The Anti-Axial Age

Karl Jaspers famously characterized the period from the beginning of the eighth to the end of the third century before Christ as an “Axial Age” in which intellectual freedom and creativity blossomed as never before. This article argues that it was followed, five hundred years later, by an “Anti-Axial Age”, which devised a novel formula for intellectual and political repression. Its essence was the state’s capture of the millenial narrative, which had first been developed as religious doctrine within Zoroastrianism and Christianity. Involving the two great classical empires of Western Eurasia, Persia and Rome, and then empowering the expansion of Islam, the Anti-Axial Age left an ideological legacy that continues to haunt the contemporary world.     

TAKING THE ECONOMIC PULSE

<正>Collective wisdom on how to meet challenges and seize chances at the Boao forum On March 24,Yang Kai,Chairman of China Huishan Dairy Holdings,a company that covers the entire dairy value chain from plantation to dairy farming and manufacturing and is based in northeast China’s Liaoning Province,issued an announcement.     

MOUNTAINS OF CHANGE

正Remote villages in Tibet grow rapidly thanks to better transport and targeted development policies Renowned Italian Tibetologist and explorer Giuseppe Tucci(1894-1984) might have rescheduled his first journey to Tibet if he had known that then the only road out of Diyag,     

Police Perceptions of Irrational Unstable Behaviours and Use of Force

Police identification of people experiencing mental illness is usually based on either the person having an official contact history with police or through observing behavioural indicators commonly associated with mental illness during an encounter. Police have voiced concerns with their ability to identify and respond to people experiencing mental illness in a timely way and report that they commonly resort to more coercive tactical options to resolve encounters. The present study employed a mixed method design to examine 286 police use of force incidents to investigate the association between force used on and by offenders displaying irrational-unstable behavioural characteristics. The irrational-unstable offenders were two times more likely to be perceived by police to have an apparent mental disorder and almost four times more likely to have a known mental health history; one in six had an official record of contact with mental health services. There were few differences in police and offender use of force, considering force as both a categorical and a continuous variable, while incident-level comparisons suggested that police force was generally proportional to offender resistance. Implications are discussed in terms of the need to redress limitations with the traditional police approach style.     

Clicking off Poverty

正How Internet Plus tourism has spread rural Tibet’s wings Phuntsok,a 70-year-old family inn owner in Nyingchi City,southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,is remarkably web savvy.On his business card,there is a QR code for tourists to scan to see the virtual reality(VR)panorama of his guesthouse in Tashi Gang Village,Lhulang Town.     

On Jordan Peterson,Postmodernism, and PoMo-Bashing

Jordan Peterson says that postmodernists say no interpretation is better than another. I would no sooner identify Peterson’s adversaries as those who have been misled by “postmodernism” than I would identify them as misled by “sustainability,” “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” or “intersectionality.” Such fare is mainly symptomatic. “Postmodern” invocations are often like “sustainability” invocations: inessential. This piece is not a defense of postmodernism. It is a critique of PoMo-bashing.     

經濟特區立法權問題評析

2005年7月1日,《珠海經濟特區道路交通安全管理條例》(以下簡稱《珠海條例》)開始施行。該條例第七條規定,電動自行車和人力三輪車不予註册登記,幷且不得在珠海經濟特區(以下簡稱"特區")的道路上行駛。針對電動自行車厰商提出的意見,珠海市在其宣傳提綱中辯稱,條例的制定並非越權之舉,而是基於全國人民代表大會授予經濟特區的特别立法權和《立法法》(2000年)規定的地方立法權。然而,