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Can Shanghai Surpass Hong Kong? 上海能超越香港吗?

Provincial China Pub Date : 2012-10-30 DOI: 10.5130/pc.v4i1.2847

Niv Horesh (荷尼夫), Shuyu (Susie) Wu (吴舒钰）

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引用次数: 2

Politics of Race in East Asia: The Case of Korea and the Chinese community in South Korea 东亚的种族政治:以韩国和韩国华人社区为例

Provincial China Pub Date : 2012-10-30 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V4I1.2845

Hyun Jin Kim

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引用次数: 3

From Chengdu to Stockholm: A Comparative Study of the Emergence of Paper Money in East and West 从成都到斯德哥尔摩:东西方纸币产生的比较研究

Provincial China Pub Date : 2012-10-30 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V4I1.2844

N. Horesh

引用次数: 5

‘Seoul Searching’: The History, Politics and Prejudice behind the Re-naming of Korea’s Capital in Chinese “首尔搜索”:韩国首都更名背后的历史、政治和偏见

Provincial China Pub Date : 2012-10-30 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V4I1.2842

Hyun Jin Kim, P. Mauch, N. Horesh

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引用次数: 2

From Luzhen to Sendai: Locality and Metonym in Lu Xun’s Pseudonyms 从鲁镇到仙台:鲁迅笔名的本源与转喻

Provincial China Pub Date : 2012-10-30 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V4I1.2843

P. Wang

{"title":"From Luzhen to Sendai: Locality and Metonym in Lu Xun’s Pseudonyms","authors":"P. Wang","doi":"10.5130/PC.V4I1.2843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PC.V4I1.2843","url":null,"abstract":"An outstanding scholar, writer, critic, artist, historian, and social commentator, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is also known for his numerous pseudonyms. However, the significance of these pseudonyms has remained relatively little studied. This paper attempts to examine how these pseudonyms extended their erstwhile political rationale. In so doing, we hope to shed some new light on the understanding of Lu Xun both as a writer and as a man. We argue that localities, allusions and symbolism featured in Lu Xun’s pseudonyms; these not only enrich the literary contexts of his writing, and increase the effectiveness of his discourse, but also contribute – albeit in a subtle way - to the ideological and emotional complexity, sophistication, and paradox of the author as the literary conscience of modern China. Through the fabric of Lu Xun’s pseudonyms, we see how traditional forces are still at play in his reception of Western discourse of modernity; how different places – Shaoxing, Tokyo, Sendai, Beijing, Shanghai, even Europe - are linked and different experiences interwoven to shape who Lu Xun was. Like his writing, Lu Xun’s pseudonyms may be seen as a vortex of modernity in which Chinese tradition, Western influence and historical contingency interact.","PeriodicalId":89237,"journal":{"name":"Provincial China","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85271401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Urban Growth, Rescaling, and the Spatial Administrative Hierarchy 城市增长、尺度调整与空间行政层级

Provincial China Pub Date : 2011-12-19 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2440

C. Cartier

引用次数: 22

The Appearance of the Rural in China's Tourism 中国旅游中乡村的出现

Provincial China Pub Date : 2011-12-19 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2442

Jenny Chio

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引用次数: 11

Mianyang: The Legacy of State Socialism and Local Construction 绵阳:国家社会主义与地方建设的遗产

Provincial China Pub Date : 2011-12-19 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2441

Minglu Chen

引用次数: 5

Finding the Imagined Motherland in China: The Italian Experience in Tianjin 在中国寻找想象中的祖国:天津的意大利体验

Provincial China Pub Date : 2011-12-19 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2443

M. Marinelli

引用次数: 1

Particularities and Complexities: Unpacking State Policy in Local China 特殊性与复杂性:拆解中国地方政府政策

Provincial China Pub Date : 2011-12-19 DOI: 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2439

Mi Shih, C. Cartier

引用次数: 0