Saturday, November 26, 2005

as usual i spent a few hours with friends in a cafe to relax and exchange news and ideas. besides us are some taiwanese quietly reading taiwan newspapers and magazines, they rarely talked and when they did they made a few dull comments on the news stories they were reading.

only recently i found out that every time i go to swim i contribute one RMB to a taiwan businessman who came to mainland many years ago and quietly made a lot of money. i need rent a cabinet to keep my drinks and wallet when i swim, and there is a small box on the bottom of a pile of cabinets to collect our 1 RMB coins. averagely the taiwanese could collect 500 coins every day and no body knows that their money go to the pocket of that taiwanese businessman.

posted @ 6:24 PM

via: emancipation (in chinese), amazon

Dragon Lady : The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (Vintage)

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Project for a New Chinese Century

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China’s Press Crackdown

Rethinking ‘Capitalist Restoration’in China

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