Constructing a Values-guided General Education System

(by ZHANG Guo-xiong, LIU Cheng-ming, CAO Jun-yong)

Abstract: In Wuyi University’s “Four in One” ideological and political education system, general education occupies the second level and undertakes the important task of “theoretical extension”. Values are the main line of all courses of its general education to achieve the unity of knowledge and values. The core courses, trunk courses and extension courses are designed in accordance with the socialist core values to constantly improve the pertinence, effectiveness and integrity of theoretical extension courses with a view to building a brand of general education.

Keywords: Guiding with values; General education; “Overall design for general education”

AnExplorationoftheApplicationoftheProject-basedTeachingModeinGeneralEducation

(by HU Fan)

Abstract: The project-based teaching mode has the advantages of pertinence and flexibility in the construction of a teaching system, the refinement of teaching content, and the selection of teaching methods, which closely corresponds to the goal and concept of general education with a special mission. Taking the setting of teaching objectives as the starting point, this paper summarizes and discusses the application of the project-based teaching mode in general education from the three aspects of teaching design, teaching implementation and teaching evaluation. The mode is positive and beneficial to improving the quality of general education courses and enhancing the consciousness of general education teachers.

Keywords: Project-based teaching modes; General education; Guiding with values; Application in teaching

AnExplorationofIdeologicalandPoliticalEducationinWuyiUniversity’sGeneralEducation

(by RAN Yan-jie)

Abstract: The core course “General Theory of Overseas Chinese Culture” in Wuyi University’s general education curriculum is designed to mine the ideological and political elements in the course and is guided with patriotism and mutual learning of civilizations to serve the university’s grand pattern of ideological and political education. It fulfills the demands of ideological and political work in colleges and universities in the new era and attempts to forge a brand of ideological and political education with its own characteristics.

Keywords: General education; Ideological and political education throughout the courses; Overseas Chinese; Qiaoxiang

APreliminaryStudyofTransportationModernizationandTownizationoftheQiaoxianginSiyiRegion

(by SHI Jian-ping)

Abstract: In modern times, large amounts of remittances from overseas Chinese were transformed into commercial capital and were invested in transportation, which not only directly promoted the transportation modernization in Siyi Qiaoxiang areas, but also profoundly affected and restricted the rise of townization and the spatial layout of the towns.

Keywords: Siyi area; Qiaoxiang; Overseas Chinese; Transportation; Modernization; Townization

TheDiversifiedBasesforConstructingGuangdong’sMarineCulture

(by LI Yun)

Abstract: The construction of a marine culture is the result of many factors. As a representative of China's marine culture, Guangdong’s Marine culture is built on multiple factors, including natural material basis, historical and cultural basis, as well as political and social basis. Its rich marine resources and the marine environment are the natural material basis, its unique cultural concepts and historical and cultural traditions are the historical and cultural basis, the promotion of the state power is the political basis, and the drive of the marine society is the social basis.

Keywords: Marine culture; Marine economy; Marine Society

OnLiangQichao’sWanderingbetweenPoliticsandLearningPursuit

(by ZHANG Hong-jie)

Abstract: On the eve of his trip to Europe, Liang Qichao decided to give up politics and “make a little contribution from the ideological circle”. He wanted to “devote all his efforts to the educational cause with a view to cultivating the Chinese nation’s practical foundation”. However, not long after, his political enthusiasm revived and he claimed that political movement “cannot be delayed for a moment”. Liang Qichao’s mood at this time was ambivalent: He wanted to devote himself to the development of culture and education, but he could not abandon politics. The causes for this contradiction were his passion for saving the country and the notion of pursuing knowledge of practical use to society. Before and after his European trip, Liang’s wandering between scholarship and politics explained the inner tension of scholarship and politics.

Keywords: Liang Qi-chao; Pursuit of learning; Engagement in politics; Saving the nation; Pursuit of knowledge useful to society

CorrectionstoResearchMaterialsaboutChenWudeandChenZibao

(by LI Jian-xun)

Abstract: Chen Wude of the Ming Dynasty and Chen Zibao of the Qing Dynasty were from the same Chen clan at Longxi, Waihai Town, Xinhui, and were both outstanding cultural celebrities from Jiangmen region. Although there are many papers and works on them, many of them do not correctly represent their names, styles, courtesy names, birth and death years, and family origin. Therefore, it is urgent to use statistical methods, investigation methods, historical literature research methods to correct the errors in order to restore the image of historical figures.

Keywords: Chen Wude; Chen Zibao; Family origin; Names; Alias; Years of birth and death; Corrections

AReviewandReflectionontheCausesfortheFlourishingofthePekingOperaandtheDeclineoftheKunquOperaintheLastHundredYears

(by ZENG Fan-an)

Abstract: The research on the causes for the flourishing of the Peking Opera and the decline of the Kunqu Opera can be roughly divided into three consecutive stages with 1949 and 1978 as the dividing line. The research results can be generally classified into three viewpoints: the theory of Kunqu’s own defects, the theory of the combination of internal and external causes, and the theory of the sudden rise of the Peking Opera. In order to clarify the real causes, we should not only examine the merits and demerits of the Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, but also make a detailed and comprehensive investigation into the cultural ecology and evolution of operas in the early and middle Qing Dynasty from the aspects of the ritual and music system, cultural policy, drama forms and preference of the audiences in the Qing dynasty.

Keywords: The flourishing of the Peking Opera and the decline of Kunqu Opera; Causes; Reviews; Reflections

ResearchonGuangdong’sFemaleCiPoetsintheQingDynasty

(by DENG Miao-ci)

Abstract: In the Qing Dynasty, there emerged a number of female ci poets in Guangdong. 19 women ci poets have been discovered who authored over 200 ci poems, most of which belonged in the boudoir style. Their creations were dominated by short lyrics though longer ones became increasingly popular. They diversified the expressive function and styles of boudoir poetry and reflected the inheritance and breakthrough of the traditional boudoir poetry. The causes for the breakthrough were related to the literary accumulation of the previous generations, the general mood of the poetry circles in the Qing Dynasty and the scholarly temperament of the female poets in Guangdong at that time. The literary value of Guangdong’s women ci poetry in the Qing Dynasty lies in that it filled a vacuum, and its cultural significance lies in that it displayed the daily life and communication changes of Guangdong’s women in the Qing Dynasty, and that it even played a role in preserving history.

Keywords: Qing Dynasty; Guangdong; Female ci poetry

TextualResearchontheAbstractsfortheCiandQuCategoryofTheComprehensiveTableofContentsoftheCompleteLibraryoftheFourTreasuries

(by YE Feng)

Abstract: The compilation ofTheComprehensiveTableofContentsoftheCompleteLibraryoftheFourTreasuriesinvolved numerous editors who upheld the principle of the pursuit of purity and elegance. Inevitably, there would be biases and errors. The An Lu Collection contains errors in five categories: reign titles, quoted books, quoted texts, text corrections, and works wrongly collected. This was related to the atmosphere and mainstream values of the time.

Keywords:TheComprehensiveTableofContentsoftheCompleteLibraryoftheFourTreasuries; Abstracts for the ci collections; An Lu Collection

FolkandRegionalNarratives:AnObservationontheDevelopmentofGuangdongPoetryintheNewCentury

(by REN Yan-yan)

Abstract: Since the advent of the new century, the poetry circles in Guangdong have been developing freely but orderly, prosperously but calmly, surpassing in exploration and excellent in development atmosphere. Combing through influential phenomena and activities, poetry publications and poetry associations in Guangdong’s poetry community reveals the development process of Guangdong poetry in the new century with the folk force as the most prominent feature. Rapid economic development has led to the meteoric rise of of poets from ordinary migrant workers; numerous folk poetry groups have become the source of vitality, the exploration and flourishing of poetry publications represented by Poetry and People have spread the fire of the spirit of Guangdong poetry, and the simultaneous advancement of officialdom and the folk poetry in the field of poetry is the main embodiment of its folk characteristics.

Keywords: Guangdong poetry; Folk; Workers’ poetry; Poetry and People; Regional writing

AnEvaluationoftheConvenienceofGovernmentServicesbytheCitiesintheGuangdong-HongKong-MacaoGreaterBayArea

(by WANG Run-liang)

Abstract: In accordance with the three life cycle stages of enterprise establishment, enterprise operation approval and enterprise change and cancellation, an index system for evaluating government services for businesses is constructed. The correlation analysis method and linear regression analysis method are used to test the independence and significance of the indexes, and the entropy method is used to determine the weight of the indexes. Under each index, 2 or 3 items of high frequency are selected as sub indexes and the time limit for completion of procedures, the number of visits to the service site, the number of handling procedures and the number of copies of required information are selected as observation variables in the sub indexes and the corresponding index data of the government service network of the nine cities in the Pearl River Delta are extracted as the evaluation data, and the utility value method is employed to evaluate the convenience of government service for enterprises in the 9 cities.

Keywords: Government services for businesses; Convenience; Evaluation; Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; The PRD City Cluster

ResearchontheEvaluationofHighQualityDevelopmentLevelofGuangdong’sManufacturingIndustry

(by WU Dong-wu, SHI Yu-pei, YE Yong-bo)

Abstract: The high quality development of Guangdong’s manufacturing industry is the key to its economic transformation and upgrading, and it is in urgent need of systematic evaluation.Through an evaluation and analysis of the high quality development level of Guangdong’s manufacturing industry, it can be concluded that, overall, the process of high quality development of its manufacturing industry is accelerating, and faring particularly well in recent years. From the perspective of the development in various dimensions, it has shortfalls in terms of technological innovation, achievement sharing and supply quality, to which greater attention should be paid. Meanwhile it is strong in the open development dimension. In view of this, Guangdong’s manufacturing industry can achieve high-quality development through increasing investment in science and technology, stabilizing the proportion of manufacturing employment, cultivating manufacturing brands and expanding foreign investment and export trade.

Keywords: Technological innovation; Manufacturing; High-quality development; The Entropy TOPSIS method

TheDecision-makingMechanismofLow-carbonProductionBehaviorfromthePerspectiveofFarmers’HeterogeneityinGrainProducingAreas

(by JIANG Lin-li)

Abstract: Farmers are the most extensive participants in the development of low-carbon agriculture and the most important micro basis. Giving full play to farmers will help accelerate the progress of low-carbon agriculture. Based on the data of a questionnaire survey of 1114 rice farmers in Hubei Province, this study adopted the multi-group structural equation model analysis method to explore the moderating effect of rice farmers’ heterogeneity on their low-carbon production behavior decisions. The results show that young and middle-aged males with a higher education level, multiple occupations, a short duration in farming life or multiple identities are superior to other groups in one or more dimensions in terms of low carbon awareness, environmental awareness, value perception, self-efficacy, low carbon production intention and low carbon production behavior. Moreover, there are significant differences in the decision-making mechanism of low-carbon production behavior among different types of rice farmers.

Keywords: Farmers’ heterogeneity; Low carbon production behavior; Decision-making mechanisms; Structural equation models

OntheDeclineofZhouRitesfromaComparisonoftheVariantTextsinZuoZhuanandShiJi

(by GUO Hao-yu)

Abstract:ShiJi(Records of the Grand Historian) contains a number of records about the Spring and Autumn Period fromZuoZhuan(Zuo Qiuming’s Commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals). A comparison of the variant texts of the two history books reveals thatShiJimade many changes to the content of Zhou Rites contained inZuoZhuan. It can be inferred from this that people in the Western Han Dynasty had already felt alienated from Zhou Rites. This was the result of social changes and the evolution of the scholars.

Keywords:ZuoZhuan;ShiJi; Variant Texts; Zhou Rites

MisconceptionsaboutJapaneseLearningamongIntellectualsintheLateQingDynasty

(by CHEN Shu-jun)

Abstract: At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China’s national strength was gradually weakening. Chinese intellectuals changed their inherent concept of the Heavenly Kingdom and began to actively acquire foreign knowledge. To break the language barrier, Liang Qichao, at the beginning of his exile in Japan and together with Luo Pu, a disciple of Kang Youwei, crystallized his experience in learning Japanese into a fast-learning Japanese textbooks:LearningJapaneseThroughChinese. The main purpose of the book was to help the reader quickly learn to read political and legal books in Japanese and at the time it had a great influence on the Chinese intellectuals in Japan. However, this speed-oriented learning method inevitably led to misconceptions in Japanese learning.

Keywords: Liang Qichao; Learning Japanese Through Chinese; Chinese Intellectuals in the late Qing dynasty; Misconceptions in Japanese learning; The idea of China and Japan sharing a culture

ResearchontheImprovementofTranslators’MultipleCompetencesBasedonExternalizedKnowledge

(by JI Hong-qing, CHEN Miao-lin, CHEN Xing-xin)

Abstract: A translators’ Multiple Competences are an important indicator of his comprehensive translation ability. The improvement of the multiple competences requires improvement of both internalized and externalized knowledge on the part of the translator. An empirical study of the translation ability of students majoring in translation shows that when students have mastered systematic and sufficient internalized knowledge, their multiple competences will be more stable but difficult to be further improved. Breaking through this bottleneck mainly depends on students’ absorption and grasp of externalized knowledge, and the expansion of externalized knowledge is in direct proportion to the improvement of the multiple competences in translating.

KeyWords: Externalized knowledge; Internalized knowledge; Multiple competences in translating

AStudyofCollegeEnglishTeachingBasedontheOutcomeOrientationfromthePerspectiveofHumanism

(by TIAN Wen-yan, CHEN Hui-hua)

Abstract: Effective applying the theory of Outcome-based Education based on humanism to college English teaching is consistent with the current reform of college English teaching in China. It can play a positive role in terms of improving teaching objectives, teaching methods and teaching evaluation. The Outcome-based Education (OBE) based on humanism is conducive to improving the quality of English teaching, promoting the individualized development of students and changing the teaching and learning concepts of teachers and students.

Keywords： Humanism; Outcome-based Education; College English teaching