梁启超台湾之行对殖民现代性的观察和认知——兼及对台湾文学的影响

梁启超抱持着借鉴现代化经验用于祖国的初衷前往台湾,结果大失所望,发现了日本殖民者所谓为台湾带来现代文明的论调之不实;而台湾文人向他讲述的殖民者的种种恶政弊端却多确有其事,由此识破了殖民地所谓“现代化”的真相,写下《斗六吏》等诗篇加以揭露。他提出“刘铭传”诗题,寄托民族情感和反殖民的现代化追求,对台湾文学产生深远的影响。     

Sonia Delaunay: Fashioning the Modern Woman

Focusing on questions of gender and modernity, Gronberg examines representations of Simultaneous fashions designed by the Paris-based artist Sonia Delaunay in the German illustrated press of the 1920s. Simultaneous dress was presented as a means of rendering woman 'modern' both through fashion and through association with Parisian artistic avant-gardism. Gronberg explores the figure of the fashionably dressed Parisian femme moderne in relation to 1920s concepts of the neue Frau. The identity of Sonia Delaunay as an artist turned professional designer marked her out as a 'modern woman' and was crucial in the promotion of Simultaneity to international audiences. Delaunay's persona as a 'modern woman' also related to her status as a wife. The German press depicted Sonia Delaunay and her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay, as a Knstlerehepaar, an artist-couple exemplifying contemporary notions of 'companionate marriage'. Gronberg shows how such concepts of the modern woman were important not only in marketing Sonia Delaunay's fashions but also in claims for Robert Delaunay's post-war painting as a renewed form of avant-gardism. The essay concludes by considering Paris as a milieu in which women interacted with each other professionally-as writers, artists and photographers-engaging with and reformulating the visual imagery of modernity. The production, promotion and consumption of Simultaneous fashion during the 1920s reveals the 'modern woman' as both subject and object of representation. A preoccupation with fashion could be as much to do with challenging and overcoming, as with acquiescing to, stereotypes of femininity.     

THIRD FRONT RAILROADS AND INDUSTRIAL MODERNITY IN LATE MAOIST CHINA

Abstract

In the late 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became concerned that the United States or the Soviet Union might invade. To protect national sovereignty, the Party carried out a massive campaign to industrialize China's West called the Third Front. This article focuses on Third Front railway building. It shows that, although Third Front railroads initially had problems, they eventually integrated large parts of western China into nationwide industrial networks, which accelerated and standardized regional transportation. To build railroads, the CCP compensated for the country's shortage of industrial capital with massive inputs of labor. This industrialization strategy placed a heavy burden on rural men. To boost morale, the CCP organized thought campaigns that praised hard work as a revolutionary contribution to China's industrialization and defense. This collective narrative of national security and industrial progress never entirely silenced discontent, but it did provide workers with a way to think about hardship.     

Uneven space of everyday modernity: the colonial logic of the suburb in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's A Fool's Love

Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's A Fool's Love (1924–1925) has been widely studied as a representative text of the modern popular culture of the Taisho period. This article treats the work as a key text that reveals the colonial relations embedded in everyday modernity of Japan's interwar years, and examines the articulations of colonial relations in three registers of the text. It first investigates the protagonists' unrestrained embrace of cosmopolitan culture as a manifestation of Japan's ambiguous imperialist consciousness, shaped in the interstices between Western and Asian others. The second and third registers concern a particular kind of space dominant in the story: the modern suburb, which became a major symbol of Japan's modernity in the 1920s. In its subordinate relationship with the city, the suburb exemplifies colonial relations. The second register explored in the article is the overlap between the text's exoticism and suburban topography. A key scene on a resort beach is examined for its reference to Hawai'i and the setting's suburban nature in relation to Tokyo. The last register is the suppression of the story's suburban setting. The article analyzes the disappearance as a manifestation of the anxiety about the unevenness of capitalist development that the suburb represents.     

社会主义核心价值体系建设的现代性论析

社会主义核心价值体系建设的实质是现代性问题。现代性的共识性涵义为社会主义核心价值体系建设提供了广阔的包容性空间。当前的社会主义核心价值体系建设面临着社会阶层分化、价值共识危机、伦理安全缺失的现代境遇,需要积极寻求价值合法性和政治合理性的实践节点。社会主义核心价值体系建设的关键是建构以儒家文化为核心、以主体间性哲学为支撑的普世伦理价值观。     

Europe,the Final Solution and the dynamics of intent

ABSTRACT

The scale and scope of the ‘final solution’ of the ‘Jewish question’ were extreme even in the horrific annals of genocide. Bloxham attempts to shed light on the pattern of mass murder in its expansion and contraction by viewing the Holocaust in a set of temporally and culturally specific contexts. It places the Holocaust into a broader European framework of violent ethnopolitics and geopolitics from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The Holocaust is depicted as an only partially discrete part of a continental process of traumatic flux, and a part, furthermore, that can itself be partially disaggregated into national and regional components. Bloxham moves from a general consideration of patterns of ethnic violence in the period to a closer causal explanation that shows the different valences of Nazi policy towards Jews in the lands directly ruled by Germany and those of Germany's allies respectively. He shows that the peculiarly extensive ambitions of the ‘final solution’ at its most expansive can only be explained when wider geopolitical and strategic contextual terms are factored in along with consideration of Nazi ideology and the internal dynamics of some of the key institutions of the perpetrator state.     

反思性法制现代化初论

反思性法制现代化的规范基础是商谈政治,法律范式是程序法。中国法制现代化事业应反思西方法制现代化运动轨迹,针对自身社会发展状况,创生一条具有独特个性也切合反思性法制现代化一般要求的合理性道路。     

西方道德文化：从前现代性到现代性

道德文化在从前现代到现代的历史嬗变中，其理论范式和内涵都发生了深刻的变化。前现代的德性追求为现代的道德功利主义所代替，现代德性论在文化内涵上也出现了重大的变更。同时，现代道德危机与道德冲突日益凸现出道德文化现代性的尴尬境遇。     

现代中国文学的几大问题

“现代性”改造问题是现代中国文学理论和创作实践始终没有得到很好解决的一个核心,由此造成了现代中国文学发展中的三大突出问题:第一,现代中国文学这一称谓并没有名副其实;第二,文学主体的现代思想与现代意识的欠缺是造成文学客体现代质素稀薄的根源,而文学主体现代性意识的构建又不是短期内可以实现的;第三,在当下意识形态多元化的现代社会中,现代性意识形态相对薄弱,由此造成了现代中国文学发展的巨大困境。当然,随着市场经济体制的构建,包括自由、竞争、民主、平等、人本等现代质素的日益培育成长,这些条件为现代中国文学的复兴提供了可能。     

对启蒙的现代性与后现代性的反思

“现代性”与“后现代性”是两种截然不同的哲理精神。现代性与后现代主义之所以引起中国学术界的关注,是由于我国正处于现代化进程中,它关系到中国要建立什么样的现代国家,造就什么样的现代性,亦即什么样的民族精神、制度与行为方式。后现代主义对现代性的批判,有助于我们正确把握现代西方哲学思潮的走向,了解西方现代性存在的问题,进而反省中国的启蒙与现代性问题。