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Oi NEWSLETTER｜ PEKING UNIVERSITY AUTUMN 2016 / ISSUE 36 RebuildingBridging Order in Two a Fragmenting Campuses World Order PEKING UNIVERSITY Contents Autumn 2016 ｜ Issue 36 Spotlight Peking University WinterAutumn 2015 2016 / / Issue Issue 33 36 Joseph Nye: “Is the American Century Over?”........................................................................................................................................................................02 President of the Republic of Belarus Speaks at PKU.........................................................................................................................................................05 Column PKU’s Social Support Systems and Student Emotional Well-being...................................................................................................................09 Studying at ISSCAD: When South Meets South....................................................................................................................................................................12 The (Not So) Confusing World of Chinese Internet Lingo........................................................................................................................................16 02 Joseph08 Tones Nye or Words StudyingWe Are atOne ISSCAD Family “Is the AmericanYour Chinese Century Learning Over?” Struggles 1202When South Meets South Working for the Future 33 UN15 2030Professor Jean C. Oi RebuildingBridging Order in Two a Fragmenting Campuses World Order People Editorial Board A Historian’s History: Interview with Dr. Hendrikus Van Wijlick.......................................................................................................................19 Advisor: Li Yansong, Vice President for International Relations Campus Chair: Xia Hongwei, Director, Office of International Relations Vice-Chair: Yan Jun, Zheng Ruqing, Wang Yong, Kang Tao, Zhou Manli The Yenching Academy of Peking University Holds Business Seminar in Coordination with the Mexican Coordinator: Luo Ling, Eric Schafer Chamber of Commerce in China.........................................................................................................................................................................................................22 .......................................................................................................................................24 Designer: CREATIVEGG Peking University Scholars Survey Dunhuang’s Mural Art th The 13 Annual International Culture Festival: PKU Celebrates Diversity...............................................................................................26 Editorial Team Int'l Collaboration Chief Editor: Wang Runjian th Deputy Chief Editors: Huang Fangyuan, Wei Yuchen The 34 World Congress of Art History Convenes in Beijing..................................................................................................................................28 Copy Editors: Anthony Ng, Derek Tong, Ji Caixuan, Jonathan Ly, Veeresh Kanduri PKU President Lin Jianhua and Delegation Visit the United States..................................................................................................................29 Spotlight & Voice: Zheng Zihui, Ou Kun International Symposium on “Cross-cultural Exchanges and Dialogue between Civilizations”........................................3 1 People & Column: Liu Xiya Academic & Cover: Lin Zixi, Zhang Yixuan Voice International Collaboration & Giving: Li Ruoxue, Xin Yuan Campus: Zhong Xue, Tan Yi Qian Svetlána Alexiévich Shares Her Literary Experience........................................................................................................................................................32 Peking University Newsletter is a publication for alumni and friends of Peking University UN 2030: Rebuilding Order in a Fragmenting World Order....................................................................................................................................33 and is produced by the Office of International Relations (OIR). 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PKU Chinese Art Global Communication Yang Quanhai Fund Establishment Ceremony......................................................52 Zhang Shiying Aesthetic Philosophy Scholarship Established at PKU...........................................................................................................53 NEWSLETTER｜ PEKING UNIVERSITY AUTUMN 2016 / ISSUE 36 0 1 Spotlight Luce to convince the US to give up nal productivity growth, Ancient abnormally high share of global its isolationist stance and join the Rome, showing absolute decline, output due to the destruction of all war. In contrast to its retreat from succumbed to its own deficiencies major economies with the excep- the international stage after the rather than to another emerging tion of the American one during First World War, the US kept its superpower. Contrasting this the Second World War. Looking global influence after the Second destiny to the US, Nye indicated briefly at Europe, Russia, India, and World War, demonstrated for instance that the latter is clearly not in abso- Brazil as well as pointing out the by the Marshall Plan of 1948 and the lute (albeit relative) decline and most urgent problems in each of foundation of NATO in 1949, and he named four reasons: First of all, them, he concluded that China is thus built its supremacy. while Europe is imminently facing the most likely country to challenge major demographic obstacles, the the US in its status as a superpower. The Fear of Decline: “The US is expected to be the third most But Nye also put this prediction Americans Are a Strange populated country in 2050 after into perspective. While estima- People” India and China. Second, thanks to tions of when China will overtake Nye continued by putting the American “anxiety of decline” into Looking at the relative decline of Ameri- historical perspective. He pointed “can economic power, he argued that recent out that ever since its foundation, developments rather constitute a return to Joseph Nye Americans feared decline. Even the long term normal, starting from an abnor- Washington and Jefferson were mally high share of global output due to the “ “Is the American Century Over?” allegedly already afraid of possible destruction of all major economies with the > Christian Steidl political decay. This fear has also exception of the American one during the been visible in the last century after Second World War. the launch of Sputnik in 1957 by the Soviet Union or the Japanese ccording to some polls, 21, 2016, at the Peking University of the British Empire, Nye outlined economic boom in the 1980s, and many Americans hold School of International Studies by that labelling a century like this new technologies like the exploita- the US economically often use was more recently triggered by the opinion that the a large crowd of students, some of hinges on that very country’s ability tion of shale gas and shale oil, the current growth rates, Nye pointed the “rise of China”. These