Lights,Camera,Action!

<正>The Silk Road International Film Festival as a cross-cultural bridge As Xi’an,capital of Shaanxi Province in northwest China,got ready to bid farewell to 2022 on December 31 last year,a festive mood engulfed the city thanks to China’s optimization of its COVID-19 control policies earlier that month.A popular tourist destination in the city showcasing the ancient ways of the Tang Dynasty(618-907) attracted more than 60,000 people that evening.     

Small Production,Big Impact

IT'S the local characters and landscape that I usually find most interesting about Chinese films. But it was the plot of Tuya's Marriage that captured my attention, regardless of its being Chinese." This comment by a German critic is possibly the best compliment Wang Quan'an, director of Tuya's Marriage, could hope for. He and other young Chinese film makers have been doing their utmost to produce works that touch the Western soul rather than presenting a visual oriental feast.     

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ng in universi ties, the author analyses the harmfulness of vulgarization that causes the devia tion from the university's attributes,the damage to the principle of educational eq uity, the injury to the university's reputation of moral pattern, and the distor tion of the academic standard. The article discusses the reasons for university' s vulgarization from the per     

Opposite Paths,Opposite Outcomes

Perhaps the most curious thing about COVID-19 is not its complicated pathology,its rapid mutations,the fact that many are infected and remain symptomless while others die,or that some experience a debilitating long version of the disease set in after the initial infection.Rather,in our highly globalized world,the rapid spread and almost universal human encounter with the disease has become a threshold moment in human history.While other pandemics have come and gone in the past,and while scientists promise us COVID-19 is the first of many more to come,most of us will demarcate our lives in two periods:before the outbreak and after.     

Tiger,Tiger Burning Bright

IT is no big news that a farming community sometimes produces an artist or two. But when there are hundreds, that surely is a phenomenon, particularly if all of them specialize in the same subject. In Wanggongzhuang, a village in Minquan County, Shangqu City, Henan Province, more than two-thirds of the 320-odd households produce or trade paintings, all themed on the tiger.     

Bats for Happiness,Peaches for Longevity

CHINESE buildings, windows, bowls and dishes often bear a motif that might seem strange to the Western eye - that of the bat. The Chinese perception of this flying mammal contrasts sharply with its sinister Western associations of darkness and vampires.     

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO?

Wang Lijun is coming for you. IN Western media, Chinese police officers generally get bad press. Tales of torture, intimidation and miscarriages of justice frequently appear in news bulletins and RSS feeds. But if the chief of police in Jinzhou, a city in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, has his way, all that is about to change. Wang Lijun is using his considerable experience and knowledge in the field to train his charges in a whole new way. He hopes the results can serve as a model for the entire country. The police have perhaps never before been under as intense scrutiny as they are in this age of information and camera-equipped mobile phones. These days the public pays much more attention to their actions. So eliminating corruption from the force - a difficult job in any country - seemed to Wang Lijun a good place to start, and he says he's personally overseeing that task. He's revamped the complaints department - notorious wastes of space in China - and personally interviews local citizens that have complaints against the cops. He says he has done this 700 times in the three and a half years since the new system was put in place, and 95 percent of the complaints were satisfactorily resolved.     

SMALL STEPS,HIGH STAKES

正Following a welcome that included a 21-gun salute, Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered a clear message on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19. In the moderate but     

Humanity,Cmmunity Pursuit of Liberty

This article tries to probe the dispute or polemic that runs through the entire history of humanity, i.e., which is the primary factor, individual liberty or social interest? Observation of the gen-erative causes of the major viewpoints     

Libo,a Walk through Heaven

Karst experts often say that Guizhou is one of the best karst areas in China, and Libo County in the southwest part     

Spring,River, Flower,Moon, Night

<正>The world premiere of Pearl electrifies Lincoln Center with its heartfelt tribute to one of America’s greatest novelists By Corrie Dosh Asmall girl named Pearl runs and skips along the banks of the Yangtze River, playing with peasant fishermen, mimicking the graceful movements of village girls,     

文化、文明、民族

文明是文化的实体,文化是文明中最根本的东西。文化水平的高低上可以看出一个国家、一个民族或者一个社会的文明程度。文化是文明的沃土,文明是文化的结晶。文化中产生文明,而在文明中产生新的文化。没有文化环境就不可能有文明的成果。文化多样性是一种客观存在,它标志着各个不同民族的并存。因为,文化的最大的、最直接的载体就是民族。对中国而言,中华文化不是某一单一民族的文化,它是中国各民族共同创造的文化。因此,它不需要分层次,更不允许划等级。必须承认,文化既是民族的生存方式,也是不同民族的精神家园。     

Growing, Growing, Gone

Guangzhou is the capital city of Guangdong Province in China's developed southeast coastal area. Zhang Guangning, deputy to the 11th National People's Congress and Mayor of Guangzhou, told Beijing Review that the goal for Guangzhou's GDP growth in 2009 is 10 percent.     

Location,Location, Location

<正>Homegrown navigation system is improving and going global For smartphone users,finding a nearby restaurant,grabbing a taxi blocks away,and getting directions to a destination are all habitual processes,yet it is a satellite navigation system,by providing location positioning services,that makes all this happen.Until now,the technology has been dominated by the U.S     

Go,Go,Guizhou

<正>Guizhou Province seeks to narrow the gap with the prosperous east Guizhou Province, a mountainous and multi-ethnic province in southwest China, is gaining popularity with domestic and overseas investors as it accelerates     

Game, Set, Match

Top tournaments bring tennis fever to China The last Tennis Masters Cup came to an end on November 16, 2008.In the season-ending tournament,world No. 3 player Novak Djokovic from Serbia managed a 6:1 and 7:5 win over Russian Nikolay Davydenko at the     

荒，荒，荒

寻思之，凡此种种。怎样才能不荒呢？继续积极稳妥地推进全方位的渐进式改革，自然不失为根本的社会进步法门。     

Fly,Fly, Birdie

The Shahe Reservoir in north Beijing is heaven for bird lovers.Each year, bird watching enthusiasts flock to the area to observe and record the lives of its avian inhabitants using binoculars and cameras equipped with telephoto lenses.     

Ready,Aim, Fire

<正>Local conferences set their sights on new targets for development Since January 7,provincial regions and cities in China have started holding annual conferences of law makers and political advisers.By February 5,28 out of the 31 provincial regions had concluded two sessions of local people’s congresses and committees     

SIGNED,DEALED,DELIVERED

<正>Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei signs the agreement for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB)in Beijing on June 29.Representatives of the 57 prospective AIIB founding countries signed the agreement at the ceremony.The signing wrapped up six months of negotiations and paved the way for establishing the Beijing-