| Volume 8, Number 4, October 2011 |
From the Double-Ten Uprising (1911)
to Sun Yat-Sen in Nanjing (1912)
by 魏白蒂 Wei Peh T’i |
Observations and Reflections on
Traditional Music in Modern China
by Jeff Roberts 杰夫·罗伯茨 |
Time has arrived to mark the centennial of the 10th October 1911 Wuchang uprising which had led to the establishment of the Chinese Republic on 1st January 1912, with the provisional government sited in Nanjing and Dr. Sun Yat-sen as president.
The Wuchang Uprising and the Revolution of 1911
In several respects the Wuchang uprising on 10th October 1911 was different from the ten previous insurrections by followers of Sun Yat-sen...
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THE history of China and its music stretch back over four thousand years. During this time, traditional Chinese music meant a lot of different things, depending on the epoch. Such variety over time reveals that music culture is not static, but dynamic and in a four thousand year old tradition, much change over time has taken place. At the same time, such change occurred in the context of a remarkably stable and fixed system of cultural beliefs...
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A Spirituality For Scientists:
Historical Overview
by 弗朗索瓦·欧维 François Euvé |
From “China Trade” 1760-1860
to “China Rise” 1979-2011
by 刘孟达 Richard M. Liu |
NOWADAYS it is a common assumption that scientific work entails an “atheistic methodology”. Although somewhat provocative, this formula expresses what the Second Vatican Council called the rightful “autonomy of earthly affairs”. The scientific investigator is free to construct any scenario likely to explain phenomena without needing to have recourse to some “supernatural” element which would intervene as a special complement to a series of “natural” causes. Such an attitude is justified not as an example of tolerance which avoids challenging modern secularisation, but as the outcome of a reasoned theology of creation. The act of creation consists in handing over to...
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ON 2nd-3rd March this year, I attended as an observer the Workshop on “China Trade”, Merchants and Artists (1760-1860): New Historical Cultural Perspectives organized by the Macau Ricci Institute. It was a remarkable learning experience for me, a retired practitioner in banking and finance, with no expertise on the products traded, nor indeed in any knowledge in the area of that period of history.
As I listened to the lively discussions, a sense of déjà vu came to me. At the same time, I realised as well that “China Trade” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actually provided useful lessons for the late twentith and early twenty-first century...
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The Double-Ten
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