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正RRhonda Larson Flute Concert DD ate:July 11,2014PP lace:Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall PPrice:RMB 680/380/280/180/100An exceptionally talented flautist,composer and conductor,Rhonda Larson started to learn l ute at the age of 10.In 1985,she won i rst prize at the U.S.National Flute Association’s Young Artists Competition.Later,Larson won a Grammy Award.She has collected a variety of valuable and rare flutes from indigenous peoples and nations around the world,to enrich her musical instruments and the timbre of her music.In her Guangzhou concert,the flautist will render folk songs,classical music and world new-school music,playing more than 10 types of l utes.     

Tian Jiaxin: Bring China to the World with Music

正FROM a little girl who cried at her first concert to a performer on the international stage,Tian Jiaxin,by realizing her musical dream,is making the world hear China.On April 28,the"French Spirit"concert was held at the National Theatre for the Performing Arts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sino-French diplomatic relations.The French maestro Philippe Entremont and his Chinese student Tian Jiaxin brought the concert to its peak with their free-flowing performance of Mozart’s piano concerto.Although they had collaborated before,it was the fi rst time Tian performed with her French     

和谐理论与和谐企业

中国古代、近现代和当代的和谐思想对于当代和谐企业的创建与管理具有重要指导意义。创建和谐企业应从企业发展战略、构建学习型企业、资源的系统整合、人与自然的关系、跨文化管理等角度入手。     

新形势下的英语教育与培养跨文化交际能力

英语是跨文化交际的重要媒介。全球化新形势给我国的英语教育提出了新的挑战和更高的要求,培养学生的跨文化交际能力应成为英语教育的主要目标。在教学中,可以通过介绍文化背景知识、进行中西文化对比、创造英语学习的文化氛围等方法培养学生的跨文化交际能力。     

Following the price: identifying cocaine trafficking networks in Colombia

ABSTRACT

International cocaine trafficking has been well-studied, but little is known about cocaine flows within Colombia, the largest producer and exporter of cocaine in the world. Using a unique dataset on the monthly wholesale prices of cocaine across 32 municipios in 2016, this paper estimates patterns of flows of cocaine within Colombia. For the 496 possible resulting pairs of municipios, price differentials are used to infer direction of flow, and price correlations are used to infer connectedness. Among the new findings, 38 suspected municipio-to-municipio flows that are new to the literature are identified. Interestingly, cocaine is inferred to flow through two distinct networks: one that originates in Buenaventura and the other in three points in southern and eastern Colombia. These networks may correspond to distinct criminal trafficking systems, a finding that has potential implications for drug control policies and measures.     

Immigration and the Remaking of New York

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The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolished quotas that favored European immigrants, and for the first time placed all countries on an equal footing. The law resulted in increased overall immigration, and altered the sources of immigrants to the U.S. Since 1970, New York City has absorbed 2.6 million immigrants, primarily from non-European sources, who have dramatically altered the City's racial/Hispanic mix. Using immigration and birth records, as well as data from decennial censuses, this paper examines immigration to New York and assesses the demographic impact of these flows on the City's population.

Current immigrant flows have noticeably increased the ethnic diversity within the major race/Hispanic groups. This is largely due to increases in refugee flows, and to recent changes in immigration law that allow for “diversity” visas, which are aimed at countries that are under-represented in immigration flows to the U.S. Diversity immigration has provided New York with a continuing flow of new groups, most recently from Bangladesh, Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, who have established enclaves in many of the City's neighborhoods. The increasing diversity poses serious challenges for social service and health care professionals, who need to devise new strategies to deal with the disparate socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, and belief systems of new ethnic groups. This is especially important given that New York's ethnic mix will continue to be churned, especially by way of diversity immigration and refugee flows from all parts of the globe.     

Cao Yu’s Peking Man and Literary Evocations of the Family in Republican China

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Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was home to communities and musicians from all parts of the world. Among the over 20,000 Russians living there, a significant population of musicians contributed to the musical life of the city, particularly the Conservatory of Music founded in November 1927. This article reveals an overlooked phase of musical exchange between China and the West by 1) tracing the context and early development of the Conservatory; 2) identifying and discussing the activities of the Russian pedagogues (including Boris Zakharov, Vladimir Shushlin, and Sergei Aksakov amongst others) and their more notable Chinese students’ (including Li Delun, Ding Shande, Wu Leyi, and Yi Kaiji amongst others) reaction to them; 3) assessing the role that Russians played in the affairs of the Conservatory; and 4) demonstrating how Russian pedagogues influenced the development of Western classical music in China through their students’ notable achievements.     

跨文化交际对品牌名称国际化的影响

随着经济的全球化 ,各种品牌开始向国际化发展。跨文化交际在这个领域起着不可忽视的作用。因此我们要在品牌国际化的进程中考虑跨文化交际的重要性。为了使品牌能够走向世界 ,要尽量避免跨文化交际所带来的语用失误     

跨文化交际中英汉礼貌语言的语用差异分析

由于东西方历史文化背景、地理环境和思维方式的不同,礼貌语言在表达上有很大的差异。本文从跨文化交际的角度,通过研究分析英汉礼貌语言的语用差异,说明在跨文化交际中正确使用礼貌语言和礼貌语言的语用差异研究的重要意义以及对外语教学的启示。     

iGovernment: A new perspective on the future of government digitisation

Innovative use of ICT applications is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern government policy in every area of service, care and control. Looking beyond the individual applications and layers of digitisation, we find a hodgepodge of information flows running within and between the various public authorities, policy domains, and crossing the public/private boundary. This has consequences for the relation between government and citizens. Step by step, decision by decision, the everyday work of government is changing ‘the rules of the game’ and giving rise to “information Government” (iGovernment), without this being based on any overall strategic agenda or awareness among political decision-makers. This article places this development in a new framework and suggests a perspective on a necessary paradigm shift.