Chenyin Pan's Blog – December 2009 Archive (2)

July 6th, 2009 in Shanghai, I and my American colleague were having dinner at a uighur restaurant close to office after work. The owner and the waiters greeted us with their usual hospitality. The young Muslim gave us the innocent smile as he took away our orders. It was quiet in the restaurant. We were the only customers there, waiters were had nothing to do but gathered in front of the TV set watching China's central television channel's report on the riot in Xinjiang just about 24 hours ago.… Continue

If Rodger & Me still can only brought the slightest compassion and concern from audiences in America, let alone an outsider like me from China, then Michael Moore did a great job in The Big One made in 1998 which really drove home many issues regarding corporations, capitalism and even city dynamics. "Save our jobs!" was only the outcry from some hill-billy Ozarks when Wall Street was bullish. Globalization was the buzzword at the time and who the hell care about how those rednecks doing in… Continue