Your suggestions of overcoming East-West misunderstanding with multiculturalism (Alice Poon), attention to individual choices, within-group differences (Wu Di) and between-group commonality (Daniel) remind me of the Foreword written by former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations Hatano Yoshio for Nitobe Inazo’s well-known book “Bushido: The Soul of Japan” (Kodansha, 1998 edition). Continue reading »
Aug 03
Why are the Chinese so upset II: Being an internationalist
Written by: bianxiangbianqiao | Filed under:Analysis | Tags:Beijing Olympics, China bashing, Internationalist
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Thanks for all the thoughtful feedback to my previous post.
Aug 02
Why are the Chinese so upset about the Western human rights activists and advocate journalists? Do not violate my Chinese feelings, or, rather, sensibilities.
Written by: bianxiangbianqiao | Filed under:Analysis | Tags:China bashing, human rights, the Beijing Olympics
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After lamenting Western misunderstandings of the Chinese, their political arrangements and culture, it behooves to examine some Chinese misunderstandings of the West with regard to the attention their country has received from human rights activists and advocate journalists, especially in the run-up to the Olympics.
Why are the Chinese viscerally sickened by the following scenes from the Western media? Continue reading »
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