My mom and some of the Liu family and me up in the mountains of Taiwan.
A school in mainland China, 1986
Farming country, mainland China, 1986
Newly refurbished farm house, China, 1986
Workman building a school auditorium, note the bamboo scaffolding, China, 1986
New buildings in a farm village, China, 1986
New two-story farm house, China, 1986
Bricks for new building in farm village, China, 1986
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Teresa: What a culture shock that was, from your pix to Xinjiang. Thank you: you rooted me out of my snooze, to spend the last hour digging into the riots, background, etc. I've been hunkered down over the past week in the Middle East, reading Matt Rees' Cain's Field, about the very same kinds of tensions and crossfires in Israel / Palestine.
I know you need more, not less, reading these days, but this caught my eye. Not exactly about Xinjiang, but interesting as backstory:
http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1318
The distinctions between Chinese and South Korean Confucianism were interesting, and quickly nipped in the bud any growing insidious (and invidious) notion in my head that traditional Chinese culture might have a predisposition to authoritarianism.
That was a very interesting article from Dissent Magazine, Murat. The analysis runs very similar to analyses that I have heard from a couple of my professors here.
Confucianism is a weird little beastie. I think it is less about authority as about rights and responsibilities. In each position of society the person has rights and responsibilities. But the needs of the individual are routinely subjugated to the good of the group be it family, town, or country. So we rugged individualists from the West have a hard time with it. But the goal is that every one at all levels of society or in a household would flourish. But things that seem logical to my Chinese mind do not make it in my English one.
Anyway, good article. Thanks for the tip. University of Wisconsin is a leader in Asian studies.
You have seen so much. thanks for sharng it with us ;-)
Aloa-
It's all in the past, Cloudia, very different now. Unlike your lovely posts.
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