生存的困惑--从赫索格与浮士德的对比看西方人生命意识的变迁

同是理想人生的探索者、自由精神的追求者,浮士德与赫索格非常典型地代表着各自时代人类生存的困惑与追求.浮士德在使自己融入人类大世界时的感觉是"这里我是人,我能做个人".赫索格把自己封闭在斗室中冥思苦想的结果则是"渴望做个人",却发现自己不是人.赫索格的窘境,正揭示了西方人对人生意义和价值的探索,在经历了两个世纪之后,又从终点回到了起点.     

SERVICE BEFORE CELEBRATION

Guo Wei's wish for the New Year of the Ox is stunningly simple. And probably universal. "I wish life would return to normal," he said simply as he sat in front of a screen monitoring heart beats. "I wish people can go about their normal activities once more and production and other economic activities resume. Not only in China but worldwide."     

Ocean Guardian

A Chinese scientist promotes marine ranching for ecological restoration Recalling the days of working on the ocean,Chen Yong,65 years old,still has fresh memories."It was a difficult job working on the sea.Even I,who majored in marine fishery,often got seasick,"he told Beijing Review.     

Love for Love

A Shanghai doctor gives back to herdsmen by serving them in Tibet The drain in Zhou Jian’s bathroom is clogged with hair again. The 48-year-old has a buzz cut and lives alone, but he said the drain blocks twice a month."It never happened when I was in Shanghai. I’m losing my hair much faster on the plateau," Zhou, Vice President of the Xigaze People’s Hospital in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China, told Beijing Review.     

THE SANDS OF TIME

正How China tamed a 1,000-plus-year-old sand land in seven decades It needs two adults to fully wrap their arms around Shi Guangyin's first tree, which stands on the southern edge of the Maowusu sand land, one of the four largest sand lands in China. Shi, China's first state-level hero fighting desertification, planted the tree back in 1984. "I love it very much; it's like my own child," he told Beijing Review.     

Vaseline on the Lens

正When my Chinese fiance and I decided to get married, there was no question about it: We would get our wedding portraits taken at one of the Chinese wedding studios that came with quaint names like "Paris," "Rome," "Golden Ladies," or "Mona Lisa. " "Are you going for the typical Chinese look? Vaseline on the lens, the works?" a British friend asked, in, shall we say, "amused" fashion.It was a Chinese tradition I would come to love; in the West, wedding photos are usually taken only during the ceremony and reception.     

The Concrete X-Factor

There are two airports in Beijing. Every time Guo Shuangchao goes on a business trip, he chooses to fly via the Beijing Daxing International Airport, nicknamed the Starfish of Beijing. That's because he is among its builders. Whenever his plane is about to take off or land, he cannot help giving a careful look at the airport, observing its runways, towers and corridors. "Every brick carries a lot of memories as well as a sense of achievement," Guo told Beijing Review.     

"我靠虚像生活"--媒介环境的影像阐释

大众传媒越来越深度地参与社会生活,我们对客观现实的认识也越来越依赖大众传媒,现实环境逐渐演变为媒介环境。媒介环境呈现出鲜明的影像特征,“我靠虚像生活”已经成为一种生存状态。运用昆德拉的“意象形态”、柏拉图的“洞穴理论”、李普曼的“拟态环境”、藤竹晓的“拟态环境的环境化”、鲍德里亚的“仿真、超真实、内爆”等理论,可以对此进行不同角度的阐述。公众把媒介环境的影像当成客观环境的真实来把握,就会落入“托马斯公理”所预言的圈套之中,可能使错误理解成为现实。     

Getting Started On Campus

正‘I started participating in the Model United Nations(MUN) activities when I was in middle school. In high school, I competed in the Beijing MUN, the premier national MUN gathering in China organized by China Foreign Affairs University(CFAU). That sowed the seed of my dream to study at the university and take part in the organization of this event," Lu Zhiyuan told Beijing Review. Today, he is a senior student at his dream college and serves as president of the CFAU Model United Nations Association. In doing so, he has realized that teenage dream.     

Vaccine Diplomacy Vs.Vaccine Hostility

"Do a Google news search for‘vaccine diplomacy’:All the top results are about China.Do a Google news search for‘vaccine solidarity’:None of the top results are about China."This is what Carlos Martinez,a Londonbased social commentator,wrote when he retweeted a report by the Guardian newspaper that had"vaccine diplomacy"in the headline.     

Zhang Boli:TCM Practitioner and Champion

I N his capacity as practitioner of tra-ditional Chinese medicine (TCM),Zhang Boli,73,has made a long career out of saving lives.The most recent advocacy of Zhang's chosen field of medicine was heard in the speech he made at an industry development conference on Chinese medicinal herbs produced in Zhejiang,held in the prov-ince's Wuyi County.In his speech he said,"In developing TCM,we need to stick to its theoretical essences as well as absorb advanced technologies and methods from other disciplines."     

Does China Have Freedom of Religion?

Two years ago,I traveled with some foreign journalists.One of them asked whether I had any religious belief."I am an atheist,"I said.His facial expression revealed that my reply had reinforced a preconceived opinion of his.He then asked,"It is said there is no religious freedom in China.What do you think?"     

America Can Lead Again,But in a Different Way

On his first day in office,Antony Blinken,newly appointed U.S.secretary of state,could not wait to claim the return of U.S.leadership on the international stage."America's leadership is needed around the world,and we will provide it,"he said.Over the past four years,Democrats have repeatedly emphasized the word"leadership"as a counterattack against the policy of the Donald Trump administration.President Joe Biden has also said the United States is back and prepared to lead the world.     

Psychology in the community: a community psychologist looks at 30 years in community mental health

I review my 30 years in the community mental health field, emphasizing the personal and historical context that shaped this career. I especially highlight the origins of the values that guided significant career decisions, including family, neighborhood, religious and educational influences. The core guiding value was the belief that public service is both a privilege and an obligation, and that righting social injustice through such service is a noble calling. I trace the evolution of my thoughts and actions reflecting this value, from an early desire to "help children," through preparation to become a child psychologist, and ultimately to practice in a public community mental health setting and a career dedicated first to primary prevention and then to broader safety net services for those in need. I highlight a corresponding intellectual evolution as well, a progressive change in identity from "clinical psychologist in the community" to community psychologist.     

Mother River’s Legacy

Chen Fu,an associate research fellow with the Aerospace In formation Research In stitu te,the Chinese Academy of Sciences,studied the changes taking place along the Yangtze River Economic Belt by comparing satellite images of lights across the region.     

空间形式:现代小说的叙事结构

长期以来,叙事学理论对时间问题关注较多,对空间问题着力甚少。在关于现代小说叙事结构“空间形式”的探讨中,其“空间”非指日常生活经验中具体的物件或场所,而是一种抽象空间、知觉空间、“虚幻空间”。只有在完全弄清楚了小说的时间线索,并对整部小说的结构有了整体的把握之后,这种“空间”才能在读者的意识中呈现出来。构成现代小说空间形式的要件是时间,或者说时间系列。小说的空间形式必须建立在时间逻辑的基础上,才能建立起叙事的秩序;只有“时间性”与“空间性”的创造性结合,才是创作伟大小说的条件,也是未来小说发展的趋势所在。     

Quenching the Thirst

正Water transfer project helps balance resources and conserve ecology Song Zihan, a mother of two living in Beijing's Fengtai District, remembers that years ago she had to clean the kettle on a regular basis because of the thick incrustation hiding inside, formed from boiling water in it.     

The Pathway to Legitimacy and Universality of Human Rights from a Cross-Cultural Perspective——A Brief Review of An-Na'im's Theory of Human Rights Legitimacy and Dialogue

Within the international human rights circle,Abduliahi AhmedAn-Na'im is regarded as a representative of Southern voices."Under such a circumstance that the confrontation between the West and non-Western countries on human rights has become a routine reality,An-Na'im advocates a contingent universality of human rights or "contingent universality of human rights," and insists that the universality of human rights be based on the cultural legitimacy of human rights.While he sees the internal dialogue of human rights in all non-Western countries,including Islamic ones,as a basic way to ensure the international human rights standards be accepted gradually,he also believes the cross-cultural dialogue among different societies can eventually lead to the reconstruction of the legitimacy of international human rights standards or even the standards themselves.An-Na'im's theory of moderate cultural relativism points a way to achieve universality of human rights for developing countries,but there are a few questions that need to be further addressed.     

THE POINT OF NO RETURN

With nearly 100 gardens and parklands, it is no wonder that Glasgow is known as the Dear Green Place, the perfect place to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26. Delegates from some 200 countries are gathering in the British city to discuss ways to upgrade the global response to the world's increasingly profound climate crisis. UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed particular concern over slowing collective action ahead of the meeting. "We need to make sure we reverse the trends, not maintain them. It is now clear we are coming to a point of no return," he said.     

Fine-Tuning Fandom

It is the ninth year Ni Pei is following everything about musician and actor Zhang Yixing (Lay). The idol debuted in 2012 in the Republic of Korea (ROK) as one of the Chinese members of male K-pop sensation EXO-M. At the time, Ni was a sophomore at a college in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. "He goes to extreme lengths when it comes to his work," Ni told Beijing Review, adding it is the meticulous atti-tude and ambition he reveals that she finds most attractive.