| Volume 6, Number 1, January 2009 |
Editorial: The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
—A Global Tale
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
Turbulent Times and China’s Strategic Needs
by Shi Yinhong 时殷弘 |
IN 1797, the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) wrote a poem entitled Der Zauberlehrling, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. It relates the unfortunate experience of an apprentice sorcerer who, in the absence of his master, conjured up a magic spell over a broom to carry water for him into the room where he wanted to have a bath. But he couldn’t stop the flood that followed until the sorcerer himself came back and controlled it...
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2008 is a turbulent time for the world’s governments. Of all the world events occurring in these turbulent times, the one which as attracted the most attention and controversy is the American Democratic Primaries—the most dramatic, hard-fought and prolonged contest there has ever been in modern American politics—and the Presidential election itself, which is still undecided at time of writing. Although Hilary Clinton has already lost, she has attracted people’s attention...
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A Study of Yue Minjun’s and
Edouard Manet’s Executions
by Martin Chung Chi-Kei 锺子祺
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"Returning to the Classics, Sticking to History": Seeking a New Approach to Chinese Language Theology
by Li Tiangang 李天纲 |
IN transcultural encounters, with all their complexities and contradictions, one observable pattern perhaps is that we tend to see only what we want to see in each other and take only what is convenient.
Very recently, contemporary Chinese paintings have been attracting great attention, grabbing newspaper headlines with record auction prices.(3) Artists like Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and Liu Xiaodong have become darlings of art galleries and art collectors. Works of theirs can fetch millions of dollars in no time...
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AFTER having been put off for many years, finally in 2007 three of my books have been achieved and published: Commentaries on the Three Pillars of Late Ming Catholicism (Daofeng Shushe, Hong Kong), Cross-cultural Interpretation: Encounter between the Study of the Classics and Theology (Xinxing Chubanshe, Beijing) and One Hundred Sentences of the Holy Bible (Fudan University Press, Shanghai). Commentaries on the Three Pillars collects and annotates the theological treatises of China’s first generation of Christians, Xu Guangqi and others...
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