| Volume 6, Number 3, July 2009 |
Remembering—A Shared Duty
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
The Poverty of Rights and the Third
Challenge to the Rural Development of China
by 黄岩 Huang Yan |
IT will soon be one year since the Olympic Games were inaugurated in Beijing to the enjoyment of the world and the glory of the hosting country, China. But these most happy moments were accompanied and then followed by new and unforeseen challenges. First, the Sichuan earthquake and its 80,000 or so victims had called for some unprecedented efforts towards solidarity. The banking and economic global crisis has affected, to differing degrees...
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A sudden crisis that emerged last year has quickly thrust the problem of China’s rural labourers onto the world stage. China is a manufacturing nation: the advanced manufacturing industry of China’s costal regions attracts a truly incredible amount of labour power from every corner of the country. For a reasonably long period of time, the problems of rural labourers have been thought of as merely a domestic issue and, when I have communicated...
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Why is Today’s China Calling in Confucius
by 唐文明 Tang Wenming |
Cultural Contact, Science and
the Empire of Salvation
by Eugenio Menegon 梅欧金 |
THE Chinese Culture Forum was founded in 2004 by ZHOU Kaixuan and DONG Xiuyu, two initiators, currently co-presidents of the forum council, with CHEN Lai, GAN Yang, HUANG Ping, LIU Xiaofeng, TONG Shijun, WANG Xiaoming, WANG Shaoguang, WANG Hui, YU Yongding, and SU Li as members of the council, and DU Weiming, JIN Yaoji, LI Zehou, WANG Yuanhua, WEI Yu, XU Zhuoyun, and YANG Zhenning, et al. as council advisors. The basic tenets of the forum are to stress the importance of “cultural self-consciousness”, and attempt to “base on the historical situation of ...
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SINCE the 1920s, the story of Christianity in China has mainly been recounted as one of cultural imperialism and aggression. The revolutionary winds that swept the country fuelled a firm anti-imperialist stance, justified by the dire straits of the Chinese Republic, faced with intrusive foreign economic and military control. The historical narratives created in the crucible of the Nationalist and Communist revolutions have remained dominant to this day in the collective imagination of the Chinese public, and still frame the analysis of many Western and Chinese scholars.
The undeniable links of Christian churches with...
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