Discourses of the wound and desire for the Other: remembrances of the Katyń massacre and the Smoleńsk crash

ABSTRACT

We investigate the commemorative debate in Polish newspapers about how the Katyń massacre and the presidential plane crash near Smoleńsk, Russia, should be remembered. We demonstrate that a psychoanalytic discursive analysis elucidates the insistence on remembering past wounds, nationalist politics of victimhood, and the difficulties in reaching rapprochement in intercultural relations. To this end, we analyze the commemorative debates in two main Polish newspapers and a news magazine. We argue that an emotive discourse of “Katyń as a wound” yearns for a therapeutic healing of the rifts in Polish national mythology and postcommunist identity. This discourse revolves around a demand for recognition from the Russian Other of a wounded subject by employing evocative metonymies and transposing logics of equivalence and difference.     

The British National Costume: Of Tweed and Tension

A phenomenological inquiry of the islands of Lewis and Harris provides a foundation for the cloth that is made there, which in tag and reputation conveys its relationship to “place.” Tweed is a cloth historically born out of place-based tensions, which express themselves socially and materially in the vehicle of this woven proxy. Using Harris Tweed as a primary case study, this tension is addressed in a narrative examination of insiders and outsiders to conclude that the fabric of tweed—as well as the nationalisms, social fabric, and industry so iconic to it—is constructed with contrasts and differences, and not in spite of them. This examination proves relevant to tweed’s historic role as “British National Costume,” especially in light of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the 2016 Brexit vote.     

绘画创作中的人与自然——天人合一随想

“天人合一，物我交融”这一古老独特的审美思想，在艺术创作与实践中，呈现一种不同于西方的纯东方的审美意蕴．它既是物的人化，也是人的物化，中国传统的绘画艺术无不追求这样的一种品位．这种审美追求在某种意义上，仍具有很强的现代性．我们应领悟和把握我们民族艺术的精髓，使艺术创作兼具民族特色和时代感．     

民国纺织产品商标设计的民族性解读

目的 客观呈现民国纺织产品商标设计的表现形式,探究其设计成因,对商标设计的民族性进行解读.方法 选取民国纺织产品商标为研究对象,结合历史文献、图像资料和馆藏实物为研究参考依据,从设计学的角度,通过商标构成要素即题材、构图、色彩进行整理归纳与分析,并以民国商标设计背景出发,释读其呈现民族风格的设计动因.结果 对于纺织产品类商标设计而言,中国传统人文类题材、中国绘画构图中的"之"字式构图方式和中国传统五行色的运用占比较为靠前.结论 统计分析后排名靠前的主要元素和特征,为其"民族性"提供了证据.而其中国人的爱国思绪与传统文化精神,为民国纺织产品商标呈现民族化特征提供了设计动因,反映了民国时期东西方艺术文化的碰撞,展现了中国现代视觉艺术设计发端的面貌,对商标设计如何体现民族与传统提供了参考.     

跨文化传播视角下在华留学生的文化民族主义表达模式探析——基于京、津、渝、黔、粤、赣等省市的调研

在华留学生在当今对外文化传播过程中起着重要的作用,在全媒体时代甚至直接关系到中国国家形象的构建问题。通过对在华留学生大范围的调研,以问卷调查结合深度访谈形式展开,以此探究该群体在跨文化传播中的群体心理及其文化民族主义的表达模式,并对形成此种文化民族主义表达模式的机制和原因进行深入分析。     

关于民族化与职业装设计的思考

针对职业装设计中的民族化问题进行研究,认为民族化并非是在职业装中简单地使用民族特征的设计元素进行迭加和计算,而要对民族文化精髓进行演绎和发扬,同时还要解决生产工艺中遇到的问题,并指出,了解学习民族文化的内涵,领悟掌握民族文化是职业装设计民族化的基础。     

Science,demons, and gods in the battle against the COVID-19 epidemic

This spotlight article reflects on President Xi Jinping's handling of the COVID-19 epidemic and evaluates its specificities by making a brief incursion into the history of Chinese official responses to epidemics. This analysis shows that Xi Jinping's response to the COVID-19 epidemic differs from official responses to the 2003 SARS epidemic and the cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic of 1966–1967, and is used to assert his legitimacy on both the local and the international stage. By sharing data, even if it was not as accurate as claimed, Xi Jinping has presented himself as a trustworthy international partner, leading a country that is at the forefront of scientific research, capable of vigorously implementing epidemic preparedness measures, and destined to become a major player in global health. On the Chinese stage, he showed that the central government has regained control over local public health organizations and that public health is once again a key government priority. As part of his response, Xi Jinping also honored gods of the Chinese pantheon, in a seeming contradiction with communism and science. I argue that, by combining the most advanced technology with a religious heritage, Xi Jinping is skillfully creating an image of himself not only as powerful and modern, but also as a leader undeniably rooted in Chinese tradition.     

Pro Pelle Cutem: Photographing Furs for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations in Canada

In 1920, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) celebrated its 250^th anniversary through national and international events, as well as honours and benefits for its employees. The year 1920 was an important moment for the HBC, as it underwent institutional change to support the expansion of its department store operations through public relations and advertising strategies. Central to these strategies was an emphasis on the HBC’s central role in Canadian nation formation, and in particular its fur trade history. This article discusses the use of photography in the HBC’s 250^th anniversary celebrations through an analysis of photographs of fur. I trace photographic representations of fur through three moments: in the process of extraction (as trapped animal or dead pelt); in the process of preparation (as Indigenous bush labour); and in the process of consumption (as fur goods in a department store window). While the fur trade was declining in significance at the time of the 250^th anniversary celebrations, its symbolic status was essential to the Company’s burgeoning retail operations. In this article, I argue that the photograph of fur replaced the fur pelt as the central trade item of the HBC, and, further, that photography fused together nationalist and capitalist expansion in Canada.     

后现代艺术思潮对现代青花艺术的影响

本文旨在研究后现代艺术思潮对现代青花艺术的影响以及其衍生的交革将拓宽青花芝术的发展方向。     

资源民族主义全球状况评价（2013）

当前,资源民族主义已经成为全球矿业领域的热点话题,各方对其全球状况有不同程度研判。本文以2012年以来资源民族主义相关事件信息为数据基础,简要阐述了资源民族主义的内涵和概貌,初步分析了资源民族主义全球状况分布特征。最终回答了资源民族主义全球状况评价的四个基本问题:①资源民族主义是什么;②涉及到哪些国家;③具体表现形式;④发展到了何种程度,并对其全球发展趋势做了预判。