Comments on: A Return to the Nu River http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/ International Headlines, Stories, Photos and Video Tue, 21 May 2013 08:39:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tweets that mention A Return to the Nu River - The China Blog - TIME.com -- Topsy.com http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3125 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:23:56 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3125 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Bill and sino cism, Austin Ramzy. Austin Ramzy said: a couple pieces from those Nu River trips: Damming China's River Wild http://bit.ly/g37jbk – A Return to the Nu River http://bit.ly/eAalnS [...]

]]> By: 2morrow2 http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3124 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:49:52 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3124 To Austin re Long Live Freedom:

A few decades ago when CCP was … let’s put it in a modern way … in opposition (I feel quite aweful to say it that way)… Long Live Freedom (and Democracy) was what they said in the streets when protesting (yes, they did protest, and they knew the “grassroots” thing quite well) and perhaps also what some of them shout before they were execued by Guo Ming Dang, the National Party, who are now nesting in Taiwan.

It is all good to make a news out of things like this.

But what’s really important is to understand the meaning of freedom, its relativity, its outcomes, and its consequences, in a certain context.

Well, you may say it is not your responsibility as a journalist to do such things.

But I say let’s be a responsible citizen of the planet first before clarifying job specifications.

]]> By: 2morrow2 http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3123 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:34:53 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3123 Oh, my dear Whatdidyoucallme1,
A link to Xinhua?
How dare you!

]]> By: laohong http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3122 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:08:03 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3122 @whatdidyoucallme
We have any difference about this Tibeten language thing? I dont think so, if you check all I posted above about Tibet. The only difference I have is I know sarcasm and I come here for fun.

]]> By: whatdidyoucallme1 http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3121 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:33:45 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3121 @laohong:

1) If there are no Tibetan schools, and people can’t speak Tibetan, then are you saying Tibetans today are fluent in Mandarin?
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2) And also does that mean they don’t know the Tibetan language anymore?
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3) If you want to know what westerners think, you should ask the westerners who have ACTUALLY been to Tibet, not the ones who only get their info from you and me.

Take a look at this from people who have actually been to Tibet:
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/05/content_10950616.htm
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( It includes comments from the Indian editor-in-chief of “The Hindu” )

]]> By: laohong http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3120 Wed, 06 May 2009 08:55:24 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3120 to whatdidyoucallme,

–”Tibetan is the first language Tibetans learn in schools”?
Really? I dont think our dear western friends think that way. To them, first there is no school for Tibetens and second Tibeten language is forbidden even to be spoken and thirdly, of course, your tongue will be cut if you ever dare to speak it.

]]> By: Austin Ramzy http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3119 Wed, 06 May 2009 07:24:44 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3119 @whatdidyoucallme1: Northwest refers to the part of Yunnan we visited, not the location of Yunnan in China

]]> By: whatdidyoucallme1 http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3118 Wed, 06 May 2009 05:52:09 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3118 And laohong is wrong again.

Tibetan is the first language Tibetans learn in schools. They only learn Chinese from high school

]]> By: whatdidyoucallme1 http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3117 Wed, 06 May 2009 05:48:06 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3117 Just a minor correction:
Yunnan is in the southwest

]]> By: tsawarong http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3116 Tue, 05 May 2009 12:38:04 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3116 I was there at Christmas and it’s a beautiful place, especially north of Gongshan. Sad to hear that it will be spolied by hydroelectric schemes like the one already scarring the landscape near Dimaluo.
My photos and blog about the Catholics of the Nu is at http://drjosephrock.blogspot.com

]]> By: laohong http://world.time.com/2009/05/05/a-return-to-the-nu-river/#comment-3115 Tue, 05 May 2009 12:28:48 +0000 http://china.blogs.time.com/?p=1785#comment-3115 Let me make the story even more sensational.
Ever noticed the “Long Live Freedom” graffiti on the wall was written in Chinese, though badly? Isn’t it another evidence that Tibeten language is officially forbidden from their childhood in diapers?
Daliar can prove it with his fluent Chinese which is much better than his Indoglish.

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