What are the things you can do to "safeguard" indian independence?
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Three Chinese writers, exiled from their country’s imagination, implore India to preserve freedom of speech
China is our big obsession; how to be like it, how not to be like it. In a wonderfully moderated panel—broadcast journalist and producer Anuradha Sengupta, formerly of CNBC, is a great example for other moderators to follow—best-selling author of Wild Swans and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang, found feisty company in Beijing Coma author, Ma Jian, and memoirist Anchee Min, whose Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed tell of her life in China and passage to America. We could see why Madam Mao’s Shanghai film studio once selected charismatic Min for propaganda films, when she was sent to a labor collective, though they might reconsider their decision now.
“To show you what a charismatic leader can do to the nation, to a generation of children. My big dream was to be a martyr, to go to Vietnam and to kill Americans and blow myself up too,” said Min, who remembers dreaming of killing Nixon as an indoctrinated young woman. “Mao’s teachings say a man who should refuse to preserve his life at the expense of his humanity. He ruled China for 27 years, and he was a dictator alright. But more of a problem was the people; everyone one of us. We never criticised that dark side of humanity; the crimes we committed. The Cultural Revolution is a vehicle that brought the worst out of us. I remember my neighbour tried to grab our toilet. They tried to talk to the Red Guards from Beijing, and tell them that the Min family had an anti-Maoist in it, and to loot the house; if they sent us away, they got our toilets.” Her mother blew off the Red Guards, even telling them Min had tuberculosis; the neighbours came and emptied their chamber pots on their parents’ bed, threatening them. She believes Chinese love pleasure too much.
China is our big obsession; how to be like it, how not to be like it. In a wonderfully moderated panel—broadcast journalist and producer Anuradha Sengupta, formerly of CNBC, is a great example for other moderators to follow—best-selling author of Wild Swans and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang, found feisty company in Beijing Coma author, Ma Jian, and memoirist Anchee Min, whose Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed tell of her life in China and passage to America. We could see why Madam Mao’s Shanghai film studio once selected charismatic Min for propaganda films, when she was sent to a labor collective, though they might reconsider their decision now.
“To show you what a charismatic leader can do to the nation, to a generation of children. My big dream was to be a martyr, to go to Vietnam and to kill Americans and blow myself up too,” said Min, who remembers dreaming of killing Nixon as an indoctrinated young woman. “Mao’s teachings say a man who should refuse to preserve his life at the expense of his humanity. He ruled China for 27 years, and he was a dictator alright. But more of a problem was the people; everyone one of us. We never criticised that dark side of humanity; the crimes we committed. The Cultural Revolution is a vehicle that brought the worst out of us. I remember my neighbour tried to grab our toilet. They tried to talk to the Red Guards from Beijing, and tell them that the Min family had an anti-Maoist in it, and to loot the house; if they sent us away, they got our toilets.” Her mother blew off the Red Guards, even telling them Min had tuberculosis; the neighbours came and emptied their chamber pots on their parents’ bed, threatening them. She believes Chinese love pleasure too much.
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