“Happy Chinese”or kuaile hanyu is an educational melodrama produced by the Chinese TV channel CCTV in 2009.Aiming to improve foreign learners’Chinese language skills,the plot revolves around Susan,an American,stayi...“Happy Chinese”or kuaile hanyu is an educational melodrama produced by the Chinese TV channel CCTV in 2009.Aiming to improve foreign learners’Chinese language skills,the plot revolves around Susan,an American,staying with her former Chinese classmate’s family.“Happy Chinese”proposes both language and cultural learning.In this paper,the authors are examining the first seven episodes marking Susan’s arrival in China for the Spring Festival.Basing the study on a postmodern and critical approach to the“intercultural,”as well as on a critical view towards Orientalism and Occidentalism,the authors are interested in how the programme constructs the arrival of the American and the way she is perceived and represented by the“locals.”The authors are also looking into what the Chinese family teaches Susan about being Chinese and,at the same time,the tensions that a certain tendency to“keep up appearances”and appear“real Chinese”before her trigger in the family,across generation and gender.The research tools used to analyze the data are derived from discursive pragmatics.展开更多
Though Heidegger became a kind of conceptual companion of comparative philosophers,and a methodological example for interpreters of Daoist philosophy claiming that Zhuangzi or Laozi embodied the overcoming of Western...Though Heidegger became a kind of conceptual companion of comparative philosophers,and a methodological example for interpreters of Daoist philosophy claiming that Zhuangzi or Laozi embodied the overcoming of Western“onto-theology,”Heidegger himself not only stressed his disbelief in the notion that Asian thinking could save the West from its“civilizational crisis”but also clearly claimed that Western thinking could emerge only through its distinction from the“mythical East.”However,at the same time,Heidegger criticized the decadence of the West,claimed the necessity of cultural rejuvenation,and then,with the failure of Germany to perform this task,seemed to turn to Chinese sources to find alternative solutions.How to understand Heidegger’s complex relationship with China?Is Heidegger an Orientalist or an Occidentalist European philosopher?Moreover,how to understand the subtle and troubling connections between Heidegger’s complex relationship with China and Heidegger’s highly“problematic”(to say the least)intellectual engagement with Nazi ideology?To what extent are Orientalism and Occidentalism are linked to Heidegger’s belief in the Nationalist-Socialists’claims about“saving”the“European spirit”?展开更多
文摘“Happy Chinese”or kuaile hanyu is an educational melodrama produced by the Chinese TV channel CCTV in 2009.Aiming to improve foreign learners’Chinese language skills,the plot revolves around Susan,an American,staying with her former Chinese classmate’s family.“Happy Chinese”proposes both language and cultural learning.In this paper,the authors are examining the first seven episodes marking Susan’s arrival in China for the Spring Festival.Basing the study on a postmodern and critical approach to the“intercultural,”as well as on a critical view towards Orientalism and Occidentalism,the authors are interested in how the programme constructs the arrival of the American and the way she is perceived and represented by the“locals.”The authors are also looking into what the Chinese family teaches Susan about being Chinese and,at the same time,the tensions that a certain tendency to“keep up appearances”and appear“real Chinese”before her trigger in the family,across generation and gender.The research tools used to analyze the data are derived from discursive pragmatics.
文摘Though Heidegger became a kind of conceptual companion of comparative philosophers,and a methodological example for interpreters of Daoist philosophy claiming that Zhuangzi or Laozi embodied the overcoming of Western“onto-theology,”Heidegger himself not only stressed his disbelief in the notion that Asian thinking could save the West from its“civilizational crisis”but also clearly claimed that Western thinking could emerge only through its distinction from the“mythical East.”However,at the same time,Heidegger criticized the decadence of the West,claimed the necessity of cultural rejuvenation,and then,with the failure of Germany to perform this task,seemed to turn to Chinese sources to find alternative solutions.How to understand Heidegger’s complex relationship with China?Is Heidegger an Orientalist or an Occidentalist European philosopher?Moreover,how to understand the subtle and troubling connections between Heidegger’s complex relationship with China and Heidegger’s highly“problematic”(to say the least)intellectual engagement with Nazi ideology?To what extent are Orientalism and Occidentalism are linked to Heidegger’s belief in the Nationalist-Socialists’claims about“saving”the“European spirit”?
