The Historic Mission of Chinese Semiotic Scholars

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Mingyu Wang ◽  
Jing Li
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Academic Philosophy

Abstract Semiotics as a science of signs originated from Europe and America where France, the USA and Russia are acknowledged as the three epicenters for semiotics studies. Comparatively, in China, the conscious study of semiotics as an independent discipline started much later; yet, the traditional Chinese culture is imbued with bountiful semiotic resources. In response to the prospects of semiotics studies around the globe, how should China, with its deep-rooted traditional culture and unique semiotic resources, integrate itself with the world as a powerhouse in semiotics studies? How can it gain its access to the academic discourse of semiotics? What should it do to establish a school of semiotics studies featuring Chinese characteristics and to contribute to the world’s semiotics studies? These questions, which still remain to be answered, concern not only the process and progress of semiotics studies in China but the historic mission of Chinese semiotics as well. The paper highlights 12 semiotic spheres unique to China and six aspects of the academic philosophy of Chinese semiotics, hereby calling for long-term and sustained efforts to advance the progress of semiotics studies in China. And it is the authors’ belief that China’s bountiful semiotic resources and relevant research achievements will be a contribution to the world’s semiotics studies.

Internal Relation between Design and Culture - Chinese Cultural Characteristics Reflected in Interior Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 649-652
Author(s):  
Tao Li ◽  
Jing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
World Market ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Current Design

With the increasingly development and practice of interior design in China, designers are facing an important problem which requires them to have a good consideration,that is the culture reflected in their design is borderless.The urgent problem which comes to us now is try to reflect the inheritance and innovation of native culture in the interior design in a right way. Designers need to think better of returning to traditional Chinese culture and have it carried forward.The traditional culture and the taste of traditional aesthetic concept are well worth learning by designers, which is the foundation of the design. We should think deeply of current design behavior and face the reasonable direction of the development squarely, so as to make Chinese interior design more competitive in the world market.

Chinese Painting and Traditional Chinese Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Jianxin Luo
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Chinese Painting ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Chinese Traditional Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Art Philosophy

Having gone through many generations of inheritance and development, Chinese paintings have become world′s artistic and cultural treasure. Chinese culture has influenced the world for thousands of years with its art, philosophy, technology, food, medicine and performing arts. In this article, it is discussed that painting and calligraphy is from fountain, between the traditional culture and traditional art, which impresses the soul of the Chinese traditional culture.

scholarly journals Глобализация (全球化) как лингвокультурный феномен в жизни современного Китая

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
K. M. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Value System ◽  
Chinese Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
State Of Affairs

На примере личных бесед с носителями языка, работ Ван Мэна, Линь Юйтана, а также российских и зарубежных исследователей в области социолингвистики, политологии и международных отношений мы постарались обозначить один из возможных взглядов Китая на глобализацию как на лингвокультурный феномен. Особое внимание в работе уделено лингвистическому анализу лексемы 全球化 цюаньцюхуа ‘глобализация’ с целью составления списка тем и устойчивых словосочетаний, показывающих, какие ассоциации чаще всего вызывает данное понятие в обыденном сознании носителей китайского языка. Представляется, что китайское общество будет стремиться найти баланс между традиционными воззрениями и западными идеалами, стараясь дать новую жизнь исконно-китайским понятиям и ценностям. In the era of globalization many countries around the world are in the search for their new national identity. China is no exception here. Everybody will agree that it has changed a lot in terms of its economic development for the last 20 years thanks to the governmental reforms and efforts. Besides, the famous traditional Chinese culture has been undergoing some changes in its value system, which can be seen not only in the new ways of social behavior, but also in the language. Here we will analyze the contexts, in which the word 全球化 quánqiúhuà ‘globalization’ is used by the native speakers, and try to find the most commonly used expressions in order to illustrate the associations it evokes in their minds. Then we will try to show the attitudes of Chinese youth towards globalization based on the publications and private talks, as well as the views of the older generation represented by the works of Wang Meng and Lin Yutang. Furthermore, this new state of affairs is quite beneficial for the Chinese governmental policy that wants to play an important role in building the world’s prosperity. Thus, Chinese society will try to find a balance between new ideas and its traditional culture with the emphasis on the renewal of the latter

scholarly journals The Belt and Road Policy and Traditional Chinese Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Qing-Xiang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Policy Initiative ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
New Era ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Major Decision

Since the 18th CPC national congress, the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered into a new era. In the new context of development, Chinese President Xi Jinping has put forward the Belt and Road Policy. The Belt and Road Policy is not only a major decision for China to promote regional economic integration and international economic and trade exchanges, but also a project to spread traditional Chinese culture. The Belt and Road Policy initiative bears the mission of spreading the Chinese civilization and building a community with a shared future for humanity. It attempts to provide a set of Chinese solutions to the bottleneck of global development and demonstrates the cultural confidence of the CPC.

scholarly journals The Power of Spectacle

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Greenspan
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Free Market ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Eastern Shore ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

When people say Shanghai looks like the future the setting is almost always the same. Evening descends and the skyscrapers clustered on the eastern shore of the Huangpu light up. Super towers are transformed into giant screens. The spectacular skyline, all neon and lasers and LED, looms as a science fiction backdrop. Staring out from the Bund, across to Pudong, one senses the reemergence of what JG Ballard once described as an “electric and lurid city, more exciting than any other in the world.” The high-speed development of Pudong – in particular the financial district of Lujiazui – is the symbol of contemporary Shanghai and of China’s miraculous rise. Yet, Pudong is also taken as a sign of much that is wrong with China’s new urbanism. To critics the sci-fi skyline is an emblem of the city’s shallowness, which focuses all attention on its glossy facade. Many share the sentiment of free market economist Milton Friedman who, when visiting Pudong famously derided the brand new spectacle as a giant Potemkin village. Nothing but “the statist monument for a dead pharaoh,” he is quoted as saying. This article explores Pudong in order to investigate the way spectacle functions in China’s most dynamic metropolis. It argues that the skeptical hostility towards spectacle is rooted in the particularities of a Western philosophical tradition that insists on penetrating the surface, associating falsity with darkness and truth with light. In contrast, China has long recognized the power of spectacle (most famously inventing gunpowder but using it only for fireworks). Alongside this comes an acceptance of a shadowy world that belongs to the dark. This acknowledgment of both darkness and light found in traditional Chinese culture (expressed by the constant revolutions of the yin/yang symbol) may provide an alternative method for thinking about the tension between the spectacular visions of planners and the unexpected and shadowy disruptions from the street.

scholarly journals Cultivation and Innovation: Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture and Sinicization of Marxism

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Jingkang Yu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Chinese Traditional Culture ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

China’s excellent traditional culture has its own intrinsic value, in the process of Marxism in China, the Chinese communists will Marxist theory and this value combined, not only makes the value of China’s excellent traditional culture to the extreme, but also to their own development added new elements and vitality; Marxism was introduced into China and became Sinicized Marxism. From the perspective of culture, it mainly benefited from the cultural soil and cultural context provided by the excellent traditional Chinese culture, which enabled the Chinese people to understand and disseminate the content of Marxist theory through various forms and channels. The excellent Chinese traditional culture has made its own contribution to the development of Sinicization of Marxism, which also provides a good opportunity for inheriting and developing the excellent Chinese traditional culture.

scholarly journals INTERWENCJA FEDERACJI ROSYJSKIEJ W SYRII – STUDIUM PRZYPADKU ROSYJSKIEJ POLITYKI NA BLISKIM WSCHODZIE

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Dariusz Brążkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
The West ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Russian Federation

Abstrakt: Współczesna polityka Federacji Rosyjskiej na Bliskim Wschodzie jest elementem szerokiej strategii ukierunkowanej na cele w środowisku międzynarodowym oraz na cele wewnątrzpaństwowe. Polityka ta jest konfrontacyjna na płaszczyźnie Rosja – Zachód i stanowi koło zamachowe w dążeniu kraju do odzyskania dominującej roli w świecie. Zaangażowanie Federacji Rosyjskiej w konflikt w Syrii jest konsekwencją jej mocarstwowej polityki w zmieniającym się środowisku międzynarodowym. Głównym celem było wyeliminowanie rozwiązań USA i innych państw Zachodu w zakresie interwencji humanitarnej w Syrii. Poza tym utrzymując reżim Baszara al-Asada Federacja Rosyjska podjęła realizację własnego ładu na Bliskim Wschodzie, gdzie chce odgrywać kluczową rolę. Pomagają jej w tym Iran – wieloletni oponent USA oraz Turcja – nowy koalicjant, które mają też swoje partykularne cele w regionie. W przypadku polityki wewnętrznej, rosyjskie elity polityczne chcą utrwalić władzę populistyczną, oferując narodowi drogę dokonań państwa, szczególnie w wymiarze międzynarodowym – wskazując siłę militarną i wyższość polityczną, jako podstawowe elementy odbudowy mocarstwowej roli Federacji Rosyjskiej w świecie. Te kierunki polityki zewnętrznej i wewnętrznej dają obraz konsekwentnych, a jednocześnie zaskakujących działań Federacji Rosyjskiej na Bliskim Wschodzie. Abstract: Contemporary policy of the Russian Federation in the Middle East is an element of a broad strategy focused on international and internal purposes. This policy is confrontational at the level of Russia - the West and constitutes a flywheel in the pursuit of the country to regain its dominant role in the world. The involvement of the Russian Federation in the conflict in Syria is a consequence of its superpower policy in the changing international environment. The main goal was to eliminate the solutions of the USA and other Western countries in the field of humanitarian intervention in Syria. What is more, maintaining the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Russian Federation has embarked on the implementation of its own order in the Middle East, where it wants to play a key role. Iran, a long-term opponent of the USA, and Turkey, a new coalition partner that also has its particular goals in the region, are the countries which help Russia in this area. In the case of domestic policy, Russia’s power elites want to consolidate populist power by presenting the nation country’s accomplishments, especially in the international dimension, indicating military strength and political superiority as the basic elements of rebuilding the superpower role of the Russian Federation in the world. These external and internal policies give a picture of the consistent and also surprising actions of the Russian Federation in the Middle East

scholarly journals Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage into Ideological and Political Courses in Colleges and Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Jianping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Special Places

China’s intangible cultural heritage as an important part and the soul of the traditional Chinese culture is the cultural treasure of China and even the world. As the concept of cultural protection is deeply rooted in the minds of people, the state attaches increasing importance to intangible cultural heritage. The unique forms of cultural expressions and the special places of these expressions are deeply rooted in the Chinese culture and they should also be an important content in China’s efficient ideological and political education. This article mainly explores the significance of intangible cultural heritage in ideological and political teaching as well as the strategies to effectively integrate intangible cultural heritage into ideological and political teaching in order to achieve the educational purposes of condensing the consensus of traditional Chinese culture, enhancing the cultural consciousness among teachers and students in colleges and universities, and enhancing the patriotic enthusiasm and cultural confidence.

scholarly journals Follow the Guidance of Marxism and Uphold Cultural Confidence in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Mingjun Li ◽  
Shengcheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Country Culture ◽  
The Times ◽  
Cultural Openness

Culture prospers the country, culture strengthens the nation, and culture is the foundation for a nation to settle down and live. Taking Marxism as the theoretical source of socialist cultural confidence with Chinese characteristics; Occupy the ideological and cultural position with Marxist culture; We should adhere to the confident guidance of Marxism on socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, inherit the fine traditional Chinese culture, explore the values of The Times, adhere to cultural openness, and exchange and learn from all rivers. We will promote the flourishing of socialist culture.

Fo Guang Shan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall Marchman
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Temple

Fo Guang Shan is a transnational Buddhist organization that rose to prominence in the late 20th century. Founded in 1967 by the charismatic monk Hsing Yun, who remains the face of the organization, Fo Guang Shan’s main temple and headquarters are in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The temple has become a major tourist attraction that welcomes millions of visitors annually. Starting in the 1980s, Fo Guang Shan began building other large branch temples around the world, the first of which is Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California. Hsi Lai Temple, like the main Fo Guang Shan campus, has become a popular tourist destination. Fo Guang Shan, Hsi Lai Temple, and the other branches serve their communities with regular services, retreats, festivals, and youth programming that promote Buddhism as well as traditional Chinese culture. The rise of Fo Guang Shan and other Buddhist organizations in Taiwan occurred alongside the economic rise of Taiwan and its citizens. As it continued to grow, the organization developed its own schools and universities, a television station, and a publishing house in order to further spread the teachings of the Buddha.

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