| Volume 7, Number 2, April 2010 |
Living for the Community:
The Significance and the Past are not the Same
by 梁苹 Liang Ping |
An Intellectual’s Independent Personality
by 河西 He Xi |
Due to the widespread bias toward AIDS in society, caring for people infected with HIV has become an important conception in the prevention of AIDS. In these in-depth interviews in this area, the author heard some differing voices.
“Excessive care and concern marginalizes this group even more; only acceptance, equality and respect can truly dispel the bias within society. If we include all infected persons and treat them equally, without discrimination, each taking up his or her own share of responsibility, then this disease should not be so terrible.” Australia’s senior expert Dr. Gao Yuan caused this reporter to reconsider. How do those infected view life? What kind of “love and concern” do they need? Coexisting within a social environment, how should we treat those with HIV? With these questions, today this reporter interviewed two infected persons and two experts. Let us follow in the reporter’s footsteps, enter their lives and listen attentively to the words spoken from the heart...
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IS it Chen Danqing that is regressing(1) or is it that the times are regressing? He does not appear to be a man who likes to “move in accordance with the times”, vehemently calling for a great Renaissance, he shaved his head shorter than that of Lu Xun,(2) and scowls coldly at a world that appears to be in full swing. Is he really a loner? Facing the allure of power and fame and the systematic shackles of the academic and artistic world, he has bluntly and boldly demanded: “We need a space for freedom of speech; we need to build up the independent personalities of intellectuals!”
As an essayist and short story novelist, Lu Xun first appears to his readers as an “instigator”. As if echoing the distant world of Lu Xun, Chen Danqing inherited from him the “whip of language”, for as he interrogates our conscience he also spurs himself. When he encounters any form of irrationality, whether in education or city construction, he speaks out with a sense of justice and does not back down. In these parts of Lu Xun’s writings...
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Priceless Friendship
—Matteo Ricci’s Legacy
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