2018 Vol. 34, No. 2

Specialty
Ecolinguistic Studies in the International Context
HE Wei, WEI Rong
2018, 34(2): 1-5.
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This paper gives a brief introduction to the Second International Conference on Ecolinguistics held in Beijing, China. It reviews the two parts of the conference: keynote speeches and parallel sessions. The keynote speeches will initiate and guide further development of ecolinguistics in the context of globalization. The parallel sessions focusing on different topics will promote the transdisciplinary growth of ecolinguistics.
The Experiential Reconstruction of Literary Work in Adaptations: A Functional Stylistic Analysis of the Original, Simplified and Expanded Versions of Maliang and His Magical Brush
CHEN Yu-min, JU Xue
2018, 34(2): 6-12.
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Drawing upon the transitivity framework in functional stylistics, this paper compares the foregrounding variations in the original, simplified and expanded versions of Maliang and His Magical Brush, and explores the situational motivations underlying the stylistic variations. It is found that the simplified versions differ from the expanded version in terms of the choice of voice in material process and types of mental process. Moreover, the simplified version as textbook discourse and the simplified version as the verbiage of a cartoon differ in their foregrounded ways of projection. The variations in foregrounding are found to be influenced by the multi-level context of situation and communicative purposes of different literary texts. As compared with stylistic analysis of a single text, the comparative study of multiple texts with the same theme could effectively reveals the motivations related to context of situation and the theme of literary work.
A Functional Re-analysis of the “wh-continuing Clause” in English and Its Translation
YI Yong
2018, 34(2): 13-18.
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This paper takes a systemic functional approach to the syntactic analysis of the “wh-continuing clause” in English anew, and it finds that this special continuing clause has some new features: (1) the relatives of wh-continuing clause could be a pronoun like which and who, or an adverb like where and when etc. (2) the logic-semantic relation between the initiating clause and wh-continuing clause may be “extension” or “enhance”. In addition, the author also discusses the English-Chinese translation of wh-continuing clause, which shows that SFG also has its great power and advantages in guiding the research on the theory and practice of translation.
Translating Chinese Abstract into English Based on Grammatical Metaphor in English Abstracts
ZHAO Chang-you
2018, 34(2): 19-24.
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Grammatical metaphors are the typical and representative parameters and index in scientific and technical texts, especially in the English abstracts of research articles. Grammatical metaphors in abstracts of English research articles and English abstracts of Chinese research articles are compared to locate the specific and representative technical parameters and index and some suggestions for translating the Chinese abstracts into English are provided. The writing or translating quality of English abstracts of Chinese research articles can be improved with the regulation of the suggestions and the low quality of English abstracts can be changed.
To Listen His Chant of Her “Song”: Analysis of Shao Xun-mei’s Translation from a Poem of C. G. Rossetti
WANG Zhi-jie
2018, 34(2): 25-32.
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This paper is intended to compare Shao Xun-mei’s poetry translation from C. G. Rossetti’s poem “Song” with its original and with Shao’s poetry creation “Ge” from the perspectives of overall composition, rhythmic pattern and rhyming. The subsequent analysis revolves around the fusion of western influence and translator’s personal preference, aiming at demonstrating at micro-level the process of “Europeanization” in poetry translation of New Culture Movement in terms of how the “hybridization” actually operates. While it provided creation of New Verse in vernacular Chinese with another possible reference at the time, its description in the paper helps enrich understanding of Shao Xun-mei’s practice of his poetry translation and avoids the general and qualitative conclusion of the poetry translation as “total Europeanization”.
On the Development of Journals of Universities in the “Double World-class” Construction from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics
GAO Sheng-wen
2018, 34(2): 33-39.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this paper discusses the development of journals of universities in the “Double World-class” construction. The research shows that discipline construction is the foundation of “Double World-class” construction, journals of universities are important windows to reflect the achievements of teaching and scientific researches in universities, and the relationship between journals and disciplines is mutual promotion, symbiosis and common prosperity. Finally, the paper puts forward six development strategies on how to develop the journals in the “Double World-class” construction. In fact, to give full play to their own advantages and to promote the “Double World-class” construction are the best methods and strategies for journals of universities to achieve their own development goals.
The Research on Benefit Standard of System of Urban Minimum Living in Beijing: from Absolute Poverty to Relative Poverty
HU Jie-rong, YANG Shuo
2018, 34(2): 40-47.
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The benefit standard is a vital factor of the minimum living security system. Based on the related data from Beijing statistical yearbook of recent ten years, this paper dicusses whether the benefit standard of system of urban minimum living impact the absolute and relative poverty in Beijing. This study discovers that the benefit standard of Beijing urban resident minimum living security system met the basic living need of the security objects, and maintained the subsistence level in the dimension of absolute poverty. But in the aspect of relative poverty, it hardly propelled the relative equity, and it was limited to promote shared development. According to the proportion of total spending of the minimum living security in the local government’s revenue and expenditure during the past years, the social expenditure has been affordable, and it is feasible to improve the benefit standard and reset it in the sense of relative poverty.
Reading & Research
An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works
LI Tao
2018, 34(2): 48-53.
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George Eliot has created a bunch of distinctive Gypsy figures through whom the strong sense of cultural subversion of her works has been manifested. Apart from the vivid description of the mysterious Gypsy customs, Eliot’s literary works have also showed counterview to the mainstream society’s demonizing of Gypsy culture, meanwhile, revealing the social causes of the predicament of the gypsies in the nineteenth century. The gypsies are the carrier of the subversive thoughts in Eliot’s works, and the existence of the gypsies becomes the challenge against western unjust social norms. In addition, moral idealism has been evinced in the characterization of Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works, reflecting the writer’s strong rebellious consciousness in her view of race. The Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works act as a defiance to the Victorian social values, destroying the cultural hegemony internally.
The Rule of Secular Myth beyond the Normality—The Connotations of Buzzati’s Travels in Modern Hell
HE Su-ping
2018, 34(2): 54-60,97.
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Buzzati is an Italian famous novelist of absurdism who is called Italian Kafka, and his short stories possess greater achievement and influence. Buzzati’s short stories directly expose living situations of modern people, and reveal humanity and the nature of life, and reflect rules of humanity, society and human alienation. These novels represent social latent rules that has mythic characteristic beyond the normality of life by surreal form, and they have indispensable literary value and influence in the history of Italian literature.
Academic Contention & Criticism
The Academic Way of Yang Xiong
WANG Qing
2018, 34(2): 61-65.
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The study of Yang Xiong, from the words to the academic, is based on the simulation of others. In this paper, the author summarizes the study mode of Yang Xiong which is: understanding the Dao, worshiping the sages and modeling on the confucian classics, and believes that this model is the greatest influence on the later generations, and is the key to understand the academic research of Yang Xiong.
A Study of Jiang Fan’s Life and Works
LIAN Fan
2018, 34(2): 66-73.
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According to related records, the various images of forthright nature and life of Jiang Fan could be found out, and the year of his death ought to be 1830. Then, there were also some mistakes in Zhong Guo Gu Ji Ban Ke Ci Dian, which took Jing Jiang Fan Ke Ben for another Jiang Fan who lived in the Ming Dynasty, and took Jiang Shen’s Shang Shu Ji Zhu Yin Shu for Jiang Fan’s works. About Jiang Fan’s works, first according to Yuan Jia Gu’s Shu Han Xue Shi Chen Ji Hou, we could point out Jiang Fan’s “Han Xue Shi Chen Ji” was based on the academic tradition of combining history, the former made it an important document in the study of Jiang Fan’s thoughts. Then according to Hu Yu Jin’s viewpoint, Jiang Fan himself wrote He Fu Zhu in the name of Qian Kun. Finally we mentioned three kinds of ancient books revised by Jiang Fan, and these books may be the new clues to explore documents for the study.
Pohilosophy of Science and Technology
Analysis of the Cognitive Dilemma of Virtual Reality Technology
QIAN Zhen-hua, SONG Zi-ling
2018, 34(2): 74-80,112.
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“Virtual reality technology” is becoming a new technology to change human lives. Its remarkable feature is to bring users a mixed reality cognition environment by immersing the perception experience. It breaks through the single dimension of the realistic environment in the traditional society, and creates a new human cognition practice method. At the same time, this kind of virtual cognition blurs the boundary between reality and virtual to a certain extent, which would inevitably lead to the two element splitting problem of cognition between the virtual and the real, resulting in the user’s cognitive dilemma. Just like “brain in tub”, a concept of fragmentation and reorganization is formed during cognition base on the “code” information input. And such concepts would lead to confusion between the reality and virtual. If the inversion idea is brought into real life, it would bring dangers to oneself and others. So, it should be imperative to conduct in-depth analysis and normative discussion from the cognitive level.
Poltics
Trade Protectionism and the East Asian Strategy under American Diplomatic Decision-making in the Post TPP Era
ZHANG Yi
2018, 34(2): 81-85.
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The United States Strategic contraction in the Asia Pacific region is the local performance in worldwide right-wing nationalism and national protectionism, although the United States, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN trade dependence is increasing, but the “exit” triggered the economic relationship between the United States and East Asia security cooperation and even tension and makes the economic and trade exchanges Indo-pacific strategic vision of a greater uncertainty and instability. The strategic contraction in the field of security would be more “rebounded” on the field of economic and trade. Bilateral substitution of multilateral would let the United States to rely more on and intervene in the Asia-Pacific economies.
Urban Community Governance under the Theory of Inclusion and Democracy
ZHANG Li-wei, YANG Xiu
2018, 34(2): 86-91.
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Community governance is the fundamental step to achieve the national modernization, and it plays an important role in the people’s happiness and state security. So, in view of the societal fact of the community fragment, the community governance quite demands in searching of new theories and methods in order to promote the governance innovation. This paper argues that Inclusion and Democracy, written by Iris. Young, a world-class theorist who studied on the deliberative democracy, can provide some good references for urban community governance. First, replace the aggregate democracy with the deliberative democracy to offer a desirable solution to conflicts; second, cultivate the inclusive political communication, featuring non-exclusion and encouragement of inclusion, to promote the community solidarity; third, mediate the relationship among community members and diverse players with the principle of differentiate solidarity. In general, theory of inclusion and democracy will support the community to get out of the governance dilemma, however, the specific effect needs to be tested through the practice.
Administration & Economics
On the Construction and Path of Innovative Ecosystem of Fujian and Taiwan High-tech Industry
ZHAN Zhi-hua, WANG Hao-ru
2018, 34(2): 92-97.
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In the era of innovation 3.0, the cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan will rise or fall together. With ecology as a metaphor, this paper proposes that the innovation ecosystem of high-tech industries in Fujian and Taiwan, is a dynamic balance system formed by the interaction between different habitats such as universities, research institutes, enterprises and the non-biological supporting environment of “five in one”. In this innovative ecosystem, the cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan has the characteristics of sharing, mutual symbiosis, co-evolution and social networking. Based on the successful experience of domestic and foreign regional innovation ecosystem, this paper puts forward the path suggestions to cultivate the innovation ecosystem of Fujian and Taiwan high-tech industry.
Research on the Management Innovation of Local Government in the Development of E-commerce—With Fujian Province as an Example
ZHANG Qiu-mei
2018, 34(2): 98-104.
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Because of the influence of three factors, local governments must carry out management innovation in the development of e-commerce. These three factors include the driving of local governments’ regional economy, the mismatch between the development of e-commerce and government management mode, and the induction of innovation by the central government. Taking Fujian as an case, this paper abstracts two directions of local government management innovation in the development of e-commerce. First, the government should pay attention to seven aspects of government management innovation. The second should grasp the two principles to apply the government management innovation tools scientifically. The conclusion of these two directions has practical and theoretical significance for the management innovation of local government in the development of e-commerce.
Literature and Art
The Adoption and Surpassing of Lienüzhuan by Liu Xiang from the Female Narrative of Guoyu
CHEN Peng-cheng, YE Xin
2018, 34(2): 105-112.
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The Lienüzhuan is written in a biographical style. Around the biographees’ words and deeds, it narrates one or several stories to reveal the biographees’ moral characters. Guoyu is one of the most important information sources for the Lienüzhuan which inherits Guoyu in three ways. The first is to imitate the stories of Guoyu in an indiscriminate manner, the second is to capsulize Guoyu, and the third is to mix the Guoyu-based and other literature. The surpassing manifests as the appearance of the systematic and integrated group portraits, which changes the distributed environment of female images in Guoyu.
On the Japanese Aggression Images in Chinese Anti-Japanese Poetries
TIAN Yuan
2018, 34(2): 113-118.
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The images of Japanese aggressors in Chinese anti-Japanese poetries are not only an objective reflections of the invasion of China, but also belongs to the theories of imageologie of comparative literature. In accordance with the evolving order of the war time and space, the image of the Japanese invasion of China, could be divided into three categories: the images of Japanese military officers, Japanese soldiers and Japanese army. The anti-Japanese poetries expressed the hatred of the Japanese invaders, and made the voice of “salvation” into the history of modern Chinese poetry.