Urban Cultural Excavation and Reconstruction in the Perspective of Cultural Interaction:An Example of Modern Counter-Industrial Development on the Suzhou Riverbank

Urban culture,as the core force of urban development,has been explored more deeply in the process of modern urban transformation and construction.However,cities have their own unique memories,and cultural continuity and heritage require further innovation.The Suzhou River was the center of Shanghai’s initial development and carries an important cultural heritage.In 1996,Shanghai launched the comprehensive environmental improvement of the Suzhou River,which has achieved the reverse industrialization of the Suzhou River through the fine management of the city,and has made a good achievement of urban management and a new culture of the Suzhou River.This paper takes,Shanghai,a maritime city,as the background,takes the management of Suzhou River as the entry point to explore the new path of building urban culture in the new era,and studies the cultural significance contained in the fine management of modern cities.

Debt in the Quebecois Novels of the 1960-1980

This article will study the Quebecois novels of the 1960-1980＇s and especially the feeling of debt that women had because of the Christian Bible that condemned women as being the sinful Eve responsable for the Fall of Humanity. These novelists from Quebec, Marie-Claire Blais, Anne Hebert, and Gabrielle Roy, show that their female characters are unable to let go of this myth of the incarnation in their bodies of the temptations leading to Sin. Consequently, these heroines show a violent disgust for their bodies, and for all sexual manifestations （puberty, pregnancey, child-birth） that they describe very crudely. They reject their bodies and live in shame of their bodies. For this reason, they dress with modesty and have a neurotic fear of the Sin of the Flesh. This Sin makes them want to withdraw from the image of the temptress Eve and to identify themselves to Mary, the sublimated woman. For Quebec novelist Gabrielle Roy, the female debt cannot be repaid by a sublimation of women to Mary, but by a sublimation of women＇s own talents. Gabrielle Roy sees her late birth as a debt contracted towards her very impoverished and old parents. Fortunately, in her adolescence, she rebels against this unfair contract that her family and especially her mother imposes on her and that wrongs her because it forces her to follow the career path of a school teacher to repay the debts of her family. She withdraws from this debt by leaving for France and following the career path of a writer. She will redeem the debt of her family by writing her autobiography which is a monument in sublimation of her mother

Civil Service Reform in the Philippines: Building Strong Governance

The connection between administrative reform and civil society was an issue on the agenda of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1960s and 1970s, while reinventing government movement has stimulated both interest in and criticism of the impact on civil society of public sector entrepreneurship. Modernizing the civil service starts by “bringing the citizens in”. Therefore, a strong and sincere leadership in government’s bureaucracy is needed. In the other words, building a strong and democratic government is a must.

Reinventing Sydney

奥运圣火在九月的悉尼燃起,成为世界聚目的焦点。除了活蹦乱跳的袋鼠和憨态可鞠的树代熊,悉尼到底还有什么景致让各国嘉宾心旷神怡?

REINVENTING TRADITIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY: Contemporary Earth Architecture of Sri Lanka

In the search for sustainability,Sri Lanka like most countries has been looking at modern and new materials and technologies as much as at the indigenous practices.Despite having possessed a resourceful repository of traditional technologies and practices,their reinventions,however,have remained somewhat unrecognized.This stems partly from the absence of focused research as well as sponsored or recognized programs to promote and experiment with the new possibilities of their applications in modern building.Sri Lanka’s traditional architecture has been extensively studied,and there exists much literature on the art and construction of the buildings.However,a greater focus has been on recording the variety of their spatial patterns together with the architectural compositions and appearances of buildings and their architectural details(De Vos 1988;De Silva 1990;Lewcock et al.2002).While De Vos and De Silva have constructed a set of patterns of tra­ditional Sri Lankan houses in settlements,Lewcock et al.have traversed the entire range of traditional settlements and buildings and particularly their architectural splendor.Karunaratne has often highlighted the marvel of timber architecture(1984),while many archeologists have discussed the structures and constructions of buildings in the con­text of the history and archeology of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilizations.In contrast,Dayaratne(1999,2000,2003,2007)shows how its indigenous architecture has been inherently sustainable and how some of the modern architects have employed their principles in creating architecture that is appropriate to culture and kinder to the environment.This paper provides a general introduction to the traditional materials of Sri Lanka and examines in detail how earth architecture has been revitalized as a sustainable approach to building.

Reinventing Culture

Singer puts a modern musical face on ancient cultural classics In traditional loose sleeved Chinese costume and a hairstyle straight from ancient China, a slim female singer stepped onto the stage, singing a wistful song called Li. "Li is respect, Li is elegance, Li is purity, Li is tranquility; Li comes from a smile, Li comes from love, Li comes from the heart," she sings, accompanied by a melody of haunting court music. The singer is appearing on CCTV, China’s National TV station, in a music program aired during the 2008 Olympic Games.

Two Choreographer-directors Reinvent China's Dance Drama

AFTER serving for eight years as the chief artistic supervisor in the Hong Kong Dance Troupe, Shu Qiao recently returned to Beijing with a brand-new dance drama. named "Memorial Ceremony for Youth." The background story of "Memorial Ceremony for Youth" is based on the life of the poet Yin Fu (1909-1931). Yin Fu is an important revolutionary poet of China’s modern literature. He