Absurdity, Allegory and China

Sunday, 6:30 AM: the security guys at the Tianjin Olympic Stadium are running sound checks to the background music of Kenny G’s My Heart Will Go On, a double-shot of Chinese-pop horror. It’s like 1998 all over again, only with more cars and hundreds of thousands fewer bikes. Nothing pegs the last decade’s low point [...]

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In the continuing media wars, the China Daily reports
The Foreign Ministry Wednesday summoned CNN’s Beijing executives to lodge a solemn representation for failing to apologize for insulting remarks by one of its commentators…. “Journalists should abide by ethics, and don’t have the privilege to slander or rail at anybody or any government”, Liu [Foreign [...]

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Woman Amid the Oddities
Look closelyand you’ll see a persona middle-aged womanbeside her bicyclewaiting at attentionfor the sun to riseover the humped spineof the saucered building.
Perhaps this timeshe will scream.

© Jim Gourley, 2008.
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