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Date Posted: 07:22:49 04/25/07 Wed
Author: Mona
Subject: Re: Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion
In reply to: vit 's message, "Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion" on 09:41:28 04/18/07 Wed

thanks..vit...
i never came to know this bit 'bout chris till now

>Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion,
>well, I can��t think of any plausible reasons that
>could be termed as fair and right just enough to be
>excusable, no matter how it is explicable by
>historians.
>
>Further annoyed, let��s take a look from the book,
>East and West, written by the then Governor of Hong
>Kong, Mr. Chris Patten:
>
>��As for western shame, well, imperialistic expansion,
>the nineteenth-century attempt to carve up China, the
>treaty ports (mainland trading bases won by force from
>China), Hong Kong, opium and all that, are beyond
>excuse in twentieth-century terms, even if they are
>explicable by historians. But is not part of the
>shame, so far as Chinese nationalists are concerned,
>that Chinese people flocked to the treaty ports and
>that Hong Kong was a huge Chinese success under a
>British Flag?��
>
>I give myself up to argue about that word
>��expansion��, taking into account that invasion is
>not a speakable diplomatic word to be uttered by
>someone who considers as proud as a turkey in leading
>the multitude of one��s nation. Besides, arguable word
>between two nations requires to be armed to the teeth
>or the less strength is doomed to cost an arm and a
>leg.
>
>But, I am curious is there any other forced treaty
>port could be coined, judging from Briton experience
>of expansion, as a success under a British Flag?
>
>I have only to point out that that word ��well�� is
>really not this good. May be it is trivia, one should
>not take it as a serious matter. And if you really
>think so! Humbly, may I urge you to recite the
>sentences once again with your heart, and then if you
>still insist that the word ��well�� is but only a
>trivial interjection and feel not a bit of varying
>intonation, it is not only kind of taking something as
>nothing happened, but also sort of like saying: well,
>I don��t care! Well, what should I say?
>
>Well, say I nothing.
>
>Epilogue
>
>The content, in reading the above mentioned book for
>searching the integrity of democracy from the idea of
>the west, is definitely not diminished in any extent
>by some trivial words or well considered intonation.
>
>And while reading the following, it is not easy to
>restrain the reminiscence not to arouse emotion of
>tenderness by these touching words
>
>��I spend my three years at Oxford enjoying myself in
>a rather
>
>cautious, laid-back way. I half-heartedly pursued a
>girl, did enough work to fail to get a First, acted a
>bit, played a few games, slept a lot. I made no mark
>on Oxford, and Oxford��s main mark on me was the later
>realization of all that I missed��
>
>Well, but don��t ever trust our once beloved Governor
>slept a lot. Those slept a lot at Oxford would have
>failed already.
>
>Hosky in varsity might not agree with me.
>
>Well, that��s all I wanna say.

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Re: Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion -- vit, 01:49:52 04/27/07 Fri