Liu Ye:Childhood and the World Today

正"I may use certain references to things that infl uenced me as a child,things that fi rst attracted me to art.But these subjects,my‘little people,’are used to describe my world today and certainly far removed from childhood."     

LETTERS

正I have subscribed to China Today for several years and it is always a great pleasure to read.The magazine is becoming more interesting,more elegant,and more diverse in its subjects,covering all aspects of Chinese society.As the number of economic and social topics has     

Questionnaire for Readers of China Today's English Edition

正Thank you for reading China Today’s English edition.Your feedback will help us better satisfy your needs.Please mail this questionnaire to English Department,No.24 Baiwanzhuang Street,Xicheng District,Beijing,100037.Or you can email it to chinatoday@aliyun.com,or fax it to 010-68328338.Those who give us feedback will receive two free copies of any edition of China Today(Chinese,English,French,Spanish and Arabic),which may be sent to any address in China’s main land.Thank you very much for fi lling out the questionnaire.     

Questionnaire for Readers of the China Today English Edition

正Thank you for reading the China Today English edition.Your feedback will help us better satisfy your needs.Please mail this questionnaire to the English Department,No.24 Baiwanzhuang Street,Xicheng District,Beijing,100037.Or you can email it to chinatodaynews@aliyun.com,or fax it to 010-68328338.Those who give us     

Sowing the Seeds of Colombia

正COLOMBIAN to the core,Carmenza Jaramillo became the first Latin American woman to serve as an ambassador to China,two decades after her post as consul general of Colombia in Hong Kong.With her usual ease,she talked to China Today about the current state of relations between the two countries.     

试论当代国际人才竞争的特点

当代国际上人才竞争日趋激烈。各国都千方百计为保住本国人才资源,发达国家挖空心思地争夺别国人才。发展中国家人才流失严重,造成经济和社会发展蒙受惨重损失。发达国家之间的人才争夺战也十分激烈。     

A Review of: “Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers,by Pablo J. Boczkowski”

This study examines the way in which USA Today used tracking poll data in its strategy‐oriented coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign. Scrutiny of the methodological features of tracking polls suggests the news media's potential misuses of them. Studies on media polling lead to the general hypothesis that tracking polls serve the mass media as a device for generating news accounts that focus on candidate strategy. Using the ARIMA modeling technique, I conclude that as changes in the margin of difference between Bush and Clinton in the Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll increased, USA Today cited the poll results more frequently. The increase in the number of tracking poll references corresponded to an increase in the number of strategy‐oriented words in USA Today's campaign coverage. I discuss the implications within the context of the 1992 election campaign coverage.     

The Supreme Court and Issue Attention: The Case of Homosexuality

Previous studies have shown that a small number of Supreme Court decisions that “rearrange[d] the … distribution of political benefits” have drawn the media's attention to the underlying issues involved in those cases. This article provides an additional test of that empirical claim, examining the effects of the Supreme Court's gay rights cases on media coverage of homosexuality from 1990 to 2005. The data indicate that Supreme Court decisions that expanded the scope of gay rights increased coverage of homosexuality in both The New York Times and USA Today, while cases that affirmed the existing scope of gay rights had no such effect.     

Shining a Light on Depression

正As recently as a few decades ago,few Chinese had so much as heard of the mental disorder,depression.Many who suffer from the condition,along with their families and their communities,are still not well informed about it;as a result,few of those afflicted visit hospitals to address their sadness or dour moods.Today,recognition of this psychological disorder is spreading across China.Depression is now considered a major     

Cross-Cultural Familiarity—The People and Their Stories Xi Mentioned on Foreign Visits

正"Amity between people holds the key to sound relations between states."Chinese President Xi Jinping has reiterated this in his speeches at various foreign affairs activities.To elaborate,he often provides anecdotes of real people and their stories that demonstrate China’s respect for other cultures and its sincere desire for peaceful coexistence.In this issue China Today interviewed