Culture and humanity in the new millennium : the future of human values /
Future of human values
edited by Kwok Siu Tong and Chan Sin-wai.
- Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, c2002.
- x, 191 p. ; 23 cm.
Based on the International Congress on Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium: the Future of Human Values, held in Jan. 2000 and organized jointly by the Faculty of Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world in the twenty-first century / Master Hsing Yun -- The central importance of music to humanity in the new millennium / Isaac Stern -- Wen Ren and culture / Choi Wen-chung -- Quantum listening : from practice to theory (to practise practice) / Pauline Oliveros -- Justifying critical differences : which concepts of value are sustainable in an expanded coordination / Laurent Thévenot -- The media and the dispersion of knowledge / Marc Ferro -- Pluralism without relativism in ethics / Gerard J. Hughes -- Cultural and ecological consequences of globalizing computers / C.A. Bowers -- Revitalization of cultural legacies in Northeast Asia / Shuichi Kato -- Who is to rescue literature and who can be rescued by literature? / Wang Meng -- Creation of wealth using knowledge systems in the new millennium / Paul Kan Man-lok -- The cultural identity of Hong Kong in the new millennium / Ambrose Y.C. King -- Whose millennium is it anyway? Beauty, truth and justice at the Fin-de-Siècle / Linda Nochlin -- Confucianism in the twenty-first century : dialogue among civilization and the public intellectual / Tu Wei-ming.
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