Mao Zedong's Thinking on Man and the Making of the Modern Chinese People

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Zhihua Chen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese People ◽  
Modern Chinese

On Sinofuturism

Screen Bodies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-62
Author(s):  
Yunying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Dominant design narratives about “the future” contain many contemporary manifestations of “orientalism” and Anti-Chineseness. In US discourse, Chinese people are often characterized as a single communist mass and the primary market for which this future is designed. By investigating the construction of modern Chinese pop culture in Chinese internet and artificial intelligence, and discussing different cultural expressions across urban, rural, and queer Chinese settings, I challenge external Eurocentric and orientalist perceptions of techno-culture in China, positing instead a view of Sinofuturism centered within contemporary Chinese contexts.

Sun Yat-sen as Guofu: Competition over Nationalist Party Orthodoxy in the Second Sino-Japanese War

Modern China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-235
Author(s):  
Yue Du
Keyword(s):  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
State Building ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Political Legitimation

This article explores the significance of the cult of Sun Yat-sen, often referred to as “Father of the [modern Chinese] Nation” 國父 (Guofu), for Nationalist state-building in China. Although Sun Yat-sen’s title of Guofu was formalized only in 1940 as a result of competition over Nationalist Party (Guomindang, GMD) orthodoxy between opposing Nationalist regimes in Chongqing and Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the term reflected the ongoing importance of Sun’s legacy in securing political legitimacy in the Chinese Republic. Overall, the GMD promulgated state-sponsored veneration of the Guofu to justify its political tutelage in the name of parental guardianship over the Chinese people. Yet Sun’s legacy allowed for multiple interpretations, which complicates any effort to lock this legacy to one political purpose. The development of different elements of the Guofu’s legacy by competing wartime regimes shows how it failed to provide a truly unifying tool for political legitimation.

scholarly journals The Reference of Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy to Remodel Chinese’s Personality

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Zhang Yuan ◽  
Yu Tao
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Traditional Morality ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Major Defect ◽  
Severe Weakness

<p>In China, the traditional moral is absolute holism which caused the traditional personality a blind altuism and be short of healthy individualism. And more seriously, servility in the personality of Chinese people is a severe weakness rooted in the traditional morals of China which was criticised by Chinese scholars fierecely, and this major defect of Chinese personality is the huge obstacle of the development of modern Chinese thought. To eliminate all the weakness of Chinese traditional morality and to renew the personality of Chinese, we could learn from the essence of Nietzsche’s theories of “superman morality” which advocated the independent and self-esteem strongly, thus create an independent personality for Chinese which urges people to be free, self-esteem, creative, courageous and with healthy psychology. </p>

The Multilingual Full-Text Database of Overseas Life-Writing on Modern Chinese People and the China Biographical Database

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Huang
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Peking University ◽  
Text Database ◽  
The 19Th Century

http://sclw.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/index  The Multilingual Full-Text Database of overseas life writing on Modern Chinese People (the Database) was launched by the Centre for life writing at shanghai Jiao Tong University (sJTU) in november 2011. all subjects in the Database are influential, representative, or exemplary Chinese people whose life materials are either published or preserved outside mainland China after 1898, the year generally considered to be the beginning of China’s Modern age. The Database aims to bring a prosopographical perspective to the transnational and transcultural experience shared by a rather large number of Chinese people in the previous century. by april 2018, the Database has listed more than 3,000 subjects and over 15,000 relevant resources.   https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdbThe China Biographical Database (CBDB) is a large data aggregator and powerful content harbour co-developed by Harvard University, Academia Sinica, and Peking University. It is one of the oldest and biggest digital humanities projects focusing on China. In its latest data release in August 2017, CBDB contains biographical information about 417,000 Chinese individuals, mostly from the 7th century to the 19th century. Unlike many text-based databases, CBDB does not preserve primary life materials in the original textual sources. Rather, it mines texts from digital sources of reliable historical records and stores them in a relational database. 

Conceptual metonymies and metaphors behind the Five Phases

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-104
Author(s):  
Chun Lan ◽  
Dongmei Jia
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Five Phases

This paper is based on an investigation of the Five Phases (五行, wuxing) in traditional Chinese thought within a cognitive linguistic framework. In analyzing three of the five concepts in the wuxing scheme, namely WOOD (木, mu), EARTH (土, tu) and METAL (金, jin), as recorded in ancient and modern Chinese, we attempt to find out (1) the conceptual metonymies and metaphors they have developed, (2) the similarities and differences between the three concepts in ancient and modern Chinese, and (3) the possible reasons for those similarities and differences and the implications they have for ancient and modern Chinese ways of cognizing the world. Our comparative analysis shows that while the semantic networks of the three concepts remain largely consistent from ancient to modern Chinese, those conceptual metaphors which are closely tied to the wuxing scheme are much less active in modern Chinese. On the whole it can be claimed that the ancient Chinese believed in the unity of Heaven and human and constructed the world based on three fundamental conceptual metaphors: “nature operates in accordance with WUXING”, “THE HUMAN BODY OPERATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH WUXING” and “SOCIETY OPERATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH WUXING”. Yet it seems that this belief in the unity of Heaven and human has weakened in the modern Chinese mind and modern Chinese people no longer rely on the wuxing scheme to understand the world.

scholarly journals A Cultural Perspective on the English Translation of Nezha

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Li
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gains And Losses

Achieving a tremendous box office success in China, Na Zha is a mythical movie with Chinese characteristics, showing the social culture of China, analyzing the current ideological situation of the modern Chinese people, but it flopped in the American market. This paper analyses the gains and losses in the translation of the film Nezha from the perspective of culture.

scholarly journals Seeking Christian Theology in Modern Chinese Fiction: An Exercise for Sino-Christian Theology

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Lu Xun ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
Modern Chinese Fiction

The development of Christian theology in contemporary China can learn much from Chinese fiction beginning with Lu Xun and his dedication to writing for the spirit of the Chinese people. Increasingly, Chinese novelists have reflected the growth of spiritual life in the Chinese People’s Republic in spite of the burden placed on the Christian church and religious believers.

scholarly journals Representation of Profession in the World Image of the Chinese

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
Jia Shuyue ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Experiment Data ◽  
General Representation ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
World Image

The concept of a profession is a multi-dimensional, multi-level system of knowledge, characterized by stability in a certain historical period and a certain selective nature in different periods. Representation of profession of modern Chinese people reflects cultural values and stereotypes, but under the influence of the multipolarity of the world, they have also undergone significant changes.The article provides a detailed description of the general representation of profession among the Chinese from a historical point of view. In addition to studying professional values of the Chinese with the help of the associative experiment data, the representation of profession as a part of the world image of modern Chinese people is analyzed.

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