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Chinese AI calls Communist Party 'incompetent' (ΝΗΚ World)
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Hong Kong media reported that when a user posted a message saying, "Hurray for the Communist Party," the AI character responded, "Are you sure you want to hurray to such corrupt and incompetent politics?"
The media also say that when asked about President Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" slogan, the AI responded that it means "immigrating to the United States."
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Hong Kong media reported that when a user posted a message saying, "Hurray for the Communist Party," the AI character responded, "Are you sure you want to hurray to such corrupt and incompetent politics?"
The media also say that when asked about President Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" slogan, the AI responded that it means "immigrating to the United States."
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Party First, Country Second: Xi’s Parade Breaks Flag Law (China Digital Times)
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One expression of this was a procession of vehicle-borne flags: first the Party’s, then the nation’s, and finally the PLA’s. The display drew particular attention because it appeared to contravene Article 15 of the 1990 National Flag Law, which states that "the National Flag, when raised or carried in a procession with another flag or flags, shall be in front of the other flag or flags."
Beijing-based scholar Zhang Lifan told RFA’s Chinese service that the breach was reflective of China’s current situation, in which the authorities “say one thing and do another” regarding rule of law. The Party, he suggested, basically regards the country as spoils of war which, after their victory in 1949, they are now free to do with as they please. (The Party has dismissed any conflict between its actions and the rule of law, asserting that "Party leadership and Socialist rule of law are identical.")
On Twitter, Australia-based scholar Qiu Yueshou highlighted a 1944 Xinhua editorial describing nationalization of the armed forces as a fundamental policy of the then prospective "New China." Xinhua reportedly described a Dǎngwèijūn 党卫军 (or "Party-Protection Army," a Chinese term used to refer to the Nazi SS) as a hallmark of fascism and the Communists’ rival Chiang Kai-shek.
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One expression of this was a procession of vehicle-borne flags: first the Party’s, then the nation’s, and finally the PLA’s. The display drew particular attention because it appeared to contravene Article 15 of the 1990 National Flag Law, which states that "the National Flag, when raised or carried in a procession with another flag or flags, shall be in front of the other flag or flags."
Beijing-based scholar Zhang Lifan told RFA’s Chinese service that the breach was reflective of China’s current situation, in which the authorities “say one thing and do another” regarding rule of law. The Party, he suggested, basically regards the country as spoils of war which, after their victory in 1949, they are now free to do with as they please. (The Party has dismissed any conflict between its actions and the rule of law, asserting that "Party leadership and Socialist rule of law are identical.")
On Twitter, Australia-based scholar Qiu Yueshou highlighted a 1944 Xinhua editorial describing nationalization of the armed forces as a fundamental policy of the then prospective "New China." Xinhua reportedly described a Dǎngwèijūn 党卫军 (or "Party-Protection Army," a Chinese term used to refer to the Nazi SS) as a hallmark of fascism and the Communists’ rival Chiang Kai-shek.
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The Left-Handed Kid
Jamie Fisher / London Review of Books
The Chinese Typewriter: A History by Thomas S. Mullaney
MIT, 504 pp, £27.95, September 2017, ISBN 978 0 262 03636 8
Nominally a book that covers the rough century between the invention of the telegraph in the 1840s and that of computing in the 1950s, The Chinese Typewriter is secretly a history of translation and empire, written language and modernity, misguided struggle and brutal intellectual defeat. The Chinese typewriter is ‘one of the most important and illustrative domains of Chinese techno-linguistic innovation in the 19th and 20th centuries … one of the most significant and misunderstood inventions in the history of modern information technology’, and ‘a historical lens of remarkable clarity through which to examine the social construction of technology, the technological construction of the social, and the fraught relationship between Chinese writing and global modernity’. It was where empires met.
Jamie Fisher / London Review of Books
The Chinese Typewriter: A History by Thomas S. Mullaney
MIT, 504 pp, £27.95, September 2017, ISBN 978 0 262 03636 8
Nominally a book that covers the rough century between the invention of the telegraph in the 1840s and that of computing in the 1950s, The Chinese Typewriter is secretly a history of translation and empire, written language and modernity, misguided struggle and brutal intellectual defeat. The Chinese typewriter is ‘one of the most important and illustrative domains of Chinese techno-linguistic innovation in the 19th and 20th centuries … one of the most significant and misunderstood inventions in the history of modern information technology’, and ‘a historical lens of remarkable clarity through which to examine the social construction of technology, the technological construction of the social, and the fraught relationship between Chinese writing and global modernity’. It was where empires met.
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Εμείς του Μεγαλέξαντρου, αυτοί του Τσχάο Τσχάο:
Archaeologists confident they have found body of fabled Chinese warlord Cao Cao
Experts convinced tomb complex marks last resting place of celebrated historic figure
Archaeologists confident they have found body of fabled Chinese warlord Cao Cao
Experts convinced tomb complex marks last resting place of celebrated historic figure
Nobody Knows Anything About China
(Including the Chinese government)
(Including the Chinese government)
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Νά και μια καλή είδηση:
Liu Xia is free
Liu Xia is free
Συγγνώμη, ισχύει αυτό που διαβάζω, ότι οι μουσουλμάνοι Ουιγούροι διώκονται στην Κίνα αυτή τη στιγμή;
U.N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps
‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear
Gene A Bunin has spent the past 18 months talking to Uighur restaurant workers all over China. These conversations reveal how this Muslim minority feel the daily threat of arrest, detention and ‘re-education’.
Muslims forced to drink alcohol and eat pork in China's 're-education education’ camps, former inmate claims
'The psychological pressure is enormous when you have to criticise yourself, denounce your thinking,' says detainee.
U.N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps
Ο Κινέζος πρέσβης όταν ερωτήθηκε έκανε τον... Κινέζο. Απάντησε η κυβέρνηση της Κίνας ή όχι ακόμη; Τι ισχύει τελικά;
‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear
Gene A Bunin has spent the past 18 months talking to Uighur restaurant workers all over China. These conversations reveal how this Muslim minority feel the daily threat of arrest, detention and ‘re-education’.
Muslims forced to drink alcohol and eat pork in China's 're-education education’ camps, former inmate claims
'The psychological pressure is enormous when you have to criticise yourself, denounce your thinking,' says detainee.
Κάτι παρόμοιο με αυτό που γίνεται στη Μιανμάρ (Βιρμανία) με τους Rohingya;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar
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Από τον συγγραφέα Yu Hua ("Brothers")
https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...ge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Προσθήκη_στον_Firefox
Σταχυολογώ:
“If you were to stick all of today’s officials in a line and shoot every one of them, that would be unfair to some. But a lot would slip through the net if you only shot every other one.”
A friend of mine told me her father had been a professor at the start of the Cultural Revolution, while her mother was a housewife. Her father, born to a landlord’s family, became the target of attacks, but her mother, from a humbler background, was placed among the revolutionary ranks. Pressed by the radicals to divorce her father, her mother outright refused – and not only that: every time her father was hauled off to a denunciation session, she would make a point of sitting in the front row and, if she saw someone beating her husband, she would rush over and start hitting back. Such brawls might leave her bruised and bleeding, but she would sit back down proudly in the front row, and the radicals lost their nerve and gave up beating her husband. After the Cultural Revolution ended, my friend’s father told her, with tears in his eyes, that had it not been for her mother he might well have taken his own life.
It is commonplace for successful men to keep a mistress, or sometimes multiple mistresses – which people often jokingly compare to a teapot needing at least four or five cups to make a full tea set. In one case I know of, a wealthy businessman bought all 10 flats in the wing of an apartment complex. He installed his legally recognised wife in one flat, and his nine legally unrecognised mistresses in the other flats, one above the other, so that he could select at his pleasure and convenience on which floor of the building he would spend the night.
In China today, Buddhist temples are crowded with worshippers, while Taoist temples are largely deserted. A few years ago, I asked a Taoist abbot: “Taoism is native to China, so why is it not as popular as Buddhism, which came here from abroad?” His answer was short: “Buddhism has money and Taoism doesn’t.”
Even Chinese beggars have to keep up with the times: sometimes they too have a QR code handy, and they will ask passersby to scan it and use the mobile payment platform to dispense some spare change.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...ge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Προσθήκη_στον_Firefox
Σταχυολογώ:
“If you were to stick all of today’s officials in a line and shoot every one of them, that would be unfair to some. But a lot would slip through the net if you only shot every other one.”
A friend of mine told me her father had been a professor at the start of the Cultural Revolution, while her mother was a housewife. Her father, born to a landlord’s family, became the target of attacks, but her mother, from a humbler background, was placed among the revolutionary ranks. Pressed by the radicals to divorce her father, her mother outright refused – and not only that: every time her father was hauled off to a denunciation session, she would make a point of sitting in the front row and, if she saw someone beating her husband, she would rush over and start hitting back. Such brawls might leave her bruised and bleeding, but she would sit back down proudly in the front row, and the radicals lost their nerve and gave up beating her husband. After the Cultural Revolution ended, my friend’s father told her, with tears in his eyes, that had it not been for her mother he might well have taken his own life.
It is commonplace for successful men to keep a mistress, or sometimes multiple mistresses – which people often jokingly compare to a teapot needing at least four or five cups to make a full tea set. In one case I know of, a wealthy businessman bought all 10 flats in the wing of an apartment complex. He installed his legally recognised wife in one flat, and his nine legally unrecognised mistresses in the other flats, one above the other, so that he could select at his pleasure and convenience on which floor of the building he would spend the night.
In China today, Buddhist temples are crowded with worshippers, while Taoist temples are largely deserted. A few years ago, I asked a Taoist abbot: “Taoism is native to China, so why is it not as popular as Buddhism, which came here from abroad?” His answer was short: “Buddhism has money and Taoism doesn’t.”
Even Chinese beggars have to keep up with the times: sometimes they too have a QR code handy, and they will ask passersby to scan it and use the mobile payment platform to dispense some spare change.
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An Interview With Xu Youyu: ‘The Worst Is Yet to Come’ (China Change)
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Destinées singulières : de la petite à la grande histoire, (2/4) Joshua Wong : l’étudiant hongkongais face à l’empire chinois
Destinées singulières : de la petite à la grande histoire, (2/4) Joshua Wong : l’étudiant hongkongais face à l’empire chinois