OLDER CHINESE ARE THE OUTSPOKEN ONES
Perhaps because they have less to lose or they have already been persecuted by the government – it appears, according to the
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“JUST A MINUTE”
JUST WAIT TILL YOU GROW UP
Just A Minute – The Asian Wall Street Journal isn’t on my reading list but occasionally something grabs attention -- like yesterday’s story that seventy and eighty year olds – are the only voices speaking freely in China today.
The author quoted Confucius, who not until he was 70, would say he could “follow his desire without overstepping the line.”
Ye Tingfang, 71 year old language scholar, once found his entire language department sent to the fields to labor during the “Cultural Revolution.” A childhood accident caused the loss of his left arm occasioning scholastic opportunity and allowing for overseas study. He now writes papers directed to the CPPCC advisory committee to China’s rubber-stamp legislature – the most recent one arguing for repeal of the one-child policy. “Because it is national policy,” he says, “It won’t be accepted.” But Mr. Ye recognizes opinions like his own will eventually stack up.
He sees present efforts to cleanup his neighborhood for the Olympics to be like a “young girl, who doesn’t know how to put on make up.”
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