论王朔小说的后现代文化特征

王朔及其小说创作已经成为20世纪后20年当代中国重要的文学现象和文化现象.他不仅开创了中国小说商业化写作的先河,而且成为中国小说后现代实践的第一人.王朔小说具有全球化的后现代主义文化哲学的典型表征.他的作品在对一切既定秩序和准则的亵渎嘲弄中颠覆解构了权利中心的合法性、知识真理的永恒性和理性价值的终极性,体现出审美意义深度模式削平后的"平面感"以及历史意识消失后时间非连续性的"断裂感",呈现出放弃对精神价值、正义真理和终极关怀的形而上追求的"内在性"以及现代主义神性消逝后人自身所凸显出的"卑琐性".因此在后现代文化理论话语系统的观照中,王朔及其小说创作无疑为当代中国文学拓展了新的写作向度,做出了独特的贡献.     

中小历史文化名城旅游产业发展的几点思考——以陕西省汉中市长青华阳景区的旅游开发为例

通过对国家级历史文化名城汉中市的旅游产业发展现状进行分析与反思,提出在交通便利、全国旅游产业整体大发展的背景下,汉中市应当抓住机遇,集中有限的人力、物力、财力资源打造全国知名的历史名胜景点,以兼具风景、历史、蜀道资源的长青华阳景区的旅游开发带动汉中市全市整体的旅游产业发展,再以整体的旅游发展来促进特定景点继续提高质量、扩大影响。此种方式适用于各方面资源有限的中小历史文化名城的旅游开发。     

论文化法的基本原则

文化法基本原则的确立需要以其基本宗旨为基础、合乎文化现象之规律、公共管理之原则,并尊重产业发展的市场准则。文化法的基本原则应该包括文化自由原则、切实公平享用原则、产业促进原则、文化多样性原则以及精神价值优先原则。同时,这些原则还衍生了非歧视性原则、文化主权原则等。其中,文化自由原则是文化法律实践的逻辑原点,切实公平的文化享用是文化法制与政策追求的最终目标,精神价值优先、文化多样性是对文化本质属性与功能的体现,文化产业促进则是为实现其他原则所必要的工具性原则。多项原则作为一个体系,服务于文化法律实践的最终目标。     

Active citizenship through mobility? Students’ perceptions of identity,rights and participation in the EU

Globalisation has begun to transform the processes through which citizens are differentiated and non-citizens are excluded. This article provides an in-depth qualitative interrogation of these processes of differentiation and exclusion, and argues that the transformation in these processes compels us to reconsider the conceptual dichotomy of passive/active citizens along the stayers/mobiles distinction. This transformation is most apparent in Europe, with the introduction of European Union (EU) citizenship. The article builds on Bourdieu’s cultural capital in the cosmopolitan context, existing qualitative studies on citizens’ sense of EU identity and citizenship, and illustrative focus group evidence of visiting EU and home students’ perceptions of EU citizenship across three dimensions – identity, rights and participation. The evidence indicates that we can distinguish between four categories of citizens in the EU: passive EU citizens, including two groups of stayers; the potential EU (i) and member state-oriented (ii) citizens, and active EU citizens, including EU-15 (iii) and Central and Eastern European (iv) mobile citizens. These categories reveal that important distinctions are emerging between the perceptions and behaviour of stayers and mobiles as passive/active citizens.     

文化生态学视阈下的当代中国文化安全

随着经济全球化和政治多极化的发展,当今我国的文化安全已经上升到同经济安全、政治安全同等重要的战略地位。目前我国的文化安全问题主要受到来自国内和国际的双重压力和挑战:国内三大文化市场存在的缺点和劣势影响,以及西方资本主义国家实施文化渗透和文化霸权。在这种形势下,我国一方面必须要坚持中国文化的根基以维护国家文化安全,另一方面还要在吸收和引进西方文化的同时对资本主义国家的文化做到合理扬弃,只有这样才能保持文化生态平衡的格局,以达到中西方文化的共赢。     

Ideology in brick and tile: Timurid architecture of the 21st century

This study analyses the impact of politics on urban development and, in particular, on Timurid heritage in present-day Uzbekistan. It outlines the problem of landscape manipulation for the advancement of a political ideology. After presenting a brief overview of Tsarist and Soviet restoration practices, the article focuses on the post-Soviet nation-building schemes through public iconography, urban renewal measures and heritage construction. Architectural and epigraphic restorations of Timurid monuments in Samarqand and new constructions in Tashkent provide a valuable illustrative framework. As world heritage sites, the Samarqand monuments are examined both in their historical and current socio-political contexts; the role of UNESCO is also analysed. The study benefits from and contributes to critical heritage studies and urban development as a narrative of power-making and relational space.     

Cultural diplomacy: Should South Africa give it a try?

Conflicts often emanate when one society tries to enforce its own culture on others. Cultural diplomacy, as a form of diplomacy, is often an integral part of diplomatic activities of almost all states to alleviate cultural clashes and to assist cultural institutions in the dissemination of national culture. In practice, the under-deployment of cultural diplomacy very often results from false perceptions about its activities. The aim of this paper is to conceptualise the term ‘cultural diplomacy', provide a short history of its development, sketch its major functions and evaluate its importance in the process of foreign policy implementation. South Africa should diversify its diplomatic tools more effectively. Cultural diplomacy should receive more prominence by the practitioners of diplomacy and could serve as a useful means for the implementation of South African interests abroad. It could promote favourable conditions as a precursor for the effective achievement of the country's foreign policy goals.     

Sex,Gender, Multidimensional Value Space,and Social Cultural Resistance—Afrocentrism

This article examines the applicability of the theory of multidimensional value space by Lynn A. Curtis and the theory of social cultural resistance—Afrocentrism by Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie for explaining so-called Black crime and Black juvenile delinquency in general and Black female crime and Black female juvenile delinquency in particular. It notes that the increase in so-called Black crime and Black juvenile delinquency in general and Black female crime and Black female juvenile delinquency in particular may be illusion, not fact. This article notes that perception, at times illusion, may have, and frequently does have, real outcomes, including criminal justice outcomes and delinquency outcomes. It notes that the so-called Black racial monolith is a fiction that race and ethnicity are distinct entities, as are sex and gender that the so-called Black racial monolith consists of distinct Black ethnic identities. The article notes that Black crime, female and male, and adult and juvenile delinquency may be manifestations of primary psychopathy, secondary psychopathy, and dyssocial psychopathy, as noted in the theory of social cultural resistance—Afrocentrism.     

Angola and Kenya Pavilions in the 2013 Venice Biennale: African Contemporary Art and Cultural Diplomacy in the “Olympics of Art”

A record six African states were awarded a national pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, the premier venue for showcasing a nation's contemporary art, from which Africa has historically been excluded. While first-time participant Angola won the top prize, Kenya's pavilion was the target of bafflement and ire. Using a cultural diplomacy framework that integrates the insights of leading scholars, this research makes concrete recommendations for practitioners vis-à-vis a comparative case study of the two pavilions. Analysis and recommendations consider the interests of a variety of stakeholders and offer insights relevant to Africa and other emerging regions.     

文化研究中的哲学历史观问题

文化可以从动和静两种形式考察,这相当于老子所谓“履”和“迹”的关系。人类的社会生活实践总是从动的形式转化为静的形式,即从时间形式转化为空间形式。要真正达到文化自觉,不能局限于空间形式的考察,而要坚持唯物史观的实践动态观点。