Archivo etiqueta «Hong Kong»
By Deroy Murdock, a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with Stanford’s Hoover Institution (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 16/12/11):
Beyond the intricate Chinese pictograms captured in iridescent neon and the incense spirals that smolder in the Man Mo Taoist Temple on Hollywood Road, Hong Kong’s most exotic gift to a visiting American is a reminder of how economic dynamism looks. Unemployment is just 3.2 percent (versus 8.6 percent in the United States) and it shows. Around the clock, Hong Kong People (as they call themselves) buy, sell, produce and deliver. Workers rush hand trucks in … Seguir leyendo
By Duncan Jepson, a lawyer, a filmmaker and the author of the novel All the Flowers in Shanghai (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/04/11):
It is a fascinating time to be half Chinese and half English.
For most of my 40 years, the Chinese have been the colonial subjects, the aspiring immigrants and the overzealous Communists while the British have been the colonialists, the winners of wars and a World Cup and a member of the G-8. The imbalance reflected the difficulties of reconciling the two cultures in oneself.
Suddenly China is the second largest economy, living in Shanghai is … Seguir leyendo
By Brian E. Zittel, assistant editor of the IHT Views pages (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/04/10):
It’s Sunday, and as usual the downtown parks and sidewalks are full of women, lounging on flattened cardboard boxes, massaging one another, painting toe nails, playing cards, chatting and napping. Hawkers wend through the rows and rows of women, peddling everything from discounted telephone calling cards to the word of God.
I share a bag of flavored peanuts with Susi Widyamti and Rita Wulandari, two women from Indonesia in their 20s, as they talk about how they miss their families, and how they’re … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 29/05/09):
The west’s admiration for China’s rush for wealth is becoming like the left’s interwar praise for Stalin’s Soviet Union. It is a triumph of materialism over humanity. If there is one place on earth I have long wanted to visit, it is old Kashgar, fulcrum of the silk road, Peter Fleming‘s “oasis of civilisation” hovering between the Pamir mountains and the Taklamakan desert. It was used for the Afghan movie The Kite Runner, Nato having rendered the real location, Kabul, too dangerous for filming. Now the old city is to be systematically demolished. The steamroller of destruction that is China’s rush … Seguir leyendo
By Chris Patten, the chancellor of Oxford University and was the last British governor of Hong Kong (THE GUARDIAN, 30/06/07):
Several years ago, Samuel Finer, a distinguished professor of politics at Oxford, wrote a three-volume history of government. He set out to describe every form that has ever been. There was one short chapter on societies that were liberal but not democratic. The only example he could think of was Hong Kong.When I left Hong Kong 10 years ago, we were in the throes of introducing democracy. We were late in doing so. But what we set out to … Seguir leyendo
By Robert D. Novak (THE WASHINGTON POST, 21/06/07):
On May 31, President Bush met for 35 minutes in the private living quarters of the White House with Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Hong Kong, in an event that was not announced and did not appear on his official schedule. Their meeting did not please the State Department, elements of the Catholic hierarchy and certainly not the Chinese government. But it signifies what George W. Bush is really about.
In Hong Kong, Zen enjoys more freedom to speak out than do his fellow bishops in China… Seguir leyendo