标题: Jasmine Becomes Contraband in CN + Hilary Clinton [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-11-2011 09:50 标题: Jasmine Becomes Contraband in CN + Hilary Clinton 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Andrew Jacobs and Jonathan Ansfield, Catching Scent of Revolution, China Moves to Snip Jasmine; Most people who are in the flower trade have been left in the dark about a ban. New York Times, May 11, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/world/asia/11jasmine.html?scp=1&sq=china%20jasmine&st=cse
Note:
(a) The report is ABBREVIATED and translated into
林雅丽, “茉莉花”威力无限 禁售令秘密进行(图). 看中国, May 11, 2011.
http://chinajasminerevolution.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_6200.html
(b) The report mentions "a celebrated folk song often heard while on hold with provincial bureaucrats * * * “Mo Li Hua,” a Qing dynasty paean to the flower."
* The first clause alludes to being put on hold in a phone call.
* Regarding the second clause. I honestly had no idea about its origin, whether it was Chinese or foreign.
(c) China International Jasmine Cultural Festival 中国国际茉莉花文化节
Guangxi Jasmine Development and Investment Company
(d) tawny (adj; from Anglo-French tané, tauné, literally, tanned, from past participle of tanner to tan)
www.m-w.com
(e) Daxing District 北京市 大兴区
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B4%E5%8C%BA
(f) contraband (n; Italian contrabbando, from Medieval Latin contrabannum, from contra- + bannus, bannum decree, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German bannan to command — more at BAN):
"goods or merchandise whose importation, exportation, or possession is forbidden; also : smuggled goods"
(g) Sunhe Beidong flower market 孙和北东花卉市场
(h) Jiuzhou Flower and Plant Trading Center 九州汇通花卉市场 (or colloquially 九州花卉市场; established in 2008)
(i) Laitai 莱太花卉
http://www.laitai.com/
-----------------------------Separately
(1) 媒体报道：美国务卿称北京逆历史潮流. VOA Chinese, May 11, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110511-Chinese-react-121622269.html
Note: The English edition of VOA has a May 11 report titled Clinton Calls Chinese Crackdown a 'Fool's Errand.'
The report cites
Jeffrey Goldberg ("JG"), Hillary Clinton: Chinese System Is Doomed, Leaders on a 'Fool's Errand.' The Atlantic, May 10, 2011
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/hillary-clinton-chinese-system-is-doomed-leaders-on-a-fools-errand/238591/
The transcript is mostly about Arab Spring. China is mentioned in passing. Memorable remarks from secretary of state Hilary Rodham Clinton ("HRC") are three consecutive paragraphs in web page 2:
"We do business with a lot of countries whose economic systems or political systems are not ones we would design or choose to live under. And we have encouraged consistently, both publicly and privately, reform and recognition and protection of human rights. But we don't walk away from dealing with China because we think they have a deplorable human rights record. We don't walk away from dealing with Saudi Arabia --
"JG: And (the Chinese) are acting very scared right now, in fact.
"HRC: Well, they are. They're worried, and they are trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. They cannot do it. But they're going to hold it off as long as possible.
(2) 中国地下教会团体成员近来频遭逮捕. VOA Chinese, May 11, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110511-MEMBERS-DETAINED-IN-RAID-ON-CHINA-UNDERGROUND-CHURCH-121628964.html
(3) 揭开历史：立陶宛公开克格勃档案. VOA Chinese, May 11, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110511-Lithuania-Opens-KGB-Archives-121626344.html
(5) 下岗女工刘萍独立参选人大代表被警察骚扰. BBC Chinese, May 11, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/05/110511_china_election_liuping.shtml
("她 [江西下岗女工刘萍, 2009年从新余钢铁厂下岗] 通过电话告诉BBC中文网，警方警告她，她的行为构成违法，因为中国法律不允许竞选拉票"
(6) 美拨款助研发突破互联网审查技术. BBC Chinese, May 11, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/05/110511_us_china_it_internet.shtml
(拨款1900万美元; 负责民主、人权与劳工事务的美国助理国务卿波斯纳说)