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国标码:D8F7 部首:亻 笔画:6 笔顺:323455
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(Source: dict.cn)
Archive for March, 2010
Beijing Olympic – What’s new
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Respecting classic art traditions
The Statens Museum For Kunst of Denmark has donated 16 huge plaster-cast sculptures to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
His Royal Highness Prince Henrik, the Prince Consort of Denmark and professor Bjom Norgaard from the Statens Museum For Kunst presented the gifts to Pan Gongkai, president of the central academy.
The best known of the works include Michelangelo’s Mary and Jesus Statue, God of the Sea, and the statue of Roman Emperor Augustus.
Most of today’s art education institutions have abandoned sketch training and encourage their students to pay more attention to new concepts, trends and technologies.
“The Statens Museum For Kunst and Central Academy of Fine Arts are among the few remaining art institutions that still respect the great tradition of Western classic art and require the art majors to have a solid training in sketching in the early stage of their career,” says Pan Gongkai.
The event kicks off a series of celebrations for the 90th anniversary of the establishment of China’s top institution for art education.
Early in the 1920s, heralded by master painter Lin Fengmian (1900-91), the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, then called Peking National School of the Arts, introduced Western art teaching to Chinese art majors, including sketching, Pan says.
Remembering a literary giant
Yesterday marked the 100th birthday of renowned Chinese scholar Fu Lei. The acclaimed journalist, art critic and translator died in 1966 but his literary legacy lives on.
The National Library of China is holding a series of memorial events for the writer, whose translations include Balzac, Romain Rolland and many other Western writers.
Tomorrow, Professor Serena Jin of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor Xu Jun of Nanjing University will give lectures probing the spiritual world of Fu Lei. Last week, Fu Min, Fu Lei’s younger son, recounted moving moments of his family life. An exhibition featuring Fu Lei’s manuscripts, letters to his sons and friends, as well as precious photos are on display at the National Library until April 22. Then the exhibition will move to Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities.
London-based pianist Fu Cong, Fu Lei’s eldest son who is acclaimed as the world’s best interpreter of Chopin, will hold solo concerts in April and May across the country, including a performance at the National Center for the Performing Arts on April 26 and 27.
(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)
Cir – Lesson 640
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Students at 13 private universities in Beijing will become eligible for recruitment into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the first time this year.
A statement from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education said private university students could apply to enlist in the PLA directly.
This brings the total number of Beijing higher education institutions that are open to direct recruitment to 88. The other 75 are all state-run colleges.
Recruiting stations in Beijing reportedly have received applications from about 2,500 college graduates and 600 undergraduate students.
If recruited, every graduate soldier is eligible for a one-off refund on their college fees of up to 15,000 yuan (2,000 U.S. dollars).
This was one of the preferential policies announced this year to encourage Chinese graduates to enlist.
They will have more opportunities on promotion and enrolment in military academies. After finishing two years of compulsory service, they are promised preference with the police and other law-enforcement agencies.
The PLA usually recruits men aged 18 to 20 and women aged 18 or19, but the age limit can be raised to 24 for those with bachelor degrees.
The PLA previously relied mostly on high school graduates and the unemployed, although all males aged 18 to 22 are nominally obliged to undergo two years of service according to the country’s conscription law.
Most college students just take part in a month of military training, usually in their first month of campus life.
China’s State Council, or Cabinet, revised the government’s recruitment regulations in September 2001 to enlist college students for the first time in a pilot scheme. More than 2,000 students were recruited that year.
The move to recruit more college graduates has been seen as a step to strengthen the PLA’s technological expertise.
A Defense Ministry survey in July found that 1.44 million male graduates expressed interest in military service.
(Source: xinhuanet.com)
