Creative labor as moral and ethical subjects and its limitation: Creative City Yokohama,Japan

This study aims to reconsider and re-evaluate the rapid circulation of global creative city policy from the viewpoint of its creative workforce by focusing on the case of Yokohama, Japan. To shed light on this workforce’s everyday experiences and labor subjectivity, this investigation draws ideas from recent research trends of “creative labor” from the field of media and cultural studies, sociology of work, and political economy of communication. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations, this research focuses on how the ethical and moral dimensions of labor subjectivity in creative work are prominently important in explaining Yokohama workers’ everyday living and working experiences as creative labor. Unexpectedly, this study found that these moral and ethical sentiments and actions, which take on the role of retaining their labor motivation, actually limit the development of political subjects who can resist given precarious working conditions and thereby hinder them from building a collective solidarity as “workers.” Thus this investigation concludes that the creative worker’s subjectivity retreats to solely a moral dimension rather than to a political one. Through this finding, this study explores whether the articulation of moral-political and social values in the course of cultural work can evolve from creative workers’ moral and ethical sensitivities and actions.     

对我国优秀田径运动员过早退役原因的调查分析

通过问卷、访谈等方法对我国田径运动员的过早退役原因做了调查分析。结果表明:运动损伤、后顾之忧、收入偏低、潜力不大是造成过早退役的主要原因;与教练关系不和及其他两方面对退役的影响相对没有前几项大。值得注意的是绝大多数都是由于主要原因综合所致。另外,对出现这些原因的根源也作了具体的探讨。     

试论赤峰雅乐之形成

赤峰雅乐是在赤峰地区演奏、流传并得以保留下来的一种古老的传统宫廷音乐。在它的形成过程中肯定要受到当时周围环境和气候的影响。特别是当时的教与学都是口传心授,曲谱都是以中国传统的“工尺字”作标示,在流传中必然会融进地方色彩,或者说是为了适应当地人的审美观点、欣赏品位和地方习俗来对原曲进行艺术加工,使之形成具有赤峰地区独特风格韵味的古曲———赤峰雅乐。     

论二元经济思想与中国农村劳动力的转移

刘易斯因其在发展经济学上的突出贡献获得了诺贝尔经济学奖,他提出的二元经济思想也被广泛用于发展中国家的经济分析。我国是世界上最大的发展中国家,因此,如何正确看待刘易斯二元经济思想并分析当代中国经济,有着十分重要的理论和现实意义。本文通过分析刘易斯的二元经济思想,并结合二元经济模型来探讨中国的农村劳动力转移如何避免陷入“刘易斯陷阱”,实现农村劳动力的有效转移。     

Incentives for teacher relocation: Evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30–40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools provide sources of identifying variation. We find that the hardship allowance increased the share of qualified (certified) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil–qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in recipient schools close to the distance threshold. Further analysis suggests that these gains were not merely the result of teachers switching from non-hardship to hardship schools. With similar policies in place in more than two dozen other developing countries, our study provides an important piece of evidence on their effectiveness.     

广东省大型企业两类管理体制职工体育活动比较研究

通过问卷、访谈调查和理论分析等研究方法,对广东省大型企业职工体育活动两类管理体制:体育公司管理、工会管理进行比较研究。指出:企业成立体育公司,对职工体育实行企业化管理在体育人口比例、管理人员、场馆设施、运作经费、自我投资意识及活动方式、活动人数、活动内容、活动效果上均优于工会负责职工体育的企业。企业工会管理职工体育的体制和运行机制已不适应市场经济条件下职工对体育多样化的需求。职工体育的最终出路是向完全的市场化、社会化方向发展。     

禅宗与俗曲关系略论

禅宗作为唐以来佛教的主流,其传播充分利用了佛曲俗化中俗曲的力量。禅宗极其重视俗曲的开悟功能,还积极从事俗曲的创制,进一步促进了佛曲的俗化。敦煌经卷与禅师语录中的禅宗俗曲在体制上有只曲与联章体两类,它们的运用主要是上堂开法,表现出了一种新的典型形式:上堂——曲、舞、(偈赞、机锋、棒喝)——下堂,充盈着音乐文艺的运用。从俗曲可以窥探到禅宗的世俗性特征与音乐性特征。     

公平教育、竞争市场与收入增长的城乡分享

城乡劳动力的收入差距,首先与两部门劳动力分属的具有不同工资率的就业市场有关;同时决定于两类劳动者人力资本存量及其积累率的差异;劳动者个人的人力资本水平,又决定着其就业市场的选择机会。收入差距的弥合,依赖于城乡劳动者人力资本的趋同以及在此基础上统一的竞争性劳动力市场的形成。教育机会的公平,是人力资本及竞争性市场对收入分配公平化影响的前提。     

关联理论和古汉诗词翻译

从关联理论的角度探讨古汉诗词英译。古汉诗词翻译实质也是一种交际活动，一种言语交际行为，在源语的理解和翻译过程中对语码的选择所依据的是最佳关联。     

教育投资效益流失与教育成本补偿

当前,在我国东西部发展严重不平衡,劳动力市场严重分割,市场经济份额越来越大,劳动力流动限制越来越少的条件下,我国劳动力的流动基本上呈现出一种单向流动的特点,即从农村流向城市,从西部流向东部。这种流动态势造成了西部及广大农村地区教育投资效益的流失,拉大了城乡之间和东西部之间的差距,所以必须给这些地区以成本补偿。