话本小说时空构架的"江南"特征及其叙事意义

南宋以后,随着经济、文化中心的南移,话本小说在江南得以迅速兴起,并在明代走向全面成熟.生活在江南的话本小说家基本依据江南的地理特点、地质构造以及节日风俗等人文地理状况来构架小说时空;即使写到江北时空,也往往参照江南"版本"进行.以"游赏"为主题的江南节日,为话本小说故事的生发提供了带有地方人文色彩的叙事时间刻度.同时,江南水乡又为话本小说提供了别致的叙事空间.其中,作为故事的多发地带和情缘的多生场所,"桥"、"船"、"岸"成为故事得以展开的基本场景.总之,话本小说的时空构架带有明显的江南地域特征,这些江南化的时空有力地促进了这类小说的叙事运动,并确立了其"江南文学"性质.     

中西文化交往中的对话与全球化挑战下的整合

以传统文化的现代化和西方文明的本土化面貌出现的中国文化发展问题,经过一个多世纪的反复与纠缠,在社会全面发展的今天取得了巨大的现实成就,这就为中国文化面向世界、面向未来的发展奠定了坚实基础。作为现代化之延伸的全球化并不可怕,文化的差异性与民族个性不会因此而必然走向衰落;而文化怀古倾向却极有可能导致文化传统的衰萎。彻底抛弃“中西之争”、“古今之辨”的陈旧思维模式,在古今中外的多种文化资源之间形成高度辩证的联结。21世纪的中国文化必须通过新的整合与创造,努力完成价值系统从前现代向现代的转换,同时超越西方式现代性的弊端,构建起先进的本土文化。     

浅析20世纪30年代历史小说中的儒道圣贤形象

20世纪30年代的历史小说创作是现代文学史中历史小说创作的发轫期。继新文化运动以来对传统文化尤其是对儒道思想的鞭挞与谴责,使得这一时期的历史小说创作呈现出独到之处。     

从何以可能到现实路径——关于当前哲学对话问题的沉思

哲学对话的重要性,已经取得学界的共识。在当前的中国语境之下,如何加强不同哲学,尤其是中、西、马哲学之间的对话和交流?问题的厘清必须从中、西、马哲学的对话何以可能谈起,从何以能对话(前提根据)、为什么对话(目的意义)到以什么对话(话题内容)的分析进路,不仅是对话问题的展开逻辑,而且内在地蕴含着对如何来对话,即中、西、马哲学对话的现实路径这一问题的解答。     

RHETORIC OF THE LAWYER AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATION

The article focuses on the difference between strategic rhetoric and philosophical conversation. It first tries to distinguish between sophistical manipulation and valid strategic argumentation. In order to do that, the author tries to give a new meaning to the old Aristotelian tripartition between logos, ethos, and pathos. Then, he uses Chaim Perelman’s theory of argumentation to show that the standard of rationality in practical reasoning is a specific one. After having clarified the very concept of strategic argumentation, the author distinguishes it from the notion of philosophical conversation. He tries to show that if the latter is completely replaced by the former, the danger exists that victimization and morals “a la carte” will generate a defeat of critical thought.     

体面劳动在中国

国际劳工组织自1999年提出"体面劳动"的理念后,一直在全球推行体面劳动。体面劳动所涵盖的内容既是国际劳工组织的战略目标,也是中国一直致力于实现的目标。     

Struggling in the Street and at the Table

Two scholar practitioners of conflict intervention and social movements present case histories of mediated conflicts involving complex choreographies of contention and negotiation. Both processes, while differently structured and facilitated, have led to improvements in the dynamics of identity‐based conflicts in urban communities. The authors raise theoretical questions and propose improvements to practice.     

京派小说意象探析

京派小说的文本中出现许多重复性的意象,相同的意象有的出现在不同作家的笔下,有的反复出现在同一作家的文本中。京派作品中蕴含丰富的诗性因子,意象设置与古典诗文具有历史传承性,作家善于开掘意象所积淀的文化象征意蕴。因此从作家惯用的独特的单位意象出发．能够更好地寻求对作家独特的精神世界与艺术世界的把握。     

Ethics in the workplace

The right to request flexible working has been introduced into the UK employment laws against a background of post-fordist work practices, which already allow for employer rather than employee flexibility. This paper posits the idea that for the individual employee to benefit from these new rights what is required is the situation of dialogues within the workplace that take place in an ethical frame that recognises the employee as an individual.

Assessing the potential fire risk of laundered fabrics after contamination with emollients using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics

Since 2010, more than 50 UK fire deaths, have been reported as linked with emollients. This prompted the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to issue advice on their safer use in 2018. The advice was in response to concerns raised by the National Fire Chiefs Council, coroners’ reports, and flammability tests. The test results show a significant reduction in ignition time of fabrics contaminated with paraffin-based and paraffin-free skin care product residues. The MHRA report also included advice on washing clothing and bedding at high temperatures but warned this may not remove all emollient residues. This paper reports on new research on the removal of skin care products from clothing investigated by laundering contaminated 100% cotton fabric at 30, 40 and 60 °C using both biological and non-biological based detergents. As part of the experiment, non-contaminated (blank) napkin samples were included in the wash experiments to assess the possible transfer from fabrics contaminated with emollients to uncontaminated clean fabrics during washing. Washed and dried fabrics were analysed using Attenuated Total Reflectance, Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and further interpreted via principal component analysis (PCA) and network analysis. Results suggest that the majority of the 6% white soft paraffin-based lotion and paraffin-free cream were removed at all temperatures. Residues of 21% paraffin-based cream (6% light paraffin/15% white soft paraffin) remain, and more residues persist of the 100% paraffin-based ointment (5% light paraffin/95% white soft paraffin) after washing at 30, 40 and 60 °C. The wash experiments show unequivocal transfer of the 100% ointment from the contaminated napkins to clean control napkins placed within washes at 30 °C. Furthermore, residues of the ointment were observed within the machine drum, and washing machine door seal, though this did not cause secondary transfer to subsequent wash experiments. There were no differences observed when using biological versus non-biological detergents, nor when employing a pre-wash treatment in the removal of residues of the 21% cream and 100% ointment. These results suggest that a single application of an emollient when soaked and dried into a fabric is not removed by a single wash at 30, 40 or 60 °C. Instead, the residue remains a persistent potential fire risk and, its high paraffin content presents an additional fire risk via contamination of other fabrics.