This is a follow-up to a post earlier this month, “A political prisoner in Sweden.” I promised to translate the text of the sentence from the original, and have finally finished proofreading and putting in comments.
“China has suffered from the hukou system for so long. We believe people are born free and should have the right to migrate freely, but citizens are still troubled by bad policies born in the era of the planned economy and [now] unsuitable.”
However, after the editorial spread beyond its origins with those newspapers, Chinese censors apparently leapt into action (or were instructed to do so), and it was promptly removed from many websites. A special website set up by the Economic Observer to discuss hukou reform also disappeared. Furthermore, one of the co-writers of the editorial, Zhang Hong, was ousted from his position as deputy editor-in-chief from the Economic Observer’s website. It was also claimed that the Economic Observer received a warning from the CCP’s propaganda department. Continue reading »
Introduction
The majority of black jail detainees are petitioners-citizens from rural areas who come to Beijing and provincial capitals seeking redress for abuses ranging from illegal land grabs and corruption to police torture. Petitioners, as citizens who have done nothing wrong-in fact, who are exercising their legal right to complain of being wronged themselves-are often persecuted by government officials, who employ security forces and plainclothes thugs known as retrievers or jiefang renyuan, to abduct them, often violently, and then detain them in black jails. Plainclothes thugs often actively assist black jail operators and numerous analysts believe that they do so at the behest of, or at least with the blessing of, municipal police. Continue reading »
Welcome to APHAFIC, the Association for Preserving Historical Accuracy of Foreign Invasions in China. This organization was started in San Diego by Nancy Lo, the current president, as a rebuttal to some of the historical inaccuracies coming out of Japan concerning the Japanese invasion of China in the early to mid 20th century. Nancy is wearing a floral dress in this photo. She was very good friends with Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking) and felt this issue wasn’t getting the attention it deserved.
The mission of the Association is as follows:
According to reports last week, the legal school and legislator Xu Zhiyong was led away by Police sometime on the morning of Wednesday 28th August. His whereabouts still seem to be unknown – his brother said that he had been charged with tax evasion.
It is hard to see how this isn’t linked to Xu’s work in helping people the State would prefer carried on with their lives like good little citizens, rather than pursue legal recourse against some sort of injustice/embarrassing matter that officials or local/central government would prefer to see the back of. But whatever the reason, this is not good for China’s future. Continue reading »
This is the full session between Niall Ferguson and James Fallows at the recently held Aspen Ideas Festival. Allen had posted excepts and we promised you the complete discussion as soon as it became available. Niall Ferguson had coined the term “Chimerica” to describe the symbiotic relationship between the economies of China and the United States. He currently sees this relationship as being in jeopardy, while James Fallows feels the relationship is far stronger the most realize. This video is slightly over 75 minutes.
Events of the last week in Iran have been widely reported by the world press. Not long before, the press also reported on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989. Were these two distinct events reported in a similar manner or were they treated as different and unique events? Let’s take a look at each and see what we can find.
1) Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?
Based on the coverage I’ve seen, both governments were cast as being in the wrong and both protest movements as in the right. In the case of China, the government sent in tanks and used live ammunition to break up a protest movement that was alleged to have turned violent. Most of the reporters in the world press were located in or near the same area, and their reports reflected what occurred in that vicinity. Analyzes of this event in most cases pointed to the government as the culprit and the demonstrators as being victims and responding in a suitable fashion. Is this an accurate assessment? The Chinese government attempted to confiscate film of the event from foreign sources but those attempts were successfully evaded in most instances.
This trip is foremost about realism. Continue reading »
Recently, Israel railed against the Vatican when Cardinal Renato Martino, the president of the Council for Justice and Peace of the Vatican, characterized Gaza as a “concentration camp.” According to the NY Times: Continue reading »
作者：magiczerg 文章发于：乌有之乡 点击数： 更新时间：2008-12-11
《08宪章》终于出炉了，很好，它们终于又从黑暗中窜出来，张牙舞爪的向人民冲过来了。这个阴险的敌人在76年劫后重生以来，一直像病毒一样偷偷的复制着，今天爆发了，看来我们现在的免疫力确实是不行了。病毒总是趁人虚弱的时候爆发，08是中华民族由于长期虚耗，刚刚病倒的时候，它们果然就发作了，治病救人看来是势在必行了。
看病之前，我们先诊断诊断病情，以便对症下药。大凡病毒老病毒易治，新出现的病毒难医，这个病毒是新病毒还是老病毒呢？翻开历史看一看原来这个病毒1908年就出现了，当时清政府像现在的走资派一样为了笼络人心预备立宪了。看来《08宪章》应该改为《1908宪章》，变异了的病毒出现了，只不过又换了个马甲。如果这思想的深度尚不及旧民主主义的东西祸害成功了，只能证明我们民族的思辨力已经退到1919年前了。
接下来我们看看病因。 照理说老病毒，我们应该早有免疫力，不应该害怕的，为什么政府又一次的讳莫如深呢？难道毛主席给我们民族注射的疫苗失效了？如果失效为什么会失效呢？我想我们的政府该反思一下了!资本主义在中国走不通是历史证明的了，为什么现在的善良的人们人们还总是一厢情愿的相信呢？政府一直以来摇摆不定，被走资派挟持，篡改历史的恶果出现了。现在走资派利用被篡改的历史去蒙蔽广大老百姓的时候，政府只好把长期以来对付正派（之所以不称左派的原因是个人觉得现在的右派是反动派，真正的右派在我们的所谓的“左派”中间，还没到显露的时候）的手段拿出来了，那就是封杀。就像纸里的火一样是封不得住，这样做只会把自己推向人民的对立端，成全了这帮畜生。唯一也是最正确的办法就是还原历史的真相，让人民自己认清它们丑恶的嘴脸。让人民了解真正的历史，让祖国的未来–青年人真正了解中国的历史，这样中华名族才能真正自信，自强。中华民族才能永远拒毒于体外。
除了加强免疫力，我们最重要的是还要给病毒杀死。看看这份病毒的制造者吧，两个长期以来通外祸国的跳梁小丑。不能再纵容它们了，对待敌人就要像秋风扫落叶一样。来一场正义的审批再送上人民垒起的断头台是它们的最好的结局。还有那帮亡我中华之心不死的帮凶们，也要用痛打落水狗的精神来对待它们（榜单上的茅于轼之流）！
题外话：本人是一名大学教师，虽然教龄不长，但是跟现在的青年学生接触比较多。特别是80后，感觉他们属于没有信仰没有精神的一代。我有上课给他们讲一些关于人性美好的一面，教人上进的故事，竟遭一些学生不理解的经历。他们自己不愿意思考，如果你想让他们思考还会引起他们的反感。深表无奈，又充满同情，其实他们才是最不幸的一代。希望大家多拿出耐心对待他们，温暖他们，不要在网上人云亦云的打击他们了。他们中间也有不少热血青年，由于了解了错误的历史反而更容易误入歧途。他们更容易受08宪章蒙蔽，热爱祖国的人们的路很长很长。现在工作在一线的老师可以说忙的连自己思考的时候都快没有了，更不用说教学生思考了，教育的悲哀啊！平时由于时间的缘故，很少发东西，今天熬夜仓促写了一些，希望大家多批评。
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We’ve had impassioned discussions about Tibet this year. But the controversies surrounding China has not just been about Tibet – they have also been about Africa.
In anticipation of a series of posts on Africa, I thought I would put a few feelers out to see if people on this forum would be interested in discussing the topic, and if so, where people initially stand.
In Chinese society, such struggles are found in the stories and mythologies of 大禹 (Great Yu) taming the floods, 神農 (Shennong) inventing agriculture or the Monkey King’s rebellion against Heaven. Socio-politically, a central theme of Confucianism is the rights and duties of each member of society, from the peasant to that of the Emperor. Subsequently, 孟子 (Mencius) argued for the rights of the citizens to just rule, while later 王夫之 (Wang Fuzhi) favoured governing in the interest of the people (i.e. for the people) instead of for the benefit of the rulers. Continue reading »
Why are the Chinese viscerally sickened by the following scenes from the Western media? Continue reading »
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