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shil at onid.orst.edu     shil at onid.orst.edu
Fri May 11 16:33:14 PDT 2007

No matter what people's opinions of the writer or the situation are, I agree
that CAOSU as a unit should get together and write a response. This unified
voice should aim at providing correct information, a Chinese prospective, and
analysis of both China as a host and maybe Jessica as a reporter. To formulate
an effective response, we will need to look to the past, make comparisons
between similar events, and most importantly, tell the OSU community of our
experiences living/studying in China, and what it means to us for being Chinese
citizens/descendants.

I'm not a English, but I volunteer to put together a letter to the editor.

Le (Laura) Shi~



Quoting weixue at science.oregonstate.edu:

> Hi, everyone:
>
>     In my opinion, we should avoid calling names or labelling her as
> anything.
> That will not help us. We may write a response to the Montgomery editorial
> and
> hope to publish it in next week's Daily Barometer. The main purpose of our
> response should be "correcting her mistakes" (straigtening some facts), not
> criticizing/attacking her personally. For example, we may say: (1) Tibet was
> liberated peacefully in
> 1950--there was no burning of temples at that time. The current Dalai Lama
> himself went to Beijing to meet the national leaders such as premier Zhou
> and Chairman Mao, he admitted that Tibet was part of China. Tibet has been
> part
> of China since the Yuan Dynasty (1300s). The Dalai Lama was approved by the
> Chinese central government, the ceremony for him to become Dalai Lama was
> presided
> by the delegate of the then central government. The uprising occurred in
> Tibet
> in 1959 was added by some foreign governments in an attempt to split China;
> of
> course the Chinese central government did not allow that to happen. The same
> with Taiwan--it has been part of China since the Han dynasty (around 2nd
> century?), the current situation (separtion) was a result of a civil war.
> President Lincoln is
> regarded as the greatest president in US history because he kept the country
> intact. The same thinking and mentality (highest regard for national
> sovereignty and integrity) exist in other countries including China.  (2) As
> for
> capital punishment (death penalty), different countries has different
> standards. Most U. S. states have death penalty. Many were executed in Texas
> too.
> China has a population of 1.3 billion (5 times of the US population), but the
> number of people being murdered each year are far fewer than that in US.
> Maybe
> the harsher punishment deters murder and other crimes, thus saves many
> innocent
> lives, who knows! (3) We are aware that there are truth in Ms Montgomery's
> editorial, there are lots to be improved in China. However, China has made
> great progress in opening to the world and embracing the market economy,
> hence
> allows more personal freedom.
> Finally, we suggest that people should check facts before they put their
> writings in front of public eyes!
>
>    I suggest that our Chinese Student Association coordinates the
> writing of this response, and hope some fellow Chinese who study liberal arts
> to
> take the lead in writing. I am a biologist and I know little of history and
> political science;
> so the above is only my 5 cents suggestion.
>    Take care!
>    XW
>
>
> Quoting Liangguo luo <liangguo_luo at yahoo.com>:
>
> > Jessica Montgomery,
> >     If you are intertested in conducting research on China iusses,
> espcially
> > in human rights. You'd better go there and live there for some periods,
> then
> > you will have qualifciation to talk the human right of China. If you have
> > never been there, what you wrote just testifies that you are a student with
> > amentia. Maybe you can not obtain the common knowledge at university in
> > normal education way, you'd better go to speical school which is open for
> the
> > persons with amentia.
> >     Your ideation is under 5 years old although you look like an adult, I
> > just call you a student with amentia not idiot. If you plan to study
> > continuously in political science, then you will become idiot absolutely.
> >
> > Liangguo LUO
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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