Disputes on the Question of Wartime Education and the Formation of an Educational Policy for the Guomindang in the War

Abstract

The divide between the Western-emphasized and Chinese-emphasized approaches in Chinese musical modernity has shaped the thinking and practice of Chinese music. In colonial Shanghai, where the divide was solidified, the divide was organizationally represented by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Great Unity Music Society. Both forces, however, engaged with the same ethical and political discourse of nation-building. For example, both looked up to the colonial Shanghai Municipal Orchestra as a desirable model. Assessing such subtle connections, this article uses the idea of network to overcome the dichotomatic limitation of the divide, while examining its foundation. Drawing upon concepts of “weak ties” and “conflictual ties,” this article shows how interdependence and rivalry overlapped in the emerging musical network, which shaped the new discursive, performance, and compositional practices in both forces. Both forces, indeed, were equally constitutive of the emerging “field” of music in Chinese modernity.     

Living in the Marikana world: The state,capital and society

Abstract

The ‘Marikana massacre’ that happened on 16 August 2012 at Lonmin mine near Rustenburg in the North-West province of South Africa, in which the South African police shot dead 34 mineworkers for protesting against low wages and other unbearable employment and/or living conditions, cannot be understood as merely an accidental event. It may therefore be useful to view the massacre as one of those tragedies that dramatises, in visible ways, the generally hellish conditions which the peoples of the non-Western world have come to endure ever since the advent of Western modernity. The ‘voyages of discovery’ undertaken by figures such as Christopher Columbus after 1492 marked the commencement of a world system characterised by a Western-centred modernity whose ‘darker side’ inflicted hellish conditions on the non-Western subject, while its ‘brighter side’ in the West saw positive developments – from the 16^th-century ‘rights of people’ to the 18^th-century ‘rights of man’, up to the late-20^th-century ‘human rights’. This article is a decolonial critique on the Marikana massacre and seeks to explain how the modern world system has, since its advent in 1492 as global power structure, been producing a series of ‘Marikana-like’ conditions and events on the part of the non-Western subject that underlies its hierarchical arrangement. The article's point of departure is that rather than understand the Marikana massacre as a unique event or accident, it can better be characterised as a sign of the non-Western subject's subjection to Western-centred modernity. The article explicates how the modern South African state and capital are part of the same ‘colonial power matrix’ (Quijano 2000a), hence the two were bound to be on the same side against labour during the Marikana massacre.     

我国社会教育权的新现代性解读——以基本公共教育服务均等化为视角

当前我国教育领域中的垄断主要是行政垄断,教育垄断与基本公共教育服务均等化目标存在冲突。为此,有必要提升社会教育权的法律地位。社会教育权是指除家庭和国家之外各个社会主体依法所享有的从事教育活动的权利,教育公平化、教育社会化以及教育市场化是其价值取向。社会教育权的发展模式主要有国家权力主导下的补充性发展、社会权利主导下的系统性发展以及价值多元导向下的制衡性发展三种模式。我国应采纳多中心制衡的发展模式并强化市场化供给。     

In Search of a Home: In Honour of Agnes Heller on her 75th Birthday

Abstract

One of the many themes to which Agnes Heller's philosophy returns again and again is the theme of the home of the moderns. Although not necessarily her central philosophical theme, nonetheless, it opens onto the existential and multi-dimensional nature of the human condition in modernity, which her work permanently addresses.     

Feminism in a global era

Feminism is being re-shaped by its articulation through a global discourse of human rights and an increased focus on state interventions. This is partly a result of the transition in the gender regime changing the economic and political resources and opportunities open to women and partly due to globalization. Globalization has not only created difficulties for democratic governance, but it has also facilitated the development of new spaces, institutions and rhetoric where universal human rights is a powerful justificatory principle.     

'Fundamentalism', modernity and the new Jacobins

This paper offers an interpretaion of 'Islamic fundamentalism', especially the Iranian Revolution, in the context of sociological debates about 'modernity'. The problematic nature of both these terms is acknowledge. It criticizes explanations of 'fundamentalism' that begin from the assumption of a dichotomy between fundamentalism and modernity, arguing instead for a more nuanced understanding of both Islamic revivalism and the modern. The paper begins by offering a model of modernity as a set of bi-modal tensions within which Islamic 'fundamentalism' could be understood as a form of modernist revolutionary populism. This argument is then developed through a comparison betwen the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution. It argues that there are parallels between the idea of Islamic revolution and the Jacobin revolutionary imagination, which demonstrate with some observations on Islam, and the closure of the Jacobin revolutionary project.     

Green Drive

正In the face of environmental degradation,a replacement needs to be fostered for gasoline automobiles By Deng YaqingAs the atmosphere is increasingly affected by the burning of fossil fuels,the use of new-energy cars,theoretically including electric vehicles,plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles,represents an inexorable trend for the automobile industry.     

The Internet Propelling China to Greater Vitality and Openness

正China did not connect to the Internet until 1994,25 years after it fi rst appeared.It has since fl ourished rapidly and robustly.Today,618 million Chinese use the Internet,500 million of them via mobile phones,representing 73 percent of the urban population and 25percent of rural residents.More than 80 percent are young people.An open,free,shared,and innovative space,the Internet appeals to people of a country that has achieved rapid economic growth.It has changed their lifestyle,most profoundly as regards communi-     

马来西亚电子产业技术进步模式的分析及启示

本文以马来西亚电子产业为研究对象,回顾了马来西亚电子产业的发展过程,着重探讨跨国公司引导下马来西亚电子产业技术进步的四种模式,并从其国内电子产业结构分布的角度分析技术溢出效果,最后总结了马来西亚电子产业技术进步的特点和对其他后发国家的启示。     

心理测试技术由仪器讯问向仪器测试的自然转变

心理测试技术经历了仪器讯问和仪器测试两个发展轨迹。仪器测试比仪器讯问有更多的优点和可操作性规范,仪器测试是世界各国心理测试技术发展的必然结果和科学归属。心理测试技术在中国近20多年的发展经历了较长时间的仪器讯问时期,这有其存在的实践背景和认识因素,目前中国心理测试技术正实现由仪器讯问向仪器测试的自然转变。中国心理测试技术作为一项刑事技术应该按照仪器测试的特性进行技术规范。