A 30-YEAR JOURNEY

Mao to Now

China is thousands of years old but has been made anew in the last three decades, and my family with it.

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  • Posted By: Hamilton Dekoff @ 08/05/2009 6:21:33 AM

    Kudos to Melinda Liu for revealing that she has an ounce of Chinese blood in her. The way she has been spewing venom at the Chinese government through twisted facts and selected reporting, she gave me the impression that she is resentful of her Chinese ethnicity.

    Melinda, now that you have revealed your ounce of Chinese blood, you can have even more venom to attack the Chinese government. After all, using a Chinese American to attack China will give Newsweek the appearance of objectivity it desperately seeks.

    • Posted By: clu1984 @ 09/10/2009 11:32:08 PM

      I don't think resentment is the right word to describe her views towards the Chinese communist, because it is the shame and the anger that we (as Chinese grow up outside of China) have to carry each day of our lives. It is a burden, it is the anger and it is a thing that cannot be solved because the actions and decisions are made by the Chinese communist government are difficult to be understood by people who grow up outside of China. They are absolutely wrong, but you have no place to defend your rights or to prove them wrong. It is a desperation and frustration towards the Chinese communist government.

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 08/06/2009 6:30:59 AM

    Mao and His Communism. PART 1.

    By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    With the opening of the year 2008 Olympic in Beijing, the ???Cold War??? had ended. China & its Communism political ideology has successfully emerge as the winner of this highly destructive war. Tens of millions of lives have been lost & trillions of dollars of property damages all due to American aggression. Historically, East Asia has always been the habitats for Asian survival and development. Americans ivolvements in these area during the Cold War are obviously aggression. To fully understand the history of the 20th century or beyond, we must understand the political system in China.

    There were little or no ???politic??? before the American Revolution for their independence from England in 1776. Monarchies as ???political??? leaders or alternatives were without political ideologies but the personalities of those monarchs which would dictate their government policies. We should all agree that politics or ideological difference of governments are really myths or deceptions. Its sole purpose is to overthrow or replace an existing government or political party. After such political transformations were completed, politic in those nations should become obsolete. As its replacements, there should only be constant but gradual improvements of the existing ???political??? framework to fit the need of their citizens. Frequent elections at all levels will be extremely wasteful, time consuming & inefficient.

    The United States used its own politic ideology as a deception during the Cold War to diverge attentions from its internal unrest since its Civil War. The process of mandatory & scheduled political changes even through elections are unnecessary because they always create instabilities. Currently, China is totally surrounded enemies from all direction and all over the world. They will attack China immediately if a weakness is found. I as Prophet of Environment can certainly help and defend China to win but all Chinese every where should also help and cooperate with the Chinese government. The first thing they need to do is stop all complains, forget the unpleasant past experience, and embrace Chinese Communism 100%. There should be no rooms left for foreigners to criticize the Chinese government. In short, all Chinese must reject all foreign criticisms of Chinese government or Communism.

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 08/06/2009 6:24:58 AM

    Mao & Communism. PART 2

    Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    Since the Cold War had ended in 2008 with China???s victory, this world should follow the path of a careful & gradual transformation into Communism. In fact U. S. is currently embracing their own version socialism. There should not be any more blood sheds, destruction of property & waste to initiate anymore political changes. Communism indoctrination will be especially useful in integrating regions such as Macao, Hong Kong, & Taiwan back into Mainland. Learning process will go both ways. Mainland will also learn about the life styles of Chinese in those regions.

    In a given planet, there can only be one nation who can truly be democratic & independent at the same time. All other nations can either be undemocratically independent or seemingly democratic but were controlled by another stronger nation which in most cases is the U. S. The leaders of those small nations are nothing but puppets with no choices but to follow American orders. This is the reason why the U. S. is so anxious in converting other nations into ???democracy???

    For Communismt to work perfectly, citizen must be relatively well educated, unselfish & well trained. My own interpretation of ???revisionism??? as being a political system which can be easily refined & improved. More importantly, we need an extremely long foresight to be able to look into the very distant future and not restrict short term gains. China had survived the latter therefore should be posed to become successful. People of a communist nation must be able to take sacrifice & not operate totally on profit. The failure of PRC???s communism at its early stage were simply due to U. S. embargo & boycott in areas such as commerce & technology transfer.

    Chinese still refuse to accept the fact that their leaders are also one of them. Whatever that leader do is not only for their own good but are for other citizens also. This is the exact opposite to U. S. chief executives who functions exclusively for their own personal gain. They work only for the sake of being reelected & remembered in history. The minute their terms are over, they will be long gone & left behind mountains of unresolvable problems. In fact, it is their duty to be gone & to be relieved after their terms are over.

    To put it very simply, Chinese must begin to treat their leaders as their parents. They are harsh, domineering & prone to making mistakes but somewhat responsive, naturally caring & they are permanent. We should remember that any social improvements toward perfection today will be limited by depleting resource & damaging Environment. Communication within the world???s biggest Chinese bureaucracy is difficult. If a better system can be established for leaders to give more attentions to their subordinates. With renew respect & trust from its citizens, China

  • Posted By: heartfelt @ 08/04/2009 9:31:30 AM

    I am so sorry that you are so glorious to be a dog of AMERICANS! HISTORY had told us that amercicans are robbers.they only cared about profits.they know anything but DOLLARS!

  • Posted By: heartfelt @ 08/04/2009 9:30:42 AM

    I am so sorry that you are so glorious to be a dog of AMERICANS! HISTORY had told us that amercicans are robbers.they only cared about profits.they know anything but DOLLARS!

  • Posted By: heartfelt @ 08/04/2009 9:30:26 AM

    I am so sorry that you are so glorious to be a dog of AMERICANS! HISTORY had told us that amercicans are robbers.they only cared about profits.they know anything but DOLLARS!

  • Posted By: martialguy @ 01/03/2009 11:21:45 AM

    History has shown that a tiny country could defeat great powers; just like Vietnam defeated Momgolia, France and China itself to keep its national identity. The cultural revoluation has shown that China's greatest enemy is not an foreign power. China's greatest power to defeat is its own evil.

  • Posted By: JojoChrist @ 01/19/2008 9:13:04 AM

    As an ordinary Chinese girl born in 1986,in Shenzhen,i didn't feel myself lucky until i got to know more and more about the past of China,especially Culture Revolution time.And i always wonder why such an impenetrable and lamentable event could happen to the generation of my parents and break out in China.Quenching Tiananmen affair is right even though I don't know much about it or the whole country would have gotten into the endless depression and lag.As a matter of fact ,my parents,not so-called red guards, didn't suffer so much as others .
    It has not been important and siganificant to go behind Mao's fault notwithstanding I am always shocked by tragical Culture revolution .What's really important is reflection of such a tragic and to search for effective ways of stopping similar things from happening.
    Nowadays i'm very glad to witness pleasing changes and progressiveness of China and i wish it to last forever.

  • Posted By: whnzxz @ 01/17/2008 3:41:07 AM

    Chinese like peace. If foreigner hv chance to come here, you must fell it. But i just confused why Western pay more attention to China trend. Acctually in recent 200 years , other country frequently invaded my contry. When we want to develop peacefully, they again intercept us. It's Democracy! very very democracy!

  • Posted By: kcho1348 @ 01/08/2008 11:23:47 AM

    tears come to my eyes

  • Posted By: yahoo.hell @ 01/08/2008 5:32:49 AM

    Mao is still the great in Chinese's mind, even though He made serious mistakes in his later years.
    Mao never intented to harm his country and his peoples, and his allegiance to China is much more than any others.
    Mao dedicated his life, his son's life, even his family's to his mother country--China.
    No one can be perfect.
    What do you expect that Mao should be?

    The real criminals that ruined China are:

    1) the Manchu Government ( made China closure; fooled and pressed the majority Han Chinese for maintaining their regime)
    2) the western invaders ( tried to make China as their colony, robbed China for almost one century, especially , the British the French, the American ...)
    3) the Japanese invaders ( attacked the seriously wounded giant China during its weakest time )
    4) Some CCP's wrong policies and political campaigns ( the theories by Marx are unproved and idealized)

  • Posted By: irene.couillerot @ 01/08/2008 4:07:22 AM

    Melinda Liu:
    You labeled yourself as "American". But you may haven't realized the fact that Newsweek hired you and assigned you to China was just because your blood is of Chinese type.

  • Posted By: irene.couillerot @ 01/08/2008 4:03:55 AM

    Melinda Liu,
    You labeled yourself as "American". But you may haven't realized the fact that Newsweek hired you and assigned you in China just because you have Chinese blood. Pathetic banana.

  • Posted By: FancyChina @ 01/04/2008 8:59:37 AM

    Many Chinese citizens, especially those living in the cities, are very open-minded and pro-democracy, as far as I'm concerned

  • Posted By: tonykun @ 12/23/2007 11:29:40 PM

    except the shadow of human rights, corroption etc. every western media posts no positive images of PR China.

    • Posted By: ipfreak @ 01/02/2008 6:02:51 PM

      why should they? western medias, largely, driven by profit, if not just political bias. they have to feed what their customers love to hear.

      before i came to the states, i always thought the westerners, especially americans must be well informed coz of "freemdom", just few years i realized i was so damn wrongh.

  • Posted By: ipfreak @ 01/02/2008 4:39:15 PM

    "China's leaders needed the Games the same way they needed Hong Kong. They had to keep earning the public's confidence"

    when your mind has been preset and think that everything done by the government is for ccp, then you would never understandchina.

  • Posted By: Frogsad @ 12/30/2007 8:44:25 AM

    Are you moronic? Who stole your brother? It is your irresponsible parents that deserted him and fled to a 'safe haven'. The very first paragraphs alone have told me reading the rest of the gabbage with which you earn your bread and butter is a waste of time. Can you not put aside your bias and view the country you have been bashing--in a dispicable manner, no less--for money in an objective perspective? No conservative patrons would then cast coins in your beggar's bowl any more, right? You are pathetic to be called a journalist at all. Period. ps: Shame on you.

    • Posted By: Greaterchina @ 01/02/2008 5:19:13 AM

      How old are you? A student or not? If a student, please take this chance to read the history. If you are a man, you should have the courage to face the history, the reality, you should take a tour to visit your mesuem. Like a man, sir.

  • Posted By: catalystcode @ 12/31/2007 11:43:47 AM

    I???ve been going to China for two years now. The buzz and frenetic pace of entrepreneurial activity is just amazing. The Chinese have been extremely success at developing business platforms???businesses that make money by matching different kinds of customers together and helping them interact. That???s abstract so let???s get concrete. Alibaba is a massively successful platform that helps businesses find suppliers; most of the buyers are large Western companies while the suppliers are small and medium sized Chinese firms. Baidu is China???s answer to Google???it brings searchers and advertisers together. There are many more. And for an upstart consider FaceRen which brings Chinese domestic and expat students together just like FaceBook. For more see my book on platform businesses???Catalyst Code; the Chinese edition is coming out next year.
    Thanks,
    David Evans

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