Educating Young Radicals: Shanghai University, 1922-1927*

Abstract

The development of the vernacular language during the New Culture Movement was only intended as a transitional stage to the goal of abolishing the Chinese language. Intellectuals such as Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Chen Duxiu all advocated to varying degrees the Romanization, Latinization, and abolition of the Chinese language. Chen Yinke, however, argued that the adoption of a Europeanized grammatical structure, and the borrowing of neologisms from abroad, such as Japan, altered the fundamental property of Chinese as an independent language. Reassessing the language reform of the May Fourth today, it is evident that the development of the simplified character, the vernacular language, and the pinyin did not achieve the goal of unifying the spoken and written Chinese. Instead by eliminating the classical language, the language reform removed the ability of the vernacular-speaking masses to create a literature of the written words.     

Bullying Widespread

Abstract

The issue of bullying features prominently in educational administration, academic research, journalism, and public discourse. In this paper, I present a critical examination of research on bullying by addressing dominant themes and preoccupations in the literature. I argue that the proliferation of policies and programs purported to reduce bullying in schools are anchored by what appears to be a common, but problematic, understanding of the notion of bullying. Such policies and programs are utilitarian but misguided. Here, I problematize the very notion of bullying and contextualize it within broader frameworks of educational administration and social oppression. By contrast, I highlight educational theorists who conceptualize school violence in social and political terms rather than psychological, behavioral, and individualistic ones.     

Consuming Spaces: Clive Barker,William Gibson and the Cultural Poetics of Postmodern Fantasy

A significant trend emerges in contemporary fantasy-what might be called 'heterocosmic fantasy', as opposed to an older but still vital tradition of 'epic' high fantasy. The narrative forms of heterocosmic fantasy accord with the defining characteristics of contemporary media (particularly the Internet and contemporary television programming, and the practice of 'surfing' both of these), but this form of fantasy also rehearses certain ideological modes of behaviour. In particular, it rehearses in textual form the illusory alterity, the management of potential social unrest, and the frenetic consumption of 'late capitalist' society.     

Writing as resistance: Berber literature and the challenges surrounding the emergence of a Berber literary field in Morocco

This article discusses the development of Berber literature in Morocco and the connections between this literature and Moroccan national identity as well as the pan-Amazigh identity movement. Over the last 40 years, the political conjuncture in Morocco has led Berber writers to affirm an alternative definition of Moroccanness, not exclusively based on Arabness, but one in which Berberity is included. This article aims to shed light on modern Berber literature, and on the social space in which it is embedded. It argues that there is no autonomous Berber literary field, the literature being intrinsically bound up with identity issues, but a Berber literary space, located at the intermingling of several fields (the political field and the field of language production in particular). The article first reconstructs the Moroccan political context by exploring the Amazigh movement, its aspirations and its reality. It then focuses on the relationship between the language issues (alphabet, standardization, etc.) and the emergence of a Berber “neo-literature.” Lastly, it moves beyond Morocco into the wider pan-Berber world – the Maghreb and those countries to which Berbers have emigrated – to question the possibility of a transnational Berber literature.     

大国文化身份与当代文论创新

大国文学需要自我身份反省并坚持文论走近经典进而可持续创新。在中国文论经历了一个世纪的西化浪潮之后,应该重新检讨中国文论的精神价值取向,从全盘西化的文论盲视中走出来,重新以“走近经典”的文化高度和精神厚度,审视大众图像时代中的中国文论身份,从西方文论的中国化到中国文论经验的世界化的转型中,关注文化创新与文学理论创新的同步性,进而守正创新——“走近经典”并“创新经典”。     

APPLYING A GENERAL STRAIN THEORY FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND SCHOOL WEAPON CARRYING AMONG LGBQ AND HETEROSEXUAL YOUTH

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) youth are at a higher risk for school victimization, social isolation, and school weapon carrying compared with their heterosexual peers, yet few studies have been conducted to investigate their experiences. By using a general strain theory (GST) framework, data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) statewide probability sample of Delaware heterosexual (n = 7,688) and LGBQ (n = 484) youth in grades 9–12 show that there are both similarities and differences in the factors associated with school weapon carrying among LGBQ and heterosexual youth. LGBQ and heterosexual youth's weapon carrying is related to school victimization, but social support does not moderate the relationship between school victimization and school weapon carrying as suggested by GST. Furthermore, being male is significantly related to heterosexual youth's weapon carrying, but sex is not related to weapon carrying among LGBQ youth. Overall, the results highlight a need to reconceptualize GST to help center the experiences of LGBQ youth, a historically marginalized group, within mainstream criminological literature. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.     

16～17世纪老挝世俗文学及其特点

16～17世纪是老挝世俗文学的蓬勃发展时期,出现了长篇叙事诗、寓言、诗体小说、纪事体散文等文学体裁,并涌现出大量的优秀文学作品。这些作品在内容和形式上与印度文学和佛教文学相互渗透融合,呈现出佛教化、民族化、同质化等特点。作品既充盈着浓厚的佛教色彩,又贯穿着老挝本土的伦理文化和道德文明。     

张爱玲与台湾文学史书写

张爱玲与台湾文学史书写有着复杂而又密切的关系,半个世纪以来,诸种台湾文学史或书写,或缩写,或不写张爱玲,都有其内在的深层原因。作为"文学/文化"的"张爱玲符号",已经成为一种亟待思考的文学现象,本文通过对张爱玲文本在东亚的后殖民和冷战秩序构筑当中被台湾接受的一些脉络,以及在台湾本土意识高扬的背景下台湾新文学史要怎样处理张爱玲的考察,阐述文学制度介入到国族想象后,对作家阐释也出现了较大的位移。而且,也要阐释台湾"独派"人士在处理文化上的身份认同和政治上的身份认同之间的理论困境。     

“冤案”与司法活动——从卡夫卡《审判》看

冤案研究应从日常司法的关于是否存在冤案的对立认识入手,而非公认冤案。而发生对立认识时,基于角色担当和功能作用的理由,应主要支持司法活动。社会公众及个人,在冤案对立认识及日常活动中,也有自己的行动责任。卡夫卡《审判》是展开这些探讨的极佳素材。