This book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai. In contrast ...to the usual narrative of Daoist decay, with its focus on monastic decline, clerical corruption, and popular superstitions, this study tells a story of Daoist resilience, reinvigoration, and revival. Between the 1920s and 1940s, Chen led a group of urban lay followers in pursuing Daoist self-cultivation techniques as a way of ensuring health, promoting spirituality, forging cultural self-identity, building community, and strengthening the nation. In their efforts to renew and reform Daoism, Chen and his followers became deeply engaged with nationalism, science, the religious reform movements, the new urban print culture, and other forces of modernity. Since Chen and his fellow practitioners conceived of the Daoist self-cultivation tradition as a public resource, they also transformed it from an “esoteric" pursuit into a public practice, offering a modernizing society a means of managing the body and the mind and of forging a new cultural, spiritual, and religious identity.
V članku raziskujem dinamiko Bahtinove ideje človeškega telesa kot kulturne vrednote od eseja Avtor in junak v estetski dejavnosti do Dela Françisa Rabelaisa in ljudske kulture srednjega veka in ...renesanse. Skiciram tudi nekatere izmed virov, ki so bili v zvezi z Bahtinovim zanimanjem za ta problem najodločilnejši, in premišlja, kako je Bahtinova obravnava omenjene tematike vplivala na idejo zgodovine v njegovih spisih.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- The thesis is concerned with the modernist novels of British writer Virginia
Woolf, with the aim of proving that this novelist’s ...modernist literature is
based upon the concept of interface – a two-way relationship between body and
city. Especially emphasised is the fact that the thesis deals with the novels
written in a modernist manner, as precisely these works contribute to the
omnipresence of the body-city linkage and its presentation on the fictional
scene. The novels selected for the research are the following: Jacob’s Room,
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Flush, and The Years.
The key methods used during the research are: definition, concretisation,
analysis, interpretation, and induction. The author defines the main
hypothesis and the sub-hypotheses, the goals of the research and the concepts
it uses; the author’s claims are concretised through the examples of the
relevant novels; the examples undergo analysis and interpretation; an overall
conclusion is induced on the basis of the results gained. From Elizabeth
Grosz, a contemporary theoretician, the paper borrows the term interface,
used by Grosz to define the relationship between body and city, seen as a
“two-way linkage“ or “cobuilding“ (Grosz 1992: 248). The study also accepts
Grosz’s notions of body and city, body being understood as a certain
integration of physical and psychosocial sides of a human subject, that is,
as a “sociocultural artifact“ (Grosz 1992: 241), and city being understood as
all living and non-living, material and non-material, concrete and abstract
elements of an urban entity (Grosz 1992: 244). However, by considering a (not
necessarily urban) building – the elementary unit of an urban form – a
notional part of the city, and by recognising a fundamental relation of the
acts of building/structuring and (de)structuring with the idea of city, the
study extends the limits of Grosz’s city definition to a certain extent. The
paper also makes use of John Fiske’s theory of popular culture, in which
popular culture is seen as a product actively created in the encounter
between people and the culture industry (Fisk 2001: 32), in a process in
which individuals accept a product, at the same time modifying it to suit
their own needs (Fisk 2001: 36). This theory makes it possible for popular
culture to be interpreted as a field on which an interface between body and
the city industry, represented by the culture industry, takes place. In
addition, the study echoes some of Henry Bergson’s views on the relation
between body and spirit, and uses some of the definitions of urbanism – the
study of city. In order to prove its main hypothesis, the paper provides
arguments in favour of its stated sub-hypotheses, within eight thematically
different chapters. The first chapter points out the fact that the characters
of the selected novels are dominantly placed within a city, whereas the city
rules over the characters’ lives. The relationship between the characters and
the city is shown in close-up and from two opposing perspectives – from the
point of view of a body that plays a certain role in the city, and from the
standpoint of the city that enters a relationship with an urban body. The
novels analysed are Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room, Flush, and Orlando. The
second chapter offers the arguments in favour of the claim that the
relationship between body and city exists even in the novels which are not
built upon an urban ground, or that it exists in non-urban segments of the
novels mainly set in a city environment. The arguments are based upon the
analysis of To the Lighthouse and Orlando. The third chapter makes an attempt
to prove that the concept of the body-city interface forms the base of
formally the most experimental of Virginia Woolf’s novels – The Waves. In the
analysis of the novel dominated by rhythm instead of plot, the characters are
seen as differentiated aspects of one human personality, of which the most
distinguished are the natural and the urban human trait. The chapter tends to
prove that of the two aspects it is the urban one that prevails. The fourth
chapter points out that the interface between body and city predominates as a
notion in Virginia Woolf’s modernist works even when the novelist deals with
the theme of seclusion and inaccessibility of human soul. By emphasising that
interface is by definition a two-way relationship between two different
(id)entities, and that each individual tends to preserve their own identity
during the communication with the (urban) outside world, the chapter attempts
to prove that many among Woolf’s heroes possess a tendency towards social
isolation and identity preservation. The isolation, however, does not
indicate a halt in the interface; on the contrary, it shows an ever-lasting
character of its existence. The chapter analyses Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway,
Flush, and The Waves. The fifth chapter concerns The Years, with a view to
proving that the body-city interface constitutes the basis for this later
novel, which, in spite of its greater dependence on historical facts, remains
a modernist work. The sixth chapter deals with some elements of popular
culture in the selected novels, understanding popular culture as one of the
points of interface between body and its (urban) environment, that is, in
terms of Fiske’s implications. The arguments are based upon the analysis of
Mrs. Dalloway, The Years, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. The subject
matter of the seventh chapter are the motifs of clothing and fashion as
highly significant aspects of Virginia Woolf’s fiction writing, which, at the
same time, function as a zone of interface between the novels’ bodies and the
city/ies they inhabit. The chapter analyses Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room,
Orlando, Flush, and The Years. Last but not least, the eighth chapter is
concerned with some details of all of the selected novels in which body and
city are identified with each other in a verbal, metaphorical, and/or
symbolic sense. The results of the research within these eight chapters are
the following: - the characters of Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room, Flush, and
Orlando are dominantly placed within a city or they are influenced by a city
space, whereas the urban environment and its elements have an important role
in the characters’ lives; - the characters of To the Lighthouse and the title
hero of Orlando are inextricably linked to a building – the elementary unit
of an urban form. The Lighthouse – the building which the characters of the
first novel tend to reach in a physical sense – functions as an imaginary
space filled with personal wishes, while Orlando constantly leans, both
physically and emotionally, on his/her family house, as a symbol of the
character’s linkage to his/her native land; - in the battle between two
dominant aspects of the many-sided human personality of The Waves, the one
that wins is the urban side – the tendency towards city and the development
of social relations; - social isolation, a characteristic of Jacob Flanders,
Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus Smith, Flush and Elizabeth Barrett, and of some
protagonists of The Waves, functions as a constitutive part, a fact, and an
indication of the interface between these characters and the city in
question; - the body-city relation forms the basis for the theme dealt with
in The Years – the theme of social changes at the end of the 19th and the
beginning of the 20th centuries, while the relationship between the
characters and the city creates the dominant background of the presented
changes; - Mrs. Dalloway and Londoners, the Ramsay mother and son, Rose
Pargiter, and the characters of The Waves unconsciously create instances of
popular culture, modifying the look and/or the meaning of the products or
services offered by the urban environment; - in Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room,
Orlando, Flush, and The Years, clothing, fashion, or even the natural fur
serve as important signifiers of the fictional body and its feelings towards
itself and the others, thus also representing the body-city interface; - in
Jacob’s Room, The Years, Mrs. Dalloway, Flush, and Orlando, there is a verbal
and/or figurative identification of characters with their rooms; in Jacob’s
Room, The Years, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves, a
body and a building frequently change places or roles, while life is often
felt in terms of building/structuring and destructuring; finally, in Jacob’s
Room, Mrs. Dalloway, Flush, The Years, The Waves, and Orlando, a city in its
entirety is identified with (a) body and (a) life. On the basis of the given
results issuing from separate chapters and proving the sub-hypotheses, the
paper derives the following conclusion as to the experimental novels of
Virginia Woolf: (1) the body constantly belongs to the city, whereas the city
dominantly inhabits the body; (2) the body is strongly connected to the
building as a notional and material base of the city, notwithstanding the
(non)urban environment; (3) the concept of the body-city interface forms the
base of a novel entirely dependent on rhythm instead of plot; (4) the body’s
isolation from the city as a dominant theme of the given novels is, at the
same time, one of the pillars of the body’s interface with the city; (5) the
main theme of a later modernist novel is rooted in the body-city interface;
(6) elements of popular culture function as frequent actors on the fictional
scene, which means that they also constitute one of the fields of the
body-city interface; (7) clothing and fashion as significant motifs of these
novels also serve as a large zone where the body and the city meet each
other; finally, (8) the body and the city in Virginia Woolf’s modernist
novels frequently swap places in a verbal, metaphorical, and/or symbolic
sense. The inductive conclusion based upon the preceding inferences would be
as follows: the conception of int
"Ninguna empresa en Guatemala estaba haciendo dumping para Mexico, lo que sucede es que hay muchas industrias protegidas por el Gobierno mexicano", asegura Federico Prado, al aducir que este sector ...no es el unico que padece de problemas para vender mercaderias en ese pais desde cualquier punto de Centroamerica. Contradictoriamente, las investigaciones por parte de la Secretaria de Economia mexicana, que determinaron que las importaciones en cuestion "danaban la produccion nacional" y que desembocaron en tales medidas, empezaron despues de implementarse el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Guatemala y aquella nacion, recuerda el gerente de Tubac. Guatemala pide a la OMC consultas con Mexico, respecto a los derechos antidumping impuestos por ese pais y la investigacion que dio lugar a su imposicion, aduciendo que la determinacion de Mexico sobre la existencia de dumping "carecia de fundamento". 2006 NoticiasFinancieras - 2006 GDA - Siglo Veintiuno - All rights reserved
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way, but at the same time each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world. ...Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as the mind-body problem, personal identity, knowledge and skepticism, thought and reality, free will, ethics, the relation between moral and other values, the meaning of life, and death.
Pričttjoča študija je literarno-antropološka analiza konstitucije in razvoja antičnega ženskega dramskega lika, Priamove hčere in trojanske prerokinje Kasandre. Kasandro interpretiram kot ...paradigmatski primer za antropološko analizo ženske problematike v drami - tako v antiki kakor tudi v sodobnosti. Podrobneje obravnavam tri dramske obdelave: prvi del Ajshilove Oresteje, tragedijo Agamemnon; Evripidovo tragedijo Trojanke in dramo Kasandra, sodobnega slovenskega avtorja, Borisa A. Novaka. V celotno raziskavo pa zajemam tudi podobe Kasandre, kakršne so se oblikovale v antični epiki in sodobnem romanu: Homerjevi Iliado in Odiseja, Likofronovo pesnitev Aleksandra ter roman Christe Wolf Kasandra.
The rice aneuploids with telochromosomes are ideal genetic stocks for chromosome arm identification and microdissection. A rice telo-tetrasomic line with two extra short arms of chromosome 5 (5S) was ...used in the present study. The amrs of 5S were microdissected from the prometaphase cells in mitosis and amplified with linker adaptor PCR (LA-PCR). The amplified fmgments, ranging from 200–3000 bp, were confirmed to be from the rice chromosome arm 5S by the rice STS and miamatellite markers.
Demografsko starenje ima mnoge posledice, а jedna, često zaboravljena, је i starenje biračkog tela. U članku su opisani dosadašnji i budući trendovi u kretanju biračkog kontingenta Kvebeka, а ukazano ...је i na neke moguće posledice takvih kretanja za budući razvoj društva. Stanovništvo kanadske provincije Kvebek, koje је još uvek relativno mlado, се početi intenzivno da stari posle 2011. godine zbog ulaska baby-boom generacija u grupu starih 65 ili više godina. Рrеmа najnovijim projekcijama Statističkog biroa Kvebeka, u 2041. godini stari ćе predstavljati između 25 i 30% ukupnog stanovništva. Istovremeno ćе procesu starenja biti izloženo i potencijalno biračko telo - od sadašnjih 16%, stari ćе u 2041. godini predstavljati 30 do 35% biračkog kontingenta. 1951. godine је na 100 stanovnika mlađih 18-34 godine bilo 21 lice starije od 65 godina. 1996. godine vrednost tog indeksa starenja је više nego udvostručena. 2041. godine indeks starenja biračkog tela bi se, u zavisnosti od varijante projekcija, kretao između 123 i 168. Neizbežno starenje biračkog kontingenta ćе izazvati mnoge posledice, posebno u domenu državne politike. lzbori ро većinskom principu podstiču političke partije da svoje političke platforme usklađuju interesima prosečnog birača. U tom smislu, ubuduće se može očekivati preorijentacija društvenih prioriteta u korist starih. Budući stari građani ćе biti bolje obrazovani, boljeg finansijskog stanja i boljeg zdravlja i nа taj način u mogućnosti da bolje organizuju zaštitu svojih interesa. Uspostavljajući paralelu između individualnog i demografskog starenja, mnogi bi mogli da pomisle kako pojava tzv. sive sile vodi ka stvaranju jednog konzervativnog društva, koje se odlikuje odsustvom želje za inovacijama, što se, kao karakteristično ponašanje, često pripisuje starima. Međutim, danas se zna da ljudi stare kao što su i ranije živeli, zadržavajući svoje ponašanje i mišljenje, čak i ono političko. Takva hipoteza navodi da bi starenje stanovništva moglo da ohrabri pritiske u prilog nezavisnosti Kvebeka, а nе da ih smanji. Tako bi 2031. godine udruživanjem glasova tzv. baby-boom generacije, starije ali i dalje verne opredeljenjima iz mladosti, i mladih koji su uglavnom privrženi independetističkoj opciji, moglo da se očekuje referendumsko "da" za nezavisan Kvebek. Eventualno dejstvo efekta odlaganja ili, pak, nestabilnost koja karakteriše političko ponašanje generacija ograničava značaj takve analize.
No dateline, as received Another refusal of the Russian Foreign Ministry to issue an entry visa to Dalai Lama is a rude violation of constitutional rights of the population of Russia's Buddhist ...regions, the Buddhist spiritual leader of the Republic of Kalmykia, Telo Tulku Rinpoche, has said. Dalai Lama's visit to Russia "is very important for the revival of Buddhist traditions in Kalmykia, Buryatia and Tyva that were almost completely eliminated during the Soviet period", Telo Rinpoche said. It's ridiculous that Dalai Lama came to the Soviet Union more than once in the 1970s and the 1980s but cannot visit democratic Russia, he said. "Even non-Buddhists cannot understand this," he added.
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