November already. Let's take a look at today's blog harvest....
BLOGS:
- Taiwan Cycling Festival experience of Mark Blacknell
- Ming Fong ancient trail
- Extra-inning loss keeps Taiwan baseball team out of final
- Taiwan's energy security issue, from an outside standpoint
- Women's rights groups oppose legalizing prostitution
- Drew with an awesome, epic post on the Mudan Incident and Japanese imperialism in Taiwan and Okinawa.
- Jerome points out that the current corruption case in Taipei is just like Ma Ying-jeou's: it's the secretary's fault.
- Gay pride parade from David on Formosa.
- Lao Ren Cha with a great thoughtful response to some of the posts on rejection of marriage by Taiwanese females.
- Matt in Tainan interviewed on The Working Traveller.
- JapanFocus has an interesting piece on the Japanese Right and its attempt to re-write the history of the colonization of Korea. From a footnote: Frederick R. Dickinson suggests that Japan also sought to control China’s Fujian province soon after it annexed Taiwan to protect its new colonial acquisition. See his War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999), 89.
- An Indian scholar argues that China has committed the most aggression in Asia, citing the Pentagon. Right.
- Temperatures to gradually rise over the next couple of days, thank all gods.
- With the Suhua Highway out, the east coast is starving for tourism. Taitung county is offering cash to travel agencies for sending in tourists.
- Massive all-glass temple to Matsu to open in Changhua industrial district.
- Exports to China set to surpass record set in Chen Administration; Taiwan runs biggest trade surplus with China. That was first nine months of the year -- all before ECFA. Thank all gods ECFA saved our sucky China trade.
- China currency rises hurting Chinese makers -- no doubt Taiwan firms in China will not be far behind.
- China-Taiwan: What Cross-Strait Thaw? "Such incidents help explain why most Taiwanese have a dim view of China's government, and no interest in unification."
- Ma urges Taiwan to show wisdom and China to show benevolence. Confucian classics are for Ma what the Bible was for George Bush.
- The Economist is giving away one free country briefing.
- South Korea to have the whole nation covered by bullet trains.
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Thanks for the link, Michael. I really regret that we weren't able to connect (and regret, even more, my rudeness in falling out of touch while I was there). It was a completely insane schedule we were on - so much so that I still remember the exact two hours where we had nothing on the schedule.
ReplyDeleteTaiwan's baseball team has no cajones at all. They're like the Twins of international baseball. it's not "are they gonna fold in the big game" it's "when are they gonna fold in the big game".
ReplyDeleteThis will come as a complete shock to those who live in Taiwan, but it starts with the coaches--self satisfied, ossified, too busy worrying about their egos and side deals to learn anything or make adjustments, too slow to make changes.
"Confucian classics are for Ma what the Bible was for George Bush."
ReplyDeletelol That is a classic.
Question: Japan responds to Russian president's visit to the Kuril islands by saying that it "hurts the feelings of the Japanese people" (http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/russia-angers-japan-with-visit-to-disputed-islands/19697133?test=latestnews). That's the familiar PRC rhetoric of indignation. So is this "hurt the feelings of the X people" a standard diplomatic phrase, or did Japan absorb it from China, or does it have a more complex history? Anyone here know?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't answer the question, but here's a little history of "China's hurt feelings": http://www.danwei.org/foreign_affairs/a_map_of_hurt_feelings.php