tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post4357857061755924288..comments2023-08-19T12:02:43.740-04:00Comments on An Immigrant's Evolving Perspective: LED City Gates for Chongqing. What's Next?Xujunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05534267282303815433noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-80092887897900339532011-03-21T12:12:13.671-04:002011-03-21T12:12:13.671-04:00Good for you too, Rachel! Will go read your blog....Good for you too, Rachel! Will go read your blog. <br /><br />Yong Huang, interesting topic indeed! Hope you'll be writing about it...Xujunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05534267282303815433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-89355506126370354242011-03-21T06:17:20.720-04:002011-03-21T06:17:20.720-04:00Wow, I just stumbled across your blog while doing ...Wow, I just stumbled across your blog while doing a search for 'walk-in marriage' for the Mosou culture (just saw a story about it on Channel NewsAsia). What a GREAT blog and good for you giving up the 9 to 5 route to do what you love - write. <br /><br />I did that a few years ago after moving to Thailand and haven't regretted it for a second.Rachelhttp://www.tastythailand.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-6246180581982428802011-03-18T18:25:52.754-04:002011-03-18T18:25:52.754-04:00I only briefly mentioned Tongyuan Gate in my trave...I only briefly mentioned Tongyuan Gate in my <a href="http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/TravelToChongqing.html" rel="nofollow">travel diary</a>. If we were to write more about the gate in the context of modern history, its connection to Mr. Yang Angong (杨闇公) would be an interesting topic. Apparently, the British and Americans back then (1927) were pretty nasty.Yong Huanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820517092538495121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-44790901500356642322011-03-16T22:46:39.101-04:002011-03-16T22:46:39.101-04:00Yong Huang, I totally understand what you say abou...Yong Huang, I totally understand what you say about old people singing old songs for pleasure, and I have no quibbles with that (even I sing those songs sometimes). What I'm wary of is the way Bo Xilai pushes it as a mass movement, however fun it might be for the singers. In fact I'm wary of any mass movement.<br /><br />By the way, did you post your writing about the Tongyuan Gate on your blog?Xujunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05534267282303815433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-62956859733465274742011-03-16T22:30:15.654-04:002011-03-16T22:30:15.654-04:00Xujun, I imagine the "red song" movement...Xujun, I imagine the "red song" movement in Chongqing touches your heart a little differently than most others'. If the singers sincerely embrace it for entertainment and nothing else, with no peer pressure, good for them. If they're old enough to sing the songs now for the second time in their life, again for fun only, congratulations on their transcendence over history. Did some famous person, Pushkin?, say what you had experienced is always lovely in your memory, even if it was hardship? On the other hand, if Bo Xilai organizes these events as publicity stunt, that's as disgusting as the real red song singing forty years ago.<br /><br />By the way, I wrote about Tongyuan Gate, "<a href="http://baike.baidu.com/view/1232199.htm" rel="nofollow">Tongyuan Gate</a> at Qixinggang: one of the nine fortified gates of Chongqing city in ancient times, spared of Mongol's break-in by the 1259 mysterious death of Mongke Khan at Diaoyu (Fishing) City, Hechuan, north of Chongqing, but broken by Kublai Khan 18 years later, and again by Zhang Xianzhong's mob at the next change of dynasty around 1644." I only counted the open gates, hence 9, not 17.Yong Huanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820517092538495121noreply@blogger.com