April 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm (Uncategorized)
It’s 100 days to the 2008 Beijing Olympics! That can only mean one thing! No, not deteriorating reporting conditions. No, not a countdown ceremony in Nepal, though thats some serious unintentional irony right there. No, not whatever else is being reported. No, it can only mean one thing… ROCK!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:17 pm (Uncategorized)
The idea that the Chinese people, as a whole, are engaged in struggle, overcoming shame, or that every individual is responsible for the fate of the nation goes back before the Communist era. Since 1949, these ideas have been intensified, but it didn’t start there. And now’s a good time to remember it, because the 80th anniversary of the Jinan Incident is coming up next weekend. The Jinan Incident, on May 3rd 1928, was a brutal clash between Chinese and Japanese troops that both sides, it seems, wanted to avoid but failed. Kuomintang forces ended up retreating from the city, and the Kuomintang government declared May 3rd to be National Humiliation Day. A boycott of Japanese goods followed.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:35 am (Uncategorized)
via Hecaitou and Lian Yue, Backtoourmotherland.com.
The website calls for Chinese Canadians to renounce their citizenship and provides links on how to do so. It also argues that the Canadian citizenship pledge is unpatriotic for Chinese since one swears allegiance to the Queen of England, who is the chief representative of Western colonialism, since England took part in the Opium War and humiliated the nation. The website doesn’t appear to give any information as to who has actually done this, or a forum for discussion.
This seems like a really bad idea, considering Yang Hengjun’s brilliant call for media reform in China and increased efforts to reach the true masters of Western media, the audience themselves. Curling into a ball and retreating to China doesn’t seem like it would help with that sort of engagement.