rolling china in the 沙盒

been missing it

www.thechinabeat.org/?p=4052

adam cathcart who is good on china-north korea stuff re post kim jong il sinonkorean relationship

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/asia/in-china-the-wukan-revolt-could-be-a-harbinger.html?_r=1

nyt on roots of wukan protest -- real estate, corruption etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmeplXHRYCI

I want some bailey's fried chicken

srsly what is that stuff?

'ireland sweet wine' is the literal translation

taste of the auld country

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/with-essays-on-democracy-chinese-blogger-stirs-debate-among-reformers/

et tu, han han

shouldnt 'box' just be a square

waiting for guo jingming to comment on this

the top = 合 hé, which is a phonetic element.
the bottom = 皿, which is a little box thing, i guess.

square = 口
which means mouth

you heathen

enjoying guo's wiki

http://www.cqybq.gov.cn/news/UploadFiles_4696/200803/20080324100919889.jpg

http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=%E7%9B%92

what a box has looked like through the ages

surprisingly it just seems to mean 'box'

what a dreamboat xp

few nights ago I watched videos of mao's funeral procession on youku

also zhou enlai's

also videos of mao swimming in a lake which my mom said showcased his innate peasant character, in a good way. she didn't believe me when I said it was a propaganda photo op

you mentioned before your parents (or just mom??) love of mao... what's the deal there, if i can ask..... in my dyao character sketch your parents were oldschool hk, moved to america...

nope, beijingers. grew up during the cultural revolution, moved to america in '80

I don't think anybody in HK or southern china loves mao!

my mother's stampbook: http://tinyurl.com/79a2aoa

oh.... gotcha. yeah, that's why i asked.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODY4NzUxMzY=.html

毛泽东逝世记录片

yeah that's the one we watched

put out by the propaganda ministry

my mom thinks that there are a lot of crocodile tears in that one

not for zhou enlai though

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTkyOTgxNDA=.html

there are shots in that of a vanagon (I think, or some communist copy) transporting zhou's corpse from the beijing hospital to 八宝山 - and 长安街 is filled with people mourning. according to my mom that was totally spontaneous - people just turned out to try and catch a glimpse of the hearse

he also chose cremation because he knew that if power struggles went the wrong way his corpse could have been desecrated - smart man

right... and later, there was more spontaneous action that was too spontaneous for jiang qing and whoever was running things while mao was winding things down...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Incident

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-isnt-the-west-reacting-to-chin=as-crackdown/2011/12/25/gIQAgFI2KP_story.html

crackdown on democracy writing dissidents :)))

essay writing i think i meant to say

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/12/26/in-china-a-christmas-crackdow=n-on-dissent/

Chen¹s wife, Zhang Qunxuan, told Reuters he was convicted over the content
of 36 essays that he had published on overseas websites that were critical
of China¹s ruling Communist Party. ³To subvert you ­ can he do that?²
Zhang said, according to Reuters. ³Does he have any army? Does he have a
police force? Does he have courts? With a piece of paper and a pen, can he
subvert you? Are you so fragile?² His conviction came just three days
after a court in Sichuan province sentenced another veteran activist, Chen
Wei, to nine years in prison, also on a charge of inciting subversion.