| Volume 8, Number 3, July 2011 |
The Chinese of Macau,
Sun Yat-Sen and the Tongmenghui
by 林广志 Lin Guangzhi |
Reflections on China’s Recent Population
Statistics and Current Demographic Situation
by 赵中维 Zhongwei Zhao |
The Xinhai Revolution History Series— Biography of Sir Lu Yiruo is a recently discovered work of local oral Macau history. It is a modern important historical material about the Chinese people of Macau who supported or took part in the Xinhai Revolution.. This article introduces readers to the discovery process of the biography, the main content and the value of its historical information. Furthermore, on the grounds of it, it has engaged in a critical analysis...
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THE Chinese government conducted the sixth national census in 2010 and its National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its major results on the 28th of April 2011, though consisting of only limited aggregated statistics. The United Nations Population Division has recently completed the 2010 round population projections for its member countries, and these results were published on the 3rd of May 2011. The publication of these results has provided...
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A Performative Modernity
Re-considering Menglong Poetry
by 杨敏 Yang Min |
A Comparison of Eastern and
Western Views on Freedom
by 谢文郁 Xie Wenyu |
MENGLONG poetry (Misty Poetry, 1978-1983) has been regarded as avant-garde poetry and has been associated with the inauguration of the Chinese literary modernism movement in the post-Mao period. But whether Menglong poetry is conscious modernism or deformed romanticism is an unsettled case. In this essay, rather than considering whether Menglong poetry is or is not modernist poetry, I suggest that Menglong poetry be read as verbal actions through which Menglong poets act as being, or perform to be, modernists.
First of all, studying Menglong poetry’s development and literary criticism in 1978-1983...
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THE concept of ziyou(1) in English is two words: liberty and freedom. The former refers to rights and the latter is related to will and action. What I discuss here does not concern rights associated with liberty, but will only engage in a comparison of the Confucian—Daoist and Greek—Christian perspectives on the significance of will and action associated with freedom.
From the meaning of the word, freedom refers to realizing what I want through actions. This definition has two important points: a person has material desires and is capable of acting. For example, someone wants to go to Tibet; as long as he or she has the ability to go to Tibet (however they do not have to ...
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