Volume 13 - Issue 4 - 2018
Chinese Takeaways: Vegetarian Culture in Contemporary China
Deborah CAO
Griffith University, Australia
Vegetarianism has a long tradition in Chinese culture. Both Chinese Buddhism and Daoism promote a vegetarian diet based on the teaching of not taking life. Both also have had a long and fine vegetarian cuisine culture as a healthy lifestyle and a culinary art form.Bean curd was invented by the Chinese some 2,000 years ago. However, if you visit China today, it is not easy to find a vegetarian restaurant or come across a vegetarian....
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Cinematic Interpretation of Spatiality
Janina SCHUPP, Andong LU and Fran?ois PENZ
University of Cambridge, UK
On the cinematic screen, our perception of space, both built and natural space, can be audio-visually captured, expressed or even reconstructed. The filmic portrayal of spatiality can capture individual or broader cultural comprehensions of our lived spaces and reveal deeper culturally rooted understandings of everyday environments that diverge between the East and the West. ...
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Globalisation and Its Influences on Higher Education Policy in China
Quan ZHOU
Sun Yat-sen University, Chinal
In this day and age, there are still plenty of discussions on globalisation: for some it might be seen as a positive whilst others are more pessimistic. In general, all opinions describe the growing contemporary global interconnectedness. The society that mankind will inhabit in the near future is being shaped by new and powerful forces that include the globalisation of economic activity, the growing importance of knowledge as a prerequisite for participation in fundamental human activities and the increasing democratisation of political systems....
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Bottom-up or Top-town? ---The Approach to English Contract Translation
Lichuan PAN
East China University of Political Science and Law,
China
Bottom-up approach believes that, in comprehending a text, it is linguistic knowledge that matters; while top-down approach asserts that contextual knowledge and schematic knowledge count more than linguistic knowledge. To examine which of the ones more effective than the other, this article first investigated MTI students' background, then it analysed the features of English contracts and explored the appropriate approach to six example sentences of the contracts....
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Contemporary Chinese poetic form innovation: A Study on Pistol poem
Yongjian HUANG
Shenzhen University, China
In recent years, a variety of "new poetry" and "poets" came into being, poem of the "pear", "lamb", "black body" and "roaring style" and so on in the mass caused great repercussions . The evolution of poetry in modern society under the cultural transmission has attracted more and more attention. Relying on mobile phone platform, the new Chinese poetry. ...
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