Word: scholarly
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...refusal to allow the international community to help in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which killed at least 100,000 in early May. China has "a chance to show the world that it has the capability and readiness to handle an emergency like this," says Huang Jing, a visiting scholar and China expert at the National University of Singapore...
...much dissatisfaction among the Chinese people is the sense of being treated unfairly by Western media. Sadly, in Western democracies there is hardly anyone to speak for China. While Westerners who have never traveled to China to see the reality for themselves make their criticisms, almost no scholar or policymaker from mainland China has ever had a chance to represent their view in the Western media. There is a great need for the Western media, the Chinese government and Chinese citizens to have constructive dialogues, so as to build a mutual understanding. After all, the West needs China as much...
...vision of redemption. Although his religious sentiments as an undergraduate could be summed up by the sentence “I’m drunker than Jesus right now,” after five years at the College Bennett finally earns his degree: in Buddhist philosophy. Now a renowned scholar and a forceful advocate for human rights in Tibet, Braddock leads a life of worldly asceticism and material self-denial. He still occasionally indulges in women’s sporting events, however...
...They were not shy at all about showing him in full crisis mode, much more unsanitized stuff than would normally be allowed," says Beijing-based scholar Russell Leigh Moses, who added that the scenes were clearly aimed at reassuring viewers that Wen and his fellow Communist Party leaders were making the utmost effort to bring relief to victims as rapidly as possible. "The government's legitimacy is very much dependent on its ability to show that it can care for and look after ordinary Chinese, and this case is one where they have clearly made a decision to make absolutely...
...late father, a 1941 Harvard graduate and a professor of Chinese history at Berkeley for whom the award is named. Other members of the Levenson family also attended the banquet. Though he never met Levenson, Puett said he worked with many people who knew his fellow Chinese history scholar well, and he said he thinks of Levenson as his teacher by association. “I certainly would hope to consider myself part of that legacy,” Puett said. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...