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China: Time of Forgetting

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Written byJose Manuel Tesoro
Posted 25 January 2006 0:16 GMT

At Beijing or Bust, Chinafool reflects on China's present shiny consumer culture and its scarred ideological past. “In this new China where nobody seemed to have painful memories to suffer through, I couldn’t help wondering – Do we have to remember if the memory only pains us? Do we have to trouble the happy youth with the past?”

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A small portrait of Jose Manuel Tesoro
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  • Pingback: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: What’s Truth Good For

    […] Beijing Loafer (formerly Chinafool) translates a comment (ZH) from a Chinese blogger to his post on the contrast between China’s ideological past and its materialist present: “I’d like to say, that our generation has been ruthlessly deformed into panda bears. I hope the next generation will be able to openly discuss the facts, and accept the truth.” […]

    26 January 2006, 11:48 am

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