文化 Culture

27/09/2016

现代中国的农业矛盾

历史学家马立博认为，中国历史上严重的环境恶化和恶劣的耕地质量，影响了其工业转型路径。

Modern China’s agricultural contradictions

The People’s Republic had to overcome massive environmental degradation and poor quality farmland to drive its industrial transformation, writes historian Robert B. Marks

20/09/2016

书评：神奇的鸟类

这本新的图集介绍了全球各种非比寻常的鸟类，以及它们与人类之间的关系。

Book: Remarkable Birds

A new collection of illustrations celebrates the wonderful variety of birds around the world

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12/08/2016

关于气候变化时代文学改革的六点建议

全球性文化不仅仅是未能适应我们所面临的挑战，它还阻碍了我们去面对这些挑战，安敏轩写道。

Six proposals for the reform of literature in the age of climate change

Global culture has not just failed to adapt to the challenges we now face: it actively prevents us from facing those challenges

04/08/2016

作家也是气候变化问题的一部分

为了迎合无视穷人现状的富有阶层，南亚文学界掩盖了气候变化的真实成本。

Authors are part of the climate change problem

By catering to an affluent community cut off from the reality of the poor, the South Asian literary community hides the true costs of climate change

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21/07/2016

《亲手撷香》：帕米尔高原的农业颂歌

一本获奖的烹调书探索了阿富汗和塔吉克斯坦之间荒僻地域里丰富的文化及美食带。

New cookbook serves up agricultural history of the Pamirs

Prize winning recipe book celebrates the food and culture of one the world’s most isolated regions straddling Afghanistan and Tajikistan

18/07/2016

《大错乱》书评：为什么我们没有听到洪水滔天

气候变化是我们这个时代面临的最为艰巨的挑战。在这本篇幅不长的著作中，著名作者阿米塔夫·高希对文学作品在应对这一挑战过程中所扮演的角色提出了一些根本的问题。

Why we do not hear the waters: Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Great Derangement’

In a slim volume, the celebrated Indian novelist asks questions about the role of literature in confronting the greatest challenge of our times: climate change