With the strengthening of globalization and closer ties between countries,all-round exchanges and cooperation have become an inevitable trend.In the new era,the cultural exchange between China and the West presents an...With the strengthening of globalization and closer ties between countries,all-round exchanges and cooperation have become an inevitable trend.In the new era,the cultural exchange between China and the West presents an unprecedented depth and breadth.Chinese traditional culture,which has made great contributions to Oriental culture and even the world culture,has been developed,in the process of constant conflict,digestion,and absorption while entering other countries in the world.The inclusiveness of Chinese traditional culture has made it survive and thrive in absorbing the quintessence of foreign culture,which makes it contain new contents.In the process of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges,some parts of the essence traditional Chinese culture which are ignored should be given certain inclination in policy and guided by strengthening the education of Chinese traditional culture.展开更多
This article uses the case of the Sino-Albanian Friendship Trees to examine the significance and the limits of transnational scientific exchange in China during the 1960s and 1970s.In 1964,Albania gave ten thousand ol...This article uses the case of the Sino-Albanian Friendship Trees to examine the significance and the limits of transnational scientific exchange in China during the 1960s and 1970s.In 1964,Albania gave ten thousand olive trees to China as a symbol of the eternal friendship of the Chinese and Albanian people;it was then up to Chinese agricultural scientists and farmers to find suitable means to propagate and cultivate them.The author finds that,though the olive trees served as symbols of international friendship and scientific exchange,knowledge about olive trees produced and circulated in the PRC reflected science in context(that is,science within the national-level political context of 1960s–1970s China)more than knowledge in transit(that is,the transnational circulation of knowledge).The importation of olive trees from Albania ended up offering a new application for Chinese agricultural knowledge and for quintessentially“Cultural Revolution”-era systems of knowledge production and circulation.展开更多
文摘With the strengthening of globalization and closer ties between countries,all-round exchanges and cooperation have become an inevitable trend.In the new era,the cultural exchange between China and the West presents an unprecedented depth and breadth.Chinese traditional culture,which has made great contributions to Oriental culture and even the world culture,has been developed,in the process of constant conflict,digestion,and absorption while entering other countries in the world.The inclusiveness of Chinese traditional culture has made it survive and thrive in absorbing the quintessence of foreign culture,which makes it contain new contents.In the process of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges,some parts of the essence traditional Chinese culture which are ignored should be given certain inclination in policy and guided by strengthening the education of Chinese traditional culture.
文摘This article uses the case of the Sino-Albanian Friendship Trees to examine the significance and the limits of transnational scientific exchange in China during the 1960s and 1970s.In 1964,Albania gave ten thousand olive trees to China as a symbol of the eternal friendship of the Chinese and Albanian people;it was then up to Chinese agricultural scientists and farmers to find suitable means to propagate and cultivate them.The author finds that,though the olive trees served as symbols of international friendship and scientific exchange,knowledge about olive trees produced and circulated in the PRC reflected science in context(that is,science within the national-level political context of 1960s–1970s China)more than knowledge in transit(that is,the transnational circulation of knowledge).The importation of olive trees from Albania ended up offering a new application for Chinese agricultural knowledge and for quintessentially“Cultural Revolution”-era systems of knowledge production and circulation.
