Another of this useful series of visual representations of the "East-West Cultural Gap". On the left we have our typical Occidental way of approaching problems..... and on the right, how they tend to do it in China. (The drawback with "the Chinese way", alas, is that it doesn't solve the problem, it just avoids creating a scene.)
Apparently, these amusing diagrams are the work of a Chinese graphic designer called Yang Liu (she relocated to Germany over a decade ago; if you blow the picture up to full size, you may notice that the captions are in German).
Been reading right along over the last week, thanks to Google Reader, but woefully behind on letting you know that via comments and plain-old trackable site visits. I shall return. Must make overtures in The Pooch's direction for now.
No worries, as our Australian friends say, JES. I have come to assume that you are ever The King of the Lurkers, despite the occasional comment-drought.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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Been reading right along over the last week, thanks to Google Reader, but woefully behind on letting you know that via comments and plain-old trackable site visits. I shall return. Must make overtures in The Pooch's direction for now.
No worries, as our Australian friends say, JES. I have come to assume that you are ever The King of the Lurkers, despite the occasional comment-drought.
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