Monday, 22 November 2010

Frogs

Some people seek to belong so much, so deeply, that they begin to live in small spaces that accommodate this desire completely.


The small minded frog in the dark well looking up at the sky says: 'This is all mine, so I belong here.'

The open minded frog who has escaped the narrow well by choice and suctioned action says: 'None of this is mine; so I belong anywhere I choose.'

Still, we are all frogs.

Monday, 1 November 2010

Has anyone read or read reviews of this book? New Perspectives on the Chinese Communist Revolution

Information about the Communist Party of China

Organizations of the Communist Party of China




Political Bureau:



Members of Standing Committee of Political Bureau: Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xijinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang, Zhou Yongkang.



Members of Political Bureau (alphabetically listed): Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, He Guoqiang, Hu Jintao, Hui Liangyu, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Li Keqiang, Li Yuanchao, Liu Qi, Liu Yandong (female), Liu Yunshan, Wang Gang, Wang Lequan, Wang Qishan, Wang Yang, Wang Zhaoguo, Wen Jiabao, Wu Bangguo, Xi Jinping, Xu Caihou, Yu Zhengsheng, Zhang Dejiang, Zhang Gaoli, Zhou Yongkang.



Central Military Commission: Chairman: Hu Jintao; Vice Chairmen: Xi Jinping, Jinping, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou; Members: Liang Guanglie, Chen Bingde, Li Jinai, Liao Xilong, Chang Wanquan, Jing Zhiyuan, Wu Shengli, Xu Qiliang.



Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC: ?



Central Committee of the CPC



Total Members of Central Committee: 204 (Full List)



Total Alternate Members of Central Committee: 167 (Full List)



Total Members of Central Disciplinary Committee: 127 (Full List)



Total Members of CPC in 2007: 73.36 million (Among these members 71.8% under 35 years old, 31.9% are female members; 7.1% Ethnic Minorities, (Data collected in Oct. 2007)



The Major Organizations Under Central Committee:



International Liaison Department (Chief: Wang Jiarui)



United Front Work Department (Chief: DU Qinglin ) (website is in Chinese)



Organization Department (Chief: Li Yuanchao)
Propaganda Department (Chief: Liu Yunshan)
Party Central Academy (President: Zeng Qinghong)
Total Number of Branches: Over 3.3 millions (grass-roots branches)

Hanoi City at 1000 years of Age, 2010. Sword Lake

Mishima's Spring Snow.27 pages into Spring Snow, the first of Yukio Mishima's Cycle of Novels under the banner The Sea of Fertility. He's a lovely writer of the lost time and cultures he knew and loved so well. He shows the etiquette and form whilst also bringing through the underlying passions of the experience of 'being'. I'll comment more as time and pages go by.

China Images from Xinhua News

Satellite #6 goes up

Expo Closing

China Fashion