Deepening National Security Reforms to Guarantee Consistent Advancement in Chinese Modernization

Persistent efforts are needed to fully implement the guiding principles of the third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China(CPC)Central Committee and advance the reform of China's national security work on the new journey that lies ahead.All of us in the Party should never forget our original aspiration.Since the advent of the new era,China has pushed forward and made remarkable achievements in reforming its national security work,undergoing a process of constant evolvement and continuous improvement.The third plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee could be deemed the starting point of comprehensively deepening reform in the new era,opening a new epoch for reforming and innovating China's national security work.It identified modernizing China's system and capacity for governance as the overall goal of further deepening reform comprehensively and,most significantly,made a historic decision to establish the National Security Commission,having far-reaching impacts.General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed pursuing a holistic approach to national security,which provides us with fundamental guidance for further reform.The new version of the National Security Law of the People's Republic of China fully covers China's national security system and will guide the improvement of its legal system for national security in the new era.The fourth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee called for improving China's national security system in efforts to modernize the country's system and capacity for governance.The 20th CPC National Congress clarified the Party's central task on the new journey and made strategic plans for safeguarding Chinese modernization through modernizing the country's national security system and capacity.The third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee carried forward the spirit of the above meetings,from the third plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to the 20th CPC National Congress,reiterating the importance of further deepening reform comprehensively on the new journey,emphasizing national security as the foundation for advancing Chinese modernization,and setting out the road map and agenda for modernizing China's national security system and capacity in the next five years.Therefore,we must study and implement the guiding principles of the third plenary session of the 2Oth CPC Central Committee.

Craftsmanship as the Model of a New Cultural Way

In this essay the idea is put forward that rethinking doing is the task that human sciences will need to undertake in the twenty-first century because the dichotomy do/think is one of the most deceptive and dangerous that the Western furor dividendi has ever formulated. Likewise, this is the time to re-do thinking： Both activities, divided from each other, are today quantitatively efficient, but incapable of making sense of themselves, of their own proceeding and of the world where they operate. Similarly incapable are the people who perform them and suffer cruelly from this defeat. It would take a rehabilitated subject, restored to an active role as interpreter and creator of culture, to remedy these shortcomings, reintegrating the spheres in a tensile equilibrium rich in novelty and significance. To this end, in an interdisciplinary perspective, insights by Dumont, Simmel, and Damasio are discussed and connected to Sennett＇s crucial intuition of the need for a new craftsmanship. This becomes the model of a foundational cultural act, in which a complex vision of culture joins a subjectivity that is at the same time a dynamic balance between rational and emotional components and a process where body and soul are inextricably entwined.

The Conceptual Transformation of“National Language”and the Initial Construction of National Common Language at the End of Qing Dynasty

At the end of Qing Dynasty(1864-1911),the traditional concept of"national language"underwent a modern transformation,which began to refer to the common language of the nation-state.This conceptual change was stimulated by both Japanese thought and practice.The construction of the national common language formally started with the promulgation and implementation of the"Gui-Mao school system,"accelerated by the opening of the preparatory constitution,and began in its early practice through the enactment of the Statutes for the Establishment of Schools in the Mongolian,Tibetan and Hui Areas and the Decision of the Central Educational Conference of the Ministry of Education on the Unification of the State Language.This construction was always led by the court,jointly promoted by people from the government and the folk,and Manchu,Mongolian,and Han officials inclining the new.It not only can be regarded as one of the important contents of the New Deal and Constitutional Movement at the end of Qing Dynasty that has been neglected,but also the result of the long-term implementation of the official language by the Qing court and the increasing role of the Chinese language in the country's domestic and foreign affairs.It had an important impact on the emergence and early development of the consciousness of the modern Chinese nation.

A Modern Concerto of National Parks and Urban Parks:Book Review of Parkscapes:Green Spaces in Modern Japan

Parkscapes:Green Spaces in Modern Japan Author:Thomas R.H.Havens Year:2011Publisher:University of Hawai’i Press ISBN:9780824834777(288 pages,in English)Japanese classical gardens,which can be seen in the courtyards of temples,courtyards of ancient feudal landlords(emperor,general,and daimyo),and some private mansions of modern statesmen and industrialists,have a long history and are well known around the world.Even though there are many monographs

She Nationality Women Looks to Modern Life

<Abstact>e She nationality, one of the China's many minority nationalities, call themselves Shanha. Ha means guest in the She language. The She people are mainly distributed throughout the mountainous areas of over 80 counties and cities in the five provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Anhui. Most of the 368,000 She people live in Fujian and Zhejiang. As a whole, they are scattered in different areas and live together in small groups. Their villages are adjacent to Chinese villages. The She people mainly engage in farming rice and sweet potatoes, in addition to forestry, tea planting and hunting. The She nationality have their own language which is similar to the Kejia dialect of Mandarin. But because they do not have their own script, they use Mandarin. The She people have three major family names—Lei, Zhong and Lan—which are said to be the descendants of several ancestors of the She nationality. The She people take delight in singing folk songs. In their daily life and work, they sing songs as dialogue. The She people prefer to dress in dark blue. While men's clothing is similar to the Hans, the women dress in a more traditional style. Since 1978 the living standard of the She people has been greatly improved.

The State Narrative of the Chinese Nation

The state narrative of the Chinese nation is to analyze and illustrate the term“Chinese nation"from the perspective of state,aiming to highlight an innate attributes—the nature of starehoodof the Chinese nation.Chinese nation today,unlike"Chinese nation"in its historical form,is a typical nation in modern sense(as the‘nation"in“nation-state").The one in the past originated from the continuous interaction and exchanges among various ethnic groups in ancient China.Such interaction,communication and exchange promoted integration of the ethnic groups,and thus gave the“Chinese nation"in its early stages.Further,the modern form of the"Chinese nation"is endowed with new connotation through modern social and cultural construction.In a word,there is intrinsic continuity between the two forms,each with different connotations in different historical contexts.Both of them,however,are inseparably connected with the state.As a result,the comprehensive understanding of the Chinese nation can never be achieved without insights into as well as detailed analysis of its nature of statehood from the perspective of state.