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Sangha Crossing: 再織城市 Refabricating City (Jan 10th - Mar 15th, 2008)
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Saturday, April 5, 2008. 再織城市 Refabricating City (Jan 10th - Mar 15th, 2008). Walking across the ferry platform onto the Central ferry pier, I made my way past the busy sights and sounds of harbour reclamation (see previous post) to go to this exhibition of some sort my friend Irene highly recommended I go to. I didn't know too much in advance what this was all about, but all the better I say, as I hate. Probably the most interesting part of the biennale we...
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Sangha Crossing: The Power of non-Violence
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Sunday, March 16, 2008. The Power of non-Violence. Images from Lhasa blare violence lately on the screens of Hong Kong news channels. A clip showing a Han Chinese man being pushed off a motorcycle subsequently pelted with rocks by several Tibetan men was set with a backdrop of rising flames, soldiers, sword-wielding Tibetan youths, and over-turned cars (see here. 80 people were confirmed dead in Lhasa. Violence is everybody's enemy. And if you fight vio...
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Sangha Crossing: Al Qaeda in China?
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Thursday, August 7, 2008. Al Qaeda in China? I couldn't decide what was more ridiculous, the claim that Al Qaeda was operating in Xinjiang, or that the most respected American news outlet was making it. But maybe it's a good thing. After all, the West's round of criticisms against China following the March Tibetan uprisings was so full of Yellow Peril anxiety that the sinister Fu Manchu himself was debunked for failing to "control Tibet properly".
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Sangha Crossing: Barack Obama, the Middle Way, and words of Compassion
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Tuesday, March 18, 2008. Barack Obama, the Middle Way, and words of Compassion. Obama's recent race speech is being described as one of the most important speeches in contemporary America. What struck me was that he didn't condemn his pastor's bitter words but rather humanized him, and humanized the black community. To wish away the resentments of white. Widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding. And they become infused with the right i...
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Sangha Crossing: Replace "Han" with "white" and "Tibetan" with "black" or "Native American" and see what happens
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Thursday, March 20, 2008. Replace "Han" with "white" and "Tibetan" with "black" or "Native American" and see what happens. When you criticize someone, do you do it out of love for them? Or is it tinged with resentment, dislike, or even hatred? I've been noticing these days that anti-Chinese sentiment has been particularly strong. Is it really. Because the West is expressing their concern and compassion for the Darfur region and for Tibet? 8220;Look at the w...
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Sangha Crossing: Victoria Harbour Reclamation
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Anyone walking the footbridges from Central Ferry Pier in Hong Kong will inevitably see all kinds of people looking out across towards Wan Chai:. It's a diverse crowd, from older Western married couple tourists, to hunched-back Chinese men walking with hands folded behind their lower backs, to the occasional si laai. My parents have often noted how it used to be impossible to see the cars' headlights across the harbour back in their ...
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Sangha Crossing: March 2008
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Anyone walking the footbridges from Central Ferry Pier in Hong Kong will inevitably see all kinds of people looking out across towards Wan Chai:. It's a diverse crowd, from older Western married couple tourists, to hunched-back Chinese men walking with hands folded behind their lower backs, to the occasional si laai. My parents have often noted how it used to be impossible to see the cars' headlights across the harbour back in their ...
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Sangha Crossing: April 2008
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News, politics, society, culture, spirituality. Saturday, April 5, 2008. 再織城市 Refabricating City (Jan 10th - Mar 15th, 2008). Walking across the ferry platform onto the Central ferry pier, I made my way past the busy sights and sounds of harbour reclamation (see previous post) to go to this exhibition of some sort my friend Irene highly recommended I go to. I didn't know too much in advance what this was all about, but all the better I say, as I hate. Probably the most interesting part of the biennale we...
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