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and publication of good translations, a global world of Letters is also being born. And the progress made in the audio-visual technologies has equally immensely helped the growth of a worldwide community of Arts lovers. In this issue, two contributions reflect on this new world of Arts and Letters. Lin Mu of Sichuan Normal University , Chengdu , warns about the risk incurred by the contemporary Chinese artists to become enmeshed with the trends of some "global" artistic and Western fashion that has nothing to do with Chinese artistic creativity. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Zeng Yuan, an independent writer based in Yichang , Hubei , meditates on the depth of the existential questions that paralysis has generated in a "carefully listening Sisyphus", the poet and writer Shi Tiesheng.
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