{"title":"World Literature, Industrialization, and the Two Faces of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction","authors":"Yiping Wang","doi":"10.3726/cul012021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3726/cul012021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In \"World Literature, Industrialization, and the Two Faces of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction\" Yiping Wang discusses contemporary Chinese science fiction against the backdrop of the influence of world literature and the development of industrialization\u0000 in China. Wang argues that two sides represented respectively by Liu Cixin and Han Song constitute the feature of contemporary Chinese science fiction. The side characterized by the works of Liu Cixin is the close connection with world science fiction and the positive attitude and consistency\u0000 with technological innovation and industrialization in China while the other side has Han Song as its representative, whose works, with similarities to high literature of world canons and the mainstream Chinese literature, reflect on the development of technology and industrialization focusing\u0000 on individuals and disasters in the shadow of modernization. These two sides join together in the illustration of the basic image of science fiction in contemporary Chinese literature. By absorbing the essence of world literature and echoing the concerns of the nation, contemporary Chinese\u0000 science fiction surmounts the hierarchy of literary genres and make its way into the active center of world literature.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76624005","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}
{"title":"On Variations of Classical Chinese Literary Theory for a Framework of Global Literary History","authors":"Peina Zhuang","doi":"10.3726/cul012021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3726/cul012021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In \"On Variations of Classical Chinese Literary Theory for a Framework of Global Literary History\" Peina Zhuang discusses texts of classical Chinese literary theory as a reservoir for philosophical reflections on literary art. The aesthetics of Chinese\u0000 literature originate in Confucianism and Taoism and hence represent an important background for any discussion of ancient, modern, or contemporary Chinese literature and literary history. Zhuang analyzes texts of classical Chinese literary theory within such a framework of a literary history\u0000 and aims at furthering Chinese literature to become an integral part of world literatures. Further, Zhuang argues that \"history\" and \"literary history\" present a different picture of works on classical Chinese literary theory owing to the variation caused in representing\u0000 their literary and aesthetic features. Zhuang also posits that the translation of Chinese literary texts to Western languages, while relevant and important, is not enough to advance Chinese literature from a peripheral status to a status of recognition hence the importance of scholarship with\u0000 regard to literary history specifically.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80851050","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}
{"title":"Cultural Variation and Cultural Creation in Chinese Biographical Writing and Carnegie’s Work","authors":"Weidong Zhou","doi":"10.3726/cul012021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3726/cul012021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In \"Cultural Variation and Cultural Creation in Chinese Biographical Writing and Carnegie’s Work\" Weidong Zhou discusses the impact on Chinese biographical writing via biographies written in Chinese and translated from English about Andrew Carnegie’s\u0000 life and work. The interpretation of Carnegie’s philanthropy includes Chinese traditional cultural concepts such as \"righteousness,\" \"cause and effect,\" and \"self-cultivation\" which constitute the unique understanding of \"philanthropy\" in modern\u0000 Chinese literature. From a \"moral model\" to \"successful person\" the overall images following Carnegie can reflect the processes of acceptance of Western \"individualism.\" Zhu argues that Carnegie’s example was shaped as a \"Youth Idol\" in the May\u0000 Fourth Movement from which the unique route of modernization in Chinese literature and culture can be traced.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84180302","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}
{"title":"Los desafíos de la comunicación virtual en tiempos de pandemia","authors":"Azucena Wendy Montalva Miñan","doi":"10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.05","url":null,"abstract":"El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad analizar la comunicación virtual en el contexto de pandemia, al igual que la interacción mediada por la tecnología donde se comienza a gestar una cultura virtual. De esta manera, la comunicación virtual se torna vigente y requiere ser estudiada para comprender los fenómenos sociales que surgen al instaurar esta forma de comunicación en la vida cotidiana de la sociedad mundial. Las relaciones interpersonales han mutado, la retroalimentación comunicativa cobra otros matices de desarrollo en este nuevo mundo virtual que viene cambiando patrones comunicativos.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72510265","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}
{"title":"Pandemias y su efecto en el turismo: lecciones del pasado y nuevos retos","authors":"E. Meza","doi":"10.24265/CULTURA.2020.V34.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/CULTURA.2020.V34.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"42 1","pages":"159-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82770335","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}
{"title":"El amor en tiempos de pandemia","authors":"Wilfredo Montenegro Carrasco","doi":"10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.14","url":null,"abstract":"A partir de la pandemia, provocada por la COVID-19, se reflexiona sobre la realidad de la condición humana: la crisis de amor. El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es incursionar en la reflexión filosófica y ética sobre el valor del amor y la fe en situaciones difíciles, como lo son las circunstancias por las que atraviesa la humanidad en la actualidad. Se pone en consideración que el verdadero problema radica en la crisis de valores y la falta de amor producto del individualismo, hedonismo y narcisismo. Se concluye que el amor es la base de todo camino conducente a una vida con sentido. La base del sentido de la vida, la salud y la felicidad no se encuentran en la ciencia, el poder político o económico, sino en el amor y la confianza en Dios. Además, la finalidad es pasar de la ética del riesgo a la ética del amor para reconstruir la cuna del amor: la familia. Como se lee en la Biblia: «Permanezcan en la fe, la esperanza y el amor. La más excelente de ellas es el amor» (1Cor 13, 13); «Vivan arraigados y cimentados en amor, por medio del Espíritu que los fortalezca en lo íntimo de su ser» (Efe 3, 16-17).","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89392257","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}
José Robello Malatto, Jorge Alberto Girano Castaños
{"title":"Manifestaciones orales en pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica (IRC) sometidos a hemodiálisis: revisión de la literatura","authors":"José Robello Malatto, Jorge Alberto Girano Castaños","doi":"10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.16","url":null,"abstract":"Las enfermedades renales se producen por deterioro y/o alteración de los riñones que impiden su normal funcionamiento; por ello, los pacientes que sufren estas alteraciones son sometidos a diferentes tratamientos de diálisis. Se conoce que enfermedades sistémicas influyen en la presencia de la enfermedad renal crónica y esta a su vez podría generar manifestaciones en la salud general de las personas, incluyendo, por ende, a la cavidad oral. Estudios informan sobre manifestaciones orales que se producen en pacientes diagnosticados con enfermedad renal crónica que se encuentran bajo tratamiento. Las enfermedades orales muchas veces son producto de una mala higiene; sin embargo, las enfermedades sistémicas funcionan como factor de riesgo de enfermedades orales, llegando muchas veces a ser destructivas si es que no se manejan a tiempo y con un correcto diagnóstico. En el presente estudio, se explora la evidencia disponible de manifestaciones orales en pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica bajo tratamiento. El objetivo es controlar y mejorar el diagnóstico diferencial de las manifestaciones orales, así como, apuntar a un mejor tratamiento para la calidad de vida de los pacientes.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82595642","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}
{"title":"El autoconocimiento como asignatura pendiente de la psicología en tanto ciencia humana","authors":"María Verónica Tello Leyva","doi":"10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.15","url":null,"abstract":"Entrelazar el autoconocimiento con la psicología, supone un análisis sereno y profundo sobre el camino recorrido por la psicología, desde su nacimiento hasta la actualidad; retomando su objetivo original de estudio: el alma humana. Este estudio, se sitúa inexorablemente en la esencia misma de la filosofía; lugar donde se gesta, forma y nace la psicología. Solo a partir de la filosofía y de la inclusión de la psicología en el campo de las ciencias humanas, se entiende el abandono que esta hace de su objeto original de estudio en su anhelo de ser reconocida como ciencia, pero sobre todo, se conocen las fortalezas y debilidades alcanzadas por la psicología contemporánea. Hecho que la coloca en una posición sumamente favorable para transitar, más que ninguna otra ciencia, dentro de los aspectos subjetivos como objetivos de la naturaleza humana, con relación a la máxima extraída del Templo de Delfos, tarea dejada por Sócrates: «conócete a ti mismo y conocerás a los demás». Lo que se plantea, es una nueva visión científica, desde el marco de una renovada psicología filosófica; y a partir de ahí, dar el salto cuántico de la ciencia a la metaciencia. El resultado, en la tarea de concretar la conquista del autoconocimiento, es lograr un punto de encuentro entre la naturaleza física y metafísica del ser humano.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"33 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77988450","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}
{"title":"El empoderamiento de la mujer como fuente de dignificación social","authors":"Martha Alicia Romero Echevarría","doi":"10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24265/cultura.2020.v34.06","url":null,"abstract":"El término empoderamiento fue acuñado en la Conferencia Mundial de Mujeres en Beijing para promover acciones que solventen la dignidad de las mujeres; teniendo esto como base para construir la paz, prosperidad y sostenibilidad (ONU Mujeres, 2015). En el presente estudio, se revisan los alcances o accesibilidad de las mujeres a la educación, economía, sociedad y política, debido a que se considera que una persona empoderada debe alcanzar equilibrio, autonomía y capacidad de actuar según su propio proyecto de vida. El empoderamiento minimiza los actos violentos contra los miembros de la familia y abre caminos para fortalecer y lograr una sociedad más digna.","PeriodicalId":92192,"journal":{"name":"Cultura (Iasi, Romania)","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73230031","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}