainability,” “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” or “intersectionality.” Such fare is mainly symptomatic. “Postmodern” invocations are often like “sustainability” invocations: inessential. This piece is not a defense of postmodernism. It is a critique of PoMo-bashing.     

在新媒体领域开展统战工作的必要性及相关问题探究

当前,我国新媒体领域相关人员在网络虚拟社会和社会公共事务中扮演着越来越重要的角色,是参与社会主义民主政治的重要新生力量。本文分析了将新媒体领域相关人员纳入统战工作范畴的必要性,并以统战视角对该领域相关人员进行了科学细分,进而对该领域统战成员的范畴、内涵、称谓、方针等基本问题进行了科学界定,明确了统战部门在引导他们有序参与社会主义民主政治中的介入角色,以便更有效地开展统战工作。