English Abstracts On the Aesthetic Function of Chinese Aesthetics

Yang Chunshi

Based on its worldliness and hidden transcendence as well as the different influences of Confucianism, Taoism and Zen, China has evolved various theories on aesthetic function in different historical stages. First, there are theories of ethical enlightenment, including the theory of Min Dao on noumenon, the theory of Xiu Shen on moral cultivation, and the theory of He Qun on harmonious society. Second, theories of political utility, including the theory of observing people’s conditions, the theory of satirizing and remonstrating in politics, and the theory of communicative means of rhetoric. Third, the theory of human emancipation, including the theory of returning to nature, the theory of venting anger to eliminate social repression and the theory of “dreams from emotions”. Fourth, the theory of perceptual entertainment, including the theory of entertainment of perceptual satisfaction, the theory of health preservation of pleasant temperament and the theory of harm from materialism.

Restraint and Indulgence: Pursuit of “Suitability”In Metaphysical Aesthetics and its Different Forms

Qi Zhixiang

The core pursuit of metaphysics in Wei & Jin dynasties is “suitability”. According to different understandings of human nature, there are two forms of pursuing “suitability”, i.e. the restraint of lust which is called “Ya Liang” and the unrestrained indulgence of lust, “Ren Dan”. The former is the combination of Taoism’s pursuit of “suitability” as being emotionless and Confucianism’s “adaptability” of emotion’s being restrained by intelligence. While both of “Ya Liang” and “Ren Dan” are two modes of “Wei Jin Styles” adored by people in Wei & Jin dynasties, “Ren Dang”is the mainstream. Although the pursuit of “suitability” has the positive significance of liberating human nature and promoting the prosperity of formal aesthetics and emotional aesthetics in the Southern Dynasty, the negative effects of its erotic cross flow and rational anomie can not be ignored. It is this outstanding social problem that provides a realistic basis for Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty to re-establish the banner of Confucian moral rationality and reverse the social atmosphere.

On the Transformation of Avant-Garde & the Stylistic Characteristics of Novels in the 1990s: Focusing on Yuhua, Sutong and Gefei

Li Chengshi

The creation transformation of the Pioneer Writers in the 1990s is closely related to the creation of their long style. It is a normal literary phenomenon for writers to choose different writing strategies in different styles, but the over close combination of the Pioneer Writers and the capital market represented by film and television adaptation leads to their own loss and the end of the pioneer.

Historical Narrative and Cultural Imagination of Ge Liang’s Beiyuan

Zhang Yanyan

Beiyuan unfolds the historical narration in daily life and the human relations. The diet and scenery in the writing presents everyday life. The novel appeals to family relation perspective to create characters and highlights the position of family in the pattern of family and state. Taking the identity of gentry-merchant as a point, one can explore the new change of social structure in early modern china, and highlight the value order dominated by Confucianism. The literary imagination of Beiyuan weaves cultural memory, the intention of restructuring our cultural identity is thought-provoking.

Reflection on Modernity in Chinese Taiwan Marine Literature

Luo Weiwen

Taiwan’s pursuit of modernity has led to dual consequences of social development. It has not only greatly promoted the prosperity and development of Taiwan’s social economy, but also inevitably introduced a variety of “new risk scenarios”. Taiwan marine literature has profoundly reconsidered the drawbacks of modernity. It is manifested in the following aspects: challenging and criticizing the ecological consequences of industrialization and technology advocated by modernity; showing the truth of the existence of modernity in Taiwan and revealing the physical and mental injury caused by human beings in the process of modernity; disintegrating the basic subjectivity of modernity and openning up a new perspective to get out of the crisis of subjectivity through inter-subjectivity and local imagination. A thorough unscrambling of Taiwan’s marine literature will help us better understand the spiritual orientation and rethink strategies of Taiwan writers’ reflection on modernity.

Cultural and Political Strategies to Eliminate Neo-liberal Hegemony in Post-crisis Era:The Cultural and Political View of Stuart Hall’s Late Works and Its Enlightenment

Zhen Hongju, Shi Jie

In his later works, Stuart Hall analyses the trend of neoliberal hegemony after the financial crisis in the West. He points out that left-wing socialists should take the responsibility of criticizing neo-liberalism and disseminating socialist values in the light of the characteristics of the times. He also puts forward cultural and political strategies to eliminate neo-liberal hegemony. Hall’s analysis has important enlightenment for us to understand the new features of ideological struggle in the new era and strengthen the construction of socialist leading ideology system.

The Development and Evolution of German and Austrian Music in Modern Shanghai

Wang Ao’na

German and Austrian music occupy an important position in western music history with artistic songs as its typical form. Represented by the combination of music and literature, the art songs based on the music of Germany and Austria have a profound impact on the music of modern Shanghai. This paper starts with an introduction of western music, making a study on the school musics in modern times, on the forms and educational functions of art songs in Germany, Austria, and China. It then observes the influence of western music especially the music of Germany and Austria on the music creation in China, especially in Shanghai. From the perspective of music aesthetics, the paper also analyzes the differences between the two, and studies how the musics in Shanghai absorb the essence of western music culture, and create a large number of China’s music works through blending and absorbing different music traditions while a large number of musicians who have integrated Western skills and traditional culture.

Wu Ze’s Research Life

Chen Pengming

Mr. Wu Ze is a famous master of Marxist historiography, one of the pioneers and important founders of Chinese historiography and historiography theory. Under the guidance of “red professors” such as Li Da and LV Zhenyu, he has made outstanding achievements in many fields such as Marxist Orientalism, Chinese general history, pre-Qin history, Sui and Tang history, social history, economic history, ideological history,history of overseas Chinese, Hakka studies, etc. He is a doctoral supervisor of ancient Chinese history and Chinese history authorized by the academic degree committee of the State Council, and has made great contributions to the establishment and development of new Chinese history and personnel training.

The People-Oriented or the Monarch-Oriented: the Duality of Confucius’ Thoughts

Zhang Keyue

The people-oriented politics of Zhou Dynasty replaces the rule of ghosts and gods with the rule abiding to human nature, emphasizing a governance of people with virtue and wisdom, so as to enjoy a doomed destiny given by the Heaven and an eternal governance. However, the power of “monarch being the owner of the people” fails the policy and leads to the loss of destiny and political decline. Confucius later transforms the people-oriented politics of Zhou Dynasty into the people-oriented thoughts, and established “Ren Xue” or Confucianism. However, people(civilians), as the starting point of Confucius’ people-oriented thoughts, are not yet equal, but a new hierarchy in which the king is superior to the gentleman and the gentleman is superior to the villain. The conflict between being people-oriented and monarch-oriented forms the duality of Confucius’ thoughts. The key to the transformation of the modernity of Confucianism is to eliminate the monarch and rework on the peopleoriented dimension.

On the Existence and Abolition of Confucian Classics and Related Problems

Xie Jinliang

Since the 20th century, the issue of the existence or abolition of Confucian classics has been a long-standing problem in China, and it is also a big problem that the mainland of China urgently needs to face. This paper takes the history of Confucian classics in Han Dynasty as the main research object, and makes an overall examination of the history of Confucian classics under the background of worshiping saints and respecting classics by tracing back to its origin, and demonstrating its gains and losses. Finally, with a brief analysis of the phenomenon of the absence of Confucian classics in the mainland of China in recent 100 years, it puts forward that in the new era, we should not blindly return to the ancient studies with an excessive worship. Instead, we must try our best to make the research meet the needs of the era and promote the the study of Confucianism towards a scientific and reasonable direction, towards the direction of common development of mankind.

The Melancholy of the Peninsula:The Origin of the Spiritual Characteristics of Ancient Korean literati

Wang Yun

This paper intends to point out that the spiritual characteristics of the ancient Korean literati thought are laid down by the regional nature of their “peninsula”. Being a peninsula in the east, it is a kind of geographical “extension” which is not only different from the mainland, but also from islands. It is this “l(fā)ocality” that shapes the thoughts of ancient Korean literati, both strong and fragile, stubborn and hesitant, simple and obscure, mature and traumatized .

Female Model of German Romantic Spirit:On the Romantic Spirit of Goethe’s Classical Drama Iphigenie in Tauris

Hu Dan

Goethe’s classic drama Iphigenie in Tauris is a poetic interpretation of the romantic spirit of Germany which is lined with German spiritual tradition and the Enlightenment of European thought. The heroine Iphigenie talks with God by mind and induction, taking divinity as a higher existence that cannot be rationalized by feeling and listening. She always puts herself under divinity. Deity is the source of her personality, making her and goddess Diana “Combine two into one.” The courageous action based on the purity of divinity defeats practical rationalism, resolves the traditional conflicts between God and human duality in drama, and achieves the model of eternal women under the romantic spirit of Germany.