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What do Canadian Aboriginal Films, The G20, and Public Health Policy have in common? They are all winning topics in the 22nd annual Special Awards for Canadian Studies (SACS). Each year SACS gives 15 Chinese scholars the opportunity to spend five weeks in Canada to visit Canadian universities, exchange information with Canadian scholars, and familiarize themselves with Canadian research methods and tools. After returning to China, scholarship winners will help to build a better understanding of Canada through teaching and publishing on Canadian issues.
Congratulations to:
1. Dr. Lang Ping, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2. Professor Wang Yiying, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
3 . Dr. Wang Xiying, School of Social Development & Public Policy, Beijing Normal University
4. Dr. Yin Chengzhi, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
5. Prof. Huang Cheng, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University
6. Prof. Guo Youde, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
7. Dr. Zhang Xiaomin, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
8. Professor Fu Meirong , School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University
9. Professor Guan Xinqiu, Research Centre for Bilingual Studies, Minzu University of China
10. Professor Xiong Ying, Sino-Canada International College, Guangxi University
11. Prof. Li Suizhou, Guangdong Institute of Public Administration
12. Dr. Yuan Xia, School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University
13. Prof. Hu Huifeng, School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong University of Technology
14. Dr. Xiao Qiong, Southwest University for Nationalities
15. Professor Gao Xia, Department of English, Chuxiong Normal University
2011年加拿大研究专项奖获得者
“加拿大土著电影”、“20国集团”和“公共健康政策”等课题有何共同点？它们都入围了第22届年度加拿大研究专项奖。该奖项使每年有15位中国学者有机会用五周时间去访问加拿大高等院校、与加拿大学者交流、熟悉加拿大的研究方法和工具。回国后，奖金获得者将通过教授有关加拿大内容的课程，或发表、出版关于加拿大的文章和图书等方式，帮助中加两国更好地彼此了解。
祝贺以下学者荣获今年的加拿大研究专项奖：
1. 中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所 郎平博士
2 北京师范大学教育学部 王懿颖教授
3 北京师范大学社会发展与公共政策学院 王曦影 博士
4 清华大学 公共管理学院 殷成志 博士
5 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院 黄丞教授
6 复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院 郭有德教授
7 中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所 张小敏博士
8 北京外国语大学英语学院 付美榕教授
9 中央民族大学双语学研究中心 关辛秋 教授
10 广西大学中加国际学院 熊莺 教授
11 广东省公共管理学院 李绥州 教授
12 南京师范大学外国语学院 袁霞博士
13 广东工业大学外国语学院 胡慧峰 教授
14 西南民族大学 肖琼博士
15 楚雄师范学院 高霞教授
The President of the ACSC Participated in the 2010 Annual Meeting of the ICCS
The International Council for Canadian Studies(the ICCS) held its 2010 annual meeting in Montreal from May 27 to 28, 2010. All the Council members, as well as the observers, participated in the meeting and they also participated in the international symposium on the ageing society and challenges held in Concordia University. Professor Feng Jianwen, President of the ACSC, participated the meeting and the symposium on behalf of the ACSC.
Professor Ertler, President of the ICCS, made the working report of the ICCS, which was adopted, together with some other documents, by all the council members. Professor Remie, Past President of the ICCS, retired from his post and Professor Patrick James, from Southern California Univeristy, was elected the new elect president of the ICCS and, according the ICCS regulations, he would be President of ICCS next year and Past President after two years of his presidency.
Canandian Studies in 2009 in each country were reported at the meeting, with their respective outstanding characteristics. The ACSC was praized by both the ICCS and its members for great achiements it has made in 2009 in such aspects of Canadian Studies as publication, research, projects and activities, among which, the Canada Week on Dr. Bethune held in Nanjing in November 2009 has brought a significant impact on Canadian Studies in China.
Mr. Jean Labrie, representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada(DFAIT), attended the meeting and related some important issues on Canadian Studies, including financial assistance for Canadian Studies by the DFAIT, and further requirements for Canadian Studies projects and activities were made in his speech. In 2009, the number of the Canadian Studies projects and activities in China supported by the DFAIT was once again among the top in the world.
Professor Guy Leclair left his post in the ICCS and would have new charges, and all the meeting participants showed their great thanks to him, on behalf of all the Canaidanists all over the world, for his tremendous contributions to Canadian Studies in those many years.
The Pacific-Asian Network for Canadian Studies(PANCS) held a meeting and made the decision that its 2011 annual meeting be held in Seoul, Korea，and the 2012 annual meeting be held by the ACSC in China, together with the ACSC’s 15th National Conference.
(Reported by the Secretariat of the ACSC)
The Canadian Embassy is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Special Award for Canadian Studies. Fifteen Chinese scholars are selected annually for this award through a competition. The group will depart Beijing for Canada on June 7, 2010 for five weeks of research in Canada in their respective areas of study. After their return to China, SACS scholars are expected to publish scholarly articles or books on issues of importance to Canada or to teach courses on Canada so as to further research in key areas and to promote bilateral academic relations between Canada and China.
We are pleased to congratulate the following recipients:
IN MEMORY OF NORMAN BETHUNE
December 21, 1939
Comrade Norman Bethune,[1] a member of the Communist Party of Canada, was around fifty when he was sent by the Communist Parties of Canada and the United States to China; he made light of travelling thousands of miles to help us in our War of Resistance Against Japan. He arrived in Yan'an in the spring of last year, went to work in the Wutai Mountains, and to our great sorrow died a martyr at his post. What kind of spirit is this that makes a foreigner selflessly adopt the cause of the Chinese people's liberation as his own? It is the spirit of internationalism, the spirit of communism, from which every Chinese Communist must learn. Leninism teaches that the world revolution can only succeed if the proletariat of the capitalist countries supports the struggle for liberation of the colonial and semi-colonial peoples and if the proletariat of the colonies and semi-colonies supports that of the proletariat of the capitalist countries.[2] Comrade Bethune put this Leninist line into practice. We Chinese Communists must also follow this line in our practice. We must unite with the proletariat of all the capitalist countries, with the proletariat of Japan, Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy and all other capitalist countries, for this is the only way to overthrow imperialism, to liberate our nation and people and to liberate the other nations and peoples of the world. This is our internationalism, the internationalism with which we oppose both narrow nationalism and narrow patriotism.
Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people. Every Communist must learn from him. There are not a few people who are irresponsible in their work, preferring the light and shirking the heavy, passing the burdensome tasks on to others and choosing the easy ones for themselves. At every turn they think of themselves before others. When they make some small contribution, they swell with pride and brag about it for fear that others will not know. They feel no warmth towards comrades and the people but are cold, indifferent and apathetic. In truth such people are not Communists, or at least cannot be counted as devoted Communists. No one who returned from the front failed to express admiration for Bethune whenever his name was mentioned, and none remained unmoved by his spirit. In the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei border area, no soldier or civilian was unmoved who had been treated by Dr. Bethune or had seen how he worked. Every Communist must learn this true communist spirit from Comrade Bethune.
Comrade Bethune was a doctor, the art of healing was his profession and he was constantly perfecting his skill, which stood very high in the Eighth Route Army's medical service. His example is an excellent lesson for those people who wish to change their work the moment they see something different and for those who despise technical work as of no consequence or as promising no future.
Comrade Bethune and I met only once. Afterwards he wrote me many letters. But I was busy, and I wrote him only one letter and do not even know if he ever received it. I am deeply grieved over his death. Now we are all commemorating him, which shows how profoundly his spirit inspires everyone. We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man's ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people.
NOTES
1. The distinguished surgeon Norman Bethune was a member of the Canadian Communist Party. In 1936 when the German and Italian fascist bandits invaded Spain, he went to the front and worked for the anti-fascist Spanish people. In order to help the Chinese people in their War of Resistance Against Japan, he came to China at the head of a medical team and arrived in Yenan in the spring of 1938. Soon after he went to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei border area. Imbued with ardent internationalism and the great communist spirit, he served the army and the people of the Liberated Areas for nearly two years. He contracted blood poisoning while operating on wounded soldiers and died in Tanghsien, Hopei, on November 12, 1939
2. See J. V. Stalin, "The Foundations of Leninism", Problems of Leninism, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, pp. 70-79.