标题: Account of Urumqi Riot July 5 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-18-2009 10:43 标题: Account of Urumqi Riot July 5 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Edward Wong, After deadly Clashes, Many Chinese Ask, Where Were Police? A Pattern of Violence Uncontrolled. New York Times, July 18, 2009 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/world/asia/18xinjiang.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=xinjiang "edward wong"&st=cse
("'The absence of an independent legal system is the party’s biggest mistake, because when people can’t take their grievances to the courts, they take them to the streets,' said Nicholas Bequelin, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.")
Quote: "'The absence of an independent legal system is the party’s biggest mistake, because when people can’t take their grievances to the courts, they take them to the streets,” said Nicholas Bequelin, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.
* The next article was a history of Xinjiang by the same reporter.
Edward Wong, Rumbles on the Rim of China’s Empire. New York Times, July 12, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/weekinreview/12wong.html?scp=4&sq=xinjiang%20%22edward%20wong%22&st=cse
Note:
(a) Tocharians whose language (the same word in English) is translated in China as 吐火罗语.
(b) For Astana Tombs, see
Astana Graves 阿斯塔那古墓
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana_Graves
(near ancient city of Gaochang 高昌; noted for figurines and murals)
figurines:
(i) http://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/turpan/attraction/astana-tombs/
(ii) Painted pottery tomb guardian beast, Tang dynasty (618–907)
Heritage Museum (UK)
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/English/exhibition_highlight_file/FEastern/27.html
(iii) Guardian Warrior
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/stern/stern1-24-3.asp
paining on silk:
http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/15/content_39479.htm
---------------Separately
(1) 澳电影节坚持播热比娅纪录片. BBC Chinese, July 18, 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8150000/newsid_8157500/8157593.stm
Note: 爱的10种条件
"'The 10 Conditions of Love' tells of Kadeer's relationship with activist husband Sidik Rouzi and the fallout on her 11 children of her push for more autonomy for China's 10 million mainly Muslim Uighurs. Three of her children have been jailed."
Ben Blanchard, China presses Australia film fest to drop Uighurs film. Reuters, July 16, 2009.
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE56F1PW20090716
(2) 白克力："7·5"事件击毙12名"暴徒." BBC Chinese, July 18, 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8150000/newsid_8157400/8157468.stm
Note:
(a) 白克力 Governor Nuer Baikeli
(b) The BBC report alludes to
Max Duncan, China says police shot dead 12 Uighurs this month. Reuters, July 18, 2009
("The government handed out copies of a four-odd-minute DVD with footage from police and surveillance cameras inside and outside a mosque purportedly showing three Uighurs trying to force Muslim worshippers to take to the streets. The knife-wielding trio chased some of the worshippers when they refused, according to the footage.")
(3) Kathrin Hille, How China polices the internet. Financial Times, July 18, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e716cfc6-71a1-11de-a821-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
(4) Robyn Kwong, Warning signals for Taiwan's bullet train. Financial Times, July 18, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f63ba85e-7332-11de-ad98-00144feabdc0.html
("The bullet trains are less than half full on average * * * the number of High Speed Rail passengers has stagnated at below 2.8m per month)
My comment: The loss is due to the crushing debt of "$14.8bn[] construction cost." I wonder why the bullet train company has not reduced schedule.
-- 作者: choi 时间: 7-18-2009 10:43 标题: Account of Urumqi Riot July 5 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Edward Wong, After deadly Clashes, Many Chinese Ask, Where Were Police? A Pattern of Violence Uncontrolled. New York Times, July 18, 2009 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/world/asia/18xinjiang.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=xinjiang "edward wong"&st=cse
("'The absence of an independent legal system is the party’s biggest mistake, because when people can’t take their grievances to the courts, they take them to the streets,' said Nicholas Bequelin, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.")
Quote: "'The absence of an independent legal system is the party’s biggest mistake, because when people can’t take their grievances to the courts, they take them to the streets,” said Nicholas Bequelin, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch.
* The next article was a history of Xinjiang by the same reporter.
Edward Wong, Rumbles on the Rim of China’s Empire. New York Times, July 12, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/weekinreview/12wong.html?scp=4&sq=xinjiang%20%22edward%20wong%22&st=cse
Note:
(a) Tocharians whose language (the same word in English) is translated in China as 吐火罗语.
(b) For Astana Tombs, see
Astana Graves 阿斯塔那古墓
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana_Graves
(near ancient city of Gaochang 高昌; noted for figurines and murals)
figurines:
(i) http://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/turpan/attraction/astana-tombs/
(ii) Painted pottery tomb guardian beast, Tang dynasty (618–907)
Heritage Museum (UK)
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/English/exhibition_highlight_file/FEastern/27.html
(iii) Guardian Warrior
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/stern/stern1-24-3.asp
paining on silk:
http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/15/content_39479.htm
---------------Separately
(1) 澳电影节坚持播热比娅纪录片. BBC Chinese, July 18, 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8150000/newsid_8157500/8157593.stm
Note: 爱的10种条件
"'The 10 Conditions of Love' tells of Kadeer's relationship with activist husband Sidik Rouzi and the fallout on her 11 children of her push for more autonomy for China's 10 million mainly Muslim Uighurs. Three of her children have been jailed."
Ben Blanchard, China presses Australia film fest to drop Uighurs film. Reuters, July 16, 2009.
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE56F1PW20090716
(2) 白克力："7·5"事件击毙12名"暴徒." BBC Chinese, July 18, 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8150000/newsid_8157400/8157468.stm
Note:
(a) 白克力 Governor Nuer Baikeli
(b) The BBC report alludes to
Max Duncan, China says police shot dead 12 Uighurs this month. Reuters, July 18, 2009
("The government handed out copies of a four-odd-minute DVD with footage from police and surveillance cameras inside and outside a mosque purportedly showing three Uighurs trying to force Muslim worshippers to take to the streets. The knife-wielding trio chased some of the worshippers when they refused, according to the footage.")
(3) Kathrin Hille, How China polices the internet. Financial Times, July 18, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e716cfc6-71a1-11de-a821-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
(4) Robyn Kwong, Warning signals for Taiwan's bullet train. Financial Times, July 18, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f63ba85e-7332-11de-ad98-00144feabdc0.html
("The bullet trains are less than half full on average * * * the number of High Speed Rail passengers has stagnated at below 2.8m per month)
My comment: The loss is due to the crushing debt of "$14.8bn[] construction cost." I wonder why the bullet train company has not reduced schedule.