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 Topic: I made a complaint to the BBC website |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 8 Views: 965 |
 Forum: Culture Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:34 pm Subject: I made a complaint to the BBC website |
| Well this is the reply I received from the BBC:
Thank you for getting in touch, and we are sorry you were offended by our choice of word, especially since no offence was meant to be given. In lig ... |
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| Topic: Racism? |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 23 Views: 2186 |
Forum: Chat Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:41 pm Subject: Racism? |
| Hi chineseperson. Hope you don't mind me asking about your original post. Do you feel uncomfortable with yourself in public? Has self esteem/confidence ever been an issue you're concerned about? There ... | |
| Topic: I made a complaint to the BBC website |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 8 Views: 965 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:11 pm Subject: I made a complaint to the BBC website |
| On your article "Testing Vietnam's religious resolve" (Thursday, 15 March 2007, 12:19 GMT) you stated:
But that number only refers to registered members of official temples, so nobody kn ... |
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| Topic: Racism? |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 23 Views: 2186 |
Forum: Chat Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:31 pm Subject: Racism? |
| I don't have "slanty eyes", I'm also quite tall and have quite a large frame. I don't think I look "abnormal" at all. I am perplexed why some people might look at me in such a way, ... | |
| Topic: Racism? |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 23 Views: 2186 |
Forum: Chat Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:19 pm Subject: Racism? |
| Well it's more subtle than that, just negative looks from random people on public transport in London, nothing verbal, but usually it's from white people rather than black or Asian people. I've never ... | |
| Topic: Racism? |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 23 Views: 2186 |
Forum: Chat Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:22 pm Subject: Racism? |
| Have you ever experienced the following:
When you are in public, either just walking on the streets or using public transport, some random people might just "look at you" in a rather nega ... |
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| Topic: Wang Pi - The great Neo-Daoist philosopher (226 - 249 AD) |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 564 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:18 pm Subject: Wang Pi - The great Neo-Daoist philosopher (226 - 249 AD) |
| http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/teachers/WangPi.htm | |
| Topic: A decent English translation of some Orthodox Daoist texts |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 539 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:33 pm Subject: A decent English translation of some Orthodox Daoist texts |
| If you have some interest in Daoism, China's native traditional religion, please check out this decent English translation of a few Orthodox Daoist texts written from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties. ( ... | |
| Topic: Another more "Yang" "Daoist" text - from |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 550 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:23 pm Subject: Another more "Yang" "Daoist" text - from |
| Another more "Yang" "Daoist" text - from the Book of Songs
This is a poem from the earliest anthology of poetry in Chinese history - The Book of Songs (Shijing), the earliest pa ... |
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| Topic: A very short Daoist Scripture |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 508 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:03 pm Subject: A very short Daoist Scripture |
| The Daoist Canon contains a huge number of scriptures. Here is a very short one, translated by one of my Chinese Daoist friends:
Tai Shang Sheng Xuan Xiao Zai Hu Ming Miao Jing 太上 |
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| Topic: My own translation of the Daode Jing |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 495 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:00 pm Subject: My own translation of the Daode Jing |
| The Daode Jing is the foundational text of Daoism.
The Dao De Jing (A Spiritual Classic of Ancient China, written by Laozi in the 6th century BC) Book (Jing) of the Way (Dao) and Virtue (De) ... |
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| Topic: A Reflection on the Cultural Revolution |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 14 Views: 1288 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:12 pm Subject: Re: A Reflection on the Cultural Revolution |
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China's economy is one of the world's fastest growing "Today people aren't very interested in politics" Vivian told me. "They are thinking about other things like their futures an ... |
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| Topic: Chinese Buddhism, and some other thoughts |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 0 Views: 1254 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:54 pm Subject: Chinese Buddhism, and some other thoughts |
| I have continued to read "A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy". The diversity and depth of Chinese Philosophy is far greater than I thought before. My mistake before was to focus exclusively ... | |
| Topic: The deeper side Of Islam |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 43 Views: 2705 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:51 pm Subject: Re: Understanding your History and your Future |
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The Chinese Religion, based on Confucianism and Daoism, has both a Yin side and a Yang side. We consider God to be both a Father and a Mother. Yin and Yang is in harmony in the Chinese Religion. T ... |
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| Topic: Some thoughts about the Dao |
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| Chineseperson Replies: 5 Views: 1525 |
Forum: Culture Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:26 pm Subject: Some thoughts about the Dao |
| In Eastern (Indian and Chinese) logic, unlike in Greek logic, there are four possible truth states, not two:
True False Both True and False Neither True nor False The Dao transcends all, this ... |
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