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.

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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.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.