| Volume 7, Number 3, July 2010 |
Volunteer Spirit, a Beautiful Landscape of
the Shanghai World Exposition
by 陈新汉 Chen Xinhan
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Ideals on the “Shanghai World Expo”
and “Cosmopolitanism”
by 李天纲 Li Tiangang |
THE long-awaited World Exposition in Shanghai commenced on the evening of April 30th 2010. The World Exposition, while boasting many visible and invisible landscapes, is displaying to us its beautiful scenery of the spirit of volunteers.
1. The World Exposition Promotes the Modern Level of Volunteer Activities
While presenting its scientific achievements and industrial technology, its wholehearted embodiment of humanistic care and concerns toward the future of mankind, as a beating pulse of the contemporary humanity spirit, can be felt from the organization and arrangement of each and every World Exposition from its inception. A vague tension was felt in 1851 at the first World Exposition in London between the Victoria people’s physical and spiritual relationships, and then, in the Paris World Exposition, France sought to reflect a core humanistic spirit agitated by the French revolution via its traditions of humanity and arts. The post-World War II World Expositions gradually developed themselves...
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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. On the contrary, from the 1880s, Shanghainese from all walks of life actively attended the World Fair, as all previous “Chinese Pavilions” were successively built, shipped and sent for display from the city. Shanghai is also not a city that lacks the ability to organize large-scale international events. With the complete backing of the entire city, it three times, in 1915, 1921 and 1927, held the “Far East Asian Olympic Games”, with people from all circles hoping these were in preparation...
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