Sports Public Figures in China: An Historical Analysis of Media Images

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianjun Tang ◽  
Elizabeth A. Gregg
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Historical Periods

This study examines media images of sports public figures during 4 periods of modern Chinese history. Furthermore, an explanation is provided for each of the variables that have affected the media’s portrayal of sports public figures. As in most cultures and nations around the world, sports public figures are recognizable characters in modern Chinese culture. They have a significant impact on opinions regarding sports and society and have gained a pivotal role in the fabric of mainstream culture. Over the various historical periods in China, the country’s media have reported stories involving sports public figures differently. The descriptions contained in this study are reflections of the various political, economical, cultural, sports, and media climates during different time periods in China. The commercialization of sports and the rise of the media’s presence have influenced the pursuit of an all-encompassing image of Chinese sports public figures.

Whatever Happened to Tan Sitong's Wife?—A Footnote in Modern Chinese History

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
Luke S. K. Kwong
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chinese Scholar ◽  
Liang Qichao ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
The World

Tan Sitong's summary execution at the close of the Hundred Days Reform (1898) inadvertently threw his wife, Li Run, into the public limelight. Following the September coup, the Guowen bao (National News) in Tianjin carried a story, entitled “Tan liefu zhuan” (Biography of the virtuous woman Tan), in which Li allegedly committed suicide by slashing her throat on learning of her husband's fate. She died broken-hearted, it was said, in protest against the wicked court ministers responsible for Tan's death. The story was quickly reprinted in Qingyi bao (The China Discussion), a periodical which Liang Qichao, a reformer in exile, started in Yokohama, Japan, as one prong of his anti-Qing campaign. The report on Li's demise continued to circulate. Twenty years later, when the Chinese scholar, Yi Zhongkui, compiled his Xin shishuo (Sequel to New Account of Tales of the World), he included a short biography of Li Run, based on the Guowen bao account. More recently, in her Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution 1850–1950, Ono Kazuko refers to the suicide story and wisely cautions about its veracity. But she adduces no evidence to confirm what actually did happen to Li Run in 1898.

Revolution and Modernity in Maale: Ethiopia, 1974 to 1987

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Donham
Keyword(s):  
Chinese History ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Lu Hsun ◽  
At Home ◽  
The Revolution

For a long time now, people have pondered the ambiguity, at least in English, of ‘history’: the records men make, the records men write. In modern Chinese history, these are beginning to correspond. Revolutionary spirits like the famous writer Lu Hsün (1881–1936) felt that the old high culture was dead, and they resented being instructed, as it seemed, to rest quietly, uttering platitudes in silk-fan attitudes. They wanted to create (and destroy): to make-their own history, not to be politically stricken by forces from abroad, or culturally sterile at home, their past frozen solid in the present. The revolution they helped to foster in a cosmopolitan spirit—against the world to join the world, against their past to keep it theirs, but past—may be interpreted, in cultural terms, as a long striving to make their museums themselves.

scholarly journals Insight of Chinese culture by viewing historical picture of Qin Dynasty

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Khalida Parveen ◽  
Huma Akram
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Wall

Over the centuries, China still respectfully treasures rich Asian cultures, traditions, and customs. China is now famous all over the world for its mysterious wonders and cultural & natural heritages such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Terracotta Army, etc. The Chinese history is full with the exposition of outstanding features of Chinese culture such as great thoughts of Confucius, religious beliefs, traditional festivals and customs e.g., Chinese new year, language and calligraphy e.g., Shu Fa, four great inventions of ancient China e.g., papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass, traditional architecture and sculpture, traditional art forms, etc. The era of history of China before the time in power of Qin dynasty is known by name as the period of Warring States. This period started from 475 BC and ends at 221 BC. Seven Warring States were included in it i.e. Qin, Wei, Han, Yan, Chu, Zhao, and Qi. Zheng was the King of Qin, who started his journey to triumph over 6 states in the period of 230 BC. Qin was the 1st emperor of this unified state of China. Thus he was known by the name of “First Emperor of Qin” or “Qin Shi Huang”. This study provides a deep insight of Chinese history and it is illustrated that major achievements in Chinese culture and history are contributed in the era of Qin dynasty.

scholarly journals Slogans about happiness in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
A. A. Voytsekhovich ◽  
Van Furs Tszyi
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Leadership ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Different Content

Slogans have a thousand-year history and have always played a significant role in the life of the Chinese people. Many slogans have become precedent symbols of certain historical eras, not only do they reflect important moments in the country’s political life, but also the linguistic picture of the world. Perceived subconsciously, the content of slogans becomes a guideline for people’s conduct. In slogans you can see traditions and customs of the Chinese, as well as understand the realities of the time in which they appeared, history and culture of the country.Slogans, used by the Chinese leadership to broadcast the main political installations, are one of the means of propaganda. They still remain in China one of the most popular means of disseminating information. Written in different styles, with different content, slogans do not lose their relevance and remain an important element of Chinese culture. At present, when coding of knowledge has to a greater extent a rationalistic basis, slogans play a more significant role.The article considers slogans about happiness in different time periods, which allows you to find out how the Chinese’s perception of happiness was changing in the course of time.

The Study of Chinese History

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-shih Yü
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Unique Pattern ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The Times

This essay delineates the main trends of modern Chinese historiography through a critical review of the two major historical schools—“the school of historical data,” and “the school of historical interpretation.” The “Data school” is seen to be deliberately indifferent to its own time and the “Interpretation school” is shown to make a too close connection between its interpretations and the times in which they are made. It suggests going beyond the positivistic confines of these two schools, affirms that Chinese culture has its own unique pattern, and can be more fully understood through comparative studies.

scholarly journals The Research of Xi Jinping’s Thought of a Community of Human Destiny from the Perspective of Chinese Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Governance System ◽  
New Era ◽  
Common Value ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
The World ◽  
Peaceful Development

Xi Jinping is a great leader who knows Chinese history and Chinese culture, and he is also a firm supporter of the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The dialectical absorption and criticism of Xi Jinping’s thought of a community with a shared future for mankind integrates the essence of the Chinese culture, and contains the profound heritage of Chinese culture. Deeply understanding and grasping the rich connotation of Chinese culture and the value of the times will help provide useful reference for the world, provide cultural accumulation and support for Xi Jinping’s thought of a community with a shared future for mankind, and create a new era for the ideal new era of harmony and harmony in the community with a shared future for mankind. Xi Jinping, with his profound historical accumulation and national studies, actively explores the positive ways of life and governance in the Chinese Hehe culture, and resonates with the contemporary era, and proposes a new concept and initiative of a community with a shared future for mankind, and promotes the construction of global politics and security, Economy, culture, and ecology. A community of shared future to promote the building of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, clean and beautiful world, so as to realize the beauty of permanent and peaceful development of mankind that “open peace for all generations” and “seek great harmony for the world” Vision. The proceeding from his profound accumulation of Chinese studies, Xi Jinping shows the unique charm of the Chinese culture to the world through the telling of “Chinese stories”, and pro-motes the “peaceful development, harmonious coexistence, and win-win cooperation of different civilizations” by advocating the tolerance and mutual learning of different civilizations “, forming an important idea to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for man-kind. Xi Jinping’s idea of a community with a shared future for mankind is based on absorbing the essence of Chinese culture, focusing on internalizing the requirements of the new era, and forming a value, international outlook, and order concept through the refinement and sublimation of theory and practice. It has rich Chinese cultural connotation. It not only shows distinctive Chinese characteristics, but also contains the common value pursuit of all mankind. It has been written into UN resolutions many times. It has been enriched with global cooperation concepts and practices such as the “Belt and Road” initiative. Changes in the global governance system, the construction of a new type of international relations and common value norms for the new international order.

The Sociological Imagination in China: Comments on the Thought of Chin Yao-chi (Ambrose Y. C. King)

1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 937-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
The University

Chin Yao-Chi (Ambrose Y. C. King) is internationally known for the knowledgeability and fluency with which he uses many of the perspectives of Western social science to discuss Chinese culture, modern Chinese history, and current developments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Born in 1935, growing up in Shanghai, he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh and today is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His life, however, has also been rooted in Taiwan, where he lived for many years after the fall of the mainland, and where he obtained both his B.A. and M.A. degrees. Long before the promise of the Republic of China's development became obvious, at least as early as 1966, he recognized it, astutely introduced Western modernization theory to analyze it, understood that pursuing it required not iconoclasm but a process of critically and creatively building on the inherited culture, and widely influenced Taiwan intellectuals as they tried to make sense out of their complicated, often distressing situation (Chin 1979, 1987, 1991). The publication of eleven of his articles written during the last decade (a few originally in English) by Oxford University Press (Chin 1992) rightly indicates that his views about Chinese modernization should be weighed by all those around the world concerned with this issue, not just by small scholarly circles. Yet just how insightful are his views? To what extent are they shaped by premises that have commonly informed much modern Chinese thought, and that many Western scholars could not easily accept? To what extent has Professor Chin himself “self-consciously” (tzu-chueh) identified any such premises and pondered their viability?

Between Modernization and Stagnation: Economic Policy in 2012

2013 ◽  
pp. 4-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mau
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Russian Economic Development ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Oil Boom ◽  
The World

The paper deals with the trends in the world and Russian economies towards development of a new post-crisis system, including technological and structural transformation. Three main scenarios of Russian economic development (conservative, innovation and acceleration) are discussed basing on historical analysis of Russian economic performance since 1970-s when oil boom started. On this basis key challenges of economic policy in 2013 are discussed.

THE EVOLUTION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT INDEXATION IN BRAZIL

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Doupnik
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
Inflation Accounting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Periods

Accounting for inflation is one of the more controversial topics in financial reporting. This paper traces the evolution of the system of inflation accounting used in one of the most highly inflationary economies in the world—Brazil. The history of inflation accounting in Brazil (known as monetary correction) is divided into three time periods: pre-1964, 1964 to 1976, and 1976 to the present. The events pertinent to the system of monetary correction in each of these periods are first discussed and then evaluated. It is shown that the system of monetary correction has been subject to massive political pressures since its inception, but gradual improvements have taken place over the years.

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