摘要 : Nine Lectures on American Literature Under the New Liberal Arts Concept is one of the academic results achieved by Zhu Zhenwu, who has been studying American literature and keeping practical consciousness with new liberal arts concept for many years. With interdisciplinary cases provided, the book probes into the thematic connotation and aesthetic style of American literature, especially that of American novels from nine aspects. It is an academic innovation including cross-border integration, grand vision and inclusive spirit. Based on the detailed analysis of original texts, it breaks through the shackles of disciplines with realistic care into the current issues. Moreover, leveling with western scholars and standing from the Chinese position, it is a book of cultural confidence which demonstrates self-awareness of criticism and local feelings, which provides strategies of “breaking the circle” for the study of foreign literature in the new era. © 2022, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature. All Rights Reserved.

摘要 : This article contributes to a large discussion on the paradigm of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories— the positronic brain—and postulates that the “Three Laws of Robotics” represent essential guiding principles of ethical systems by applying the concept of “brain text” with the framework of Zhenzhao Nie’s ethical literary criticism. With focus on the analogy between positronic brain and human brain, and based on the analysis from The Complete Robot (2018), this article argues that the positronic brain is the embodiment of the qualities of humans’ ethical choices by gathering and calculating the programmed brain text. By raising a copy-versus-real ethical issue, it further evinces the uncanny feelings of the highly anthropomorphic brain as simulacrum, which generates a new challenge to anthropocentrism and anxiety over humans’ subjectivity. However, attributed to the lack of ethical judgments in their brain text, robots may be confronted with ambivalence and incarnated only with humans’ desires in the face of choices among the Three Laws. Thus, with an insistent privilege of humans, Asimov considers the positronic brain in essence as a simulation of human brain to represent human ethics. © Ateneo de Manila University.

摘要 : The novel The New Story of the Stone (新石头记, Xinshitouji [1908] 2016), by Wu Jianren, is one of the most representative Chinese utopian works of the late Qing dynasty, or the early 20th-century. The novel is evenly divided into two parts. The first 20 chapters probe into the political and social conditions of late Qing China through the depictions of the protago-nist’s travels to cities such as Shanghai, Wuhan and Beijing where the relations with the West had been established. The last 20 chapters, which are antithetical to the first part, depict a utopia – the Civilized World. There is a twisted mirror-image relationship between Shanghai and the Civilized World. The Civilized World alludes to civilized Shanghai with advanced hospi-tals, factories, museums, schools for women, trading markets and so on. Based on the image of Shanghai, the highly westernized and modernized Chinese metropolis, the author works out this “genuine civilized country” in the hope of competing with the “false civilized Western country”. Therefore, by making the geographic location of “the Civilized World” both fictional and real, the author finds his way to imagining a unique Chinese utopia which might surpass the Western civilization in the late Qing China. © 2021, Slovak academy of Sciences, Institute of World literature. All rights reserved.

摘要 : This study presents a conceptual framework for exploring teachers' ontologies of English and investigates how a group of Chinese university teachers of English conceive of, and orient to, the language. Interview data suggest that participants orient to both a monolithic view as well as the ‘plurilithic’ reality. The data reveal that monolithic ontologies are associated primarily with classroom contexts, whereas plurilithic ontologies are activated when usage is in focus. Particularly significant is teachers' monolithic conception of grammar, compared to plurilithic conceptions of lexis and pronunciation. We propose that usage-based approaches to grammar might offer teachers a way to reconcile their apparently contradictory ontologies and help them challenge the deficit view of learning inherent in the monolithic approach.

摘要 : Thomas Hardy is one of the Western writers who influenced early 20th-century Chinese literary pioneers, especially following the birth of China's New Culture Movement in 1919. His poetic technique played a great role in changing and enriching Chinese poetry, largely between the Chinese New Poetry Movement and the 1950s. From the debut of the New Poetry Movement, Chinese poets were drawn to Hardy's poetic style, imagery and pattern beauty, taking him as a model and believing that his poetry would inject new blood into traditional Chinese literature. Chinese New Poetry representatives, such as Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Guo Moruo and Aiqing, to mention but a few, are greatly indebted to Hardy in their style, art and thought. They tried their best to follow Hardy and put forward as norms of the New Poetry “three beauties” of his poetic principles, namely musical beauty, painting beauty and architectural beauty, that conform to the unity of form and content.

摘要 : In her article "Human Cloning as the Other in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go" Wen Guo analyz- es Kazuo Ishiguro's novel with focus on Ishiguro's analogy between human cloning and people of mar- ginality in contemporary society. Guo discusses the novel's ambience of doubt and suspense and elab- orates on how the theme of otherness is addressed by Ishiguro's mock-realism in a landscape of sci- ence fiction. Further, Guo analyses the "unhomely" Hailsham of the novel, the clones' self-pursuit, and their ethical attitudes. Guo argues that in Ishiguro's novel a person's ethical choices are determined by his/her situation which confirms Ishiguro's beliefs with regard to one's responsibility, loyalty, and des- tiny by his/her ethical choices.

摘要 : In her article “Human Cloning as the Other in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go” Wen Guo analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel with focus on Ishiguro’s analogy between human cloning and people of marginality in contemporary society. Guo discusses the novel’s ambience of doubt and suspense and elaborates on how the theme of otherness is addressed by Ishiguro’s mock-realism in a landscape of science fiction. Further, Guo analyses the “unhomely” Hailsham of the novel, the clones’ self-pursuit, and their ethical attitudes. Guo argues that in Ishiguro’s novel a person’s ethical choices are determined by his/her situation which confirms Ishiguro’s beliefs with regard to one’s responsibility, loyalty, and destiny by his/her ethical choices. © Purdue University.