tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10492881.post111440858477095508..comments2024-01-30T01:16:43.488-08:00Comments on The Paper Tiger: Hu's Honeymoon is OverOther Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08079055348844157557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10492881.post-1114473449202915502005-04-25T16:57:00.000-07:002005-04-25T16:57:00.000-07:00My Chinese reading skills...well...not very good, ...My Chinese reading skills...well...not very good, to be honest. I study Chinese part time at UC adult extension, and reading is not my strong point. I'm pretty much your Intermediate student struggling to get to the next level. I'm planning on taking class until I get there...<BR/><BR/>But I will check out the link - thanks very much!Other Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08079055348844157557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10492881.post-1114472487277969522005-04-25T16:41:00.000-07:002005-04-25T16:41:00.000-07:00Lisa,How's your Chinese reading skills? I'm not su...Lisa,<BR/><BR/>How's your Chinese reading skills? I'm not sure about English language sources but there are many Chinese language sources about Lin Biao on the internet. A quick google search turned up the following article with some good references at the end:<BR/><BR/>http://www.omnitalk.com/miliarch/messages/2620.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10492881.post-1114412933633346372005-04-25T00:08:00.000-07:002005-04-25T00:08:00.000-07:00Hui Mao,I'm not going to repeat my responses from ...Hui Mao,<BR/><BR/>I'm not going to repeat my responses from Peking Duck, except to reiterate that I am really interested in the 9th Party Congress - if you have any sources to recommend, I'd love to know about them.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by.Other Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08079055348844157557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10492881.post-1114412548195482982005-04-25T00:02:00.000-07:002005-04-25T00:02:00.000-07:00Lisa,I've copied over my comments at the Peking Du...Lisa,<BR/><BR/>I've copied over my comments at the Peking Duck on this subject:<BR/><BR/>The developments in China in terms of control of media has been pretty disappointing in the last couple of years, but I'd still caution against drawing conclusions a little too early. CCP politics is notoriously opaque and it's difficult to figure out which group of people is responsible for which developments and why certain things are happening. Control of the media does not always rest in the hands of the nominal party leader. Remember that the current Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of the media is Li Changchun, a Jiang Zemin protege, while before Jiang Zemin's retirement, Hu Jintao was the one in charge of the media. Of course this is not to prove or disprove anything about Hu's relationship to the tightening of controls on expression, but just to point out there could be more going on behind the surface.<BR/><BR/>Yes, those speeches (which I have not read but only heard about through media reports) are not encouraging but political speeches in China are drafted and approved by committee, not by the person delivering it. It is often the case that the content of a speech does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the person delivering it. There's the famous example of Lin Biao's speech in 1969 at the 9th party conference, the entire content of which was vehemently opposed by Lin and were in fact the work of Lin's rivals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com