Reflections on P.C.Chang(a chief drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhiyuan Cuicui-zy@tsinghua.edu.cnwww.cui-zy.cn

What is Modernity?The last chapter of Umberto Ecos Open Work is titled The Middle Age of James Joyce: break way with the past, but?

Bruno Latours book : We have Never Been Modern

Arnold Toynbees PostmodernIn the 8th volume of his Study of History published in 1954, Arnold Toynbee dubbed the epoch that had opened with the Franco-Prussian War the post-modern age:Western Communities became modern as soon as they succeeded in producing a bourgeoisie that was both numerous enough and competent enough

Charles Olsons postmodernPerry Anderson, in his book The Origins of Postmodernity, points out that the American poet Charles Olson was the first in the English language literature to use the word postmodern---but he used it to mark the Chinese Communists taking over of Beijing in 1949 ! --- Postmodern as AntiWasteland (T.S.Eliot)

Perry Anderson on Charles OlsonThe poem opens with the legend of Angkor Wats trade in the blue-green plumage of the kingfisher and the enigma of Plutarchs rock at Delphi, intersecting Maos report to the CCPtime and space in counter-pointed balance: I thought of the E on the stone, and of what Mao said La lumiereBut the kingfisher

Mary Ann Glendon: A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mary Ann Glendon

Professor at Harvard Law SchoolThe US Ambassador to the Holy See from 2007-2009The leader of the anti-condom movement

P.C.Chang ( Tsinghua Universitys first Vice President in charge of academic affairs( New Moon school of modern Chinese Poetry)The advisor to Mei Lan Fangon Beijing operathe only Vice Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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P.C.Changs Contribution to the Final TextP.C. Chang suggested that besides naming reason as an essential human attribute, the article ought to include another concept. What he had in mind was a Chinese word that in literal translation meant two man mindedness(, but which might be expressed as in English as consciousness of ones fellow man. The final text is reason and conscience.

What is my point anyway?

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