The issue of tradition in East Asian culture area and Korean novel in Chinese characters

This review covers the five themes of Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, and suggests the greatest achievement of the exhibition, while also offering suggestions to improve its impact. The paper also delves into the rapid changes in Asia over the past 50 years, including political, cultural, and population transformation, tying them to specific works in the exhibition. The article selects artworks in Temporal Turn emphasizing these large, rapid changes made by contemporary Asian artists. Research into the economic, political, and cultural facets of East Asian culture is used to back claims made in the paper. Furthermore, the paper proposes how the viewer should respond to the exhibition with thematic context, suggesting it disorients its audience in time and reality.

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East Asian Culture and Thought

10.35203/eact. ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asian ◽

Asian Culture ◽

East Asian Culture

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Temporal self-appraisal in a Chinese context: Distancing autobiographical memory following self-uncertainty salience

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.8632 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Qing Yang ◽

Oscar Ybarra ◽

Kees van den Bos ◽

Yufang Zhao ◽

Lili Guan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Autobiographical Memory ◽

Cultural Context ◽

East Asian ◽

Past Experience ◽

Asian Culture ◽

Chinese Sample ◽

Chinese Context ◽

The Past ◽

East Asian Culture ◽

Past Experiences

On the premise that individuals are inclined to self-enhance, in temporal self-appraisal (TSA) theory it is suggested that people can motivationally reconstruct subjective distances from their past self to serve that goal. However, given the mixed evidence found in an East Asian cultural context (i.e., Japan), it is important to test the cultural applicability of TSA in a different East Asian culture. Thus we tested the TSA of a Chinese sample, focusing on past-self distance reconstruction. The results supported the prediction suggested in TSA theory, in that participants tended to feel farther away from negative (vs. positive) past experiences. Further, this effect was greater when people were primed with a self-threat (i.e., self-uncertainty salience). These patterns were found independently of whether the past experience was recent (3 months ago) or in the distant past (3 years ago). Implications for crosscultural applicability of TSA theory are discussed.

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