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Here, I describe four new species of the Neoserica vulpes species group: Neoserica daxue sp. nov., N. mianningana sp. nov., N. myanmarensis sp. nov., and N. yanyuan sp. nov. Genitalia and habitus of the new species are illustrated. Additional records of species from the group are given and the key to species of the Neoserica vulpes species group is updated.
This paper deals with the brachypterous Meconematini, including three new genera, Acosmetides gen. nov., Neocyrtopsides gen. nov. and Macrocosmetura gen. nov. Five new species are described: Acosmetides peltates gen. et sp. nov., Acosmetides dilobosa gen. et sp. nov., Acosmetides platycerca gen. et sp. nov., Neocyrtopsides bispina gen. et sp. nov. and Macrocosmetura truncata gen. et sp. nov. Two new combinations are proposed: Acosmetides trigentis (Wang, Bian & Shi, 2016) gen. et comb. nov. and Neocyrtopsides platycata (Shi & Zheng, 1994) gen. et comb. nov.
Sixteen species of Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) were recorded in a single day of collecting in Dong Son-Ky Thuong Nature Reserve, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, of which a checklist is provided. Among them, eight species are new to science and described in different tribes and subtribes: in the Hemisphaeriini Hemisphaeriina: Gergithoides olivaceus sp. nov., Hemisphaerius bresseeli sp. nov. and Neogergithoides scapularis sp. nov.; Hemisphaeriini Mongolianina: Mongoliana vietnamica sp. nov.; Kodaianellini: Kodaianella mua sp. nov.; Parahiraciini Parahiraciina: Pusulissus quangninhensis sp. nov. and Rostrolatum curviceps sp. nov.; Sarimini: Pseudocoruncanius obliquus sp. nov. The new genus Melichergithus gen. nov. is described to accommodate Gergithus gravidus Melichar, 1906 and the new combination Melichergithus gravidus (Melichar, 1906) gen. et comb. nov. is proposed; a black form of the species is recorded for the first time and described. Two species, Longieusarima lunulia Wang, Bourgoin & Zhang, 2017 and Parallelissus fuscus Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020, are recorded from Vietnam for the first time, while another species Maculergithus luteomaculatus (Constant & Pham, 2016) is recorded for the first time from Quang Ninh Province. Four species were represented by single females that could not be identified to species level, belonging to the genera Clypeosmilus Gnezdilov & Soulier-Perkins, 2017, Fortunia Distant, 1909 (two species) and Kodaianellissus Wang, Bourgoin & Zhang, 2017. The five following genera are recorded from Vietnam for the first time: Kodaianella Fennah, 1956, Rostrolatum Che, Zhang & Wang, 2020, Longieusarima Wang, Bourgoin & Zhang, 2017, Parallelissus Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020 and Kodaianellissus. The type material of Hemisphaerius rufovarius Walker, 1858 and its junior synonyms H. scymnoides Walker, 1862, H. testaceus Distant, 1906 and H. virescens Distant, 1906 was studied and the male terminalia described; as a result, H. rufovarius is removed from the fauna of Vietnam and China. Hemisphaerius bipunctatus Melichar, 1906 is also removed from the fauna of Vietnam after examination of the corresponding specimens. This study provides a 25% increase in the number of Issidae of Vietnam; a complete list of the 51 species recorded from the country, as well as a map of the number of recorded species per province, are given and discussed.
This paper is an attempt to peel out the core of historical and autobiographical reality in Klara Blumʼs poems, to show their militant character and ideological limits, and to analyze them as contemporary documents whose relevance lies less in the originality of their language than in the consistency of their historical and intellectual substance.
Six new species of the genus Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838 are described from China: R. hexagoniproctalis Wang, Di & He sp. nov., R. heterodentis Shen, Wang & He sp. nov., R. imbricofurca Shen, Wang & He sp. nov., R. glenoides Qin, Wang & He sp. nov., R. impressa Wang, Qin & He sp. nov., R. stenoterminata Zhang, Wang & He sp. nov. A key with previously described species from China is provided.
Es ist üblich, die Regisseure des festlandchinesischen Kinos in unterschiedliche Generationenkohorten einzuteilen. Sechs sind es bislang, wobei es die fünfte Generation war, die erstmals auch jenseits der Grenzen Chinas, zumal im westlichen Ausland breit rezipiert wurde. Ihre Vertreter, darunter Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige und Tian Zhuangzhuang, schlossen ab 1982, also nach Ende der Kulturrevolution, ihr Studium an der erst vier Jahre zuvor für den Lehrbetrieb wieder geöffneten Pekinger Filmakademie ab, um Mitte bis Ende der 1980er Jahre ihre Debütfilme zu drehen. Deren prominent herausgestellte Individualität einerseits sowie unübersehbare Frontstellung zum bis dahin verbindlichen revolutionären Realismus mit seiner ungebrochenen Mao-Verherrlichung andererseits weisen sie als Produkte der auch und vor allem kulturellen Liberalisierungstendenzen unter Deng Xiaoping aus. Hiervon legt unter anderem Gelbe Erde (1984) ein deutliches Zeugnis ab, Chens immer wieder zu Recht als Initialwerk der fünften Generation gehandelter, subtil Systemkritik übender Erstling.
Für die vorzüglichen, seinerzeit als hochgradig experimentell wahrgenommenen Aufnahmen des Films zeichnete der anfangs auch als Schauspieler tätige Zhang Yimou verantwortlich, der mittlerweile in China ebenso wie im Ausland als der bei weitem bekannteste Vertreter nicht nur der fünften Generation, sondern des festlandchinesischen Kinos überhaupt gilt. Sein Regiedebüt legte er 1987 mit Rotes Kornfeld vor, der das vom so genannten Kultur-Fieber gepackte heimische Publikum begeisterte, aber auch im westlichen Ausland für Furore sorgte. Zahlreiche Auszeichnungen gingen an den Film, darunter, 1988 auf der Berlinale, der Goldene Bär, der damit erstmals einem asiatischen Film verliehen wurde.
"The Cultural Revolution generation always talks about how they lived through such a painful calamity in Chinese history, but I feel that the shock and incredible impact the decade of reform and economic commodification in the 1980s had on individuals was also extremely profound. [...] [Y]ou can't say that simply because that generation's material life is richer, their lives are happier. What I really want to focus on is, over the course of this transformation, who is paying the price? What kinds of people are paying the price?" Beide Äußerungen fielen anlässlich des Erscheinens von "Platform" (2000), Jias zweitem Spielfilm, der Anfang September 2000 auf dem Filmfestival von Venedig seine Weltpremiere feierte. Mit ihm nahm der Regisseur eine Besichtigung der 1980er Jahre in China, genauer: des Zeitraums von 1979 bis 1990, vor; das heißt, wenn man sich eine gewisse Vereinfachung gestattete, könnte man sagen: Worauf die Geschehnisse bei Zhang, Chen und Tian zulaufen, nämlich auf die Kulturevolution, bildet in Platform wenn auch nicht den Ausgangspunkt, so doch zumindest das diesen konkurrenzlos prägende Großereignis. Oder etwas salopp formuliert: Indem er chronologisch dort weitermacht, wo "Lebewohl, meine Konkubine", "Der blaue Drachen" und "Leben!" aufgehört haben, tritt Jias Film als eine Art Sequel der drei Werke in Erscheinung, mag es sich bei ihm auch in vielerlei Hinsicht um eine Revision derselben oder, im Sinne von Harold Blooms "anxiety-of-influence"-Konzept, um eine ödipale Kampfansage eines jungen Filmemachers an die Regie Vätergeneration handeln.
The ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini) is diverse with 498 species described. Species are distributed predominately within the northern hemisphere with species richness decreasing closer to the tropics; contrary to other ant genera overall. In Southeast Asia, richness is relatively low and knowledge on the genus remains fragmentary, likely due to poor sampling efforts compared to temperate regions. Here, using specimens from recent sampling efforts, Temnothorax is reported for the first time from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Two new species, T. barrettoi Hamer & Guénard sp. nov. and T. haveni Lee, Hamer & Guénard sp. nov., are described based on qualitive morphological characters, with additional morphometric data also gathered. An updated key, as well as a distributional checklist of Temnothorax species from mainland China is provided. We suggest that the two new species are likely arboreal based on our collections, however, further arboreal sampling is necessary to confirm this hypothesis. We hope this study may spurn effort to generate further information on sub-tropical Chinese Temnothorax species.
For more than two decades, the National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (NPOPSS) has been managing official funding of social science research in China under the orbit of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) propaganda system. By focusing on “Major Projects”, the most prestigious and well-funded program initiated by the NPOPSS in 2004, this contribution outlines the political and institutional ramifications of this line of official funding and attempts to identify larger shifts during the past decade in the “ideologics” of official social science research funding – the changing ideological circumscriptions of research agendas in the more narrow sense of echoing party theory and rhetoric and – in the broader sense – of adapting to an increasingly dominant official discourse of cultural and national self-assertion. To conclude, this article offers reflections on the potential repercussions of these shifts for international academic collaboration.
Two decades after the predicted “end of ideology”, we are observing a re-emphasis on party ideology under Hu Jintao. The paper looks into the reasons for and the factors shaping the re-formulation of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ideology since 2002 and assesses the progress and limits of this process. Based on the analysis of recent elite debates, it is argued that the remaking of ideology has been the consequence of perceived challenges to the legitimacy of CCP rule. Contrary to many Western commentators, who see China’s successful economic performance as the most important if not the only source of regime legitimacy, Chinese party theorists and scholars have come to regard Deng Xiaoping’s formula of performance-based legitimacy as increasingly precarious. In order to tackle the perceived “performance dilemma” of party rule, the adaptation and innovation of party ideology is regarded as a crucial measure to relegitimize CCP rule.