Comments on: Ultimate Tian’anmen dissident speaks from the grave, but who will listen?

By: josh

josh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:32:24 +0000

@China Law: Not done, just buried in work and laboring through a redesign of my website. Watch this space…

By: China Law

China Law — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:27:17 +0000

Where ya been? Are you done? Should I remove from my reader?

By: Uncle John

Uncle John — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:38:57 +0000

An interesting comment about perception. As always it is in the eye of the beholder. However, that eye is always covered by the glasses of your environment. If one were to witness the events themselves, they would have a different meaning depending on the environment of experience. And even multiple witnesses would have different perceptions. Reading of or orally listening to the history of the event is also colored by the writer or the storyteller’s experience and thus the one who is reading or listening only takes away that which his or her own experience finds plausible. Thus, we are prisoners of our own experience and the environment in which we obtained those experiences. Only with great introspection can we shift the wheat from the chafe. However, all events are important as they form a part of all human experience.

By: Expatriate Games

Expatriate Games — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:32:39 +0000

In an admittedly informal and unscientific pool earlier this week, 20% of my college aged students could not tell me who Zhao Ziyang was. Most of them got it with some prompting…