| Volume 8, Number 2, April 2011 |
The Confusions of Chinese Enterprises
Facing ISO 9000
by 郑立华 Zheng Lihua |
Western Missionaries and the Introduction
of International Law to China
by 王超杰 Wang Chaojie |
AS an international standard management system, ISO affirms clearly at the beginning what its aim of implementation is: “to carry out the movement of standardization in the whole world, to ultimately improve the interactions between producers of international products and providers of international services, and at the same time to make the cooperation between fields such as the academic, the scientific, the technical and the economic more....
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IN the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern international law began to appear and develop in Europe, but the Chinese feudal dynasties with Sino-centric concept of “Tianxia” still regarded China as the centre of the world.(1) China made the first regulation of conflict between nations in Yonghui Code in the early Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) which provided that: “a dispute between two aliens of the same nationality should be solved according to...
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Universities, Religions, and the Encounter of
Civilisations
by Leo D. Lefebure 利奥·勒菲布尔 |
From Oracle Bones to DVD
Jean Lefeuvre (1922-2010):
Jesuit, Lexicographer, Sinologist
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
The Challenge
As civilisations encounter each other and become ever more intimately intertwined, their relationships can range from cooperation to competition to hostile rivalry. The late political scientist Samuel P. Huntington famously expressed the challenge of “the clash of civilisations”.(1) Huntington commented on the relation between civilisation and culture:
Civilisation and culture both refer to the overall way of life of a people, and a civilisation is a culture writ large. They both involve the ‘values, norms, institutions, and modes of thinking to which successive...
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THE many fields of Chinese studies as developed in the world and in China proper have recently been the object of important gatherings.(1) At these conferences, mention was made of the birth of Chinese studies during the lengthy revival of the cultural encounter between China and the West since the time of the European Renaissance. This was done at the level of an always deeper exploration and search for mutual understanding thanks to the development of necessary tools, first of all the compilation of dictionaries and the publication of many translations of classical texts. But as far as linguistic...
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