Tagging A China-Japan Dialogue in Blogosphere



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送交者: DragonWellGreenTea 于 2005-4-22, 02:07:57:

By Andrea

Thought the editorial in April 17th edition of Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper from Hong Kong is very good. Here is a rough translation of key observation it noted:

"China's people Anti-Japan emotions have been surpressed for a long time, when the government would slightly ease its restrictions, [the emotions] would emerge like spring bamboo shoots after rain. Such strong feelings of nationalism are easy to unleash but hard to hold back once released. When the number of protesters are numbered in tens of thousands, the scenes of throwing things to vent out anger are hard to avoid (Hong Kong perhaps is the only exception to this rule within Chinese borders)...These radical scenes of anti-Japan protest, after being broadcasted in real-time by electronic media, are delivered right in front of Japanese peoples' eyes. They would provoke strong Anti-China feelings, making Japanese politicians deliver a harder stance in their speeches, including protest, condemnations, request for apologies and compenstations, etc. The hard stances, would in turn provoke Chinese people, thinking that Japan should first apologize for their past invasion and war crimes, making the whole matter a vicious cycle."

It is within this context that I think we need to have more direct communications and better understanding between people of China and Japan on the tensions that have accumulated over long period of time.

So here’s a plan, as Rebecca Mackinnon puts it: If you are posting something on your blog about Chinese-Japanese tensions, Sino-Japanese history debates, and related issues (or if you’re uploading related photos to the web), please give it the following tag in del.icio.us, Flickr, Furl, and/or, Technorati: cn_jp_dialog.

I have seen in recent weeks how a few Hong Kong bloggers have been exchanging views back and forth with mainland Chinese bloggers on the anti-Japan protests. It was wonderful to see how Hong Kong people get to learn a bit more about the mainlanders' feelings while the mainlanders' became awared of non-violent protests that are common in Hong Kong. Not that this had dramatically changed the shape of things instantly. But because the conversation were out and open on the internet, the values and understanding can be easily spread to more people in other cirles, slowly changing the status quo.




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