Work Report of the 10~(th) Council Meeting of CAFIU (Excerpt)

正The 10th Executive Council of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU)was elected in April of 2009.In the past five years,CAFIU has not only given full play to its traditional advantages in promoting people-topeople diplomacy,but also tapped into new resources and channels to establish new platforms,open up new horizons and forge new brands for     

Work Report to the 10~(th) Council Meeting of CAFIU (Extracts)

(April 24, 2009)Entrusted by President Li Guixian and on behalf of the 9th council of CAFIU, I now submit a report onthe work of CAFIU for your examination and     

《新编传奇漫录》中的双声符喃字

双声符字是越南喃字中极为独特的一类,可分为联合结构和偏正结构两小类.《新编传奇漫录》中的双声符字数量不多,却充分体现了这类字“声符+声符”的构造特点.此类字既与汉字密切相关,又展现了越南在发展民族文字方面所作的努力.     

Name-list of Members of the 11~(th) Executive Council (in alphabetical order of the surname's first letter)

正I.Political Parties and Government Sector Bie Tao Deputy Director-General,Department of Policies and Laws,Ministry of Environmental Protection Dong Jinyi Vice-President andSecretary-general,Associationof FormerDiplomatsof China,formerChinese Ambassador to Italy,Republic of San Marino and Switzerland Fan Yufei Deputy Director,Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government Gu Jianxin Deputy Director,Foreign Affairs Office of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government     

Work Report Delivered at the 2nd Plenary Session of the 10th Executive Council of CAFIU by Executive Vice-President Li Jinjun （Abstract）

The 10th Executive Council of CAFIU was elected in April 2009.In the past two years,focusing on the overall state diplomacy,and under the guidance of its leadership and the support of the Executive Council members,CAFIU has made thoughtful plans and active explorations in external relations in a solitary and down-to-earth manner.     

A model for the translation of news agency texts (Sapa) for radio (OFM) news

Abstract

Radio news differs from news provided by other media. According to Oosthuizen (1996), radio is an alerting medium. Leiter, Harriss and Johnson (2000) refer to this attribute as immediacy. The time available to news is very limited and this is why radio news stories are condensed into only a few sentences. Furthermore, news for broadcast is written in a conversational style, because it is heard and not read. Simple, short sentences are used; adjectives and adverbs are kept to a minimum; and strong, active verbs are used rather than passives. In the case of news wires, such as the South African Press Association (known as Sapa), news reports are written for print media. Therefore, bulletin producers need to edit these texts according to the requirements for radio news. In a bilingual or multilingual newsroom a more problematic situation arises, namely that all these texts (originally intended for use in print) need to be translated for a radio news bulletin and the radio station's specific audience. This article aims to describe how translation is used in the operational functioning of a radio newsroom, with a specific focus on OFM – a bilingual commercial radio station broadcasting to the Free State, Northern Cape, North West and southern parts of Gauteng, in South Africa. OFM's bulletin producers therefore not only edit news texts, but also translate them from English into Afrikaans. Certain strategies are followed to edit the original texts, but as there are also translation processes involved and specific translation problems which need to be addressed, appropriate translation strategies need to be identified. This study uses Christiane Nord's functionalist model (specifically her looping model) to describe the broad methodological framework in which these translating and editing (or transediting) processes take place at OFM. The study and findings will also show how certain elements of the looping model need to be adjusted in the translation of Sapa texts for OFM News.     

The Making of the (Issues of the) Vlaams Blok

In Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, one of the strongest extreme right parties of Europe thrives: the Vlaams Blok (the Flemish Bloc). The basic question of this article is straightforward: Do the Flemish media contribute to the success of the Vlaams Blok by emphasizing the themes of the party? The theoretical argument is twofold: agenda setting by the media and issue ownership by parties. The issues the Vlaams Blok owns are determined using two sources: its electoral manifestoes and its electorate's motivations to vote for the party. This leads to four issues: Flemish nationalism, immigrant topics, antipolitics issues, and crime-related themes. Using a vast media data set covering three newspapers and two TV stations and stretching over 10 years (1991-2000), we examine to what extent these issues were covered. The analysis shows that especially immigrant topics and crime receive extensive and growing media attention, and time series analysis shows that this rise parallels the electoral growth of the Vlaams Blok. The media could be considered co-responsible for the Vlaams Blok's upsurge.     

A (short) history of the clash of civilizations

Where does the clash of civilizations thesis and its underlying us-versus-them mentality come from? How has the idea been engineered historically and ideologically in the ‘east’ and ‘west’? What were the functions of Christianity and Islam to these ends? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this article that engages both the clash of civilizations thesis and the discourse of ‘Orientalism’ more generally. Dissecting the many manifestations of mutual retributions, the article establishes the nuances of the ‘clash’ mentality within the constructs we commonly refer to as ‘Islam’ and the ‘west’, showing how it is based on a questionable ontology, how it has served particular political interests and how it is not inevitable. What is presented, rather, is a short genealogy of this idea, dispelling some of its underlying myths and inventions along the way.     

被占领土与定居点(下)

《2 4 2号决议》国际社会为结束阿以冲突做过许多努力 ,其中最显著的是通过了联合国安理会《2 4 2号决议》。该决议首先重申“不允许以战争获得领土”的基本原则 ,然后要求冲突双方 :1 以军撤离在最近冲突中所占的领土 ;2 尊重并承认该地区内每个国家的主权、领土完整和政治独立。决议的核心是土地与和平的关系 ,即要求以方把侵占的土地还给阿方 ,同时要求阿方给予以方持久的和平。这就是人们通常所说的“以土地换和平” ,该原则得到了世界各国的公认。大部分阿拉伯国家和以色列都接受了这个决议 ,但它们对决议的解释大相径庭。阿拉伯国家…     

CIIS Launches the Blue Book(2015)

<正>On April 2,2015,China Institute of International Studies(CIIS)launched The CIIS Blue Book on International Situation and China's Foreign Affairs(2015).The event brought together 120 participants,including representatives from government agencies,academic institutions and institutes of higher     

The organ and staff of the institute (1980)

The time is nigh for the EU to think more strategically about its global role. This is suggested by the confluence of changes in the international system itself and the internal changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. When approached via a geopolitical prism, the EU's main interests lie in its neighbourhood, to the east and south, central Asia and the Gulf. These are regions where the EU enjoys the most influence. The EU should therefore engage with other international actors, both traditional and emerging, in an intensified dialogue concentrating in particular on these areas. A Union with a clearer idea of what it is trying to accomplish on the world stage, backed by the means and determination to succeed, could herald a regional pax Europeana, while a continuation of the EU's current drift will condemn it to increasing irrelevance – a pox Europeana.     

Chinese Association for International Understanding Held the 2~(nd) Plenary Session of the 10~(th) Executive Council

The Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU) held the 2nd Plenary Session of the 10th Executive Council in Beijing on April 29.Present at the Session were Vice-Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and President of CAFIU Mr.Zhou Tienong     

Presidential mandates and ministerial institutions: Summitry of the Americas, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

The periodic Summits of the Americas are the highest form of regional multilateralism in the Western Hemisphere, but summits lack their own means to implement their mandates. Hence, Summit Plans of Action assign many initiatives to existing regional institutions, especially the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). But a notable difference exists in the character and degree to which these two institutions have responded to their unfunded mandates, in that the OAS has become “nested” under the hierarchy of summitry, while the IDB has eschewed subordination in favor of a “parallel” relationship pursuing largely convergent activities. Relying on extensive interviews and reviews of open source and internal documents, six variables are found to explain this differential response: ministerial authorities, competing mandates, institutional missions, internal structures, membership and leadership. Yet for both regional institutions there remains a wide gap between the directives emanating from the Summits and what the two regional institutions have been—and could be—accomplishing. The study concludes with recommendations to improve institutional design. JEL codes L31 · F42 · F02 · D73 · F1