BRICS Shine Bright

正First initiated as an investment concept,the BRICS group is now a substantive cooperative mechanism of developing economies with growing global inf luence.July 2014 sees the convening of the Sixth BRICS Summit in Brazil,marking the f irst session of the second cycle of BRICS Summits.World opinions on the group are divided.To those in favor it has the capacity for pragmatic and eff icient cooperation that     

BTG-Jianguo Hotels & Resorts

正A ceremony marking the cooperation between the BTG-Jianguo HotelsResorts Management Company and Italy’s ATAhotels was recently held at the Beijing Jianguo Hotel.Operating 21 high-end hotels,resorts and aparthotels,ATAhotels is the largest group of its kind in Italy.And BTG-Jianguo is one of the leading hotel management companies in China.The i rst step in the companies’strategic cooperation was to select eight member hotels from each group to share logos and l ags,and     

日本的皇位继承制度与《皇室典范》

《皇室典范》是基于宪法制定的天皇皇位继承等有关皇室事务的法律。明治时代出于建立天皇专制主义政权的需要,于1889年颁布的《皇室典范》结束了皇位继承混乱无序的历史,作为与宪法具有同等效力的最高法规,确立了天皇至高无上的地位。第二次世界大战结束后,根据新宪法制定的新《皇室典范》,天皇的地位和性质发生了本质变化,但在皇位继承制度方面依然沿袭了明治《皇室典范》的基本原则。这一战后改革不彻底的后果,束缚了皇室的发展,也是当今日本皇室出现继承危机的根源。     

Acute and Everyday Violence in Sri Lanka

Police torture in Sri Lanka has been subject to extensive investigation and condemnation but remains a widespread and seemingly entrenched practice. Seeking to understand the resistance of such practices to existing interventions, this article locates the police’s use of torture within a broader geography of social violence in Sri Lanka. We discuss the findings of extensive fieldwork conducted in the north-west of Sri Lanka where we examined not only police behaviour and interactions between police and the broader community but also the social dynamics relationships more generally. One significant finding was that violence against certain types of people, including police use of torture against such people, is generally accepted, even as the police are broadly criticised in the community for their unethical and ineffective behaviour. Another significant finding was that the society is riven with social hierarchies and that patterns of domination are embedded in social, political and symbolic systems. We conclude that police torture needs to be understood against the background of broader cultural practices whereby social subjects are disciplined and policed to produce appropriate citizens and punish social boundary violations.     

The role of symbolic politics in exceptional crime policy debate: a study of the 2014 Swedish general election

Symbolic politics are often considered to be closely linked to an alarmist rhetoric, as well as to punitive crime policy initiatives. This article explores the symbolic dimension of the Swedish crime policy debate. Since Sweden is frequently depicted as an antithesis to punitive Anglophone societies, exploring symbolic politics in this setting might expand our understanding of what symbolic statements may consist of. The article analyses the electoral campaign preceding the Swedish general election of 2014, with the aim of identifying which symbolic statements occupy a central position in the debate through the use of a qualitative content analysis. This analysis reveals an ambiguous political rhetoric, comprising morally and emotionally charged condemnatory statements about getting tough on crime, as well as reformist and restrained references to expert knowledge and long-term solutions. On the one hand, these reformist statements strengthen the image of Swedish crime policy as being based on ideals such as rationality and humanity. On the other, they also serve to legitimize and obscure penal expansion.     

The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle Revolution

Abstract

I argue that Shakespeare's Timon of Athens exemplifies the concept of mourning play that Walter Benjamin had in mind when he wrote The Origin of German Tragic Drama. While others have interpreted the play in various ways, no one has attempted to understand Timon in a Benjaminesque manner that seeks to show the emergence of baroque tragedy as a new aesthetic form at odds with, and liberated from, classical tragedy's mythical foundation and instead premised on historical time and progress. In my discussion, I question the view that Timon possesses inheritable or transmissible human social bonds that can be the subject of annihilation as is the case in Shakespeare's other tragedies. Rather, Benjamin sees in allegory, as illustrated by Timon of Athens, the social condition of modernity replete with suffering, chaos, and violence, but devoid of real human bonds; indeed, it is without human meaning.     

The Rise of the Novice Cabinet Minister? The Career Trajectories of Cabinet Ministers in British Government from Attlee to Cameron

Some commentators have observed that today's Cabinet ministers are younger and less experienced than their predecessors. To test this claim, we analyse the data for Labour and Conservative appointments to Cabinet since 1945. Although we find some evidence of a decline in average age and prior experience, it is less pronounced than for the party leaders. We then examine the data for junior ministerial appointments, which reveals that there is no trend towards youth and inexperience present lower down the hierarchy. Taking these findings together, we propose that public profile is correlated with ‘noviceness’; that is, the more prominent the role, the younger and less experienced its incumbent is likely to be. If this is correct, then the claim that we are witnessing the rise of the novice Cabinet minister is more a consequence of the personalisation of politics than evidence of an emerging ‘cult of youth’.     

检视西方媒介权力研究——兼论布尔迪厄权力论

媒介作为当今社会已被认同的“新的权力核心”渗透于生活的各个方面,媒介权力在文化研究和传播学研究领域也日益受到重视。检视西方媒介权力研究,对促进和加强我国传播学领域中相对比较薄弱的媒介权力研究有重要意义。布尔迪厄的权力理论以一种独特的视角审视现代社会,为媒介权力研究提供了一个可操作性的分析框架。将媒介置于社会权力场中考察,对媒介权力如何在传播场中以其工具性资本而占据统治性位置、媒介权力如何通过构成符号权力或符号暴力来运作并发挥其效力等问题的探讨,可以更深入地剖析和批判资本主义社会的媒介权力,反思媒介权力对社会意识形态的控制,对社会大众和个体的操纵和奴役,警惕媒介权力在人类生活中的负面作用。     

《奥赛罗》中意象的功能

莎士比亚的《奥赛罗》是诗化的。其艺术魅力之所以经久不衰,不仅在于它成功地描写了一出极具震撼力的浪漫爱情悲剧,更在于它运用了独特丰富的意象。这些意象反复出现,成为该剧艺术不可分割的一部分。这些意象的抒情功能、视觉功能和象征功能, 使读者感悟剧中的美感效应     

Chang'e-3 Mission a“Complete Success”

正China launched the Chang’e-3 lunar probe with the country’s first moon rover,named Jade Rabbit,aboard on December 2,marking a significant step toward deep space exploration.The probe entered the earth-moon transfer orbit as scheduled,with a perigee of 200 kilometers and apogee of 380,000 kilometers.It landed on the moon on December 14 to become China’s first spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.