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mewtopia

PRC 60

Oct 02, 2009 10:31

This snippet on my morning reading caught my eye :

Secret pleasuresIn the 1970s a friend of mine who was one of only two or three Western correspondents based in Beijing came to know her government-appointed translator well ( Read more... )

intellecticious, films

Comments 9

petrusplancius October 2 2009, 10:11:15 UTC

I love that first story. BBC reporting doubtless does show a liberal-democratic bias; perhaps it should try to feel more sympathy for self-appointed authoritarian regimes.

trancexgemini October 2 2009, 16:43:49 UTC

You always have the most interesting entries! Even if I don't always comment, I read. :]

Lust, Caution is an amazing film. I own the NC-17 version. ♥

mewtopia October 3 2009, 07:24:04 UTC

:) Thanks, yes I thought that pic might catch your eye. I didn't really get the film though! All the erotic scenes make the square in me blush :P

silkenblackrose October 3 2009, 02:23:42 UTC

aww the 1st story!!

anonymous October 10 2009, 04:30:21 UTC

At my sister's school (University of Chicago), a Chinese student made the mistake of sending to the Taiwanese and Hong Kong student group mailing lists an email invitation to participate in the China Day parade. They were not amused. Fortunately, the guy wasn't trying to be offensive; he was simply politically clueless. I think his unfortunate actions can be attributed to an overexposure to Communist propaganda and the suppression of criticism of the Communist regime.
-Mike

mewtopia October 10 2009, 09:06:03 UTC

Were they not amused or were they incensed? I'm not sure what the stance to take is anymore, I think with my conversations with family I seemed to feel that they were more or less surrendered to the notion that eventually we would be 'annexed'. Esp Hong Kong?

anonymous October 10 2009, 18:08:14 UTC

It was so politically offensive that they didn't know if he was trying to add insult to injury, or just clueless. In fact, the guy was actually trying to be nice, but he had grown up being taught that Hong Kong and Taiwan were a part of China as a matter of course and didn't know any better.
People I know from Hong Kong were resigned to the fact that the Communists would take over, and some of them picked up and moved somewhere else. However, I think a lot of people in Taiwan are prepared to fight it out to the bitter end for ideology and pride. Ironically, most of the Chinese people I've met don't really care about any of this. They got bigger problems to worry about, like how to get clean tap water.

When I was in Hong Kong just before they were annexed, a saw a Red Guard uniform-inspired line of clothing at a Christian Dior boutique. Those sycophants.

chashiineriiya October 19 2009, 05:22:20 UTC

The Chinese press is extremely biased -- when I was in HK/China last summer I remember reading a Chinese newspaper in English and despite the international consensus about ongoing violence against the Han Chinese by some Uiyghurs in Xinjiang province (while being protected by other Uiyghurs) as retaliation for the Chinese government's oppressive policies, I remember the newspaper saying in large headlines "Order restored in Urumqi ( ... )