Gradualism

[kaizor]

Read this very sensible commentary in today's IHT. The author, WeiWei Zhang, senior research fellow at the Modern Asia Research Center, Geneva, offers a good argument that the reform and opening of the last 25 years has "dismantled the economic and institutional foundations of totalitarianism," and that to describe China as having undergone

Comments

[bokane]

What irritated me about that show, to be honest, was that it's just so dated. Like, America's bad; how 1999.

Also, the more I think about it, the more I realize that it'll be pretty much the closest thing that most of the audience has to contact with actual foreigners, and in that context it becomes a bit more disturbing. But at least Fang Qin is in there, to show that Chinese people can be faithless sluts too...

[chriswaugh_bj]

Ah, well, it is television, the medium which never lived up to it's potential....

It is a good article, I wish there was more like it in the Western press.

yeah, damn americans

[immortaleve]

and evil chinese sluts...

so really, the message of the show is:

the geeky, patriotic chinese man is screwed over by everyone, yeah!

why does it have to be acted in English, too? I mean, I am highly skeptical of the Chinese actors' English abilities (ie: the movie Gua Sha) let alone the horribly annoying use of cliches...

drink lots of green tea, that should help expel the poisons, a little.