40 years ago of this day, is the start of the China's Cultural Revolution. In China today, it is this era the government of China still banning all public debates on such issue. Even the internet in China, is all under censorship, gov't offically are monitoring how their citzens are using their internet and can arrest anybody in China, who post any blog regarding what did happened. The gov't is also blocking any sites or internet addresses from all its citizens, which contains any infomation or sort regarding that era. Example of such might be this blog that you are reading, well but chances are less since I'm not typing this in Simplified Chinese.
Since I've read this news, which should be banned by the Chinese Gov't now, so if you are living in China, try this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4985162.stmWhat interested to me is how some university students in China are telling us;
Beijing University was a hotbed of activity during the early days of the Cultural Revolution but now students like Vivian and Shirley have other things on their minds.
 China's economy is one of the world's fastest growing |
"Today people aren't very interested in politics" Vivian told me. "They are thinking about other things like their futures and travelling overseas."
Shirley said there could never be another Cultural Revolution now.
"China has opened up to the world and now we are part of the world economy, we don't want collectivism any more, we want individualism."
Vivian and Shirley are part of the new generation in China who want good jobs and a comfortable lifestyle. For them the Cultural Revolution now means very little.
And perhaps that is just what the Communist Party wants. But for Dai Qing and millions of Chinese like her, it is a time they will never forget.
Actually, a point of notes regardings collectivism to individualism have shown a decline in humanity, indeed this is not just happening in China, but in North America as well. But what's more interesting, is this shown that only God's kingdomhood(Jesus Christ) is better than both collectivism(nations) and individualism(people). A sidenotes on Idolism, no such man except God himself revealed as one who is worthy to follow and learn from. (For example, if Someone for some religion already said they are just servant of God for instance, It is God that we should follow but not the servant, well you can learn from the servant in a different prospectives)
There are just almost everything that's like a double-edge sword, either helps us or hurt us. Although they offen promotes the good side, we offen falls to the bad side more. That's what happened in that era, and not just in that era, but in all histories of mankind, till this very moment. That's why we need to repent, admit our failures, re-admitting and knowing God, thur God's son, the Christ died for us, the salvation for mankind, how blessed we are, now victory thru Him for all men who choose Him to be his saviour.
