A number of people have written excellent reviews of this book so I'm just here to say that they're all right! This book is a must read if you're the least bit interested in Chinese-Tibeten relationship of the past, present and future...

This is a wonderful book to introduce some of the basic issues and history that lead to the current state of Tibet, its government, its people and its religion. Hilton walks you through some historical passages so that by the time she is delving into the search for the 11th Panchen, you have a good sense of the urgency of the situation and why both the Tibet government in exile and China were desparately trying to control the outcome. The fact that Hilton was privy to some top secret information and met with a variety of other key figures allows her to provide more emotion and intimacy to the story than perhaps otherwise. While we all now know the terrible outcome of the search, reading the details and chronology are still suspenseful and gripping. I felt so hollow at the end, knowing that little has changed in Tibet and wondering if it ever will. Where is the true Panchen (I can't believe China has not been forced to free him) and what is the fate of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism after the passing of the 14th Dalai Lama??? Reading about China's cruelty made me wonder if Tibet can survive even the next thirty years but yet, there is hope when thinking of the courage Tibetans have demonstrated thus far.

Find out what U.S. based traitors er traders are supporting in this book. Especially the entertainment & media industries. Disney, MGM, besides Amazon.com. While building lucrative careers for entrepreneurs who relocate to the U.S.A. Like John Woo, Chow Yun Fat, and Jackie Chan.

This is a good book for starters and experts alike. It offers many well-reasoned opinions that are both unique and persuasive. The author avoids getting too carried away by trivial and confusing details, and focuses on various major trends and forces that have come to shape China.

Ray Huang's "China: A Macro History" kept me up for a few nights in a row. Dr. Huang posed an extremely ambitious goal to explain fundamental differences of Western and Chinese civilizations, and to explore trends of Chinese government, military, cultural and religious institutions as they develop from legendary to modern times. The book is organized in chapters, each covering roughly a time span of the major dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. Concentration is more on trends (thus the title word "macro") then on events, more on developments of concepts rather then careers. People and events are represented inasmuch as they represent the underlining trend. As such every dynasty rise and eventual fall is represented, with credits due to each for the developments of Chinese nation. The institution of monarchy is a fascinating blend of ritual, unreal and fantastic, and idealistic, with an impressive organizational achievement in management of the country with the base of millions of agrarian households.

The only grievance I have with the book is that understandably enough Dr. Huang had to skip over a lot of material (or he would risk leaving us with yet another "The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire"); however in doing so he is rarely consistent, e.g. not explaining the elemental precepts of Confucianism, organization of Chinese army and bureaucracy; and fundamental principles behind state examinations. All those, however, can be gotten from other sources, and as such will tempt the reader to explore more.

As a Hong Kong Chinese, I find this book unputdownable. Except for the fact that the Taiwanese-style spelling of the names of Chinese historcal figures a bit hard to grasp (to me), it does not in anyway discount the readability because Ray Huang did not let any contemporary political situation/ideology to hinder his anaylsis of Chinese History on a Geo-political, fiscal policy and monetory policy grounds. Indeed, KMT or not, Communist or not, the Ruling class's primary concern is on how to achieve en effective governance over the vast number of ruled. The central theme of the book is powerful, well presented, and logical. Interestingly, Milton Friedman , in his book "Money Mischief", has discussed the monetory policy (Gold standard ) in the Western world from 1830 - 1930 which has impacted on China directly and significantly, which echoes Ray's finding.
Indeed as advocated by Ray Huang in this book, time for the Chinese to depart form the traditional chinese views on our history (moral vs immoral; rural vs urban; poor vs rich). We should analyse our hisotry based on issue of effective governance (e.g. what is it? To promote well-being of people or of hardliners with iron-fist and tanks?)
Alas, Ray has passed away in 2000. I would like to convery my thankfullness for what he left to us.

Excellent seller. Will definately buy from again!

Interviews teachers and displays the difference between procedural understanding of math and conceptual understanding of math. Delves into how and why US and Chinese teaching of math are so different.

An American teacher with only a procedural understanding said this about teaching regrouping with manipulatives:

"I would have them start some subtraction problems with maybe a picture of 23 things and tell them to cross out 17 things and then count how many are left. . .. . .I might have them do some things with dinosaur eggs, or something that would sort of have a little more meaning to them. Maybe have them do some concrete subtraction with dinosaur eggs, maybe using beans as the dinosaur eggs or something."

What? Dinosaurs are the key to effective teaching of math? This approach does not explain why we regroup! It does not even touch on place value. You have got to read this book to believe what goes on in way too many American classrooms!

An American teacher with a conceptual understanding of math had a much better way to use manipulatives in teaching regrouping. She used single sticks and bundles of ten sticks to show the mathematical principle of equality. She said she would stress that when you have 53 sticks, the total is still 53 sticks whether arranged in 5 bundles of ten, plus three sticks; or 4 bundles of ten, plus 13 sticks. THIS is a manipulative approach that actually works to teach the concept of regrouping because it draws on the fundamentals of math. One has to demonstrate to the children the idea that you can change the FORM of the number without changing the number itself.

Watch out for page 31! You may CRY when you see that many American elementary teachers don't recognize the implied zeroes in multi-digit multiplication. One actually said you could use apples, oranges, or even ELEPHANTS to help you remember to move the columns over. Fruit? Animals? What about TENS? This experienced math teacher did not know that 237 shifted over a column stands for 237 tens. Chinese math teachers would not think of dressing up the process with fruit and animals. They simply teach the mathematical principles behind the procedure.

Parents and teachers alike need to gobble this book right up, right now, despite its high price. We must work towards more conceptual understanding of math by elementary school teachers or we shall never climb out of the morass. Buy a copy and share it around---it is a crucial work.

Elementary school teachers are expected to teach almost everything: math, reading, science, social studies, and writing; along with nurturing, soothing, and encouraging. It's not an easy job. It's also hard to be an expert in any one piece of the job. But now, many are hearing that we're losing the "math race" to other countries. The drums of "teacher competency" are booming... and any wise teacher knows where the drum sticks will be landing next!

Liping Ma's book comes at an opportune time for those teachers and should be read by all. It dives into a central problem that elementary teachers face when we consider improving our math programs: How could going off and learning more math help, for instance, in a 4th grade fractions unit? Furthermore, having, typically, been taught mathematics, ourselves, as a process of memorizing and applying procedures, we often teach it that way as well, thinking "how much more can I study the 'flip and multiply' rule for fraction division?"

This book answers those and many other questions, while opening many new ones. There's more to math, even "kids math" than meets the eye.

Ma demonstrates that American teachers do not necessarily suffer from a lack of breadth or extensiveness of mathematical training. Adding more 'higher math' to our training really would not help us teach arithmetic. We lack deep knowledge of "fundamental mathematics." Ma's claim is that what we need to do is to dig deeper into the underpinnings of "elementary" math - to discover that there is much more to understand about such fundamental concepts. There really is much more to subtraction than remembering when to "regroup." Division of fractions actually represents two or three fundamentally different processes which, confused, can be at the center of students (and teachers) uncertainty. Imagine that!

These are thought provoking ideas, well presented. In the face of a growing national debate about "competency", we would do well to add this element to the discussion of math teaching. Otherwise, the politicians will provide their inevitably simplistic answers.

This book conveys so many emotions, from all of this one is left almost numb. But having met the man, He LiYi, I can say that this book is a mirror of the man in real life. All that comes out in this book is so exact, in his mannerisms and gentle voice. He is so unassuming and modest, and does not appear to be capable of such strength and determination. This book lets you see that we are all capable of making a difference if only small. I had no knowledge of this book untill I visited his cafe in Dali, I purchased the book directly from him and now pass it to all who are interested. A truly powerful book full of what these people, the Bai, have had to endure at the hands of the ever present "Mr China".

I thoroughly enjoy reading about Chinese life. I learn quite a bit about a life away from home! I prefer these types of books that whisk me to different parts of the world, chronologically, socially, and culturally. The lives that other people experience elsewhere are fascinating, and one can become engulfed in the stories. I feel as if the author sat down and TOLD me all about his life, something I didn't know about. Like I had an interesting friend over for lunch. This was a superb book to the end!

Mr He Liyi has written one of the most moving accounts of life during the cultural revolution in China. From his normal life of a government servant through the indignitiy moving to the countryside to live as a peasant, his reform through labour and his utter determination to learn English. He Liyi's writing style is simple and personal, the book was written by him in English, no small feat for someone living in the middle of China and with little formal English training. I met He Liyi in the small town of Dali where he lives by chance in the post office. Myself and friend spent many hours at his little cafe in Dali enjoying his company and his stories. For someone whom China has done no favours during his life, he is determined to make things better and continue living his life to the full. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

This book set me off on a binge of Chinese history reading. I had to know more about Kang Sheng, for example, and "Claws of the Dragon" helped shed light on this "immortal". Then there were: Zhou Enlai's hagiography 'Eldest Son' at the hands of Han Suyin; The White Boned Demon, about Jiang Qing; Mao's doctor's self-glorifying account; Deng's biography. Nothing compares to this book for readability and sense of magnitude. You meet the twenty or so people who decided the fates of a billion Chinese. Modern democracy has nothing to compare. The personalities in recent Chinese history, the importance of them, are staggering. The Great Leap, the Cultural Revolution--these hellish mass movements affected hundreds of millions of people. You get to see the tiny coterie which ordered the lives of a significant portion of the Earth's inhabitants for fifty years. An amazing book.
I wish Harrison Salisbury were still around to write an update. TNE stops in 1991 as the economy is slowing and the hardliners are asserting themselves. Deng visited the "new cities" on the South China Sea in 1993-4, invigorating them and the "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" which they represented. What followed, of course, is our recent history of China thinking itself as a great power.

What Mao and Deng did as China's "new emperors" are well known. For Mao, the Korean war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the establishment of China as a nuclear power; for Deng, the Reform and Opening, and the Tiananmen Massacre.

Why did they do it? This is a question that is seldomly asked and when asked, never satisfactorily answered. Salisbury has attempted to answer such a qusetion with more depth than the simple-minded answer "because they want to stay in power". Salisbury carefully laid out for the readers how Mao and Deng's acts were shaped by their personal histories, by attitudes of other countries toward China, and by the burden of Chinese history and culture (unlike America, the Chinese leaders did not start from a clean slate, instead, they carried 5,000 years of history with them). In short, this book is about how history, culture, international hostility and personality has shaped modern China; how these factors brought out the "emperor instincts" in Mao and, to a lesser extent, Deng.

Indeed, what Mao did was almost right out of history books. The emperors' attempts to annhilate their enemies when they sensed danger, the emperors' attempts to better people's lives using means that were totally naive and against human nature, has happened numerous times in Chinese history. China has been too burdened with its history, and Mao was simply an emperor fulfilling his roles while the whole world was watching.

The book also touched upon an interesting (and sad) question: what blames should be placed on ordinary people? It was Mao who unleashed the darkest aspects of human nature during Cultural Revolution, but the darkest sides of some Chinese people were so dark that one has to wonder: why were these people worse than beasts? The Red Guards and the on-lookers who readily cheered as thousands and thousands of people were tortured and beaten (or drowned, pushed from high-rise buildings) to death has to make one wonder: why did they do it? why did they have no judgment of their own and could become the worst creatures on earth simply because of a few words from their leaders? I believe that, if China wants to prevents something like the Cultural Revolution from happening again, it will not be enough to openly admit Mao's role in these atrocities. Ordinary people will also have to do some soul-searching.

After reading this book, I felt extremely sad. I sensed that the disasters that happened to the Chinese people in the past decades could have been avoided. If only Mao had studied Western politics instead of focusing entirely on the deeds of Chinese emperors; if only Kim Ii-Sung wasn't such a fool as to start the Korean War; if only the Chinese people were exposed to Western culture earlier and possessed more qualities than blind patriotism and loyalty; if only more of Mao's subordinates were willing to be outspoken; if only Stalin was a bit less sinister toward China; if only America was a bit more open-minded and not refusing Mao's request for negotiations outright... The list is endless. History is full of missed chances, and ordinary people suffer. Although no reversal is possible, we may be able to learn from the past and avoid some disasters in the future. Because of this, I highly recommend this book.

I am a fan of Salisbury's works for a long time, and this book has not disappointed me. The writing is compelling, the materials well organized, and his unbiased reporting is as good as ever. This is one of the best books on the modern history of China.

Salisbury's book is so good, his reporting so valuable, that it will provide ample basic information to future historians as they attempt to sift through this period with some scholarly distance. Just prior to Tiananmen "incident" as it is called in China, he went and talked to the last surviving people who remember Mao and Deng, the two most powerful leaders of Communist China. It was a unique time, as China was open for just a moment during a reform period before shutting down again after Tiananmen and those people were about to disappear forever. Salisbury found them and recorded their memories.

The result is a masterpiece of reporting, bringing Mao and Deng to life and in detail like no other account that I have read - and I have read a lot of them! The book concentrates on government and power politics, leaving the details of policies to others, which strikes just the right balance.

Highly recommended.

Considerable addition to "The Lover", actually much better. Her notes which include her ideas as to how the book should be filmed are particuarily fascinating.

In 1984, Marguerite Duras won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, for her short novel, "The Lover". That novel told the simple story of an adolescent French girl living in Vietnam in the 1930s. She meets an older Chinese man who becomes her lover. It is a sparely written novel, shifting in time and narrative perspective, often difficult to follow. It is also a novel charged with memory, yearning and erotic feeling.

"The North China Lover", written several years later and published in an English edition in 1992, is a kind of extension of the earlier novel, written with much more detail, inhabiting the interstices of "The Lover". Like its precursor, "The North China Lover" tells a powerful tale of love between the twenty-seven year old Chinese man and the barely teen-aged girl whom he meets on a ferry crossing the Mekong River. Once again, neither the Chinese man nor the girl has a name. However, unlike the earlier novel, many of the other characters are identified and the narrative of "The North China Lover" is considerably more detailed. Originally written as notes for a screenplay of "The Lover", the narrative of "The North China Lover" is episodic, described by one reviewer as having the "grainy, filmic qualities of a documentary." It is also more linear in its story line, easier to follow than the earlier novel, but still characterized by the nouveau roman influences that permeate Marguerite Duras' writing.

"The North China Lover", like its precursor, is a compelling work of memory, eroticism and yearning that, in true Duras style, conflates literary imagination and biography. Read it slowly, languorously savor its eroticism, and let it linger in your mind long after you've closed the book.

This is a haunting story. A totally objectionable storyline ( a love affair between a fourteen year old girl and a twenty something man) is fascinating here. The reader feels for the girl, whose mental age is certainly way beyond her chronological age, and for the man who suffers greatly. A beautifully told tale, very French and elusive in the telling.

I'm very critical of some Chinese writers like Amy Tan for their distortions of a life they haven't experienced. But this doesn't apply to Ha Jin, who survived the Revolution and was a soldier. I really like this collection of stories because Ha Jin excels in writing vignettes by injecting fresh details. Anyone who is curious about Communist China should read this book. Skip his novels though.

Ha Jin brilliantly evokes emotion in short stories that may take some an epic novel to create the same impact. His words are sunbeams bouncing on desolate land and you want to continue despite the heartbreak that you may only survive simply to survive. Never to fully live in the light. He is the most eloquent writer and he allows us to view a world not known to most Americans: China under Mao. Be swept away with words and emotions.

I picked up An Ocean of Words from a staff recommendations section of the bookstore. I am glad that I did. This book is a wonderful collection of short stories. This book was great.

The stories all take place on the border of China and the USSR during the early 1970s when the two communist countries actually came pretty close to war. The stories are actually a microcosim of Communist China as a whole.

The stories are wonderful and I highly recommend this book not just to sinophiles but to anyone who wants to read a great collection of stories.

This is an excellent book! I teach an antique porcelain class and found it useful to gain expertise quickly. This book is successfully used by appraisers, dealers, collectors and teachers. I have read many porcelain books, and this one was one of the easiest to read and understand. It was well organized and contained a good variety of the styles and characteristics of RS Prussia.

All four volumes are needed to identify pieces, although Ms. Gaston provides a shape guide to help date pieces not pictured.

What I'd like to see in the next book is 1) clarification on how the marks were made, i.e., printed over or under glaze, 2) the types of glazes used (and were pieces refired) 3)repeat of history with changes incorporated, verses the new and updated info section. The history only appears fully in the ist volume.

Okay- I admit it. I did not have a room full of R.S.Prussia china to reference when I bought this book. I just loved the pictures and had to have it! I can dream a little dream and imagine finding a portrait bowl or vase at a small town flea market for next to nothing...and then I can look up its worth and smile as I place my prize in the china cabinet ( a coveted possession NOT for resale!).

Wonderful book with full color pictures. Also pictures of the marks. Great price guide! Will use this over & over.

This book is one of the best children's books I have ever read. It is also a wonderful, thoughtful book for adults to read. It has many messages - not the least of which is that the woodcutter thought he wanted to go different places while he was alive, but when given the choice he choose to live his life over again, but as a girl. His life had been happy. This message is important in today's world of always wanting more than you have. Although this book deals with the concept of re-incarnation it really does not exclude what a Christian child has been taught. I read this to my 6 year old last night and she had a lot of questions. I was able to explain to her that no one knows exactly what happens after you die, but these are some possibilities. He could have gone to heaven (Christian) or could come back to live another life (Buddist). This is a wonderful way to introduce Buddism to children. As another reader pointed out, the concept of having your loved ones around you in a different form is very comforting. The illustrations are also wonderful.

I heard this book from my child's psychologist. This book helps my daughter trememdously in the time in dealing with her father's tragic death. My daughter found it extremely comforting to know that not only her daddy was not in any pain, but also he got to make all those wonderful choices. She likes the endling that the main character comes back as a girl and still got to keep some sort of memory from previous life (love to fly a kite). Now she talks about her daddy could come back to earth as a seed to become a maple tree or a catepillar, then change into a most beautiful butterfly. She vows to be kind to all living things for they might be her daddy or some one she knows from the sky. In short, this book opens a great way to bring compassion and kindness into a child'd world. It transformed a tragic incident to a defining moment for my family. This book also comforts me dealing with my loss.

This book might be simple to read, but the meaning goes very deep. Like one of the readers said, the kids will get different meaning out of it at different ages. I read the book with my kids when they were very young, and this has been one of our favorite books. My kids are 14 and 15 now, and we are still talking and discussing about what the book teaches us about our lives.

This book had good info but Taiwan is still not a Greater China! Taiwan is a great nation by its own merits because of its Taiwanese people with their ability to adapt and survived! Han Chinese had never set foot on China until Dutch have done so first! Dutch are the seed of capitalism, which is kind of like British have done so for great America in their past history!

Any good studies of the history will show that only losers Chinese ever even invaded Taiwan when they can't rule China. That's twice in Taiwan's history. One driven out the Dutch, and the other driven out the Japanese with what's left of their fighting force. However, both died on Taiwan as losers in history. That's how they will be remember.

BTW, CCK put a house arrest on General Sun Li-Jen, who I consider one of the great generals in WW2. I guess now is red China's turn. China without a true free political and free trade system will collapse very soon as USSR did! Do you believe in all of those fairy tales that communists cooked up for its great future? Communists simply have to go, and they will not go quietly for my life time! Please do the math and face the truth!

Taiwan serve its people and not a ruling party at the time, and it will not put a house arrest on their great talents just because they are more able than the ruling party at the time. Taiwanese will all decide for its future for its political and economic interests and national survival!!

I am a Taiwanese,living in Taipei,and I don't think I am a Chinese both in values and personality,though I'm taught in Chinese langauge in my obiligatory education here.I guess this feelings natrually far form "Chinese ones" is because that Taiwan has special history mixed up with colonial impacts and the experiences of 1950's-to-1980's political terror and heavy thinking control by the KMT.(Chiang Kai-Shek monopolized politics.) Taiwanese,of 90% residents,have live up in Taiwan island for 300 years and we speak Taiwanese or Japanese of the elders. As for the Chinese Nationalist Government(KMT),they came to Taiwan in 1947,did a sad a cruel "Taiwan MASSACRE"(we called 228) in 1947,killing 10,000 to 25,000 Taiwanese well-educated men. And,KMT brought 9.9% Chinese residents from China in 1949 for the the Chinese Nationalist Government(KMT),lost their soveregnty,named as Republic of China,in the Chinese civil
war,1949.They have been overthown by China since 50 years ago. In 2000,we have changed our govenment to Taiwanese Demacratic and Progressive government by President election here,so to equalize Taiwan(ROC) to China(People's Republkic of China) is not true.It is a fact that Taiwan(ROC) is NOT a part of China(PRC).Taiwan and China is just with similar names in 2 seperated sovereignties.

I am living in Taipei,a Taiwanese.In Taiwan island,there excists a complex history and "society stuctrual problem" so that Taiwanese got different cognition of "what nation we are",and with polarity of feelings to China.

In residents here,90% are Taiwanese whom had lived in the island seperated from China for "300 years",mixed up bloodly with both aboriginals and 300-year-ago Chinese(Kanese),experienced "Dutch colony" times in 17th and "Japanese colony" times in 19th (from modernlizatoinal Japanese "Mei-ji revolution times" to the end of world war 2) for another 50 years. On the other hand,9.9% Taiwan residents,who can't understand Taiwanese langauge,and those who lost form Chinese civil war,1949,absconding to here with the lost government/party,Chinese Nationalist Governmnet(KMT),named Republic of China,ruled by Mr.Chiang Kai-Shek,are Taiwan Chinese. Republic of China governmnet got Taiwan's sovereignty from Japan,end of world war two,1947. But,an improtant but secret history point is the Chinese Nationalist Governmnet did a cruel "Taiwan MASSACRE"(we called 228) in 1947,killing 10,000 to 25,000 Taiwanese knowledged men,as teachers,lawyers,doctors,artists,and most students. It hurted Taiwanese feelings very much. Consequently,after 2 years,the Chinese Nationalist Governmnet lost from Chinese civil war and were overthrow by China people,so the govenment and some Chinese imigrated to Taiwan,and did the 40-year political terror and thinking control to exclude Taiwnaese in any public things after the "Taiwan MASSACRE",and to protect unfair revenues to those minor Chinese in Taiwan. Meanwhile,all Taiwanese and Taiwan Chinese were taught "China-only" obligatory education,which dosen't match Taiwan ancienstor's historical truths.
So for we Taiwanese,over-65-year-old generation who can only recorded their thinkings and opinions in Japanese had been sacrified or even "dead" in the Massacre or been prisoned. The Taiwanese baby-boom generation,as President Chen Sui-Bianand,and we youngers can learn Chinese langauge to begin compete with Chinese again here,are still of course past on something by our Taiwanese ancienster's special life experiences inside the family. So,to understand our history,you can know the reasons why from generations to generations,Taiwanese in fact is different from international imgaes or concepts as those of Chinese. But Taiwanese have to keep it in silence for the Chinese Nationalist Governmnet(KMT) controled since 1949 to 1990 all the media,politics,and let social resources unfairly distrubuted to 9.9% Taiwan Chinese,along with great political terror to Taiwanese. So,the island country,Taiwan,complexly contains 9.9% residents are purely Chinese in personality,habbits,values,and affection which brought by their DNA,history life-experiences,and family upbringings,and over 70% Taiwanese but not Chinese in recognization and feelings to the nationality.

The Chinese Nationalist Governmnet,who brought "Republu of China" in Taiwan seperated from "People's Republic of China" in China since 1949,had also been changed to a Taiwanese Demacratic and Proggresive Government,President Chen Sui-Bian and new Taiwanese ministry after 2000 President election,voted by every residents in Taiwan! So,it is a fact that Taiwan is NOT a part of China! Don't be tricked by the similirity of the names of these 2 sovereignties.I live up in Taiwan,used Taiwanese money,pay taxes to Taiwanese gonvernmnet,and do voting to Taiwan's president and so on by ourselves. If go to China,it's no difference as to apply a visa process to go abroad as to foreign countries. Why we are a part of China? Just because of the names are similar? Then it grants China an excuse to occupy Taiwan?

In conclusion,Taiwanese can't say our name for the Chiang's Chinese Nationalist Governmnet and his fake dreams of that China was legally owned by him for past 50 years in Taiwan island. But recent 10 years Taiwanese indeed made a silent but peaceful "political revolution" to returen thise things to people who lived up and made efforst here for at least 300 years. Pre-first-Taiwanese president Lee fostered Chinese Nationalist Governmnet to peacefully transfer to the Taiwanese Democratic and Proggresive Govnment without bleed.

Privately,I never feel I am a Chinese.In anthropology,Taiwanese are mixed up with half Chinese in 300 years ago and half island local aboriginals.So,we Taiwanese got different face shape with Chinese,with deeper eye frames and bigger eyes. Plus the colony experiences by Dutch and Japan influene Taiwanese different in personality,habbits,and values. But there're minior but monopolized Chinese live up in Taiwan since 1949 to now is a fact,too.

Therefore,Taiwan won't annouce "formally" independent too fast,for we have to respect the 9.9% Taiwan Chinese least their contary to deter our public proggresiveness.

But,Taiwan will keep going on our roads of "Democratic,Freedom,Human rights,and Peace." The roads which we Taiwnaese once deprived by 9.9% monolopized Taiwan Chinese. As for Taiwan's future,only the referendum is the fairest way to decide our country fate.

Even China is tougher now,and my family have factory there,as Taiwanese,BUT we would never feel like to be consolidate with China because it's the "roots" that we are different in nature. Nowadays is global vallige,if we Taiwanese lost our rights of decide Taiwan's fate to mainland Chinese or Taiwan Chinese again,we,who recognized in affection we're Taiwanese,would like to be "international citizens" more than a Chinese.

There's only one China. It is "People's Republic of China." And,"Republic of China" is newly ruled by Taiwanese president and ministry.Please,please don't be tricked by China's lie of that Taiwan is a part of China. Taiwan have been seperated from them for a handred years.

Thanks for reading. Peace and God blessed.