Yay, Padres! Which isn't the only good thing about the post, but I felt obligated to say that first.
So...is it going to be safe to go to China for the Olympics?
Yeah, I think so. The security will be incredibly tight. China is actually a very safe place overall, in terms of foreigners encountering crime.
But we'll see. It will be interesting, and it's hard to say how it will all play out.
I would think China would be safe--but I would worry about going into Tibet. I don't know how they feel about Ammuricans, but one could get caught up in the violence just standing in the wrong place.
Forgot to mention the cheerleaders at the Padres/Dodgers games. They were really cute--I wish they had shown more of them!
My guess is they will limit travel to and from Tibet, though the new high speed train might make that harder.
Wish I had thought to watch the game!
Hi Other Lisa,
You may be interested in this site:
www.nciku.com
A online English/Chinese dictionary, it focuses on Chinese language learning English speakers, providing Chinese hand writing input and human voice pronunciation.
Have a look, if good, add it to your site please, thanks.
Reagards,
Clark
I think we spend waaaaaaay too much time paying any heed to a bunch of puny little emporers. If they don't like what people in their own countries say about their poisoned, peasant man filled, mass murdering wreckage of a country then they can go back to "paradise". They are the foreigners and they need to recognize that regardless of what those demented old pervs in Beijing teach them.
They seem to have no restraint or any decency to check their tongue in China when giving foreigners their two fen but can't stand to hear the truth about their country.
Additionally, after knowing that the Chinese consulate in LA paid to have Chinese students and expats (many of whom are green carded immigrants) bused in from SoCal for this torch relay, it is obvious that Chinatowns are more like CCP colonies than some sort of cutsie cultural enclave.
Here's another argument for boycott:
w.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/10/china-a-true-
nightmare-on-april-fools-day/#comment-1427695
In spite of the occupants' outcry, about 1000 security guards and 20 policemen escorting two diggers intruded into a commodity housing district named Li Shui Jing Yuan in Chongqing, the largest of China's four provincial-level municipalities, to forcibly carried out the developer's reconstruction plan which was officially supported by the local government, causing a serious bloodshed conflict. Some residents recorded the whole event and exposed it on some popular Chinese BBSs, trying to call the attention of the public to the vicious incident which just occurred on April Fool's Day.
The copy of the occupant's report on ifeng.com:
作者:浪子－－ 发表于 2008-4-2 11:19
2008年4月1日上午9：00左右，共有约1000余名身穿保安制服和20余名未佩戴警号但身着警服的一
干人员，大摇大摆强行进入小区，在小区篮球场周围搭起简易围墙，并站成一排，挡住了小区各个出口，阻止业主
通过。紧接着两辆大型黄色挖掘机迅速撞破了小区围墙，开进了小区篮球场开始疯狂挖掘，不到1小时，篮球场周
边的树木遭连根拔起，篮球场设施和周遭围墙完全毁损，小区的美丽的一角瞬间沦为一片废墟。
由于是工作日，小区只有少数老人在家，目睹这前所未见的惊人一幕，惊骇之余只有暗自垂泪。有年轻女业主一名
上午10：00左右开车回到小区，路过野蛮施工场地，刚想询问，便被上述人员强行&
Oh, man. This is what happens when I don't tend my blog.
Well, never mind. Non-China post up next.
Oh, hell, I'm too lazy to go and delete my comment above, and I just have to say something.
Nan-h, do you have a life? At all? I mean, you seek out my obscure, less than prolific blog? Which I don't even keep up because I'm too damn busy?
What can I say, I tend to see stuff as fairly gray. I'm willing to make some generalizations and some value judgments, but life is complicated, it's rarely cut and dried, and not everything and everyone who comes from China is eeeeevil, stupid and corrupt.
Extreme nationalism drives me to despair, no matter where it comes from, and I don't like seeing peoples' rights trampled upon in the name of manifest destiny. And I am willing to say that I'll only take cultural relativism so far - some things are stupid, evil and backward, and I don't care if I am regarded as an imperialist for saying so.
But you...you're a black and white thinker, with an agenda that I find pretty suspect. The fact that you aren't willing to come out and directly say where your interests lie makes me doubt your motivations and your analyses.
Thankfully I don't post enough to have to worry about getting drawn into some weird blog drama.
Hey there Lisa,
I too sought out out your obscure blog, because theres no chance for talk on Peking Duck. Also because I have an new blog, and I want to invite you to see what you think.
I'm glad you're writing a book (- :
I thought you made a sincere comment on Peking Duck about the media bias in West. I think that it has contributed to getting to the heart of the matter since in the end, it seems like 'some' Chinese people and 'some' Western people have a really different impression of the truth about the Chinese regimes history and human rights record. A lot of Western bias comes from having values about human rights, and 'some' Chinese people don't seem to share a similar impression. Is it because they have different values or because they have heard a different version of history up till today?
I think as long as you keep growing your mind, your book will be successful, and if you respect yourself and conscience, then you can accomplish anything.
All the best.
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