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Scandal as medium of the celebritization process: Exploring the ‘Mina as Mother’ image in the context of post-war Italian culture (2018)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2018). Scandal as medium of the celebritization process: Exploring the ‘Mina as Mother’ image in the context of post-war Italian culture. Mediascapes, 11, 29-41

Mina is one of Italy’s most popular and best-loved pop singers. She rose to fame in the late 1950s and was particularly dominant from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Yet she remains popular even today, despite retiring from television appearances and... Read More about Scandal as medium of the celebritization process: Exploring the ‘Mina as Mother’ image in the context of post-war Italian culture.

Mina as Transnational Popular Music Star in the early 1960s (2018)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2018). Mina as Transnational Popular Music Star in the early 1960s. Modern Languages Open, 2018(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.237

As a ‘timeless icon’, ‘sophisticated performer’ and ‘the most versatile singer in Italian pop music’ (Prato 163-9), Mina is perhaps the most famous and successful proponent of the canzone italiana, Italian mainstream pop music. Her meteoric rise to f... Read More about Mina as Transnational Popular Music Star in the early 1960s.

Debatable "Chineseness": Diversification of Confucian classical education in contemporary China (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, C. (2018). Debatable "Chineseness": Diversification of Confucian classical education in contemporary China. China Perspectives, 2018(4), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.8482

© 2018, Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine China. This article discusses the ongoing debates about classics reading (dujing) in the revitalisation and diversification of Confucian classical education in mainland China. It begins by reviewing two dis... Read More about Debatable "Chineseness": Diversification of Confucian classical education in contemporary China.

'Am I not an author?' Social class and the contemporary French novel (2018)
Journal Article
Chadderton, H. (2019). 'Am I not an author?' Social class and the contemporary French novel. Modern & contemporary France / ASM & CF, 27(3), 281-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2018.1518319

While the term ‘working-class’ has fallen out of usage as the concept of class has lost its visibility and its power as a métarécit, this does not mean the issues that this term evokes have gone away. The hardship that comes of particular working liv... Read More about 'Am I not an author?' Social class and the contemporary French novel.

Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn" (2018)
Book Chapter
Ward, E. M. (2018). Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn". In S. Ehrig, M. Thomas, & D. Zell (Eds.), The GDR today: New interdisciplinary approaches to East German history, memory and culture (43-62). Peter Lang

Michael Kann’s debut film, Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn [Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen] (1987), was supposed to signal the thematic, artistic and popular renewal of one of the core interests of East German cinema, the antifascist film. Yet upon release, the fi... Read More about Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn".

Transnational ‘Italian’ stardom: Lara saint paul and the performativity of race (2018)
Journal Article
Brioni, C., & Brioni, S. (2018). Transnational ‘Italian’ stardom: Lara saint paul and the performativity of race. Italian Studies, 73(4), 351-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2018.1499844

This article aims to contribute to the debate about critical race studies in the Italian context – and especially in the 1960s and the 1970s – by focusing on the construction and negotiation of race in the career of the prominent Italian meticcia sin... Read More about Transnational ‘Italian’ stardom: Lara saint paul and the performativity of race.

Dimensions of the Political and the Moral: A Framework of Comparing Junzi and Citizens (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, C. (2018). Dimensions of the Political and the Moral: A Framework of Comparing Junzi and Citizens. Sociological Review of China, 6(3), 25-38

“君子”与“公民”的比较直接关涉中国儒家政治文化（以“君子”为主体）与西方民主政治文化（以“公民”为主体）的关系问题。那么，如何比较“君子”与“公民”呢？本文以“政治法理性”与“道德伦理性”为分类标准，建构了一个分析框架。作者把君子分成“治理主体”和“道德主体”，把公民... Read More about Dimensions of the Political and the Moral: A Framework of Comparing Junzi and Citizens.

Considerations on using mindful listening in advising for language learning: a micro study (2018)
Journal Article
Mozzon McPherson, M. (2018). Considerations on using mindful listening in advising for language learning: a micro study. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 28(2), 159-179

Aktives Zuhören (mindful listening) gilt als eine der wichtigsten Gesprächstechniken, von denen die Qualität einer Sprachlernberatung in entscheidendem Maße abhängen kann. Von
Sprachlernberatenden wird erwartet, dass sie den Aussagen der Ratsuchende... Read More about Considerations on using mindful listening in advising for language learning: a micro study.