A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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