Comparing Mao to KJI . . .

by R. Elgin on July 9, 2009

I guess some Chinese aren’t bothered by North Korea after all (thanks to Winglok Hung at Globalvoicesonline.org).

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1 leguwan July 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm: Comparing Kim Jong Il to Lee Myung bak is also rather interesting:

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00300&num=5142
2 Jing July 9, 2009 at 1:49 pm: Off topic, Im not sure how many of you actually read his blog but I just realized that Gord Sellar of English language Korean blogosphere fame is a published science fiction author! I was recently at a Barnes & Noble and was thumbing through a copy of this year’s Gardner Dozois’ Year’s Best anthology when I saw his name next to a short story.

Does this mean we can claim to know someone famous?

In all seriousness, go check it out and maybe buy a copy to express your solidarity with your fellow bloggers or simply to support the dieing genre of sci-fi short fiction. When can we expect a book from senor Marmot? Perhaps tentatively entitled, “It came from Apkujeong!”
3 Koreansentry July 9, 2009 at 2:52 pm: What can I say about Chinese folks, most of them don’t see the difference between Good and Evil.
4 CactusMcHarris July 9, 2009 at 3:07 pm: I’d like to see KJI swimming the Yalu in winter.
5 Sonagi July 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm: I just had a look at that Global Voices thread. The admiring tone towards KJI is in complete contrast to the ridicule that Chinese netizens love to heap on their poor, backward neighbor and its leader. Some of those comments reek of Fifty Cent Party.
6 baduk July 10, 2009 at 12:59 pm: Too much “us vs. the world”. This myopic nationalism still runs amuk in China, Korea, Japan and Russia.

Only solution is a big war. After many people die, they will suddenly realize that extreme nationalism is a crime.

Only after many people die.

Korea is becoming a Christian nation. Christians at least have some anti-nationalism as taught in the Bible; “we are all God’s children”. Korea may be able to stay out of this coming war. Not!
7 R. Elgin July 14, 2009 at 11:29 am: Per “Sonagi”‘s insightful comments, those debased 50-cent comments reflect the real outrage of the CCP towards North Korea. The Chinese will continue to support this evil through trade and other means. This is the real legacy of China in Asia and that is the moral blindness that is at the heart of everything they do.

The Chinese have become the new “Showa” regime in Asia. The talk of a “peaceful rise” is so much like the meaning of the Japanese “Showa”: the word “Showa” means “enlightened peace”.
8 Robert Koehler July 14, 2009 at 12:19 pm: In all seriousness, go check it out and maybe buy a copy to express your solidarity with your fellow bloggers or simply to support the dieing genre of sci-fi short fiction.

An outstanding idea.

When can we expect a book from senor Marmot? Perhaps tentatively entitled, “It came from Apkujeong!”

Expect something soon, but nothing nearly as prestigious as what Gord is doing.
9 vince July 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm: Hmmm… both Korea’s have China as their number one trading partner. Does that make them all evil? And evil by what definition? And from the perspective of war as evil, what countries are busy waging physical war? Not China nor North Korea.
“China is evil” or “Chinese have no morals” are not helpful to stimulate discussion. They’re rally cries and a form of sloganeering. Spewing hatred makes us blind. Good and evil swirl around us inextricably mixed in the air we breathe and are evaluated differently depending on who’d calibrating the measuring instrument. Pause, take a breath and look deeper to identify what the real issue is. From root cause we can hope to find solutions.
My opinion is that the solution is linked to the upcoming Asian flavored FSM that will almost certainly need to emerge from China.
10 vince July 15, 2009 at 7:51 am: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gU-HMCbpUVLkSLuxgoG_eFtEhlsAD99EDBG05
AP: Tens of thousands of what the government calls “sudden mass incidents” rock China every year, presumably soaring in number since Beijing stopped releasing the statistic publicly in 2005, when there were 87,000 of them. While loss of life is rarely on the scale of the Xinjiang riot, protesters often vent their rage on public property, burning government offices and cars.

Vince: Many Chinese people are obviously very unhappy with the functioning of the CCP. All Chinese people cannot be lumped together as evil or morally bankrupt.