China Beat Archive
Date of this Version
5-2-2008
Document Type
Article
Citation
May 2, 2008 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/
Abstract
1) Some Questions:
How do you say “I’m from Quebec” in Chinese?
When protesters gathered outside of Carrefour stores in China and sang songs (they must have sung something: one photograph shows someone with a guitar), were any of these reworked versions of “Frere Jacques”?
Why hasn’t anyone commenting on the boycotts of 2008 mentioned the one that took place one hundred years ago?
How can focusing on fried chicken alter our sense of the similarities and differences between the Chinese student protests of 1989, 1999, and 2008?
These are some questions that I either started pondering while I was writing my latest piece for the Nation’s website, which came out recently under the title“Battle of the Beijing Boycotts,” or that I began to think about after it appeared. I’ll explain the background for each question in a minute, but first…
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