A few links to keep you busy today...
- IMPORTANT: David Shambaugh, longtime China observer, came out this week with an important article in the WSJ arguing that the CCP is on its way out: The Coming Chinese Crack Up. Massively tweeted around and commented on...
- Some are saying that Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je gaffed by saying that Taiwan "imported" 300K foreign brides. This number is too low, not too high. There are over 300K Chinese brides alone.
- Ben Goren reviews the new edited volume Political Changes in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou. If only these books were affordable...
- Ko continues to rock Taipei and attack the construction-industrial state: the Clean Government Committee in Taipei recommends re-appraising MRT joint development projects
- Public debunks the Status Quo
- Wages to rise 4%?
- Al Jaz report on the "loss" of traditional character writing ability in Taiwan. This time digital technology gets the blame. If only I hadn't been hearing this same lament for the last two decades...
- Delusional 2-28 deniers of the KMT Right.
- This is Taiwan: a dangerous Taiwanese excuse. What do you think?
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2 comments:
I think the road was originally a trail to collect forestry products and trade between other indigenous villages. My hunch is that after the lower villagers transitioned from "barbarian" into Han, the meaning of the road changed to reflect the latter concept of "山地人" occupying locations in the Han mind that are both far away and high up. The road would be reimagined as going "far" and "up, away from the "civilized" world below-- the Han world-- to rough lands of rough people. The road went from "our road" to "their road" without Han settlers even moving into town.
Just a hunch.
Shambaugh is right IMO. It may take a few years, but the current course of the CPC is not a good one. How Xi believes that Chinese officials or the Chinese economy will go anywhere with his anti-corruption and anti-rights campaigns is beyond me. It is a way to simultaneously kill off the regional innovation that was key to growth over the past three decades and to kill off any incentives for anyone to think/build/design anything new. It is as though Xi really believes he can change everyone through mass campaigns, as if anyone outside of the more ambitious within the CPC cared for any of that anymore.
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