<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505</id><updated>2011-07-08T15:03:13.727+08:00</updated><category term='flash'/><category term='buddhism'/><category term='addiction'/><category term='education'/><category term='Chine'/><category term='litterature'/><category term='cross-strait'/><category term='China'/><category term='Zombie'/><category term='Ricci'/><category term='jesuit'/><category term='Photo'/><category term='chinese youth'/><category term='Chinese'/><category term='nature'/><category term='environment'/><category term='Asia'/><category term='conference'/><category term='développement durable'/><category term='latin america'/><category term='français'/><category term='We generation'/><category term='gouvernement'/><category term='Yangjuan'/><category term='présentation'/><category term='presentation'/><category term='animaux'/><category term='Election'/><category term='amour'/><category term='bob'/><category term='action'/><category term='taipei ricci institute'/><category term='nourriture'/><category term='family'/><category term='Tafalong'/><category term='Jeunesse'/><category term='bicyclette'/><category term='Africa'/><category term='Book'/><category term='grenouille'/><category term='identité'/><category term='dance'/><category term='documentaire'/><category term='eRenlai'/><category term='environnement'/><category term='cambodge'/><category term='International'/><category term='sport'/><category term='Vermander'/><category term='women'/><category term='Cambodia'/><category term='banane'/><category term='Cinema'/><category term='Music'/><category term='beat generation'/><category term='matteo ricci'/><category term='Renlai; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 217px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S76RyBlMyqI/AAAAAAAAAZg/l6-baAdZ18Y/s400/matteo_ricci_anniv_invitation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457960087023569570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;This year marks the fourth hundredth anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;(which occurred on May 11, 1610).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; To commemorate his contribution to East-West cultural exchange and reinforce its commitment to its public service ideals, the National Central Library of Taiwan along with the Taipei Ricci Institute organize events such as the conference of Professor Nicolas Standaert, S.J. (Leuven University): "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sino-European Displacements: The Circulation of Prints between Europe and China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;" which will be held on April 16th in Taipei, at the briefing room of the National Central Library. Professor Standaert is one of the world’s foremost expert on cultural exchanges between Europe and China during the Late Ming and Early Qing dynasties, and will give a richly illustrated conference – do not miss it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-Times New Roman&amp;quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-Times New Roman&amp;quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 16px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Also, by attending this conference you will have the opportunity to be among the first to visit the exhibit around Matteo Ricci held at the aforesaid Library: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Jesuits’ Encounter with Chinese Scholars: A Meeting of East and West -- An Exhibition Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of Matteo Ricci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;. The Institute has been associating with Taiwan National Central Library and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for organizing this exhibit which includes images of pieces held in the treasured collections of the Vatican Library, the headquarters of the Society of Jesus in Rome, the Archives of the Society of Jesus, and the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. The exhibit takes place in a new research room into which the library of the Institute has now been transferred. This research room is also dedicated to the new research focus of the Institute: the development of Pacific studies in Taiwan. (More information &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/riccibase/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=category&amp;amp;layout=blog&amp;amp;id=8&amp;amp;Itemid=14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(82, 154, 210); font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Also, on April 20 at 2.30pm, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Gjon Kolndrekaj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, the director of the documentary film “Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit in the Realm of the Dragon,” and Prof. Antonella Tulli of the Department of Italian Language and Literature at Fu Jen Catholic University have been invited to hold a symposium on the film.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;We hope that you will join us for one or all these events, register &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://activity.ncl.edu.tw/Evn_list.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(82, 154, 210); font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; or contact Meifang Tsai (mei _at_erenlai.com) !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sino-European Displacements: The Circulation of Prints between Europe and China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;by Nicolas Standaert (moderator: Pr. Ping-yi Chu, Academia Sinica)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Time: Friday, April 16, 2010, 16:00-17:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Place: National Central Library, Taipei city, Zhongshan South Road, N.20 1F, Briefing Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;MRT: CKS Memorial Hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Jesuits’ Encounter with Chinese Scholars: A Meeting of East and West -- An Exhibition Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of Matteo Ricci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The exhibit will be opened half an hour before the starting of the conference.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The exhibit formally starts on Saturday 17 and will run till May 16, 2010,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;9:00 -17:00 (Closed on Mondays)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Place: NCL, 6th Floor, Matteo Ricci Pacific Studies Research Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A Meeting with Gjon Kolndrekaj, Film Director: Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit in the Realm of the Dragon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Time: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 14:30-16:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Place: National Central Library, 1st Floor, Briefing Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5679269967071060439?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5679269967071060439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5679269967071060439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2010/04/jesuits-encounter-with-chinese-scholars.html' title='The Jesuits’ Encounter with Chinese Scholars: A Meeting of East and West'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S76RyBlMyqI/AAAAAAAAAZg/l6-baAdZ18Y/s72-c/matteo_ricci_anniv_invitation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4987482384717148700</id><published>2010-03-11T18:47:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T20:37:16.049+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesuit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religion'/><title type='text'>Asian religions in dialogue</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5jjgiQU6YI/AAAAAAAAAZY/GHPjByFDA-Y/s1600-h/Focus_March_2010_interreligious_dialogue_cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447353897395218818" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5jjgiQU6YI/AAAAAAAAAZY/GHPjByFDA-Y/s400/Focus_March_2010_interreligious_dialogue_cropped.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5jKzXOfJjI/AAAAAAAAAZA/3n1qpa7_45c/s1600-h/Focus_March_2010_interreligious_dialogue_cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;eRenlai's March Focus explores the state of inter-religious dialogue within various countries, cultures and grassroots communities in Asia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;We commence our Focus interviewing the Jesuit Jerry Martinson who talks about &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3104&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;meditating with Buddhist monks&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3099&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;dynamics of interfaith dialogue&lt;/a&gt; in Asia through his &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3105&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;experiences&lt;/a&gt; during and after filming the documentary &lt;em&gt;Pilgrims in Dialogue&lt;/em&gt; in 1991. Benoit introduces the concept of '&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;dialogue&lt;/a&gt;' and the current discourse interpreting &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3101&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;religions as languages&lt;/a&gt;, whilst Elise DeVido narrates &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3103&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;religious dialogue in an East Asian context&lt;/a&gt;. eRenlai's specialist on new religions Paul Farrelly, writes on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3096&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;religious tensions within the family&lt;/a&gt; and how &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3097&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;religious leaders&lt;/a&gt; can affect dialogue within the wider community. Sara Husseini introduces her thesis research, evoking &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3095&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;examples of Christian and Muslim scholars&lt;/a&gt; sharing ideas in Basra and Baghdad eleven centuries ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This is also an opportunity to highlight the recent founding of the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3100&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute&lt;/a&gt; at Shanghai's Fudan University. The centre is named after the Shanghai-born scholar and statesman Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) and the Jesuit sinologist Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), whose friendship pioneered the dialogue pursued between China and the West in modern times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5jiyNlYUgI/AAAAAAAAAZI/JZ0TuPzOnVQ/s1600-h/Lichun_Lee_pacific_center-National_central_library_mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5ji-BmNAtI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/fOVRvktMUHA/s1600-h/Lichun_Lee_pacific_center-National_central_library_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 107px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447353304513053394" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5ji-BmNAtI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/fOVRvktMUHA/s200/Lichun_Lee_pacific_center-National_central_library_s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And in January, the Taipei Ricci Institute signed an agreement with Taiwan National Library creating a "&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=3127&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Matteo Ricci - Pacific Studies Reading Room&lt;/a&gt;" within the premises of the library. At the same time (with the support of the library, the Council for Aboriginal Affairs and individual scholars) the TRI is working towards the creation of a "Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies" that will become its main research outlet and focus. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4987482384717148700?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4987482384717148700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4987482384717148700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2010/03/asian-religions-in-dialogue.html' title='Asian religions in dialogue'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S5jjgiQU6YI/AAAAAAAAAZY/GHPjByFDA-Y/s72-c/Focus_March_2010_interreligious_dialogue_cropped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6275301531309812184</id><published>2010-01-06T16:00:00.015+08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T14:18:00.131+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Renlai; litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beat generation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='addiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Nous sommes tous des junkies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RVkOPlv5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/xkoc1zoBri8/s1600-h/0142003166.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 128px; float: left; height: 200px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423553932048056210" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RVkOPlv5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/xkoc1zoBri8/s200/0142003166.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ce mois-ci, la version en chinois de eRenlai/Renlai est consacrée à &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?lan=1"&gt;l'addiction&lt;/a&gt; et aux diverses formes qu'elle prend. En préparation de l'article que l'on m'avait commandé pour ce numéro sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2994&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;la drogue et l'addiction dans la littérature&lt;/a&gt;, j'ai (re-)découvert les classiques: &lt;em&gt;Les Paradis Artificiels&lt;/em&gt; de Baudelaire, et quelques ouvrages de la Beat Generation - difficiles, d'ailleurs, à trouver à Taipei -: &lt;em&gt;Junky&lt;/em&gt; et &lt;em&gt;The Naked Lunch&lt;/em&gt; de William Burroughs (de fait, je n'ai obtenu ces livres qu'après ma deadline et n'ai pu les citer lors de la rédaction de mon papier) et surtout &lt;em&gt;Requiem for a Dream&lt;/em&gt; de Hubert Selby Jr. que j'ai relu avec beaucoup de curiosité sans toutefois revoir le film dont, malgré les ans, je garde un souvenir aigu (Qui n'a pas été traumatisé par ce film?!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cet article et ces diverses lectures ont été pour moi l'occasion de réfléchir sur le statut de la &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RUikj_7-I/AAAAAAAAAYw/2nrU9owcEF0/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 153px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423552804167872482" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RUikj_7-I/AAAAAAAAAYw/2nrU9owcEF0/s200/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;drogue dans nos sociétés et surtout sa signification politique (au sens des liens et des lois qui régissent la cité). Pourquoi criminalisent-on tellement le commerce de la drogue d'abord et ses usagers ensuite? Et, surtout, cette criminalisation à outrance est-elle la meilleure façon d'affonter et de combattre les crimes et les problèmes liés au trafic de drogue et à l'addiction? Sans toutefois céder à la facilité de la légalisation totale, il y a peut-être un juste milieu à trouver qui implique forcément la responsabilité et le devoir civique de chacun. Un gouvernement éclairé et, qui plus est, doté des moyens financiers de le faire, devrait avant tout instruire et éduquer, plutôt qu'interdire et punir aveuglement, voire écarter encore davantage des populations qui vivent déjà dans les marges de la société. Culturellement et médicalement, nous avons pléthore de raisons pour rejeter les drogues: certaines personalités peuvent être affectées de telle manière qu'elles deviennent dangereuses (bien que le danger soit souvent seulement envers soi-même), les drogues nuisent à la productivité (bien que certaines semblent l'accroître au contraire, tout du moins sur le court terme) et surtout ces substances semblent nous transformer d'une manière qui n'est jamais totalement élucidée, elles relèvent aussi en quelque sorte de notre part d'ombre enfouie dans les connexions chimiques de notre cerveau, mais pas seulement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RT_o7ZfXI/AAAAAAAAAYo/eTjfcy-NyDU/s1600-h/heroin_flyer104540--300x450.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 268px; float: left; height: 353px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423552204044336498" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RT_o7ZfXI/AAAAAAAAAYo/eTjfcy-NyDU/s400/heroin_flyer104540--300x450.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Je tiens ainsi à citer l'initiative du Département de la Santé de New York qui vient de faire publier un fascicule de 16 pages à l'intention des héroïnomanes. Intitulé "Take Charge, Take Care", c'est à la fois un guide de prévention et d'information qui donnent 10 conseils et mesures contre les risques d'overdose ou de contamination dues aux mauvaises manipulations des seringues, aiguilles, produits, etc... Ce livret fait l'objet de lourdes critiques car il est perçu par certains comme une incitation à prendre de l'héroïne. En effet, certaines pages ne sont surement pas à mettre entre les mains les plus jeunes, on sait combien les gosses sont aptes aux expérimentations les plus crétines et dangereuses mais il me semble tout de même que c'est mieux que de fermer les yeux sur des pratiques qui existent et qui sont nuisibles car clandestines. Je vous laisse alors exercer votre seul jugement car j'ai confiance en votre capacité à raisonner et à ne pas croire qu'une telle page vous donne envie de vous shooter. 12 pages de la brochure sont disponibles &lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0104101heroin1.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A lire également sur le site eRenlai: &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/media/downloads/Badin_cocaine_dec09.pdf"&gt;Les Hauts et bas de la cocaïne&lt;/a&gt; en français&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6275301531309812184?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6275301531309812184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6275301531309812184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2010/01/nous-sommes-tous-des-junkies.html' title='Nous sommes tous des junkies'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0RVkOPlv5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/xkoc1zoBri8/s72-c/0142003166.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6057802950368626048</id><published>2010-01-05T15:12:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T15:34:23.584+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aborigene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='newsletter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><title type='text'>Goodbye 2009. Hello 2010!</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;(Photo by F. Kersante)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0LqSkIZVjI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/_a2dMxwSWz4/s1600-h/19066_214047707035_547157035_3259887_1244348_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 253px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 295px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423154505964934706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0LqSkIZVjI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/_a2dMxwSWz4/s400/19066_214047707035_547157035_3259887_1244348_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We have now entered 2010, the last of the "Lost Decade" as it has been termed by the German weekly Der Spiegel. At eRenlai, we also ponder over the failures and the successes of the last ten years, and - despite the disappointment caused by &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2944&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the Copenhagen Summit &lt;/a&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2945&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;we are not so pessimistic&lt;/a&gt;. What about you? How would you evaluate the decade? Do not hesitate to share with us your reflections and your stories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our editorials section, Chu-Joe Hsia, an architect, explains &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2985&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the contribution of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2985&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;city-dwelling Aborigines&lt;/a&gt; to urban development in Taiwan, and Pinti shares a documentary shot during &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2950&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;her visit to the Rukai tribe&lt;/a&gt; in Southern Taiwan. Also, we welcome a new member in our team -Paul Farrelly from Australia. Paul offers us &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2999&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;his interpretation of the movie &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by James Cameron. As for myself, I examine the relation between &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2994&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;drugs, addiction and literature&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst A/H1N1 flu is still rife in the world, we dedicate this month’s Foc&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0LrAOREi3I/AAAAAAAAAYg/IYlEUf4BwEU/s1600-h/IFRI_281109_morning3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 127px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423155290369723250" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0LrAOREi3I/AAAAAAAAAYg/IYlEUf4BwEU/s200/IFRI_281109_morning3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;us to the colloquium jointly organised with the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2991&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the best practices for the management of global health outbreaks &lt;/a&gt;which was held on November 28 in Taipei. Watch video excerpts and read accounts of the debate led among academics, practitioners and civil servants:&lt;br /&gt;- K.U. Menon exposes &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2992&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the Singapore experience in managing uncertain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2992&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;ty in a pandemic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Saifullah Khan shares &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2953&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;his experience of health communication&lt;/a&gt; within a big pharmaceutical company.&lt;br /&gt;- Steve Kuo, the Director of Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan, explains &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2993&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the strategies of communication with the Mass Media&lt;/a&gt; in order to strike the balance between alert and panic during a pandemic.&lt;br /&gt;- Alain Vandersmissen, from the Directorate General of the External Relations for the European Commission, introduces &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2987&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the roles and limits of communication&lt;/a&gt;, in the context of global health crises in the European Union. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6057802950368626048?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6057802950368626048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6057802950368626048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2010/01/goodbye-2009-hello-2010.html' title='Goodbye 2009. Hello 2010!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/S0LqSkIZVjI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/_a2dMxwSWz4/s72-c/19066_214047707035_547157035_3259887_1244348_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3611497414484548036</id><published>2009-12-21T14:49:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T15:06:42.267+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate change'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vermander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>Beyond Copenhagen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sy8cBLI22II/AAAAAAAAAYI/1aWnsejVXaY/s1600-h/BV_Copenhagen_Summit_CP1209_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 254px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417579683245381762" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sy8cBLI22II/AAAAAAAAAYI/1aWnsejVXaY/s400/BV_Copenhagen_Summit_CP1209_s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Read Benoit Vermander's take on the Copenhagen Climate conference&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2944&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2944&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3611497414484548036?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3611497414484548036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3611497414484548036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/12/beyond-copenhagen.html' title='Beyond Copenhagen'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sy8cBLI22II/AAAAAAAAAYI/1aWnsejVXaY/s72-c/BV_Copenhagen_Summit_CP1209_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8841944002137466578</id><published>2009-11-25T16:59:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T17:22:04.736+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Not too late to register!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Swz2_X26Q2I/AAAAAAAAAX4/JbRg16MYWag/s1600/Poster_IFRI_r.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 283px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407968821161640802" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Swz2_X26Q2I/AAAAAAAAAX4/JbRg16MYWag/s400/Poster_IFRI_r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last days to register to the international seminar jointly organised by the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) and the Ricci Institute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Communication is key!&lt;br /&gt;Best practises from the management of global health outbreaks &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Provisional Program&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09:00 – 09:45 Opening address&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHANG Shan-chwen&lt;/strong&gt;, Deputy Minister, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dominique DAVID&lt;/strong&gt;, Executive Director, Ifri, France&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patrick BONNEVILLE&lt;/strong&gt;, Director, French Institute in Taipei&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KU Karl Min&lt;/strong&gt;, General Director, National Central Library, Taiwan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09:45 – 11:15 FIRST SESSION&lt;br /&gt;Highlighting the crucial importance of communication&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Speakers: &lt;strong&gt;Alain VANDERSMISSEN&lt;/strong&gt;, Avian Influenza External Response Coordinator, European Commission, DG RELEX, Belgium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;From a global response to Avian Influenza, through Pandemic A/H1N!, to “One Health”. Roles and limits of communication&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHAN Chang-chuan&lt;/strong&gt;, Director, International Health Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Risk communication in Taiwan’s public health policy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Discussant:&lt;strong&gt; Benoît VERMANDER,&lt;/strong&gt; Director of the RICCI Institute, Professor at the Fu Dan University, Shanghai&lt;br /&gt;Chair: &lt;strong&gt;CHEN Chien-jen&lt;/strong&gt;, Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;1:30 – 13:00 SECOND SESSION&lt;br /&gt;Horizontal communication: ensuring fluid information exchanges between decision-makers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Speakers: &lt;strong&gt;KU Menon&lt;/strong&gt;, Director, National Resilience division, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dealing with uncertainty in the management of a pandemic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHANG Tung-fu&lt;/strong&gt;, Acting Director, Bureau of International Cooperation, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;Sharing information at the global level: the role and constraints of WHO&lt;br /&gt;Discussant: &lt;strong&gt;Aline LEBOEUF&lt;/strong&gt;, Head, Health and Environment programme, French Institute for International Relations, France&lt;br /&gt;Chair: &lt;strong&gt;CHIU Jong-jen&lt;/strong&gt;, Director General, Department of European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;13:15 – 14:15 Lunch&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14:30 – 16:00 THIRD SESSION&lt;br /&gt;The right message and the right vector for the right audience: vertical and transversal communication to the public&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speakers: &lt;strong&gt;Muhiuddin HAIDER&lt;/strong&gt;, Associate professor, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, US&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Public health communication in times of crisis – bottom- up and transversal dynamics.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KUO Hsu-sung&lt;/strong&gt;, Director, Taiwan Centres for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Striking the balance between alert and panic. Cooperation with the mass media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Discussant: &lt;strong&gt;Son Kim PHAN&lt;/strong&gt;, Health Journalist, Saigon, Marketing Newspaper, Vietnam*&lt;br /&gt;Chair: &lt;strong&gt;CHIANG Han-sun&lt;/strong&gt;, Vice-president for Medical Affairs, President of the faculty of medicine, Fu jen university, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;16:15 – 17:45 FOURTH SESSION&lt;br /&gt;Looking for innovative ways to communicate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: &lt;strong&gt;Deborah EDELMAN&lt;/strong&gt;, Founder &amp;amp; Director Public Health Media, Inc., US&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Channelling the buzz or going for viral communication?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WU Yi-chen&lt;/strong&gt;, Professor, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan (R.O.C)*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Innovative risk communication. Lessons from the SARS and other public health crisis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Discussant: &lt;strong&gt;Saifullah KHAN&lt;/strong&gt;, Development Manager, Glaxo Smith Kline, Pakistan&lt;br /&gt;Chair: &lt;strong&gt;CHEN Tzay-Jinn&lt;/strong&gt;, Deputy Minister, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;7:45 Concluding address&lt;br /&gt;Best practises for public health crisis communication:&lt;br /&gt;lessons after the 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHIU Wen-hsiang&lt;/strong&gt;, Head, Department of Health, Taipei City Government, Taiwan (R.O.C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amin SOEBANDRIO&lt;/strong&gt;, Senior Advisor for Food and Health, Ministry for Research and Technology; Chairman, Expert Panel of the National Committee for Bird Flu and Pandemic Preparedness, Republic of Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* To be confirmed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Place: National Central Library, 3F, Conference Hall, Educational Area&lt;br /&gt;MRT: CKS Memorial Hall&lt;br /&gt;Time: Saturday November 28th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact and registration:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meifang Tsai &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:mei@erenlai.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mei@erenlai.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gloria Liu &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:gloria@come2meet.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;gloria@come2meet.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;報名表/Registration Form&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;姓/Surname：&lt;br /&gt;名/First Name：&lt;br /&gt;單位/Organization：&lt;br /&gt;職稱/Position：&lt;br /&gt;電話/Tel：&lt;br /&gt;Email：&lt;br /&gt;餐食需求Meal Requirements：□一般No Special Requirements □素食Vegetarian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;請回傳至大會秘書處Please return this form to the Conference Secretariat 劉玨岑小姐 (Gloria Liu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:gloria@come2meet.com"&gt;gloria@come2meet.com&lt;/a&gt; Tel: 02-2508-1825分機116 Fax: 02-2508-3570&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;※ 歡迎踴躍報名參加，全程免費並備有中英文同步翻譯 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/conference"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.erenlai.com/conference&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8841944002137466578?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8841944002137466578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8841944002137466578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/11/not-too-late-to-register.html' title='Not too late to register!!!!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Swz2_X26Q2I/AAAAAAAAAX4/JbRg16MYWag/s72-c/Poster_IFRI_r.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6156801205471563371</id><published>2009-11-13T10:04:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T15:07:09.813+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='newsletter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Taiwan Colour Code</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzAmTcjuzI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/P8rmnO5bnAw/s1600-h/LuoChaoyun_user.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 73px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 77px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403405417225370418" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzAmTcjuzI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/P8rmnO5bnAw/s400/LuoChaoyun_user.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As we enter the winter season in the Northern hemisphere and we've all come down with viruses, flues and other boo-hoo's, eRenlai is still on full speed and we have our very own cocktail of vitamins to ease you through the freeze. This month's edition has an artistic and contemplative flavour as we introduce you three talented and original musicians. &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2779&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Yaping Wang&lt;/a&gt; is a young Taiwanese female composer w&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzA06mwrcI/AAAAAAAAAXY/QwQPJC9Ayvg/s1600-h/Erdem_Helvacioglu_user.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 84px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 84px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403405668255313346" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzA06mwrcI/AAAAAAAAAXY/QwQPJC9Ayvg/s320/Erdem_Helvacioglu_user.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ho tells us how she discovered her vocation, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2776&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Luo Chao-yun&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Pipawoman) likes to merge her&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzA-J_vF9I/AAAAAAAAAXg/QbIK1xwfLIU/s1600-h/WangYaping_user.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 73px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 71px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403405827005421522" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzA-J_vF9I/AAAAAAAAAXg/QbIK1xwfLIU/s320/WangYaping_user.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; experimental music with musicians from all over the world, including &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2775&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Erdem Helvacioglu&lt;/a&gt;, a Turkish guitarist and musical engineer with whom she has recently recorded an album in Istanbul. This music, together with Yaping's is provided in the printed edition of Renlai Magazine in Taiwan (email me for more info or to get the CD).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the editorial section, Benoit Vermander comforts us with his own interpretation of &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2747&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Bodily Pains&lt;/a&gt;, before taking on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2748&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the challenges of the Catholic Church in Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;. From Nick's travels in Java he brings you back sun and poetry in &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2777&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;a video of Yoyo Jewe on the Progo River&lt;/a&gt;. Furthermore, Marcos Gava depicts the murky world of Buenos Aires in the surroundings of the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2751&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Recoleta cemetery&lt;/a&gt; and Adam Materna rants against &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2778&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the absurdities of the world&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzBOl83cTI/AAAAAAAAAXo/os_FNCTZm30/s1600-h/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 272px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 181px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403406109387485490" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzBOl83cTI/AAAAAAAAAXo/os_FNCTZm30/s320/2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our Focus invites you to a poetic and pictorial exploration of Taiwan through its '&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2781&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;colour code'&lt;/a&gt;: if you had to express one feeling or one recollection with a colour, which tint would it be? You could stop one moment, close your eyes and think of a landscape or the immediate environment you’re in, what is the first image to appear in your mind? Is it only a picture? Could it be a sound, a smell, a feeling? Here, we would like to offer you a &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2780&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;synesthetic experience&lt;/a&gt; through associations of colours, sensations and memories, starting for example with &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2816&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Grey and Pink&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope that you will enjoy this issue as much as we did preparing it and we wish you an excellent month of November.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6156801205471563371?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6156801205471563371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6156801205471563371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/11/taiwan-colour-code.html' title='Taiwan Colour Code'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SvzAmTcjuzI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/P8rmnO5bnAw/s72-c/LuoChaoyun_user.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1499755694872729275</id><published>2009-10-22T14:04:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:11:58.990+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>A Land of Steel and Iron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/St_3jpgqjUI/AAAAAAAAAXI/3O1AAaxE3Bw/s1600-h/mini_panzhihua_az_011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395303070423485762" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/St_3jpgqjUI/AAAAAAAAAXI/3O1AAaxE3Bw/s400/mini_panzhihua_az_011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amazing pictures of China: '&lt;a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/?ref=global-home"&gt;Showcase: Infernal Landscapes&lt;/a&gt;' by Lu Guang on the impacts of industrialization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also watch the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=845&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;flash animation introducing the city of Panzhihua&lt;/a&gt; (Sichuan) on eRenlai.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1499755694872729275?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1499755694872729275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1499755694872729275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/10/land-of-steel-and-iron.html' title='A Land of Steel and Iron'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/St_3jpgqjUI/AAAAAAAAAXI/3O1AAaxE3Bw/s72-c/mini_panzhihua_az_011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4146091722697630702</id><published>2009-10-19T14:08:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T15:08:01.638+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dictionnaire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Book'/><title type='text'>Publication des Ecrits chrétiens chinois conservés à la BNF</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwC8wweX9I/AAAAAAAAAXA/PY-VXPSjgXI/s1600-h/26Ecrits_Chretiens.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394189696586637266" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwC8wweX9I/AAAAAAAAAXA/PY-VXPSjgXI/s400/26Ecrits_Chretiens.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Au début octobre, l’Institut Ricci de Taipei a publié une collection de 26 volumes d’écrits chrétiens chinois conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Les éditeurs de la collection sont Nicoals Standaert et Ad Dudink (Université de Louvain) et Nathalie Monnet (Bibliothèque nationale de France)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tous les textes reproduits ici ont été publiés ou écrits avant 1820, et sont uniques ou très rares. La présente publication reproduit quelque 190 textes, qui ont été classés par sujet. Ils reflètent les préoccupations des publications chinoises sur la science occidentale et la religion aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ces écrits couvrent un large éventail de sujets tels que l'anatomie, la philosophie aristotélicienne, la géographie et l'astronomie, ou encore un traité sur les tremblements de terre, des biographies des missionnaires et les convertis, des mémoriaux et des édits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'histoire de la collection chinoise conservée à la Bibliothèque nationale de France s'étend sur trois siècles. Les quatre premiers imprimés chinois entrés dans la Bibliothèque Royale en 1668, grâce à l’achat de la collection de Mazarin (1602-1661). Plus tard, en 1684, Philippe Couplet S.J. (1624-1692), accompagné par un converti chinois, Michael Shen Fuzong, offre plusieurs volumes à Louis XIV lors de leur audience avec lui à Versailles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En 1697, la Bibliothèque royale ajoute une importante collection de livres chinois: 312 fascicules cousus, portant sur 22 titres, que Joachim Bouvet S.J. (1656-1730) rapporte de Chine. En 1700, à son retour de Chine, Jean de Fontaney S.J. (1643-171) ramène d’authentiques écrits de cour publiés par l’Imprimerie impériale située dans la Cité Interdite. En 1708, 113 nouveaux volumes, de très belles éditions en mandchou, sont incorporés à la Bibliothèque. Rédigé en français, le premier catalogue de ces écrits a été établie par Huang Jialüe (Arcade Hoamge ou Hoang), quelques mois avant sa mort en1716. Huang est né en Xinghua (Putian) dans la province de Fujian en 1679 et élevé par des missionnaires pour devenir prêtre. Il vient en France en compagnie de Mgr Artus de Lionne, MdPE (1655-1713), et vit à Paris de 1711 à 1716.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cette publication est donc un témoignage fascinant sur l'histoire du christianisme chinois ainsi que sur une collection unique conservé dans l'une des plus grandes bibliothèques du monde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Renseignements : &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:riccitpe@seed.net.tw"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;riccitpe@seed.net.tw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Achat online: '&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bz1st2buy.com/servlet/the-116/Chinese-Christian-Texts-from/Detail"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese Christian Texts from the National Library of France&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4146091722697630702?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4146091722697630702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4146091722697630702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/10/publication-des-ecrits-chretiens.html' title='Publication des Ecrits chrétiens chinois conservés à la BNF'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwC8wweX9I/AAAAAAAAAXA/PY-VXPSjgXI/s72-c/26Ecrits_Chretiens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3886282169699062474</id><published>2009-10-19T13:59:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T14:07:47.456+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesuit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Book'/><title type='text'>eRenlai celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Forget moon cakes this Mid-Autumn festival, for surprises that won't disappoint you take a bite into eRenlai and the latest fruits of the Taipei Ricci Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwB7Q_luYI/AAAAAAAAAWw/U1pX3wbLD5A/s1600-h/TaleImageHome.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 138px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394188571368601986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwB7Q_luYI/AAAAAAAAAWw/U1pX3wbLD5A/s200/TaleImageHome.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Start with our new resource website &lt;strong&gt;Tale Image&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.tale-image.com/"&gt;http://www.tale-image.com/&lt;/a&gt;). Tale Image gathers tales and collections of pictures on people and places in the Chinese world, and offers you unique, ready to publish material on community leaders, spiritual experiences and creative social experiments in China, Taiwan and other parts of Asia. The website will be progressively enriched (with your contributions also, we hope) and aims at becoming a world-wide resource centre for a more narrative approach to developmental, cultural and spiritual issues. (For more information contact Cerise at &lt;a href="mailto:cerise@erenlai.com"&gt;cerise@erenlai.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you with empty book shelves: the Taipei Ricci Institute is publishing 26volumes of primary Chinese sources (pre-1820's) from the National Library of France. They cover a wide range of subjects from history to edicts and memorials, from anatomy to biographies of the first missionaries and the first converts to Christianity in China. This publication is a unique collection and a testimony to the history of Chinese Christianity. The collection is now available at the eRenlai online store &lt;a href="http://www.bz1st2buy.com/servlet/the-116/Chinese-Christian%2C-National-Library/Detail"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or you can contact &lt;strong&gt;riccitpe@seed.net.tw&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwCBzbrrYI/AAAAAAAAAW4/uvWNTr4ru4w/s1600-h/Untitled-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 100px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394188683692453250" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwCBzbrrYI/AAAAAAAAAW4/uvWNTr4ru4w/s200/Untitled-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For this month’s Focus, an array of videos and articles provide you with a look into the fascinating culture of the little known &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2728&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Qiang minority group&lt;/a&gt;, deep in the mountains of Northwestern Sichuan. Spend a moment with the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2730&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Wang family&lt;/a&gt; and learn how they are undertaking the reconstruction of their house following the 2008 &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2729&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;earthquake&lt;/a&gt;. And witness the cultural revival that is accompanying such reconstruction work, through &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2732&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;rituals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2731&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;crafts and weaving&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our editorial section, read about the history of &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2727&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Tushanwan Training Studio and Orphanage&lt;/a&gt; established in 1852 by Jesuit missionaries in Shanghai, be led on a stroll through &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2725&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Suzhou's sublime gardens&lt;/a&gt; by Benoit Vermander or wake yourself up with some &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2724&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Ersu chants&lt;/a&gt; filmed by Liang Zhun. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3886282169699062474?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3886282169699062474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3886282169699062474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/10/erenlai-celebrates-mid-autumn-festival.html' title='eRenlai celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/StwB7Q_luYI/AAAAAAAAAWw/U1pX3wbLD5A/s72-c/TaleImageHome.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8834515746130051831</id><published>2009-09-10T15:44:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T16:15:16.434+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zombie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinema'/><title type='text'>The Flow of Fear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqi07KOD1KI/AAAAAAAAAWo/gR6SIh5zqko/s1600-h/Cover63.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 145px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379748683342664866" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqi07KOD1KI/AAAAAAAAAWo/gR6SIh5zqko/s200/Cover63.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Renlai's Monthly September issue differs slighltly from eRenlai's Focus ( &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2612&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;The Seven Crises of Humankind&lt;/a&gt;) as its subject is "The Flow of Fear" (&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1&amp;amp;pid=4&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;恐懼流映&lt;/a&gt;), starting with the fear of pandemics in the context of globalization. I had been asked then to contribute an article on that subject and I chose to describe and analyze fear in the zombies and post-apocalyptic movies of Hollywood from the last two decades. I have to confess that I suffered a bit while 'doing my researches' on the subject as I had to watch in a relatively short time a bunch of movies starring living-dead people and pandemics, which were quite of unequal quality. Finally I made my choice on these 5 movies: &lt;em&gt;Outbreak&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;28 Days Later&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Extinction&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/em&gt;. I hope I could convey in my article that that choice was not completely arbitrary as I tried to underline certain common features of these different films.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/media/downloads/Cerise_FearInTheApocalypticMovies.pdf"&gt;Fear in the post-apocalyptic movies of the 90’s-2000's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, not directly related but still enjoyable: here is a video clip (in 'hommage' to John Carpenter) by Zombie Zombie, a French band which actually performed last year at the Fulong Festival in Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rT7AH4JyuNs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rT7AH4JyuNs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8834515746130051831?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8834515746130051831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8834515746130051831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/09/flow-of-fear.html' title='The Flow of Fear'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqi07KOD1KI/AAAAAAAAAWo/gR6SIh5zqko/s72-c/Cover63.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5026909151183436784</id><published>2009-09-10T15:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.476+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><title type='text'>Les Sept Crises de l'Humanité - Lettre d'information eRenlai Septembre 09</title><content type='html'>Chers amis,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqit7kqTyiI/AAAAAAAAAWY/rgs8rNXqkNU/s1600-h/BV_sevencrises.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 127px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379740993859078690" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqit7kqTyiI/AAAAAAAAAWY/rgs8rNXqkNU/s200/BV_sevencrises.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;C'est dans l'adversité que nous découvrons nos faiblesses et nos forces, notre petitesse et notre grandeur. L'homme peut plier et succomber, cependant, selon la formule de Blaise Pascal, "il est un roseau pensant. [...] Quand l'univers l'écraserait, l'homme serait encore plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait qu'il meurt, et l'avantage que l'univers a sur lui, l'univers n'en sait rien". Ainsi, essayons d'user de toutes nos facultés, pour agir, réagir, formuler nos pensées et les partager... Réfléchissons ainsi avec Benoît Vermander sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2650&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;les conséquences du typhon Morakot&lt;/a&gt; qui a récemment dévasté Taiwan. De même, apprenons-en plus sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2598&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l'aide communautaire dans le village de Zhongliao&lt;/a&gt; (Taiwan) et, avec Marcos Gava, un nouveau contributeur d'Argentine, imaginons ensemble &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2636&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;comment pourraient être recyclés et réhabilités nos déchets électroniques&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SqitmNyeL0I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/6jTkZEhuNEk/s1600-h/7Crisis_Focus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379740626942046018" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SqitmNyeL0I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/6jTkZEhuNEk/s320/7Crisis_Focus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le Focus de ce mois-ci nous invite à prendre les crises que nous affrontons dans leur globalité. Benoît Vermander recourt au mythe &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2612&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;d'Hercule et de l'hydre de Lerne&lt;/a&gt; pour évoquer l'imbrication des problèmes auxquels est confrontée l'humanité aujourd'hui. Conduits par cette pensée, les contributeurs d'eRenlai font part de leurs idées sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2603&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l'amenuisement des terres arables en Chine&lt;/a&gt; (Cerise), sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2648&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;les aspects positifs et négatifs de la titrisation&lt;/a&gt; (Felipe Lozano); ou encore, nous vous proposons une lecture de la dernière encyclique papale, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2629&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Caritas in Veritate&lt;/a&gt;, un texte qui devrait intéresser les économistes et les banquiers. Par ailleurs, Nick Coulson expose son intérêt pour le &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2649&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;glanage&lt;/a&gt;, un concept et une pratique qui semblent pouvoir couper plusieurs têtes de l'hydre à la fois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et afin de nous sortir un peu de la tourmente, nous vous invitons à une petite escapade musicale: découvrez &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2633&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l'Orchestre de Musique Traditionnelle Chinoise de Shanghai&lt;/a&gt;, une formation qui mélange les genres, les lieux et les époques. Suivez aussi Nakao Eki au Festival de Musique de Salzbourg où résonne la sonate des "&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2605&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Trilles du Diable&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous espérons que ce numéro d'eRenlai vous donnera de l'énergie pour démarrer la nouvelle année scolaire. Restez en ligne car nous vous réservons encore des surprises très prochainement. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5026909151183436784?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5026909151183436784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5026909151183436784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/09/les-sept-crises-de-l-lettre-d-erenlai.html' title='Les Sept Crises de l&amp;#39;Humanité - Lettre d&amp;#39;information eRenlai Septembre 09'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sqit7kqTyiI/AAAAAAAAAWY/rgs8rNXqkNU/s72-c/BV_sevencrises.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6078739728611268180</id><published>2009-07-22T16:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.497+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vermander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Un peintre sichuanais croque Taiwan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbLO_AXjPI/AAAAAAAAAWI/w5I-akoaDUs/s1600-h/LJY001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 100px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361195864722738418" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbLO_AXjPI/AAAAAAAAAWI/w5I-akoaDUs/s320/LJY001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cet été, nous vous invitons à découvrir Taiwan à travers les dessins et croquis du &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2558&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;peintre sichuanais Li Jinyuan&lt;/a&gt;. Ami de longue date de l’Institut Ricci et d’eRenlai, il a accepté notre invitation et est ainsi venu passer trois semaines sur l’île qu’il a visitée de fond en comble ! Il a été particulièrement inspiré par la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2518&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;côte Est&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2519&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l’île &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2519&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;des Orchidées&lt;/a&gt;, par la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2548&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;forêt séculaire d’Alishan&lt;/a&gt;, la beauté majestueuse de &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=666&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;la montagne de Jade&lt;/a&gt; et les &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2507&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;scènes urbaines de Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ses dessins reflètent de manière captivante &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2559&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;la beauté naturelle de Taiwan et de ses habitants&lt;/a&gt; ainsi que la façon dont &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=107&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;un peintre chinois&lt;/a&gt; réagit face à un environnement qui lui est à la fois proche et &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbK6lzPzxI/AAAAAAAAAWA/fCeukZcQC8M/s1600-h/LJY12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 191px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361195514359435026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbK6lzPzxI/AAAAAAAAAWA/fCeukZcQC8M/s320/LJY12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;étranger. Car il ne s’agit pas seulement d’évoquer l’art de la peinture mais aussi l’interaction culturelle, ce que l’on a ou non en commun… Par ailleurs, Li Jinyuan est avant tout un artiste remarquable et les nombreux croquis qu’il a réalisés durant son voyage sont aussi un superbe cadeau que nous vous offrons pour stimuler votre créativité et nourrir votre inspiration !&lt;br /&gt;Vous pourrez découvrir dans notre section éditoriale deux nouveaux contributeurs : Nick Coulson, qui a assisté à &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2560&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;la reconstruction des maisons de la tribu Sa’owac dans le comté de Taoyuan&lt;/a&gt; près de Taipei, et Cireneo Matulac qui a accompagné des membres de &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2556&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l’ONG « New China Link » dans un village de la province de Guizhou&lt;/a&gt;. Jacques Duraud nous rapporte des nouvelles du &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2557&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;village de Yangjuan&lt;/a&gt; où les problèmes d’approvisionnement en eau potable sont toujours présents. Depuis le 1er juillet, Ma Ying-jeou cumule les fonctions de président de Taiwan et de son parti, le KMT, Benoît Vermander s’interroge sur la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2493&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;résilience du modèle de gouvernance instauré par un Etat-Parti&lt;/a&gt;. Par ailleurs, Roy Berman nous fait visiter le « &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2547&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Temple des Liens Rompus&lt;/a&gt; » à Kyoto.&lt;br /&gt;E&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbKpcBSJ7I/AAAAAAAAAV4/Qqgn8Ao_9Bo/s1600-h/img128.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 100px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361195219676178354" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbKpcBSJ7I/AAAAAAAAAV4/Qqgn8Ao_9Bo/s200/img128.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;n outre, le père André Lefebvre, un jésuite canadien enseignant la psychologie à Taiwan, a compilé sur le thème de la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2492&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;psychologie transpersonnelle&lt;/a&gt; une bibliographie gigantesque totalisant plus de 22 000 titres sur plus de 1000 pages. La bibliographie est consultable sur notre site &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/media/downloads/ALefebvreTranspersonal_r.pdf"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Nous vous souhaitons un très bel été, restez en ligne sur eRenlai car nous vous réservons encore des petites surprises tout au long des deux prochains mois !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6078739728611268180?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6078739728611268180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6078739728611268180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/07/un-peintre-sichuanais-croque-taiwan.html' title='Un peintre sichuanais croque Taiwan'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmbLO_AXjPI/AAAAAAAAAWI/w5I-akoaDUs/s72-c/LJY001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2331596038305055974</id><published>2009-07-07T11:15:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T15:43:09.173+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>The place I call Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmVwgQRHPtI/AAAAAAAAAVo/5qpLrx5REG4/s1600-h/LiReKui_twoshore.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 254px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360814630879313618" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmVwgQRHPtI/AAAAAAAAAVo/5qpLrx5REG4/s400/LiReKui_twoshore.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Drawing of Taiwan by &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2559&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Li Jinyuan&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Being an expatriate forces you to redefine your landmarks: new country, new language, new customs, new food, new landscapes. But everybody's ability to adapt one self to an alien environment is not so flexible. Some might just bring along with them, their items, their different habits of the previous life they have been accustomed to during twenty, thirty, fourty years... Some will just try to recreate the exact same life they were living &lt;em&gt;back-there&lt;/em&gt; and no one can blame them for doing so because nobody questions the need "to feel home".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Living in Taiwan for more than four years now, I realize that Taipei is now my home &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt;: I work here, have my bank account here, my social insurance, some friends...People say my Chinese is very acceptable (although I keep thinking that my Chinese is never good enough), I can perfectly cope with my life here. But still, I don't know what is a real home, is it that mental edifice that puts a roof above my head and walls around me? Is it the place where I feel warm and protected? Could it be the territory of my ancestors? But where are my ancestors after all? The history of my family is like scattered pieces, a real puzzle and "casse-tête chinois". Being in Taipei and rubbing myself with Chinese culture, I think I can understand a bit better my mother but I am not yet convinced that I am &lt;em&gt;home. &lt;/em&gt;Physically, I don't have any home in Paris except my mother's one which is also my childhood's one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The place I call Home might still be imaginary but it is as real as a poem. Let's just relax and follow Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage":&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;My child, my sister,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Think of the rapture&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Of living together there! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Of loving at will, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Of loving till death,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;In the land that is like you! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The misty sunlight &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Of those cloudy skies&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Has for my spirit the charms, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So mysterious, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Of your treacherous eyes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Shining brightly through their tears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;There all is order and beauty,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Luxury, peace, and pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Gleaming furniture,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Polished by the years,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Will ornament our bedroom;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The rarest flowers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Mingling their fragrance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;With the faint scent of amber,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The ornate ceilings,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The limpid mirrors,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The oriental splendor,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All would whisper there&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Secretly to the soul&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;In its soft, native language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;There all is order and beauty,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Luxury, peace, and pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;See on the canals &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Those vessels sleeping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Their mood is adventurous;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;It's to satisfy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Your slightest desire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;That they come from the ends of the earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;— The setting suns&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Adorn the fields,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The canals, the whole city,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;With hyacinth and gold;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The world falls asleep&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;In a warm glow of light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;There all is order and beauty,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Luxury, peace, and pleasure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(Translated by William Aggeler, 1954)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;______________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;This post was triggered by Nick Coulson 's article on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2560&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Lumah!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2331596038305055974?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2331596038305055974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2331596038305055974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/07/place-i-call-home.html' title='The place I call Home'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SmVwgQRHPtI/AAAAAAAAAVo/5qpLrx5REG4/s72-c/LiReKui_twoshore.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2851068786068596936</id><published>2009-06-08T10:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.509+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jeunesse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><title type='text'>My Only Love</title><content type='html'>Je l'ignorais totalement mais l'un des clips de Bob Sinclar a été tourné à Taipei dans le plus pur style années 90. C'est tout de même amusant de constater que ça n'a pas tant changé en 10 ans, les jeunes se frôlent toujours pudiquement la main dans le métro en se regardant avec des yeux de veau alangui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Only Love de Bob Sinclar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k24JgtQdx6s3Ahd2qk"&gt;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k24JgtQdx6s3Ahd2qk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N.B. Les scènes ultra kitsch dans les studios télés ne sont qu'une partie de l'iceberg, voir le début du mini-doc sur KPS (eRenlai): &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOmf7qp6sU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOmf7qp6sU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2851068786068596936?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2851068786068596936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2851068786068596936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-only-love.html' title='My Only Love'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8685708090576461670</id><published>2009-06-02T18:40:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T18:50:07.521+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>Alice in Cambodia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiUDodmvOTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H0KD9U_edQM/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342680526621718834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiUDodmvOTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H0KD9U_edQM/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last month, on behalf of eRenlai, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2479&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Alice Lin set off to Cambodia in search of peacemakers&lt;/a&gt;. She brought back a rich array of video materials, interviews and photos that will plunge you into the story and the challenges of the present Cambodian society, I pasted below her letter sent from Phnom Penh:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Dear Cerise,&lt;br /&gt;It is a little more than a week since I arrived in the dusty city of Phnom Penh and I haven’t really found the time to be idle. Phnom Penh is nothing like anything I’ve ever seen in Asia. Moto-dops and tuk-tuks dominate the roads. Speeding is no longer a question but rather the licensing of underage drivers, and the flooding of streets after heavy rain does not help the situation. Just two days ago I conducted my highly-anticipated interview with Francois Ponchaud, author of ‘Cambodia: Year Zero’ and the first to have spoken up against the Khmer Rouge in 1975. We spent the afternoon in a dimly-lit classroom where a barefooted Ponchaud spoke to me of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2458&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;the past &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2459&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;the present Cambodia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. The next day I defied all weather condition and rode to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2463&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;CCH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, an orphanage founded by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2457&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Mech Sokha &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.&lt;br /&gt;Sister Denise Coghlan was another figure on my list of peacemakers, and it wasn’t till our second meeting that I got down to asking her more in-depth questions on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2465&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;her work in banning landmines and cluster bombs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. I was driven around by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2462&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Van Kamol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, a local psychologist and an equally engaging humanitarian in the medical field, whose past project involved caring for HIV-infected children. I hope that the material will show you a different side to the richness and creativity of the socially conscious community in Cambodia.&lt;br /&gt;Love, Alice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiUCRWi_1xI/AAAAAAAAAVY/FwI_pertBDA/s1600-h/bandes.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Alice was busy exploring Phnom Penh, Roy Berman paid a visit to the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2455&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Brazilian community in Toyota city&lt;/a&gt; and contributed an illustrated report on their conditions of living and the increasing tensions between them and the locals. In &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2456&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Rumour and Prevention&lt;/a&gt;, I ponder on the consequences of overly relying on rumours, in particular in the case of the H1N1 pandemic. And if you haven’t had the time to keep track of our weekly video commentary, you will find some in our editorial section: start with Mei’s &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2435&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Taiwanese glance at Shanghai&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8685708090576461670?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8685708090576461670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8685708090576461670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/06/alice-in-cambodia.html' title='Alice in Cambodia'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiUDodmvOTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H0KD9U_edQM/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-547980429991553995</id><published>2009-06-02T18:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-03-16T15:57:58.170+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chinese'/><title type='text'>我看到</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiT_phj4jlI/AAAAAAAAAVA/oCTDCIvGH5M/s1600-h/FunkyLandscape.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342676146816847442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiT_phj4jlI/AAAAAAAAAVA/oCTDCIvGH5M/s400/FunkyLandscape.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;appel raté à 3 heures du matin, insomnie matinale, essai de traduction d'un texte sur l'amitié&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;Extrait de &lt;em&gt;Panorama de la vie humaine&lt;/em&gt;, Yu Qiuyu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu que sous la plus sublime des lueurs lunaires, les vallées sont des déserts&lt;br /&gt;Et que les bras les plus intimes étreignent des amitiés orphelines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu que les plus belles rencontres au soir de sa vie sont les adversaires de sa jeunesse&lt;br /&gt;Et que les vieilles rancœurs les plus tenaces sont dirigées envers les amis de longue date&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu que les pactes les plus fermes sont conclus par intérêt&lt;br /&gt;Et que les séparations les plus nettes sont décidées par amour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu qu’il est plus aisé de se réconcilier après une guerre de cent ans&lt;br /&gt;Que d’oublier un mot fâcheux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu que les amitiés les plus quelconques s’exacerbent dans les flots de l’alcool&lt;br /&gt;Tandis que les affections les plus nobles s’épurent sous les traits d’un pinceau pudique&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu que les gens de peu se précipitent au chevet des mourants&lt;br /&gt;Quand les vrais amis n’apprennent les mauvaises nouvelles qu’au dernier instant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;《人生風景》（余秋雨）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，被最美的月光籠罩著的，總是荒蕪的山谷。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，被最密集的「朋友」簇擁著的，總是友情的孤兒。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最興奮的晚年相晤，總是不外於昔日敵手。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最怨憤的蒼老歎息，總是針對著早年的好友。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最堅固的結盟，大多是由於利益。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最決絕的分離，大多是由於情感。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最容易和解的，是百年血戰。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最不能消解的，是半句齟齬。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最低俗的友情被滔滔的酒水浸泡著，越泡越大。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最典雅的友情被矜持的水筆描畫著，越描越淡。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最早到臨終床前的，總是小人。&lt;br /&gt;我看到，最後被告知噩耗的，總是摯友。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-547980429991553995?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/547980429991553995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/547980429991553995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html' title='我看到'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SiT_phj4jlI/AAAAAAAAAVA/oCTDCIvGH5M/s72-c/FunkyLandscape.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7488476755014449168</id><published>2009-05-06T10:23:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.536+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grenouille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Ecoutez le chant des grenouilles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgD20OGoI4I/AAAAAAAAAU4/x6cXtnKR904/s1600-h/TWFrog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332533335806190466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgD20OGoI4I/AAAAAAAAAU4/x6cXtnKR904/s200/TWFrog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tititititititiiiiiii.... keurôakeurôa! twoutwou? twoutwoutwou!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'essaye seulement de retranscrire le chant des grenouilles entendu sur &lt;a href="http://www.arteradio.com/"&gt;Arte Radio&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.kalerne.net/yannickdauby/"&gt;Yannick Dauby&lt;/a&gt;, artiste sonore vivant à Taiwan, a enregistré quelques unes des 32 espèces de grenouilles présentes sur l'île... Petite symphonie batracienne pour se plonger dans la moiteur nocturne de Formose (j'ai l'impression que ça se passe la nuit mais j'ai peut-être tort)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Brillants comme les yeux des grenouilles"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arteradio.com/son.html?400770"&gt;http://www.arteradio.com/son.html?400770&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(image empruntée sur ce site: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/biweekly/459/english4.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/biweekly/459/english4.htm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7488476755014449168?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7488476755014449168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7488476755014449168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/05/ecoutez-le-chant-des-grenouilles.html' title='Ecoutez le chant des grenouilles'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgD20OGoI4I/AAAAAAAAAU4/x6cXtnKR904/s72-c/TWFrog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-83786093003872536</id><published>2009-05-05T17:53:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T17:59:25.032+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis'/><title type='text'>Local Power in a Time of Global Crisis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgAM46ofpqI/AAAAAAAAAUo/Q6aReuL3rU4/s1600-h/BV_Localpowers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332276130757977762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgAM46ofpqI/AAAAAAAAAUo/Q6aReuL3rU4/s400/BV_Localpowers.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Premier Wen Jiabao announced at the Boao Forum that China stimulus packing plan is already paying off, though he added that the global recession has not been reversed yet. At eRenlai, we decided to reflect on another way of tackling the current economic turmoil starting with the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2362&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;revitalization of local powers&lt;/a&gt;. Local initiatives engineered by a strong local public sphere might actually foster the emergence of economic and politic experiments. Thus, we explore the vitality of local territories, taking &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2374&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Taipei County&lt;/a&gt; as our research field:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch videos on the &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2355&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;impact of civil participation&lt;/a&gt; or introducing original measures such as the “&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2379&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Trash-Never-Touch&lt;/a&gt;” one.&lt;br /&gt;The project of a &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2363&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Northern Taiwan metropolitan region&lt;/a&gt; may change the way &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2368&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Taipei county is presently governed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enlarging our perspective, Dave Feehan, President of the International Downtown Association (Washington D.C.) exposes in his Flash animation how &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2372&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;flourishing downtowns enhance their surroundings&lt;/a&gt;. Also, Benoit Vermander reflects on the conditions upon which &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2359&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;international events may contribute to urban development&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgANbQSofII/AAAAAAAAAUw/qvLOhc-qHFU/s1600-h/IMG_2953.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332276720687414402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 174px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgANbQSofII/AAAAAAAAAUw/qvLOhc-qHFU/s200/IMG_2953.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In our editorials section a new contributor, Nicolas Pagnier sent us his own text about &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2365&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;consumption&lt;/a&gt; after reading the article &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2295&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;An Economy of Parsimony&lt;/a&gt;. Also watch a Flash animation introducing Yangjie, a Taiwanese woman who takes care of orphans suffering from AIDS. And travel to Northern Vietnam with Guillaume Rosec’s photos of &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2366&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Hmong people&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ahead of &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2393&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the first anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake&lt;/a&gt; (May 12), Liang Zhun shares with us her experience as volunteer in the devastated area and the human lessons to be drawn from this drama.* &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We wish you a merry month of May!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;* For those of yours who live in Shanghai: Liang Zhung will give a conference to introduce her book of pictures on the reconstruction process after the earthquake. This book is sponsored by ‘Lafarge Shui-On’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday May 16, 4pm at Sunbow Art Gallery&lt;/strong&gt;, 3d floor, Building 0, 50 Moganshan Road (Tel. 62993931)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-83786093003872536?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/83786093003872536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/83786093003872536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/05/local-power-in-time-of-global-crisis.html' title='Local Power in a Time of Global Crisis'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SgAM46ofpqI/AAAAAAAAAUo/Q6aReuL3rU4/s72-c/BV_Localpowers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2293411411703830878</id><published>2009-04-23T23:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.550+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vermander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><title type='text'>Une chance sur...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfanvugiBnI/AAAAAAAAAUg/LBv4ZKqVfZA/s1600-h/BV_FiguresReality_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329631647419729522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfanvugiBnI/AAAAAAAAAUg/LBv4ZKqVfZA/s400/BV_FiguresReality_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Photo de &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutantfrog/"&gt;Roy Berman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Le hasard joue des tours auxquels il est parfois bon de se laisser prendre... Il y a deux mois, à un dîner d'amis, alors que je bavarde avec mon voisin de table, nous nous rendons compte mutuellement que nous habitons sur les deux flancs opposés de la même montagne; en guise de plaisanterie, nous nous proposons de nous retrouver un jour au milieu de cette montagne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a deux semaines, alors que je me remettais d'un week-end agité par une marche revigorante dans la montagne derrière chez moi, je rencontre précisèment ce même français à l'endroit que nous nous étions dit et sans nous concerter. En même temps, un ami espagnol rencontré à Taipei mais habitant maintenant à Barcelone rencontre dans une fête mon frère en goguette hors de France pour quelques jours... Je ne peux que reprendre le message de mon pote: "le monde est un mouchoir" (el mundo es un panuelo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fait les statisticiens et faiseurs de probabilités disent que ces rencontres "improbables" sont de simples coïncidences dûes aux lois des "très grands nombres". Ainsi par exemple, il y a de fortes chances qu'un inconnu rencontré lors d'un voyage connaisse aussi une personne qui vous est familière. Comment cela est-il possible? Mettons que deux personnes lambda connaissent 1000 personnes chacune, sur une population de 50 millions d'habitants, elles ont 1 chance sur 50000 de se connaître; les probabilités augmentent encore davantage qu'elles aient un ami commun (1 sur 50) et il ya 99 chances sur 100 qu'elles soient reliées par une chaîne de deux personnes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cependant, ces réponses mathématiques peuvent paraître décevantes au vu de la complexité du réel. Finalement, la manière dont nous interprétons et vivons ces événements a priori fortuits, n'est-elle pas plus intéressante? Faire preuve de scepticisme ne serait une démarche constructive que si nous faisons appel à toutes nos facultés d'analyse...Il en est de même des statistiques dont l'actualité nous abreuve, "privilégier l'usage des chiffres et des statistiques nous rend plus sensibles à la quantité qu'à la qualité" dit Benoît Vermander dans son article (&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2360&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Figures and Reality&lt;/a&gt;), "Les statistiques nous font oublier de nous interroger sur la raison des choses".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainsi, si nous revenons au cas des corrélations arbitraires, ce n'est peut-être pas le caractère fortuit de la rencontre qui importe, mais les suites de cette rencontre et la manière dont cela influera, ou non, sur ma vie. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2293411411703830878?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2293411411703830878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2293411411703830878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/04/une-chance-sur.html' title='Une chance sur...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfanvugiBnI/AAAAAAAAAUg/LBv4ZKqVfZA/s72-c/BV_FiguresReality_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7056695536538407795</id><published>2009-04-23T15:59:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T16:07:25.203+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Event'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricci'/><title type='text'>Taipei Ricci Institute: Book Discount Sale on Saturday April 25th</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfAhErXyf8I/AAAAAAAAAUY/JtzNHsgw9RE/s1600-h/LOGO_Ricci+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327794723424993218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 120px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfAhErXyf8I/AAAAAAAAAUY/JtzNHsgw9RE/s320/LOGO_Ricci+copy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Ricci Institute is organizing a one-day book sale with very special discounts.&lt;br /&gt;The large-scale sale consists of:&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;our own products at very good prices&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;duplicate copies coming from our library, in English, French, Chinese&lt;/strong&gt; and other languages, including some rare books&lt;br /&gt;- numerous general books in good condition ( novels, essays etc...) &lt;strong&gt;from 5NT&lt;/strong&gt; (French, English, Chinese...)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;paintings by Bendu&lt;/strong&gt; (Benoit Vermander) at a special price on that day only&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not hesitate to drop us a visit for you might just uncover a real gem, or at least find something to read in the next few months!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time: &lt;strong&gt;Saturday, April 25, 1:30 pm - 8:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Place: &lt;strong&gt;Tien Educational Center&lt;/strong&gt;, 22 Hsin-hai road, 1st section, first floor&lt;br /&gt;MRT station: Taipower Building, exit 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact: Alexandre Chen (alextmchen at yahoo.fr)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.riccibase.com/"&gt;http://www.riccibase.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7056695536538407795?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7056695536538407795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7056695536538407795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/04/taipei-ricci-institute-book-discount.html' title='Taipei Ricci Institute: Book Discount Sale on Saturday April 25th'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SfAhErXyf8I/AAAAAAAAAUY/JtzNHsgw9RE/s72-c/LOGO_Ricci+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8493213982435817006</id><published>2009-04-09T11:57:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T12:03:45.376+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vermander'/><title type='text'>eRenlai on G20 and the N Korea missile launch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1zaQhqiiI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Yt1659EoitA/s1600-h/BV_G20_London2009_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322537229571754530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 203px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1zaQhqiiI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Yt1659EoitA/s320/BV_G20_London2009_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2356&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Benoit Vermander comments on the G20&lt;/a&gt; summit in London and &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2357&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Alice Lin gives her take on the DPRK missile&lt;/a&gt; that took place on Sunday April 5, 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8493213982435817006?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8493213982435817006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8493213982435817006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/04/erenlai-on-g20-and-n-korea-missile.html' title='eRenlai on G20 and the N Korea missile launch'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1zaQhqiiI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Yt1659EoitA/s72-c/BV_G20_London2009_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-438206911797468508</id><published>2009-04-09T11:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.573+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Imaginer pour changer Taïwan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1xJoNZ0oI/AAAAAAAAAUA/PXyDhbIMKPw/s1600-h/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322534744848192130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 108px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 111px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1xJoNZ0oI/AAAAAAAAAUA/PXyDhbIMKPw/s320/0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Au mois d’avril, nous célébrons le &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2330&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;pouvoir bénéfique de l’imagination&lt;/a&gt;. Qu’il s’agisse du domaine des sciences, des arts ou des mouvements sociaux, rien de nouveau ne peut émerger et encore moins survenir si nous ne sommes pas capables d’imaginer de nouveaux théorèmes, de nouvelles visions, de nouvelles manières d’agir ensemble et de nouveaux rêves pour le futur. En temps de crise, il paraît d’autant plus nécessaire d’imaginer de nouvelles solutions et de nouveaux modes d’action. Aussi le Focus de ce mois-ci est-il dédié à la manière dont certains emploient &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2306&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l’imagination comme force de changement&lt;/a&gt;, en Asie en général et à Taiwan en particulier :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julia K. Anderson nous enjoint à exiger &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2314&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;un peu moins de perfection et un peu plus d’imagination&lt;/a&gt; dans l’éducation des enfants, tandis qu’Andreas Gursch, dans une autre courte vidéo, nous raconte une expérience imaginative mise en œuvre dans la province du Guangdong et faisant appel à la participation civile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1xYLrtvWI/AAAAAAAAAUI/ca4f1Gff3K4/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322534994888736098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1xYLrtvWI/AAAAAAAAAUI/ca4f1Gff3K4/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2310&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;La littérature et la science fiction&lt;/a&gt; ont souvent anticipé les inventions scientifiques ; Hubert Kilian partage sa vision futuristique de &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/media/downloads/HubKilian_25ansapres.pdf"&gt;Taiwan, 25 ans après&lt;/a&gt;. Moi-même, je raconte l’histoire d’un vieil homme qui fait appel à son imagination pour remplacer sa mémoire perdue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos contributeurs ont tous laissé libre cours à leur imagination : ne manquez pas les articles et les photos de &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2326&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Joe Russo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2328&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Bendu&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2300&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Alice Lin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-438206911797468508?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/438206911797468508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/438206911797468508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/04/imaginer-pour-changer-taiwan.html' title='Imaginer pour changer Taïwan'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Sd1xJoNZ0oI/AAAAAAAAAUA/PXyDhbIMKPw/s72-c/0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3709405449779972838</id><published>2009-04-02T22:32:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T23:29:39.566+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>"I dwell in Possibility"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SdTX8qb7ebI/AAAAAAAAAT4/C3LhWwswyeE/s1600-h/emily_dickinson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SdTX8qb7ebI/AAAAAAAAAT4/C3LhWwswyeE/s320/emily_dickinson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320114497014954418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A fairer House than Prose"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These beautiful lines composed by Emily Dickinson start &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2330&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Benoit Vermander's article on imagination&lt;/a&gt;. And what could better praise imagination than her poetry? Emily Dickinson who chose to seclude herself at the age of 30, wrote more than 1770 poems. She reminds me -maybe wrongly - of Marcel Proust who achieved his masterpiece enclosed during 15 years between the walls of his room, which he had beforehand soundproofed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stimulated by the eRenlai Springtime Focus, I decided to let my imagination run... but not too far! Actually, it just went in the hills behind my house. &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1812&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Roy Berman&lt;/a&gt;, a friend and also a contributor to the magazine, had come to visit me last summer. Later on,  he sent me pictures of the slum and of the graveyard located in the other side of the hill where I dwell. I composed then a post-apocalyptic story after his pictures, trying to depict the routine of an old man who uses his imagination to replace his lost memory. This is what one could call an "imaginative" mise en abyme but I'd rather let you judge by yourself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2307&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;The Man in the Mountains&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(or click &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/media/downloads/CerisePhiv_Imagination.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to download the pdf version)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I recommend you the &lt;a href="http://virb.com/krotzstruder"&gt;A Few Polar Songs&lt;/a&gt; by the lo-krautfolk musician Krotz Strüder who brilliantly sings 6 poems of Emily Dickinson and one by Emily Brönte. I copy here my three favorites:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The sky is low, the clouds are mean,&lt;br /&gt;A travelling flake of snow&lt;br /&gt;Across a barn or through a rut&lt;br /&gt;Debates if it will go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A narrow wind complains all day&lt;br /&gt;How some one treated him;&lt;br /&gt;Nature, like us, is sometimes caught&lt;br /&gt;Without her diadem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Emily Dickinson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We never know we go when we are going&lt;br /&gt;We jest and shut the Door&lt;br /&gt;Fate - following - behind us bolts it&lt;br /&gt;And we accost no more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Emily Dickinson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Emily Bronte - Come, Walk With Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come, walk with me,&lt;br /&gt;There's only thee&lt;br /&gt;To bless my spirit now -&lt;br /&gt;We used to love on winter nights&lt;br /&gt;To wander through the snow;&lt;br /&gt;Can we not woo back old delights?&lt;br /&gt;The clouds rush dark and wild&lt;br /&gt;They fleck with shade our mountain heights&lt;br /&gt;The same as long ago&lt;br /&gt;And on the horizon rest at last&lt;br /&gt;In looming masses piled;&lt;br /&gt;While moonbeams flash and fly so fast&lt;br /&gt;We scarce can say they smiled -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come walk with me, come walk with me;&lt;br /&gt;We were not once so few&lt;br /&gt;But Death has stolen our company&lt;br /&gt;As sunshine steals the dew -&lt;br /&gt;He took them one by one and we&lt;br /&gt;Are left the only two;&lt;br /&gt;So closer would my feelings twine&lt;br /&gt;Because they have no stay but thine -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Nay call me not - it may not be&lt;br /&gt;Is human love so true?&lt;br /&gt;Can Friendship's flower droop on for years&lt;br /&gt;And then revive anew?&lt;br /&gt;No, though the soil be wet with tears,&lt;br /&gt;How fair soe'er it grew&lt;br /&gt;The vital sap once perished&lt;br /&gt;Will never flow again&lt;br /&gt;And surer than that dwelling dread,&lt;br /&gt;The narrow dungeon of the dead&lt;br /&gt;Time parts the hearts of men &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3709405449779972838?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3709405449779972838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3709405449779972838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-dwell-in-possibility_02.html' title='&quot;I dwell in Possibility&quot;'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SdTX8qb7ebI/AAAAAAAAAT4/C3LhWwswyeE/s72-c/emily_dickinson.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5173426382475628267</id><published>2009-03-10T14:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.590+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='banane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identité'/><title type='text'>Milkshake à la banane</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;J'ai déjà évoqué à plusieurs reprises mon statut de " banane" (voir &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=839&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Egg or Banana&lt;/a&gt;), i.e. d'asiatique d'outre-mer. Alice qui travaille pour eRenlai avec nous depuis le mois de Décembre est elle aussi une banane de provenance très exotique et peu commune car elle est née à Taiwan (dans la ville de Hualien sur la côte est), elle a grandi en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud avant d'aller faire ses études en France et de revenir s'installer à Taipei ! (elle détaille d'ailleurs un peu plus son parcours dans son article sur le &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2125&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;syndrome du zugunruhe&lt;/a&gt;, ou le syndrome de l'oiseau migratoire).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYlJa_Gx5I/AAAAAAAAATw/iUb7ODYkeKw/s1600-h/IMG_1539.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311473654323136402" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 126px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYlJa_Gx5I/AAAAAAAAATw/iUb7ODYkeKw/s200/IMG_1539.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alice a interviewé &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2282&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;4 jeunes hommes d'origine asiatique ou métisse &lt;/a&gt;(pas moches d'ailleurs) et ayant grandi aux Etats-Unis ou en Europe en leur posant des questions sur leur identité et sur leur apparence, comment ils se perçoivent eux-mêmes, comment il sont perçus par les autres ici et là-bas... C'est intéressant de comparer les expériences et aussi la sienne. J'avoue qu'il y a parfois des inconvénients à être une banane à Taipei car les étrangers en général possèdent encore (mais pour combien de temps !) une aura particulière. Mais je sens aussi que c'est un grand avantage de passer inaperçu, d'avoir la liberté d'être considérée d'emblée sur un pied d'égalité et non pas comme un être &lt;em&gt;a priori&lt;/em&gt; différent. C'est ainsi un atout indéniable d'être considérée comme une taïwanaise par les taïwanais bien que mon accent bizarre me trahisse souvent par la suite (et quand mon chinois est rouillé, j'ai même droit parfois à des regards voire des réflexions qui disent : "j'ai affaire à une demeurée").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Paris, par contre, l'on m'a fait une fois une réflexion étonnante, quand j'ai été complimentée sur mon très joli accent en français!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ardes-prod.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5173426382475628267?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5173426382475628267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5173426382475628267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/milkshake-la-banane.html' title='Milkshake à la banane'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYlJa_Gx5I/AAAAAAAAATw/iUb7ODYkeKw/s72-c/IMG_1539.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-9174865481986583485</id><published>2009-03-10T14:31:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T14:52:32.735+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><title type='text'>Do you like your face?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYMoZ9o2PI/AAAAAAAAATg/9SS2KiNcUFk/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311446698833795314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYMoZ9o2PI/AAAAAAAAATg/9SS2KiNcUFk/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This month Focus is dedicated to the relation between one's face and one's identity. While I was preparing the issue, I randomly shot quick takes of some of my co-workers and friends asking them if they like their face, which part they prefer, which part they don't like etc... It was quite fun to do it and to edit it, despite some technical problems due to the fact that I interviewed some of them with my photo camera... Most of all, I think that it reveals somehow some aspects of their very different personalities - I even discovered that some of my friends are born-actors!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope that you have fun watching this video:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2291&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2291&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Photo by Wen-chun Kuan, see her &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2255&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;presentation&lt;/a&gt; and her &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wentalkstoshoes"&gt;flickr&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-9174865481986583485?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9174865481986583485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9174865481986583485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/do-you-like-your-face.html' title='Do you like your face?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SbYMoZ9o2PI/AAAAAAAAATg/9SS2KiNcUFk/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-837310565228858820</id><published>2009-03-05T16:10:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T16:31:25.171+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cross-strait'/><title type='text'>"Ready to talk peace"</title><content type='html'>A catchy and strange title for this article on Reuter's webpage: &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5240D320090305?feedType=RSS&amp;amp;feedName=worldNews&amp;amp;pageNumber=1&amp;amp;virtualBrandChannel=0"&gt;China says ready to talk peace with Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;... But at the end it seems like there is still a balance to be found between political and economical necessities.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-837310565228858820?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/837310565228858820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/837310565228858820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/ready-to-talk-peace.html' title='&quot;Ready to talk peace&quot;'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4085949544462295804</id><published>2009-03-03T15:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.607+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>Mon Visage, Moi (extrait de la lettre du mois de mars)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Est-ce mon apparence qui me définit en premier ou est-ce plutôt l’inverse ? Aussi notre Focus intitulé « &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2229&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Mon Visage, Moi &lt;/a&gt;» porte-il une touche très féminine ce mois-ci. Diverses contributrices nous présente d’une manière esthétique leur &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazXCL5GLBI/AAAAAAAAATY/WVL9rTLK27U/s1600-h/GuanWenJun_user.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308854493314952210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazXCL5GLBI/AAAAAAAAATY/WVL9rTLK27U/s320/GuanWenJun_user.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;conception du lien entre identité et apparence : Aimée Hsu est peintre et maîtrise aussi l’art du maquillage, elle nous décrit ici &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2256&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l’art d’appliquer des couleurs sur un visage&lt;/a&gt;. Aurélie Kernaléguen est allée enquêter sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2230&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;la chirurgie &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2230&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;esthétique à Taïwan&lt;/a&gt; tandis que Wen-chun Kuan nous fait partager &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2255&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;l’intimité de ses autoportraits photographiques&lt;/a&gt;. De son côté, Alice Lin se demande si la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2237&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;beauté est mathématique&lt;/a&gt; et constate que &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2282&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;les apparences sont souvent trompeuse&lt;/a&gt;s quand il s’agit des jeunes asiatiques d’outre-mer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour vous, eRenlai s’efforce de mettre en ligne régulièrement de nouvelles créations vidéos : chaque semaine, nous vous invitons à visionner notre commentaire sur la homepage. Parmi nos éditoriaux du mois de mars, nous vous proposons de courtes vidéos rapportées d’un village situé dans la province du jiangxi en Chine : pourquoi ne pas démarrer avec &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2243&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Good morning Changxi village&lt;/a&gt;! ou &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2249&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Le Forgeron&lt;/a&gt; ? En outre, ne manquez pas &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2239&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;le récit du prêtre Jésuite Andres Diaz de Rabago&lt;/a&gt; âgé maintenant de 92 ans et ayant vécu en Chine, aux Philippines, au Timor Oriental et à Taïwan. D’autres vidéos, articles et animations Flash abordent les sujets de l’enseignement des langues ou le &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2228&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;décès récent du maître bouddhiste Sheng Yen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4085949544462295804?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4085949544462295804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4085949544462295804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/mon-visage-moi-extrait-de-la-lettre-du.html' title='Mon Visage, Moi (extrait de la lettre du mois de mars)'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazXCL5GLBI/AAAAAAAAATY/WVL9rTLK27U/s72-c/GuanWenJun_user.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3958429397078484907</id><published>2009-03-03T14:59:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T15:02:13.710+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>My Face, Myself - eRenlai March 09 newsletter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazV7uNC3PI/AAAAAAAAATI/DBBUi4oBKww/s1600-h/Focus_feb09_cover_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308853282754714866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazV7uNC3PI/AAAAAAAAATI/DBBUi4oBKww/s400/Focus_feb09_cover_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are our appearances meant to define our identities, or vice-versa? There is a feminine touch in our Focus this month entitled “&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2229&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;My Face, My Self&lt;/a&gt;”. Contributors share their approach on the relation between identity and appearance through aesthetic concepts: Aimee Hsu is a painter and a make-up artist, she describes the art of colors in “&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2256&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;My Face, the canvas of my life&lt;/a&gt;”. Aurelie Kernaleguen provides us with a report on eyelid surgery in Taiwan. Wen-chun Kuan shares with us her &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2255&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;intimate journey into self-photography&lt;/a&gt;. Alice Lin wonders about the mathematical &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2237&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;equation of beauty&lt;/a&gt; and how &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2282&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;appearances can be tricky&lt;/a&gt; when it comes to the overseas Asian youngsters today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you know, eRenlai uploades multimedia features on a regular basis; don’t forget to check our &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;weekly commentary on the homepage&lt;/a&gt;. In our March editorials, watch short videos brought back from a village in Jiangxi Province: start with &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2243&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Good morning Changxi village&lt;/a&gt;! or &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2249&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;The Blacksmith&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Also read and watch an exclusive interview with &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2239&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;92-year-old Spanish Jesuit priest Fr Andres Diaz de Rabago&lt;/a&gt;, who has lived in China, the Philippines, East Timor and Taiwan. Other videos, flash animations and articles broach subjects such as &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2238&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;language education&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2228&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Buddhist Master Sheng Yen&lt;/a&gt; who passed away in January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we would like to thank you for your encouragements and the positive feedbacks we have received regarding eRenlai’s new layout. Nevertheless, we know that the new version has had some technical problems and we apologize for it. If you still encounter troubles in entering or opening our website pages, you can either try &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.mspx"&gt;clearing your browser cache&lt;/a&gt; or pressing F5 to refresh your browser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wish you a great month ahead,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3958429397078484907?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3958429397078484907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3958429397078484907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-face-myself-erenlai-march-09.html' title='My Face, Myself - eRenlai March 09 newsletter'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazV7uNC3PI/AAAAAAAAATI/DBBUi4oBKww/s72-c/Focus_feb09_cover_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7697681808872715719</id><published>2009-03-03T12:57:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T14:30:28.442+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinema'/><title type='text'>Who wants to be a Slumdog millionaire?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazSjzJj9GI/AAAAAAAAAS4/QhGzsXehYkk/s1600-h/4410f851.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308849573230539874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazSjzJj9GI/AAAAAAAAAS4/QhGzsXehYkk/s200/4410f851.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I didn't expect &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt; to win the Best Picture Oscar and even less to win 8 Oscars at all! Before the Oscar ceremony I had only seen the trailer and it is Alice, my colleague, who announced me the results last week. We decided then to film a short commentary about it (watch it &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2293&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After watching the movie last week-end, I understand better how it can be an oscarized movie despite its relatively low-budget and its absence of famous actors from the US film-industry: the plot, a success-story with a happy-ending, is still quite hollywoodian, the characters and especially Jamal, the main hero, are manicheistic enough to be recognized as "types" (the naive and idealistic one, Jamal, the cynic who redeem himself, Salim, the beauty, innocent but pushed by social and economic imperatives, Latika). Even the non-linear construction of the narration does not seem that original after one hour... (for a maestro piece of cinema, in editing and narrative terms, see &lt;em&gt;Valkyrie&lt;/em&gt;, which, in my sense is not a historical movie but a successful suspense exercise in cinema). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Still, I cannot say that I didn't like watching the movie, I did feel a bit irritated by the predictable nature of the end but the movie is enough entertaining and meaningful to be recommended and, probably, awarded!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7697681808872715719?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7697681808872715719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7697681808872715719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-wants-to-be-slumdog-millionaire.html' title='Who wants to be a Slumdog millionaire?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SazSjzJj9GI/AAAAAAAAAS4/QhGzsXehYkk/s72-c/4410f851.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2328815820582611462</id><published>2009-02-11T16:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.628+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tafalong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentaire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aborigène'/><title type='text'>Le carnet magique de Tafalong</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKTXERRztI/AAAAAAAAASw/iW16jRW6Bno/s1600-h/Tafalong_Focus_Intro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301461735860981458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKTXERRztI/AAAAAAAAASw/iW16jRW6Bno/s400/Tafalong_Focus_Intro.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'an dernier, j'ai participé à la réalisation d'un documentaire se déroulant dans un village aborigène situé sur la côte Est de Taiwan. Cette expérience a été pour moi l'occasion de mieux connaître une partie à la fois géographique et culturelle de l'île. Taiwan reconnait en effet officiellement 14 peuples aborigènes dont celui des Amis, mais on ressent relativement peu leur présence à Taipei. L'expérience entière mérite plus qu'un simple post de blog (et fera d'ailleurs peut-être l'objet d'un récit plus long), je vous laisse d'abord "feuilleter" le site créé par Nicolas Priniotakis (en charge de notre nouveau département audiovisuel) et cliquer sur les liens mentionnés dans l'extrait de la newsletter de décembre ci-dessous:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://erenlai.com/tafalong/"&gt;http://erenlai.com/tafalong/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(Lettre de Décembre)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2103&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Tafalong&lt;/a&gt; est habité par le peuple Amis, l’un des quatorze groupes aborigènes de Taïwan. Nous avons suivi pendant toute cette année une jeune femme Amis, &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2049&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Nakao Eki&lt;/a&gt;, qui pour la première fois en neuf ans est retournée dans son village : de cette expérience, nous avons tiré un film documentaire, intitulé « &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;On the Fifth Day, the Sea Tide Rose&lt;/a&gt;* », et dont vous retrouverez certains moments forts ce mois-ci sur notre site. Vous pourrez notamment y découvrir une nouvelle manière de narrer et d’écouter l’&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2054&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;histoire orale des peuples aborigènes d'Asie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le grand-père de Nakao chante un air ancestral qui raconte les origines du village de Tafalong : &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2048&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Tafalong a niyaro&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un autre personnage important du film est &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2086&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Haruko&lt;/a&gt;, la tante de Nakao, qui a perdu récemment l’un de ses fils. Elle et ses petites-filles revêtent ici les costumes traditionnels Amis pour &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2114&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;entonner un dernier chant d'adieu&lt;/a&gt; avant le “&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2085&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Ilisin&lt;/a&gt;”, une fête durant laquelle les hommes de la tribu dansent en mémoire du fils décédé d’Haruko.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soyez le témoin d’un spectacle insolite : &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2084&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;des femmes âgées de Tafalong&lt;/a&gt; se réunissent chaque semaine dans la cour de l’église catholique et font revivre leur enfance par l’intermédiaire des kimonos qu’elles portent et des comptines qu’elles chantent, dans un mélange de religiosité et de divertissement. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2328815820582611462?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2328815820582611462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2328815820582611462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/02/le-carnet-magique-de-tafalong.html' title='Le carnet magique de Tafalong'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKTXERRztI/AAAAAAAAASw/iW16jRW6Bno/s72-c/Tafalong_Focus_Intro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5843826110099880672</id><published>2009-02-11T16:14:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-02-11T16:36:16.970+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Africa'/><title type='text'>Alice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKNX1AA-3I/AAAAAAAAASo/t7qG9qviaow/s1600-h/IMG_1539.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301455151872146290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKNX1AA-3I/AAAAAAAAASo/t7qG9qviaow/s320/IMG_1539.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;As comments made about articles on eRenlai cannot appear directly on the website, I post below a comment we received a couple of weeks ago about an article written by Alice Lin. This is also the right time to introduce Alice: she has started to work for eRenlai as our English editor since December. Born in Taiwan, she has grown up in Namibia and lived in a lot of different countries including New Zealand, Singapour, France and Morocco. She recounts her numerous travels in her article &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2125&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Down with Zugunruhe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; which triggered the reader's comment below. Alice has many talents among which singing in !Xhosa, also listen to her and her friend &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2132&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brenda&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2175&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This article is an extremely interesting testimonial. It reminds us that nomadism is an interesting and vast subject, as much of the past as of the future; discussing this subject may act as a valuable catalyst, may bring new ideas, even inspire new fields of research -at least in my case-... It is the second time in recent years, and from a very different angle, both apparently very important in terms of sociology, that I hear about 'nomadism' as a key subject, worth deeper analyses. Here with Alice Lin it is the angle of 'animal migratory behavior', engrained in the genes of a few species or individuals. The first time it was a more futuristic, theoretical and sociological angle. It was in browsing through the book "Une Brève histoire de l'avenir" (Paris Fayard 2006) by Jacques Attali (see his bilingual site www.attali.com). Very roughly the well-known and very prolific French essayist Attali describes the future, in a few decades, as an increasingly unified small planet where dominate two main social classes, the nomads (the 'higher', better educated and richest class) and the others, the (more) sedentary people. Whatever one may think of Attali's works and personality, I just discover here in checking this reference that he wrote a more precise book on the subject of human nomads, which I didn't read yet, "L'homme nomade", Paris Fayard 2003 (I didn't check translations of his books in other languages). Besides, amongst other ideas popping up in my mind with the term 'nomadism' right now, there is, with cheap flights and Internet, the link with this other important subject (one of my pet subjects) the possibly worrying 'acceleration of history', directly related to the growing size, complexity, but also interlinkage and unification, of the human society, due to technology (even if history repeats itself ...probably because the human body and brain doesn't evolve at all at the same pace than human society and technology -like nothing new with nomadism since the Paleolithic and probably in a thousand years through galaxies !-; ... thus human history may seem to be accelerating like a point moving along a spiral, towards -or away from ?-, a kind of noosphere or omega point !).Other ideas are popping up: the growing and bumpy disappearance of the concept of nation and/or state (especially in light of the present world economic crisis -the present sudden return of the nation-state is just a in my view reflex bursts of slowly dying complex bodies, for which wars and guns still unhappily remain the ultimate solution-), and thus the obvious necessity of a wider and better world governance of our small 'planet-village',...; on the opposite, the necessity somewhere in the genes of some living species -especially h. s. sapiens - of a 'home', of the German concept of 'heimat', a 'nest' where to grow up quietly and safely, where to acquire memories, an education, a conscience... The theme of 'nomadism' is also indeed linked to the subjects of education, languages and cultures, religions, family, friends and social links, freedom (of movement)(itself linked to the concept of democracy; where do I vote if I am a nomad ?, should I or can I if need be 'vote with my feet' ?), etc. etc.Besides, it was my first time on erenlai.com; congratulations for this site.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Arthur Syel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Down With Zugunruhe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=" href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2125&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank" lan="3"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2125&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5843826110099880672?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5843826110099880672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5843826110099880672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/02/alice.html' title='Alice'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SZKNX1AA-3I/AAAAAAAAASo/t7qG9qviaow/s72-c/IMG_1539.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-152551231985758594</id><published>2009-01-21T16:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.648+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vermander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chine'/><title type='text'>Prédictions pour l'année du bœuf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SXbgNag9xcI/AAAAAAAAASY/5dBhndYKc0c/s1600-h/HappyNiuYear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293664933081105858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 177px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 135px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SXbgNag9xcI/AAAAAAAAASY/5dBhndYKc0c/s400/HappyNiuYear.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;L'année du bœuf commence samedi. Qu'elle vous soit propice !&lt;br /&gt;Sur eRenlai vous trouverez un édito vidéo en français de Benoît Vermander qui se risque à émettre trois prédictions pour la Chine au seuil de cette année.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2184&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2184&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-152551231985758594?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/152551231985758594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/152551231985758594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2009/01/predictions-pour-l-du-buf.html' title='Prédictions pour l&amp;#39;année du bœuf'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SXbgNag9xcI/AAAAAAAAASY/5dBhndYKc0c/s72-c/HappyNiuYear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8571671929476587616</id><published>2008-11-26T23:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.141+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travail'/><title type='text'>Le travail, c'est la santé</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SS5fjpQlYyI/AAAAAAAAASQ/8Ca-nFIFsww/s1600-h/DSC_03111.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273257279672902434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 253px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SS5fjpQlYyI/AAAAAAAAASQ/8Ca-nFIFsww/s400/DSC_03111.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Depuis que je me suis inscrite à un club de gym, je suis devenue une vraie loque. Trois fois par semaine, je quitte mon bureau et traverse la rue pour me rendre dans un centre sportif portant le nom d'un état ensoleillé des Etats-Unis (dix balles pour celui ou celle qui trouve). On pourrait d'ailleurs s'étendre longuement sur le nom choisi, évocateur de jeunes surfeurs bien balancés, aux dents éclatantes de blancheur pour mieux contraster avec le bronze de leur peau. Mais dès qu'on pénètre dans les lieux, c'est une toute autre chanson qu'ahanent les sportifs en salle: vêtus de leurs plus beaux survêts, ils s'acharnent sur des machines électroniques qui affichent des coeurs, des losanges et des rythmes cardiaques. C'est la foire à la montre, à qui arbore les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1741&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;plus gros biceps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; et les plus larges auréoles de sueur. C'est la souffrance et l'effort qui font la loi et moi-même j'avoue m'être prise au jeu bien que je n'aie pas -encore- poussé le vice à m'affubler de la tenue complète : je n'ai ni les baskets de marque, ni les petits gants pour soulever les haltères. Etant nouvellement inscrite, on m'a, par contre, gentiment accolé un " personal trainer" qui essaye à tout prix de me motiver à acheter des séances d'entrainement privé. Après m'avoir longuement expliqué que je j'ai du gras partout et du muscle nulle part, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;mon "personal trainer" met mon petit corps chétif à rude épreuve et voilà trois jours que j'essaye de m'en remettre, la seule position qui ne fait pas souffrir quand je suis debout étant celle du golfeur constipé, à savoir : le dos légèrement voûté et les fesses en arrière... Fort heureusement, je ne sens presque rien quand je suis assise à mon bureau devant mon écran d'ordinateur, je suis donc toujours apte au travail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Le travail, c'est la santé", comme chantait l'autre, "rien faire c'est la conserver, les prisonniers du boulot font pas de vieux os..." (Henri Salvador)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Je signale à ce sujet un petit article posté sur le site &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://china-crossroads.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://china-crossroads.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Why China’s Economic Rise is Unhealthy" href="http://china-crossroads.com/2008/10/28/why-chinas-economic-rise-is-unhealthy/" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Why China’s Economic Rise is Unhealthy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, (Pourquoi l'essor économique de la Chine nuit à la santé) dans lequel l'auteur évoque brièvement les heures de travail et le rythme de vie frénétique auxquels sont astreints les cols blancs en Asie, expats compris. 80 à 100 heures de travail par semaine arrosées d'une bonne dose de café, d'alcool et de tabac car l'on se détend le soir et le week-end dans les boîtes, lounge bars et karaokés... Et pour se déculpabiliser de tous ces excès, on finit ensuite la semaine par une petite séance de tapis roulant! Pour ma part, mon club de gym aura eu ma peau, je ne suis plus bonne à rien ces temps-ci, j'ai même récemment abdiqué devant mes courbatures, refusant de boire une bière avec des amis pour rentrer chez moi m'affaler sur mon canapé et regarder des jeux télévisés japonais...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;-----------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Aurélie Kernaléguen (auteure de la photo) a réalisé l'interview d'un adepte du body building à Taiwan:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1741&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Strong body strong mind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le sport, le sang et la sueur (je m'exprime en vrac sur les joueurs de rugby français, le football féminin à Zanzibar)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1220&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Of blood and flesh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8571671929476587616?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8571671929476587616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8571671929476587616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/11/le-travail-c-la-sante.html' title='Le travail, c&amp;#39;est la santé'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SS5fjpQlYyI/AAAAAAAAASQ/8Ca-nFIFsww/s72-c/DSC_03111.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1264147688663357045</id><published>2008-11-10T15:19:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T21:56:50.831+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cross-strait'/><title type='text'>The hour of truth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SRg9SEdhAGI/AAAAAAAAASI/E2EB8nHB7HQ/s1600-h/p1a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267027144854274146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 137px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SRg9SEdhAGI/AAAAAAAAASI/E2EB8nHB7HQ/s200/p1a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;On November 6, Ma Ying-jeou, the president of Taiwan met Chen Yun Lin, the chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS). It is an historic moment for the cross-strait relations as it has been 60 years since a Chinese dignitary of this rank came to the island.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Benoit Vermander comments on the events that occurred during the visit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2030&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=2030&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Photo taken from &lt;a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2008/11/07/182070/President-Ma.htm"&gt;The Chinapost &lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1264147688663357045?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1264147688663357045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1264147688663357045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/11/hour-of-truth.html' title='The hour of truth'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SRg9SEdhAGI/AAAAAAAAASI/E2EB8nHB7HQ/s72-c/p1a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2887679526643026344</id><published>2008-10-17T11:50:00.012+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T14:58:58.988+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinema'/><title type='text'>Taiwan Perhaps...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SPhGo3oDemI/AAAAAAAAASA/GOilr0nSK_s/s1600-h/airhostess.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258030232895715938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 284px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 230px" height="277" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SPhGo3oDemI/AAAAAAAAASA/GOilr0nSK_s/s320/airhostess.jpg" width="407" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Gelan Chang (葛蘭) was born in Shanghai in 1933 and she was an actress and a singer in the 50's and 60's in Hong Kong. She's known for her appearances in musicals where she covered many classicals such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=wqI4h1uODng&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Carmen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;in &lt;em&gt;The Wild, Wild Rose&lt;/em&gt; which is one of her most popular movies. To me, she's completely part of my mental reconstruction of the "modern" Chinese culture from the past: Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 60s, a perfume of old rose and camphor, colourful dresses which my grandfather taylored at this time and a small but peculiar event a couple of years ago, my own "petite madeleine" experience. When I went to visit my father for the first time in Cambodia, my father took me to the places where he spent his childhood and his youth. This trip in the past ended at home, when my father decided to show me mambo steps in front of a large stained mirror... One year later, I was struck by its reminiscence when I saw the hero of &lt;em&gt;Days of being wild&lt;/em&gt; do the same. The images of my father and Leslie Cheung just perfectly superimposed and time seemed abolished the moment of a short mambo dance. Since then, I have a weakness for the music inspired by Latin rhythm of the fifties and the sixties, I confess that the first time I have heard "Quizas Quizas" was through the kitsch cover by Nat King Cole "Perhaps Perhaps", and Dean Martin's "That's amore" is a very familiar tune as well... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Likewise, the imaginary Taiwan I partly built from movies is also made up of these oldies: &lt;em&gt;the Hole, &lt;/em&gt;directed by Tsai Ming Liang, is one of the first Taiwanese movies I taped and watched restlessly when I was a TVphagous. The movie takes place at the turn of the millenium and depicts a very gloomy Taiwanese city devastated by a strange virus which is responsible for a illness called "the cockroach disease" as people suffering from this disease tend to act like cockroaches! Although the movie is quite dark (in every sense as it is also raining most of the time), it also goes through merrier moments when it depicts the love story between the two main characters who start to sing and dance as if they were in a musical comedy. One of the songs interpreted by the female character is nothing else than one Gelan's song! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Then, to me, 我要你的愛 (Wo yao ni de ai, "I want your love") is also closely related &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SPhFN1im4eI/AAAAAAAAAR4/wHupfzvE4OI/s1600-h/CIMG0789.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258028668967903714" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 236px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 189px" height="247" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SPhFN1im4eI/AAAAAAAAAR4/wHupfzvE4OI/s320/CIMG0789.JPG" width="379" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to my fantasized Taipei and, after visiting one of its most picturesque sites, The Taiwan Beer Brewery, I did this small montage on erenlai TV:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/index.php?show_id=9"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.tv/index.php?show_id=9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Also watch Bendu creation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/index.php?show_id=5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.tv/index.php?show_id=5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Photos from &lt;em&gt;Air Hostess&lt;/em&gt; (Li Men, 1959) and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;C.P.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2887679526643026344?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2887679526643026344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2887679526643026344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/10/taiwan-perhaps.html' title='Taiwan Perhaps...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SPhGo3oDemI/AAAAAAAAASA/GOilr0nSK_s/s72-c/airhostess.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2072176367982770454</id><published>2008-09-16T13:47:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T14:46:03.766+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate change'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddhism'/><title type='text'>Asian local cultures against global warming</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9Jio3ZW7I/AAAAAAAAARw/cOkAz6gWd-4/s1600-h/LogoERLMagLow.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246492950344063922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9Jio3ZW7I/AAAAAAAAARw/cOkAz6gWd-4/s200/LogoERLMagLow.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Climate Change Talks in Accra (Ghana, August 21-27) have shown an accrued international mobilization against global warming. These talks are to be continued and finalized in December during the United Nations conference on Climate Change in Poznan. In between, Renlai and the Taipei Ricci Institute organize an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/events/programs.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;international colloquium focusing on “culture and climate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;” (Taipei, October 4), featuring &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1839&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dominique Baudis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, President of the Institute for the Arab World in Paris as the European keynote speaker. The program and the registration form are on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/events/events.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai conference page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ying-chun Hsieh, an architect in Taiwan and China, introduces his concept of a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1811&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;sustainable construction in community&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; which is why he got one of our 2008 Life Sustainability Awards. One of our contributors, Shufan Yang, shares her experience as an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1819&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;apprentice in the Atelier 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; founded by Ying-chun Hsieh.&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1845&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; and a short text also give example of how &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1842&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Taiwan tackles global warming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9JKnnFKYI/AAAAAAAAARo/fgef0tZxxk8/s1600-h/LZ_afterearthquake_crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246492537690335618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9JKnnFKYI/AAAAAAAAARo/fgef0tZxxk8/s200/LZ_afterearthquake_crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In our editorial section, the Sichuanese photographer Liang Zhun presents pictures taken &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1836&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;one hundred days after the earthquake in China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; during a ceremony for the dead. Less mournful is my short movie about an ominous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1797&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;oracle in Kyoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Benoit Bouquin rails against stereotypes in some Hollywood movies: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1793&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Movies and cultural diversity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Bob, inspired by the previous article, reflects on another kind of stereotype: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1794&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;An American Perk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9I73ePrTI/AAAAAAAAARg/w-qy75h_PT4/s1600-h/BV_bouddhismChina_s_crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246492284250205490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9I73ePrTI/AAAAAAAAARg/w-qy75h_PT4/s200/BV_bouddhismChina_s_crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;On the occasion of the publication of a book by Christian Cochini, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alapage.com/-/Fiche/Livres/9782846541831/LIV/guide-des-temples-bouddhistes-de-chine-c-cochini.htm?fulltext=Chine&amp;amp;donnee_appel=GOOGL"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Guide des Temples Bouddhistes de Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, Benoit Vermander provides us with an overview of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1813&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Buddhism revival in China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. The Taipei Ricci Institute is also celebrating the launching of a new book published by Jean Lefeuvre: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bz1st2buy.com/servlet/the-114/Collections-Of-Oracular-Bones/Detail"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Collections of Oracular Bones Inscriptions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; which is an analytical catalogue of 412 collections of oracular inscriptions. This volume will be presented on September 19, at the Tien Educational center in Taipei, at 6pm (for more information, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:alextmchentw@yahoo.com.tw"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;contact Alexandre Chen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope that this month’s releases will give you lots of new energy for September&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2072176367982770454?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2072176367982770454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2072176367982770454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/09/asian-local-cultures-against-global.html' title='Asian local cultures against global warming'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SM9Jio3ZW7I/AAAAAAAAARw/cOkAz6gWd-4/s72-c/LogoERLMagLow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4942461863947214469</id><published>2008-08-27T10:27:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T11:12:04.551+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Book'/><title type='text'>New Book by the Taipei Ricci Institute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SLS8ZNIwVhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/CQsASSsK3AE/s1600-h/Lefeuvre_Oracular.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239019407747864082" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SLS8ZNIwVhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/CQsASSsK3AE/s200/Lefeuvre_Oracular.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;New Book by the Taipei Ricci Institute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jean Lefeuvre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bz1st2buy.com/servlet/the-114/Collections-Of-Oracular-Bones/Detail"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Collections of Oracular Bones Inscriptions&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Variétés Sinologiques New Séries 97&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Jean Lefeuvre, a Jesuit who arrived in Taiwan more than 50 years ago, is a world-renowned expert in oracle bones inscriptions. He has been also one of the main contributors to the “Grand Ricci” Dictionary, the world largest dictionary between Chinese and a foreign language. His latest publication, released in August 2008, is an analytical catalogue of 412 collections of oracular inscriptions. It is the world’s most complete repertory of sources related to the origins of Chinese writing. This hard-cover, 593 pages strong volume will be launched on September 19, at Tien Educational Center, Taipei Fr Lefeuvre, at 86, is still working hard on the completion of a Dictionary of Bronze Inscriptions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book launch:&lt;br /&gt;Tien Educational Center, Hsin-hai road, 1st section, n.22, Taipei 100 (Taipower building MRT station), 1st floor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday, September 19, 6pm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For additional information, contact Alexandre Chen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;alextmchentwATyahoo.com.tw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="mailto:alextmchentw@yahoo.com.tw" href="mailto:alextmchentw@yahoo.com.tw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4942461863947214469?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4942461863947214469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4942461863947214469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-book-by-taipei-ricci-institute.html' title='New Book by the Taipei Ricci Institute'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SLS8ZNIwVhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/CQsASSsK3AE/s72-c/Lefeuvre_Oracular.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7745514419740124406</id><published>2008-08-12T09:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.155+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Renlai'/><title type='text'>Renlai Mag à la librairie "Le Phénix" (Paris)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SKDtiLIoj7I/AAAAAAAAAMU/k_2Z2_xHX9c/s1600-h/Photo+110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233443938364854194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SKDtiLIoj7I/AAAAAAAAAMU/k_2Z2_xHX9c/s200/Photo+110.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tous ceux qui ont fait des études de chinois à Paris connaissent l'incontournable librairie Le Phénix située au coeur de Paris près des Halles! Certains savaient peut-être qu'on y trouve le magazine Renlai publié ici à Taiwan (donc, plus d'excuse, precipitez-vous-y vite!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ce mois-ci, ils nous font même l'honneur de le mettre en vitrine - JO obligent - comme indiqué en couverture : &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1764&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;身體．心靈．奧運會&lt;/a&gt; (Le Corps, l'Esprit et les Jeux Olympiques)&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SKDtpt7KiSI/AAAAAAAAAMc/4-VUN5Rcdqo/s1600-h/Photo+111.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233444067962685730" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SKDtpt7KiSI/AAAAAAAAAMc/4-VUN5Rcdqo/s200/Photo+111.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A ce propos,  je rappelle aussi mon petit texte écrit après avoir vu la finale de la coupe du monde de rugby cette année &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1220&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Of Blood and Flesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7745514419740124406?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7745514419740124406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7745514419740124406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/08/renlai-mag-la-librairie-phenix-paris.html' title='Renlai Mag à la librairie &amp;quot;Le Phénix&amp;quot; (Paris)'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SKDtiLIoj7I/AAAAAAAAAMU/k_2Z2_xHX9c/s72-c/Photo+110.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7914181006525541649</id><published>2008-07-10T19:09:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T16:10:43.952+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob'/><title type='text'>Bob's luxuriant prolixity</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I am compiling a book of all Bob's writings: his essays, his fables and his editorials... And I can assure you that it makes a lot of pages (we must have published more than 120 texts of Bob on eRenlai, and it is only the tip of the iceberg)! While archiving past emails, published and unpublished texts, I found this fable entitled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1790&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The jungle negotiators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; which I decided to publish on eRenlai... and to share with you! Lots of unsuspected things happen in th jungle...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;THE JUNGLE NEGOTIATORS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHXygR1saEI/AAAAAAAAAMM/U50M2NKhu14/s1600-h/Bob_jungle.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221345979364304962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHXygR1saEI/AAAAAAAAAMM/U50M2NKhu14/s320/Bob_jungle.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;There had always been conflicts between the animals in the North Jungle and the animals in the South Jungle. Each accused the other of encroaching on its territory and was very critical of the other’s social system. The North Jungle condemned the South Jungle for its policies that seemed to favor the jungle violating the rights of the trees and the animals. The South Jungle condemned the North Jungle for neglecting the jungle by allowing too much freedom and license to the trees and the animals. It all came to a head over a dispute about the ownership of a piece of land between them. Because of this impasse it was decided to hold a meeting between both sides in a neutral territory, namely the West Jungle with monitors from the East Jungle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturally the trees were unable to attend this meeting so they had to depend upon animals to represent them and all their resident creatures. The problem was which animals to send. Skunks would not be a good choice for ambassadors, because they don’t smell very pleasant. Even carefully perfumed, they would always have at hand their potential stink, should negotiations turn sour. Mice are clever little fellows, but seem far too tiny to make others take them seriously. No one trusts anything that snakes have to say. Lions and tigers would be too intimidating. Elephants and gorillas are too overwhelming. Mockingbirds can speak every language, but have nothing to say for themselves. Owls, of course, would be very wise, but it was feared that since they usually sleep during the day they would be too drowsy to stay alert during the daytime meetings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The North Jungle finally decided to choose an eagle, because it didn’t live in either jungle and so had no personal interest in the disputed territory. The other side chose an otter from a neutral jungle, because there was no habitable stream for otters in the disputed territory, so it too would have no personal interest in how the dispute was settled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the conference began, the eagle contended that for centuries the disputed land had been settled by animals from the North Jungle without any claim ever being made for the land from the South Jungle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True enough countered the otter, but for the last fifty years the North Jungle has done nothing whatever to develop the land and allowed without any opposition or complaint a large number of animals from the South Jungle to move into it and they are the ones who have developed it to its present state of prosperity with the help of subsidies from the South Jungle. The North no longer has any rightful claim to the land they ignored for so long. Why should the North reap the profits of the sweat and tears of the South Junglers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The speeches of the eagle were applauded by the crowd of supporters of the North and booed by the supporters of the South, while the speeches of the otter were equally applauded by the crowd of supporters of the South and booed by the supporters of the North, so it was practically impossible to make any progress in the negotiation. In fact there was no negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the eagle and the otter were so frustrated by the proceedings that they decided to meet together in secret without any observers to interfere. And almost at once they came up with what they expected would be an acceptable compromise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calling the meeting to order they announced their solution:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years animals from both the North and the South have lived peacefully together in this territory without interference from either government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, attracted by the natural beauty off the area, animals from North and South as well as those from East and West have flocked to the area to admire its natural attractions without any objection from either government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the territory in dispute is not very large, so that its annexation to or secession from either Jungle has practically no significance given the already large size of each Jungle’s territory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we propose that the area in question be declared an Inter-jungle Park under the joint jurisdiction of the North and South Jungles between whose boundaries it is located. The present inhabitants shall continue to live there each retaining his/her original citizenship and the territory will be developed and facilities built to turn it into an ecological park for international tourism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The plan was well received and after discussion to work our particular details, it was unanimously adopted. Both sides won and both sides lost, while the Jungles everywhere gained a beautiful model for ecological management and a wonderful site for vacation travel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are lessons hidden here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secret to successful compromise&lt;br /&gt;is willingness to lose a little in order to gain much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The difficulty is in getting the people involved&lt;br /&gt;to agree on what will be lost and what gained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The negotiators have the tricky task&lt;br /&gt;of convincing both sides&lt;br /&gt;that what they gain is better&lt;br /&gt;than what they lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch Bob's telling a tale he wrote:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=421&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Great weapon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Photo by C.P.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7914181006525541649?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7914181006525541649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7914181006525541649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/07/bobs-luxuriant-prolixity.html' title='Bob&apos;s luxuriant prolixity'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHXygR1saEI/AAAAAAAAAMM/U50M2NKhu14/s72-c/Bob_jungle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7253899624010519275</id><published>2008-07-09T17:29:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T16:11:32.748+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>A liquid asset.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHSHaIGPD7I/AAAAAAAAAME/wFeUSdRWFgw/s1600-h/photos+(10).jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220946750949232562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHSHaIGPD7I/AAAAAAAAAME/wFeUSdRWFgw/s400/photos+(10).jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In Taiwan, everybody strongly advises not to drink water from the tap. Even boiled water is not enough, as the water is said to contain excessive quantities of heavy metals. Most people here in Taiwan therefore filter water before drinking it, or even drink only bottled water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it looks like drinking bottled water is not so environmentally friendly either. Some environmental activists are actually calling to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;boycott bottled water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, which they describe as a far more wasteful product than tap water. Mayors of some cities in the US are urging their citizens to drink water from the tap instead of bottled water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so arises my dilemma in Taiwan. On one hand, I would like not to buy bottled water or bottled drinks so often, but on the other hand, I do not completely trust the filtering efficiency of my house tap (since I moved in one year ago, I think we only have changed the filter once!) I sometimes use the fountain at the office but I do not really picture myself carrying liters of mild water from work to home!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the official website of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.water.gov.tw/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Taiwan Water Corporation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, it is said that although Taiwan’s rainfall is the triple the global average, only 1/5 of that rainfall is exploited. I am not trying to throw stones but it looks more like a problem of management than a lack of water itself. Furthermore, I have never seen any campaign against wasting water in Taiwan! A Spanish friend living in Taipei indignantly told me that he was surprised by the total absence of rules to avoid wasting water here, when in Spain basic ones like closing the tap while brushing one’s teeth are very common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On June 26, the WHO published a report entitled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Safer water, better health &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;which depicts country-by-country estimations of the burden of disease due to water, sanitation and hygiene. According to this report, dirty water is the cause of 10% of deaths and 6% of illnesses in the world, with strong inequalities between highly developed and less developed countries. The report stresses the importance of clean water but also the fact that investments in drinking-water and sanitation can be highly profitable not only from the health point of view but also from an economical point of view. Its benefits come in several forms, such as healthcare savings, gains in productivity from such things as improvements in school attendance, time savings resulting from more convenient drinking-water and sanitation services etc. Thus, the total return on an annual US$ 11.3 billion investment would be US$ 84 billion per year—that is to say 7 times the initial outlay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CQFD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Follow the flow:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;An interview of Joël Cicéron, director of Veolia Water in Taiwan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=413&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Veolia: Water and Social Responsability&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=304&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;China's Water Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, a flash presentation by Sabrina Bourouga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=383&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Global Challenges of Water Resources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, by Michel Camdessus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Photo by Aurelie Kernaleguen)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7253899624010519275?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7253899624010519275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7253899624010519275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/07/liquid-asset.html' title='A liquid asset.'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SHSHaIGPD7I/AAAAAAAAAME/wFeUSdRWFgw/s72-c/photos+(10).jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7505116853907660011</id><published>2008-06-09T12:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.122+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin america'/><title type='text'>Jeux de mots, jeux de ...vélos?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SEyw46r-1oI/AAAAAAAAAL8/2l13VZZFvNQ/s1600-h/Place.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209733360833713794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SEyw46r-1oI/AAAAAAAAAL8/2l13VZZFvNQ/s200/Place.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; Il n'y a pas longtemps, j'ai retrouvé à Shanghai un groupe d'amis parmi lesquels il y avait des chinois venant de Shanghai -même, d'autres venant de Pékin et du Sichuan ainsi que des amis venant de Taipei et quelques étrangers. Nous nous amusions à comparer différentes expressions et mots de vocabulaires: par exemple "bicyclette" se dit "自行车" sur le continent (ce qui signifie (véhicule mû par lui-même)" alors qu'à Taiwan, il se dit "腳踏車" (véhicule à pédale). Et ce n'est qu'un exemple parmi d'autres! De plus, il ne s'agit pas seulement de différences de vocabulaire, on retrouve aussi des différences d'usage, d'accent et de prononciation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;En plus d'être grandement divertissant, ce jeu de comparaison m'a aussi frappée car j'ai déjà observé cette même pratique chez les hispanophones ; ils s'amusent eux aussi à imiter leurs accents respectifs et à comparer leurs différentes manières de parler. Ainsi en argentin, un "gars" se dit "un chabon", les colombiens disent "un man" (ou "un mancito", un "petit man"...), les espagnols "un pavo" (littéralement "une dinde")... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;En parlant d'Amérique latine, ne manquez pas notre série de photos et d'articles sur le Brésil. Ma contribution particulière est mon remix de samba qui accompagne l'article de Roberto Ribeiro sur le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1696&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;carnaval de Bahia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;... Si vous vous sentez une âme d'artiste ou d'inventeur sonique, participez &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1724&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;au concours d'installations audio-visuelles mis en place par Jose Duart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;e au Costa Rica!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7505116853907660011?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7505116853907660011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7505116853907660011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/06/jeux-de-mots-jeux-de-velos.html' title='Jeux de mots, jeux de ...vélos?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SEyw46r-1oI/AAAAAAAAAL8/2l13VZZFvNQ/s72-c/Place.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6021020405035254828</id><published>2008-06-09T10:29:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T14:58:45.985+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>Nominate 2008 Life Sustainability Awards recipients!</title><content type='html'>Dear friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are invited to nominate recipients for the 2nd Life Sustainability Awards. eRenlai magazine and Renlai monthly will distinguish 9 people making significant contributions to life sustainability in Taiwan, thus helping to give a new image of Taiwan’s spirit and mission in the international community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By “life sustainability” is meant the promotion of cultural and natural diversity through initiatives that foster community spirit, personal development and awareness of global challenges. Readers are encouraged to nominate recipients who have shown special creativity at the grassroots level and whose story proves to be an inspiration for other people. This year, their experience should at least illustrate one of these three aspects:&lt;br /&gt;-some significant commitment to the fight against global warming&lt;br /&gt;-promotion of cultural diversity by realizing or encouraging the encounter of different cultures&lt;br /&gt;-participation in the enhancement of a healthier mental environment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prices will be announced in Renlai monthly and its website on September 1st and the award ceremony will take place on October 4, during the international Forum on “Cultural Partnership against Global Warming: Taiwan’s Contribution” held by Renlai Monthly／eRenlai Magazine in association with ROC’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei County Government and WeShare Education &amp;amp; Charity Fund.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please nominate recipients before July 15 through email at &lt;a href="mailto:awards@erenlai.com"&gt;awards@erenlai.com&lt;/a&gt; or by fax at 02-2365-4508. Nominations should include name and address of the nominated person plus a description of his/her achievements. Please, also leave us your contact information (telephone number and/or email address).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6021020405035254828?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6021020405035254828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6021020405035254828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/06/nominate-2008-life-sustainability.html' title='Nominate 2008 Life Sustainability Awards recipients!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5436219592261948845</id><published>2008-05-30T11:13:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T12:46:53.492+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob'/><title type='text'>How well do you drive?</title><content type='html'>Some of you might remember my previous post on my pondering about &lt;a href="http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/scooter-or-no-scooter.html"&gt;buying or no a scooter&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob did drive before... &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1691&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;read here his advices about driving&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5436219592261948845?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5436219592261948845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5436219592261948845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-well-do-you-drive.html' title='How well do you drive?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6621082323134159232</id><published>2008-05-14T16:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.102+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religion'/><title type='text'>Chamanisme et Christianisme</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCqdimP1e_I/AAAAAAAAALk/q-uCNiXt3fQ/s1600-h/LogoERLMagLow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200141937460739058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCqdimP1e_I/AAAAAAAAALk/q-uCNiXt3fQ/s200/LogoERLMagLow.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bonjour à tous,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En mai, un vent de spiritualité souffle sur eRenlai : explorez avec nous les liens entre chamanisme et christianisme en Asie du Sud-Est. Le Focus de ce mois-ci accompagne la publication d’un livre édité par Olivier Lardinois et Benoît Vermander, Shamanism and Christianity, religious encounters among indigenous people of East Asia (Ricci Institute, 2008), bientôt disponible sur la librairie en ligne d’eRenlai. Découvrez en avant-première des extraits de cette ouvrage inédit :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCqdumP1fAI/AAAAAAAAALs/HCfHGFFTX7g/s1600-h/kisterShamanism_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200142143619169282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="160" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCqdumP1fAI/AAAAAAAAALs/HCfHGFFTX7g/s200/kisterShamanism_s.jpg" width="235" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1671&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ten Theses on Shamanism and Christianity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by B. Vermander&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1669&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1669&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Korean Shamanism from Christian Perspectives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Daniel Kister&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1670&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Traditionalist health and healing in a Western and Christian world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Brian McCoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1668&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Revival of Christianism and Shamanism among the Indigenous peoples of Siberia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Tatiana Bulgakova&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par ailleurs, nous vous proposons de retrouver les temps forts de la conférence sur les “Ressources culturelles du developpement durable” organisée à Shanghai le 25 avril 2008. Lisez les contributions de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1677&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Michel Albert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1676&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Li Tiangang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1675&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Yao Dali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1674&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Wang Li&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1678&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Jérémie Rombaut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; entre autres … Nous y ajouterons très bientôt le son et la vidéo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous nous permettons de vous recommander deux autres livres ce mois-ci :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://lesindessavantes.com/db/record.php?id=143"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le Guide des temples bouddhistes de Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (Indes savantes)&lt;br /&gt;par Christian Cochini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/bv/Chinetemps.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;La Chine, ou le temps retrouvé&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les figures de la mondialisation et l'émergence chinoise (Academia Bruylant)&lt;br /&gt;par Benoît Vermander&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6621082323134159232?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6621082323134159232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6621082323134159232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/05/chamanisme-et-christianisme.html' title='Chamanisme et Christianisme'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCqdimP1e_I/AAAAAAAAALk/q-uCNiXt3fQ/s72-c/LogoERLMagLow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-9082069788259046557</id><published>2008-05-08T15:09:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-08T15:21:04.685+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Event'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricci'/><title type='text'>Book Sale!! Food for your brain !! Don't miss it!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCKof5l36bI/AAAAAAAAALc/pmkQMqx44qg/s1600-h/LOGO_Ricci+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197902185928059314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 178px" height="136" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SCKof5l36bI/AAAAAAAAALc/pmkQMqx44qg/s200/LOGO_Ricci+copy.jpg" width="118" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;BOOK DISCOUNT SALE&lt;br /&gt;The Ricci Institute is organizing a one-day book sale with very special discounts.&lt;br /&gt;The large-scale sale consists of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- duplicate copies coming from its library, in English, French, Chinese and other languages, including some rare books&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- discounted copies of its publications over the last forty years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Renlai copies and collections, and other periodicals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up from 10 NT per book&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time: Saturday, May 17, 1.30pm-9pm.&lt;br /&gt;Place: Tien Educational Center, 22 Hsin-hai road, 1st section, first floor.&lt;br /&gt;MRT station: Taipower building, exit 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.riccibase.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.riccibase.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;珍貴藏書折扣出清&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;利氏學社將舉辦一場超低價書籍出清活動，只有一天、敬請把握 !&lt;br /&gt;包括中、英、法及其他語文各領域、種類的書籍、雜誌，四十年來的出版品以及人籟叢書...等，這些具收藏價值的新舊書全部超低折扣 (十元起)，歡迎大家前來尋寶 !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;時間：2008年5月17日 (周六)&lt;br /&gt;下午1 :30 ~ 21 :00&lt;br /&gt;地點：台北市中正區辛亥路一段22號&lt;br /&gt;耕莘文教院一樓大禮堂&lt;br /&gt;捷運站：『台電大樓』站1號出口&lt;br /&gt;電話：(02)2368-9968 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-9082069788259046557?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9082069788259046557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9082069788259046557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/05/book-sale-old-and-new-books-from-taipei.html' title='Book Sale!! Food for your brain !! 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El artículo es una versión adaptada de capítulos de sus libros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196730840830018802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB5_KpD9hPI/AAAAAAAAALU/DLhImIqyCto/s400/Ville_irisee.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde hace 25 años China sigue un ritmo de crecimiento que se acerca al 10% anual. Sin embargo, este crecimiento va a la par con inestabilidad, tensiones y crecientes peligros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El peligro más claro es la inestabilidad social: fracaso del sistema de salud; progresivo distanciamiento de ingresos entre las ciudades y el campo; irritante desigualdad educativa debida a la privatización de hecho de la educación, al no poder pagar muchas familias campesinas ni la educación secundaria ni la primaria; manifestaciones a raíz de la corrupción, de los accidentes en las minas y en las industrias, de la contaminación causada por empresas propiedad de dirigentes del Partido. Resultado: según las estadísticas oficiales, 86.000 manifestaciones el año 2005, frente a unas 10.000 hace pocos años. Las preocupaciones de los ciudadanos se centran actualmente en la protección médica, el ambiente, los desequilibrios del mercado del empleo, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No menos reales son los peligros económicos y financieros. Dado el recalentamiento de la economía, el descenso de la demanda mundial puede multiplicar los riesgos de la sobre-inversión o del desempleo de los recién egresados. Existen también peligros ecológicos y sanitarios: dos tercios de los cursos de agua están contaminados; la tensión sobre los recursos energéticos va en aumento; riesgo de pandemias (gripe aviaria), explosión del SIDA, etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A todo esto habría que añadir las tensiones estratégicas. Las relaciones con el Japón siguen siendo tirantes; continúa ejerciéndose una creciente presión sobre Taiwán; la crisis con Corea está lejos de estar resuelta; se perfila una posible rivalidad con la India, pese a las promesas de cooperación entre los dos gigantes… Por otra parte, el constante incremento de las exportaciones y los retrasos en la devaluación del yuan hacen crecer la sospecha de cinismo del gobierno chino, que, bajo el pretexto del “ascenso pacífico”, lo que pretende en el fondo sería crear las condiciones de una dominación económica  basada en la explotación de mano de obra mal pagada y desprotegida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por último, peligros políticos. El desencadenamiento efectivo de cualquiera de estas crisis puede debilitar el actual liderazgo, que sigue controlando muy duramente los medios. De ahí la frustración cada vez mayor en el tema de la prensa y de Internet. Sin embargo, un cambio político –incluso parcial—podría resultar sumamente peligroso, ya que podría venir acompañado de rebrotes de movimientos populistas que no tendrían nada de democrático. El ejército sigue siendo un factor esencial, aunque desde 1980 obedece al poder político.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los sondeos y encuestas muestran, en general, los siguientes hechos:&lt;br /&gt;-         El resto del mundo mira el ascenso de poder de China como un hecho “neutro”: las opiniones negativas y positivas se equilibran;&lt;br /&gt;-         El grado de confianza de que gozan China y los chinos es bastante bajo;&lt;br /&gt;-         Los chinos mismos no se sienten particularmente apreciados por la sociedad internacional&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para llegar a una inserción “cualitativa” de China en un gobierno mundial, sería preciso alimentar y justificar el discurso de que el mundo tiene necesidad de China. Y esto, por razón de su cultura, sus tradiciones, su dinamismo, sus recursos humanos. Porque las crisis que China va a tener que enfrentar son también las nuestras: medio ambiente, pandemias, pobreza, regulación del comercio internacional… Si China quiere superar sus tensiones internas y externas, debe convertirse en copartícipe activo de un buen gobierno mundial. Debe colocarse en la primera fila de las iniciativas asumidas contra el recalentamiento climático (que China sigue promoviendo&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;), contra la deforestación; luchando por la prevención de las epidemias, el desarrollo concertado de África, el apaciguamiento de los conflictos regionales, el control ético de la biotecnología, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesa tanto a China como al mundo entero que este país se presente y actúe ante todo como un consocio activo y responsable, en la perspectiva de la solidaridad internacional y de un mejor gobierno mundial. En realidad, estas son responsabilidades anejas al ejercicio de todo poder. A decir verdad, Occidente está muy lejos de haber ejercido correctamente sus propias responsabilidades. Entrar un día en colaboración con una China que hubiera superado su crispación actual, nos enseñaría a todos a gestionar juntos el frágil mundo que se nos ha confiado. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recuperando el tiempo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Será China un actor determinante del mundo de mañana? Es más que evidente. Pero para que esta evidencia cobre pleno sentido es preciso retroceder un poco en la historia. Recordemos de dónde viene la China para poder vislumbrar a dónde va.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1979: A pesar de haber terminado oficialmente con la “revolución cultural”, China está todavía exangüe. Su línea política es indecisa, las luchas entre facciones no terminan. Resulta difícil entrever lo que va creciendo bajo los escombros. En diciembre de ese año, la Asamblea popular ratifica la política  de Deng Xiaoping. Comienza la era de las reformas y de la apertura. Desde el comienzo de los años 80  hasta el día de hoy, China va a experimentar la tasa de crecimiento más rápida del mundo y se recupera de manera espectacular, hasta el punto de verse propulsada al rango de una de las mayores potencias mundiales, cosa que nadie se hubiera arriesgado a imaginar hace treinta años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1989 : Los sucesos de la primavera de Pekín sacuden violentamente al poder. Sigue una represión que parece hacerle perder toda legitimidad. El crecimiento económico pasa por un corto periodo de estrangulamiento. Parecería como si la pujanza china no fuera a durar más que diez años. Pero pronto los pronósticos más pesimistas quedan desmentidos. Es cierto que el poder pierde gran parte de su crédito moral, pero a partir de 1992 lanza una segunda fase de reformas que ensancha considerablemente el radio de acción de la sociedad civil. No obstante, iniciativa socio-económica y libertad política son dos campos cuidadosamente diferenciados. Los chinos tienen que abandonar el anhelo de una rápida democratización, pero se lanzan a nuevos campos, mientras prosigue en este periodo una profunda maduración intelectual y social.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1999: Final de siglo difícil para los dirigentes. En abril, un extraño movimiento, el Falun gong, hace su repentina aparición. Escuela de gimnasia respiratoria, movimiento de masas con pretensiones espirituales, sociales y políticas confusas, a través de inmensas manifestaciones pacíficas el Falun gong sacude al poder instalado. Tras algunos meses de vacilación, en julio el poder lanza una campaña de represión implacable. El movimiento es aplastado en China, pero poco a poco conquista una audiencia internacional. A pesar de ello, el Partido conseguirá hábilmente cambiar la opinión pública, inicialmente favorable al Falun gong, que poco a poco se convence del carácter sectario y desviacionista de la organización que dirige Li Hongzhi. Así, el poder  no cede el control de lo que llama “la civilización espiritual” y mantiene el monopolio de la expresión ideológica. En 2002 y 2003, tras el éxito conseguido con el ingreso de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio, oficializada en diciembre de 2001, un nuevo equipo sucede pacíficamente al que durante catorce años había dirigido Jiang Zemin. Hu Jintao conduce un Partido-Estado que confedera a los chinos  a través de un proyecto de poder de dimensiones nacionales; un proyecto que, de sueño imposible se convierte en realidad tangible. En definitiva, el último cuarto de siglo se convierte para China en la aventura del tiempo recuperado, la reanudación de su destino propio con relación al resto del mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sobrevivir, jugar, ganar...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así va la China, y la historia de los últimos años ilustra una capacidad de resistencia, una dinámica, una fuerza de recuperación que indudablemente provienen en gran parte de su capacidad de superar una historia traumática. Un pacto implícito aúna a los chinos entre sí: nunca más una revolución cultural, nunca más desórdenes con muertos en la plaza, nunca más humillaciones nacionales. Gracias a un estilo de gobierno pragmático y a concesiones de todo tipo, se trata de asegurar el futuro de la familia y de la patria,  de sentirse orgullosos de los éxitos personales y colectivos de China como potencia mundial, capaz de tratar de igual a igual con un modelo tan admirado como temido: los Estados Unidos de América. Los chinos están convencidos que un día no lejano superarán a este modelo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crecimiento y reformas internas, junto con la afirmación de una posición nueva de China en los asuntos mundiales, son dos fenómenos que van a la par. Los chinos están hoy persuadidos de que la excelencia de su civilización, los valores culturales y morales que les caracterizan y la antigüedad de su historia contribuyen por sí mismas a asegurarles un puesto en el concierto mundial, aparte de su potencia demográfica. Sin embargo, están más convencidos todavía de que lo determinante en su posición y su influencia es su peso económico y militar como país. Realismo más que cinismo. Porque la ambición de que hace alarde el pueblo chino es la de ser plenamente parte del juego, como miembro respetado y reconocido por todos en una humanidad en cambio. Todo ello a pesar de que, en su lectura histórica, el periodo que se extiende de 1840 a 1949 fue para China el de la expoliación,  el de la manipulación de su destino como nación por parte de los países occidentales y del Japón. Al propio tiempo, al igual que cualquier pueblo, los chinos actúan frecuentemente en función de la imagen que los otros tienen de ellos. Las expectativas de los otros actores mundiales estimularán en China su capacidad de comportarse como actor responsable e imaginativo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cualquier caso, el frenesí por ponerse al día se ha impuesto de tal manera en China, que le resulta realmente difícil creer que en los asuntos internacionales –como en el caso del deporte--, lo importante es sólo participar… El país que inventó los exámenes para mandarines permanece fiel a su tradición: en cualquier asunto hay que distinguir claramente a los primeros de los segundos y de los terceros. En las zonas montañosas no escolarizadas en un 75%, he sido testigo de las filigranas de los funcionarios por organizar y jerarquizar un grupo de escuelitas, a cuál más pobre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para la China, hay que ganar a toda costa. Esto no quiere decir necesariamente que haya que aplastar a los adversarios, pero sí superarlos. Y, una vez conseguida la victoria (nunca antes) proclamarla a bombo y platillo. Paradójicamente, sin duda esta actitud es la que constituye uno de los mayores peligros para la estabilidad de la China y para la capacidad del país de afirmarse como primero en la carrera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Una carrera de obstáculos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La carrera china es una carrera de obstáculos. El primer obstáculo es, por supuesto, de orden económico. Por impresionante que sea el crecimiento chino, fundamentalmente sigue siendo de “recuperación”, sobre la base de un continuo desfase entre el capital efectivamente disponible en un momento dado y el resultado que se espera de la inversión. En otras palabras, la carrera del crecimiento es de rigor, porque cualquier baja en esta tasa pone inmediatamente en evidencia el papel que juegan los créditos dudosos, el déficit público, las inversiones arriesgadas. Cada vez se elevan más voces que señalan el peligro a que se expone el país con esta aceleración y con la creación de una “burbuja especulativa”, como la que afectó al Japón a fines de la década de los ochenta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bastaría que la coyuntura se volcara durante algunos meses, para que se precipitara una crisis bancaria, que podría desembocar en un desplome de la confianza y  el consiguiente efecto dominó. El gobierno chino es muy consciente de los riesgos que se corren. Por esto mismo, ha constituido un fondo de prevención, ha congelado las reservas de cambio a un monto exageradamente elevado (sin par en la historia) y ha tomado otras medidas para poner remedio a un posible cuadro de catástrofe. Pero el gobierno está atrapado en la trampa de acelerar a todo tren, y da largas a las indispensables reformas de estructuras que podrían enfriar la máquina recalentada. De ahí, por ejemplo, los esfuerzos  por impulsar el consumo, multiplicando las vacaciones y promoviendo los gastos superfluos. Aún así, el margen de crecimiento de “recuperación” (infraestructuras públicas, vivienda, inversiones industriales y ecológicas de base…) es tan importante, y la confianza del país en su futuro está tan arraigada, que no hay que creer fácilmente que un cambio de coyuntura se traduciría en seguida en una crisis estructural. Esto no quita que las señales de alarma se multiplican desde comienzo de 2007, entre ellas la especulación de la bolsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El segundo obstáculo consiste en la dificultad de impedir una rotura irreversible del tejido social. Los ingresos del sector rural y del urbano se distancian cada vez más&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;. La diferencia de los salarios y, más aún, la de los ingresos salariales y no salariales aumenta hasta tal punto, que la China está en proceso de convertirse en uno de los países con más desigualdades del mundo. La distancia entre las provincias ricas y pobres no hace más que crecer, ahondando el abismo entre la China pre-moderna y la China post-moderna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este desmantelamiento del tejido social no es sólo una fuente potencial de graves divisiones internas, sino que afecta la capacidad internacional de China de aplicar un modelo de desarrollo autónomo y responsable. El crecimiento chino no favorece sino débilmente el desarrollo humano; más aún, lo frena en algunos aspectos&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4"&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;. Otro tanto podría decirse del grave problema ecológico: deforestación, disminución de los recursos del agua, tasa de contaminación urbana que coloca a China a la cabeza de su categoría (“primer premio”, al que por una vez quisiera renunciar…). También en este punto la crisis interna impide a China hacerse escuchar en el escenario internacional con una voz autorizada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A todo esto habría que añadir el grave obstáculo político que carga sobre el desarrollo chino y su capacidad de convertirse en uno de los protagonistas del mundo. China sigue siendo gobernada por un Partido-Estado de tipo leninista. Sin embargo, no hay que engañarse sobre la naturaleza de tal obstáculo. Ya he mencionado que la legitimidad del Partido-Estado se debe a su capacidad de garantizar un orden social que sea factor de prosperidad y poder. El Partido fue un partido de movilización, y la continuidad de la tasa de crecimiento, la conquista del espacio, los Juegos Olímpicos, la causa de la unificación nacional le aseguran todavía esta dimensión. Pero, incluso a los ojos de los mismos chinos, existen factores que hoy día contribuyen a hacer del Partido un obstáculo para el desarrollo del país. La corrupción (recientemente ilustrada por el escándalo de las operaciones inmobiliarias), suscita manifestaciones, erosiona la confianza pública y la rentabilidad financiera.  La libertad de prensa y de información, prácticamente inexistente, ya no es considerada sólo como una reivindicación política sino como garantía de buena gestión y progreso social, económico y cultural. La generalización de las elecciones es asimismo considerada por muchos como una etapa necesaria para un proceso de desarrollo que, a fin de cuentas, exige transparencia de las operaciones y examen crítico de los balances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Partido ha jugado un rol histórico importante, que ahora crea las condiciones para su desaparición… Esta reflexión no deja de tener eco dentro del mismo Partido. No se puede descartar en absoluto que sus dirigentes sepan operar una reforma interna progresiva. Pero el camino es arriesgado y las resistencias del aparato son demasiado fuertes para dejarse llevar por el optimismo. En espera de una hipotética liberalización política, los numerosos atentados a los derechos humanos, las restricciones a la libertad de culto y de conciencia, el manejo del problema tibetano, la ausencia de legitimidad electoral limitan los alcances de la contribución de China en el escenario internacional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Una visión internacional estrecha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Además de estos obstáculos, un factor más limita el alcance del rol de la China como actor mundial: una visión internacional estrecha y una concepción muy rígida de la soberanía e identidad nacionales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La estrechez de la visión internacional se manifiesta a través de la fijación que China tiene sobre la cultura, el poder y el mercado de EE.UU., en detrimento de la atención que presta a los países asiáticos vecinos. Pese al discurso oficial sobre la necesidad de un mundo multipolar, pese a los contactos internacionales buscados por todas partes, la visión del pueblo chino es esencialmente bipolar: un mundo occidental, cuyo centro y esencia se encuentran en los EE.UU., frente a un mundo asiático en el que China es la fuerza dominante. Esta visión organiza y jerarquiza el mapa mental del mundo que tiene el pueblo chino. Esta simplificación resulta perjudicial para algunas de las naciones vecinas, que quisieran que China desempeñara un papel regional más importante, sobre todo para limitar o contrarrestar la influencia americana. Se va perfilando una evolución en este sentido, pero la concepción del mundo tan “soberanista” e “imperial” que sostiene  China  obstaculiza su ingreso a una multipolaridad y a una lógica regional efectivas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La rigidez que marca la concepción de soberanía e identidad nacional se pone en evidencia en el modo de abordar el problema de Taiwán. El mito a-histórico de una patria intangible, de una cultura inmutable, de una etnia unificada, todas ellas parte de una estructura política y estatal  incontestables, sirve de unción sagrada para el poder. Oficialmente, la única salida posible es la reunificación. La evolución de la isla hacia un proceso de autodeterminación es un casus belli de primer orden. Cualquier dirigente sospechoso de debilidad en la cuestión taiwanesa perdería inmediatamente su cargo. Sin embargo, también en este punto hay que advertir que las asperezas del discurso oficial encubren una flexibilidad política mayor que en el  pasado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es de esperar que la China logre poco a poco superar estos obstáculos, de la  misma manera que ha sabido hacerlo últimamente, en un proceso de desarrollo nada fácil de conducir. Los desafíos que enfrenta han de llevarla a modificar a fondo su cultura política y su sistema de poder. Para convertirse en un actor internacional coherente, influyente y responsable, tendrá que atravesar numerosas adaptaciones y sacrificios. Las decisiones que hoy se imponen cuestionan directamente ciertos aspectos fundamentales del sistema político y social del país. Ojalá el pragmatismo que ha demostrado la China en el último cuarto de siglo le ayude a abordar, con determinación y flexibilidad, los desafíos inéditos que le  acarrean sus propios éxitos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; Sobre la opinión internacional acerca de China y la percepción que los chinos tienen de sí mismos, ver la encuesta del Chicago Council on Global Affairs (mayo 2007) en: WorldPublicOpinion.org.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; La China se convirtió en 2007 en el primer productor mundial de gas del “efecto invernadero”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt; La distancia entre el ingreso de los habitantes rurales y el de los urbanos ha pasado de la relación 2,57 a 1 (1978) a la relación 3,22 a 1 (2005).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4199580717558975505#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4"&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt; Tema recurrente en el premio Nobel de economía Amartya Sen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6752193023472196751?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6752193023472196751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6752193023472196751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/05/dnde-va-la-china.html' title='¿A dónde va la China?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB5_KpD9hPI/AAAAAAAAALU/DLhImIqyCto/s72-c/Ville_irisee.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3169819931383639483</id><published>2008-05-05T10:24:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T13:04:53.974+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Event'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><title type='text'>Three weeks of silence</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear hipsters gangsters and bandits pundits!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I am back on my blog after three (painful) weeks of silence, here is a brief summary of what I did during this long time running under cypresses:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;- The conference about the "Cultural resources of sustainable development" was held in Shanghai on April 25 (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1677&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;read some of the highlights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;). Be reassured, we did not get stoned by a crowd in fury (although some might deserve it...) and it has been a passionating experience for me, on the professional and human level as well. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB56kZD9hNI/AAAAAAAAALE/aPephCdfjI4/s1600-h/Lafarge_Annette_Cerise.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196725785653511378" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB56kZD9hNI/AAAAAAAAALE/aPephCdfjI4/s320/Lafarge_Annette_Cerise.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Annette, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1678&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Jeremie &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;and Olivier from Lafarge-India,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;- We also organized an exhibition with the photographs published in the Renlai magazine issue of April: the opening is already over but it is not too late to see it!!! You have until May 10th to discover Taiwan new wave of young photographers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB545ZD9hLI/AAAAAAAAAK0/ke2dEg3Avl4/s1600-h/Picturing_Music_Renlai.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196723947407508658" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB545ZD9hLI/AAAAAAAAAK0/ke2dEg3Avl4/s200/Picturing_Music_Renlai.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;攝影的舞步&lt;br /&gt;Picturing Music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;十二位生活在台灣的年輕攝影愛好者以影像來表現音樂與生活的節奏，感謝法商東方匯理銀行贊助籌辦展出這一系列攝影作品。&lt;br /&gt;Renlai Magazine, thanks to the support of Calyon, organizes a photography exhibition introducing the works of 12 young photographers living in Taiwan: a celebration of the dialogue between sound and vision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;開幕酒會:&lt;br /&gt;2008年4月18日(星期五) 下午17.30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;展覽時間:&lt;br /&gt;2008年4月18日—5月10日&lt;br /&gt;星期一至星期五9:00AM-17:30PM&lt;br /&gt;展出地點：法商東方匯理銀行&lt;br /&gt;台北市松山區105敦化北路167號16樓（宏國大樓）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exhibit opening:&lt;br /&gt;Friday 18 April 2008 at 5:30pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exhibition will last from April 18th 2008 until May 10th 2008&lt;br /&gt;Open Monday to Friday: 9.00am -17.30pm&lt;br /&gt;Address: Calyon Taipei Branch, 16th Fl, No 167, Dunhua North Road,&lt;br /&gt;Taipei city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;攝影者:&lt;br /&gt;黃一玲，鍾偉杰，張修齊，柯蕾俐，和田多實，翁華志，許芯瑋，張顥馨，杜曼笛，余白，高樹邦。&lt;br /&gt;鄭晴心： '在夢輿醒之間旋轉'（短片）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photographs by:&lt;br /&gt;Yiling Huang, Chung Wai Kit, Chang Xiu-Chi, Aurélie Kernaléguen, Tami Wada, Angelica Oung, Kate Hsu, Austin Chang, Amandine Dubois, Hubert Kilian and Andy Gao.&lt;br /&gt;And a short documentary by Pinti Zheng: 'Between Dreams and Wakefulness'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact: Aurélie Kernaléguen&lt;br /&gt;活動聯絡人: 柯蕾俐&lt;br /&gt;Tel: 0287730773#12&lt;br /&gt;Email: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:keleily@hotmail.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;keleily@hotmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact : Corinne Huang/ Calyon&lt;br /&gt;活動聯絡人： 洪雅玲／ 法商東方匯理銀行&lt;br /&gt;Tel: （02）2717－5252＃102&lt;br /&gt;Email: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://corinne.hung@tw.calyon.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://corinne.hung@tw.calyon.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3169819931383639483?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3169819931383639483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3169819931383639483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/05/three-weeks-of-silence.html' title='Three weeks of silence'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/SB56kZD9hNI/AAAAAAAAALE/aPephCdfjI4/s72-c/Lafarge_Annette_Cerise.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7723969731897097068</id><published>2008-04-02T12:04:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-02T12:28:08.255+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Last month was elected the new mayor of Paris (in fact Bertrand Delanoe was reelected) and soon it will be turn of London. In a time of local elections, you can read what is at stake when managing cities: a somehow oriented comparison  between Paris and London (&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10849106"&gt;The rivals&lt;/a&gt; - The Economist, Mar 13th 2008) and an analysis of &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1510&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;citizens' participation in local development&lt;/a&gt; by Benoit Vermander on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7723969731897097068?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7723969731897097068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7723969731897097068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/04/last-month-was-elected-new-mayor-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1352086030177175686</id><published>2008-03-13T16:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.171+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><title type='text'>Le dos de mon père</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai consacre son focus du mois au thème de la paternité. En chinois, le magazine et le focus ont titré: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1474&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;父親，不只有背影 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, ce qui signifie "Un père n'est pas seulement un dos" (la traduction - de mon crû - n'est sûrement pas la meilleure, mais j'ai voulu garder la dimension involontairement comique de l'histoire).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En effet, le titre chinois fait référence à un texte apparemment incontournable des études secondaires à Taiwan : &lt;em&gt;Dos&lt;/em&gt; (背影, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/1/8/18/c3434.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;voir le texte original en chinois&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;) de Zhu Ziqing (朱自清) (1925). Le narrateur raconte sa relation avec son père qui connait des déboires professionnels et affectifs : jeune garçon puis adolescent, il voit la déchéance financière de son père qui doit payer les funérailles de sa mère et pour cela hypothéquer la maison familiale. Un jour, le fils doit se rendre a Nanjing et le père décide de l'accompagner. S'ensuit une scène poignante durant laquelle le père du narrateur décide d'acheter des fruits pour que son fiston ait de quoi grignoter pendant le trajet. Le narrateur verse alors de chaudes larmes en évoquant la silhouette grassouillette de son père qui doit descendre un parapet pour aller acheter les fruits. Le texte s'achève ensuite sur la décrépitude du père qui devient acariâtre a la fin de sa vie et passe son temps à accabler de reproches son entourage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon chinois n'est peut-être pas assez bon pour saisir toutes les subtilités littéraires du texte (il me faut en effet faire un effort d'imagination assez considérable pour percevoir l'aspect dramatique et poignant de la situation), mais je crois que je peux ressentir ce que tente de décrire le narrateur quand je me réfère à mon expérience personnelle : dire au-revoir a quelqu'un et avoir l'impression que c'est la dernière fois que l'on voit sa silhouette s'éloigner de dos. Ne dit-on pas en français que "partir, c'est mourir un peu"?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1352086030177175686?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1352086030177175686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1352086030177175686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/03/le-dos-de-mon-pere.html' title='Le dos de mon père'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-774672643218416071</id><published>2008-03-13T16:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.086+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Chers amis,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;eRenlai ayant connu une forte hausse de sa fréquentation, nous avons changé de serveur et le site est encore plus rapide qu’avant. Lors de ce transfert, le site a connu quelques interruptions, veuillez nous en excuser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certains d’entre vous le savent déjà, Ricci/Renlai participe à l’organisation d’une conférence internationale sur « les Ressources Culturelles du Développement Durable » (le 25 avril à Shanghai), Monsieur Jacques Chirac sera l’intervenant principal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/events/events.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le programme détaillé en anglais ainsi que le formulaire d’inscription sont en ligne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce mois-ci, réfléchissez avec nous sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1511&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;le sens de la paternité&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; : pères et fils nous font partager leurs réflexions et leurs souvenirs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jjDL6g-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/HUzqo-bTks4/s1600-h/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177137415539718242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="86" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jjDL6g-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/HUzqo-bTks4/s200/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg" width="91" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Hubert Kilian vient tout juste d’être papa, il nous raconte &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1480&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;son expérience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Chao Chin-chih évoque, lui, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1483&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;les joies et les peines d’élever son enfant seul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Etre parent, c’est aussi éduquer. Ainsi, Bob soutient que nous sommes tous des « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1452&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;parents intérimaires&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; » tandis que Darren Schell témoigne de son &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1492&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;expérience de professeur d’anglais à Taiwan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par ailleurs, vous pouvez écouter et lire des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1482&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;paroles d’enfants sur leur papa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ou les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1507&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;tendres souvenirs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; de Gao Lao.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cette période électorale (Taiwan, France, Etats-Unis…), Li-Chun commente le débat entre les deux candidats à la présidentielle taïwanaise: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1509&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Air-conditioned Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Quant à Benoît et Bob, ils analysent respectivement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1455&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;l’acte de voter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1510&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;la participation citoyenne dans le developpement local&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Dans une toute autre partie du monde, Aurélie Kernaleguen présente le problème de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1527&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;la déforestation en Nouvelle Zélande&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sans oublier notre toute nouvelle homepage où vous pourrez regarder des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;éditoriaux filmés de Bob et Mei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Il s’agit encore d’un coup d’essai alors n’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos remarques ! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-774672643218416071?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/774672643218416071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/774672643218416071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/03/chers-amis-erenlai-ayant-connu-une.html' title=''/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jjDL6g-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/HUzqo-bTks4/s72-c/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7515709960424333407</id><published>2008-03-13T16:05:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T16:11:36.671+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to the growing success of eRenlai, we just changed server, and this caused some disruptions. Now, the website runs even more rapidly than before…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of you already know, Ricci/Renlai is involved in an international conference on “Cultural Resources for Sustainable Development”, Shanghai, April 25, former President Jacques Chirac being the main speaker. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/events/events.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Full program and registration forms are now online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to our monthly focus and reflect with us on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1511&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;the meaning of fatherhood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Fathers and children share their memories and their testimonies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jgn76g-FI/AAAAAAAAAKk/du-LcTRYzb8/s1600-h/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177134748365027410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="93" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jgn76g-FI/AAAAAAAAAKk/du-LcTRYzb8/s200/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg" width="91" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Hubert Kilian just had a baby, he tells us about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1480&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;his experience as a young father&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Chao Chin-chih speaks about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1483&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;the joys and sorrows of being a single father&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being a parent is also being an educator, Bob claims that “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1452&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;we are all surrogate parents&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;” while Darren Schell tells &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1492&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;his experience as a teacher in Taiwan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Also read and listen to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1482&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;children’s words about their fathe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;r and Gao Lao’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1507&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;sweet memories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a time of elections (Taiwan, France, the US…), Li-Chun comments the debate between the two presidential candidates in Taiwan: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1509&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Air-conditioned Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Bob analyzes the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1455&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;act of voting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; and Benoit Vermander evokes the issue of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1510&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;citizens’ participation in local development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Another topic, another part of the world: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1527&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Deforestation in New Zealand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by A. Kernaleguen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And have a fresh look on our homepage where you can now watch &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bob’s and Mei’s video editorials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. This is still a trial version, thanks for your comments!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7515709960424333407?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7515709960424333407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7515709960424333407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-friends-due-to-growing-success-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jgn76g-FI/AAAAAAAAAKk/du-LcTRYzb8/s72-c/Bob_parentsCrop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8641018224523441287</id><published>2008-03-13T15:46:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T14:28:42.317+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese youth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'>Fathers and children</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jenb6g-EI/AAAAAAAAAKc/-o9twkyxxhg/s1600-h/Cerise_fathers_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177132540751837250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jenb6g-EI/AAAAAAAAAKc/-o9twkyxxhg/s320/Cerise_fathers_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This month, Renlai/eRenlai focuses on family, education and more precisely, on fatherhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Here is a special thanks to two English teachers in Taipei: Natalia and Darren. The first helped me to record some of the kids she's teaching, the second kindly answered my questions... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Listen to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1482&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;children words about their daddy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; and discover how &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1492&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Darren educates children with martial arts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Or read my own reflection about fatherhood:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fathers, where are you?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;With the multiplication of single-parent families, it is more and more common to see children being raised by their mother. In fact, after a divorce or a separation, children are most of the time left to their mother’s care. Among my friends, I know only one who lived with her father instead of her mother after they got divorced. I was myself raised by my mother, only seeing my father from time to time. I think I got used to living with an absent father as well as most of my friends. That didn’t mean that they were not seeing their fathers or didn’t have a good relationship with them, it is just that the father could be less present without maybe disrupting drastically the run of events… It seems like the absence or the disinvolvement of fathers is a common representation of fatherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Do fathers have a different linkage to their offspring than mothers? It is true that for biological evidences, the mother is more able to develop an intuitive relationship to her child. But for the father? As the father is first deprived from the feeling of osmosis felt by some women, how can he become “aware” of his fatherhood? How does the feeling of being a father grow and be nurtured inside him?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The mysterious link of fatherhood, and sometimes motherhood, is less obvious than what it would seem. In 2005, Belgian directors the Dardennes brothers, shot a movie entitled &lt;em&gt;The Child&lt;/em&gt; where they try to capture this link, especially the one of fatherhood. Sonia and Bruno are twenty and they just come to have a child. They have no money, Bruno makes a living from small thieving and swindling. The beginning of the movie is already emblematical of the father’s absence: Sonia goes out of the maternity hospital holding her baby in her arms but Bruno is not there and she starts to look after him. Finally, when they meet, Jimmy, the baby, is a “strange thing” to Bruno who doesn’t show any special care or concern. At this stage of the movie, the main question that the directors also asked themselves was: would Sonia’s great love and affection be enough to make Bruno be aware of his son’s existence? And the answer was “no”. The movie reaches its acme when Bruno tells Sonia he has sold their 9 days-old child. Bruno then justifies himself by saying “We’ll make another one”, relegating his gesture to the most ordinary ones. To Bruno indeed, it doesn’t mean anything to have sold his own child as, to him, having a child didn’t mean anything more than having a baby carriage… The second part of the movie is dedicated to the redemption of Bruno to whom the buying back of the child is just the first step. And he actually has to save another boy in order to also achieve his own redemption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1452&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Enter the focus to read other testimonies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8641018224523441287?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8641018224523441287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8641018224523441287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/03/fathers-and-children.html' title='Fathers and children'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R9jenb6g-EI/AAAAAAAAAKc/-o9twkyxxhg/s72-c/Cerise_fathers_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3702235386769940245</id><published>2008-02-21T15:41:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T16:09:38.009+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>Today is the Lantern Festival in Taiwan</title><content type='html'>In fact it started yesterday but today is also a big day of celebration. New concerns rise among environmentalists as the lanterns sent into the air at the occasion may be a strong cause of pollution:&lt;br /&gt;"Every year the debris from thousands of burned-out lanterns litters the Taiwan countryside. Some even ignite fires: In 2006, according to press reports, a sky lantern set a field on fire next to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, sending up huge clouds of smoke and forcing officials to temporarily shut a runway." (&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/20/asia/lantern.php"&gt;Herald Tribune, 20/02/08&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The debate opposes environmentalists and authorities who promote the festival as it is a very important source of revenue and economic development. The article also recalls that the lantern Festival is not the only Chinese tradition to be questioned : for example, some alternative solutions are also figured out about the burning of paper money for the ghosts or, in mainland China, authorities had to take some measures to prevent people from burning plastic cellphones or any kind of plastic objects as offerings for the defunt souls... As well, every year, some people show some concerns about the tradition of doing a barbecue during the mid-automn festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "technological" alternatives such as virtually lighting a lantern on internet seem not to be satisfying for the moment... and if we'd just try to invent some new activities more eco-friendly to compete and maybe also to balance the negative effects of these traditions that people still cherish a lot?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3702235386769940245?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3702235386769940245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3702235386769940245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/today-is-lantern-festival-in-taiwan.html' title='Today is the Lantern Festival in Taiwan'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5329286314571246546</id><published>2008-02-13T15:38:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T16:31:26.798+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7KqhnwyiKI/AAAAAAAAAKM/D0Z9J3nBNSk/s1600-h/Benoit_rat_s100.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166379217133406370" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7KqhnwyiKI/AAAAAAAAAKM/D0Z9J3nBNSk/s200/Benoit_rat_s100.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Taiwan, February 28th is a memorial day for the incident that happened in 1947 and led to the death of thousands of civilians. By coming to terms with its memories, a society is able to build up consent and harmony among its members. However it is never easy to achieve a balance between “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1405&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;” and “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1406&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;reconciliation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;”. This is the issue we are exploring this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7KqznwyiLI/AAAAAAAAAKU/rwbSSGNCrqk/s1600-h/Li-Chun_Justice_forgiveness100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166379526371051698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7KqznwyiLI/AAAAAAAAAKU/rwbSSGNCrqk/s200/Li-Chun_Justice_forgiveness100.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In this line, Bob Ronald distinguishes between a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1402&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Merciful Justice and a Judicious Mercy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. And previously on eRenlai, Brian Mc Coy had explored the topic as experienced by Australian Aboriginal community:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=408&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A government who can’t say ‘sorry’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Also, watch a photo variation by Liang Zhun on “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1418&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;giving a hand to a friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;Among our editorials, Benoit celebrates the coming of his Chinese zodiacal year: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1413&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Year of the Rat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Also, have a different look at some of the objects in our everyday life: plastic bags and scooters. Roy Berman draws the map of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1400&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;a floating continent of garbage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; while I ponder &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1414&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;whether or not to buy a scooter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob is also a master in the art of rewriting classic tales: discover his own personal version of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1410&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Emperor’s new suit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Joel Ciceron has contributed to our database on China and Taiwan’s environmental issues: go to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://csr.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://csr.erenlai.tv/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(please allow some time for downloading).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wish you a Happy Chinese New Year. May the year of the Rat be propitious!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5329286314571246546?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5329286314571246546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5329286314571246546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/dear-all-in-taiwan-february-28th-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7KqhnwyiKI/AAAAAAAAAKM/D0Z9J3nBNSk/s72-c/Benoit_rat_s100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3346458085560902596</id><published>2008-02-13T11:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.067+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>L'année de la ratoune</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JoOHwyiJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/qlQaZsAtwII/s1600-h/BenoitRat+crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166306314358524050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JoOHwyiJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/qlQaZsAtwII/s200/BenoitRat+crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bonjour à tous,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Taiwan, le 28 février commémore l’incident survenu en 1947 qui causa la mort de milliers de personnes. Chaque société doit sans doute exercer cet effort de mémoire et de retour sur son passé pour pouvoir créer un consensus et atteindre l’harmonie entre ses membres. Cependant, il n’est pas aisé de trouver un équilibre entre « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1405&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; » et « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1406&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;réconciliation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; » ; c’est là le thème que nous développons ce mois-ci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JnwnwyiII/AAAAAAAAAJ8/ev_htHKHQlM/s1600-h/candlles.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166305807552383106" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 61px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px" height="78" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JnwnwyiII/AAAAAAAAAJ8/ev_htHKHQlM/s200/candlles.jpg" width="73" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bob Ronald propose ainsi de faire la distinction entre une « justice clémente » et une « clémence judicieuse » : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1402&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Merciful Justice and a Judicious Mercy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Brian Mc Coy avait également déjà abordé le sujet dans un article qui relate l’expérience des aborigènes en Australie: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=408&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A government who can’t say ‘sorry’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. Ou encore, découvrez une variation photographique de Liang Zhun sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1418&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;les gestuelles du pardon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Parmi nos éditoriaux, Benoît célèbre l’arrivée de son signe astrological chinois: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1413&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;l’Année du Rat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;! Par ailleurs, les objets qui nous entourent ne sont pas aussi anodins qu’ils en ont l’air : saviez-vous qu’il existe des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1400&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;continents flottants faits de sacs plastiques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ? Pour ma part, je m’interroge sur les bienfaits de l’acquisition d’un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1414&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;scooter à Taipei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par ailleurs, Bob, qui est passé maître dans l’art de réécrire les contes de notre enfance, nous présente sa version personnelle des « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1410&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Habits neufs de l’empereur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En outre, Joël Cicéron nous a aidé à enrichir notre documentation sur les problèmes environnementaux en Chine et à Taiwan: pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://csr.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://csr.erenlai.tv/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Nous vous prions d’être patients en regard des temps de chargements) !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous vous souhaitons un joyeux nouvel an chinois. Que l’année du Rat vous soit propice à tous !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3346458085560902596?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3346458085560902596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3346458085560902596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/l-de-la-ratoune.html' title='L&amp;#39;année de la ratoune'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JoOHwyiJI/AAAAAAAAAKE/qlQaZsAtwII/s72-c/BenoitRat+crop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6612663640507624654</id><published>2008-02-13T11:05:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T11:21:40.545+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aborigene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='governance'/><title type='text'>"Sorry" at last</title><content type='html'>Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expressed this week a formal apology for the wrongs committed against Aborigines in the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mr Rudd said he apologised "especially" to the Stolen Generations of young Aboriginal children who were taken from their parents in a policy of assimilation which lasted from the 19th Century to the late 1960s." (&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7241965.stm"&gt;BBC News, 13/02/08&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously on Renlai magazine Brian Mc Coy had already discussed this topic through the angle of the "sorry"ceremonies led by Aborigines in Australia:  &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=408&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;A government who can’t say ‘sorry’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6612663640507624654?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6612663640507624654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6612663640507624654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/sorry-at-last.html' title='&quot;Sorry&quot; at last'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1263166661366982129</id><published>2008-02-13T10:46:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T10:56:51.651+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pollution'/><title type='text'>Scooter or no scooter?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JcWnwyiHI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/BtqSd9qFq3o/s1600-h/Cerise_scooter_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166293266247878770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JcWnwyiHI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/BtqSd9qFq3o/s320/Cerise_scooter_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I have been living in Taiwan for two years and a half and I am a pitiful pedestrian. As a matter of fact, in Taipei, the pedestrian is not at all the ruler of the street. The true king of the streets (and the sidewalks) in Taipei is the scooter.&lt;br /&gt;At first it could look prac&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JaZ3wyiGI/AAAAAAAAAJs/q3sGOp0ZyuA/s1600-h/Cerise_scooter_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;tical to move about the city on two motorized wheels as a real urbanite! Scooters are fast, not that expensive in Taiwan and easy to park… Easy to park? Really? There are more or less one million scooters in Taipei for its more than 2,600,000 population which means that there is almost one scooter for every three persons in the city! I could verify this number on a smaller scale citing my Taiwanese relatives: my family of four members living in Taipei owns a total of three scooters and two cars!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Moreover, scooters in Taipei are also a notorious danger for pedestrians, bicycles and for themselves! At least half of the people I know have had an accident involving a scooter and it’s astonishing to see how much the radiography rooms are crowded in the hospitals. A friend of mine, a hard-practicing-scooterer, once told me that she has to frequently bypass the security driving rules because of other scooters! For example, Taipei streets have on the largest streets a special place designated on the ground where scooters can wait for the light to become green; according to my friend, there is always one scooter starting to cross while the light is still red, then all the other scooters have also to cross at once so half of the herd is already in the middle of the street and the other half is urging poor you in the middle to do the same… I can still point out that, although everyone shares the same instinct of survival, the herds’ ways of acting are perhaps not the best ones to preserve one’s life and, in this case, they especially do discourage any courtesy between the street users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Also, in the motorized jungle of the city, the scooters and motorcycles have their own predators: cars, taxis, trucks and buses. A new trend of smoking completely the windshield of four-wheel drives so that the driver cannot be seen from outside just worsens the discrepancy between the hard world of the street person and the safe cocoon of the big car. Apart from the fact that the people outside have no idea if the driver has spotted them or not, it also appears to be a lousy way to drive and to interact with others. If “I” feel good, I do not need to worry about others’ feelings even less about their safety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;For your information: production and sales of cars doubled in 2007 on the Chinese market which is the second biggest in the world after the US.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1263166661366982129?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1263166661366982129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1263166661366982129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/02/scooter-or-no-scooter.html' title='Scooter or no scooter?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R7JcWnwyiHI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/BtqSd9qFq3o/s72-c/Cerise_scooter_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2125526273660965457</id><published>2008-01-15T10:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.052+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chine'/><title type='text'>Taiwan perd un autre allié</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le 27 décembre 2007, le Malawi a officiellement rompu 41 ans de relations diplomatiques avec Taiwan en faveur de la Chine. La décision du gouvernement malawite a suscité une vive réaction de la part du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères taiwanais: "Il est fort regrettable que le gouvernement ainsi que les dirigeants du Malawi renoncent à honorer leurs engagements auprès de notre gouvernement, succombant ainsi à la pression diabolique de la Chine".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est en effet un autre coup dur pour Taiwan qui a déjà perdu l'an passé (mois de juin) le soutien diplomatique du Costa Rica. Taiwan ne compte plus maintenant que 23 pays alliés (dont seulement 4 sur le continent africain) contre 170 pour la Chine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Chine l'aurait emporté en proposant au Malawi une aide substancielle de 6 milliards de dollars. Le gouvernement chinois mène en effet depuis quelques années une politique conséquente d'investissement en Afrique afin de s'assurer les ressources naturelles du continent ainsi qu'une position politique internationale influente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4wqsDY2ZOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/SGF4YnCcN7k/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155542609744520418" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4wqsDY2ZOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/SGF4YnCcN7k/s320/images.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'on peut se demander si Taiwan ne ferait pas mieux de changer de cap, i.e. abandonner sa politique d'alliances mise à rude épreuve ces dernières années et concentrer ses efforts pour devenir membre d'organisations internationales...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour en savoir plus sur les relations Chine-Afrique (article en anglais)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=599&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=599&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et si Taiwan abolissait carrément son Ministère des Affaires Etrangères?...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=436&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=436&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2125526273660965457?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2125526273660965457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2125526273660965457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/01/taiwan-perd-un-autre-allie.html' title='Taiwan perd un autre allié'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4wqsDY2ZOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/SGF4YnCcN7k/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1180917846854297118</id><published>2008-01-08T15:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.031+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>Pour commencer l'année du bon pied!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MtcTY2ZJI/AAAAAAAAAI8/meOz5hqVfhc/s1600-h/erenlaitvnews.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153012362906068114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MtcTY2ZJI/AAAAAAAAAI8/meOz5hqVfhc/s200/erenlaitvnews.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; Bonjour à tous,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici un petit cadeau pour fêter la nouvelle année: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;www.erenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Un nouvel outil pour créer et jouer vos propres « shows » !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; est un site expérimental destiné à permettre à ses usagers de créer et de raconter eux-mêmes leurs histoires en créant des “webs shows” semblables à ceux que l’on peut déjà voir sur son site frère, eRenlai.com. Le site est très simple d’utilisation, “uploadez” vos photos, ajoutez-y du texte et créez une petite animation dotée de mouvements de caméra virtuels. Une fois &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/login.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;inscrit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, il ne vous reste plus qu’à suivre le guide pas à pas pour créer votre propre show : tout d’abord choisir un titre puis vos photos et les mouvements de caméra, enfin, ajouter du texte et de la musique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant de commencer, nos développeurs souhaitent vous donner quelques conseils: préférez les films courts et surtout « poids-plume » (l’idéal étant par exemple 5 slides de 200kb chacun ou d’un total d’1MB) pour en faciliter leur chargement par vos spectateurs. Si vous souhaitez en créer de plus longs, pensez alors à sauvegarder fréquemment votre travail en cliquant sur la touche “I’m done”. Vous pouvez ensuite éditer de nouveau votre show sur la page “My shows”. Utilisateurs de Safari et Firefox, soyez cléments avec nous qui travaillons sans répit à la réparation des bugs pour ces versions… Par ailleurs, n’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos éventuelles remarques et commentaires !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; a été conçu et développé par Thibaut Camdessus et est publié par l’Institut Ricci de Taipei ainsi que le magazine Renlai/eRenlai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous souhaitez vous détendre après avoir apporté votre pierre à notre célébration de la créativité, asseyez-vous et regardez les “oeuvres d’art pour l’âme” proposées par notre Focus du mois : nous espérons ainsi que notre sélection de paroles, d’images et de musiques vous aidera à trouver la paix dans votre esprit et votre cœur pour recouvrer toutes les énergies nécessaires au commencement d’une nouvelle année…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MtmDY2ZKI/AAAAAAAAAJE/E8x4puHD2QQ/s1600-h/reconcavo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153012530409792674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MtmDY2ZKI/AAAAAAAAAJE/E8x4puHD2QQ/s200/reconcavo1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Fabio Bito Caraciolo and Tássia Novaes présentent les visages de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/share.php?aid=1360&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;la région de Recôncavo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (Bahia) sur une musique composée par Inspiração Divina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Explorez avec Roy Berman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1283&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;les ruines de Shinbashi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; à Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ou découvrez les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1357&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;paysages parallèles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; de Jose Duarte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4Mt0zY2ZLI/AAAAAAAAAJM/Mh8XS4kag3c/s1600-h/HKFestivalnews.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153012783812863154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4Mt0zY2ZLI/AAAAAAAAAJM/Mh8XS4kag3c/s200/HKFestivalnews.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Tisa Ho nous parle de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/share.php?aid=1358&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;l’édition 2008 du Festival des Arts à Hong Kong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1375&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Mémoires Nomades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une animation réalisée par Claire Shen à partir de peintures de Bendu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous êtes décidés à suivre vos résolutions du Nouvel An, pourquoi ne pas ouvrir votre « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1364&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Club-de-ceux-qui-tiennent-leurs-résolutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; » ? C’est en effet le conseil de Bob en ces premiers jours de l’année…&lt;br /&gt;Vous pouvez aussi lire l’édito de Michel Conforto-Galli sur la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1363&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;beauté spirituelle de Bali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ou regardez notre nouvelle animation flash sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1361&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;la santé en Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ainsi que sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1354&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;le festival de l’eau à Dujiangyan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (Liang Zhun).&lt;br /&gt;Parmi nos nouveaux articles, nous pouvons également vous proposer une série spéciale de textes sur la « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1366&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;violence dans les contes pour enfants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; » par Bob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meilleurs vœux et courage !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1180917846854297118?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1180917846854297118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1180917846854297118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/01/pour-commencer-l-du-bon-pied.html' title='Pour commencer l&amp;#39;année du bon pied!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MtcTY2ZJI/AAAAAAAAAI8/meOz5hqVfhc/s72-c/erenlaitvnews.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5487976884400195588</id><published>2008-01-08T15:49:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-08T15:58:28.639+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><title type='text'>Happy happy happy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MsAjY2ZHI/AAAAAAAAAIs/dsJbd2N0vz0/s1600-h/erenlaitvhomepagenews.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153010786653070450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MsAjY2ZHI/AAAAAAAAAIs/dsJbd2N0vz0/s200/erenlaitvhomepagenews.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is our New Year gift: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.erenlai.tv"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;www.erenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your new tool for creating and displaying your own shows!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; is a new experimental website that enables its users to create web shows and tell stories just like the ones that can be found on its sister site eRenlai.com. An innovative interface allows users to upload photos and text to create film like animations with virtual camera movements. After &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/login.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;logging in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, you are guided through step by step to create a show: chose a title, upload pictures, add colorful text and sound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you get started, here are a couple of tips from our developers: try to keep your movies short and lean (ideally 5 slides of 200kb each or a total of 1MB) to ensure a fast download for your audience. If you plan to make it longer or wish to take a break, chose the “I’m done” function that will save your work. To continue editing your show, go to “Select my shows”. We are still working to fix bugs in some versions of Firefox and Safari browsers. All comments and feedbacks are welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai.tv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; was conceived and developed by Thibaut Camdessus and is published by the Taipei Ricci Institute together with Renlai Monthly and eRenlai.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MrsTY2ZGI/AAAAAAAAAIk/QnALqF5P2pw/s1600-h/shinbashinews.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153010438760719458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MrsTY2ZGI/AAAAAAAAAIk/QnALqF5P2pw/s200/shinbashinews.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And if you want to relax after adding your own stone to our celebration of creativity, you can just sit down and enjoy our bag of “artworks for the soul” offered by our Focus of the month: hopefully our selection of words, images and sounds will help you to pacify heart and mind, and to gather some inner strength as the year starts...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Our new photographers contributors, Fabio Bito Caraciolo and Tássia Novaes from Brazil depict &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1360&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Faces from Recôncavo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (Bahia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Explore with Roy Berman&lt;br /&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1283&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Shinbashi ruins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; in Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or discover Jose Duarte’s&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1357&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;parallel landscapes of truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1358&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;read an interview of Tisa Ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;about the 2008 edition of the Hong Kong Arts Festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MsfTY2ZII/AAAAAAAAAI0/k0Sm9JI5bpI/s1600-h/nomadicnews.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153011314934047874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MsfTY2ZII/AAAAAAAAAI0/k0Sm9JI5bpI/s200/nomadicnews.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1375&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Nomadic Memories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Animation composed by Claire Shen with paintings by Bendu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;If you're serious about making and keeping New Year resolutions, then better to start your "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1364&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Resolutions Watcher's Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"! This is Bob's advice at the start of the New Year …&lt;br /&gt;Read Michel Conforto-Galli’s editorial about the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1363&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;spiritual beauty of Bali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, or watch our flash animations about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1361&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;healthcare challenges in China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Cerise Phiv and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1354&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dujiangyan's water festival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Liang Zhun.&lt;br /&gt;Among our new articles, we also have a special series of texts about “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1366&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;violence in fairy tales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;” by Bob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5487976884400195588?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5487976884400195588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5487976884400195588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2008/01/happy-happy-happy.html' title='Happy happy happy'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R4MsAjY2ZHI/AAAAAAAAAIs/dsJbd2N0vz0/s72-c/erenlaitvhomepagenews.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8537016977733652236</id><published>2007-12-18T12:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T12:51:06.214+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cambodia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddhism'/><title type='text'>Khmer Krom</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://img.iht.com/images/2007/12/17/17monks550.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://img.iht.com/images/2007/12/17/17monks550.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;(extract from the Herald Tribune's article &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/17/asia/AS-GEN-Cambodia-Monks-Protest.php"&gt;Buddhist monks, police clash during protest in Cambodia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Dozens of Buddhist monks kicked, punched and hurled bottles at baton-wielding police in Cambodia's capital Monday at a demonstration to demand religious freedom for monks in neighboring Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;The clashes erupted as about 40 monks approached the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh to submit a petition against authorities' alleged mistreatment of Buddhist monks in the communist country.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The protesters accused Vietnamese authorities of arresting and defrocking several ethnic Cambodian monks over the past few months.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Phnom Penh protest, about 100 riot police used batons to beat back the monks, blocking them from marching near the embassy."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Buddhist monks are Khmer Krom, that is to say ethnic Khmer who inhabited the Mekong Delta before the arrival of the Vietnamese. Since the incorporation of the Mekong Delta into Vietnam in 1954, the region has cristallized tensions between the Cambodian and the Vietnamese. Indeed, Khmer Krom are forced to assimilation by the Vietnamese governement who impose them Vietnamese names and Vietnamese language. They are also victims of some ostracism which is reinforced by their practicing a different religion than Vietnamese people (Khmer Krom are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Theravada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Theravada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; Buddhists, like Cambodian and Thai people, but unlike Vietnamese who are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Mahayana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Mahayana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Buddhists" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhists"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Buddhists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; or Roman Catholics).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/17/asia/AS-GEN-Cambodia-Monks-Protest.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Buddhist monks, police clash during protest in Cambodia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - Herald Tribune 12/17/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An article about Khmer Krom temples and religion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1282&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Forgotten Treasures of Khmer Culture in the Mekong Delta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Moeun Nhean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8537016977733652236?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8537016977733652236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8537016977733652236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/12/khmer-krom.html' title='Khmer Krom'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5929287331780179210</id><published>2007-12-12T10:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T11:32:54.312+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese youth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Migrations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flash'/><title type='text'>Migrant workers in China</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R19hMegUsOI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qz5EDQ0MH30/s1600-h/ouvriersChCamion.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142936166455357666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R19hMegUsOI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qz5EDQ0MH30/s400/ouvriersChCamion.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Their current number is estimated at 150 million, or 11.5 per cent of the population, nearly double that of 10 years ago. Many of them come from ethnic minorities areas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In October, eRenlai magazine featured a special Focus about the life of Yi migrants in China's big cities: voice records, interviews and photo reportages compose the precious testimonies of this neglected population.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Here is a bouquet of articles, flash animations and voices records to know more and understand better this phenomenon in China:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1163&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Yi Migrant Workers in Chengdu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Liang Zhun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"The Yi workers range in age from 20 to 40 years old, so they are carrying the twin burdens of supporting their elders and caring for their children, who sometimes number three or four.They still have to send money back home (around 500 Yuan per month) in order to satisfy the demanding expectations and wishes of their families in their hometowns. To save money, several workers rent a single room together so each one only pays 50 to 60 Yuan per month. The living conditions are barely adequate and the hygiene extremely poor..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1163&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1176&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=812&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Migrant Workers and Local Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Bertrand Cristau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"The migration of young people from the Chinese countryside to cities raises a number of questions about the future of rural and mountainous areas. Will this exodus create deserted areas, without working force and creativity, or will these youth come back to transform and energize their place of origins?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=812&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1131&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;From Liangshan to Shenzhen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Hua Li (voice in Chinese)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"I am just back from Shenzhen where I worked for three months in a plant doing cell phones, assembling parts. My formation lasted for 3 or 4 days, and afterwards I worked. The salary was 1,000 RMB, but once all the fees were deducted we were earning 700 RMB a month. We were 23 to leave together. The others still work in this factory. I came back because I heard about this opportunity in Shanghai.In this factory, after one year you can sign a contract. Before that, you are just a temporary worker.I’d like to study a technique, a trade, whatever which. I’d like to help the poorer people around here. I think we should plant more vegetables. I am interested in the greenhouse project."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1176&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ethnic migrant workers in China today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by B. Vermander&lt;br /&gt;"The needs and difficulties faced by ethnic minority migrant workers are multi faceted: they comprise (a) the lack or the very poor quality of the formal education received before they have left; (b) the general problems met by migrant workers all over China (housing, working conditions, lack of work contracts, healthcare…); (c) additional difficulties linked to their cultural and linguistic estrangement; (d) lack of sustainable community projects at home, which also means (e) lack of long-term perspectives and subsequent difficulty in formulating a personal project.. ."&lt;br /&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1176&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ead more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And plenty other testimonies, studies and articles on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1164&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5929287331780179210?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5929287331780179210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5929287331780179210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/12/migrant-workers-in-china.html' title='Migrant workers in China'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R19hMegUsOI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qz5EDQ0MH30/s72-c/ouvriersChCamion.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7091579211305017097</id><published>2007-12-10T11:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:04.013+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog'/><title type='text'>les contes du chasseur...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R1y79ugUsNI/AAAAAAAAAIE/FjfEwlJ_Wgs/s1600-h/WeijeuneBlog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142191543680282834" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R1y79ugUsNI/AAAAAAAAAIE/FjfEwlJ_Wgs/s200/WeijeuneBlog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ou "le chasseur de contes" ou les "historiettes du chasseur"...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Difficile de traduire le nom du blog de Wei Jeune &lt;a href="http://archichasse.wordpress.com/"&gt;獵人絮語&lt;/a&gt; qui nous gratifie de petites histoires charmantes cueillies au gré de ses déambulations à Paris...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pour info, Wei jeune est taiwanais, il fait ses études à Paris et il écrit à la fois en chinois et en français... je salue au passage son poème &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://archichasse.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/ne-se-passe-pas/"&gt;Ne se passe pas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, qui ne se passe pas de commentaire...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Le blog de Wei Jeune : &lt;a href="http://archichasse.wordpress.com/"&gt;http://archichasse.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7091579211305017097?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7091579211305017097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7091579211305017097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/12/les-contes-du-chasseur.html' title='les contes du chasseur...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R1y79ugUsNI/AAAAAAAAAIE/FjfEwlJ_Wgs/s72-c/WeijeuneBlog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8030697750612637812</id><published>2007-11-27T17:39:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:30:57.418+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese youth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Free Hug</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vm0IXmi5I/AAAAAAAAAH4/2v050XfONDk/s1600-h/CIMG0597.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137453583220247442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vm0IXmi5I/AAAAAAAAAH4/2v050XfONDk/s320/CIMG0597.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a picture taken during the annual gaypride of Taipei... I wonder if sometimes we do not exagerate the power of words (most of all of written words - cf. &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1205&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Do not let your t-shirt do the talking for you&lt;/a&gt;). I could observe that during 20 minutes the poor boy didn't get the chance to give even one free hug...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way, "&lt;a href="http://www.the-wall.com.tw/FreeHugsMenu.htm"&gt;Free Hugs&lt;/a&gt;" is also the name of a cafe located in the "&lt;a href="http://www.the-wall.com.tw/"&gt;Wall&lt;/a&gt;", a famous concert place in Taipei. I recommend both of them of course...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;THE WALL-&lt;br /&gt;ADDRESS B1F., No.200, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Wenshan District, Taipei City 116,Taiwan&lt;br /&gt;地址 台北市文山區羅斯福路四段200號B1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.the-wall.com.tw/"&gt;http://www.the-wall.com.tw/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8030697750612637812?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8030697750612637812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8030697750612637812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-hug.html' title='Free Hug'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vm0IXmi5I/AAAAAAAAAH4/2v050XfONDk/s72-c/CIMG0597.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5453702940686233067</id><published>2007-11-27T10:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.997+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chine'/><title type='text'>Chine brune ou Chine verte?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vgSYXmi3I/AAAAAAAAAHo/UioK7XO0Fjo/s1600-h/ChineBruneVerteCover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137446406329895794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vgSYXmi3I/AAAAAAAAAHo/UioK7XO0Fjo/s320/ChineBruneVerteCover.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;C'est le titre du nouvel ouvrage de Benoit Vermander paru aux presses de Sciences Po... C'est aussi l'enjeu du développement futur de la Chine qui se pose ainsi en terme de dilemmes pour l'Etat-Parti: comment gérer une crise environnementale indéniable et étroitement liée au phénomène de corruption tout en maintenant le même taux de croissance et de développement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le maintien d'un Etat fort et omniprésent (dans ce cas-là, au détriment des libertés civiles) suffit-il à assurer le progrès social et l'objectif de construction d'une "société harmonieuse" ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ces deux question apparaissent aussi indissociables du statut de la Chine sur le plan international et de ses relations avec les autre puissances en place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;En fait, il est intéressant de noter que l'auteur se situe aussi dans une perspective européenne pour répondre notamment à cette dernière question (voir la conclusion sur le multilatéralisme Europe-Chine). L'exemple de la manière dont le pays s'est soumis aux conditions assez drastiques imposées lors de son entrée dans l'OMC montre aussi que la Chine peut emprunter la voie d'un développement plus durable et que les nations ainsi que les organisations internationales ont leur rôle à jouer dans l'infléchissement des futures politiques chinoises.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;On pourra remarquer au passage que les thèmes abordés par le président français lors de sa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3216,36-982463@51-981910,0.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;visite à Pékin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; couvrent une partie de ces thématiques notamment celle des responsabilités sur le plan international de la Chine en tant que puissance politique en devenir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Entretien Live de Benoit Vermander sur le site de l'Express.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lexpress.fr/info/monde/dossier/chine/dossier.asp"&gt;Dans quelle Chine Nicolas Sarkozy arrive-t-il?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Chronique de C. Makarian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lexpress.fr/idees/tribunes/dossier/makarian/dossier.asp?ida=462133"&gt;Paravent chinois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5453702940686233067?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5453702940686233067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5453702940686233067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/11/chine-brune-ou-chine-verte.html' title='Chine brune ou Chine verte?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/R0vgSYXmi3I/AAAAAAAAAHo/UioK7XO0Fjo/s72-c/ChineBruneVerteCover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1290424312426167077</id><published>2007-11-05T17:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.976+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Handicap'/><title type='text'>Surmonter les obstacles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry70uJpvEoI/AAAAAAAAAHg/yNmHf4O-buc/s1600-h/BobFocusNov07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129306099323703938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry70uJpvEoI/AAAAAAAAAHg/yNmHf4O-buc/s400/BobFocusNov07.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Obstacle : 障礙（碍）zhang4ai4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le focus du mois de novembre sur eRenlai est consacré non pas seulement au fait d'être handicappé mais surtout au fait de savoir comment surmonter ses handicaps et les obstacles que nous pouvons rencontrer en général. Sans être nécessairement invalide ou sévèrement handicappé, nous pouvons tous être confrontés à nos limites, qu'elles soient physiques, mentales voire sociales (nous n'avons pas tous la chance -la malchance?!- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=911&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;d'être nés avec une petite cuiller en argent dans la bouche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Je vous recommande ces quelques articles :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1216&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Overcoming Handicaps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; de Li-Chun (et sa version originale en chinois &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1225&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;克服障礙&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=742&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Handicaps and Rehabilitation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; de Bob&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ou encore le témoignage de Huang Yu-ching (Taipei) qui enseigne l'anglais aux enfants non-voyants:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=418&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Teaching English to blind kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ( &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=419&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;教盲生說英文&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; -chinois)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ci-dessous, vous trouverez également un communiqué sur l'action menée au Parlement européen pour faire mieux connaitre les problèmes "dys" (dyslexie, dyspraxie etc) dans les Etats membres de l'Union européenne. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Strasbourg, 24 octobre 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intergroupe Famille&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilan des actions menées au Parlement européen contre les "dys-criminations" dont souffrent les enfants "dys" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;(Dyslexiques, dyspraxiques, dysphasiques, dyscalculiques,&lt;br /&gt;troubles de l'attention avec sans hyperactivité)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mme Marie Panayotopoulos, Présidente de l'Intergroupe "Famille" du Parlement européen, a dressé le bilan mercredi à Strasbourg des actions menées au Parlement européen contre les "dys-criminations" dont souffrent plus de 10 pc d'enfants dans les pays de l'Union européenne affectés à des degrés divers par des troubles "dys" atteignant très tôt leurs capacités de communication orales ou écrites et pouvant les conduire à l'exclusion scolaire puis sociale s'ils ne sont pas détectés puis traités correctement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La façon dont ces troubles sont repérés, diagnostiqués et traités (soit par des rééducations médicales, soit par des aménagements du cadre de la scolarité, comme par exemple l'autorisation d'utiliser des PC pour les épreuves écrites des examens) varie fortement d'un Etat membre à l'autre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mme Panayotopoulos, Mme Záborská, Présidente de la commission des droits de la femme du Parlement européen, M. Richard Howitt (PSE), Président de l'Intergroupe "Handicapés", Mme Roberta Angelilli (UEN), rapporteur du Parlement européen sur la communication de la Commission sur les droits de l'enfant et Mme Kathy Sinnott (IND), Vice-Présidente de l'Intergroupe famille, ont déposé une déclaration écrite demandant un meilleur repérage de ces troubles dans tous les pays de l'Union européenne et l'application des meilleures pratiques pour y remédier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette déclaration écrite, qui a suscité un énorme intérêt auprès des organisations de parents d'enfants "dys" dans tous les pays de l'Union européenne et qui sera clôturée le 25 octobre, a recueilli plus de 420 signatures de députés européens, dépassant ainsi largement le nombre minimum de signatures nécessaire pour que le texte soit transmis aux autorités européennes et aux Parlements nationaux des 27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des représentants des Directions générales Emploi et Education de la Commission européenne, le Professeur Joachim Dattke, membre de la Fondation allemande "Theodor-Hellbrügge" spécialisée dans le repérage très précoce et le traitement de différents handicaps, et des membres d'associations de parents d'enfants "dys", notamment la Fédération française des troubles du langage (FLA) et l'"Asociación dislexia y familia" des îles baléares, et d'associations de jeunes adultes dys" ont participé à la réunion de l'intergroupe spécialement consacrée au bilan de cette campagne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le commissaire européen Kyprianou, en déplacement, avait également fait parvenir à Mme Panayotopoulos une lettre de soutien à la campagne engagée au Parlement européen en faveur des enfants "dys". Il y constatait notamment l'insuffisance des indicateurs sur les troubles "dys" dans de nombreux Etats membres et précisait que le prochain programme européen "Santé" 2008-2013 pourrait précisément renforcer les études dans ce domaine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinon, plusieurs programmes européens dans les domaines de l'éducation, notamment tout au long de la vie, de la culture ou des affaires sociales pourront contribuer à diffuser dans tous les Etats membres les meilleures pratiques ayant cours parmi eux. Des actions spécifiques concernant la dyslexie ont déjà eu lieu dans le cadre des programme européens Recherche et Comenius.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors que de jeunes dyslexiques ont témoigné mercredi du fait que de "véritables maltraitances" envers les enfants et jeunes "dys" ont toujours cours dans certaines écoles, les participants ont souligné la nécessité d'un repérage très précoce (dès quelques mois) : des rééducations dès ce stade peuvent contribuer très efficacement à réduire la gravité des troubles ultérieurement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'autres participants ont fait état de l'intérêt de certaines grandes entreprises européennes pour mieux prendre conscience de ces troubles, -dont certains de leurs employés peuvent souffrir (souvent en devant les cacher)-, afin de faciliter l'embauche et l'insertion professionnelle de ces jeunes "dys", dont l'intelligence n'est en rien affectée par la dyslexie et les troubles associés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outre la nécessité d'un repérage très précoce et de l'application des meilleures pratiques en vue de faciliter leur scolarisation, en milieu ordinaire ou en milieu spécialisé lorsque cela est vraiment nécessaire, d'autres participants ont également souhaité une réflexion et des recherches approfondies sur l'origine de ces troubles, qui n'est toujours pas élucidée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Commission européenne a lancé en 2006 un projet pluriannuel de recherche européen pour mieux comprendre l'origine de la dyslexie et de la dysphasie (Neurodys).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outre la déclaration écrite, Mmes Panayotopoulos, Záborská et Amalia Sartori, coordinatrice du Groupe PPE DE à la commission des droits de la femme et Vice-présidente de la délégation italienne de ce groupe, avaient également posé une question orale à la Commission européenne concernant ces troubles, question à laquelle le commissaire Jan Figel a répondu lors de la session plénière en septembre dernier. Cette question orale insistait notamment sur le respect des Directives européennes concernant les non-discriminations à l'embauche et sur le lieu de travail. Durant le débat, plusieurs eurodéputés avaient également mentionné la question du soutien qui doit être apporté aux personnes "dys" au niveau de l'éducation et de la formation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS MdPE : 32.2.284.54.47&lt;br /&gt;ou Anne Vahl au service de presse du Groupe PPE-DE du Parlement européen : 32.475.49.33.54&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1290424312426167077?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1290424312426167077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1290424312426167077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/11/surmonter-les-obstacles.html' title='Surmonter les obstacles'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry70uJpvEoI/AAAAAAAAAHg/yNmHf4O-buc/s72-c/BobFocusNov07.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6274519152764699928</id><published>2007-11-05T16:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:34:16.335+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei'/><title type='text'>Take the funicular to Wulai...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Some of you might know that the latest tourist attractions in Taipei's surroundings are the "Maokong Gondolas": these small cable-cars take you from the Taipei zoo to the Zhinan temple in the hills of Muzha (South-East of Taipei). Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance yet to queue 40 minutes to try them. I promise to post a word when I'd have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn't matter, I can offer you today to take Jose and Kattia's private funicular to Wulai's falls... Just relax and enjoy this little trip into the jungle of Taipei, the music has been entirely composed by Jose (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/sonorum"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;www.showcaseyourmusic.com/sonorum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1267&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Funicular&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (musical video by Jose Duarte and Kattia Salas)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6274519152764699928?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6274519152764699928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6274519152764699928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/11/take-funicular-to-wulai.html' title='Take the funicular to Wulai...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8211619234203860526</id><published>2007-11-05T16:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:31:14.615+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Clothes'/><title type='text'>My t-shirt is complaining</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry7XxppvElI/AAAAAAAAAHI/vzfmUiQ5Qow/s1600-h/T_shirts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129274273616040530" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry7XxppvElI/AAAAAAAAAHI/vzfmUiQ5Qow/s320/T_shirts.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have two friends who have very opposite opinions about wearing "talking t-shirts". One would absolutely refuse to wear any t-shirt with some writing on it. He only would eventually accept to wear one with a drawing on it, while the other one would send everyday a different message to the world through the funny writings on his shirt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;That is true that in some kind of way, the message on one’s t-shirt is the prolongation of one’s speech.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe then, better than just ‘not let our t-shirt do the talking’ (&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1205&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;see B. Vermander’s article&lt;/a&gt;), we should just be conscious of what our clothes have to say: we can refuse that fact but the way we dress is also tributary to some social codes and, to some extend, it’s also part of our external identity. We could even chose to be naked and only ‘wear a barrel’ and it surely would be a most powerful statement than wearing a t-shirt with some message written on it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8211619234203860526?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8211619234203860526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8211619234203860526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-t-shirt-is-complaining.html' title='My t-shirt is complaining'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Ry7XxppvElI/AAAAAAAAAHI/vzfmUiQ5Qow/s72-c/T_shirts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1977915491093651606</id><published>2007-10-17T14:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.960+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amour'/><title type='text'>L'amour traître</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RxWz91QsG_I/AAAAAAAAAHA/gh2tKYJ-4nQ/s1600-h/ciseaux.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122198026054278130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RxWz91QsG_I/AAAAAAAAAHA/gh2tKYJ-4nQ/s320/ciseaux.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1077&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le texte de Bob sur l’amour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; nous enseigne que, parfois, il vaut mieux renoncer – en l’occurrence à une relation amoureuse - que de s’accrocher coûte que coûte… La littérature nous offre foison d’exemples d’amours contrariées pour des raisons d’Etat (Bérénice de Racine) ou par nécessité morale (La Princesse de Clèves de Madame de Lafayette).Dans chacune de ces deux œuvres, l’amour ne triomphe pas à la fin mais doit être sacrifié au nom de ce qui transcende nos désirs personnels. Il s’agit pour la plupart d’histoires sublimes de renoncement, mais qu’en est-il de la douleur ressentie lors de la séparation ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De fait , l’on peut se demander pourquoi il est si difficile d’accepter la séparation alors même qu’on la sait inéluctable voire même bénéfique. « En amour, il est plus facile de renoncer à un sentiment que de perdre une habitude », Proust dans son roman La Prisonnière décrit la relation amoureuse tortueuse entre le narrateur et son amante captive à la fois physiquement et psychiquement du premier. Mais quand finalement Albertine s’enfuit, le narrateur est pris de désespoir et part à sa recherche… Cas un peu plus extrême encore : celui de Madame de Tourvel dans les Liaisons Dangereuses, qui succombe à la lecture d’une des lettres de rupture les plus cruelles de la création littéraire, envoyée par Valmont sous la dictée de la Marquise de Merteuil :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;On s'ennuie de tout, mon Ange, c'est une loi de la Nature; ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Si donc je m'ennuie aujourd'hui d'une aventure qui m'a occupé entièrement depuis quatre mortels mois, ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Si, par exemple, j'ai eu juste autant d'amour que toi de vertu, et c'est sûrement beaucoup dire, il n'est pas étonnant que l'un ait fini en même temps que l'autre. Ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Il suit de là, que depuis quelque temps je t'ai trompée: mais aussi, ton impitoyable tendresse m'y forçait en quelque sorte! Ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd'hui, une femme que j'aime éperdument exige que je te sacrifie. Ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Je sens bien que te voilà une belle occasion de crier au parjure: mais si la nature n'a accordé aux hommes que la constance, tandis qu'elle donnait aux femmes l'obstination, ce n'est pas ma faute. Crois-moi, choisis un autre amant, comme j'ai fait une autre maîtresse. Ce conseil est bon, très bon; si tu le trouves mauvais, ce n'est pas ma faute.&lt;br /&gt;Adieu, mon ange, je t'ai prise avec plaisir, je te quitte sans regret: je te reviendrai peut-être. Ainsi va le monde. Ce n'est pas ma faute."&lt;br /&gt;(Extrait de la lettre 141)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En effet, qui doit-on blâmer lors d’une rupture amoureuse ? C’est assurément celui qui prend la décision qui doit l’assumer à défaut d’être juste ou loyal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1977915491093651606?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1977915491093651606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1977915491093651606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/10/l-traitre.html' title='L&amp;#39;amour traître'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RxWz91QsG_I/AAAAAAAAAHA/gh2tKYJ-4nQ/s72-c/ciseaux.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-754555976799725726</id><published>2007-09-13T18:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:31:36.421+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yangjuan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><title type='text'>While in China...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RukRAtIl0AI/AAAAAAAAAGw/p-1fBiiWUKs/s1600-h/IMG_0527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109633956041838594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RukRAtIl0AI/AAAAAAAAAGw/p-1fBiiWUKs/s400/IMG_0527.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And some places in China don't even have access to running water, here is how you build an hydraulic system in a small village : Yangjuan.&lt;br /&gt;Read the article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1157&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Water for All&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ! by Jacques Duraud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-754555976799725726?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/754555976799725726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/754555976799725726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/09/while-in-china.html' title='While in China...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RukRAtIl0AI/AAAAAAAAAGw/p-1fBiiWUKs/s72-c/IMG_0527.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-8517969976148757679</id><published>2007-09-12T12:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:28:24.629+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aborigene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Taiwan tour</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Here is a link to a BBC article introducing a village not connected to the electricity in Taiwan:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taiwan's dark village sees the light&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6987611.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6987611.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-8517969976148757679?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8517969976148757679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/8517969976148757679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/09/taiwan-tour.html' title='Taiwan tour'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7917189701041625876</id><published>2007-09-07T15:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:28:49.627+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Love taught me not to love</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RuD8zVUxnKI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Dtu3raEIGoU/s1600-h/ciseaux.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107359936265952418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RuD8zVUxnKI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Dtu3raEIGoU/s320/ciseaux.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bob’s new editorial (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1077&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Falling In and Out of Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;) is about love, or, better, about how to control one’s feeling… French literature gives us famous examples of thwarted loves due to State reasons (&lt;em&gt;Berenice&lt;/em&gt; by Racine) or moral necessities (&lt;em&gt;The Princess of Cleves&lt;/em&gt; by Madame de Lafayette). In each case, love does not triumph at the end but has to be sacrificed in the name of what must transcend the only selfish and individual desire or feeling… They all tell stories of renouncement; fewer are the stories that describe the pain felt after breaking up.&lt;br /&gt;Why is it so difficult to let go a lost love and especially a love that one knows full well it is not suitable? Proust gives his own explanation of that phenomenon: “Talking about love, it is easier to renounce a feeling than to give up a habit” (&lt;em&gt;La Prisonniere&lt;/em&gt;). Indeed, the narrator in the book, despite thinking for a long time about breaking up with his lover, once she’s gone before his call, just feels a great emptiness and the irresistible desire to go after her…&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dangerous Liaisons&lt;/em&gt;, Madame de Tourvel &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; dies after receiving the famous letter sent by Valmont but dictated by la Marquise de Merteuil, “Angel, this is not my fault…” Indeed, when a relationship ends, whose fault should it be? Who should bear the responsibility? At least one should know that people are not just here to do their bidding.&lt;br /&gt;The end of a love relationship is like a small death. In French, we are used to saying “to do the mourning of a relationship” to describe the fact that someone has to come to terms with having split up. Indeed, it is not only the loss of the loved one that makes the situation so painful but also the loss of the comfort, the reassuring sensation of not being alone to face and discover the world…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7917189701041625876?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7917189701041625876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7917189701041625876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/09/love-taught-me-not-to-love.html' title='Love taught me not to love'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RuD8zVUxnKI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Dtu3raEIGoU/s72-c/ciseaux.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5371074061796111816</id><published>2007-07-25T15:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.947+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animaux'/><title type='text'>Gare au panda-a-aaaaaa!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcEFaLh_OI/AAAAAAAAAGg/sCXGdmoqnIc/s1600-h/genma_panda.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091042394739178722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcEFaLh_OI/AAAAAAAAAGg/sCXGdmoqnIc/s320/genma_panda.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;L'été taiwanais pointe sa langue de feu sur nos crânes bientôt chauves à force d'être rôtis par les uv... Décidons donc de rester au frais et de "geeker" un peu, voici une vidéo charmante ou vous verrez un panda défenseur de la nature corriger sévèrement un malandrin de parisien::: Avez-vous reconnu le style? Il ne s'agit pas moins des inénarrables cousins Jim et Tom... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Clip:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1034&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;wwf kungfu panda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Site : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.imajz.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.imajz.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5371074061796111816?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5371074061796111816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5371074061796111816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/07/gare-au-panda-aaaaaa.html' title='Gare au panda-a-aaaaaa!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcEFaLh_OI/AAAAAAAAAGg/sCXGdmoqnIc/s72-c/genma_panda.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6612638298982969962</id><published>2007-07-25T15:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:32:13.482+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>Bendu, the Pied Piper...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcBz6Lh_MI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/fNnRV8uJJQA/s1600-h/benoitdessin019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091039895068212418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcBz6Lh_MI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/fNnRV8uJJQA/s400/benoitdessin019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Here I would like to introduce our mysterious guest: &lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Bendu&lt;/span&gt;… Bendu is an unseizable being, a poet of modern ages who wanders on eRenlai, swarming his words and his colors... Unlike the pied piper of Hamelin, his melodies are not followed by rats but by pictures, poems or paintings: Here are his inks, colors explosions or lines guided by the blow of the spirit… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=165&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Inks painting by Bendu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And an oceanic poem for those who haven’t seen the sea for a long time…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=442&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Taking the pulse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6612638298982969962?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6612638298982969962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6612638298982969962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/07/bendu-pied-piper.html' title='Bendu, the Pied Piper...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RqcBz6Lh_MI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/fNnRV8uJJQA/s72-c/benoitdessin019.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7191228092093467501</id><published>2007-07-16T10:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.921+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><title type='text'>Coup de flash sur l'environnement en Chine!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rprr9sVTe7I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ykopaxx83os/s1600-h/ma_panzhi3_en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087638174173461426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rprr9sVTe7I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ykopaxx83os/s400/ma_panzhi3_en.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Voilà, je fais mes premières armes dans la réalisation de films flash avec cette présentation de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=845&amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Panzhihua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, ville minière en Chine construite dans les années soixante. Le texte en anglais a été traduit d'un texte chinois composé par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=483&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Liang Zhun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, une photographe chinoise travaillant à Chengdu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Je décrète donc le mois de la flash animation ouvert sur le thème de l'environnement en Chine! Pour que vous ne soyiez pas en reste, voici des liens aux flash animations de Sabrina Bourouga : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=566&amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;La pollution de l'air en Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=304&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;L'eau en Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; et les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=690&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Forêts de Chine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ces présentations diverses dressent un portrait assez alarmant de la situation écologique en Chine et c'est vrai que l'on a tendance à tirer à boulets rouges sur le géant asiatique quand l'on évoque ces questions. Sans vouloir me faire l'avocat du diable et seulement pour rétablir un peu l'équilibre, je souhaite néanmoins rappeler qu'il s'agit surtout de prévisions qui doivent justement nous amener à agir et non pas à adopter une attitude fataliste. Claude Mandil, directeur de l'Agence Internationale de l'Energie (AIE) précise dans un communiqué de l'AFP (3 mai 2007) que "par tête, la Chine est encore très loin d'émettre autant que les Etats-Unis et même que les autres pays de l'OCDE", le problème étant plutôt le fait que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre chinoises "progressent plus rapidement que prévu et que des mesures doivent ainsi être prises".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Des mesures qui devraient avant tout être politiques et émaner des gouvernements selon une &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/newsroom/news/news-archive-2007/hsbc-launches-international-survey-of-public-attitudes-towards-climate-change"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;étude publiée le 12 juillet 2007 par la banque HSBC &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;(!) : en effet, 68% des 9000 des personnes interrogées estime que c'est aux gouvernements de jouer le rôle principal. Cette étude révèle surtout que les chinois seraient plus préoccupés que les Européns par le réchauffement climatique... 60% des personnes interrogées en Chine, en Inde, au Mexique et au Brésil s'inquiètent des changements climatiques, contre seulement 22% au Royaume-Uni et 26% en Allemagne! Malgré un engagement très fort dans les luttes environnementales, les français sont aussi les plus pessimistes quand à l'efficacité de ces actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7191228092093467501?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7191228092093467501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7191228092093467501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/07/coup-de-flash-sur-l-en-chine.html' title='Coup de flash sur l&amp;#39;environnement en Chine!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rprr9sVTe7I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ykopaxx83os/s72-c/ma_panzhi3_en.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4446061754372880260</id><published>2007-07-04T16:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.893+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><title type='text'>Eloge de l’ennui</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rotd2o35GgI/AAAAAAAAAGA/XGFs8y73ycg/s1600-h/CIMG0250.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083259797683902978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rotd2o35GgI/AAAAAAAAAGA/XGFs8y73ycg/s400/CIMG0250.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;« Soit un peu plus active, bouge ! », « ne reste pas là à ne rien faire » ; « rends-toi utile »… Combien de fois ai-je bien pu entendre ces injonctions dans la bouche de ma mère au temps où, adolescente, la moindre altération de mon univers familier suffisait à me plonger dans une rêverie, certes improductive, mais tellement plaisante… Lorsque j’étais enfant, les rangements saisonniers de notre chambre sous la baguette autoritaire de ma mère duraient des heures ; non seulement à cause du grand désordre accumulé durant ces mois de paresse mais aussi parce que chaque jouet, chaque livre retrouvé dans des endroits inattendus faisait naître entre mon frère et moi des discussions animées voire même des bagarres ou alors une méditation profonde sur les nouvelles perspectives ouvertes par ces objets que l’on croyait perdus à jamais ou dont on avait simplement oublié l’existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De fait, mon éducation se partage entre l’influence de ma mère, lève-tôt super active, ayant élevé deux enfants seule et pour ce faire, menant le foyer à la baguette (ma meilleure amie l’avait surnommée « le dragon Lily ») ; et celle de mon père, lève-tôt et couche-tard (avec une sieste dans le milieu), rêveur invétéré, vétéran des projets boiteux et aventureux. La première ne supporte pas de ne rien faire – maintenant qu’elle ne travaille plus, elle jardine furieusement, c’est-à-dire qu’elle fait des trous dans son jardin - ; le second vit assez bien son inactivité, tant qu’il a son quota de dents à arracher (mon père est dentiste) pour pouvoir mieux s’occuper de son temps libre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai ainsi appris de ma mère qu’il faut utiliser son temps à bon escient tandis que j’ai pris modèle sur mon père pour chérir mes moments d’oisiveté. Li-Chun, dans son article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1007&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Free Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, nous rappelle combien parfois nous pouvons être désemparés quand nous nous trouvons soudain sans rien faire, nous voilà avec plein de temps devant nous, pour nous, et l’on n’a rien envie de faire : le nouveau polar de l’été nous tombe des mains, les ourlets des pantalons vont encore attendre un peu et en même temps, l’on ne peut s’empêcher de tourner en rond comme un cafard dans un évier bouché : on s’ennuie, on s’emmerde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ca ne fait rien vous dirais-je, au contraire ! Ennuyons-nous ! Tournons-nous les pouces puisque nous n’avons pas d’obligation particulière et que ce temps libre nous appartient… En outre, j’aime parfois n’avoir rien à faire et m’ennuyer car c’est sûrement un des seuls moments où je sens littéralement le temps passer. « Compter les heures », « regarder le temps passer », on ne mesure jamais mieux le temps que lorsqu’on attend, lorsqu’on s’ennuie. Evidemment, avec parcimonie sinon l’on risque de vieillir trop vite !!&lt;br /&gt;Ca vous plairait de découvrir d’autres points de vue sur un sujet similaire ? Jetez un coup d’œil au nouveau focus de l’été sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, intitulé « &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=822&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;le Temps et Moi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; ».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4446061754372880260?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4446061754372880260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4446061754372880260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/07/eloge-de-lennui.html' title='Eloge de l’ennui'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rotd2o35GgI/AAAAAAAAAGA/XGFs8y73ycg/s72-c/CIMG0250.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7133469677541781252</id><published>2007-06-29T11:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:29:22.301+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quantifying Peace and Happiness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RoR3eY35GfI/AAAAAAAAAF4/QceJ6ruNrvY/s1600-h/map-GPI-.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081317643537422834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RoR3eY35GfI/AAAAAAAAAF4/QceJ6ruNrvY/s320/map-GPI-.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Recently eRenlai relayed an &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=751&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; according to which armed conflicts in the world had actually diminished. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A new index was released in May: the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.com/rankings/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Global Peace Index&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (GPI) which ranks 120 countries of the world by their peacefulness and which also sets some drivers of their peace. Among the wide range of indicators (24) chosen to conduct the studies, we find: military expenditure, number of external and internal armed conflicts fought, level of respect of human rights, criminal rate…&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I have observed that&lt;br /&gt;-7 of the 10 most peaceful countries stand in Europe&lt;br /&gt;-Many of the most peaceful countries have been very aggressive ones in the past (Japan ranks 5th for example, Germany 12th).&lt;br /&gt;-Taiwan ranks at the 36th position, two ranks behind France (34th) but 24 ones before China (60th)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is definitively a move towards devising indexes helping us to tackle the challenges ahead. In 2006, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;New Economics Foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (NEF), located in the UK, published the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.happyplanetindex.org/list.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Happy Planet Index&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; (HPI) which aims to represent the relative efficiency with which countries convert the earth’s finite resources into well-being as experienced by their citizens. The calculation of the HPI is based on three indicators:&lt;br /&gt;- ecological footprint, which measures how much land area is required to sustain a given population at present levels of consumption, technological development and resource efficiency, and is expressed in global-average hectares (gha).&lt;br /&gt;- life-satisfaction which consists more or less in asking this question: “If you consider your life overall, how satisfied would you say you are nowadays?”&lt;br /&gt;- and life-expectancy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is interesting to notice that both indexes share the same purpose: to quantify peace and happiness. Besides the GPI as well as the HPI displays the same purpose to build a strong link with matters of development and sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;In both cases, the compilers or the developers of the GPI and the HPI emphasize the need for new indexes as it appears that measuring the income, the GDP of a country seems to be not enough anymore. Still, if the conclusions drawn after the HPI do not show a causation between richness and happiness, on the other hand, the GPI analysis draws a correlation between per capita income and peacefulness (mostly in the measure of internal peace). For example, the most peaceful country according to the GPI is Norway which appears to be 115th out of the 178 countries listed by the HPI. Is it also a “happy” coincidence that 9 of the first tenth happiest countries in the world are from Latin America (the second one being Colombia which ranks 116th for the GPI, i.e. among the lowest)?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This still raises the question whether peace brings economic prosperity or the opposite.&lt;br /&gt;Usually, we tend towards the first position. As Bob Ronald recalls it in his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1002&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;essay about justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;: “Where there is justice there should be peace and harmony. To me a just world order would be one in which each nation respects the boundaries of other nations, the citizens of each nation have equal opportunities for education, health care, and employment according to their abilities and aspirations, everyone has adequate housing and financial security, citizens may freely travel from place to place, commerce between nations is flourishing honestly and properly.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The equation becomes more complicated if we add the notion of happiness: is it peace that breeds economic prosperity which can leads in turn to happiness or is it economic prosperity which breeds peace and then happiness? Another version of the old story of the egg and the hen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All analysis and information about the Global Peace Index on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.visionofhumanity.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Happy Planet Index on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.happyplanetindex.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.happyplanetindex.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bob Ronald’s vision of justice on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1002&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=1002&amp;amp;lan=3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7133469677541781252?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7133469677541781252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7133469677541781252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/06/global-peace-index.html' title='Quantifying Peace and Happiness'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RoR3eY35GfI/AAAAAAAAAF4/QceJ6ruNrvY/s72-c/map-GPI-.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4755114606929776565</id><published>2007-05-28T15:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:27:35.042+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese youth'/><title type='text'>My Teacher the Ostrich</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RlqIyLOgSsI/AAAAAAAAAFw/u2wteeEHsfo/s1600-h/benoitdessin059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069514726147377858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RlqIyLOgSsI/AAAAAAAAAFw/u2wteeEHsfo/s320/benoitdessin059.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;My present teacher of Chinese is a fine woman, she’s smiling all the time and she likes to go off track during the class. But there is still something that annoys me with her… I have already mentioned the “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=711&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;tofu generation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;” phenomenon in one of my previous posts, that is to say the fact that Taiwanese youngsters don’t feel any concern about politics, neither about the environment they’re living in, and are mostly obsessed with a successful career which would give them an enviable position in the society and the salary that goes with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my previous teachers of Chinese once told me that foreign students were more active, more independent than Taiwanese students who encounter big problems of adaptation when they enter the university. I think this time of adaptation is normal and most of my friends studying at the university seem perfectly happy and autonomous, as a majority of them live away from their family. In fact when I attended some second year classes as an auditor, what struck me more was the way students are taught. It was a class of social work in Taida (the National Taiwan University) and the teacher seemed to me incredibly motherly for a college teacher: she would first ask the students if they had read the papers (I don’t remember any of my teachers asking me that, they would just assume I had read it and if not… too bad for me!), if it was not too hard, if they were tired… I may be wrong but it appears to me that her teaching method was leaning towards treating the students like children. My experience in Taida was not that bad and, in fact, it can be quite nice to have a professor who does not simply enter the classroom to give her speech and then leave but encourages interaction with the students. But the other side of the coin is that sometimes it can be really boring and annoying, most of all when you wonder if the teacher is not thinking you're an idiot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I said before, my actual teacher of Chinese likes to digress, her favorite subjects being her son when he was 4 years old – he is now 20 – and food or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;physiognomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. She believes for example that when your index is longer than your ring-finger, then you have an artistic nature, that if you have a mono-eyebrow, then you might be an obtuse person. When my classmate said these are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=641&amp;amp;lan=3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;superstitions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, my teacher just very firmly replied that these come from a precise observation of nature and people… For having already heard these sayings I just accept them as part of the local folklore but it worsened when she started explaining us once that there are four seasons of three months each because the Earth is tilted etc… It is interesting indeed… for an 8 year old kid!&lt;br /&gt;Well, as we seemed to have definitively put aside the short story of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wooster.edu/chinese/Chinese/courses/chinese_youth/writer/bai_xianyong.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bai Xian-yong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; that we were reading, we started talking about the situation of Tibet which lead us to Taiwan . As our teacher just remained silent all the time, we asked her about her opinion which was: “you know, it is so complicated that we’d better leave it to future generations.” No comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once, my teacher described herself as being an ostrich for joking: a door had just violently slammed in the hallway and her first reflex had been hiding her face in her hands. My teacher is also extremely conservative: she only eats Chinese food, and thinks that taking a shower in the morning after waking up can endanger one’s life. In a time when Taiwan is promoting its cultural diversity, I’d rather ride a tiger than an ostrich…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4755114606929776565?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4755114606929776565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4755114606929776565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-teacher-ostrich.html' title='My Teacher the Ostrich'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RlqIyLOgSsI/AAAAAAAAAFw/u2wteeEHsfo/s72-c/benoitdessin059.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2314120437969628610</id><published>2007-05-18T18:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.869+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='développement durable'/><title type='text'>En avant pour Kaoshiung!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rk2D7LOgSrI/AAAAAAAAAFo/AHaTSjJMZn8/s1600-h/ed_concours_en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065850208510823090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rk2D7LOgSrI/AAAAAAAAAFo/AHaTSjJMZn8/s400/ed_concours_en.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Cela fait bien longtemps que je n’ai rien posté sur ce blog… Ca n’est sûrement pas une excuse mais j’ai été occupée dernièrement par la préparation de la conférence organisée par l’Institut Ricci à Kaoshiung, grande ville au Sud de Taiwan (voir &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung"&gt;article de Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Comment ? Vous n’êtes pas au courant ? Bon je fais un petit rappel pour ceux qui ne cliquent toujours pas sur les liens que je propose – les liens, c’est pas pour les chiens !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au début du mois de Mai, eRenlai et le magazine Renlai ont décerné à 10 personnes les « Taiwan Life Sustainability Awards ». Ces prix récompensent l’action de ces 10 contributeurs à une « vie durable » à Taiwan et ils seront remis lors d’une cérémonie prévue en ouverture de la Conférence Internationale sur le Développement Durable et la Diversité Culturelle (25-26 Mai à Kaoshiung, Taiwan). D’ailleurs, le Focus du site propose &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=37&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;10 animations flash&lt;/a&gt; pour les présenter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahh, est-ce plus clair maintenant ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’idée de la conférence est de traiter ce sujet à travers le prisme d’un dialogue Taiwan-Europe ; parmi les invités sont notamment attendus Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, sénatrice, Michel Camdessus, l’ancien directeur du FMI et Jean-Claude Poimboeuf, le directeur de l’Institut Français à Taipei. Du côté taiwanais, vont intervenir Wu Jinfa吳錦發, vice-ministre chargé des Affaires Culturelles et Chen Youxiu陳郁秀, secrétaire général de l’Association Nationale Taiwanaise pour la Culture ainsi que Pinglu平路 (littéralement « Route Plate »), une écrivain taiwanaise. En bonus: la présence de Enele S Sopoaga, ambassadeur de Tuvalu (un micro-pays du Pacifique).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour plus de détails, vous pouvez visiter cette &lt;a href="http://www.ccdi.tw/eu-tw/index02.html"&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; (en chinois).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ma part, je suis assez « extatique » (comme dirait mon pote Darren) de m’y rendre car j’y vais pour filmer les participants, les interviewer etc… En plus, je vais prendre le Taiwan High Speed Rail -le TGV taiwanais- pour la première fois ! (Je sais qu’il n’y a pas tant de quoi s’exciter, j’ai déjà pris le TGV des dizaines de fois en France…disons que j’ai été gagnée par l’enthousiasme ambiant).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En attendant de nouvelles aventures, portez-vous bien !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2314120437969628610?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2314120437969628610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2314120437969628610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/05/en-avant-pour-kaoshiung.html' title='En avant pour Kaoshiung!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rk2D7LOgSrI/AAAAAAAAAFo/AHaTSjJMZn8/s72-c/ed_concours_en.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1321301067795839986</id><published>2007-05-11T20:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:31:58.993+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Handicap'/><title type='text'>Bob</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkbtJNCIuGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/vfHhpyM3Gb8/s1600-h/Bob.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063995573397928034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkbtJNCIuGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/vfHhpyM3Gb8/s320/Bob.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I am sure you have already heard about Bob, our English editor but most of all the most prolific contributor of the website.&lt;br /&gt;Bob is handicapped, he has been struck twice by bad luck: a polio and a tragic car accident. It is very interesting to hear him talk about his own experience and what lead him to set up the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=477&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Operation Deshandicap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond the hospital, there are also needs, the rehabilitation is a very important step to make one accept and live with one’s handicap, one’s difference. As Bob says in his interview, as a Jesuit priest, he didn’t really need to think about his rehabilitation and he had all along the support of the Company of Jesus. The “Operation Deshandicap” was then set up in order to enable others to get the same chances of rehabilitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob also stresses out in his article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=742&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Handicaps and Rehabilitation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; the differences between a “handicap” and an “impairment” : “The truth is that in every society there are great numbers of “handicapped” people, not necessarily those afflicted with “physical or mental disabilities”, but also all those who are the victims of “financial, educational, environmental or cultural impairments” which prevent them from entering into the mainstreams of society and separate them from admission to the ranks of those entitled to enjoy the full benefits of belonging to “proper” society. “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1321301067795839986?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1321301067795839986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1321301067795839986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/05/bob.html' title='Bob'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkbtJNCIuGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/vfHhpyM3Gb8/s72-c/Bob.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-4030104985275571930</id><published>2007-05-11T19:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T19:46:01.435+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Handicap'/><title type='text'>Yo Quiero Bailar!</title><content type='html'>Some of you may know that I like to dance salsa, though I am not a good dancer, I still find it very entertaining. We dance, we move, we walk, we run on our two legs, without even thinking, but what would it be like to have only one leg?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A friend sent me that amazing video of Colombian salsa dancers. The song says “yo quiero bailar” which means “I want to dance” as it could mean “I want to live!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNahg3OjUs"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Watch the Almasalsera video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-4030104985275571930?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4030104985275571930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/4030104985275571930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/05/yo-quiero-bailar.html' title='Yo Quiero Bailar!'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-381280606026302124</id><published>2007-05-08T15:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T20:21:07.955+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Migrations'/><title type='text'>“Old and Rich Countries Seek Immigrants”</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkMEwdCIuFI/AAAAAAAAAFY/lPsxSfJB60w/s1600-h/benoitdessin002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062895636568389714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkMEwdCIuFI/AAAAAAAAAFY/lPsxSfJB60w/s320/benoitdessin002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Old and Rich Countries Seek Immigrants”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the title of an article from the French newspaper &lt;em&gt;Le Monde&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3238,36-903197@51-903272,0.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pays riche et vieux cherche immigrés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; dated April 28). This article stresses out the fact that rich and aging countries needs immigration if they want to reverse the decay of their population. The article mainly relies on a report released by the UN in April. For example, if France wants to have the same amount of inhabitants in 2050 as today, the country has to receive “1.5 million immigrants between 2025 and 2050”; if France wants to keep the same amount of people at the age of work, it has to accept 136000 more foreigners per year than it does now. These numbers are still not much higher than the ones of the actual situation. But, if the French government wants to keep the same ratio of “potential support (that is to say the number of people at the age of work in relation to the people over 65) as in 1995 (i.e. a ratio of 4.4), then, the country will have to accept 20 to 40 times more immigrants than in the last decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a French journalist emphasizes the population decline of France and other developed countries, the English &lt;em&gt;Telegraph’&lt;/em&gt;s article entitled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/15/wimm15.xml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;UN predicts huge migration to rich countries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; seems more worried about the future increase of population and the future “invasion” of immigrants: “ – Can the UK cope with nine million more people? At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the rich world every year from now until 2050, the United Nations said yesterday. Britain's population will rise from 60 million to approaching 69 million by 2050 - almost entirely because of immigration. […] There will be billions more people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Of these, tens of millions will migrate to Europe and America, while the indigenous populations of most countries in the rich world will either stagnate or decline.”&lt;br /&gt;The fear of the barbarian invasion has to be moderated when one knows that between 1990 and 2000, the rate of migrants to the developed countries was 2.5 million, i.e. higher than the one predicted from now until 2050 (2.2 million according to the &lt;em&gt;Telegraph&lt;/em&gt; and 2.3 million according to &lt;em&gt;Le Monde&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To complete this information, you can also read the report about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=686&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;International Migrations Today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; which compares the political, legal and cultural situation in the US, the UK, Chile, Australia and other countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-381280606026302124?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/381280606026302124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/381280606026302124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/05/old-and-rich-countries-seek-immigrants.html' title='“Old and Rich Countries Seek Immigrants”'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RkMEwdCIuFI/AAAAAAAAAFY/lPsxSfJB60w/s72-c/benoitdessin002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3582596153919709202</id><published>2007-04-23T18:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.854+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='action'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election'/><title type='text'>Les élections françaises vues de Taiwan.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rj9GTtCIuEI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/TVoEiTj5sZA/s1600-h/CIMG3534.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061841810507741250" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rj9GTtCIuEI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/TVoEiTj5sZA/s320/CIMG3534.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A Taiwan, les médias ont relativement peu parlé des élections présidentielles. Je relève néanmoins quelques éléments intéressants dont un relatif au fait que l’un des deux candidats au second tour des élections soit une femme (je précise qu’il s’agit de Ségolène Royal, au cas où un des lecteurs de ce blog tomberait par hasard sur cet article après avoir vécu pendant quinze ans élevé par une famille ourse dans une forêt canadienne). La féminisation de la politique internationale semble susciter des interrogations et surtout des espoirs parmi quelques membres de l’électorat taiwanais mais aussi parmi les politicien(ne)s taiwanais(e)s.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Le China Post Online (la version Internet d’un des principaux quotidiens en anglais du pays) titre son édito du jour « &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/front/2007423/107797.htm"&gt;Taiwan needs a woman president: Annette Lu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;» ; de même, quelques mois plus tôt, cet article de Kailing Wang sur le site d’eRenlai, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=177&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;A Woman for President!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;nous explique quels seraient les avantages pour Taiwan d’avoir une femme président.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Plus anecdotique, mes sondages personnels des intentions de vote des Français habitant à Taiwan ont donné François Bayrou et Ségolène Royal favoris (je rappelle que l’on ne peut pas voter directement de Taiwan car il n’y a pas d’ambassade, les plus désargentés ou les plus occupés peuvent faire une procuration de vote, les plus fortunés peuvent se rendre en Corée du sud…). En vérité, je n’ai interrogé que huit français, peut-être pas les plus représentatifs, mais les résultats étaient ainsi : 4 pour Royal, 3 pour Bayrou et 1 ne sait pas… Cela a surpris une amie taiwanaise qui aurait cru les Français expatriés à Taiwan davantage à Droite…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3582596153919709202?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3582596153919709202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3582596153919709202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/04/les-elections-francaises-vues-de-taiwan.html' title='Les élections françaises vues de Taiwan.'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rj9GTtCIuEI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/TVoEiTj5sZA/s72-c/CIMG3534.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1955903733782071972</id><published>2007-04-12T17:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:30:16.404+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Migrations'/><title type='text'>Bananas and eggs........</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4YpgDsS2I/AAAAAAAAAFA/Qx0KzaS5BH0/s1600-h/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052502933215398754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4YpgDsS2I/AAAAAAAAAFA/Qx0KzaS5BH0/s320/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;(Painting by &lt;a href="http://www.airiti.com/demo/art/wd_gallery/wd_artist_intro.asp?artist_iid=1096&amp;amp;artist_id=B169&amp;amp;artist_type=2"&gt;Pan Yu Liang&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Before arriving to &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, I didn’t know I was “so Chinese”. As I have already&lt;/span&gt; said, &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I’m a banana (in between, I’ve discovered that the opposite – white outside and yellow inside – is called an “egg”). As I look Chinese, it seems normal that Taiwanese people at first glance, consider me as being a Taiwanese too. When I just arrived to Taiwan, I didn’t have the reaction yet to say that I am a “Huaqiao” or “Huayi” - that is to say “&lt;/span&gt;overseas &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Chinese” or “FBC” (French born Chinese) - I would simply reply that I was French when people would ask me with a suspicious look : “ You’re not Taiwanese, are you?” (I’m quite proud to say that I hear that sentence not that often now, must be a proof that my oral Chinese has improved a lot…) I even experienced some funny looks when I was saying with confidence that I am French like “I had no idea French and Asian people look alike so much…” Once, in a supermarket, I almost had an argument with the cashier. She would keep asking me “are you sure you are French? You must be Chinese, why do you speak Chinese with a funny accent?” and I had to moderate my answer explaining that my mother is Taiwanese but I was born in France etc… At the end she just said, “Well, you are still Chinese, that’s all!”&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Is being Chinese a fatality? Or is a fatality being Chinese?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;As soon as I arrived &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, I started having some identity troubles. Strangely, I almost never felt these itches while I was in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;France&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Especially in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Paris&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; where people are so mixed. Maybe some would think I am a tourist, but everybody can potentially be a tourist over there, it mainly depends on the way you are dressed, your way of being, more than your physical appearance. It never came to my mind to say I am a French Born Chinese. Of course people would eventually ask me where my parents are from, if I was born in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;France&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. But my saying I’m French had never been something strange or rare. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Here, in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, I’m actually experiencing a strange transformation: the “banana-becomes-an-egg” mutation.&lt;/span&gt; First, I gradually changed my answer, now I always mention the fact that my mother is Taiwanese, etc. “Nice to meet you, I’m Cerise. Don’t be surprised, I’m a French born Chinese, my mother is Taiwanese but I was born in France and I have lived there almost all my life.” That became my name ca&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;rd. By mean&lt;/span&gt;s of r&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;epeating I’m Chinese, I really started to believe it (the “kouei method”, by auto-suggestion seems to work after all!) &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;s this what immigration and integration are about? Before coming to Taiwan, I didn’t know whether I would acclimatize myself so much. Some of my Taiwanese friends say it is normal, it must be in my genes. Then I, my mother and my brother must also have French genes because we are pretty well integrated in the French Nation. For what I know, I am a “pure Han product”, I was born with two blue spots on the bottom (don’t worry, they disappear when the baby grows up) and I have a visible line on my forearm which are said to be the genetic marks of Han people. Both of my parents are Hakkas, a Chinese linguistic group and, when I was a child, my father used to say proudly that my brother and I were 100% Hakkas… with a “little something French”, would he add in order to tickle. Then, from the genetic angle, I cannot claim to be the result of mixes like American people for example (About that subject, read this very am&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;using text by Bob: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=819&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;My Chance Encounters with Chance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.) But on the cultura&lt;/span&gt;l front,&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; I am the result of my parents’ past migration to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;France&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; : a French girl with a little something of Chinese… Guess what!...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today’s favourites&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=819&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;My Chance Encounters with Chance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Bob&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=401&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;International Migrations Today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; by Kailing Wang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1955903733782071972?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1955903733782071972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1955903733782071972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/04/bananas-and-eggs.html' title='Bananas and eggs........'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4YpgDsS2I/AAAAAAAAAFA/Qx0KzaS5BH0/s72-c/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-3090749892729346373</id><published>2007-04-09T18:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.839+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Quel est votre modèle féminin ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4ZSQDsS3I/AAAAAAAAAFI/426k9JYjbFo/s1600-h/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052503633295068018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4ZSQDsS3I/AAAAAAAAAFI/426k9JYjbFo/s320/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;(Peinture de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.airiti.com/demo/art/wd_gallery/wd_artist_intro.asp?artist_iid=1096&amp;amp;artist_id=B169&amp;amp;artist_type=2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pan Yu Liang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’autre jour, en classe, la prof de chinois nous a demandé si nous avions un modèle féminin et de qui il s’agissait… A l’exception de l’unique garçon présent en classe (j’ai d’ailleurs l’impression qu’il se sent parfois grandement exclu, seul entouré de quatre représentantes de la gent féminine… que dis-je ! Ne vous y trompez pas, c’est en fait un peu le chouchou de ces dames…) Nous nous sommes creusé la tête un court moment et nous avons toutes donné des réponses assez diverses : ça allait de Lady Di à Yinqi (une femme d’affaires taiwanaise, responsable du développement du TGV à Taiwan). Pour ma part, je ne sais pas quelle mouche m’a piquée, mais le premier nom à me venir en tête fut celui de Blanche de Castille ! Non pas que je m’identifie à une reine française du Moyen Age (Blanche de Castille est la mère de Louis IX, elle a aussi la réputation d’être une femme à poigne) ; je pense surtout que nos réponses sont représentatives d’une vision plus moderne de la femme : consciemment ou inconsciemment (comme dans mon cas) nous avons tout de suite associé l’idée d’un modèle féminin à celui de l’image d’une femme forte, possédant aussi un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=177&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;rôle politique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; assez important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il serait faux de dire que la femme taiwanaise est encore accablée par le poids des valeurs confucéennes : traditionnellement, la place de la femme chinoise est limitée à trois rôles qui déterminent également sa place et sa marge de manœuvre au sein de la société. Lorsqu’elle est fille, elle doit obéir à son père, après s’être mariée, c’est à son mari qu’elle doit rendre ses comptes, enfin, quand ce dernier disparaît, c’est au fils qu’elle doit se soumettre. Ce principe connu comme celui des « Trois Obéissances » n’a heureusement plus tellement cours de nos jours à Taiwan. Néanmoins, le fond de cette pensée transparaît encore de manière plus insidieuse notamment au travers de l’éducation par exemple ou de questions portant sur le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=145&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;mariage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; et même la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=156&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;cigarette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma famille taiwanaise réunit à elle seule les deux extrêmes de modèles féminins taiwanais que j’ai pu rencontrer ici ; d’une part, ma tante : une ancienne chanteuse de cabaret, sans enfant, vivant en concubinage avec mon oncle et fumeuse par-dessus le marché ! D’autre part, ma cousine, belle liane asiatique aux cheveux soyeux et à la peau de lait, assez timide et secrète, sans aspiration notoire sinon de travailler pour gagner de l’argent…pour faire du shopping !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suggestions du Jour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=179&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;New Models for Asian Women?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; By Li-chun Lee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=177&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A Woman for President!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; By Kailing Wang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-3090749892729346373?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3090749892729346373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/3090749892729346373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/04/quel-est-votre-modele-feminin.html' title='Quel est votre modèle féminin ?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rh4ZSQDsS3I/AAAAAAAAAFI/426k9JYjbFo/s72-c/PanYuLiangPeint001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-386867958682465131</id><published>2007-04-03T16:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:27:11.880+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litterature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>When time has stopped on the island.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RhJwvwHdmfI/AAAAAAAAAE4/mWWGjb0WQgA/s1600-h/TaipeiNouvelAnChinois.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049222097908111858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RhJwvwHdmfI/AAAAAAAAAE4/mWWGjb0WQgA/s400/TaipeiNouvelAnChinois.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have you ever watched TV in &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;? It is very hard to find &lt;a href="ttp://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=150&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;international news&lt;/a&gt;. There must be at least a dozen TV news channels which broadcast all the same stuff at the same time.&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Whenever I ask some Taiwanese about this phenomenon, most of them say that local people are just not interested in what is going on abroad. But what is the real cause? Are the Taiwanese TV networks not reporting about news abroad because there is no audience? Or are the Taiwanese not interested in watching international news because TV does not report it?&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;But maybe the main question does not even lay there or we risk falling into the unsolvable problem of the egg and the hen. As for myself, I think that it comes from the “island” mentality, predominent&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;in such a small country. Thus, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; besides being physically isolated, also seems to live in an abstract isolation. &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Taiwan&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;its own whole world. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Recently I read a Taiwanese short story called “The Clock”. It was written by Zhang Xiaofeng (&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;張曉風&lt;/span&gt;) as part of her collection of short stories published in 1968, entitled &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Wailing Wall &lt;/span&gt;(&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;哭牆&lt;/span&gt;). The story is about clocks and time: in a remote village of Taiwan, people start to be confused and disoriented when they realize that no clock gives the same hour. All the everyday life becomes a mess, teachers arrive 30-minutes late to class and a rivalry begins between the eastern and the western part of the village since each side relies on a different clock. The narrator is a disenchanted junior high school teacher, who goes to see a friend, a former teacher, who lives a misanthropic life, raising goats. They discuss the situation. The narrator says that, since nobody can decide which is the right time from the two main clocks of the village, why not look for a third source to decide a reliable time, for example a radio. But his friend just makes a violent diatribe against the necessity of having a radio. They don’t need a radio because they are used to living happily without knowing anything from the outside world. They know nothing about hunger in India. They are happy because they are not conscious of misery elsewhere in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Is this one of the particularities of a “&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=701&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;living-on-a-island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;” way of thinking? The island by its natural limits is also a castle which can protect from outside calamities, but what if the worm is already inside? In fact, the narrator is far from being happy: he seems to regret the time he lived in Kaoshiung (the biggest city in the South of Taiwan); he misses his girlfriend of that time; he was sent to the countryside after being at odds with the Head of his former school; he was punished for not conforming to the rules or local norms. A clock and the time it gives have to be normalized in order to be useful. If not, as in this story, dissensions may arise. Is it also because when we live in society, we need some norms, some rules to cling to or to bypass.&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;At the end of the story, the narrator lends his watch to his wife who goes to find out the right time. For the first time in a long time, he feels weird and then free without the watch he is used to wearing on his wrist. But as night descends on the village, the clouds of his dull life shadow once again his emergent hopes.&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;favorites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=701&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Every man lives on an island&lt;/a&gt; by Bob&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=150&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Medias in Taiwan&lt;/a&gt; by Kailing Wang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-386867958682465131?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/386867958682465131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/386867958682465131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-time-has-stopped-on-island.html' title='When time has stopped on the island.'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RhJwvwHdmfI/AAAAAAAAAE4/mWWGjb0WQgA/s72-c/TaipeiNouvelAnChinois.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7462684187395032838</id><published>2007-03-27T15:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:32:39.363+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><title type='text'>It is normal...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjSP2dDS6I/AAAAAAAAAEs/4ng31rVuzCQ/s1600-h/CIMG1294.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046514552225876898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjSP2dDS6I/AAAAAAAAAEs/4ng31rVuzCQ/s320/CIMG1294.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;What is « normal » ? What are your &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=680&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;criterias&lt;/a&gt; of normality?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it normal for my Japanese classmate not to know where Greece is?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Is it normal to cast some old lepers from their center to build the metro?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it normal to hear all day long the child next door crying?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it normal to run into debt to buy a brand name bag? &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal to kill oneself because of &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;an unhappy love affair?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal for a suicide to fail because someone else was killed instead by accident?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal to think &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=710&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;the grass is greener on the other side&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;of the fence?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal not to think the grass is greener on the other side when you finally get there?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal to call your husband 20 times a day?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal to open your computer first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is it normal to be normal?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Is it normal &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;for me &lt;/span&gt;to rush back home every time I realize that I have forgotten my cellphone?! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today’s &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;favorites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=680&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Framing a New Value System in Taiwan&lt;/a&gt; by Benoit Vermander.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=710&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;The Goose and the Hen&lt;/a&gt; by Bob.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;To illustrate the above questions&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, here is a French song about &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;what is normal.&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;C’est normal. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is normal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;( A French song by Areski Belkacem and Brigitte Fontaine, 1973)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-The translation is my own, so it might not be accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Areski !&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce qu'il y a ? &lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;What’s up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- T'as pas entendu un truc bizarre ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Didn’t you hear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; something strange ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Si. &lt;b&gt;(Yes, I &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;color:red;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;did.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce que c'est ? &lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;(What is it ?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- C'est le gaz. C'est le gaz dans l'appartement en dessous. Des fois y'a fuites, alors ça s'accumule, puis si y'a une étincelle ça explose. &lt;/span&gt;C'est normal !&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(It’s the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;gas, the gas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;in the flat downstairs. Sometimes there are leaks which &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;accumulate and explode,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;if there is a &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;spark. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;It’s normal !)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- Ah.&lt;br /&gt;- Et qui dit explosion, dit détonation. D'où le bruit que t'as entendu tout à l'heure.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(And if there is an explosion, there is also a detonation. That’s the noise &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;you heard &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;a moment ago.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Ah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La la la… &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;(singing)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Dis donc ? &lt;b&gt;(&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Hey &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Quoi ? &lt;b&gt;(What ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Tu n'sens pas le brûlé ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Do you smell something burning?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ben ouais, c'est normal je t'ai expliqué. Il y a eu une explosion. &lt;b&gt;(Of course, it’s normal, I’ve explained it to you. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;There has been an explosion.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Et l'agitation moléculaire due à cette explosion… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(And the molecular agitation due to that explosion…)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- La… quoi ? &lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;(&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;The what&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- L'agitation moléculaire. &lt;b&gt;(The molecular agitation.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ah oui. &lt;b&gt;(Oh yes.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Provoque une élévation thermique suffisante pour enflammer les matières environnantes.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;It causes a thermal rise high enough t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;o set fire to the surrounding materials.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Oui, oui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- C'est alors ce qu'on appelle la combustion. C'est normal ! &lt;b&gt;(That’s what ‘s called « combustion ». It is normal !)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Ah.&lt;br /&gt;- Tu comprends ? &lt;b&gt;(Do you understand ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui, oui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mais alors… mais… &lt;b&gt;(But then… But…)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce que tu voulais ? La la la… &lt;b&gt;(&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;What do you want now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;? La la la…)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Là je voulais savoir… Tout l'immeuble, il est en train de brûler, c'est bien ça ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(I just wanted to know… The whole building is &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;on fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;, isn’t it?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mais oui, écoute. &lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Les matières qui ont servi à la construction de cet immeuble sont très fragiles. &lt;/span&gt;Tu comprends ? &lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Of course&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;, listen. The materials they used to build this building are very &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;flammable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Do you understand?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- C'est normal parce que de toutes façons il n'y a que des familles d'ouvriers et des étrangers et quelques improductifs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(It is normal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt; because there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; are only workers and foreigners families here, and a few unproductive people.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Alors le feu s'empare très facilement des matières.&lt;b&gt; (Then &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;these materials can very &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;easily &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;catch f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ire.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Ouais. &lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Right !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ça se propage. Nous sommes donc en présence d'un incendie. &lt;b&gt;(&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;It is spreading. It's a fire!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Aaaah. un incendie. &lt;b&gt;(Aaah. A fire.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- C'est normal. &lt;b&gt;(It’s&lt;span lang="FR"&gt; normal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui, oui, oui.&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Yes, yes, yes.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui ? &lt;b&gt;(Yes ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- D'accord. &lt;b&gt;(OK.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Areski !&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce qu'il y a encore ?&lt;b&gt; (Again ? &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;What is it this time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Tu sens pas comme si on commençait à tomber, là, un peu… ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Don’t you feel &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;like we’re falling a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; bit ?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Ecoute… Ecoute… &lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;(Listen…Listen) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Essaie de comprendre, c'est très simple. &lt;b&gt;(Try to understand, it’s very &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Tu te souviens la combustion ? &lt;b&gt;(Do you remember the combustion thing ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- La destruction de l'immeuble par les flammes ? &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(The flames destroying the building ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Bon. Ça veut dire qu'en-dessous, les murs et les étages ont disparu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Well, that means that underneath walls &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;and floors have disappeared.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Hum.&lt;br /&gt;- Et qu'nous n'sommes plus soutenus par rien. &lt;b&gt;(And we are &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;not being held up anymore by anything.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Ouais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- Or, une chose qui n'est plus soutenue par rien, tombe. &lt;/span&gt;C'est ce qu'on appelle la pesanteur. C'est normal !&lt;b&gt; (&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Something not held by anything falls. That’s what’s called gravity)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;- Aaaah, ouais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mais alors… on va tomber…&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(But then… &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;we’re &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;gonna fall…)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mais oui. &lt;b&gt;(Yes.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Du 15e étage ? &lt;b&gt;(From the 15th floor ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- C'est tout à fait normal. &lt;/span&gt;C'est l'attraction terrestre. &lt;b&gt;(It’s completely normal, it’s the &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Earth’s gravity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- D'accord. &lt;b&gt;(OK)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La la la…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ares, excuse-moi. &lt;b&gt;(Ares, pardon me)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Quoi ? quoi ? &lt;b&gt;(What ? What ?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Pardon, mais je pense à un truc. On n'va pas mourir dans une minute ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Sorry, but I’ve just thought about something. &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Aren’t we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;gonna die in a minute ?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;- Brigitte, tu es fatigante ! &lt;b&gt;(Brigitte, you are so wearisome !)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Pardon. &lt;b&gt;(Sorry)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Donc, on est en train de tomber. &lt;b&gt;(Well, we are falling.) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Or, tout corps tombe à une vitesse définie. &lt;b&gt;(And &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;every body &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;falls at a certain speed)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Et en arrivant au sol il subit une décélération violente qui amène la rupture de ses différents composants. &lt;/span&gt;Par exemple, les membres se séparent du tronc… &lt;b&gt;(When it touches the ground, it is subjected to a violent deceleration which causes the breaking of the different parts. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;For example, the limbs separate from the trunk...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oui.&lt;br /&gt;- Le cerveau jaillit hors de la boîte cranienne, etc.&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(The brain goes out of the skull, etc..)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ouais.&lt;br /&gt;- Dans ces conditions de déconnexion, il est évident que le phénomène de la vie ne peut pas se maintenir, c'est NORMAL, tu comprends ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;(In these conditions of deconnection, it is obvious that life &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;cannot be maintained. It’s NORMAL, don’t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;you understand?)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ouais… &lt;b&gt;(Yeah…)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-7462684187395032838?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7462684187395032838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/7462684187395032838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-normal.html' title='It is normal...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjSP2dDS6I/AAAAAAAAAEs/4ng31rVuzCQ/s72-c/CIMG1294.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2314110042377715791</id><published>2007-03-27T15:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.824+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='action'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bouddhisme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Losheng</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjNIWdDS5I/AAAAAAAAAEk/AJMuTo0oIvY/s1600-h/418404636_84ba353587_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjNIWdDS5I/AAAAAAAAAEk/AJMuTo0oIvY/s400/418404636_84ba353587_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046508925818719122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;Je copie ici un mail que j'ai reçu récemment à propos d'un lieu à Taiwan: Losheng.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Bonjour à tous,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;je ne suis pas un adepte des mails politiques, mais je me permets de vous embêter trente secondes pour vous informer d'une situation préoccupante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LoSheng est un sanatorium à proximité de Taipei, où depuis plus de cinquante ans vivent les malades de la lèpre de Taiwan. Pour la plupart des résidents, ils ont habité presque toute leur vie sur ce petit bout de colline qu'ils ont su rendre plus "humain", et ce malgré leur isolation de la société et le mépris indifférent des pouvoirs publics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour des raisons d'aménagement urbain (construction d'une nouvelle ligne de métro), les autorités taiwanaises ont décidé de raser ce sanatorium. Le projet urbain initialement adopté, qui conservait 90% du site, a soudainement été remplacé, et les habitants de LoSheng ont été prévenus il y a seulement deux semaines, sans consultation préalable, que les travaux de démolition commenceraient le 16 avril. Il y a certes un projet de relogement pour ces lépreux, mais cette "solution" est absolument inacceptable pour des personnes handicapées, âgées pour la plupart (la lèpre étant, heureusement, une maladie qui ne se propage plus à Taiwan), et qui n'ont aucun repère dans le monde à part ce petit bout de colline qui constitue l'unique horizon de leur existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les changements brutaux dans les plans d'urbanisme, ainsi que l'absence totale de discussions ou de débats témoigne du manque totale de considération de la part du gouvernement taïwanais envers ces personnes malades et handicapées. Cette situation est inacceptable et seule une mobilisation de tous peut encore faire obstacle au fatal enchaînement des évènements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous allez me dire : c'est bien beau tout ça mais qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1/ Tout d'abord, si vous le souhaitez, vous pouvez vous informer et vérifier par vous-même que je ne vous roule pas dans la farine. Il existe de nombreux sites internet qui expliquent la situation du sanatorium de LoSheng, en voici deux :&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;en anglais&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcschool.idv.tw/savelosheng/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;http://www.pcschool.idv.tw&lt;wbr&gt;/savelosheng/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;et en français&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lepatrimoinelosheng.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;http://lepatrimoinelosheng&lt;wbr&gt;.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2/ Ensuite, si vous souhaitez agir, vous pouvez vous rendre sur ce site :&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcschool.idv.tw/loshengunity/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;http://www.pcschool.idv.tw&lt;wbr&gt;/loshengunity/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Il s'agit d'une forme de pétition photographique internationale : vous imprimez l'une des deux affiches de défense de Losheng (je les ai rajoutées en pièce jointe), et vous vous prenez en photo avec. Ensuite, vous envoyez la photo à l'adresse suivante : &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://by139fd.bay139.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?mailto=1&amp;msg=C273297D-4544-45C8-A679-2EC559682549&amp;amp;start=0&amp;len=10461&amp;amp;src=&amp;type=x&amp;amp;to=anarchistem@gmail.com&amp;cc=&amp;amp;bcc=&amp;subject=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;body=&amp;curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&amp;amp;a=9a48056d093d70414d04e240f1624741e9cc8f28aec5d89258cf12772443a32a" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;anarchistem@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;(ne vous inquiétez pas, il ne s'agit pas d'une pétition de soutien aux anarchistes taiwanais mais bien à des personnes âgées, malades, et totalement méprisées par les pouvoirs publics).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3/ Enfin, et surtout devrais-je dire, vous pouvez faire circuler l'information autour de vous. Rien ne vous interdit d'arrêter les passants dans la rue, de leur expliquer la situation à LoSheng et de les prendre en photo avec une petite affichette... Rien ne vous interdit non plus d'avertir les médias, les pouvoirs publics, ou les associations de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme... Mais si vous êtes un peu flemmard, ou bien pressé, vous pouvez tout simplement faire circuler ce mail autour de vous, ce qui est un moyen extrêmement simple et rapide de faire une bonne action. Nous tentons de réunir 10000 photos avant de soumettre la pétition aux pouvoirs publics. On en est, aujourd'hui 22 mars, à mille et quelques...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merci de votre aide.&lt;br /&gt;Benoît Bouquin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Liens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcschool.idv.tw/savelosheng/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;http://www.pcschool.idv.tw&lt;wbr&gt;/savelosheng/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(anglais)&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lepatrimoinelosheng.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;http://lepatrimoinelosheng&lt;wbr&gt;.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(français)&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=391&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;La lèpre dans la tradition bouddhiste&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;d'Elise Anne deVido (en anglais)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2314110042377715791?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2314110042377715791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2314110042377715791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/losheng.html' title='Losheng'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgjNIWdDS5I/AAAAAAAAAEk/AJMuTo0oIvY/s72-c/418404636_84ba353587_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1045593960686421152</id><published>2007-03-20T10:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.805+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nourriture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='développement durable'/><title type='text'>Menu chinois pour une maman chinoise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgCOUmdDS4I/AAAAAAAAAEc/SNR1NJdtbYA/s1600-h/taiwand%C3%A9cembre+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044188067225881474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgCOUmdDS4I/AAAAAAAAAEc/SNR1NJdtbYA/s320/taiwand%C3%A9cembre+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aujourd’hui, je compose un message spécial pour ma mère, pour l’aider à naviguer sur le site de &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;en chinois&lt;/strong&gt;. Il va de soi que vous êtes également tous invités à cliquer ! Pourquoi pas aussi faire un tour sur la version chinoise de eRenlai…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maman, laisse-moi d’abord te dire que je suis très touchée par tes efforts : quelle agréable surprise d’apprendre que non seulement tu lis mon blog en français, et qu’en plus, tu visites aussi le site pour lequel je travaille maintenant… Après m’avoir nourrie à la becquée pendant vingt ans, c’est à moi de te concocter des petits plats : voilà de la nourriture pour tes beaux yeux… En entrée, je te propose une petite virée en Italie,&lt;br /&gt;Tu connais bien les « fourmis qui montent aux arbres », et bien nous allons faire de même et d’abord remonter la botte, du &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=485&amp;lan=1"&gt;Sud&lt;/a&gt; de l’Italie vers le &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=474&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;Nord&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;br /&gt;En plat de résistance, il te faudra mordre dans la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=736&amp;lan=1"&gt;Déclaration du Droit au Développement Durable&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;Enfin, en dessert, je te propose une balade digestive sur l’air des « &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=741&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;Iles vagabondes&lt;/a&gt; » de Wang Li…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’espère que le menu du jour t’aura plu, chère Maman… (Ton gratin d’épinards me manque beaucoup !)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Suggestions du Jour pour un Menu en chinois&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Purple 的 &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=485&amp;lan=1"&gt;我的餐桌在南義&lt;/a&gt; 和 &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=474&amp;amp;amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;北義的美味人生&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;李禮君的永&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=736&amp;amp;lan=1"&gt;續發展宣言&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;王麗的&lt;a href="http://www2.blogger.com/飄泊之歌"&gt;飄泊之歌&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1045593960686421152?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1045593960686421152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1045593960686421152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/menu-chinois-pour-une-maman-chinoise.html' title='Menu chinois pour une maman chinoise'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RgCOUmdDS4I/AAAAAAAAAEc/SNR1NJdtbYA/s72-c/taiwand%C3%A9cembre+008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-9118668225650679583</id><published>2007-03-19T09:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:26:29.333+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan'/><title type='text'>Who is your female model?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf3u_7lLBuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/v9thyCHSuC8/s1600-h/mamanscooter-rose2.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043449939817596642" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf3u_7lLBuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/v9thyCHSuC8/s320/mamanscooter-rose2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Once, in Chinese class, our teacher asked us who were our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=179&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;female model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;s. Among the answers, there were for example Lady Di or Yinqi (a Taiwanese successful business woman; she’s the one in charge of the new Speed Train in Taiwan). As for myself, I don’t know why, but the first name that came to my mind was Blanche of Castille (the mother of Louis IX, king of France during the 13th century)! Don’t worry, it also sounded strange to everyone in the classroom, even for me. Besides the fact that I do not really identify myself with a French queen from the Middle Ages nor do probably the others with their models, our answers can be taken as indications of the way we think. It’s not a coincidence that we mentioned figures of strong and powerful women, including those in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=177&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;political role&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think most of all my teacher’s question took me by surprise, because I have to confess I never asked myself this question before. In Europe, in France, the feminist mentality is already so developed that it doesn’t have to be mentioned to be part of society. When I arrived in Taiwan, I was at the beginning a bit shocked by the differences in attitudes towards men and women: from smoking for example to more complex subjects as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=145&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;marriage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=140&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;having children&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;. In my own Taiwanese family, I can play the game of the seven differences between my aunt and my cousin. My aunt one is an ex-singer, independent woman without children, now living with my uncle (who is divorced from my cousin’s mother) and a smoker! My cousin represents for me the most typical traditional Asian girl: long dark hair, very white, very beautiful, very slim and very shy. And there was me in the middle, appearing to them like a strange Asian-looking girl thinking like a French woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s favourites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=179&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;New Models for Asian Women?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; By Li-chun Lee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=177&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A Woman for President!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; By Kailing Wang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-9118668225650679583?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9118668225650679583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/9118668225650679583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-is-your-female-model.html' title='Who is your female model?'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf3u_7lLBuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/v9thyCHSuC8/s72-c/mamanscooter-rose2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-5170139776783723641</id><published>2007-03-14T18:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.787+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cambodge'/><title type='text'>Mon père m'a raconté...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf9LIWdDS3I/AAAAAAAAAEU/G_yrkmYp2PY/s1600-h/PhnomPhenAngkor%2B048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043832714516712306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf9LIWdDS3I/AAAAAAAAAEU/G_yrkmYp2PY/s320/PhnomPhenAngkor%2B048.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Quand j’étais petite, mon père me racontait beaucoup d’histoires sur son enfance et sa jeunesse en Asie du Sud-Est et plus particulièrement au Cambodge. Mon père en effet est un « huaqiao &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ZH-TW"  style="font-family:PMingLiU;"&gt;華僑&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt; », c’est-à-dire un chinois né au Cambodge. Tous ses souvenirs d’enfance, souvent un peu déformés par le filtre du temps, ont contribué par leur exotisme à créer un Cambodge imaginaire que j’ai redécouvert quand je m’y suis rendue pour la première fois il y a cinq ans…&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Je ne vais pas faire le récit ici de mon voyage, cela sera (peut-être) l’objet d’un autre billet sur le blog ; en fait, l’article d’aujourd’hui se place dans la continuité de l’article précédent sur ces propos entendus dans mon enfance qui ressurgissent au hasard d’une conversation ou, comme c’est le cas ici, d’une lecture.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Mais connaissez-vous d’abord le&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Tonlé Sap ? Ce fleuve unique au monde a la particularité de couler dans les deux sens : vers l’aval pendant six mois puis l’autre moitié de l’année vers l’amont !&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;« &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Le &lt;b&gt;Tonlé Sap&lt;/b&gt; (ce qui signifie en khmer « grande rivière d'eau douce », mais qu'on traduit plus fréquemment par « grand lac ») est un système hydrologique combinant lac et rivière, d'une importance capitale pour le Cambodge. Le lac est le plus grand lac d'eau douce d'Asie du Sud-Est et un site de première importance du point de vue écologique, reconnu en tant que biosphère UNESCO en 1997. Il se situe non loin du site historique d'Angkor Vat. La rivière relie le lac au &lt;a title="Mékong" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9kong"&gt;Mékong&lt;/a&gt;, fleuve qu'elle rejoint à &lt;a title="Phnom Penh" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh"&gt;Phnom Penh&lt;/a&gt;, la capitale du pays. » (Présentation empruntée à Wikipédia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;L’importance du Tonle Sap est aussi économique car il s’agit (s’agissait) du lac le plus poissonneux du monde : mon père me racontait ainsi que lorsqu’il était&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;petit, il y avait tellement de poissons qu’on n’avait pas besoin d’appât pour pêcher, il suffisait de plonger l’hameçon dans l’eau pour ramener une proie de la taille d’un bras (de petit garçon je suppose…). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;L’article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=734&amp;lan=3"&gt;Downstream Countries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt; de Moeun Nhean porte sur la baisse du niveau de l’eau dans le Mékong et le Tonle Sap et sur les conséquences que cela engendre pour ceux qui vivent de ces eaux. Les pays touchés par la décrue sont essentiellement le Vietnam et le Cambodge situés en aval (« downstream » en anglais). On parle assez peu de ce sujet en général, je vous invite ainsi à lire l’article accompagné de très belles photos sur &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suggestions du Jour&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=734&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Downstream Countries&lt;/a&gt; par Moeun Nhean.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=739&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;Conservation awareness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt; par&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Prabha Gautam (Sur le développement durable au Népal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-5170139776783723641?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5170139776783723641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/5170139776783723641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/mon-pere-m-raconte.html' title='Mon père m&amp;#39;a raconté...'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/Rf9LIWdDS3I/AAAAAAAAAEU/G_yrkmYp2PY/s72-c/PhnomPhenAngkor%2B048.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-6400943156621139282</id><published>2007-03-14T18:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T18:26:32.807+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cambodge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><title type='text'>No river, no fish</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RffNOblLBrI/AAAAAAAAAD0/npWxSjF60L4/s1600-h/PhnomPhenAngkor+048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RffNOblLBrI/AAAAAAAAAD0/npWxSjF60L4/s320/PhnomPhenAngkor+048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041723955670091442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;My father was born in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Phnom Penh&lt;/st1:city&gt;, the capital of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Cambodia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; in the late thirties. He left &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Cambodia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; around 1959 to go back there only in 1997. When I was a kid, my father would tell me stories about his childhood: for example, he used to go fishing in the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mekong&lt;/st1:place&gt; only using a stick, some thread and a hook. “There were so many fishes that you didn’t even need a lure, you could just throw the hook into the water to catch a beautiful fish!”&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;How times have changed…&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;“In a story published in The Cambodian Scene Magazine (July/August 2005), the water levels of the Tonle Sap and its nearby tributary the Dang Tong Lake, were so low in May 2005 that residents in the area discovered an ancient tree, claimed to date back to the 11th century.”&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;This was extracted from &lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=734&amp;lan=3"&gt;Downstream Countries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, an article on &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/"&gt;eRenlai&lt;/a&gt; about the draining and the pollution of the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Mekong&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;River&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. A little bit of geography: “The Tonle Sap is a combined lake and river system of huge importance to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Cambodia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. It is the largest freshwater lake in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;South East Asia&lt;/st1:place&gt; and is an ecological hotspot that was designated as a UNESCO biosphere in &lt;st1:metricconverter productid="1997.”" st="on"&gt;1997.”&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; (Borrowed from Wikipedia’s article about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonle_Sap"&gt;Tonle Sap&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Tonle Sap is also known because it reverses its flow once a year: the water is pushed up from the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mekong&lt;/st1:place&gt; into the lake, flooding a large area and creating a huge pond ideal for breeding fishes! That’s why the reversal is also important for Cambodian people who celebrate the event every year. If the water keeps going down, it will not only affect the ecological system around but also all the people living and depending on fishing. &lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s favourites&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=734&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Downstream Countries&lt;/a&gt; by Moeun Nhean.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=739&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Conservation awareness&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Prabha Gautam.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prabha exposes the needs for &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Nepal&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; to take the path of sustainable development.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-6400943156621139282?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6400943156621139282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/6400943156621139282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/no-river-no-fish.html' title='No river, no fish'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RffNOblLBrI/AAAAAAAAAD0/npWxSjF60L4/s72-c/PhnomPhenAngkor+048.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-2259083727078423358</id><published>2007-03-09T17:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T12:33:03.472+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eRenlai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='governance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pollution'/><title type='text'>China's Environmental Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfExGrQArcI/AAAAAAAAADs/0qG-J-HymD4/s1600-h/ma_measuring_en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039863448763149762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfExGrQArcI/AAAAAAAAADs/0qG-J-HymD4/s400/ma_measuring_en.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;During one of these “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"&gt;café conversations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;”, when one is remodelling the world with friends, the topic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;turned to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt; &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;China's Environmental Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;’s environmental problem is a concern for the world and not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;only Asia. Recently an article from Spiegel Online&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,461828,00.html"&gt;China's Poison for the Planet&lt;/a&gt; 2 February 2007) pin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;pointed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the fact that &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; was most of all “An export world champion -- in pollution!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;From a global perspective or an inside view, the question is also how much are &lt;/span&gt;the &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Chinese people aware of environmental protection’s necessity? And how do Chinese individuals perceive &lt;/span&gt;their natural environment? It wou&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;ld mean that it is not only a matter of policy decided by an upper &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=638&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;governance&lt;/a&gt; because, maybe at the end, the decision to cut the last tree or to overexploit the resources is to be made by individuals. But most of the individuals have almost no &lt;/span&gt;influence&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; on the&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;policies &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;made by institutions like the WTO or the UN. Still, in the Chinese context, it may be mandatory to start with a focus on education and with the reinterpretation of the Chinese tradition to achieve a better relationship between development and nature.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today’s favourites&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=638&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=638&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;Climate Change: a Call for World Governance&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;China's Environmental Challenge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Benoit Vermander, chief editor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-2259083727078423358?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2259083727078423358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/2259083727078423358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/chinas-environmental-challenge.html' title='China&apos;s Environmental Challenge'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfExGrQArcI/AAAAAAAAADs/0qG-J-HymD4/s72-c/ma_measuring_en.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-1889948661552999507</id><published>2007-03-09T17:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.763+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environnement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gouvernement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pollution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chine'/><title type='text'>Mon père a dit....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfEt4rQArbI/AAAAAAAAADk/E8lhBThPSLA/s1600-h/de_editoclimate_en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039859909710097842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfEt4rQArbI/AAAAAAAAADk/E8lhBThPSLA/s400/de_editoclimate_en.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Enfant, j’aimais me glisser auprès des adultes et écouter leurs conversations. Cela me fascinait, la manière dont certains s’emportaient ou s’exprimaient sur des sujets dont je ne comprenais pas vraiment l’ampleur mais qui me paraissaient tout de même importants car &lt;i&gt;discutés&lt;/i&gt; par des adultes. Je me souviens aussi que je prenais tout pour comptant : lorsque l’on est enfant, la &lt;i&gt;vérité&lt;/i&gt; sort de la bouche des grands…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Plus tard, j’ai fait moi-même l’expérience de ces conversations à bâtons rompus, où l’on parle de tout et de rien, où l’on développe aussi l’art de parler pour ne rien dire et de parler de ce que l’on ne sait pas (notamment des livres que l’on n’a pas lus&lt;a title="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5160970312098809204#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Je veux parler ici d’une phrase que j’ai entendue dans la bouche de mon père et qui m’a considérablement marquée car elle me revient parfois à l’esprit. Récemment, nous discutions entre amis des effets du développement économique en Chine et dans le monde : notre point de départ étaient les flashs animations de Sabrina sur l’&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=566&amp;lan=3"&gt;air&lt;/a&gt;, l’&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=304&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;eau&lt;/a&gt; et les &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=690&amp;lan=3"&gt;forêts&lt;/a&gt; en Chine ainsi qu’un article publié sur Spiegel Online (&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,461828,00.html"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;China's Poison for the Planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 2 Février 2007). Soudain, je me suis souvenue d’avoir entendu un jour mon père dire : « En fait, Mao était un écolo, il a retardé de trente ans le développement économique de &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:personname st="on" productid="la Chine"&gt;la Chine&lt;/st1:personname&gt; et donc aussi la pollution planétaire que cela engendre… »&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Outre le cynisme et le mauvais goût de la plaisanterie, le point de vue reflète aussi l’opinion assez partagée que le développement économique s’accompagne forcément du saccage de la nature (cela ne va sûrement pas rehausser l’éclat de ces propos, mais je me dois d’ajouter que mon père est toujours sobre, c’est d’ailleurs le seul pilier de bar que je connaisse à ne commander que du coca ou du sarsi –le coca chinois-). Depuis l’époque de cette phrase, les mentalités ont changé, les &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=638&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;gouvernements&lt;/a&gt; aussi. Tout du moins dans les pays qui se sont développés plus tôt. Néanmoins, l’idée d’un développement durable essentiel et non pas seulement accessoire doit continuer à faire son chemin, aussi bien au niveau individuel qu’au niveau national et mondial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Suggestions du Jour&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=638&amp;lan=3"&gt;Climate Change: a Call for World Governance&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=102&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;China's Environmental Challenge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Benoit Vermander.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="ftn1"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoFootnoteText"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5160970312098809204#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;A ce propos, un psychanalyste, Pierre Bayard, a sorti un livre &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/f/index.php?sp=liv&amp;amp;livre_id=2514"&gt;Comment parler des livres que l’on n’a pas lus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;mais je ne peux pas en dire plus…car je ne l’ai pas lu !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoFootnoteText"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199580717558975505-1889948661552999507?l=ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1889948661552999507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199580717558975505/posts/default/1889948661552999507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ceriseintaipei.blogspot.com/2007/03/mon-pere-dit.html' title='Mon père a dit....'/><author><name>Cerise</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965967370545631681</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RfEt4rQArbI/AAAAAAAAADk/E8lhBThPSLA/s72-c/de_editoclimate_en.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199580717558975505.post-7732585891428754091</id><published>2007-03-05T18:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T14:18:03.746+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicyclette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chine'/><title type='text'>La Chine entre 1979 et 1981</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RevvUVTQ08I/AAAAAAAAADc/Pm3YNfXSno8/s1600-h/PhotoNaletByciclettes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6MYcOpJ3gaU/RevvUVTQ08I/AAAAAAAAADc/Pm3YNfXSno8/s400/PhotoNaletByciclettes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5038383740738393026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dès que j’ai vu les photos de Yves Nalet sur &lt;st1:personname productid="la Chine" st="on"&gt;la &lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=103&amp;lan=3"&gt;Chine entre 1979 et  1981&lt;/a&gt;, j’ai immédiatement pensé à mon oncle et à ma tante qui ont vécu en  Chine durant exactement la même période ! Ils travaillaient en tant que  profs de français dans le centre de langues de l’Université de Tianjin et ils  gardent un souvenir inoubliable de cette époque. Je me permets de reproduire  ici leur commentaire à propos d’une photo en particulier :&lt;/st1:personname&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;« La photo du parking de bicyclettes nous a rappelé notre première séance au cinéma : on se demandait pourquoi les gens se levaient et sortaient précipitamment avant la fin du film. On a&lt;br /&gt;vite compris…après avoir mis 3 heures à récupérer nos vélos ! »&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Selon eux, les photos d’Yves Nalet sont un témoignage d’un temps révolu mais qu’ils ont été contents d’avoir connu.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Suggestions du Jour&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?aid=103&amp;amp;lan=3"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR"&gt;China, 1979-1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, photos par Yves Nalet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-f
