上帝來到中國

喜歡話劇的你，和喜歡中國教會史的你，又怎可以錯過呢？！

《上帝來到中國》

七幕上帝推動中國改革開放的悲喜劇

編導及設計：胡恩威

編劇：張建偉

日期 :31/10 - 2/11/2008 8pm

1- 2/11/2008 3pm

地點:香港大會堂劇場

票價 $180, $280, $400

粵語演出附英文字幕

門票即日起於各城市電腦售票處公開發售

劇情簡介

第一講：一八四零

歷史課講師在黑板上寫下「一八四零年」，一八四零年是上帝在中國的一個分水嶺，此前，傳教士們好懂事兒，無怨無悔。不需要他的宗教，他給你需要的科學。利瑪竇和湯若望的墓地，至今有碑文頌詞，供人瞻仰；鴉片戰爭後，傳教士們跟著帝國主義的炮艦，一路闖進中國，幾乎全都是披著宗教外衣的西方間諜，是手捧《聖經》的殺人不見血的魔鬼。兩個上帝，兩段歷史，兩種行為，黑白分明，不容分說地走進了教科書中的中國近代史。但這就是上帝在中國的一切嗎？在這些愛恨分明的價值解說之外，我們還知道些什麼、還應該知道些什麼？歷史課講師和同學展開了討論。

決裂無風聲有伏線

 (明報)10月9日 星期四 05:05

【明報專訊】全球都對新一輪金融海嘯造成的破壞目瞪口呆，另一邊廂的香港，不論是官場還是政黨中人，對那個突然直撲自由黨    的「政治海嘯」，同樣不寒而慄。寒之所在，為三子在抽身前一直毫無風聲。自由黨主席之爭雖然日趨白熱化，但立法會    終究要開鑼，為應付議會工作，6名自由黨立法會議員早約好在昨午4時財務委員會會議結束後，開會協調來屆分工。誰料「親田派」的劉健儀    、方剛及張宇人    ，在會議結束後等了半句鐘，也不見林健鋒    、梁劉柔芬及梁君彥的蹤影。沒多久，張宇人終收到電話，知悉林健鋒的退黨消息，身為代主席的劉健儀亦收到3人的退黨信，還有前主席田北俊    ，收到退黨3人組的來電作簡單交代。

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如今「擁田派」雖保得住黨的主導角色，但在立法會的議席減半，不單在議會的影響力大不如前，3人黨是否能在改組後的行政會議    佔一席位頓成疑問。在商界的叫座力，也肯定遠遜從前。

試想，剩下來的3名立法會議員，劉健儀是律師，可說是專業人士；張宇人主力做飲食界，照顧的主要是食肆茶餐廳﹐方剛則主力在批發零售，他跟張宇人的主要選民，其實是那些中小企。反觀「林梁三人組」，林健鋒代表有大堆「大孖沙」會員的香港總商會    、梁君彥則來自本港四大商會之一的工業總會，對一班大財團來說，他們或許更易影響「林梁三人組」的政策立場。有中委會成員指，部分中委昨日私下討論時，對於田北辰發表「劉健儀不做主席便退黨」的威脅論相當不滿，一來認為他是新入黨，二來認為此番言論會分化自由黨，窒礙主席一職透過選舉產生。

中大政治與行政學系高級導師蔡子強形容，自由黨經此一役只餘下3個議席，面臨很大的泡沫化危機，影響力大為萎縮和議價能力減少，可能最終會解散或被吞併。他估計，工商界可能會改為支持民建聯    等群眾政黨，而林健鋒亦未必能組成政黨，肩負不到工商界參政的任務。

我雖然從未支持過自由黨, 但我也不想他們泡沫化, 因為如此, 香港的政治就更加是兩派對立, 這樣, 對香港長遠的民主政治發展, 我認為不是好事. (雖然, 在美英等民主國家, 也是兩黨政治, 但由於本人向來對兩黨制有保留, 所以也不欲見自由黨消失於香港政壇.) 如果香港商界自始正式支持民建聯, 那實非香港之福也.

看來, 自由黨真的會被泡沫化掉..... They are going to nail the coffin of the Liberal Party..... so sad.

林健鋒等3人退出自由黨 (明報)10月8日 星期三 21:05

ETE press release

Press releases

1 October 2008

Leading open access journal breaks down the language barrier

English has long been the international language of the global scientific community. However, epidemiology and public health projects are often context-specific. To overcome this barrier, the journal, Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (ETE), is today publishing a series of articles aimed at introducing the wealth of knowledge from epidemiological and public health journals to the global community of epidemiologists in a variety of languages.

Harnessing local knowledge and channeling research output into local populations are important for empowering the very populations for which epidemiology and public health serves. In addition to the international English language journals, there are many epidemiology and public health journals published in different languages globally, from Spanish and Portuguese to Chinese and Russian, and these serve both as a channel through which local practitioners and experts gather scientific information and as a wealth of knowledge from which the data for systematic reviews and meta-analyses can be obtained.

ETE is an online, open access, peer-reviewed epidemiology journal run by research degree students at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London and other prestigious institutions. It is hosted by BioMed Central, the world leader in online, Open Access, academic publishing. The Journal's mission is to promote debate and discussion on theoretical and methodological aspects of epidemiology.

The series of articles has been produced by authors from many international institutions and organizations. It is the brainchild of Mr. Isaac Fung, a PhD student at Imperial College London, who advocates the use of non-English literature and databases for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in epidemiology and public health research. Articles in the series cover epidemiology and public health journals published in the major languages of the world, including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and others, and introduce to their readers databases like EMBASE, the Index Medicus for the East Mediterranean Region, LILACS, SciELO, and Wan Fang etc.

The articles comment on and review the current scenarios of publishing science in non-English languages and the difficulties and opportunities non-English language journals face today.

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Yesterday I was ill. A bad cold, a fever, a sore throat..... Stay at home for a day.

Every time when I am ill, I think of Death. How fragile human life is. My own illness also reminds me of my own purpose of doing research in infectious diseases and further reminds me of the suffering of others who are ill and in pain.

One day at home also allows me to take my much-needed rest. I am forced to rest.

And it allows me to finish a novel too! China through a college window was published in 1937, set in a fictitious Christian university in China called 私立仁義大學, shortened as Jen Dah (仁大) and was narrated in the first person. I think that the novel quite semi-autobiographical, albeit all the characters and places in the novels are fictitious. William Sewell had taught in two different Christian universities in China and he drew upon his own experiences to present the ups-and-downs of the development of Christian higher education in China in the Republican era from the early days of the Republic through the anti-Christian movement up to 1937. Sewell explained the difficulties experienced by Westerners who taught in China, the difficulties of the college administration, the poverty and tragedy of the poor in the city and the country, the idealism and heroic services of the students of the day. Sewell was able to present quite accurately the feelings of nationalism among the contemporary Chinese students and explained the feeling behind the anti-Christian movement. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, I would argue that he could not foresee the success of Communism and the Communist Party and did not write more on the Communist influence upon the students which it deserves. Nevertheless, this novel presents a vivid account of Christian universities in China in the 1920s and 30s, through the sympathetic eyes of a missionary-professor.