Celebration of communist party rule

Too complex of a topic to blog about, so…  let’s go to the pictures. 

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Today is June 4th.

Here is a  reflective piece on the Tiananmen Square incident 20 years ago. 
On that note, I am planning to read Zhao Ziyang’s memoir just recently released called Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang.
Update: there are some good coverage this year.  Here are a couple from the Financial Times: West miscasts Tiananmen [...]

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Great Post: “Not Afraid of Grace and Beauty”

I might have mentioned before… Wang JianShuo is my favorite Chinese blogger.  He is truely unique in that he writes a blog for westerners, but he’s a native himself.  Wang also heads up kijiji.com (eBay’s classifieds effort) and have worked in Miscrosoft for many years before.  Wang is in his late 20s and lives with [...]

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Question on democracy

The Herald Tribune has an interesting letter from Howard French titled “What if Beijing is Right?”  It is a letter about a topic widely debated: Is democracy necessarily the best way to govern?  Can an authoritarian regime be good?
The same as for investing, you never know how good you are as an investor until you [...]

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Saturday Entertainment…

Here’s an article from the NYTs from December of 1908, when the last emperor Pu Yi was enthroned when he was 3 yrs old.   I think everyone can view these articles now with TimeSelect gone?  Well, if not, let me know and I can produce a link. 

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on Mao

Mao Tsedong is certainly a powerful character.  And quite an intriguing one as well.  Most people outside of China will remember Mao for one thing: the Cultural Revolution and the sufferings he imposed on many.  Most intellectuals will certainly despise Mao for destroying thousands of years of history and culture overnight.  Perhaps you’d have heard [...]

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The Emperor’s Piano

I was curious to see what reporters of the NYTimes wrote about China back in the days, so I did a search for the keyword “China” – well, the answer is not that much.  Most information back in the days came from missionaries; the rest were from what limited contact there was from global trade.  Apparently, [...]

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Survival of the Fittest

There’s little to brag about in the modern history of China – the country has pretty much been on standstill for the past 200 years until this last decade.  Foreign invasion, WWII, more invasion, civil war, Mao, Deng…  Anyone beyond 30 yrs old would have lived through one or more massive shock one time or another.  The Chinese have [...]

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Ten years later

July 1st marked the tenth year anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.  1997 seems like such a long time ago – The handover of Hong Kong has a very personal impact; in fact, the handover had a very significant social impact on those who lived through the transition.  I’d leave the [...]

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