I am going to China to visit some students in a rural village. Apparently it is in one of the poorest provinces there.
My sister doesn't want me to go. She had a dream the other day - of me having a traffic accident on the road, like one of those news we watch on TV.
China often attracts more negative than positive media reports, from contaminated milk, to fake eggs, to corrupted officials.
It's a country where some, mostly westerners, are intrigued and interested to travel to but where Chinese, well some at least, would rather stay away from.
When the June 4th crackdown happened, I was here in Hong Kong and I saw all the live reports here. What the news and images did for many of us then, I think was a sense of betrayal which led to mistrust towards China, which is now supposed to be 'our' country.
I suppose there is always a dark side in all of us, and in all the nations. Somehow, the dark side of China has always left a question mark in me.
Is it that poverty makes us corrupted
or power does?
Is it a lack of education that blinds us from being honest and truthful
or our eagerness to rise from the world platform?
Whatever it is that twists the nature of human beings, my feelings for you have yet to be defined.
Right now, I feel mixed
and sad.
My sister doesn't want me to go. She had a dream the other day - of me having a traffic accident on the road, like one of those news we watch on TV.
China often attracts more negative than positive media reports, from contaminated milk, to fake eggs, to corrupted officials.
It's a country where some, mostly westerners, are intrigued and interested to travel to but where Chinese, well some at least, would rather stay away from.
When the June 4th crackdown happened, I was here in Hong Kong and I saw all the live reports here. What the news and images did for many of us then, I think was a sense of betrayal which led to mistrust towards China, which is now supposed to be 'our' country.
I suppose there is always a dark side in all of us, and in all the nations. Somehow, the dark side of China has always left a question mark in me.
Is it that poverty makes us corrupted
or power does?
Is it a lack of education that blinds us from being honest and truthful
or our eagerness to rise from the world platform?
Whatever it is that twists the nature of human beings, my feelings for you have yet to be defined.
Right now, I feel mixed
and sad.
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