| Volume 6, Number 2, April 2009 |
Transition from Education to Employment
Observations by Chinese Young Professionals
by Anja Michaela Fladrich |
An Examination of Central Asia
Central Asia’s Peaceful Development is in China’s Interest
by 冯玉军 Feng Yujun |
IN today’s knowledge-based economy, graduates in China face fierce employment conditions; growing domestic and global socio-economic pressure has changed the Chinese labour market into a place of rising unemployment and workplace competition. At the beginning of the twenty first century, students returning from overseas, the overall growing numbers of students graduating from China’s institutions of higher education as well as...
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CENTRAL Asia, that belt of land situated in the heartland of the Eurasian continent, has been closely intertwined with China since antiquity. The ‘Silk Road’ which spans Central Asia has allowed communication between Eastern and Western civilisations. The migration of its ancient people and the communication this allowed encouraged the assimilation of the Chinese peoples. Poems like ‘The ancient moon of Loulan’ and ‘The lonely smoke of...
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Economy, Employment, Education, …Ethics
by Yves Camus 赵仪文
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Liberation Theology and Marxism
by Georges De Schrijver s.j. |
EVEN if you are not addicted to science fiction movies, you might have observed through TV advertisements that many of these dramas begin with a similar scenario: an unknown phenomenon in the skies or at sea is dangerously approaching the Earth’s shores threatening—but how, no one knows—to destroy everything. As there is no answer to the question: “What is it?” all the authorities, administrations and armed forces mobilize themselves against any eventuality, etc. And the thrill of the suspense begins.
In the same way, during the first three months of this year, the great majority of the world media has...
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1. Christian-Marxist Dialogue in China
In April 2008, Professor Zhang Xian published an article in Chinese Cross Currents: (1) “Reflections on the Introduction of Christianity and Marxism into Modern China.” This article was an eye-opener for me. It initiated me in the Christian-Marxist dialogue that takes place in the People’s Republic of China. It also made me realize that the background of this dialogue is light years apart from the reception of Marxism in Latin American Liberation Theology.
1. Indeed, the specific difficulty with which Professor Xian is confronted is Marxism’s essentially...
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Economy, Employment, Education, Ethics
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