| Volume 7, Number 1, January 2010 |
Climate Warming, Global Warning
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
India’s 2009 General Elections
and Beyond
by N. Jayaram 嘉亚拉穆 |
AS the year 2009 was coming to a close, the “Fifteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference” (COP15) was the focus of the world’s media. Convened in Copenhagen it debated for 12 days (7 to 18 December) to reach a collective agreement: climate change must be controlled to prevent its worldwide consequences. In modern history, it has been the largest international gathering of 192 national delegations, 46,000 or so participants (scientists, officials...
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WHILE the People’s Republic of China celebrated 60 years of existence in 2009, neighbouring India, with an equally huge population, began its 62nd year as an independent country. Unremarkable though that is as a milestone, what distinguished the year for India was that the 15th parliamentary elections since the country became a republic in 1952 passed off almost peacefully, barring stray violent attacks by Maoist militia in a few parts of the vast country...
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Fryderyk Chopin
The Man and the Innovator
by Luca Uggias 卢卡·乌加斯 |
Albert Camus in China
by 牛竞凡 Niu Jingfan |
A lot has been written about Chopin and throughout the ages the strong emotional drive incidental to his pieces contributed to create in the collective imaginary an often distorted image about this composer, making of him at times a wisplike and bashful dandy, with a too delicate sensitivity to be actively involved in worldly matters, unable to face the «real» world and therefore constantly «self-secluded» between the walls of a high society’s comfortable salon or, metaphorically, between the more suggestive walls of his own musical world. If it’s true that these grotesque deformations rest in some measure upon actual traits of...
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WHILE his fame and profound influence were reaching out to the whole world in the twentieth century, Albert Camus had to face his late arrival in modern China. For a China that was deeply mired in the domestic conflicts and foreign invasions in the first half of the last century and for the Chinese intellectuals struggling in a time out of joint, Camus’s Sisyphus Question that explored all the aspects of human existence in an age of peace and his sense of Strangerness were too untimely. However, for a China that had been closed to the outside world for more than 30 years and for her people who had survived the...
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India’s Peaceful Rise
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