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Flowers of Friendship Blossom in Sino-Albanian Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation
ZHENG Enbo
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 3-11.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.050
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The author is the first Chinese literary and art worker who is dedicated solely to the study of Sino-Albanian bilateral cultural exchanges and cooperation and is a distinguished translator who has translated the greatest number of Albanian literary works into Chinese. In this paper, by using precious first-hand materials accumulated for decades, the author introduces in detail the fruitful results achieved in cultural exchange and cooperation between the two countries for more than half a century. The paper covers a wide range of aspects including translation and introduction of literary works, achievements of literature research, communications and exchanges of the two countries’ writers and artists, communications of art troupes, etc. The paper gives an accurate and comprehensive summary of various aspects, which provides us with literary and historical information for further study. In addition, the author also looks forward to the inspiring prospects of cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. With the stimulation of “One Belt and One Road”, literary and art workers of both countries are sure to achieve greater accomplishments.
The Formation and Development of Critical Realistic Literature in Poland
ZHANG Zhenhui
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 12-19.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.051
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Polish realistic literature was born in the second half of the 19th century. It is well known that Poland was carved up and occupied by the three countries of Tsarist Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and it used to be suffered from a long national oppression. In January of 1863, the famous National Uprising of Polish People against Russian broke out at Warsaw, the capital of Poland which was occupied by Tsarist Russia at that time. Because of the influence of the uprising, the Russian occupiers announced the Emancipation of Serfs in the occupation area in the following year. The capitalism has developed rapidly after the Emancipation of Serfs in the Kingdom of Poland, but the national and class oppression was still very serious, some famous realist writers exposed the darkness of the reality comprehensively in their works. At the same time, they inspired and motivated the Polish people to fight against the oppressors in the spirit of national heroism in order to win the liberation of the Polish nation and Polish people. These writers advocated the ideas of patriotism and democratism in the series of classics in the history of Polish literature, it has great practical significance not only in Poland but also in today’s society.
To the Depths of the Temple of the Body —Contemporary Hungarian Novelist Nádas Péter and His Works
YU Zemin
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 20-31.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.053
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Nádas Péter is a famous contemporary Hungarian writer whose works are closely related to his experiences in life. In his works such as Parallel Stories, the End of a Family Story and Book of Memories, the writer, through the approach of literature narration, leads the readers to more thinking of cultural traditions, the good and evil of human nature and the like. Parallel Stories is an absolutely great novel, but also difficult to read, which demands meticulous reading word by word, so that readers may put together the scattered clues in the book to form into parallel lines and find the secret intersections of these parallel lines by using the knowledge and experience of their own. More importantly, by studying and translating the works of Nádas Péter and by communicating with him personally, the paper reveals the greatness of Nádas Péter’s works.
Prague“Lu Xun Library”Initiated by Sinologist Jaroslav Průšek
XU Weizhu
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 32-37.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.054
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"Lu Xun Library" in the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was proposed and founded by Czech sinology founder— professor Jaroslav Pr?šek and was officially opened in Prague on October 24, 1952. It is the only overseas library named after Lu Xun, a symbol of Sino-Czech traditional friendship and Pr?šek’s permanent memorial of Lu Xun. It also has great significance in the history of sinology research in Czech. Pr?šek initiated the academic tradition of Chinese modern literature research and successfully cultivated a group of young scholars dedicated to the study of Chinese culture who were referred to as "Prague sinology school" by the international sinology for their meticulous scholarship, systematic translation studies and unique academic contribution. As an important base for introducing and studying Chinese language and culture, "Lu Xun Library" has a far-reaching influence on the development of Czech sinology. The establishment of "Lu Xun Library" marks a new stage in the Czech sinology research and Sino-Czech cultural relation. At the same time, it provides for us a new perspective and reference to reflect on the history of the social and cultural exchanges in China from foreign eyes.
A Brief History of Sino-Hungarian Communication under the Rule of Austro-Hungarian Monarchs
SHU Sunle
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 38-46.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.052
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, almost simultaneously China and most Eastern European countries started to look for a way out for themselves. As the descendants of the Turkish nations living to the north of ancient China, many Hungarians came in for root-seeking, in order to build up their own national identities. 1867, Hungary merged with Austria under the Habsburg Monarchy to form the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This new-yet-old empire was eager to establish itself on the world atlas by “going out” for getting rid of the oppressed fate; whereas on the other end of the Eurasian Continent the late Qing Dynasty, baptized by the gunfire of invading imperialists, was also determined to save the kingdom by learning from the West and thus encouraged its people to go abroad to study western culture. Hungarian and Chinese people were then able to introduce themselves to each other to be enlightened with new ideas and to enjoy broadened scopes. This paper studies the primary sources of Sino-Hungarian exchanges. It reviews the history of exchanges between China and Hungary under the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to examine the two-way influences and acceptance in the hope of providing historical reference and guarantee to advance future Sino-Hungarian bilateral cooperation.
On the Change of Literary Genres and Literary Styles in Ukraine in the 17th Century
YU Lide/DAI Ying
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 47-54.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.055
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In the 17th century, Ukraine began to get rid of foreign oppression and incorporate into Russia, while in this course, wars broke out frequently and social crisis continued to increase. On the one hand, the turbulent society brought great disaster to the ordinary people; on the other hand, it also provides an external stimulus to enrich the content of literary works. Baroque style fully penetrated into the field of Ukrainian literature in this period is one manifestation. In the change of Ukrainian literary genres, such as folk literature, drama, fiction, poetry, etc., the intervention of Baroque style greatly enhanced the literariness of the old genres, while the religious elements have been weakened. Particularly, those genres which attached to the field of ideology in the past change into independent literary works. The traces of the original style still existed in the works of this period, such as meditation, historical ballads, church sermon, etc., but the bold innovation of Ukrainian writers in the aspects of narrative mode, ideological content, and language usage has strengthened the reflection of the national history and tradition in the literary works, which laid the foundation for the establishment of new Ukrainian literature. This paper attempts to explore the changing process of Ukrainian literature in this historical period.
A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of EFL Synonymous Phrases —From the Perspective of Phraseology
PENG Cheng
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 55-67.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.032
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The bulk of literature on the contrastive study of synonyms’ phraseological features under the theory of corpus linguistics has focused on individual words rather than phrases. The present study adopts a corpus-based approach to explore the usage of synonymous phrases in the framework of extended unit of meaning, referring to the theory of Phraseology. Three phrases are selected based on their high frequency in corpus: lead to, bring about and result in. The sample synonyms in this research are retrieved with AntConc and analyzed in COCA and CLEC to find out different phraseological features in four dimensions: collocation, colligation, semantic preference and prosody. Then, a contrastive analysis will be conducted to induce the deviated usage by EFL learners from native speakers to reveal their inconsistent grammatical patterns, semantic fields and emotional attitudes. The research findings demonstrate that the number of collocates of these synonyms in COCA is much larger; their colligations in COCA are more varied; their semantic preferences are more diverse; their prosodies form a hierarchy of attitudes. In contrast, the synonyms’ collocates in CLEC are fewer than those in COCA; the colligations of these three synonyms in CLEC are simpler than those in COCA; the synonyms’ semantic preferences in CLEC are less complicated than those in COCA; the synonyms’ prosodies in CLEC are almost similar: negative with little positive, unlike those in COCA, which boast hierarchical attitudes and feelings.
Language and Space: A Perspective of Linguistic Landscape
GE Junli
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 68-80.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.038
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As a brand-new research field of sociolinguistics, the study of linguistic landscape interprets the relationship between language and space by means of analyzing the variety of linguistic signs in public space such as public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings, which in general can be divided into top-down signs and bottom-up signs and which are equipped with informative function and symbolic function. The article reviews the chronological development of linguistic landscape studies at home and abroad, expounds the research contents in detail which contain Linguistic Landscape in a narrow sense represented by Landry & Bourhis (1997), Gorter (2006a, 2006b) and Backhaus (2007) , Semiotic Landscape by Jaworski & Thurlow (2010a, 2010b) and Geosemiotics by Scollon & Scollon (2003), and has a thorough and in-depth discussion about theoretical and methodological argumentations of this study in the following five aspects of (1) the samples’ representativeness and scope, (2) the sample’s unit of analysis, (3) the samples’ categorizations, (4) the signs’ authorship, primary functions and intended readers, and (5) quantitative or qualitative analysis. This study reflects the diverse linguistic phenomena in terms of language conflict, language contact, language maintenance, language change and ethnolinguistic vitality, so on and so forth, which demonstrate overt or covert linguistic prestige, power relations and social status embodied in the language use and language choice. In the end, the article puts forward personal views about the prospective linguistic landscape studies in China.
The Polyphonic Novel: The Dialogue between Haruki Murakami and Dostoevsky
LIU Yan
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 81-89.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.043
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The paper attempts to analyze the synthesis of Dostoevsky's "(polyphony) profound influence on Haruki Murakami's literary novels"by a close reading of the text, the theory of Comparative Literature and ethics. Haruki describes "contemporary life" with all kinds of people and all kinds of stories in 1Q84. And the discussion on the problems such as "justice and freedom", "good and evil" and "the diversity of life" also find some spiritual origins in the works of Dostoyevsky. The plot of Aomame to kill "pioneer" is also similar to "religious judge"in the ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chapters of 1Q84 second volumes. The conclusion is that Dostoevsky has always maintained a search under the religious emotion, and Murakami stresses the relativity of good and evil, uncertainty of things and deconstruction of value or meaning under the influence of the postmodern, which makes the confrontation of Aomame and "pioneer" lacking a soul shocking, instead of triggering a clash of ideas, even with the nature of a "light novel". The significance is that we are more vigilant about the influence of Haruki Murakami as a best-selling author.
A Discussion of the Poetic Thought “Oneness” in Coleridge’s Conversation Poem The Eolian Harp
GUO Feng
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 90-100.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.024
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As Coleridge’s “the most favorite” “New Style” poem, The Eolian Harp, with its mild-wild images of nature, deep and profound reflections on life and sincere and rational soul meditation, demonstrates the deep and sophisticated developing context of his poetic thought “Oneness” in his life experience. Oneness is the core of Coleridge’s poetics. Nevertheless, the lack of this reference from critics both at home and abroad leads to the failure of an objective understanding of his poetry, especially his conversation poems. The article here, from the perspectives of new historicism and eco-criticism, rereads and analyzes the natural images and religious musings in The Eolian Harp, trying to observe the inter-textual relationship between history and the development of Coleridge’s poetics and thus interpret objectively the modern cological value and significance in his poetic “Oneness”. This early conversation poem not simply expresses Coleridge’s expectation of a blessed love and marriage, but the images of nature that have rich implications in thinkingon the Eolian Harp, superficially at odds with each other,ultimately in a perfect harmony in their true sense. The poet here is awakened from “the shapings of a regenerated mind” and ultimately redeemed by God’s grace. The poem fully embodies the significant advance of Coleridge’s poetic thought “Oneness”: to return from Unitarianism to Trinity religiously, to give a selfcriticism of the radical thoughts politically, and to deepen the conception of “Unity” of all things on earth in natural philosophy.
Walter Scott’s Imaginary Writing about Social Changes in Britain in Waverley
ZHAO Peng
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 101-113.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.028
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The late 18th-century and early 19th-century witnessed the dramatic and unprecedented changes of Scotland in its politics, economy and society. Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) is the first historical novel of Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832), a Scottish poet and novelist, which tells the adventures of Waverley, its fictitious hero, in Scotland during the 1745—1746 Jacobite rising or rebellion. By adopting comparative and historical methods, at the same time, based on the symbolic meaning of Scottish Highland culture as well as the historical background of the novel, this paper examines how Scott writes about the high-speed social changes in modern Britain in the form of romance. The conclusion of this paper is that although Waverley is set in the 18th-century Scotland, the novel focuses on the origin of British revolution and violence from late 18th-century to early 19th-century as well as the fate of modern Britain. Meanwhile, Scott points out the dramatic social changes in Scotland and the rapid disappearance of Highland ancient culture within 60 years, from the failure of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to 1805, its narrating present, which indicate the conflicts between high-speed commercialization and the transmission of traditional culture in modern Britain. The social problems revealed and discussed by Scott in Waverley is historically and geographically specific, but they are still significant for China’s social development in the context of globalization.
Bidirectional Artifact Analysis in Applied Research of Critical Incidents for Interactions in Thematic English Reading Teaching Model
ZHANG Xiang
Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2016, 38(4): 114-126.   https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.2016.048
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How to implement the effective interaction in classroom to promote the transformation of English reading teaching model from the score-oriented to the thinking-oriented is an urgent problem to be solved in the instructional design of English reading teaching at present. Bidirectional artifact analysis is a qualitative research method used to analyze the creative processes of digitally mediated artifact. This study applies bidirectional artifact analysis in the thematic English reading teach?ing model to critically reflect the creative processes of critical incidents for interaction of teachers’ thematic concept maps of the text “Marrakech” in before-class lead-in reading teaching stage, promoting teachers deeply understand conceptual cognitive processes for activities procedures of schematic interactions visualization in pre-class stage, which provides a pathway for teachers to practice original interactive analysis for reflection. The method applied multi-textual “tracing” methodology targeting on visual cognition data for reading schemata of creative processes of pre-class thematic concept maps over time, and implemented narrative analysis of the change of the basic characteristics of thematic concept maps focusing on visual interaction details for reading schemata. The method is valued by cultivating teacher’s abilities effec?tively in the field of instructional design for reading teaching and developing students’ disciplinary thinking abilities.
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