The Koguryo controversy, national identity, and Sino-Korean relations today

In July 2004, a Chinese claim that the ancient Kingdom of Koguryo (37 BC-AD 668) was China's vassal state ignited a firestorm of protest in South Korea. The decade-long South Korean love affair with China appears to have ended, as increasing numbers of South Koreans have begun to view their colossal neighbor with new suspicion. What were the causes and consequences of this controversy? Rather than forwarding the usual political, economic and security explanations, this paper interrogates the deeper identity politics at stake, arguing that the Koguryo controversy implicates the very meaning of being Korean or Chinese in the 21st century.     

新理性主义：一种全球化诠释的文化精神建构

全球化带来了一系列全球性问题,旧的理性主义文化精神在它面前已日益暴露出局限性。一种科学精神和人文精神、戡天役物的竞进精神和与自然和谐的保守精神、个体化精神和整体化精神、世界化精神和本土化精神相励相长的文化建构应运而生。     

宁夏传媒业人才开发问题及模式研究

传媒业在愈演愈烈的竞争中需要大批有较高政治素质、文化素质和业务素质的优秀传媒人才投身其中。探讨与现代传媒业发展相适应的人才开发新模式,对于加快宁夏传媒业人才队伍建设步伐,提升宁夏文化软实力和推动社会主义文化大发展大繁荣具有十分重要的现实意义。     

灵渠历史价值的重新定位与文化战略的民间实施

我国秦代有两项事关国家发展和民族安宁的伟大工程,即长城与灵渠。从文化特色上看,长城体现的是保守型的文化思维,而灵渠则借助运河的沟通,显示了中华文化的开拓性。这两项工程在两千多年的历史长河中,为推动中华文明的进步与繁荣均作出过卓越贡献。但是,今日之国人却多知有长城而鲜知有灵渠。不光是普通百姓对灵渠知之甚少,即便是理论界的一些专家学者能对灵渠做系统研究的也不多,故对其历史价值定位及文化开发,尚需进一步深入探讨并重新认识。     

Playing the fool in the territory of memory: Jaan Kross' autobiographical fictions of the twentieth century

A study was conducted among young Latvians to test the effects of different conceptualizations of Latvian national identity on group beliefs and on attitudes towards Russians. It was hypothesized that exposure to inclusive discourse presenting Latvia as a multicultural society rather than an ethnic homeland would have a direct negative effect on feelings of vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority and helplessness with regard to the Latvian nation and a positive effect on attitudes towards Russians. The hypothesis was tested in one survey study conducted in Riga among ethnic Latvians (N?=?150).     

ECO-SECTARIANISM: FROM ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN SYRIA

This study introduces ‘eco-sectarianism’, which is a new concept that explains the relationship between sectarian violence and environmental pressures in divided societies in the Middle East. Against the backdrop of climate change, ‘eco-sectarianism’ poses a challenge to many fragmented and unequal societies where the sense of national consciousness is weak and nation-building projects are incomplete. This paper draws attention to the links between politicisation of sub-national identities and emerging ecological challenges in Syria.     

提升中国文化软实力与文化“三自”

提升中国文化软实力，就要正确看待文化“三自”——文化自觉、文化自信、文化自强。提升文化自觉需要提升对文化发展作用、文化发展规律和文化建设责任担当的高度自觉；增强文化自信需要正确看待中国古代传统文化、中国特色社会主义文化、外国文化三种文化；实现文化自强，建设社会主义核心价值体系是关键，建立并完善社会主义文化发展和繁荣制度是保障，人民群众是根本依靠力量，推进文化体制改革是动力。     

在文化建设中尊重和发挥人民群众的主体性

文化建设具有重要的战略地位,不仅关系着全面小康社会建设,还关系着中国特色社会主义的建设以及中华民族的伟大复兴。在文化建设中必须尊重人民群众的主体性,因为人民群众是文化的创造者、文化发展的推动者、文化建设的受益者。要发挥人民群众的主体性,必须充分发扬文化民主,鼓励人民群众积极参与文化建设;增强文化建设活动的针对性,让文化服务于人民群众。     

《大学》文化精神对当代大学生廉洁教育的启示

《大学》作为儒家经典著作之一,蕴含着丰富的廉洁思想,对当代大学生廉洁教育的开展具有指导意义和实践价值。《大学》中的"内圣"主要指内修向度的廉洁修身,是当代大学生廉洁教育的基本要求;"以义为利"的价值观念是大学生实现廉洁行为的关键,是内修与外行的桥梁;"外王"主要指外行向度的廉洁修身实践,是大学生实现廉洁行为的过程和路径。     

The politics of landscape as ways of life in the ‘divided’ city: reflections from Mostar,Bosnia–Herzegovina

ABSTRACT

‘Divided’ cities – places of extreme exclusion and polarization – are sites where the paradox of both fragmentary and cosmopolitan capacity of the city comes to the fore. This article asks: What practices-in-landscape consolidate, construct and deconstruct the impression of a divided city? Drawing insights from the post-conflict Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the main argument I put forward is that urban infrastructures are a crucial medium through which social divisions and cohesions are performed and rearticulated on the ground. The article attends to the everyday of youth in Mostar turning to the politics of landscape as ways of life in the city.