In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

A content analysis of 1387 commercials broadcast in China and Hong Kong in 1993 and 1998 was conducted using Cheng and Schweitzer’s framework of cultural values. The five cultural values that dominated Chinese television advertising were ‘modernity’, ‘family’, ‘tradition’, ‘technology’ and ‘collectivism’. The five dominant cultural values in Hong Kong television advertising were ‘quality’, ‘eff...

In the course of his short literary life, Liu Na'ou travelled across four geographical areas: Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as five cultural domains: Taiwanese, Japanese, French, English and Chinese. The transnational facet of Liu's modernist writing is not merely literary or cultural but political and historical. The earliest modernist writing in China was initiated on the basis...

In the modern consciousness, they keep “classical” historicity and eschatology taking form of post-historicity post-apocalypticism. Such a state can be recorded in models consideration historical process expectation end history, both works authors at level “everyday” practices that use exploit history figure Apocalypse. It is worth noting expectations Apocalypse are no longer so tragic, built l...

The Article studies the reasons for loss of historical knowledge leading position in humanities system crisis epoch European Culture at beginning twentieth century. It is concluded that its main reason was failure idealistic romanticism value to form an elite adequate social challenges. has led disturbances and a large-scale reappraisal values. Historical put on back burner by new sciences. Bas...

The postmodern discourse on the nature of knowledge is constructed on the authority and reliability which different forms of knowledge claim in various walks of life. This discourse has challenged the major formations of modernity, claiming a sort of objective, authentic and reliable knowledge in comparison with non-evidential forms of knowledge such as arts, literature and revelation. ‘Histori...