| Volume 7, Number 2, April 2010 |
Priceless Friendship
—Matteo Ricci’s Legacy
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
The European Union Policy
in Central Asia
by Sébastien Peyrouse 瑟巴司倩·培儒斯 |
Some years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor in the USA, considered Eurasia as a “Grand Chess Board”,(1) open for centuries to conquests or trade along the branches of the Silk Road.
The “chess board” was equally a cultural “crossroad”, hence its world historical importance. Famous travellers from West to East have left their names in these exchanges. Aloben, a Syrian monk and....
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FACED with an exponentially growing Chinese presence and the continuation of strong Russian influence, the European Union is seeking to find its place in Central Asia. Beyond grand discourses about the partnership between the European Union and the Central Asian states, the mutual relations have until recently remained rather limited: hindered by the absence of a common long-term Strategy, they have faltered on Brussels’ inability to reconcile....
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The First Edition of
the Analects of Confucius in the West (1687)
by Thierry Meynard 梅谦立 |
Reflecting on the Quest, the Zest
and the Rest
by 刘伟杰 Cyril J. Law |
SINCE the seventeenth century the Chinese classics have been making their way to the West, making them not only the classics of China, but gradually causing them to become classics worldwide. Here we will try to understand the beginnings of the travel of Chinese classics to the West, how Western people first read, understood, translated and disseminated the Analects, causing this book to become, in the eyes of Western people, the text best able to represent Chinese culture. The first edition of the Analects in the West is part of a book that can be seen as an encyclopaedia of Chinese thought, titled Confucius Sinarum Philosophus...
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BORN in 1801, John Henry Newman was formerly an Anglican clergyman, active in the intellectual and religious circles associated with the University of Oxford. He and other scholars like Edward Pusey (1800-1882) and John Keble (1792-1866) were at the core of a nascent trend in the Church of England of the 1830s, known as the Oxford Movement or Tractarianism (named after the published Tracts disseminating their ideas). The movement advocated a re-orientation or conservative return to the fundamental Christian Church principles of Antiquity, Apostolicity, Authority and Tradition. It was also...
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