The way I and many fellow westerners see it, children do not belong to their parents. All parents need to do is love their children and give them the skills to look after themselves, they don't need to control their lives once the child has enough skill to live their own life.
There is something very nice about close knit Chinese families. Where I object to it is when parental disapproval gets in the way of love. A friend of my girlfriend has fallen victim to this. Because she wasn't from the same city and was 2 or 3 years older than him, her boyfriend's parents disapproved of their relationship. She is now going to marry another man, despite still loving the first guy and he perhaps still loving her. Tragic.
Fight for Charity Preview – Paul vs Tudou
Posted byBlows to the head can cause concussion and head injuries are thought to raise the chances of dementia, parkinsons, alzeimers etc. Brain damage is permanent - I used to work with for a charity helping adults who had suffered brain injuries. Great cause and probably great entertainment, but I suggest that the money could be raised in a more ethical way.
Going with the flow: Cycling the Pijiang
Posted byit's okay, found it on another article www.gokunming.com/[...] it's 安排怕人天老爷 the most obvious yun 云 and long 龙
Creek work halted on Dali's Erhai Lake
Posted by'Environmentalists say that the key to making the water of Erhai Lake cleaner is to stop releasing polluted wastewater directly into it, rather than resorting to engineering solutions for rivers and destroying their ecological diversity and natural beauty in the process.' well yes... I would think that was obvious! Cement won't help, in fact it'll make it worse as plants can't grow on cement so you lose some filtration effect.
Going with the flow: Cycling the Pijiang
Posted byThanks for this article. It would be great if you could put the characters for the places you mention e.g. yunlong
A bird's eye view of China's Spring City
Posted bynice shots, seems like drones can do a surprisingly good job, I would have thought that wind etc would make it hard to hold the camera steady