Movable pillars: Organizing dance 1956–1978, by Katja Kolcio

This essay frames an original mad lib representing a conversation between two friends about romance novels. The author attempts to locate a path to feminism in romance-novel culture in the communities built around a commonality of shame wrought by reading these books. She argues that this shame both draws readers together and undermines the explicit goals of the mainstream romance publishing industry. She asks readers to join in by completing the included mad lib with a friend.     

宋濂与戴良友谊变异探微

宋濂与戴良是同乡同门好友,在元末明初的文坛上,他们都有很高的声誉.然而,由于政治立场的不同,他们在元末的社会大动乱中,分别走上了不同的政治道路.由于种种原因,戴良与宋濂的友谊很难维持下去.探讨元末明初同门朋友友谊的变化,可以更加深入地了解当时文人的心态和严酷的生存环境.     

林语堂与徐讦关系探析

在林语堂与徐讦之间有着非同寻常的关系,他们既是同事又是朋友,还有长辈与晚辈之别,而且数十年如一日彼此友谊不衰。重要的是,二人互相都有赞美和批评,这为后人理解他们的思想提供了很好的参照系。另外,在人生道路、性格特点、文学观念、文化思想、审美情趣等多个方面,林语堂与徐讦关系密切而又区别明显。对此进行的细致梳理和比较研究,就具有个人和文学史的双重意义。     

Doing business in Yabaolu Market,Beijing: (inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship,trust and friendship between Caucasian and Chinese traders

ABSTRACT

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Georgia, this article traces the origins and describes current practices of post-Soviet tourist trading in Yabaolu Market in Beijing. While traders from across the Caucasus visit Yabaolu, my focus is on Georgian traders who today perceive themselves as biznesmeny. Focusing on a typical trade visit, the article explores the role of ethnic and kinship ties in the organization of this trade. It questions the notion of ethnic entrepreneurship and the idea that ethnic cooperation itself may serve a basis of trust and underpin traders’ activities. Instead, the article illustrates how enduring transnational linkages are built on other forms of reliability and reputation. These are framed in the lexicon of friendship, as well as kinship and pseudo-kinship vocabulary, and facilitate commercial transactions between traders of different ethnic, social and religious backgrounds in an environment where state regulation and legal law enforcement are almost absent.     

Deconstructing Diplomacy: Derridean Political Theory and U.N. Deal-Making

This paper engages in a reading of several Derrideantexts, particularly Spectres of Marx, Politics of Friendship, and The Post Card, inan attempt to divine a coherent Derridean social andpolitical philosophy. It is submitted that such acoherent theory of civil society can be made out, onewhich situates civil relations in national borders andshared history. Such a situation, however, isproblematic for international relations theory andinternational law, which depend a priori onlocating the foundations of civil society in somethingwhich transcends nationalism and shared experience. By engaging in a reading of the Declaration ofFriendly Relations Between States, this paperdemonstrates the apparent incompatibility of Derrideanpolitical philosophy and international law. In theprocess, it explores Derrida's strategy fortransforming the nature of international relations andlaw and, in so doing, identifies the relationshipbetween Derridean theory and the international legaltheory of Arangio-Ruiz.     

Thinking Friendship With and Against Hannah Arendt

This essay interrogates Hannah Arendt’s different notions of friendship, their weaknesses and strengths, with a view to establishing the basis for a more adequate discussion. After examining her conception of friendship first among the ancients, and then in “dark times”, the essay asks how are we to understand friendship among the moderns when times are not particularly dark. This requires a critical reading of her conception of private intimacy and social association in order to construct a more plural understanding of friendship, and of the criteria by which it can be judged, as it is differentially instituted within, and traverses, the private, civil and political realms.     

Age and changing masculinities in gay–straight male workplace friendships

Abstract

Drawing on interview data gathered from 35 gay men in the UK, this article explores how age influences the negotiation of masculinity within gay–straight male workplace friendships. Study findings show that gay–straight workplace friendships between younger men appear to be framed in terms of equality, not homophobia. Older gay men also report similar experiences, some suggesting how these friendships were not possible in their youth. Gay and straight men of a similar age are also united in friendship by their experiences of ageing and its implications for carrying out work. Interview data also reveal how gay–straight male friendships are constrained at work, thus limiting the opportunities for emotional openness and physical tactility. Overall, the study reveals how younger and older gay men, and their straight male friends, variously align themselves to inclusive masculinities within friendship. This article contributes to inclusive masculinity theory by extending the types of contexts currently studied, both relational and work-related, and adding further emphasis to the contextually contingent nature of inclusive masculinities. It also advances the limited literature on gay–straight friendships by highlighting how they might challenge and reshape the heteronormative contours of work contexts.     

The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations

Abstract

Recent years have seen a deterioration in political relations between China and Japan, in particular over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands and history-related problems. Commentators have noted an attendant decline in trust between the two sides and have stressed the need for confidence-building measures in order to address the trust deficit. This article explores the origins of declining trust between the Chinese and Japanese leaderships. It argues that attempts to build a friendly and trusting relationship in the early post-war and post-normalisation periods began to fail in the 1980s, and have been in a gradual state of decline ever since. Using the concepts of trust and friendship, the article suggests that the lack of trust properties such as empathy, bonding, reliability and predictability have contributed to the deterioration of trust at both elite and popular levels.     

论情谊行为及其法律后果

情谊行为是指当事人为增进私人友谊或基于善良风俗实施的欠缺效果意思及其相应法律后果的双方行为。情谊行为引发的纠纷,近年来日益增多。但由于情谊行为制度理论研究的贫乏,最终导致类似行为的不同定性或不同裁判。应当运用综合因素判断法认定情谊行为,并明确情谊行为非契约上的法律后果及其侵权责任的减轻依据。     

戴震与江永交游考

作为清代学术史上一大公案，“戴震是否背师”长期以来为学界所争议。综合考察这个问题，可着重考证戴震与江永交游时间，戴震本人对师友的定义和江永对戴震的称呼，以及其他学者对江戴关系的论述。研究清代以来诸家主要观点及这一问题的新进展，比较符合历史事实的结论是：江永与戴震属于师友关系。这一结论对客观公正地评价戴震，以及对戴震思想的整体性研究都具有现实指导意义。