比尔·盖茨继母倪密情系中国文物

这位中国通洋老太太竟是比尔·盖茨的继母 201学年11月的一天，甘肃省敦煌研究院院长樊锦诗收到一封来自美国西雅图的信。信中，一位叫咪咪（Mimi）的女士表达了她对中国历史和中国文化的热爱，尤其是对敦煌艺术情有独钟，希望能够现场观赏敦煌艺术。樊锦诗被她的热情打动了，经过研究院讨论同意，她给眯咪回信，欢迎其随时造访敦煌。     

花开敦煌

以敦煌壁画为代表的敦煌艺术距今已有上千年的历史,很多人因而认为敦煌艺术离我们的生活很远。然而,著名艺术教育家和艺术设计家常沙娜所描绘的敦煌画作笔触细腻、当代而活泼。她一生致力于将敦煌艺术符号与生活应用设计相结合,让独特的敦煌之美“花开遍地”。     

文物学家樊锦诗:与敦煌半个世纪的相守

近半个世纪以来,樊锦诗始终致力于敦煌遗址的保护和研究,成为国内外享有盛誉的敦煌学者。也是在她的带领下,敦煌研究院全体科研人员在石窟考古、佛教美术、文献研究等很多领域取得了新成果,改变了"敦煌在中国,敦煌学研究在国外"的历史。在她的眼里,敦     

敦煌的女儿——樊锦诗(英文)

她是一位卓有声望的敦煌研究学者,一位干练且富有远见的院长,更是一位敦煌遗产的坚定守卫者。她的经历一如她的名字,锦秀而充满诗意——樊锦诗。她拥有惊人的毅力和对敦煌艺术的执著追求,在大西北戈壁滩一守便是四十五年……千年来岁月的无情和掠宝者的贪婪使莫高窟伤痕累累,历经劫难;然而,樊锦诗和同事们始终坚持不懈,守护着这片宝贵的世界文化物质遗产。樊锦诗也因此被人们亲切地称为"敦煌的女儿"。     

浅谈敦煌壁画对中国现代重彩画的影响

中国的敦煌壁画不仅是历史文物，还是历史文献宝库，更是人类艺术结晶。中国现当代重彩画的崛起正是源于敦煌壁画，其中创新是中国重彩画的重要特征，而敦煌壁画又赋予中国重彩画以灵魂，对重彩画影响深远。重彩画作为一种重形式美感又充分表现内容的艺术也是追求与时俱进的，不仅上承敦煌艺术，更是符合现时代的艺术发展和艺术审美。通过论述来强调敦煌艺术对重彩画的重要性，为重彩画的发展开拓更自由的空间。     

圆子信箱

圆子信箱友情串场：甘肃省敦煌艺术剧院钢琴演奏家杨燕女士做为中国音乐家协会全国师范院校钢琴教师学会理事的杨燕，在１９９３年的隆冬时节狠狠地火了一把──她编写的全国首创声、像、谱三合一《学钢琴──初级教程》风靡一时。舆论片片喝彩声中，杨燕却静静地坐在她那...     

科技赋能下的文创产品形态创新设计——以敦煌文创产品为例

<正>敦煌，作为丝绸之路与东西文化交流的重要咽喉要道，敦煌文化响彻世界。敦煌文创产品是甘肃地域文化的具象体现，不仅展现出敦煌文化的艺术价值和深厚底蕴，还具备作为敦煌文化载体的文化属性。但是目前有关敦煌的大部分文创产品设计并没有充分展示出甘肃地域文化内涵、敦煌深厚文化底蕴，只能说是一种外观精致的艺术欣赏品，过于看重其商业价值，无法更深入领略敦煌文化的魅力。     

电子丝路上奔跑的CEO王树彤：世界因我而不同

敦煌网CE0王树彤擅长跑马拉松，读书时曾多次参赛并获得名次。而她的人生也像马拉松一样，一直处在奔跑的模式中，因为过分清闲的生活会让自己感到惶恐。她25岁时从清华大学辞职，跳槽微软。20年间，先后供职于多家名企，不断汲取养料充实自己，并于2005年创办了敦煌网，成为了互联网电子商务领域的励志榜样。     

唐代敦煌艺术中的青年女性形象研究

艺术是社会的镜子,艺术深刻地反映了时代的经济社会状况以及社会精神面貌。对唐代敦煌艺术中的青年艺术形象的研究发现,菩萨造型、飞天形象、舞伎形象、民女形象等女性化审美取向与唐代社会的政治、经济、文化间存在紧密的联系。由此可以认为,敦煌艺术中的青年女性形象的塑造,不仅符合当时社会的审美需要,同时是由当时特定阶层的社会性需要所决定的。     

张大千与四位青海喇嘛的佛缘

国画大师张大千传奇的人生中，有一段去敦煌临摹壁画的经历。这段不寻常的经历，影响到他后半生艺术风格的转变，也成为他人生途程中的一段华彩篇章。但鲜为人知的是，张大千敦煌之行的成功和他所临得的大量临摹作品，是在青海热贡艺术之乡的僧人喇嘛不可缺少的帮助下完成的，他因之与四位喇嘛结下了深厚的友谊，写下一段美丽的人间佳话。     

Caught in Two Worlds: Jessica Chang From a Cross-Cultural Perspective

This article conceptualizes the case of Jessica Chang from a cross-cultural perspective. The article also suggests additional readings in cross-cultural counseling, and specifically focuses on cross-cultural career counseling The case is examined from the viewpoint of Jessica Chang, her supervisor, and the that of her organization as a whole. Practical implications for each participant are discussed.     

西安“世界历史文化名城”的复兴之路

汉唐长安城是举世公认的世界历史文化名城,也是闻名中外的国际大都市。西安人有着浓厚的＂长安情结＂和复兴＂汉唐盛世＂的梦想,尤其在新一轮西部大开发的背景下,西安人以饱满的热情与自信准备用10年时间打造西安国际化大都市。西安＂世界历史文化名城＂之复兴,重现汉唐长安国际化都市的风采,这既是汉唐后裔的期望,更是历史赋予西安人义不容辞的责任。     

校园垃圾桶的分布调查与分析——以武昌理工学院为例

本文通过对武昌理工学院垃圾桶的调查,发现校园内整体上环境良好,垃圾桶的分布基本合理,在此基础上,针对校园内垃圾桶设置的问题(如校园内某些地方形成垃圾死角)提出一点建议和看法。     

边缘身份的色彩隐喻——试析《毕司沃斯先生的房子》

文学作品中庸常却又富有鲜明色彩的人物在走入读者视野的同时,亦带有较为特殊的身份,奈保尔笔下的毕司沃斯先生游走在生活空间之中,却未曾进入权力范围,而作为活动的承载物——哈努曼大宅,被赋予了与之相吻合的色彩,含有多重隐喻.通过不同文本对比,凸显空间意象色彩的巧妙运用以及由之阐发的寓意空间.     

Predicting the Financial Vulnerability of Charitable Organizations

This article describes a model that can be used to predict which nonprofit organizations are vulnerable to financial problems. The model is based on financial indicators developed by Tuckman and Chang (1991), adapts methodologies that have been developed in the for‐profit sector to predict financial vulnerability, and was empirically tested using a multiyear Internal Revenue Service database provided by the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Both internal and external stakeholders can use the model when making allocation decisions during the strategic planning process and in evaluating financial risk.     

Were UK Culture, Sport and Recreation Charities Prepared for the 2008 Economic Downturn? An Application of Tuckman and Chang’s Measures of Financial Vulnerability

UK charities experienced rapid growth during the middle years of the first decade of the new millennium. The issue investigated in this study is whether the charities took the opportunity to strengthen their financial positions before the economic recession of 2008–2009. Having evaluated, and established the empirical robustness of, Tuckman and Chang’s measures of financial vulnerability, they are used as the basis for constructing a Charities Financial Exposure Index (CFEI). Variants of the index are applied to a panel of more than 300 large UK charities in the Culture, Sport and Recreation sector for the period 2002–2007. The findings are that by 2008 these charities were in a stronger financial position than they had been in 2002 and were therefore better prepared to face the onset of the so-called credit crunch recession.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article
The Death of Class , Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters
Social Change and the Middle Classes , Tim Butler and Mike Savage, (eds)
Practical Sociology: Post-empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application , Christopher G.A. Bryant
Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective , John A. Hannigan
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change , Donald MacKenzie
Daniel Bell , Malcolm Waters
Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World , Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White
Theorizing Museums , Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe, (eds)
Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital , Sarah Thornton
Food, the Body and the Self , Deborah Lupton
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity , J. Nauright, and T.J.L. Chandler, (eds)     

Looking beyond ‘buildings of chrome and glass’: Hong Kong’s ‘uncanny postcoloniality’ in photographs of Tin Shui Wai

Hong Kong has a unique postcolonial identity. After being colonised by Britain for over a century and a half, it was ceremoniously handed over to China in 1997, without necessitating any bloody wars or even skirmishes. Hong Kong has continued to enjoy a privileged status within China due to the doctrines enshrined in the ‘one country two systems’ policy. She has benefited from becoming part of a nation with the fastest growing economy in the world, and the people of Hong Kong have for the most part acquiesced to the reduction in levels of political freedom. However, recent events like the Umbrella Movement spearheaded mainly by student protesters has brought to the fore the cracks in Hong Kong’s postcolonial identity and the city finds itself once again precariously poised in a moment of transition.

Theorising a connection between Hong Kong’s postcolonial predicament and the city state’s physical landscape, I analyse Hong Kong photographer Derrick Chang’s photos of Tin Shui Wai, a remote new town located on Hong Kong’s northwestern edge. Tin Shui Wai is a failed new town – it was developed to house workers who would serve the industries that were projected to develop there in the 1990s. However, these labour-intensive industries never materialised due to the meteoric rise of Guangdong’s manufacturing industry. Instead Tin Shui Wai has now come to be known as the ‘city of sadness’, notorious for its gruesome murders, high rate of domestic abuse and tragic suicides. Through an analysis of Chang’s photographs of Tin Shui Wai depicting isolation, stagnation and urban detritus, this article argues that the uncanny, spectral spaces of encounter raise questions and provide an alternative and more disquieting narrative of Hong Kong’s postcolonial identity.     

Analysing State–Civil Society Associations Relationship: The Case of Lebanon

Civil society organizations in Lebanon have a long history, pre-dating even the existence of the Lebanese state itself, which has directly shaped their major phases of development since its creation. Based on the social origins theory and using the framework developed by Marchetti and Tocci (Peace Secur Former Pac Rev Peace Secur Glob Chang 21:201–217, 2009), this paper analyses the relationships that have developed between the state and civil society organizations in Lebanon. The main argument presented in this paper is that the scope of work of civil society organizations, in addition to their freedom of action, is directly linked to the social, political and economic development of the state. The main conclusion of this paper is that a new social contract should be forged between associations and the state in Lebanon, one that would allow them to carry out their functions properly.