My colleague posted this video of a ceremony to "heal" her child, whom she worries was being plagued by rogue spirits or ghosts. My colleague sent me this video because she remembers my stories of how my Slavic-influenced mother would perform a ceremony to ward off "the evil eye." Of odd interest to the international viewer: notice how the street sounds permeate the home, and the music in the start of the video... the garbage truck has arrived outside.
At times it feels hopeless to imagine that the Chinese government will ever develop a sense of universal rights or even common decency. More proof of this from the following Associated Press article printed in the local Taipei Times newspaper on Sunday, February 08, 2009, Page 1. Days before China's human rights record comes under scrutiny before a UN panel, the government's grip on dissent seems as firm as ever. Government critics have been rounded up and some imprisoned on vaguely defined state security charges. Corruption whistleblowers have been bundled away, while discussion of sensitive political and social topics on the Internet remains tightly policed. On Friday, officers stationed outside a government building in Beijing took away at least eight people — members of a loosely organized group of 30 who had traveled to the capital from around the country seeking redress for various problems, almost all of them involving local corruption. One member of the group, Li Fengx...
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