Comments on: 2008: A Face Odyssey http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/ The no-nonsense China expat and traveller community. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:43:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: lynch http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-7517 lynch Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:16:42 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-7517 Athletes will win the Olympics, even so, the children will not have a presentable football field in the poor area. Athletes will win the Olympics, even so, the children will not have a presentable football field in the poor area.

]]> By: lynch http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-7516 lynch Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:02:52 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-7516 I think that China has 1.5 billion people now, because of family planning, so many children couldn't get their identity card. I think that China has 1.5 billion people now, because of family planning, so many children couldn’t get their identity card.

]]> By: Steven http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6679 Steven Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:59:46 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6679 yeah, it's all gonna kick off when all the nit-picky foreigners hit the PRC, peeking under the rug at all the dust that's been swept there. this week's banner unfurling on the great wall (and other antics) were just a taster of the between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place difficulties coming for the government next year. yeah, it’s all gonna kick off when all the nit-picky foreigners hit the PRC, peeking under the rug at all the dust that’s been swept there.

this week’s banner unfurling on the great wall (and other antics) were just a taster of the between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place difficulties coming for the government next year.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6675 Ryan Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:08:43 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6675 Hey Chris, credit doesn't belong to me for the photoshop'd photo - if you click on it, you'll see the caption has a link to the <a>Flickr account where I found it</a>. Though I agree on a wider-scale you're right in what the Tank Man photo means to a lot of people, however, it is the most easily identifiable photo of the Tiananmen "incident" - which is surely why it was used to represent how China/Beijing has (or hasn't) changed. Hey Chris, credit doesn’t belong to me for the photoshop’d photo - if you click on it, you’ll see the caption has a link to the Flickr account where I found it.

Though I agree on a wider-scale you’re right in what the Tank Man photo means to a lot of people, however, it is the most easily identifiable photo of the Tiananmen “incident” - which is surely why it was used to represent how China/Beijing has (or hasn’t) changed.

]]> By: Chris http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6665 Chris Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:55:13 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6665 I agree with you about the anti-climax. The hype is just too great. When it's all over, the silence will be deafening. One criticism about your PS'ed photo: I don't think it works. That photo is a celebration of one man's defiant stance against repression, not, as I think would be more suitable to your purpose, a condemnation of the repression itself. I agree with you about the anti-climax. The hype is just too great. When it’s all over, the silence will be deafening.

One criticism about your PS’ed photo: I don’t think it works. That photo is a celebration of one man’s defiant stance against repression, not, as I think would be more suitable to your purpose, a condemnation of the repression itself.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6661 Ryan Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:12:55 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6661 Haha, it's completely in reference to the fact that China is treating 2008 as the be-all solve-all for China. The day China emerged. Bah. I spent all morning listening to "We're Ready!" spots on the radio... we get it, you're ready... but your pronunciation is still crap ;-) Haha, it’s completely in reference to the fact that China is treating 2008 as the be-all solve-all for China. The day China emerged. Bah. I spent all morning listening to “We’re Ready!” spots on the radio… we get it, you’re ready… but your pronunciation is still crap ;-)

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6659 Jeremy Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:59:56 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/08/08/2008-a-face-odyssey/#comment-6659 Ryan, Isn't that a bit harsh? Sure to be anti-climatic? There's a decent possibility China will win the Olympics... and whatever place they end up taking you know the rest of 2008 and much of 2009 will be filled with replays of whatever events were won. New heroes in the making... for endless replays on Chinese TV. Ryan,

Isn’t that a bit harsh? Sure to be anti-climatic? There’s a decent possibility China will win the Olympics… and whatever place they end up taking you know the rest of 2008 and much of 2009 will be filled with replays of whatever events were won.

New heroes in the making… for endless replays on Chinese TV.

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