There's a good portal for things Left in Taiwan at http://ip-148.027.shu.edu.tw/
You can also check out the editorials at the Li Pao at: http://lihpao.shu.edu.tw/
All in Big5
Jonathan
Dennis Shih Hua Lai wrote:
> Hi! This is my first posting on the list.
>
> This is the url for the english translation of some of the articles appeared on chinabulletin.com.
> You may be able to extract from these translation about what their positions are.
>
> I was originally from Taiwan, which uses different though similar chinese characters than PRC, so reading the those chinese texts actually give me a lot of headache.
>
> My initial impression is that this website isn't too much different from the official brand of Maoism but it can be that the maintainer is trying to avoid the censorship if the website is located within China's domain. If one want really want to dig out what their position is one probably have to be an insider or read much more extensively.
>
> BTW, does anyone on the list familiar or know something about the leftist movement in Taiwan?
>
> cheers,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 7:29 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Chinese left
>
> Stephen E Philion wrote:
>
> >There damn sure is, one need only go to chinabulletin.com to find it, but
> >most of the articles are in Chinese, not convienient if you don't read
> >Chinese of course. There is a left in China that is slowly developing an
> >alternative to the dogma of Deng and the dogma of a brand of official
> >Maoism that has little to say to the problem of how to organize workers in
> >today's China...One might want to look at the May 1999 New Left Review
> >interview with Wang Chaohua and Li Minqi, who were debating with Wang Dan
> >on the direction of China ten years after Tiananmen.
>
> Thanks for the correction. So what do they say in chinabulletin.com?
> Anything on the WTO, the process of Chinese integration into the
> world market? Won't WTO entry promote convertibility, privatization,
> and "liberalization"?
>
> Doug