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Author Bo Yang diesPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 29, 2008 5:10 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Bo Yang, noted Taiwanese essayist, dies at 88: Bo Yang (柏杨), an essayist, novelist, and popular historian famous for his influential book The Ugly Chinaman, passed away from lung disease, the AP reports: In many of his essays, Bo told Chinese that their culture — a source of pride for centuries — has many shortcomings. He criticized the Chinese as selfish, unconcerned about other people's rights and being too willing to tolerate the abuse of power. The Ugly Chinaman has just been adapted into a comic book.
There will be conspiracy theorists, probably in this comments section, that will say India, South Korea, Japan, et al have all been influenced by the west, are "slaves of the west", or whatever convenient excuse people choose to create. But the bottom line is the FT movement - and the backlash against the Chinese government (not the people, I'm at pains to add) - is far from a western phenomenon.
Addressing a China-Africa forum at the Nairobi Safari Club, the envoy noted: "We can produce good quality products, and Chinese businesses sell them. Good products are plentiful in China, so why buy low quality?"
Q 1: If a foreigner came up to you and slapped you across the face would you be nonchalant, not slap back and show yourself as the bigger person? via the Hao Hao Report.
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Comments on Author Bo Yang dies
柏杨走了,很多中国人依然丑陋.
I was in Taiwan when this book came out to much outrage (at the time the charge of 違背風俗 no matter how applied or interpreted was a punishable offense). One of the passages I remember well was on parking; the English would park in the exact number of spaces available, the Americans would park one car more or less, and a Chinese parking lot would have but two cars, one parked at the entrance and one parked at the exit.
Bo Yang also served jail time in Taiwan for supposed insinuations made by a political cartoon he'd translated from a US source.
很可惜 ```` 在认真拜读他的书的时候 而他已经不在了。