International Symposium On Oriental Culture and Human Rights Development Held in Beijing

The International Symposium on Oriental Culture and Human Rights Development was successfully held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and China Foundation lot Human Rights Development (CFHRD) in Beijing on October 29-31, 2002. The Symposium focused on the following three topics: the universality of human rights and cultural diversity, the oriental and western culture and human rights, and culture and human rights in the globalization process. The three-day Symposium attracted more than 70 scholars, experts, officials and parliamentarians from 26 countries, including Australia, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of

Collective Oriented Culture and Its Negative Impact upon Oral English Teaching

As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.

Research and Exploration on the National Traditional Sports Resources in Lancang River Valley under Culture Oriented Background

In this paper, we conduct research on the national traditional sports resources in Lancang river valley under culture oriented background. Really in Chinese traditional sports culture must be confirmed and reflect on the moment, only a clear definition of the concept of national traditional sports and category, figuring out what is the Chinese nationality traditional sports activity, which is a folk activity, and modern competitive sports, we can suit the remedy to the case, targeted, heritage and development path of the respective work, realize the diversification of the Chinese nation traditional culture heritage and development. Specifically the Lancang river valley region sports should be payed special attention for the preservation of the tradition.

On the English Translations of “姐姐”(“jiejie”)and “妹妹”(“meimei”)Fictive Terms of Address in Honglou Meng

Based on a thorough case study of Yang's and Hawks' translations of the fictive kinship terms of address"姐姐/妹妹"in Honglou Meng, this paper analyzes the cultural and contextual connotations of the terms in the original, discusses comparatively the misinterpretations of the translations from target readers and explores the cultural orientations and translation strategies of the two versions, proposing that in translating these cultural-and-contextual-bound terms, translators should be bi-culturally conscious and take into account target readers' interpretation as well as make cultural compensations so as to bring out the exact people relations and retain contextual and cultural connotations.