“Blind Shaft” is a modern fable of greed, murder and innocence in the illegal coal mines of Northern China. It is a powerful portrait of terrible working practices and a corrupt society. Not surprisingly, it has won a number of international awards and is banned in China now.
See the trailer on http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/media_view.pl?type=Trailers&trailer_ID=171&id=13400&popup=
or simply google “Blind […]
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Comments of the recent news on trapped workers:
http://news.sina.com.cn/z/sxzykn/index.shtml (in Chinese)
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Asia/China_Mine_Flood.html (English)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196553,00.html (English)
(Pictures are from Xinhua net)
Crews are still searching for 57 coal miners trapped by an underground flood. It has been 9 days since it happened. Residents began to lose hope for a rescue. Several issues attract people’s attention. The first one is the poor working condition for Chinese […]
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My friend Emily gave me a list of films before she left for NY this morning. I hope I can enjoy some of them during the summer.
(L means a film about Law, and * means good.)
The Paper Chase […]
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Posted in In English, reading on May 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Quote from “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life”
Observe the herd which is grazing beside you. It does not know what yesterday or today is. It springs around, eats, rests, digests, jumps up again, and so from morning to night and from day to day, with its likes and dislikes closely tied to […]
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The best way to prevent censorship!
(http://sicknick.org/pictures/nov-5-03-kowsar.jpg)
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Comments on a blogger’s review of Chinese self-censorship:
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/04/20/what-is-self-censorship/
One may wonder why Chinese bloggers write under strict censorship. Actually the censorship is not so strict, because the administrative capability of the government is little compared the huge number of websites and the bloggers today. However, Chinese government maitains censorship effciently despite the lack of caliber.
Such censorship works even out of the phiscal border of […]
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Competition Law in China:The Proposed Anti-Monopoly Statute
May 23, 2006/9:30 am - Noon /Harvard Law School
Main Presentation: Professor Wang Xiaoye
Professor of Law and Director of the Economic Law Department, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; visiting at Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2005-2006
Discussants
Professor Gary H. Jefferson:Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance, and Chair […]
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Posted in In English, Comments on May 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Courage is a virtue that Greek consider indispensible for the life. Socrates taught people that courage is the knowledge of good and evil generally, after diferentiating it from military courage and animal’s ignorant act of violence.(Plato, Laches, or Courage)
However, it could be the reverse. The knowledge of good and evil might only be aquired […]
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Posted in In English, life on May 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Finally I could relax, after a whole year of hard working.
I was cleaning up the room, throwing away papers that had been in my hard disck, and preparing for moving out.
This room is lovely. I think I am going to miss it.
After a year of living and studying here, I begin to have a feeling […]
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A recent stroy from a Chinese legal blogger’s website: Li Hongfeng, a retired worker, was sentenced to one year labor reeducaiton with the alleged fact that he smashed an ashtray and broke a window glass. He was once a protestor and visited several governmental offices. The Labor Reeducation Committee of Qiqiha’er City claimed that he […]
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