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Fortress Besieged, Liuzhou editionPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 11, 2008 10:30 AM
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). ![]() "For 22 years, the image of the prison gates loomed in Feng's dreams." I'm a prisoner. Let me in!: In March, China Daily ran a story about a man who voluntarily returned to prison after 22 years. Liuzhou Laowai fills in the missing pieces with a translation of a Procuratorial Daily story on Feng Junqiang's two-decade odyssey outside the law: Feng was now rich and frequently visited his mother but was too afraid to spend the night. His mother was in poor health and she began to beg him to hand himself in, finish his sentence and then be free. She wanted him to be a free man before she died.
The history is impartial to Cixi's empire and Yuan Shikai's restored dynasty; both of them were overthrown by the people. Therefore, I have said that the CCP will repeat the history again if no political reforms. Currently, almost all the nations surrounding China are implementing democratic system, including two small poor countries Nepal and Bhutan. I cheer that we have been surrounded by democracies except North Korea, the east hell. And how do you predict this nation, will it become the next democracy?
China's National Foreign Exchange Center has set the central parity rate for the yuan at 6.9920 to the dollar, breaching the 7.000 usd level for the first time.
You can see a Danwei TV interview with Lola Zhang and Wang Fen here.
In the summer of 2006, I visited Lhasa as part of a journalistic contingent aboard the first Beijing-Lhasa train. Everywhere I went in the city ripples of excitement seemed to spread simply by virtue of my Indian nationality. Roadside sellers of bric-a-brac, monks in the Potala Palace, itinerant city guides, aged pilgrims: what this motley assortment of Lhasa residents had in common was the desire to talk to me about the Dålai Låma.
There are currently 3 Comments for Fortress Besieged, Liuzhou edition.
Comments on Fortress Besieged, Liuzhou editionFor Beijing, it's hard to understand that there are people under their rule who are not totally satisfied by getting the wonderful things in life like a home, car and KTVs, and actually care about their ruler, whom they think is a god-man, but has not delivered material wealth. Zhongnanhai thinks: "How are we supposed to buy off these people? We've given them everything, haven't we? And they're still not happy with us!" In a multicultural society, people have a right to be different. Even when it comes to material goods and wealth, or disdain for them.
I suspect that the CCP's lack of cultural sensitivity has done to many Tibetans what Japan's invasion did to Chinese people seventy years ago- it has helped forge a Tibetan identity. (I've heard that the Napoleonic Wars in Europe had a similar effect.) Li Zhisui claimed that Mao said the CCP could not have won the civil war had Japan not invaded; I think there would be no support for a "free Tibet" had the CCP used a softer touch in Tibet. I do disagree with Aiyar on that point- I met many Tibetans who refused to identify themselves as Chinese, though there were fewer in Lhasa, and seemed to be more in Qinghai. That's just personal experience, and not exactly dependable, but then it's not like you can take a poll of all Tibetans. =P "[Feng] found a webpage which had an article about how conditions in the local prison had improved greatly since his escape and began to consider [returning to prison to serve the balance of his sentence]." i, for one, fail to see how male-on-male forced sodomy can "improve" over time. i mean, that is, what was wrong with it in the first place? ;-) |
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