terça-feira, março 17, 2009

Tibete - O Momento da Verdade



Em 1950, o exército comunista da República Popular da China invadiu o Tibete sobre o pretexto de salvar a nação tibetana do feudalismo e retomar um território que, historicamente, lhe pertencia. Esta ocupação, de meio século de repressões, dura até aos dias de hoje.
Frédéric Lenoir, historiador das religiões, conta, neste livro, todos os aspectos desta história de aniquilação de um povo por outro povo. Para percebermos todo o âmbito desta situação, o autor contextualiza-nos na História do Tibete e do budismo tibetano, na História da China e do confucionismo, e dos acontecimentos propriamente ditos cujo desfecho levou o Tibete a integrar, à força, a grande República Popular da China.
Um livro que levará a uma melhor compreensão de um dos conflitos mais conhecidos internacionalmente e que estará nas livrarias aquando dos 50 anos de comemoração da revolta, em Lassa, dos Tibetanos contra a invasão chinesa que se comemora a 10 de Março de 2009.

Caleidoscópio

segunda-feira, março 09, 2009

Manobras Perigosas


Cinco navios chineses fizeram manobras perigosas perto de um navio da Marinha norte-americana em águas internacionais, no mar da China Meridional, informou o Pentágono. “Tratou-se de uma manobra imprudente e perigosa”, disse à imprensa em Washington um porta-voz do Departamento da Defesa, Bryan Whitman.

Fonte: Público

Taiwan MND preparing for contacts with China military



The Ministry of National Defense is preparing to set up a think tank for contacts with China's military, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The academic organization would serve as a conduit for contacts designed to raise mutual trust between the two rival nations, the Chinese-language United Evening News reported.

During the rule of President Chen Shui-bian from 2000 to 2008, China rebutted U.S. invitations to meet with Taiwanese military officials in Hawaii, the paper said.

Direct contacts between Taiwanese and Chinese military officers have been rare, even though numerous retired Taiwanese military have visited China for family and business purposes.

The new organization was originally designed to form part of the renowned Institute of International Relations at Taipei's National Chengchi University, but the Cabinet now wants the body to hold an autonomous administrative status, the paper reported.

Fonte: Taiwan Headlines

domingo, março 08, 2009

Postal Ilustrado



Shangai Family Tree (2001) de Zhang Huan

O embaraço de Ma


Ma's thesis contained more than 1,000 mistakes: report

President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) Harvard University doctoral thesis contains more than 1,000 errors that violate the university's freshmen writing guidebook, a report on the Boston-based Web site examiner.com said yesterday.

The news could come as an embarrassment to the president, who prides himself on his English ability and served as former president Chiang Ching-kuo’s (蔣經國) interpreter shortly after graduating.

Ma’s thesis, which discussed issues surrounding the Diaoyutai Islands, was titled Trouble Over Oily Waters: Legal Problems of Seabed Boundaries and Foreign Investments in the East China Sea. It helped Ma graduate from the university's Law School as a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in 1981.

The errors came to light after a retired teacher interested in Ma's views on the islands looked up the thesis, the story said.

It reported that the retired teacher was so shocked at the “sloppy scholarship” that she spent a whole year studying the document and checking all the footnotes.

The results of her work turned up more than 1,000 errors, including misspellings, missing words, grammatical problems and misattributed material and footnotes, the Web site report said.

The report, by Michael Richardson, said that although the teacher had yet to discover evidence of plagiarism, “she is suspicious and continues digging into the paper.”

The teacher had contacted Ma's former faculty advisor, Detlev Vagts, to voice her concerns, the report said.

It added that Vagts, who said he didn't keep a copy of the work, told the teacher in writing: “Although I would like to be helpful with Ma Ying-jeou’s thesis my ability to do so is limited.”

Fonte: Taipei Times