| Volume 5, Number 2, April 2008 |
The Russian Culture of the Putin Era
by 刘文飞 Liu Wenfei |
Michał Boym: Polish Jesuit in the Service of the Ming Dynasty
by Monika Miazek 莫妮卡
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PUTIN, the former President of the Russian Federation who has been in power for just a few years, has now quickly become one of the most prominent figures of Russian history, and his seven or eight years in office have also constituted the "Putin Era" with distinct characteristics. So, can the “Putin Era” be a topic for discussion? The answer seems to be yes: first of all, relative to political, economic and social life, cultural development and change is...
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Michał Piotr Boym (1612-1659), a Jesuit, missionary and scholar, came from a family in which noble and bourgeois, scientific and mercantile, travel and religious traditions curiously intertwined. The Boym family came to Poland from Hungary with the King Stephen Bathory. The Jesuit’s grandfather, Jerzy Boym, even held the title of royal secretary. The Boym family amassed a considerable fortune and was considered to be a part of...
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Christian Culture: Necessary Medium
for Christianity to Involve in the Public Realm
by 尤西林 You Xilin
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The Awkward and Helpless Contemporary
National Art Inundated by Globalisation
and Pluralism
by 林木 Lin Mu |
CHURCH-STATE separation is a basic principle in modern society. Under this principle, how will Christianity blend in the public realm? The answer is through Christian culture.
Both the concept and the actual existence of Christianity and the modern public realm are definite, but what is "Christian culture"? If answered according to the broad definition of culture, Christianity as a religion is a culture per se, then, is the concept "Christian culture"...
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FROM the late nineteenth century onward, the Chinese, invaded and defeated due to lagging behind, have vented all their anger and frustration onto their own national culture, giving rise to the Westernisation Movement, Reform of 1898, New Culture Movement of 4 May and "Total Westernisation". All these movements and campaigns took criticising national culture as their foundation and learning from the Western culture as their crucial task. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People ensued which drew on China and the West, but pure Western-bred Marx's Communism took the upper hand...
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Elections
in Russian Society
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