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Sinologism, the Western World View, and the Chinese Perspective
Get PDFIn his article Sinologism, the Western World View, and the Chinese Perspective Ming Dong Gu discusses how the West formulated its ways of observing China and how the rest of the world and the Chinese themselves view Chinese culture through the Western lens. Gu discusses the thought of selected scholars in Western history who have contributed to the formation of Sinologism and explores the motivation, logic, rationale, epistemology, methodology, and characteristics of the West\u27s long-term endeavor to incorporate China into the Western-centered world system
Zhou Libo’s fiction and The Hurricane
No full textThis article is part of a recent history of modern Chinese literature edited by Gu Ming-dong and published by Routledge. The essay analyzes a milestone of Chinese Maoist Literature, The Hurricane (Bao feng zhou yu) by Zhou Libo, a recipient of the Stalin Literary Prize in 1950, with an intent to elucidate the functioning of "socialist realism" as a literary mode of representation in the PRC literary system. Paradigmatically depicting in both a realistic and exemplary way the historical events of the land reform at the dawn of the Communist takeover, the novel constitutes a model about how to turn CCP history into a revolutionary myth and a fictional narrative into an educational tool for the masses
The Theoretical Debate on “Sinologism”: A Rejoinder to Mr. Zhang Xiping
No full textDue to copyright restrictions and/or publisher's policy full text access from Treasures at UT Dallas is not available. UTD affiliates may be able to acquire a copy by using the Link to Article page and contacting university Interlibrary Loan.This article is a direct response to Zhang Xiping’s criticism of Sinologism in particular and to the overall critique of Sinologism in general. With a succinct account of what Sinologism is, it provides detailed answers to a series of questions brought up by the critics. In an effort to clarify the relationship between Sinologism on the one hand and Orientalism, postcolonialism, deconstruction, New Historicism, postmodernism, and ideological theory on the other, it attempts to rethink the issues of paradigms for Sinological studies, China–West studies, and cross-cultural studies. © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Contemporary Chinese Thought
No full textDue to copyright restrictions and/or publisher's policy full text access from Treasures at UT Dallas is restricted to current UTD affiliates (use the provided Link to Article).Sinologism is a recent cultural theory that focuses on Sinology, China–West studies, and cross-cultural knowledge production. Since its proposition at the turn of the 21st century, it has aroused substantial interest and given rise to discussions and debates both in and outside China. The special issue has selected seven articles in full or excerpted form to offer an initial introduction to the topic. ©2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.School of Arts and Humanitie
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Fiction of Left-Wing Writers: Between Ideological Commitment and Aesthetic Dedication
No full textThe chapter deals with left-wing writers Jiang Guangci, Ye Zi, Rou Shi, Zhang Tianyi, Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun, and Sha Ting, active in the 1930s China. They all shared a common view and sense of personal engagement in the dramatic landscape of China's socio-economic and political crisis and were all encouraged and inspired by Chinese intellectual Lu Xun. Nevertheless, in their literary creation, they show distinct features in terms of theoretical approach, style, and perspective, from the early romanticization of the revolutionary theme to the lucid representation of social needs; from the author's subjective commitment to the critical awareness of moral responsibility in literature and art; from the lyrical and psychological depiction to the satirical exposition of reality
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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