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Ba Jin is one of the most influential writers in modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Intellectuals arehis persistent creative themes. He created a ‘ educated youth ‘ image in his novel, which is an important contribution to the Chinese modern and contemporary literature. This paper analyzes three...

The great depression that happened during the 1920s had a huge impact on the whole social and economic process. It is also one of the most well-known crises in the world. This paper, through a method of literature review, will focus on the impact of the gold standard on the Great Depression. Besides,...

Mentioning the polo, short sleeves, two side vents, and sport shirt are the basic characteristics. In addition, it is well-known that they were derived from polo and tennis. Currently, polo shirts become golf and yachting clothing. Due to the evolution of fashion, polo has become the popular school uniforms....

Opera, since its born in 1920s, Chinese opera became one monobasic of numerous art form in the performing arts of China. Until now, the Chinese opera has developed for more than 80 years and in its creation path, it has formed its own unique artistic style, that it not only taken the characteristics...

Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, is the spokesman of the “Jazz Age” and the representative writer of the “lost generation” in the 1920s. His masterpiece The Great Gatsby leaves an impressive mark in the history of American literature. The paper tries to analyze the protagonist Gatsby from the perspective...

The research describes the historical experience in organization of students’ vocational practices which are considered an important part of higher engineering education in the Russian Far East. Since 1918, when the Far Eastern engineering higher school sprang up, the discussion about how future engineers...

Ethnic folklore is one of the forms of folk culture, which has certain constraints and regulatory functions for people. This form of folk culture is agreed upon by the people. Not only does it have a profound impact on the daily lives of a given era, but it will also subconsciously bring about changes...

The 'Russian issue' was one of the overriding for President of Czechoslovakia Tomas G. Masaryk. He was well acquainted with works of F.M. Dostoyevsky, I. V. Kireevsky, met with L.N. Tolstoy and V.I. Lamansky. He had initiated Czechoslovakia's substantial aid to the first-generation Russian immigrants...

With the development of industrialization and urbanization, it has become more and more important to learn how to build ecological cities. This article tries to reveal Mumford’s thought on sustainable urban ecology in his books on cities in the 1920s to the 1960s and his early contribution to the ecological...

Opera was sourced from Europe. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, western Catholics spread opera into China in the name of missionary activity. Till the 1920s, opera really sprouted in China. Up to now, it has been approximately a hundred years for the development of opera in China. In practice,...

Neoliberalism is an economic theoretical system of contemporary western economic theory which lays great emphasis on libertarianism theory, and was formed during the 1920s-1930s. After the 1970s, its theory was widely promoted and practiced, which brought remarkable influence to the development of world...

The article covers the issues of the interplay between the artists’ elite and the authorities. The conditions of the creation of the art groups and communities of artists in the 1920s are analyzed, as well as their artistic mission and the content, and the forming of the “art policy” of the Soviet Government...

During the 1920s to 1940s, early Chinese comedic cinema reached an artistic zenith, profoundly influenced by the introduction of Charlie Chaplin’s comedic philosophies and concurrent societal transformations. This period witnessed significant advancements in comedic techniques, character development,...

This article focuses on the male images in Yu novels and explores their significance from the perspective of gender studies. Traditionally, in the research on Chinese masculinity, the focus has mainly been on the pre-modern and contemporary periods, with relatively little research on the Republican period....

Documentary photography began to appear in China from 1920s to 1930s, but developed relatively slow and hard due to social instability and political influence. At each period, unfavorable factors for documentary photographic language system will occur, so it really began to move forward until the late...

Under the overwhelming tide of Western-dominated modernization, the modern girl image appeared around the globe during the 1920s and 1930s through the means of advertising, embellishing and transforming the visual sphere of modern experience. As a consumerist icon highly constructed by media and a product...

Women’s traditional coats, the common dress worn by a large number of women in Beijing during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, are one of the indispensable dress in the wardrobe of women during the Republic of China, occupying an important position in the history of modern Chinese...

Unique character of suprematic art is rooted in the perception of its author (founder) — K. S. Malevich which developed to become the belief that it is necessary to create a suprematic method — the way of targeted movement towards perfection, constructed as a mental projection from the surface “painted...

The article analyzes one of the critical points in the history of architecture and urban planning of the late Soviet period. The article reveals the structure and the content of the creative problems that were discussed in 1960s – early 1970s in the context of growing professional and public dissatisfaction...

From 1927 to 1937, China went through a brief period of stability under the Kuomintang rule, and it was also a period of intense cultural collision between China and the West. During this period, the integration of the Shanghai local economy and culture with the West significantly developed women’s clothing...

The article presents the development of bibliometrics as a tool for assessing scientific activity. The term “bibliometrics” has various formulations and applications: the development of a discipline, the citation of scientists, the study of affiliations of scientists. The transformation of this tool...

Modern Neo-Confucianism refers to all the reformed Confucianism schools since the Opium War. The Modern Neo-Confucianism discussed in this paper is the Modern Neo-Confucianism School in the narrow sense, which includes the Confucian schools of Hong Kong, Taiwan, overseas and mainland since the May Fourth...

The idea of contemporary art of the east as a creative periphery and the product of purely foreign influences is unsubstantiated and false. The formation of original schools can be of a programmatic nature in connection with the specificity of professional activity - the presence of creative consciousness,...

This study describes keroncong music and poetry wrapped in a intersection of three aesthetics and then given collaborative learning actions. This research is an effort to synergize the KBK in the Film and Television Study Program with the tridharma of higher education. Keroncong music has experienced...

Fashion overcoats came in vogue in Shanghai in the Republic of China (ROC) (1912-1949) in the mid & late 1920s, before became the trendy wear for modern ladies of numerous big cities of the country. Fashion overcoats in the Republic of China featured a distinct law of changes, with decade-identifiable...

The problem of how moving image could help explore potential stories based on the calendar posters of Shanghai from 1920s to 1940s will be discussed during this paper. This is a matter of carinal significance in analyzing and studying systematically through three parts: the calendar poster of Shanghai,...

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899. He is an American writer and reporter who was considered one of the most well-known novelists of the twentieth century. Many films have made use of the famous novel — "The Old Man and the Sea", which have attracted increasing number of people to see. The...

With the rapid development of the economy and society, Shanghai has changed into a modest port city in China with the introduction of western material and spiritual civilization and has become the largest metropolis in the far east since the 1920s. The pictorial magazine, The Young Companion(1926-1945),...

The presented article deals with ideological and stylistic interrelations of Weimar art of the early 1920s with Italian metaphysical painting. The author examines in details the texts and manifestos of Italian and German artists, revealing the general theoretical views on the art of both sides. The author...

One of the leading representatives of the liberal current in economics of the 1920s and 1930s, B.D. Brutskus gained wide recognition as a penetrating researcher into the Soviet economy. This article examines his assessment of the agrarian policies of the Bolsheviks in the first years of the Soviet state...

Zheng Zhenduo was a prominent translator, writer and archaeologist in the May Fourth New Literature Movement. He made great achievements in the study of translation and translation practice during the 1920s. As a cross-disciplinary theory, Eco-translatology provides a new perspective for the study of...

This study aimed to describe the construction of the role of women in the novels of Indonesia in the 1920s. The data in study were figure of speeches, speeches of the narrator, description of the behavior of character. Issue in this study is about the construction role of women contained in the novels...

In 1930s, there was a heated debate on the view of "Women Going Home", and the magazine "Women Resonance" put forward the concept of "New Doctrine of Virtue". On the basis of equality between men and women, this concept advocated that women should continue to play the role of good wife and good mother...

Political language is a necessary tool of politics and power, which not only reflects reality, but also shapes it through information impact. Any multinational and multilingual state inevitably encounters the problem of regulating the linguistic life of the country. After the formation of the Soviet...

The Woman's Missionary Society of Canadian Methodist Church (the United Church of Canada since 1925) started its educational work in Szechwan (Sichuan) from the very beginning of its mission work, setting up schools for girls and young women. The work in the first period was slow in progress and experimental...

As one of the most important types of garments in the Republic of China from the 1920s to the 1940s, the wearer of the qipao was undoubtedly woman whereas the construction of qipao’s meaning was often derived from men. Although it is impossible to completely be isolated from the male gaze, this paper...

The work of the Catalan painter Joan Miró is closely related to the book. He is rightfully considered to be the author of the largest number of publications with the original printed graphics. A substantial part of them consists of works on images for the writings by Alfred Jarry – one of the predecessors...

The paper attempts to analyze the problem of the development of a philosophical language in Russia on the basis of one of the conceptual options for its solution proposed by two leaders of the "Society of Wisdom-Loving" (Obshchestvo lyubomudriya), Dmitry Venevitinov and Vladimir Odoevsky. Despite the...

The article addresses the contemporary crisis of European culture and identity and focuses on three answers to this crisis that were given by conservative continental discourse during the past hundred years. First, we take a look at the idea of the “Faustian” culture proposed by O. Spengler and shared...

A new source of the Pskov dialect records from the 1920s - 1930s - manuscripts made by local historian Alexander Belinsky, 1886-1977 - is of value for the Pskov Regional Dictionary.

Chinese excellent traditional cultural genes carry profound traditional cultural heritage and ideological nutrition. They are treasures in the thinking system of Chinese thought history and a solid foundation for the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation. They finally chose Marx’s scientific...

Left-wing urban novels emerged in the late 1920s in Shanghai, which presented the new modern urban ethics, including the proletarian political ethics, the critical-based life ethics and the body ethic of the spiritualism. The ethical form not only reflects the real political environment, but also contains...

Gender equality in education has always been an important issue around the world, and researches on education inequality of rural female in Chinese context contribute to the progress of gender equality in education worldwide. By analyzing the data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2017),...

In the 1920s, British writer Maugham created his very representative travelogue to record the traveling along the Yangtze river in China: On a Chinese Screen, which describes in detail the various Chinese folk customs in villages and cities from an outsider perspective of modern western civilization....

In F.S. Fitzgerald’s acknowledged masterpiece The Great Gatsby, he shows the problems hidden behind the rapid economic development in the United States in the 1920s, such as the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the pursuit of material, the loss of faith and so on. These questions create divisions...

The article dealt with the problems of the disengagement of forces of artists when there was a struggle between realism and modernism, especially in theatre. Both realists and symbolists had their achievements. K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko were true innovators of theatrical art in Russia...

This study aims to describe gender emblems that reflected in Indonesian novel in the time before and after The Indonesian Independence day. There are four gender emblems that reflect in Indonesian novel through socio-literature study and using literature-feminism approach. First, gender banner of novel...

This paper describes in detail Vladimir N. Speranskii’s theory of emotional hormones in the historical context of endocrinology, neuroscience and nascent neuroendocrinology of the first decades of the 20th century. The main idea of Speranskii’s theory, expounded in his four theoretical publications in...

The “new wave” of Soviet film is the second development peak in the history of Soviet film. It inherits the achievements of predecessors in the 1920s in technological form innovation, and creates a creative concept with humanitarianism as the core in theme expression. “New wave” is not the product of...

This paper attempted a close study of the marriage tragedy in Lu Xun’s famous short story Regret for the Past with a focus on the contradictory relationship between traditional “family culture” and individualism of Chinese society in the 1920s. According to Lu Xun’s intention, the fictional tragedy can...