tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post2038599663067916399..comments2023-06-05T07:33:16.696-07:00Comments on The China Beat: Earthquake and the Imperatives of Chinese MourningThe China Beathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042877198563453117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-63915009016432802892008-06-15T20:56:00.000-07:002008-06-15T20:56:00.000-07:00This is a response from Don Sutton to Adam Teslik'...This is a response from Don Sutton to Adam Teslik's comments above:<BR/><BR/>Yu Qiuyu 余秋雨, a well-published and well-traveled writer who has the semi-official status of a public intellectual specializing in cultural policy, has a piece that answers Adam Teslik’s query in the affirmative. He has called upon bereaved parents to desist in their protests so as not to give an opening to “anti-Chinese” elements. For a translation of his “tearful” appeal (and sharp rebuttals by other writers in Chinese), see http://en.chinaelections.org/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=17932<BR/><BR/>In so far as “the rest of society” is identified with the party state, which is insistent on a “harmonious society,” it has already given its answer by stopping the Dujiangyan parents demonstrating with their placards and keeping the foreign journalists who had publicized their demonstration well away from the ruins of the school. This is nothing like the time when sympathy for Hu Yaobang’s reform ideas sparked student demonstrations in 1989 on the occasion of his funeral. The Ministry of Education is helping to meet concerns elsewhere with a call to local officials to examine schools for safety. http://www.chinaelections.net/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=17982The China Beathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17042877198563453117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-56006381071144341872008-06-12T22:42:00.000-07:002008-06-12T22:42:00.000-07:00Well, CCTV can instruct few relief workers but the...Well, CCTV can instruct few relief workers but they can not instruct China's 200 million netizen. The traffic of Google China(google.cn) went to almost zero during the three minutes mourning.<BR/>Here is post from google china blog telling the story.<BR/>http://www.googlechinablog.com/2008/05/blog-post_22.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-26828088345868813292008-06-12T17:32:00.000-07:002008-06-12T17:32:00.000-07:00I'm glad that someone has taken up this question o...I'm glad that someone has taken up this question of mourning. I had been thinking about it in relation to potential unrest, and I'd like to ask a question of the author or of anyone else who may know some details. You mention the obligation to sincerity and the need for women to be vocal in their mourning. But what responsibility do those in mourning have to the rest of society? Are there standards that require the bereaved to mourn in "responsible" ways that don't upset the living? To go a step further, could the rest of society have reason to turn on quake survivors if their protests about school construction went "too far" and threatened to cause some kind of national turmoil?xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03459681481743082822noreply@blogger.com