| Volume 7, Number 3, July 2010 |
Clear Water, Deep Water
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
Make a Better City Life
by 卢汉龙 Lu Hanlong |
IN recent history, rare have been, if any, the occurrences where the same country has been selected to run both the Olympic Games and, two years later, the next World Exhibition. That China has been able to assume the burden of such responsibility, with its financial and other costs, will remain for long a real performance. Few nations would have dared to launch such an enterprise. With vivid memories of the 2008 Beijing Games’ opening ceremony...
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WORLD Expo 2010 Shanghai China is the first time in the World Expo history that “city” has been employed as its theme. Its English expression, “Better City, Better Life”, when rendered back into Chinese, holds the same meaning. This leads us to fathom on the Shanghai World Expo’s another underlying theme: “life”. Apparently, “Better City, Better Life” is a phrasing in aligned symmetry—a neutral expression; it expects a better city, which begets a better life....
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Ma Xiangbo’s Role in the
Achievement of Zhang Chongren
by 陈耀王 Chen Yaowang |
Ideals on the “Shanghai World Expo”
and “Cosmopolitanism”
by 李天纲 Li Tiangang |
MA Xiangbo’s place as an eminent authority in modern Chinese history’s academic circles is indisputable. Whether Nationalist or Communist, or among academics worldwide, all without exception speak of Ma with admiration. Ma Xiangbo was born in 1840 in Dantu, Jiangsu Province, to an influential Catholic family. At the age of 12 he went by himself to study at Shanghai Xuhui Public School and in 1862 he entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus. In 1870 he earned his Doctorate of Divinity, was ordained a priest, was appointed principal of Xuhui Public School and held other positions. In 1876 he left...
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FROM the first “World’s Fair” in London in 1851, 160 years later in the year 2010, the fair is finally being held in Shanghai. Shanghai is not a city that lags behind the times, and in the first half of the twentieth century joined the ranks of London, Paris and New York as an “international metropolis”. Yet, the “World’s Fair” was previously always held in Europe, America, Japan or other industrialized nations, and was never held in Shanghai, which brought pain to the Chinese people. Historically, the reason why the fair was never held in the city was not because it lacked the willingness or ability to do so...
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