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Translation as a Catalyst in the Development of Modern Chinese Legal Language
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2021 This paper focuses on the translation of legal language and the development of modern Chinese legal language as a translated legal language. It first describes the historical contexts in which China underwent enormous and unprecedented social and ...
Cao Deborah
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Ambiances, 2020 Hosting more than two-thirds of the global high-speed train network, and growing at an unprecedented rate, China has become an interesting location for studying this infrastructure.
Junjie Xi, Paco Mejias Villatoro
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Chinese industrial design from 1949 to 1979: The modernization foundation of Chinese design history
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 Industrial design has been the main direction for the Chinese nation building since 1949, and is the centre of the modernization process of Chinese design history.
Sihua Huang +3 more
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 Local traditions have been the critical considerations in the current project of iterating architectural modernities outside of the West. Situated in these emerging debates, this article investigates an underrepresented artistic architectural modernity ...
Lina Sun
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Shanghai Modern: Replaying Futures Past
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2012 This article discusses different accounts of Shanghai Modern, the period between 1920s and 1940s in which the city occupied a unique position within China and the world.
Justin O’Connor
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Rethinking of the Crisis of Universalism: Toward a Pluralistic Orientation of Cosmopolitanism
Interlitteraria, 2019 In commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I, we could not but reflect on many of the valuable legacies and lessons the War has left behind it.
Ning Wang
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Modernization of Beauty in China
Asian Studies, 2021 The article explores the socio-political and historical development of the great debate on aesthetics and the aesthetic fever in China during the 20th century. It introduces the main figures of the aesthetic movement and their aesthetic theories. It introduces the period of appropriation of the aesthetic debates to Marxist ideology that prevailed in ...
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Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021 Book review of Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today.
Xinyue (Harriet) Dai
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Individualization in China under Compressed and Contradictory Modernity
Temporalités, 2017 Because of its unprecedented speed and scale, urbanization in China during the 1990s is one of the most representative fields in which to explore compressed modernity considering East Asian experiences.
Shi Yunqing
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The Journal of Religion, 1925 While the classical world-view of China makes transition to a modern social idealism relatively easy, the popular religions and the dead weight of ancient social customs present a formidable barrier. The factors forcing modernization, here as elsewhere, are the new industralism, science and the democratic ideal.
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