Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Fun And Games In Tiananmen Square
Proof, if any were needed, that the Chinese sense of humour is no laughing matter. As Bryan has pointed out, totalitarian regimes and the Olympics are a perfect fit. (Memo to self: Leave London before 2012.)
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Reminds me of that well-known Chinese expression and curse: May you live in amusing times.
ReplyDeleteNot as well-known as the interesting times one, admittedly, for the simple reasaon that an equivalent of the word amusing doesn't actually exist in the Chinese language and, moreover, their concept of irony was exported to the US in the late 19th century. Apparently. Therefore, it's origin is unknown but is believed to date from around the time of the Cultural Revolution (the earlier one, that is, not that 20th century farce).
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