The influence of cultural values on U.S. and Danish students’ digital behavior: Exploring culture,new media,and social context

This study explores the intersection of culture, new media, and social context—an essential component of intercultural new media studies—by investigating the social uses of smartphones, tablets, and laptops in university classrooms in Denmark and the US. American and Danish university students differed significantly in (1) frequency of new media use, (2) preferred classroom policies regulating use, (3) perceived impact of use on learning, attention, and student participation, and (4) preferred instructor strategies for handling distracting uses. Danes and Americans also differed significantly in authority values that are linked to students' new media use in the classroom.     

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。     

Diana S. Greenwald: Painting by numbers—data-driven histories of nineteenth-century art,Princeton University Press, 2021

Journal of Cultural Economics -     

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-     

University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010

The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities suffered a lingering “legitimation crisis,” institutes enjoyed deepening “favored sponsorship”—financial and reputational advantages. Universities led the nation’s reestablishment of scientific prominence among the highly competitive European and global science systems after WWII. But sectoral analysis of contributions to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical and health journal publications (1950–2010) finds that Germany’s small to medium-sized independent research institutes have made significant, growing contributions, particularly in publishing in higher impact journals proportionally more than their size. Simultaneously—despite dual-pillar policy implications—the university sector continues to be absolutely and relatively successful; not eclipsed by the institutes. Universities have consistently produced two-thirds of the nation’s publications in the highest quality journals since at least 1980 and have increased publications at a logarithmic rate; higher than the international mean. Indeed, they led Germany into the global mega-science style of production. Contrary to assumed benefits of functional differentiation, our results indicate that relative to their size, each sector has produced approximately similar publication records. While institutes have succeeded, the larger university sector, despite much less funding growth, has remained fundamental to German science production. Considering these findings, we discuss the future utility of the dual-pillar policy.

     

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     

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.     

未雨绸缪,统筹兼顾,科学发展

企业党建工作和精神文明建设是和谐粮库建设的基石,要积极贯彻"以防为主、综合防治"的保粮方针,做到以科技储粮为指导,不断提高科技储粮水平,加强安全生产体系建设,落实安全生产责任和措施,做好军粮供应工作,努力创建平安粮库.     

Mr. Business of China''''s Private Economy

Jing Shuping, a business veteran, has witnessed the ups and downs of China's private business. Born into a rich businessman's family in 1918, Jing Shuping dreamed of becoming a journalist in his teenage years. Even today he still often wonders what would have become of him if he had landed the job in the press circle.