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Editorial Committee Min Weifang Xu Zhihong Kim Jae-youl Hao Ping Wu Zhipan Zhang Guoyou Chi Huisheng Editors in Chief Li Yansong Cheng Yuzhui Zhao Weimin Vice Editors in Chief Yan Jun Zhang Lin Editor Guo Junling Executive Editors Zhang Yu Cai Lirong Yue Heng Translator Peng Shulin English Polisher Dai Xingyue Clifford Ames Contents Preface ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 2 Tao and Sophia:The Olympic Spirit from Athens to Beijing David Wong: The Chinese Heart of a Sinologist ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 4 Yu Jiyuan: A Mediacy in Philosophy ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 8 Ethnic Relations and Religious Coexistence ○○○○ Huang Shumin: Respect the Decisions of the Indigenous People ○○○○ 10 Nathan Glazer: A Reflection on American Ethnic Group Relations ○○○○○○○○15 Language Identity and Language Change in Collision and Dialogue Between Civilizations ○○○○ Abdel - Rahim Alkordy: Mind the Globalization ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 17 Hu Zhuanglin: The Life of Language Lies in Communication ○○○○○○○○○○20 Theraphan Luangthongkum: The Pursuit of Continuous Improvement ○○○○○24 Global Strategy of Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Bernard Yeung: Problems with Corporate Social Responsibilities Bernard Yeung: Are “Growing Pains” ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○28 Jiang Ping: More Profound Communication and Cooperation is Required ○○○○○○○○ Jiang Ping: Between Economists and Legists ○○○○○○○○○○ 33 Kaneko Yuka: The Short-sighted Eye, the Biggest Problem with ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Kaneko Yuka: Chinese Companies ○○○○○○○○○○ 37 William Blair: Social Responsibilities Should Benefit All Those Involved ○○○○○40 Diversity of Population Development and Health Security David Legge: China Should Move Step-by-step in its Efforts to Reform ○○○○○○○○○ its Health Care System ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 43 Hu Yukun: Structural Challenges in the Health Care of Rural Chinese Women ○○47 John Cleland: Because This Is an Important Job ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○52 Yao Yuan: The Participation of Old People in the Olympics is a Cultural Phenomenon ○○○○○○○○○○ Yao Yuan: of a Harmonious Society ○○○○○○○○○○○○ 55 Interviews with the Scholars of Beijing Forum 2007 Volume IV Cultural Diversity, Harmonious Society and Alternative Modernity: New Media and Social Development Lo Ven-Hwei: The Taiwanese Media Community has the Academic ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Lo Ven-Hwei: Foundation for Case Studies ○○○○○○ 59 ○○○○○○○ Qiao Mu: The Cell Phone Is Changing China ○○○○○○○○○○○ 63 Xiao Dongfa: Understanding the New Media from a Wide Perspective ○○○○○66 Zhou Yongming: Looking at the New Media with the Cold Eye of History ○○○○○69 The Inspiration of Human Heritage on the Progress of Civilizations Chen Changdu: Attaching Importance to Our Natural Heritage ○○○○○○○○○72 ○○○○○○○○ Fan Jinshi: A Long and Tortuous Path to Harmony ○○○○○○○ 76 Neville Agnew: The Key to Cultural Heritage Conservation Lies in the Neville Agnew: Education and the Training of Professionals ○○○○○○○○○○ 82 Social Change and University Development Richard Leigh Henry : The Protection of Traditional Culture in Richard Leigh Henry : Diversified Cultures ○○○○○○○○○○○○ 86 Simon Marginson: The University Remains the Backbone of Higher Education Simon Marginson: in the Global Knowledge Market ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 89 Su Zhiwu: The “Hybrid Major” is not an Ideal Way to Cultivate Competent ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Su Zhiwu: Communication Graduates○○○○○○○○○○○ 92 Xu Zhihong: Striking a Balance Between Independence and Social Demand in ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Xu Zhihong: University Development ○○○○○ 95 ○○○○○○○○○○ Afterword ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 98 Preface Approved by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Forum is an international academic forum jointly hosted by Peking University, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education and the Korea Foundation for Ad- vanced Studies. Since its establishment in 2004, this annual conference has been held successfully on four occasions, gathering altogether more than 1800 re- nowned scholars in the humanities and the social sciences from 50 countries around the world in order to explore various perspectives of its ongoing theme of “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All”. Over the past four years, Beijing Forum has increasingly won the approbation and the support of scholars worldwide, and it has used its growing international academic reputation and influence to promote progress in the humanities and the social sciences throughout the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large. In this way, Beijing Forum has been able to make an important contribution to the development and the prosperity of all humankind. Interviews with the Scholars has shared its yearly growth by conducting, com- piling and then publishing interviews with its renowned participants. Interviews with the Scholars serves as a supplement to the discussions presented by the scholars at the Forum, and it is a faithful record of their views. Each edition of the journal has been warmly received by the members of the academic commu- nity for its flexible interviewing style, for its simple language and for its thought- provoking topics that examine current social realities. Beijing Forum 2007 has responded to the ongoing theme of “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All” by focusing upon “Diversity in the Devel- opment of Human Civilizations” as a valuable sub-theme deserving scholarly discussion and debate. Accordingly, Beijing Forum 2007 has been organized into eight panel sessions, each dealing with an important aspect of this sub- theme, and they are: “Tao and Sophia: The Olympic Spirit from Athens to Beijing”, “Ethnic Relations and Religious Coexistence”, “Language Identity and Language Change in Collision with the Dialogue Between Civilizations”, “Global Strat- egy of Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Diversity of Popula- tion Development and Health Security”, “Cultural Diversity, Harmonious Soci- ety and Alternative Modernity: New Media and Social Development”, “The In- spiration of Human Heritage on the Progress of Civilizations” and finally “So- cial Change and University Development”. After three years of successfully recording the views of the scholars of Beijing Forum on various aspects of the theme of “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All,” this year the editors of Interviews with the Scholars have decided to concentrate on the combination of academic research with social realities, different theoretical approaches to the topic of globalization and to a number of problematic spheres of change within human societies. The inter- views focus mainly on subjects like the Beijing Olympic Games, the goal of a harmonious society and the impact of new media, such as the internet, on the social order, the need for corporate social responsibility, for cultural heritage protection, and for research-oriented universities as well, the interviews cover ethnic relations and language transformation in the context of globalization, and examine specific problems associated with an ageing population and with health security for rural women. We believe that this edition of Interviews with the Scholars, rich in the thoughts and wisdom of many world visionaries, will help us to reconsider the feasibility of economic globalization and the future of diver- sified development of human civilizations. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the scholars all over the world who have expressed their kind wishes and their enthusiastic support for Beijing Forum over the past four years. Now that the year 2008 is upon us, we are waiting eagerly to witness the fifth anniversary of Beijing Forum. In the golden autumn of Beijing city, we again prepare to welcome the annual arrival of many of the top scholars in the world who will assemble once more at Beijing Forum to exchange their ideas and to share their wisdom on world peace and interna- tional fellowship. As always, Beijing Forum is poised to take another step for- ward on the road to achieving the insistent but ever elusive goal of “The Har- mony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All”. The Editorial Committee of Beijing Forum Tao and Sophia: The Olympic Spirit from Athens to Beijing David Wong, Professor in the Philosophy Department, Duke University David Wong: The Chinese Heart of a Sinologist Interviewer Fan Danhui The Panel Session on Philosophy held at Beijing Forum 2007 welcomed not only the world famous sinologists Tu Weiming, Cheng Chungying and Roger Ames to the discussion, but also an affable newcomer by the name of David Wong, a distinguished professor of philosophy from Duke University. David Wong, Tu Weiming and Cheng Chungying, are all ethnic Chinese who live and work in the United States of America. Professor Wong’s ancestral home is Canton Province in the south of China, but unlike professors Tu and Chang, he has no Chinese first name, because he is an American national, an American Born Chinese (ABC), who combines the physical features of the East with the cultural background of the West. Academic Achievements David Wong is a relatively new name when it comes to Chinese academic com- munities and their well-informed audiences. However, in the world of American and European sinology, he enjoys a high academic reputation based on his life’s work and his considerable scholarly achievements. After David Wong obtained his doctorate degree from Princeton University, he taught for 30 years, first as John. M. Findlay visiting professor at Boston University, and then as Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Philosophy