International Journal of Sino-Western Studies : A Special Volume on Celebrating Adjunct Professor David Jenkins (Ph. D,Th. D, M. Div.) Contributions on the Ethical Dimensions of Current Social Issues

This volume 18 of International Journal of Sino-Western Studies is a special volume to celebrate Dr. David Jenkins’s academic achievement. In the column of Humanities, Theology, and Chinese National Studies we have published Dr. Adjunct Professor David JENKINS’ “The Limits of Education and Technology for Ethical Thinking” and Miikka Ruokanen’s newest research on the Finnish School of Martin Lutheran studies “Remarks on Tuomo Mannermaa’s Interpretation of Martin Luther’s Lectures on Galatians”. In the column of Practical Theology and Sino-Western Views on Church and Society，we have published Professor FENG Jianzhang’s (University of Sanya) “A Study on the Construction of Civil Religion” and Matthew OSEKA’s (Concordia Theological Seminary, Hong Kong) “What the Emerging Protestant Theology Was about the Reformation Concept of Theological Studies as Enunciated by Philip Melanchthon in His Prolegomena to All Latin and German Versions of Loci”. In the column of Chinese and Western Classics and the Bible, we have published Donald WANG’s (Trinity International University, Chicago, USA) “Spirit in Atrahasis” and Pan ZHAO’s (Wuhan University) “Unchangeable and Changeable: Chen Chonggui's Biblical Interpretation and Chinese Society”.s In the column of Church History in the West and in China, we have published Shangyang SUN’s and Jianbin GUO’s (Peking University) “Globalization and Modernity: On the bridgehead Status of Macau in the early Cultural Exchange” and Shibo LIU’s (Dali University, Yunan) “An Example of Ethnic Education History from the Perspective of Educational Anthropology”. In the column of Comparative Religious and Cultural Studies, we have published Leonard Sidharta’s (Singapore Bible College ) “ ‘Looking Into the Birth of Gods’: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Origin of Idolatry” and Junjun LIU’s (Tsinghua University) “Two interpretations of Chinese and Hebrew traditions”. In the column of Reviews and Academic Reports, we have published an academic news of Jing LIU (Macau University of Science and Technology) “A Review on the Joint International Conference of Nordic Forum of Sino-Western Studies and 20th International Symposium on Bicosmology”. Part two is from Miao JIANG’s (China Academy of Social Sciences) “A Report on the International Research Project Regarding the Topic of the Impact of Religious Values on Chinese Social Life”. Weidong LIU’s (Heilongjiang Univeristy) “The View on the Philosophy of Love in Jacobi’s Novel Woldmar”. In the last, we have published a dialogue between Paulos HUANGand Archie Lee on the Hebrew Biblical studies with the title “Is it a literature, humanistic document, the Word of God, or a record of God-man interaction?”This number is a special volume to celebrate Dr. David Jenkins’s academic achievement. In the column of Humanities, Theology, and Chinese National Studies we have published Dr. Adjunct Professor David JENKINS’ “The Limits of Education and Technology for Ethical Thinking” and Miikka Ruokanen’s newest research on the Finnish School of Martin Lutheran studies “Remarks on Tuomo Mannermaa’s Interpretation of Martin Luther’s Lectures on Galatians”. In the column of Practical Theology and Sino-Western Views on Church and Society，we have published Professor FENG Jianzhang’s (University of Sanya) “A Study on the Construction of Civil Religion” and Matthew OSEKA’s (Concordia Theological Seminary, Hong Kong) “What the Emerging Protestant Theology Was about the Reformation Concept of Theological Studies as Enunciated by Philip Melanchthon in His Prolegomena to All Latin and German Versions of Loci”. In the column of Chinese and Western Classics and the Bible, we have published Donald WANG’s (Trinity International University, Chicago, USA) “Spirit in Atrahasis” and Pan ZHAO’s (Wuhan University) “Unchangeable and Changeable: Chen Chonggui's Biblical Interpretation and Chinese Society”.s In the column of Church History in the West and in China, we have published Shangyang SUN’s and Jianbin GUO’s (Peking University) “Globalization and Modernity: On the bridgehead Status of Macau in the early Cultural Exchange” and Shibo LIU’s (Dali University, Yunan) “An Example of Ethnic Education History from the Perspective of Educational Anthropology”. In the column of Comparative Religious and Cultural Studies, we have published Leonard Sidharta’s (Singapore Bible College ) “ ‘Looking Into the Birth of Gods’: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Origin of Idolatry” and Junjun LIU’s (Tsinghua University) “Two interpretations of Chinese and Hebrew traditions”. In the column of Reviews and Academic Reports, we have published an academic news of Jing LIU (Macau University of Science and Technology) “A Review on the Joint International Conference of Nordic Forum of Sino-Western Studies and 20th International Symposium on Bicosmology”. Part two is from Miao JIANG’s (China Academy of Social Sciences) “A Report on the International Research Project Regarding the Topic of the Impact of Religious Values on Chinese Social Life”. Weidong LIU’s (Heilongjiang Univeristy) “The View on the Philosophy of Love in Jacobi’s Novel Woldmar”. In the last, we have published a dialogue between Paulos HUANGand Archie Lee on the Hebrew Biblical studies with the title “Is it a literature, humanistic document, the Word of God, or a record of God-man interaction?”Peer reviewe

International Journal of Sino-Western Studies : A Special Volume on Scriptural Reasoning

In this volume, we publish the following articles. In the first column of “Humanities, Theology, and Chinese National Studies” there are two articles. The first one is Professor LIU Qingping’s (Advanced Institute of Social Sciences at Fudan University) “The historic turn of the Confucian destiny from ‘not being used’ to ‘being valued’”, and the second is Professor YU Tao’s (School of Philosophy at Nankai University) “Social Concern in Protestant Spirit: On the Role and Significance of the Reformation in the Formation of Nordic Welfare State System”. In the second column of “Practical Theology and Sino-Western Views on Church and Society” there are also two articles. The third one is the director of the Institute of World Religions, China Academy of Social Sciences, Professor ZHENG Xiaoyun’s “On the Religious Management Model in Chinese Theravada Buddhism”. And the fourth is Rachel X. Zhu’s (School of Philosophy at Fudan University) “The Impact of Christian Charity on Chinese Society and the Challenges in the future”. In the third column of “Chinese and Western Classics and the Bible” there are two articles. The fifth one is David F. Ford ‘s (Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge) “The potential of interreligious dialogue in China and globally; the continuation of Scriptural Reasoning in China”, and Professor Ford is the co-founder of Scriptural Reasoning Society. Following Professor Ford’s article is a response to David Ford on the Scriptural Reasoning by Professor Tuula Sakaranaho (the vice dean of Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki). The sixth article is Finnish young talent scholar Dr. Aleksi Kuokkanen ‘s (Faculty of Theology at University of Helsinki) “Attempts to Understand Scriptural Reasoning”. In the fourth column of “Church History in the West and in China” there are two articles. The seventh is Professor Claudia von Collani’s (University of Minster, Germany) “The Jesuits Andreas Koffler and Michael Boym at the Court of the Yongli Emperor”. The eighth is LIN Chunjie’s (Director of Department of German Studies, Huazhong University of Technology and Science) “A Historical Investigation of the Relationship between State and Church in Germany in the 20th Century”. In the fifth column of “Comparative Religious and Cultural Studies” there are two articles. The ninth is ZHANG Hua’s (Beijing Language University) “Anthropological Perspective of Contemporary Theology and the Pluralism of Christianity”, and the tenth is ZHANG Ruiming’s (School of Philosophy at Lanzhou University) “Existential Ti-Theology: Development of Xiong Shili’s Lianglun through Kant and Husserl”. In the sixth column of “Reviews and Academic Reports” there are three articles. The eleventh is ZHANG Yunyan’s (School of Humanities at Shanghai Communication University) “The left-wing Route of "Memory Identity" and Its Identification Dilemma-Focusing on Max Silverman’s Plimpsestic Memory-The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film”. The twelfth is WANG Shuai’s (School of Foreign Languages at Peking University) “A Research on the Development of the Russian Orthodox Church in the First Decade after the Enthronement of Patriarch Kirill - Inheritance, Transformation and Challenge”. The thirteenth article includes three academic news: News one is A Review on the Joint International Conference of Nordic Forum of Sino-Western Studies and 20th International Symposium on Bicosmology by LIU Jing (Macau University). NEWS TWO IS A Report on the International Research Project Regarding the Topic of the Impact of Religious Values on Chinese Social Life by JIANG Miao (University of Helsinki), and News three is “Juris Entropia”: An Interdisciplinary CPR/A; Context, and Purposeful Action Proposal for Regeneration of Planet Earth’s Naturalist Climate and Environmental Security by David S. Woodroffe and Johannes Alaranta.Peer reviewe

A comparative study on communication structures of Chinese journals in the social sciences

We argue that the communication structures in the Chinese social sciences have not yet been sufficiently reformed. Citation patterns among Chinese domestic journals in three subject areas -- political science and marxism, library and information science, and economics -- are compared with their counterparts internationally. Like their colleagues in the natural and life sciences, Chinese scholars in the social sciences provide fewer references to journal publications than their international counterparts; like their international colleagues, social scientists provide fewer references than natural sciences. The resulting citation networks, therefore, are sparse. Nevertheless, the citation structures clearly suggest that the Chinese social sciences are far less specialized in terms of disciplinary delineations than their international counterparts. Marxism studies are more established than political science in China. In terms of the impact of the Chinese political system on academic fields, disciplines closely related to the political system are less specialized than those weakly related. In the discussion section, we explore reasons that may cause the current stagnation and provide policy recommendations

Globalizing Hayden White

This conversation originated in a plenary session organized by Ewa Domańska and María Inés La Greca under the same title of ‘Globalizing Hayden White’ at the III International Network for Theory of History Conference ‘Place and Displacement: The Spacing of History’ held at Södertörn University, Stockholm, in August 2018. In order to pay homage to Hayden White’s life work 5 months after his passing we knew that what was needed–and what he himself would have wanted–was a vibrant intellectual exchange. Our ‘celebration by discussion’ contains elaborated and revised versions of the presentations by scholars from China (Xin Chen), Latin America (María Inés La Greca, Veronica Tozzi Thompson), United States (Paul Roth), Western (Kalle Pihlainen) and East-Central Europe (Ewa Domańska). We took this opportunity of gathering scholars who represent different parts of the world, different cultures and approaches to reflect on White’s ideas in a global context. Our interest was in discussing how his work has been read and used (or even misread and misused) and how it has influenced theoretical discussions in different parts of the globe. Rather than just offering an account as experts, we mainly wanted to reflect on the current state of our field and the ways that White’s inheritance might and should be carried forward in the future.Fil: Domanska, Ewa. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; PoloniaFil: la Greca, María Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Departamento de Metodología, Estadística y Matemáticas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filosofía; ArgentinaFil: Roth, Paul A.. University of California at Santa Cruz; Estados UnidosFil: Chen, Xin. Zhejiang University; ChinaFil: Tozzi, María Verónica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Departamento de Metodología, Estadística y Matemáticas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filosofía; ArgentinaFil: Pihlainen, Kalle. Tallinn University; Estoni

In Search of a New Model: Library Resource Sharing in China - A Comparative Study

This paper reviews the framework of library resource sharing (LRS) in China and examines, from a comparative perspective, cases of recent development, particularly in the 1990s and early 2000s. Highlights include: (1) historical review of LRS in the U.S. and China, particularly in the areas of print union catalogs and union lists, online bibliographic utilities, and interlibrary loan; (2) literature review of Chinese publications, and LRS issues and challenges in China; (3) Analysis of three LRS models to provide a contextual grasp of a paradigm shift taking place in China; and (4) comparative analysis of LRS objectives, structure, and governance, etc., in the U.S. and China. The study also underscores the imperative for building a national digital library system in China to gain a competitive edge in resource sharing and to support the country’s rapid social and economic growth. At this stage of development, the success of China Academic Library & Information System provides a convincing argument for a national digital library system with its methods of governing, financing, and development

Navigating global-local tensions in accountability/autonomy policies: Comparative case studies in 'Asian' universities

The twin policy domains of accountability and autonomy have featured in recent education reforms in many countries, signalling new relationships between governments and educational institutions. Despite different national and localised contexts, a number of common 'global' trends have been identified. However, simultaneously context-specific differences are also evident. For us, the concept of 'globalisation', when it implies policy homogenisation, is too blunt an instrument to critically analyse these major reforms. We would argue that there are still too few studies on globalisation processes grounded in detailed examinations of particular historical times and geographical spaces. Our research is located within the tensions between global commonalities and localised differences. This paper reports research on changing accountability and autonomy in higher education in three 'Asian' countries. Empirical data has been collected in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Singapore in an attempt to begin to redress a 'Western' hegemony in such research. Within each national context two different types of universities became case study sites for the analysis of both commonalities and differences in accountability and autonomy policies and practices. The current paper focuses in particular on the conceptual and methodological framings of the research and presents some preliminary findings