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(Letter) The Chinese essay BBC was dared to publish (contrasting argumentation styles)

September 15th, 2008 92 comments

A Mr. Li sent this essay to the BBC and dared them to publish it. They did. Much thanks to EastSouthWestNorth for providing this English translation (See their post for additional translated reader comments.) Read more…

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(Letter) Lots of us want to love and respect China, but right now China isn't helping

August 23rd, 2008 81 comments

This will probably make some people angry, or at least get people’s emotions fired up. But that’s not what I’m trying to do. This is a totally honest Western perspective from a Westerner who is usually very positive toward China (we are learning Chinese in China and want our kids to grow up here). I’m writing this hoping we can have a real conversation and understand one another better.
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