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《神州交流》Chinese Cross Currents
最新期刊 Latest issue
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赵仪文
Yves Camus |
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世界 ‧ World
Under the impact of the last century’s two World Wars, historians have begun to take into consideration what could be labelled the various stages of “Globalisation”, a recent catchword. There would nevertheless be some irony to root its origin at the time of the first circumnavigations around the world by famous Western navigators. In fact, it is well known that these European outreaches on the seas generated intense competition between mercantile powers. If these endeavours were the first steps towards “globalisation”, the irony would be that, to avoid the risk of any conflict, in 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas in Spain “divided” the world into two zones of expansion! When the word was coined in the 1980s and entered popular usage in the following ten years, it has first been applied in economics and trade matters, which benefited largely the new communications and transport technologies. Yet, the “modern” globalisation phenomenon has generated intense ideological and social debates, due to the ethical and social consequences involved. In this section, writing from the Chinese situational point of view, two articles comment on what is at stake. International Business Ethics has some chances to enter into the Chinese context, as writes Stephan Rothlin. Yet, as shown by Yang Hengda, Business Ethics still faces major problems in China that could bear on its world exchanges. The Editor
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国际商业伦理在中国背景下的机遇
The Chance of International Business Ethics in the
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经济伦理学在中国面对的主要问题
Major Problems that Business Ethics Faces in China |
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社会 ‧ Society
It is well known that in periods of important change, whether individual or collective, material or cultural, one tends naturally to go back to one’s roots. In Chinese or European histories, instances of such renewals are not lacking. There is no doubt that, under the impact of the successive crumbling of dynasties, Chinese society and culture have known so diverse yet brilliant periods of rebirth during which new institutions, arts and letters mutually competed for influence for generations to come. European nations have also grown, despite many crises, through “renaissances”, up to the point of rediscovering ancient Latin and Greek Classics. Today, Chinese society is in the midst of a so-called “National Studies” fever. In the first article of this section, An Qingfu, from Beijing, reflects upon it and notes that this is not the first time that such a social phenomenon has occurred in Chinese society, yet perhaps it has some particular meaning or purpose still to be discerned and explored. To place it in some broader perspective, Thierry Meynard, from Guangzhou, shares his experience of translating and explaining some Western classics to a young Chinese audience of college students. He reflects also on the readings of the Chinese Classics made by early Jesuits in China. As he says, in this field of sharing Classics, the age of globalisation carries with it new depths and new challenges. The Editor
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冷眼向洋看国学：当代中国传统文化热的静思考
Cool-mindedly Looking at the Sea of Guoxue (National Studies) |
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在全球化时代阅读经典
Reading the Classics in the Age of Globalisation |
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艺术与文学 ‧ Arts & Letters
One might perhaps mistakenly think that arts and letters keep aloof from the worries of the world, as if they had no other impact than troubling interior inspiration. After all, have not so many artists, poets, writers and philosophers withdrawn themselves into reclusion out of which great works have been conceived? But searching carefully through history, one will soon notice that noises of the world and silence of reclusion generate fecund inspiration. This section presents two different testimonies to the point. It might be a surprise to not so few readers to see that ecology, or rather the protection of environment, has also some impact among writers, poets and critics. Hu Zhihong presents “A Utopian Project of Literature” in his discussion about the sense of place in literary works and criticism. It involves some kind of imaginary environment, so much threatened in present day life. Leading us back to the birth of European Romanticism, Artur Wardega, by reflecting on the aftermath of the French Revolution, asks an important question: ought what Chateaubriand thought to be “the Genius of Christianity”, not to be called “the rebirth of Chivalry”, some human invention of “belief” ?
The Editor |
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地方意识的生态建构：文学的乌托邦工程
Ecological Structure of the Sense of Place: A Utopian
Project of Literature |
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基督宗教精神还是骑士精神？
Genius of Christianity or Genius of Chivalry? |
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历史与文化 ‧ History & Culture
This section’s two articles show readers how artistic Western influences have entered China and what the interesting results have been. The first one, by Dr. Chen Huihung, takes us back to the Ming Dynasty and deals with these influences from the point of view of religious art. Dr. David Clarke considers the purposes to which these Western influences were put by modern day secular artists in Hong Kong.
A well known saying states that “the eyes are windows to the soul”. In her article Chen Huihung argues that Jesuit missionary scientists at the imperial court in Beijing tried to convey to the Chinese their belief that through the faculties of the eye, humans may gain an awareness of the existence of the anima or soul. In their astronomical manuals they depicted the human eye’s ability to explore the physical universe symbolically. They thus pointed to the eye’s superiority over other physical senses and its connection to the soul, an argument actually derived from concepts in use by Italian Renaissance artists, but practically alien to Chinese culture.
Dr. Clarke is an expert on modern Chinese art and gives an account of the artistic scene of 1990s Hong Kong, especially the artistic effervescence of the two years before the handover. In his discussion he mentions the internationalizing of mainland Chinese art after the Cultural Revolution. In contrast, Hong Kong art has been more preoccupied with defining a local identity. To serve this purpose Hong Kong artists adapted the media and the styles of Western modernity, including not only sculpture and painting, but also photography, video and installation art. These developments show that Western artistic concepts have now become a source of cultural enrichment and have enabled the modern Chinese artist to create a wholly new and original artistic voice.
César Guillén Nuñez
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图象与精神：十七世纪来华耶稣会士的视力观
Image and Soul: Jesuit Vision in Seventeenth-Century China |
陈慧宏
Chen Hui-Hung
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二十世纪九十年代香港艺术的意义与地位
Meaning and Place: Hong Kong Art in the 1990s |
祈大卫
David Clarke
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思想与人本 ‧ Thought & Humanism
Currents of thought abound anywhere in the world, but not so often do they mutually cross-fertilize. Most of them are the result of the influence exerted by the research of some specialized experts in their own discipline. This is perhaps the advantage possessed by these specialists who may so better develop their knowledge and expose their reflections acquired by experience. In this section, however, Chinese Cross Currents is fortunate enough to host some writings of a Christian theologian who does not treat of his specialty, theology, but of modern violence and economy: John Cobb, in the text of a public lecture to a general audience, could perhaps help the reader to pay attention to the economic aspects of the world’s violence, not only social violence, but also, as already mentioned in the Editorial, violence exerted on the Environment. This insightful article is followed by an analysis of what Chinese society is nowadays experiencing. Its author, Chen Xinhan, calls it a “moral landslide”. He explains its origins in the damage caused by the recent forceful social transformation and suggests some remedies. The Editor
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社会和环境暴力的经济层面
Economic Aspects of Social and Environmental Violence |
约翰•科布
John B. Cobb
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中国社会转型时期的道德“滑坡”
The Moral “Landslide” of China during the Period of
Social Transformation |
陈新汉
Chen Xinhan
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争鸣与特写 ‧ Debates & Features
In this world and this age, it seems that the real platform for exchanges among nations is, by far and without doubt, the economic stage. Proofs of this abound if only one pays a little attention to the sometimes enormous contracts signed at the occasion of official visits by heads of states. The exchange years in China run by various European countries, despite their popular successes, would not deeply alter this assessment. In-depth knowledge however of the countries involved in these exchanges cannot spare present day China and Europe philosophical research. In this section, Chinese Cross Currents has invited two philosophers to report on their own fields. From Guangzhou, Sun Yatsen University, Ni Liangkang describes and explains “The Trends and Research Problems of Attention of the Chinese Philosophic World in Recent Years.” One will easily recognize the deep impact of these years on the ongoing debates of these milieus. From Paris, Centre Sèvres, Paul Valadier brushes a detailed panorama of the varieties of problematics and concerns of “Philosophy in Europe Today.” The contrast between the two presentations might give some suggestions for developing further contacts.
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近年来中国哲学界的研究趋向与关注问题
The Trends of Research and Problems of Attention of
the Chinese Philosophic World in Recent Years |
倪梁康
Ni Liangkang
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欧洲今日哲学
Philosophy in Europe Today |
保罗•瓦拉迪埃
Paul Valadier
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评论 ‧ Reviews |
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万德化,《安德烈 • 纪德〈伪币制造者〉一书中的纹心结构》
Artur K. Wardega, The technique of mise en abyme
as employed in André Gide’s “The Counterfeiters” |
曾圆
Zeng Yuan
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美国学者出版社，《国际管理评论》
American Scholars Press, International Management Review |
杜雅德
José I. Duarte
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金迈克,《新电视、全球化与东亚的文化想象》
Michael Keane et al., New Television, Globalisation, and
the East Asian Cultural Imagination |
蒂莫西•辛普森
Timothy A.
Simpson
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史书美，《视觉与认同：跨太平洋的华语呈现》
Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity—Sinophone
Articulations Across the
Pacific |
胡纪伦
César Guillén
Nuñez
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李静君，《与法律相背：中国南北的劳动力抗议》
Lee Ching Kwan, Against the Law—Labour Protests in China’s
Rustbelt and Sunbelt |
狄明德
Dominique Tyl
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约翰 • 卡罗尔，《帝国的边缘：香港的中国精英与英国
的殖民地居民》
John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires—Chinese Elites and British
Colonials in Hong Kong |
苏鼎德
Eric Sautedé
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下期预告 / Forthcoming：
俄罗斯总统大选—中国的物权法
全球化内当代中国民族文艺—基督宗教与马克思主义在中国
On Russian Elections and Their Contexts—Reflections on China New Property
Law
Contemporary National Arts in Globalisation—On Christianity and Marxism in China
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