Ran up this weekend to the Blogger meet-up, more on that tomorrow. Hell of a week here in Taiwan, with the NUC decision causing a fresh rash of "Chen is a troublemaker!" reports to break out in the international media -- if only he would just shut-up and point missiles at China, beef up his military, and threaten to annex the mainland by force -- the international media would praise him as a rational force for peace.
Great week in the Taiwan blogosphere, with lots of juicy stuff out there.
To conclude, I'd like to paraphrase one of my replies to Michael's comment. There are powerful methods to produce communicative competence. If these methods were widespread throughout Taiwan, their efficacy would kill any discussion about a Chinese Imperative or the place of drill schools. But this is highly unlikely to happen. Public schools will maintain their emphasise on preparation for university entrance exams. Commercial schools will continue to hire untrained foreign teachers. All of this will happen because of the reality of the language market in Taiwan; the cost of bringing a sufficient number of adequately trained foreign teachers to Taiwan is far beyond what the market will pay and despite Clyde's claim, in the fee-paying market, even the best trained, most effective local teachers, can not compete with the worst foreign teachers because paying parents want their children talking to foreigners.
None of this has anything to do with a Chinese Imperative. English education in Taiwan looks this way because the quality of communication schools is less than pathetic and there is no way to make them better. But to say that there is not a huge market for the communication skills to speak with unilingual English speakers simply flies in the face of reality. If the choice is between completely ineffective communication training or competent drill schools, it's not very hard to figure out who will win.
The National Unification Council issue dominated world headlines and Taiwan blogs this week. Many people commented on it. Poagao began his discussion with the recent cold front:
Another cold front hit us today; I heard the radio announcer saying it was supposed to be the last cold front of the season, but somehow I doubt that. It's been rainy for a long time, and now it's not only rainy but cold and rainy. Ironically, a government report explaining the water shortages in Taoyuan blamed the "dry winter season".
Actually, about 80% of Taiwan's rainwater falls from May to October, so yes, the winter is "dry." Relatively speaking. Poagao goes on to say:
Besides hyping 2/28 and China's Anti-secession Law, in which it "gave permission to itself" to attack Taiwan, even though they'd been saying they'd do that the whole time, Chen Shui-bian had been threatening to abolish the National Unification Council and the National Unification Guidelines over the past few weeks, even though he'd promised not to do so twice, in both of his inauguration speeches. He did this to appeal to and reassure mainstream voters who were worried that he might do something rash, and got elected as a result.
Actually, Chen only promised to not to do that if China gave up its intention to attack Taiwan. He got elected, as KMT supporters are wont to forget, also because the KMT is so hopelessly corrupt and lacks any positive vision of Taiwan's future, and because the candidate it ran for President in two elections, Lien Chan, is quite possibly the least popular major politician on the island.
For another thing, Chen is at the point in his presidency where he is feeling the need to create a legacy, to leave his mark on history and escape from the long shadow of Lee Teng-hui. This means as 2008 and the end of his rein approach, he will probably make more and more daring attempts to do something rash and Very Historical, something bigger and crazier than simply referring to himself in the third person all the time.
Yes, that Chen sure is crazy, always wantin' to live in an independent democracy and all. What a whacko! Meanwhile Tim Maddog provides a sure antidote to Poagao. Here he is describing what Chen did:
Don't miss the whole post -- it does a good job pointing out the fallacious claims in the international media. Maddog also blogged on Chen's "Did A-Bian make a mistake?" routine on 2-28:
In a move that was equivalent to throwing out food that is no longer edible, Taiwan's president Chen Shui-bian has given China the chance to get their panties all in a bunch again. (C'mon, you know they love it!)
It all has to do with that pesky National Unification Council (NUC) and the accompanying National Unification Guidelines (NUG), which were created back in the early 1990s during KMT rule. Never mind that the KMT-controlled legislature cut the NUC's annual budget down to NT$1,000 (about US$30) back in 2003 or that the group hasn't met since 1999.
It was quite an experience to hear President Chen on Tuesday afternoon giving a speech which was broadcast live on FTV. (To be clear, I was watching at home.) He was speaking Hoklo (Taiwanese) to victims of the "228 Incident" of February 28, 1947 which resulted in KMT troops killing tens of thousands of Taiwanese and imposing almost four decades of martial law on Taiwan.
During that speech, Taipei mayor and current KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou was seated in the front row, his face twisting into a myriad of strange shapes, as he had just a day earlier launched a campaign to recall President Chen (at Beijing's behest?). During that speech, the president quoted Abraham Lincoln's famous words: "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
My ears sure pricked up when I heard that (in Taiwanese) and understood it perfectly. The people in attendance ate it up. While others applauded Chen's words, Chairman Ma sat right in front of him grimacing uncomfortably. Chen asked the audience four times, "Was it wrong" for him to hand the "unification" decision back to the 23 million people of Taiwan? The answer each time was a resounding "NO!"
When it came time for Chair-Mayor Ma to speak to the crowd, they were angry, though non-violent. They didn't want to hear any of his two-faced bullshit. They shouted at him, and some had prepared banners in protest. What I saw was too quick to report the content. (I had seen this later on the news as FTV cut away from Chen's speech before it was over.)
In the end, as those present appeared to be filing out, Chen shook Ma's hand, proving once again that for all his faults, he has "political" skills beyond my wildest imaginings.
2-28 will certainly be interesting next year; as Poagao points out, it is the 60th anniversary, and an election year. Look forward to fireworks. Taiwan's Other Side, a pro-KMT blogger, argues that Chen is simply trying to distract attention from the latest scandal:
This is all just one huge distraction, cooked up to steal focus from a bigger issue that that is currently brewing - the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) scandal. This debacle has been making its way though the courts and prosecutors’ offices, as detailed in an editorial in the China Post. Build-to-order contractor Far Eastern Electronic Toll Collection Co 遠通電收 chose an outdated technology that has caused chaos on the roads and slammed users with speeding tickets. The lucrative collection contract for the system was awarded to the same company under scandalous circumstances, which have resulted in the indictment of the transportation minister’s personal secretary, Soong Nai-wu 宋乃午, and an ongoing investigation into the conveniently former MOTC minister, Lin Ling-san 林陵三. The Taipei High Administrative Court ruled last Friday that the MOTC violated the principles of public interest, and revoked FETC’s status. The government is inexplicably considering suing on behalf of FETC to restore its favored status. The DPP and its voice-box the Taipei Times have trolled out an inexplicably familiar argument - it was broken before we got there. This didn’t work in the 高雄 Kaohsiung (Gaoxiong) MRT scandal, and it won’t work now.
Yes. That's right. Chen is so brilliant that he nixed the NUC weeks ago because he realized that the ETC bidding process would cause a scandal this week. Read the comments to TOS' posts -- as Maddog noted:
As for the China Post's judgment that the "ETC Incident" is "just as disturbing" as the "228 Incident" (which may have killed 30,000 Taiwanese), that just goes to show how they and their loyal(-ist) readers live in Bizarro World..
'Nuff said, TOS. The mainlander population has never come to terms with the political killings in Taiwan, alternating between rage that they are mentioned, or denial, or downplaying, or absurdities, such as Ma Ying-jeou's claim the other day that the government, not the KMT, was to blame. And many mainlanders still are unable to concede that the party that was supposed to protect them murdered thousands of them. There is a deep silence across Taiwan about the killings. Hopefully I'll be posting an excellent account by longtime democracy activist Linda Arrigo of a case that touched her own life. David at jujuflop, whose posts are always sensible, has a 4 step plan for what Chen should have done. His own problems with the NUC decision:
- The way this has handled must have damaged US-Taiwan relations. Although the US has stated that it is happy that Taiwan has not changed the status quo, this has only happened after some frantic diplomacy and explanation between the two sides. The fact that the US only found out about Chen’s plans from newspaper reports will have reinforced opinion that his administration is a ‘loose cannon’.
- Since he made his CNY speech, Chen has not clarified the status of his ‘4 Noes, 1 Without’ pledge. Does he now think it doesn’t apply due to Chinese threats, or does he think his move does not break the ‘1 without’? Who knows. Various DPP officials (of varying seniority) have voiced their view, but Chen hasn’t. He needs to clarify things.
- The argument that this is a reaction to China’s ‘anti-secession law’ is incredibly weak. That was passed over a year ago, and nothing unexpected has happened since then. In particular, Chen reasserted his inauguration promises (without any proviso of ‘as long as China does not threated to attack’) last February in his meeting with James Soong when it was almost certain that the ASL would be passed. Nothing unexpected has happened since then.
- This will only increase tension between the KMT and the DPP in the legislature - a real lose-lose situation. In particular, the encouraging noises the KMT were making about the arms package are almost certain to be stamped out. It provides ammunition for the more hard-core KMT members. Any moderate voices on the blue side of the divide are much more likely to be shouted down. This may be to the advantage of the DPP, but it isn’t to the advantage of Taiwan.
- Equally, it encourages a shift in the DPP to a more extreme position. The DPP is already showing signs of being out of touch with normal voters, and a shift to more emphasis on independence is likely to exasperate that. The DPP might think that a return to ‘first principles’ will give them more support, but in reality it will only appeal to people who already strong DPP supporters.
The Foreigner in Formosa also pointed out:
Taiwan's decision to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC) and National Unification Guidelines (NUG) has set China intoa full ragespin control, with China declaring to any and all who will listen that Chen's move is a provocation which will lead to destabilizing tensions between the two countries. It's a terrific act, but a single paragraph in the Taiwan News put the whole thing into perspective:In fact, Beijing was once critical of the NUG and NUC, pointing to them as major obstacles to China's unification with Taiwan, and as efforts by Taiwan to push for its memberships in international organizations as an independent political entity, Chang said.
That's hilarious! You see how this works? China said that ESTABLISHING the council in 1990 was a provocation. And abolishing it in 2006? Well, that was a provocation, too! My, my, those Taiwanese certainly ARE troublemakers. Why are they always picking on poor, peaceful little China like that?
Exactly WHERE is the mainstream media on this, that's what I want to know. Journalists usually love to juxtapose politicians' current stands with old quotes that they've managed to dig up. Reporters relish watching a pol squirm as he tries to weasel out of what he's said before. A quick LexisNexis search here, and they'd be in business. Are they simply too lazy to do one, or are transparently flimsy pretexts somehow deserving of a special pass?
I can only say that if the international media reports on other countries as badly as it does on Taiwan, the world is in deep, deep shit.
Mad Minvera finds a poll on national pride and Taiwanese.(Hat tip to Naruwan Formosa)
As for the supposed low national pride level of Taiwan, I' m not sure that this is 100% true. All I can tell you is that in my personal experience, my family, extended family, and large circle of family friends are all very proud to be Taiwanese. As one of my uncles recently told me, whenever an American co-worker asks if he is Chinese, he always very politely explains that no, he is Taiwanese. As for me, you all know that I am Taiwanese-American and very proud to be both. I do add, though, that the term for me means "a full American who enjoys a Taiwanese heritage as a bonus," not split loyalties in any sense.I tend to agree, actually. Taiwanese really haven't sorted out the whole national pride thing very well. Lots of baggage from history and KMT propaganda to deal with, as well as the fact that Taiwan has never been a nation. Perhaps, though, low "national pride" scores reflect high Taiwanese feelings, and rejection of the ROC national trappings (anthem, etc)
Taiwanese readers out there, let me know what you think!
Oh, and I'm expecting sooner or later that some uptight functionary in Beijing is going to come out and criticize the poll for talking about Taiwan as if it were a real nation. Just wait. You heard it here first!
Language militants move Doubting to Shuo to wonder....
Today’s post caught my eye, though. DD’s talking about how he needs to hang out with a Chinese Language Asshole. It was an amusing post and it got me to thinking. I’ve never met that sort of person in Taiwan. Sure, Latin America was crawling with guys who didn’t give a damn about learning English, and were more than ready to make fun of pathetic Gringo attempts at their language. But, not Taiwan. Here, it’s quite the opposite. As far as I can remember, strangers were tripping over themselves to compliment my Chinese from the first mangled “duoxiaoqian”s I uttered when I got here. Truth be told, I wish there were just a few “Language Assholes” here in Taiwan. Maybe DD’s on to something…
Kerim at Keywords runs into a great local:
A few weeks ago I dashed off an e-mail wishing one of my new colleagues a “Happy Chinese New Year.” I got back a note politely informing me that she is a big supporter of Taiwanese independence, and as such prefers to use the term “Lunar New Year.” I politely replied that I completely understood and would accede to her preferences, while also pointing out that there are many lunar calendars, not all of them marking new year at that time. She replied once again that since not all lunar calendars marking the new year at that time were Chinese, why call them Chinese?
Well, I can think of some good historical reasons why one might wish to call it Chinese, but she is right. Here is what Wikipedia has to say:
It's wonderful that a local forthrightly told Kerim that. One thing I have noticed, and that Taiwanese themselves often complain about, is that they are often silent in situations in which they should speak up. Many times I've sat in a gathering and listened to some mainlander holding forth on how great annexation would be or what a bad idea independence is, and all the Taiwanese there, whom I know to be pro-Taiwan independence, listen fuming in silence. It's good to know there are people out there who speak out promptly.
David at jujuflop deconstructs an idiot DPP legislator:
Wang suggested having a section in the constitution forbidding changes to the nation’s sovereignty as a whole or in part — or forbidding any form of annexation from China — unless a referendum was held on the issue first and over half of voters in the referendum agreed to the change.
Not only is this already in the constitution, but Wang himself voted for the constitutional amendment to do this just over a year ago. Not only does he not know what’s in the Constitution, he doesn’t know about the ammendments that he made to the Constitution (Article 1 of the ammendments no less - hard to miss you would think)
Don't miss his review of the Impeach vs Recall issue:
Of course, neither of these actions will succeed because the pan-Blues don’t have a big enough majority in the legislature to push them through. I imagine the DPP politicians will enjoy voting both moves down; given that everything they propose gets voted down in the legislature, it’ll make a nice change for them to be doing the blocking for a change.
The only real question is this: will Chen experience a Korea-like spike in popularity due to idiot lawmakers attempting to impeach him?
The DPP will win, probably, but it will only increase public disgust with local politics, with both sides focusing on issues that are foregone conclusions and utterly unimportant, which is probably why the KMT and PFP are pursuing it, come to think of it.
Rank also blogged on this topic:
I'm still a bit uncertain about the grounds for impeachment, but a previous amendment says the reasons for impeachment are either causing civil strife (fan neiluan) or treason (waihuanzui). I guess the opposition is going for causing civil strife.
This really reminds me of how the pan blues took all possible judicial remedies to court after the 2004 election, instead of focusing their energy on the one remedy that stood the best chance of succeeding. Of course in this case, they've chosen two dead-end routes - all in the name of "expressing strong dissatisfaction." Spinning their wheels.
"Civil strife?" Haven't seen much of that lately, unless perhaps the KMT means the staged protests after the 2004 Presidential election.....
Not to be missed: Foreigner in Formosa on Wile E. Coyote and the Impeachment Debacle.
the leaky pen blogs on the problem of teaching western lit in Taiwan universities:
One result of this China-centric education has been that, not only are students here amazingly ignorant of Taiwan, their own country, they know hardly anything at all about the origins or whereabouts of other countries. Worst of all, they often come to me with enough chest-thumping patriotism and cultural chauvinism to stuff a Mongolian pig--puffed up with all the myths about their 5000 years of history, illusions about the moral superiority of the Han race, and the illusion that Confucius was the greatest man who ever lived. As I see it, my job, as a teacher of "the West," is not so much to punch holes in all that pan-Chinese ethnocentricism as to "counter" it with an appreciation of Western culture(s).Yep, I ran into the same problem.
Problem is, as one of my colleagues put it, "the Taiwanese are militantly ignorant of geography and world history." This means that the main challenge of teaching any "Survey of Western Lit" class in Taiwan is that you have to try to fill in the vast chasms of in their tenuous knowledge of the world. Moreover, I've found that the reason for that is, again, students' disgust with memorizing dates, place-names, and texts--mainly about China--in high school. Since we're on the Unified Exam system here, rote memorization is the name of the game. As a result, I think, high school students are conditioned to hate high-volume memorization classes like geography, history, and Chinese literature (國文)--the latter 2 probably being the most despised subjects among all Taiwanese students.
I'm seeing this story a lot -- saw it on Angry Chinese Blogger today, and in the Korea Times. Apparently there is a bit of propaganda screed going around claiming that Chen is going to declare independence during the Olympic games. the leaky pen has a less noxious version of the story.
So that's why Taiwan was supporting Beijing's bid for the Olympics all along! According to both this month's edition of The Atlantic Monthly and the eTaiwan News, Hu Jintao and the PRC are increasingly worried that Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian is trying to "pave the way" for an independence referendum to be held during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing:
I have no idea why anyone would think that. Does the Atlantic Monthly name a source? The 2008 election is in March of 2008; the Olympics are in the summer AFAIK. There will be a new President in office. It seems that the pro-PRC types are so terrified of Chen that they believe that he will linger on, ghostly.
Lots of blogging on 2-28 this week, the 59th anniversary of the massacre of Taiwanese by Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT. The Gentle Rant put it just right.
I really hope that John Chiang doesn't go after her for trying to spoil his chances at becoming Mayor of Taipei and thereby foiling his evils plans to resurrect his family's twisted dynasty. John doesn't want anyone to keep him from his birthright; not the Academica Sinica, not the KMT, not the Taiwanese, Lily Bradberry, and certainly not something as mundane as the truth.
The best thing to come out of his mouth in the last little while is what he plans to do with his lawsuit loot,"The foundation and Professor Chen Yi-shen (陳儀深) must present a public apology in three days to the Chiang family," Chiang declared at a press conference at the Legislative Yuan. "I will file a civil and a criminal lawsuit against them with a demand for NT$5 billion monetary compensation if they do not do so," the lawmaker warned.
If awarded, the NT$5 billion compensation would be donated to the KMT, according to Chiang, for the establishment of a library in the name of his father -- the late President Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).
So the Chiang Dynasty plans to continue their traditional of stealing large sums of money from the Taiwanese and giving it to the Chinese Nationalists. I know they don't really have sarcasm here in Taiwan, but it appears they make up for it in irony.
Jason at Wandering to Tamshui blogs on an interesting new development, Johnny Neihu, a commentator on the pro-KMT nonsense that often sneaks into the international media:
The Taipei Times has inaugurated a new column in its editorial section called "News Watch", written in the High Snark blogging style by one Johnny Neihu (強尼內湖). Mr. Neihu will be laying the smack down on all sorts of journalists, politicians and other lower forms of Taiwanese life, making him a natural ally to the majority of us in the Taiwan blogosphere.
I'd like to join Jason in welcoming Johnny Neihu to the jungles of media commentary. I'm looking forward to some really great stuff. Now maybe I can go back to posting pictures of betel nut girls.
Pinyin News blogs on -- believe it or not -- a common absurd claim in fundy whackjob Christian circles -- that Chinese characters show that the inventors of ancient Chinese characters knew the God of the Bible.
The presentation there titled Ancient Chinese characters: coincidence or design? (alternate title: Ancient Chinese: Language of God?”) features many examples of people seeing what they want to see in Chinese characters. The wishful thinking and folk etymologies grow ever more strained in the school’s surprisingly long Flash presentation. (The good stuff doesn’t come until about thirty pages in.)
phony etymology of Mandarin Chinese word 'yao' (want)Typical example: “Why would the creators of the Chinese characters choose 2 words- “West” (which indicates a direction) and “Woman” to mean desire? It makes no sense unless we remember one [一] man [儿], in a garden [囗], in the west [西] was the first to desire a woman [女].” (Click the image at right for a better look.)
As a longtime poster on Christian and atheist websites, I've seen this claim in many apologetic forums, with many characters. A common one is that the modern Chinese character for "boat" tells the Noah story (more Noah)(here's a whole page of this garbage). A fundy whackjob Chinese author actually put together a whole book on the topic. No wonder these people think the earth is six thousand years old and vote for Bush in droves.
BTW, I had the good fortune to meet Mark, the quietly interesting and knowledgeable fellow behind Pinyin News, at the blogger meet up this weekend in Taipei. He's really a great guy.
Actually, I'm only saying that because he said he liked my blog.
Fred Shannon, whose posts are always informative, informs us that NOVA of Japan will be moving into Taiwan's already vastly overcrowded language market.
One of Asia's largest language chain schools, if not the largest, is now ready to begin setting up EFL schools in Taiwan. NOVA is the largest language school in Japan and employs about 6,000 foreign English teachers who mainly come from countries as Canada, America, Australia, the UK and New Zealand. The schools are located across the country from Hokkaido to Okinawa and have a student enrollment of nearly 500,000 mostly Japanese students.Newbies might like the security of contracts at a place like this, and the experience is useful. But ya gotta agree with Fred.
The advertisement for teachers at the link above sates that it will interview teachers in Chicago and Boston. NOVA has offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Boston in addition to offices in Brisbane and London. However, NOVA recruiters travel to major Canadian and American cities where they conduct interviews.
It appears that the contracts for Taiwan will be 30 hours a week for about $55,000 ($53,000 - $56,000 is what the advert states) a month. So, if one were to teach 120 hours per month and earn a salary of $55,000, that would work out to be a little under NT$460 per lesson (I believe the lessons are 40 - 45 minutes each). Keep in mind that the average number of hours a conversation school instructor works is between 25 and 30 hours a week, with 30 hours being on the high side. Further, the average per-lesson wage would be more in the NT$600 - $650 range.
Overall, I think NOVA is a place where a new, inexperienced TEFL teacher could get a start in the EFL scenes in Japan or Taiwan. However, this is not a company most people find themselves wanting to work for beyond a one year contract.
Cold Goat Eyes gives out his guide to life:
v) Care for a life. Even if you don't care about your own, it is important to cultivate an exterior organism. Tend to your lover, get a dog or buy some plants to hang. Even a cactus will do.
vi) Ask questions, even if you know the answer.
vii) People are not all equal. Be firm with Christians, intelligent design theorists and neoconservative Americans. They are inherently lacking in scruples, intelligence and common sense and should be made to understand that they are holding back the development of the entire human species.
viii) Wash your balls with soap, never menthol anti-dandruff shampoo. Even if you run out of soap, you should use fairy liquid, or even shaving foam. Mentholated shampoo will cause ball-burning for 30 minutes and is not pleasant. I suspect this also applies to the corresponding female genital areas.
ROFL.
MeiZhongTai gently brings out the errors in a hysterical article about China's missiles and Taiwan:
Taiwan probably wouldn't be overly intimidated by attempts to hit specific buildings, because they would either miss the target or be so inefficient as to demonstrate the missiles' impotence. With a circular error probability of 200-280 meters, it would take 44 CSS-6s or 23 CSS-7s to destroy a target with 75% certainty, which doesn't seem to be particularly intimidating to me. Using between one out of every 30 of your missiles (or 1/15 with the less accurate missiles) to have a three-in-four chance of destroying one building won't scare anyone into submission. If China has upgraded all of its missiles with GPS-guidance systems, a technology China is rumored to be deploying on its most advanced missiles (NOT all of them), China could reasonably expect to destroy 240 non-hardened targets with its 320 missiles that reach their targets or 461 targets if no missiles were held in reserve. Once again, not particularly devastating and certainly not enough to "stop Taiwan functioning."
The missiles are terror weapons, no more. But still nasty, because they kill. "Ineffective" is a word that doesn't mean much to people pulling their loved ones out of the rubble.
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wow nice pic of the paddy rice field :D what's the fruit on the pic which looks like grapes?
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