A Study on e Research Meodology of e Humanities in e 20Century

Zhang Hong

English Abstracts

A Study on the Research Methodology of the Humanities in the 20thCentury

Zhang Hong

The research methodology of the humanities needs more attention in contemporary China. This paper traces the three stages of the methodological evolution in the 20thcentury, and explores the situation of Chinese and western culture in China’s modernization and its reasons, seeking for a diagnosis of the situation. The paper suggests that the research methodology needs more attention so as to make new breaks and innovations in the humanities study.

The Possibilities of Imagination and the Construction of Another World: A Study on Fan Ficitons

Wang Zhe

Abstract: Network novels have developed rapidly recent years with a large amount of novels, network writers, an unending flow of novel websites and a more convenient reading experience, which indicates a possibility for network novels to catch up with the traditional literature in transmitting. Fan fiction, as a kind of network novel, also attracts many readers and researchers. Thus, this paper studies the world created by fan fiction, the types and features of its creation and the three cultural signs of fan fiction, and also point out the problems in fan fiction.

The Rise and Fall of “The Women’s Kingdom”: A Study on Network Women-Superior Fiction

Feng Yiqing

Abstract: As a kind of network novel, women-superior works develops from time-travel fictions and then evokes heat discussion. Although it encounters a small recession, it still has a lot of fans. This paper analyses its origin, exploring the rules and its cultural psychology, and its value and problems, so as to seek the next possible stage for its healthy development.

Cyberpunk Cities: Science Fiction Meets Urban Theory

Carl Abbott (Trans. by Chen Mei)

Abstract: The science fiction sub-genre of cyberpunk developed in the 1980s and 1990s with a strong interest in urban settings. A reading of important cyberpunk novels shows the way in which the ideas of formal urban theory, such as the idea of global cities, cities as communication systems, and the Los Angeles school of urban studies, have been incorporated into this facet of popular culture. The analysis suggests that science fiction can help planners to understand the influence of a range of social theories on public understanding of planning issues.

From Postmodern to Bie-modern

Keaton Wynn (Trans. by Shi Chao)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper responds to the idea raised by Professor Wang Jianjiang that what China is experiencing is a unique form of Modernism so called Bie-modern and refutes western assessments’ prejudice on Chinese contemporary art. Postmodern roots in western frame which cannot describe the present of Chinese accurately. Although the works of Andy Warhol and Chinese contemporary artists have the similar appearance, they have different meaning. Warhol creates distance from subject by draining emotion from image while Chinese contemporary art exemplifies the unique of Bie-modren where premodern, modern and postmodern all live on the same space. In the current situation, we must realize the difference between Chinese and western thought and listen to the voice made by China carefully.

The Global Travelling of Chinese Theory in Cultural Globalization

Li Jun

Abstract: In the process of cultural globalization, there are more chances for Chinese culture and western culture to communicate with each other, which indicate that the output of Chinese theory to the western also has more opportunities rather than a one-dimensional input of western theories to China. Taking the global reflects of Professor Wang Jianjiang’s theory of “Bie-modern” as an example, the paper discusses whether it is possible, in the process of cultural globalization, for Chinese theory to be transmitted to and widely accepted by western countries so as to have an equal international dialogue in theory.

The Leaping-Forward Pause of Contemporary Chinese Art from the Perspective of Bie-modern: Taking Zhang Xiaogang’s Works as an Example

Guan YiThe Christian Policy of Nationalist Government & Its Practice in Shanghai

Abstract: Represent by Zhang Xiaogang, a lot of contemporary Chinese artists prestige and influential oversea mix Chinese and western painting styles and techniques featured in premodern, modern and postmodern period. From the content, form, style and theme, their oil painting works have formed independent style and embodied self-native thoughts and vocabularies. The works leave the visual experience on pure western traditional oil painting and modern oil painting, different from the pen and ink and the humanistic care of traditional Chinese painting, which reveals “Bie-modern” art that the diachronic and synchronic art form can coexist. But there are still some problems in China contemporary art, such as lacking thoughts, copying and imitating western arts, etc. The new idea of “Leaping-Forward Pause” will provide inspiration and new path for contemporary arts to establish a new aesthetic paradigm and painting language which is characteristic with nationality and cosmopolitanism.

Zhang HuaThe Research Life of Wang Yunxi

Abstract: Taking the Christian policy of Nationalist Government from 1927 to 1949 as the subject, this paper traces the history of the policy making and carry-out of the Christian policy. Before the 1930s, the Government began to change its policy with an intention to reclaim educational power, push for a ban on Young Man’s Christian Association, impose restrictions on Christian management of estates, reclaim missionaries’ extraterritoriality. However, after 1930, the government made different policies for different religions, with a special tolerance of and even preference for Christianity.

Yang Xun

Abstract: Mr. Wang Yunxi devotes all his life to the study of the history of Chinese literature and the history of Chinese literary criticism, making special contribution in academic areas of Yuefu Poetry, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, Li Bai’s poetry, Chinese medieval literature and literary criticism. In his academic research, he lays special stress on the integration of literature and history, and takes a comprehensive view of the situation as a whole. In the research method, he advocates a full possession and accurate understanding of documentation in order to realistically restore an original history. In academic style, he is reasonable, considerable, down-to-earth, and good at recognizing the whole through observation of the part.

The Inheritance of “Craftsman Spirit” in Modernized Contexts: On the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain

Kong Duo, Xu Chenyang

Abstract: The report on the work of the Chinese government in 2016 makes “the spirit of craftsmen” a heated topic resulting in different opinions of “the spirit of craftsmen” from all walks of life. However, these ideas are mostly concluded by phenomenon description and case studies, leaving more blanks in the discussion of its spiritual core. The article focuses on the Arts and Crafts Movement in the second half of the 19thcentury in Britain, exploring the historical significance and effects of the thoughts and practices of the pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement in British society in modern times. It is concluded that the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain provides historical reference to“craftsman spirit”.

Artistic Spirit and Commercial Logic: On the Relation Between Film Art and Commerce in the Context of New Media

Shao Yulian

Abstract: In the times of new media, it is necessary to deal dialectically with the relation between artistic spirit and commercial logic. That film art and commercial logic are inter-conditioned suggests that despite the contradiction, these two could still achieve a win-win situation. The double dimensions of film art indicate a possible inter-availability instead of mutual repulsion. However degree technique could progress to, the artistic spirit is always the inner core of film, and the commercial logic is its survival way.