G. Ming

Abstract:This article enquires into a transcultural aesthetic: bi-xing (inspired metaphor) in China and symbolic representation in the West, which share the common logic of correlative thinking. By examining its earliest provenance in the Zhouyi (Book of Changes) and Shijing(Book of Songs) in China's high antiquity in relation to divination, symbolization, and poetic creation in the West, it argues that this aesthetic arose from omen readings in divination, went through symbolism in linguistic representation, and became a poetic principle in aesthetic thought. It concludes that correlative thinking was an approach to knowledge production and conception in traditional thought across cultures.

No new global order without a new global ethic!Since the ending of the Cold War, the world has not gone in the direction of peace, harmony, stability, and cohesion. If during the Cold War period the world was divided into two large camps, it has today fragmented into many regions in strife, conflict, and war. Instead of a centripetal force that works toward a global unity accompanying the process of globalization, we are witnessing a centrifugal force that tears different countries and regions apart and turns formerly ideological conflicts into what Samuel Huntington calls a “clash of civilizations.” As a consequence, the world has been gripped by a paradoxical trend. The process of globalization should bring about...

: Suggestiveness is a major theoretical category in Chinese aesthetic thought. Within the broader context of Chinese tradition, it is a product of the interpenetration of and exchanges between philosophical and artistic discourses. Despite its prevalence in Chinese aesthetic thought, suggestiveness has never been examined as an aesthetic category in its own right, nor have its implications been explored in relation to contemporary theories. This essay reexamines suggestiveness and its seminal ideas as an aesthetic category in Chinese tradition, exploring their relation to philosophical thought and reconceptualizing their implications in terms of the postmodern idea of literary openness. As a preliminary attempt to pioneer an approach to Chinese aesthetic theory that may emancipate it from intellectual stagnation and at the same time preserve its characteristic features, this essay also intends to inquire whether insights of Chinese aesthetics, often characterized as gems of "Oriental mysticism," can be understood in terms of reflective analysis and have a meaningful dialogue with contemporary Western literary thought

Literary pneuma is a foundational idea in Chinese literary thought and the theory of literary pneuma one of the major aesthetic theories in Chinese literature and art. Since its first appearance, however, this aesthetic has remained an elusive concept despite its central importance. This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine major statements of wenqi in Chinese thought in relation to similar ideas in modern philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. It attempts to understand its rationale, locate its conceptual groundings, and reconceptualize it into an aesthetic theory for our time.

Special universal values ​​of human rights practices, human rights issues is the core of modern society. Diversity of family characteristics with human rights values. Human rights values ​​of the application process, is a concrete understanding of the specific interpretation in practice, in practice the specific understanding of the process of interpretation; Bank in knowledge, of knowing one line Zhongzhi process; is an abstract principle to activation, and thus can be understanding, can be interpreted, can practice. For the general principles of human rights recognize the value of spirit is willing, and can not eliminate the practice of endless disagreement and controversy. The main reason is: the specific content of the human rights situation in the difference, and difference in human rights issues such as further understanding of the formation, interpretation, practice differences. The practice of human rights values ​​is not a simple mechanical operation of the menu, but a life of wisdom. Actors not only have to believe in human rights values ​​and conscience, but also moral ability: the ability to understand the special situation and seize the specific values ​​of universal human rights, understanding and grasp of the special situation, and in this particular situation the special action capacity. The particular application of the universal values ​​of human rights, is the core problem on human rights in modern society. The concept of human rights is a living and growing value with its own regulations. The kindred diversities of the value of human rights determine its own internal contradictions. The application of human rights is a concrete process of understanding and interpreting them in practice. Such a process is the integrated one of acting in knowing and knowing in acting. It is also the one of activating abstract principles to be understood, to be interpreted and to be put into practice. The acceptance of the universal principles of human rights can not end the endless debates and disagreements in practice, mainly because the contents of human rights will be different in different contexts and then this will determine the further different understandings, interpretations and practices of human rights. The practice of human rights is not a simple mechanical operation of clicking on the menu, but the wisdom of living. The moral agent not only has to keep the faith and conscience in human rights, but also possesses the moral capacity-being capable of acting in particular situations as well as comprehending and grasping the universal values ​​of human rights in such situations

"Widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population" is a prerequisite for the establishment of crimes against humanity elements. The so-called "broad", the size and aggressive behavior should be the number of victims to define two aspects; the so-called "systematic", as long as it reveals the "organization" of features you can and can not contain "policy" of the elements; define " attacks on the civilian population ", attention should be attacked and policy relevance and sustainability of the attack. In determining whether the victims are civilians, the crime must be considered when implementing the specific situation in which the person, not just their identity. "Rome Statute" by deleting the definition of crimes against humanity "armed conflict" element, which is actually attributable to lower the core jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court convicted criminal threshold, is clearly contrary to the purpose of the International Criminal Court was established, and then as a gross interference in the sovereignty of a country to stay hidden. The phrase "broadly or systematic attack directed against a civilian population" is the contextual element of crime against humanity. "Broadly" shall be defined from two aspects: the scale of attack and the number of victims. As far as the word "systematic" concerned, it is enough to reveal its feature "organized", including not element of "policy." In defining the words "attack directed against a civilian population", we shall pay attention to the relationship between attack and policy as well as the continuity of attack. As for whether victims are civilian, we shall consider the specific situation the person is in at the time of crime, rather than merely his status. When Rome Statute deletes "armed conflict" from definition of crime against humanity, thereby practically reducing the criminalizing threshold of the crime fallen within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Cowl, it obviously deviates from the mission of ICC and leaves a hidden trouble for wantonly interfering with a country 's sovereignty

Sinologism is basically a cultural unconscious in China-West studies predicated on an inner logic that operates beyond our conscious awareness but controls the ways of observing China and producing China scholarship. Its logic has exerted a profound impact on studies of Chinese language and writing. Since medieval times the difference between Chinese and Western languages has been viewed as a conceptual divide that separates Chinese and Western traditions. It has motivated scholars to generate a considerable array of ideas, views, and arguments on Chinese language and writing. This dazzling variety of views is characterized by a unifying logic similar to that of Sinologism: conditions of Chinese language are to be ..

ObjectiveTo investigate the attitudes of Chinese parents regarding the storage of dried blood spots collected for newborn screening (NBS) and their use in research.MethodsWe conducted a hospital-based survey of parents and examined parental attitudes regarding (a) allowing NBS sample storage, (b) permitting use of children’s NBS samples for research with parental permission, and (c) permitting use of children’s NBS samples for research without parental permission.ResultsThe response rate was 52 percent. Of parents surveyed, 68 percent would permit their infant’s NBS sample to be stored for at least some length of time. If permission is obtained, 69 percent of parents “strongly agreed” or “agreed” to permit use of the NBS sample for research. If permission is not obtained, only 14 percent of parents “strongly agreed” or “agreed.” There was no significant association between permitting use of NBS samples for research and parental gender, education, household income, number of children, or site of residence.ConclusionsThis is the first survey of Chinese parents regarding the use of NBS samples for different types of research, with results indicating that most parents would permit their infant’s sample to be stored and would support the use of NBS dried blood spots for research purposes