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www.chinanews.cn 2005-12-26 15:10:38
Chinanews, Beijing, Dec. 26 (By Ying Ni)�C In recent years, Chinese
culture has witnessed a period of prosperity on world stage as
illuminated by a series of large cultural events held both home and
abroad.
On October 1, 2005, China unveiled a month-long cultural event at the
Kennedy Center in the United States. The event, the Festival of China, is
said to be the biggest one in the American history and attracted numerous
U.S. celebrities in all circles. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell arrived on time and watched the Peking Opera and Chinese
acrobatics at the Kennedy Center, where twenty-six years ago, the then
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping listened to a popular Chinese song, I love
the Tian'anmen Square, performed by a chorus consisting 200 American
children.
Meanwhile, China kicked off the Sino-French cultural year event in 2003,
which acted as a mechanism for cultural exchanges between the two states.
As part of the grand event, the Chinese culture year was held in France
from October 2003 to July 2004 and a similar event was held in China for
the French culture year between October 2004 and July 2005.
Apart from state-level exchanges, Chinese language has also become hot
throughout the world. In July 2005, China organized a world forum on
Chinese language, the first time ever for the country to hold such forum.
At the same time, China is carrying out its plan of setting up 100
Confucius Institutes around the world while more than 100 million people
are believed to learn the Chinese language. To some westerners, the
resurgence of the Confucius is the renaissance of the traditional Chinese
culture and some even deemed that his idea of the "Datong World" came
true in an era of the globalization.
While foreigners crave Chinese language, institutions and clubs related
with traditional culture also thrive domestically, which reflects
people's nostalgic feeling about tradition. During this time, the name of
a great Chinese sailor, Zheng He was brought to light with much attention
as this year marked the 600th anniversary of his great voyage. To
commemorate this great sailor, the U.S. National Geographic magazine
listed him as one of the distinguished explorers over the past 1,000
years. He was also the only one in Asia to be named on the list.
And equally important, the Chinese authority celebrated the 60th
anniversary of the victory over Japanese aggression. For the first time,
the Chinese authority announced the significance of the Yunnan-Burma road
and the air corridor from India to China, which played an important role
in China's fight against Japanese during the Second World War. It is also
the first time that China viewed the significance of the anti-Japanese
war from a world perspective.
While history played an important part in 2005, a television show called
"super voice girl" also made its hit throughout China and the U.S. Time
magazine put the winner Li Yuchun on its cover page.
However, the year 2005 also saw some masters passing away. Chinese
mathematician, Professor Chen Xingshen, great scholar and socialist Fei
Xiaotong, Chinese calligrapher Qi Gong and literal master Ba Jin died in
the year, which is a great loss to China's cultural circle.
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