D. H. Lawrence: Letter‐writer and craftsman in verse

Art history has lost and rediscovered semiotics several times since the 1950s, and at the moment writers employ an eclectic mixture of theories derived mainly from Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce. Of the two, Peirce is possibly the more influential model, on account of his tripartite theory of iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs. (The Saussurean model is identified more closely with the poststructuralist moment in art history, beginning in the 1970s.) The question of semiotics is once again topical now that visual culture is consolidating as a discipline, because the new field can choose from a wide range of semiotic practices – or it can choose to bypass semiotics altogether. This essay is a contribution to that current state of affairs. My principal point is that Peirce is much stranger than he is taken to be: he is idiosyncratic and demanding, and at times outlandishly hermetic. For most of what art history and visual studies aim to do, Peirce is simply not necessary; and when he is pertinent, he is so mainly as a model for concertedly logical thinking of a sort that is rare in visual studies or art history.     

Market Concentration Levels in the U.S. Consumer Book Industry: 1995–1996

While many scholars have studied the impact mergersand acquisitions have had on market concentrationlevels in various industries, few have addressed theconsumer book market, an important U.S. culturalindustry. This paper: (1) defines the consumer bookmarket; and (2) using consumer book mergers, salesdata, the U.S. Department of Justice's 1992 mergerguidelines, the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, andfour-firm and eight-firm concentration ratios testswhether an illegal level of market concentration or aviolation of Justice's antitrust guidelines wereevident in 1995 and 1996. Data on market entrybarriers, outputs, and prices are also analyzed.     

“Shoppers' Republic of China”: Orientalism in Neoliberal U.S. News Discourse

In light of China's recent ascent as the world's second largest economy, this article critically engages with current U.S. public discourses around China. In particular, we explore how Orientalist knowledge about China is appropriated within neoliberal contexts. Our ideological analysis of news regarding China in the New York Times revealed three themes: (a) The Shoppers' Republic of China; (b) China's responsibility to consume; and (c) China as the space outside international law. Our analysis underpins the relevance of theorizing the interplay between Orientalism and neoliberalism in contemporary U.S. mainstream discourses of China.     

A Symbiosis of Access: Proliferating STEM PhD Training in the U.S. from 1920–2010

Minerva - Over the course of the 20th century, unprecedented growth in scientific discovery was fueled by broad growth in the number of university-based scientists. During this period the American...     

饺子.鞭炮.中国年

“沧桑运河，千古通州，钟灵毓秀。”一条大运河蜿蜒流经中原大地，古通州就依偎在大运河河畔。猴年伊始，北京东郊通州区大营村这座古风犹存的农庄迎来了10多位在中国外局供职的外国专家。春节是中国的传统节日，贴春联、放鞭炮、包饺子寓意着老百姓对平安祥和生活的一种企盼。大年初五，金发碧眼、服装鲜艳的外国朋友的到来，给这座村庄带来了新奇与快乐；外国专家和村民们一起逛庙会，到村民的小别墅中做客……仿佛推开了一扇扇充满情趣的民谷之窗。伴着院落里“噼噼啪啪”不绝于耳的鞭炮声，吃着热气腾腾刚出锅的饺子，外国朋友在中国体验了一个原汁原味、团团圆圆、快快乐乐的中国年。     

试论B.M.阿列克谢耶夫的汉学研究思想

阿列克谢耶夫汉学研究建立在对中国国情文化实际考察和作品译介研究基础之上,从而形成阿列克谢耶夫对中国历史文化及其发展特征的独到而深刻的见解。他基于破除欧洲中心论的比较文化思想,力求使中国文学和西方文学得到有机的统一。     

Dr. Rosenfeld Remembered

Like Dr.Bethune,Dr.Rosenfeld cameto China to help the dying and woundedwhen the country was facing hard times.Their selfless dedication to the Chinese people'scause has strengthened the friendshipbetween the countries from generation andgeneration.In the fall of 1992,the executive vicepresident of the Austrian Federal Parliamentcame to China,leading a delegation com-     

Mr.Yu Revisited Hometown

In August 2001, Yu Qiuyu and his wife came to visit Cixi, his hometown in Zhejiang Province. Yu is a famed scholar in China and author of several bestseller prose collections. The following is the coverage of our reporter, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Yu during their visit. The great scholar started his study in a small village where only his mother knew how to read and write. Villagers came from near and afar to Yu's mother when they needed to have letters written or their bookkeeping updated. Yu began to write letters for villagers when he was in the     

Sightseeing in South Australia

We have visited our relatives in Melbourne several times in the past few years.On each tour we did some sightseeingthere.This time,we went to Adelaide.We toured Kangaroo Island first.But our purpose there was not to see kangaroos but sea lions.We went dir…     

Flower Farming in Lizhu

Lizhu, a prosperous rural town in Shaoxing,Zhejiang Province, is celebrated in China as thehometown of Chinese Spring Orchids. Legendhas it that Goujian, the king of the Yue kingdom,first planted orchids in the nearby mountains morethan 2,400 years ago. Wang Xizhi, a greatcalligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420AD), often trekked into the mountains in searchof rare orchids. In the Southern Song Dynasty(1127-1278), there were farmers in Lizhu whomade a living out of orchids by s…     

CHINESE Achievements in America

There are many Chinatowns in the United States. In each Chinatown across America there stands a memorial archway ablaze with bright colors. All these orient-looking archways symbolize not only the ancient Chinese roots but also achievements and contributions by Chinese immigrants in the young nation that is called the United States of America.In the 1850s, the gold rush in California attracted immigrants from all over the world. More than 100,000 from China rushed there too. Most of these gold hunters were poor farmers from China,     

Watching Bullfighting in Spain

I watched four bullfights in Spain one afternoon last year. Before that, I had admired matadors very much. Afterwards, I began to believe that something new should be introduced into bullfighting.It was a makeshift arena in a plaza, with four thousand seats. I learned that a ticket cost 40 EU dollars. It looked as if the audience were attending a picnic, celebrating one of the best days in their lives. They arrived with fresh flowers and wine. Women and children were in colorful dresses. Men were dressed either in suits or in jeans, most wearing hats and each carrying a wine bag or a beer jug.     

Concentration Camp in Dachau

Dachau is a must for visitors to Munich, Germany, for the name stands for a horrific concentration camp from 1933-1945. We visited it in the summer of 2001.A highway stretched straightforward in the suburbs of Dachau, flanked by thick trees on one side and on the other side by Dachau concentration camp, one of the 30-plus concentration camps during the years of the Third Reich. We saw the high walls punctuated by guard towers. There was a wide dry ditch between the surrounding wall and the camp proper. On the camp was a tall     

Tea Fragrance in Zhaozhou

Zhaozhou is not very far from Beijing.Aftera journey of four hours by train and one hour bybus,I arrived at Zhaozhou in Hebei province inMay 2004 to take part in a pen conferenceorganized and sponsored by a dotcom companywhich runs an essay website. Zhaozhou is famed for two ancient relics.Oneis the Zhaozhou Bridge,the largest and oldeststone arch bridge in the world built in the SuiDynasty(581—618),and the other the Bailin ZenTemple(Cypress Grove Temple).