Exploring the Potential to Expand Cultural Exchange： A Review of CICA＇s Past Work

China International Cultural Association （CICA） is a nationwide social group under the direct guidance and support of Chinese Ministry of Culture. Since its founding on July 3, 1986, CICA aims to enhance understanding and friendship between Chinese people and people of the rest of the world and has conducted nearly one thousand exchange events and projects, including performing arts, design arts, publication, personnel exchange as well as various kinds of multi-lateral exchange. Those events and projects have remarkably enriched dimension of non-government exchange between China and other countries.     

Sima Wensen: A Pioneer for China-France Cultural Exchange

Januarv. 27th, 2014 marked a mon- umental date. 50..years ago today,.. China and France issued a joint communique- and declared the estab- lishment of diplomatic ties. On June 6th, 1964, China and France success- fully established diplomatic relations, which ushered in a new era for the diplomacy of new China.     

Reform of China’s Cultural Undertakings

CHINA’S reform of culturalundertakings started in 1979,when the Communist Partyof China(CPC)proposed a generalreform and opening to the outsideworld and began China’s economicrestructuring.The key and difficultreform was in the operation of per-forming troupes.The reform under-went four stages.     

China’s Cultural Industry Clusters: Path of Regaining Profit

Over the past years, cultural indus- try clusters mushroomed rapidly all over China, which is partly due to the state＇s policy guidance of encourag- ing cultural industry development. However, among over 2,500 clusters, more than 70% are in a loss, with less than 10% that are making profits.     

Glory of the Past：the Remains of Yan＇s Capital

The remains of kingdom Yan‘s capital,located 2.5 kilometers southeast of YiCounty,Hebei Province,is a key heritage site under the state protection.     

Chinese Acupuncture Added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List

On November 16, 2010, Chinese acupuncture was proclaimed as a Masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 5th UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee     

China Cultural Center in Seoul:Photo Exhibition on the 70 Anniversary of China’s Foreign Assistance

In January 2021,China Cultural Center in Seoul launched an Online Photo Exhibition on the 70^(th)Anniversary of China's Foreign Assistance on its new media plat...     

A Photographic Review of Tian’anmen Square

Tian’anmen Square is a landmark symbolizing the spirit of Chinese people and witnessing their pursuit of self-reliance and national independence. It carries the collective memory of Chinese people and records the history of the People’s Republic of China. In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, the Capital Museum has recently launched the exhibition \"100 Years of Tian’anmen Square: a     

Chinese Culture Blossoms in France——A Review of the Opening Evets of China Cultural Year in France

It was getting cold and leaves falling in Paris in November. But the opening of China Cultural Year has brought springtime warmth to Paris people, With more and more cultural events opening as scheduled, Paris people are showing growing zeal in splendid and profound Chinese culture.     

‘A Million Little Bonds’: Infidelity,Divorce and the Emotional Worlds of Marriage in British Women’s Magazines of the 1930s

This article examines infidelity discourse within women's magazines of the 1930s. Marking a departure from existing studies that have explored representations of ideal marriage, it uses discussions of marital breakdown as a lens through which to consider conceptualisations of love within marriage. It demonstrates how, in the interwar period, notions of mutual emotional investment were used to reinforce marriages that were deemed to be in breakdown. Muddying the perceived binary between individuals and the institution of marriage, this research highlights how the latter could be bolstered, rather than challenged, by recourse to the emotional worlds of spouses.     

“A living archive of modern protest”: Memory-making in the Women’s March

ABSTRACT

The Women’s March, held on January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, made news across the world as a surprisingly powerful current event that signaled possible political and social futures. Yet this event was also threaded with the past. This essay examines the uses and constructions of memory in the marches and their mediation, drawing on news and social media coverage, on my own on-site experience at the Washington, DC, march, and interdisciplinary scholarship that may provide theoretical context for understanding the event’s nature and lasting importance. It considers the rhetorical and material memory work, on the ground, of both the official ceremonies and the marchers’ more vernacular expressions, as well as the complex interplay of mediation, resulting in definitions of the event as historic in its own right and as a map for the future.     

Persons of the Year 2013 for China＇s Cultural Industries Honored

The result of Chinese cultural indus- try＇s Person of theYear 2013 initiated by Guangming Daily was announced on Jan 18th and ten elites from the cultural industry received this special honor.     

The Left and Indonesia’s 1960s: the politics of remembering and forgetting

Abstract

This article examines a pivotal decade in the recent history of Indonesian society: the 1960s. It examines the context within which the Left came to be decisively, and violently, defeated as a social and political force. It then studies the consequences of this defeat for Indonesia’s subsequent historical trajectory. The article also suggests that history‐writing anywhere is nothing less than the politics of remembering (and forgetting). What is at stake in these exercises is ultimately tied up with the legitimacy of entire social orders and systems of power. Thus, in Indonesia, the trauma of 1965 and its aftermath banished, from the collective memory of Indonesians, the political role of the Left – except in the form that runs through New Order‐era discourse on Indonesian communism. For Indonesians born or raised after 1965, the ‘communist treason’ became, arguably, the most critical element of the grand narrative of post‐colonial Indonesian history, which was so important in legitimising New Order authoritarianism. The current inability of Indonesian society and its elites to acknowledge and confront the reality of the horrors of the 1960s might prove to be a major impediment to a more genuine and substantive democratisation process.