The “Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage”, adopted in Paris on 17th October 2003, has a very different context.Footnote6Commonly referred to as the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention, this agreement is not so much about protecting the past; its central aim is...
What dynasty established the first actual kingdom of ancient China? What year did the Hongwu Emperor found the Ming dynasty? What years did the Qin Dynasty rule? What was the golden age of China? What conditions led to the rise of the Chinese Empire?
Not actually “we,” of course, since we’ll be long gone and with no worries about the future.’ If the population load is removed from earth at the rate of 100 million a year and each member of the remaining 8 billion knows no one will be left to inherit their wealth it initiates...
Water has also advanced civilization, providing a means for travel for entire parts of the world and a source of power for factories. Because water can also exist as a vapor, it can be stored in the atmosphere and be delivered as rain across the planet. Earth's oceans also help regulate...
In 2012, President Xi proposed the idea of the “Chinese dream of great national rejuvenation,” just a year before proposing the Belt and Road Initiative. Could this simply be a coincidence of history? First, the great national rejuvenation is not to be attained by reassigning borders to ...
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We appear to have a rash of strongman autocrats who seem to tap into something primal in us—a need for belonging, a tribalism that goes way back to the campfire, to our origins. The world is a scary place now. In the last few years, the tectonic plates of civilization have shifted...
Rev. Butts had a volume of Freud in his lap the day I met him, searching for a quotation inCivilization and Its Discontents. I told him the essay was one of my own favorites, for Freud’s expression about human pettiness and discrimination, “the narcissism of minor dif...
Among them we also find the eighty-year-old Hajja Hamra Akush, known as “the mother of the opponents”, a woman known to everyone and whose home had served as a safe house for military deserters who refused to fight against their fellow countrymen. Civilian sources report executions, ...