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Hear the voices of SISU faculty and students on a broad spectrum of topics from art to culture, and from local issues to global affairs.
17 June 2019
The China National Tea Museum is currently the only national museum devoted to the tea culture in China. It is a good place to increase one's knowledge of traditional Chinese culture.
We could not help but marvel at the splendid garments, and the exquisite craftsmanship that found expression in them. Every thread and piece tells the stories of the work and life of the Chinese people.
10 June 2019
Tea reflects Chinese life attitudes: patience outweighs all. Let's all have a sip of tea and a taste of culture.
12 May 2019
Handwritings in various languages on windowpanes before your eyes boast of their own quintessential cultures, reminding us of childlike graffiti or an artist's inspirational manuscripts.
Cangcheng, which has witnessed the development of Songjiang in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is like a "living fossil" of culture, with more than a half of cultural relics of Songjiang in this area.
With the showy and dreamy English style transplanted into reality, people will feel like travelling in a time machine to a place where the blocks, buildings, churches are all old British style.
A visit to the Songjiang museum will allow visitors to trace the history of the international metropolis Shanghai and get a glimpse of the prosperity and splendor of it in ancient times.
The general building is shallow, the courtyard is narrow, and most of them have only one axis.
The twelve peaks in the park are like twelve emeralds of different sizes, winding for 13 kilometers from southwest to northeast, which demonstrates making a beautiful and colorful mountain landscape of Shanghai Plain.
11 May 2019
The excellent and chic scenery of Shanghai Fangta Park will impress you a lot.
11 February 2022
About 3,000 athletes from around the world are competing in 109 events at the Olympics in Beijing, from ski jumping to speed skating.
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03 November 2021
Professor Liu Zhongmin of the Institute of Middle East Studies at SISU published a commentary on Global Times.
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Three international students at Shanghai International Studies University who recently participated in the 1st Forum on International Students from Africa shared their views on promoting China-Africa friendship.
28 April 2021
China-Iran relations are a hot topic among the international community and the countries concerned. On 27 March, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif signed a 25-year cooperation agreement in Iran.
A handful of EU and British politicians and pseudo-scholars have been maliciously spreading lies and false information about governance in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
16 March 2020
How has China’s cooperation with the WHO contributed to the global fight against the epidemic? And with the development of the international epidemic entering the next stage, how should China further carry out international cooperation?
16 October 2018
Initially, one got the impression that Saudi Arabia will assume a strategic role. On October 3, however, the Information Minister stated that Saudi Arabia will join at the operational level.
12 December 2016
It was in my junior school that I first read one of Shakespeare’s dramas — The Merchant of Venice. My only impression of it was those complex sentences as well as the elusive words, and it was a Chinese translation.
13 May 2016
Human civilization will not continue to thrive on our veneration for God, but rather on the very faith that we retain in ourselves. So it would be possible to remain a committed atheist and yet find religion somehow useful.
17 March 2016
You need but open your eyes and take the ‘good’ with the ‘bad’ in order to appreciate it so, as you soar away into the sky, you will remember why you’ll come back.
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22 June 2022
"The peace dividend is over, and China has to prepare for a full decoupling": Reflections of a SISU Professor
21 February 2022
“In 2008, China was eager to tell the world “who I am”, but this time the concept of ‘we’ was focused.”
20 February 2022
These western media have politicized their Olympic reportings and are not contributing to the world peace as a whole.
19 February 2022
China's Gen Z has come under the spotlight with their shining personalities, demonstrating China’s sportsmanship and Olympic spirit.
15 February 2022
Speaking of connection and mutual understanding, I am looking forward to deepening my thinking of Beijing 2022 in the perspective of globalization with the help from another pair of eyes.
10 February 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics provides another platform for Chinese and African people to know each other better and build a China-Africa community of shared future in the new era.
In preparation for the Games, the government and organizers have been pouring huge efforts into successfully staging the green and clean Games in Beijing this winter.
09 February 2022
However, their “reasonable” denial of unintentional attitudes like ridicule or stereotypes in news reports ignores the prevalence of these stereotypes in the global public opinion sphere.
There are common grounds of Olympic host cities as global cities on “a shared future”, and much we could offer to advance these cities.
08 February 2022
As the 2022 Beijing Olympics opens new avenues of international consultations and deliberations for global-wide cooperation and coordination, side by side with the athletic race tracks, a new-type of globalization might be forming beyond the visible horizon.
06 September 2021
A one-day tour to the Guangfulin site of ancient culture has made me realize my mistake and showed me the profound historical civilization of Shanghai and the traditional culture handed down from generation to generation.
The splendid cultural relics witness the development and prosperity of Shanghai, and record everything in her way, silent.
20 June 2019
A visit to the National Silk Museum makes me embrace the charm of silk.
Cheng Shifa had his unique descriptions of the image of ethnic minority girls and historical figures, inheriting and innovating the traditional simple brushwork lines.
10 May 2019
We were so lucky to take a rickshaw ride through the old buildings, experiencing the feelings of going back in time, and having a panoramic view of the Shanghai in the past.
Stunned by the beauty of cherry blossoms, we spent about several hours here, taking hundreds of pictures of the scenery, and certainly of ourselves too.
21 January 2016
Arab countries as a whole have become China's biggest supplier of crude oil and the seventh-biggest trading partner. China is the biggest trading partner of nine Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia.
09 December 2015
It can well be said that China’s unique Middle East policy is receiving more recognition and attention from countries in the affected region and the international community.
30 November 2015
Maybe it is time for Europe to see the lesson, and come to terms with the fact that its past military glory has long gone. Finding out the true origin of terrorism and putting in place a political settlement may bring some hope.
09 November 2015
Jiang said that it is a must preparation for universities and colleges to meet with the future “Multilingual+” era - one man should at least master two second languages, and owns brilliant intercultural communication ability. “+” refers to “interconnection”.
23 October 2015
Li Guanjie, a researcher from SISU, suggested one answer might be a political affinity between Xi, who has sought to revive the study of Marxism in China, and Corbyn, who has described Marx as “a fascinating figure”.
16 October 2015
“China will not participate in bombings of Syria, especially with an ill-founded pretext for smashing terrorism,” said Sun Degang, Deputy Director of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)’s Middle East Studies Institute.
26 September 2015
After the discussion of Wordsworth’s poems in class, something related to Religion suddenly occurred to me. And the passage below is laden with my humble opinions.