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From: carl_@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: comfort girls?
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:42:50 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

In article <C03DED.Kpq@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)  
writes:
> In article <1992Dec30.4298.41328@dosgate> "micky wong"  
<micky.wong@canrem.com> writes:
> >In Article: <1992Dec28.143403.8912@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
> >   Subject: Comfort girls?
> >      From: bgt@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (barbara.tongue) writes:
> Is it funny that those who sided withy Birtish on HongKong issue are
> ultra-active in revealing WWII Japanese autrocities, and  comdamning CCP
> siding with "Japanese militarists".
> To tell you people truth, I havbe strong suspection and circumstance evidenc
> that Japan's invasion of China was encorage quietly by West, to stare away
> the anguish Chinese harbored against West.
> This new wave to compaign may serve the similar purpose.

I AGAIN strongly recommend you to study and live in Japan for a couple years.  
Then, you attitude will change and you will start to have strong suspection and  
evidence that the U.S. policy against China is encouraged quitely by Japan to  
mislead the anguish of Chinese toward Japan. (joking?)

Also, if you go back and live in China for a couple of years, you will start to  
have strong suspection and evidence that the U.S. policy against Japan is  
strongly encouraged by China. (joking?)

People like you tend to have animosity against whatever society they lives in.

I can't help laughing again (excuse me, not because of your English and not  
under the influence of "past fights").
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: n9148984@henson.cc.wwu.edu ( )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: 55th Anniversary of Rape of Nanking (Nanjing Massacre)
Date: 2 Jan 93 01:58:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1993Jan2.015812.25879
Organization: Western Washington University

dzhuo@clyde.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dongpei Zhuo) writes:

>I read from some newspaper that December 17th is the 55th anniversary of
>one of the darkest periods in the history - on that day in 1937 the
>Japanese Imperial Army started their brutal Rape of Nanking
>(Nanjing Massacre).

>I suggest posting memorial articles on the net to remind people of this
>incident.  Many non-Chinese do not know that this actually happened. Instead,
>most people know Japan suffered two atomic bombs, as if that was the most
>tragic scene in the WWII, although in fact over 10 million Chinese died
>as the result of the war.  As the Japanese emperor visited China this year,
>we should also remind ourselves of this moment we should never forget.

>Maybe somebody can compile some news accounts in the newspapers at that
>time or any quotation from books on this subject and post them in all
>the history-related and other related newsgroups.

>What do you think of this suggestion?

>Dongpei Zhuo
>University of California, Irvin

Excellent idea. Let's not let the world forget the crimes against humanities
committed by the Japanese Bastards.
From: huss8397@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Pinyin Reform
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:20:54 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

        I must say, that I feel the discussion on the Pinyin reform has been
particularly constructive.  Hopefully, something good will come out of it.
        Unfortunately, there is a large problem with when trying to reform a
language, and there are many sides to every argument.
        In the 1950's the PRC did studies about combating illiteracy.  I do not
have copies of these studies, but I will recant what I have heard about them. 
The government took three test groups of completely illiterate people and decided
to teach one group a romanized Chinese (pinyin), one group traditional
(unsimplified) characters and another simplified characters.  I do not know
waht teaching method was used but those learning pinyin learned to read and
write about twice as fast as those who learned characters, among the characters
simplified was learned about 30% faster than unsimplified.  
        As a result of these studies the government decided to adopt the
simplifies characters and teach pinyin concurrently.  
        The reason that the gov't didn't completely do away with characters was
fear of losing the ability to read characters among others.  This fear is not
unfounded, just look at Vietnam's writing evolution.  From the Han to Tang
dynasty will Vietnam was occupied by China the people gradually adopted the
Chinese writing system, after the fall of the  Tang the people continusously 
modified the writing system to reflect their own views.  When the French moved in, in the
 they forced the Vietnamese to adopt the romanized writing system called
quoc-ngu.  The result today is that the Vietnamese have only a handfull of
people who are able to read the old script.
        Complete pinyin adoption may lead to this problem.  There is another
problem with pinyin.  As with Putonghua, it is modeled after the Beijing
dialect which creates a problem when you must use it with Cantonese, since the
sounds and pronunciation are different.  At least with characters, it is easier
to bridge dialectical barriers.  I may venture to say that the problem with
abopting a nationwide pinyin only language may lie entirely with the success of
southern China.  In the future, their economic power will translate into
political power.
        As for computers, I would say that, there are word processors on the
market such as NJStar that use pinyin as a input method and do very well.

        Happy New Year,
        Mark D. Huss
        University of Northern Iowa.
From: qlong@themis.cs.umass.edu (Qiegang Long)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: a fun problem
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:14:32 GMT
	<BzDMFr.Ayy@news.iastate.edu>
	<1992Dec17.151009.19890@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
	<8960@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: QLONG@themis.cs.umass.edu
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
In-reply-to: chyen@unix386.Convergent.COM's message of 23 Dec 92 20:16:41 GMT


In article <8960@unix386.Convergent.COM> chyen@unix386.Convergent.COM (Chien-Hua Yen) writes:
From: xzh@eddy.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Xiang Zhou)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Everyone should change his major to Qi Gong major
Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:51:07 GMT
Organization: Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: eddy.cfm.brown.edu
Keywords: Qi Gong

In article <C0AKGC.EK7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, xlli@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (xiao-lin li) writes:
|> In article <1i7bdpINN9rp@crcnis1.unl.edu> tchen@hoss.unl.edu (tianan chen) writes:
|> > My former advisor at China is a professor and a director of a institute. He
|> > practice Qi Gong for years. He strongly believe some day he could see the 
|> > atoms and molecules in a flask by his naked eyes and control the chemical  
|> > reactions inside. This make me don't know whether to laugh or to cry, Ku(1)
|> > Xiao(4) Bu De.
|> >     
|> 
|> Yan Xing cited many stories in which professors, Science Academy Fellows,
|> Nobel Prize winners and of course Ph. D.'s and Ph. D. candidates :-) 
|> supported his experiments. It really worried me about the seriousness
|> of Chinese scientists. I don't know if Yan Xing has obtained permission
|> to cite these people. It could be very demaging to these people if his
|> "experiment" and bragging turn out untrue.
|> 
|> No one believe Qian Xuesheng as a scientist anymore, so nobody cares
|> if he cites Qian as his supporter. But for C. N. Yang we really have to
|> confirm. I will try to make a call to C. N. Yang to dig out the truth.
|> 

      QIan may be not a science man as you understand it, he may be a scientist
at a higher level. He was an excellent scientist and a genius. Before you
reach his level, don't make these claims. Remember that Newton used to say
a lot of things about God.
From: slqmt@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: test only
Date: 24 Dec 92 12:31:49 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

test, test, test
From: yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (~{QG9p~})
Subject: Re: Newwer China
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:27:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.203145.13153@topaz.ucq.edu.au> huangz@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes:
>1. About one week ago, Chinese government ordered the French consulate in
>   Guangzhou to be closed, responding France selling 50 fighters to Taiwan.
>          
>      -- I thought:"Right! But no enough!"

If you view yourself as a Chinese, rather than just a "mainland
Chinese", you really shouldn't get too upset about Taiwan buying a
few planes.  As Chinese, we should feel equally for other Chinese,
be they mainland, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, and we should learn to
view independently of the mainland-Taiwan (or mainland-Hong Kong)
disputes. The disputes themselves are complicated issues, maintaining
a proper military ballance across the Taiwan Strait may or may not
be such a bad thing. But one thing is for sure: we shouldn't let 
ourselves be taken into the gulf of political divisions so easily.


  Ya-Gui Wei


Xref: sparky soc.culture.china:33535 soc.culture.taiwan:16563 soc.culture.korean:6679 soc.culture.japan:12866
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.korean,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Hus Fu and the Japanese
Date: 25 Dec 1992 02:05:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

In article <ljk1miINN9ei@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
>In article <1hbcbgINNmou@agate.berkeley.edu>  (Henry Robertson) writes:
>>I don't understand what the fuss is about.  It's obvious to anyone that the
>>Japanese are predominantly of East Asian descent, not Polynesian or 
>>Caucasian.  Japanese assert their difference from the Chinese because of the
>>difference in linguistics. 
>
>I have found the related postings on SCC once for a while in the past four
>years and none comes up convincible argument, while some of Japanese netters
>tend to deny the Chinese netter have no reliable source to convince people.
>While the Japanese intend to rewrite their history of invasion of China and
>the mass masscare in north eastern China and many cities, in particular the
>capital of Nanjing, the research evidence may serve the Japanese, it was so
>guailty that a branch of Chinese descendents, the Japanese, came homeland 
>to kill many millions of brotherhood Chinese.
>

Is this such an astonishing fact to you?
Chinese have killed each other billions of times over history.
The difference is that a little-brother civilization did it to them this time.>
>This assertion to Chinese people is not convincible. Many postings stated that
>the current Japanese speaking language has many similarity with Cantonese,
>the Min-nan. Because all of these were considered as ancient Chinese languages,
>or dialects, those were spoken in central China. After various enviornmental
>change and wars, people moved to east, to south or Pacific islands, therefore
>the isolation of long time was a major factor that caused the language differed.
As I was saying earlier, people of the world are mongrelized.  If some Chinese
moved to Japan, of course their language will have some resemblance.





>of dialects, they have common writing and unique writing too.
>
>That long period of isolation was believed there were various of tributal wars
>inside the Japan. Soon after that, the Japanese appeared in Chinese record 
>again while the Japanese sent many people to China to learn various skills.
>Many studies proved the recent Japanese temples, houses and cloth were the
>ancient Chinese style, particular of Tang Dynasty.

It's called the six dynasties style.  And no, it is not astonishing that
Buddhism came to Japan from China.  Every schoolchild knows that the first
Bhuddists met the same fate that 17th-century Chiristians did in Japan.
The difference is that Japan has a superstition that anything they absorb
from other cultures, they make it better.  Japanese temples, as far as I'm
concerned, are not painted like their Chinese counterparts, due to traditional
shortages of paint.














Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: I back again
Subject: Who many answers for the old puzzle?
Organization: sopusa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:34:32 GMT


Question:	There are ten birds on a tree.  Shot down one of them, then
		how many birds remain?

Question of the question:

		How many right answers can be valid according to the question?
for example:
	Answer 1:  	9 birds;
	Answer 2:	10 birds;
	Anwser 3:	0 birds
	and more........

I have been told at least five answers for this question.

Question of the question of the question:

		What are the rest two answers?
From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: illegal_immigration
Date: 29 Dec 92 22:28:34 GMT
Organization: Motorola, LICD, SPS, Mesa, AZ

>achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ah_Q) writes:
>: a chance to sneak into America.  I don't see how
>: they would be able to accumulate $30,000 if they
>: are from China.

Both of you may have been away from China for too long :-)  There're many
ordinanary people making US$10,000 a year, probably through commisions or
kick-backs instead of salary.  Today getting a college degree is no longer a
sure way to lead to a comfortable life, trading or running one's own business
are.

Believe it or not there're people who are rich enough to setup office in US
and send their wives here as representatives of the company.

However, I serious doubt the illegal immigrants belong to such catagory. 
They probably borrow half of the money from relatives and loan the other half
from the smugglers.  

fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou) writes:
>pocket. I think with that much money, one could live a more than decent
>life in China.

Probably they were misinformed.  They may simply believe they could recover
the money in short time and life in US is picking golden nuggets on streets.
There was a TV interview with some illegal immigrants (in 60 Minutes?) on the
very subject a few months back.  One of the immigrants really regreted what
he did but he now has no way back due to debts he owes.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: sj@cs.brown.edu (Shuang Ji)
Subject: Re: Possible computer virus in friend1.gif
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:54:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.052151.17452@wam.umd.edu>, ext@wam.umd.edu (Eugene Zhu Xia) writes:
|> 
|> I made the unfortunate mistake of copying friend1.gif
|> off the net.  As a result, I received a note in my
|> directory that reads YOU_BETTER_READ_THIS which
|> contains a message about one of my files having
|> been deleted.  I suspect that .gif file contains
|> a computer virus (as a I remember after the .gif
|> came on net, there was a disclaimer about the
|> owner of the account never sent out such a
|> .gif file).  This should be a warning to any
|> one who (like myself) are too trusting.  
|> Of course, I could be wrong.  Let me know 
|> if anyone else had similar things happen to
|> them, so I can confirm this.
|> 
|> Sigh, there are sick people out there (perhaps
|> too many among the so called hackers).
|> 
|> Eugene
|> 
|> P.S. I am not sure if the virus is going to
|> strike me again.  If anyone knows a way 
|> to get rid of the virus, let me know.
|> 

It's impossible that a GIF file could contain virus. A virus is actually
a segment of code and can affect your computer only after it gains execution.
Since an executable file on most operating systems has a certain format
which is totally different from that of a GIF file, a GIF file can not be
executed which means that if it contained some kind of virus, it was at most
a dead virus.

Believe me, I'm a computer science major and have two years' experience in
designing and dealing with viruses. :-)


Shuang
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: zhang@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Weishi Zhang)
Subject: Looking for Gu Feng and Zhao Da-Zhe in Berlin, Germany
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:42:22 GMT

Please email to zhang@informatik.uni-muenchen.de

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: phsj@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Su Jianfeng)
Subject: Re: Chinese Democrocy Advocators
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:32:12 GMT

None !



J Su

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: sosc1069@highway.yorku.ca (Ming He)
Subject: Re: Advanced Fighter's Engine to China
Organization: Comp. Sci.  York Univ.  Toronto
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:08:21 GMT

### On Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:58:00 GMT, xic@utkvx2.utk.edu  said:
xic% News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

xic% I read a news somewhere today, it might be on World Daily of
xic% Sunday, which is a Chinese newspaper published in USA.  It said
xic% Bush is considering selling an advanced technique to produce
xic% fight's engine to China.  It might be a good idea to boost the US
xic% economy, since it might create jobs.  But, I simply do not know
xic% what Chinese are doing, I mean both sides of mainland and Taiwan.
xic% Do not you think they are wasting money?  I simply do not like
xic% this kind of games.

No, buying technique is not wasting of money.  Buy products
(merchandise) is.  I would like both side across the strait to buy
advanced tech, regardless if that is for military or not.  I would
enjoy it more if both side can share their imported tech, well,
impossible now.

--
Ming He                                   sosc1069@reader.yorku.ca
From Beijing, China.  Like to watch to the transference of data.
From: ming@acsu.buffalo.edu (Zhi-Hong Ming)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:18:13 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1074@blue.cis.pitt.edu> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.094119.17293@dxcern.cern.ch> sijin@dxcern.cern.ch (Sijin Qian) writes:
>>(2) Draw a straight line between 2 intersections of the 2 circles.
>
>The author said that you are not allowed to draw straight line.  I have
>an approximate solution:
>
>Draw two circles with a radius larger than half of distance but smaller
>than the distance of the two points.  The two intersections are two new
>points with the same center but smaller distance.  Repeat this
>process. 
>
>-- 
>//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.

when will you stop? indefinitely? you still cannot find the center.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.china:33405 soc.culture.taiwan:16481
From: stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: World Journal
Date: 22 Dec 1992 22:31:41 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: stevelin

In article <BzoDqx.IMF@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan) writes:
>>>>
>>>>Though the owner is a KMT, the WJ apparently has no dedication to KMT. Though
>>>>it is emphasized on Taiwan news, it is not a pro-KMT newspaper in general.
>>>>
>>I really don't think so. There are more and more editorial comments severly
>>criticing KMT and Lee Deng-Hui, if folks ever pay attention on it.
>>I do feel that the editorial position is on the same line of overseas Chinese
>>organization, Sin-Chong Hui. Of course, they have no way to support CCP.
>>
>But the opinions of overseas Chinese are more conservative than today's
>KMT. That is why it is criticising Li Denghui. 
>
>When ever I want to change my mood to pro-CCP, I'll read some from WJ's
>editorial comments and Zhengmin. Otherwise I'll read People's Daily. It
>works for me without any problem.
>
If folks ever noticed the recent readers articles about one China policy,
I do not support Pan's view. The WJ has stepped toward a position that only
provides a tool for people to speak out, no matter what the readers' political
positions are. Constantly it provides a debate place and information sources.

To the most mainland published newspaper, most of them remain in the learing
stage, as that college students published newspaper. A huge land of China has
no news to report? There are more than 40 pages from WJ and the readers request
more coverage constantly. However, the mainland newspaper seems to have too
much space to report, most of them are two small sheets.

The newspaper and the book publication all indicate that mainlanders some how
either are forced not to write or nothing to write, nothing to report, nothing
to complain, or knowing nothing to write, the worst: don't care to write
anything. Nothing is my business as the life goes under CCP ruling.

On the contrary, the properious the Taiwan publication business is one indication
that people are happy and free in life, so they write, they report, they create
things those attract people to buy, to read, to share.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: What happened to the Long March?
Keywords: Rocket
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:53:59 GMT

In article <BzxqK6.A66@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ah_Q) writes:
>
>I suspect sabotage from the U.S side to make the
>Chinese space industry lose international credibility
>so that future satilite lauching contracts will go
>to NASA.
>
>The biased news media coverage on by the U.S. news
>media only strengthens my suspicions.
>
>Satilite launchings are a multi-billion dollar industry.
>Any country that can capture a significant share of this
>market would be able to self finance its space industry.
>
>
>
I would not jump to conclusion that quick. I do suspect that they "leak" the
news to the media to influence the public opinion in U.S.
As the market, I am sure potential customers are more sophisticated, than
common Americans.  They will shop around, and exame hard numbers, not 
mediaa reports.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yuen@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (Daniel Yuen)
Subject: Another fun problem (Was: a fun problem)
Organization: BHP Steel, Sheet & Coil, Research & Technology Centre
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:34:38 GMT

yao@ee.rochester.edu wrote :

> Now let's have something more advanced. Given 13 balls that look exactly the
> same but one of the 13 balls differs in weight from the others, can you
> find out this ball by using a balance(tian1 ping2) only three times?

Yesterday I wrote :

>This problem was one of the assignments in Information Theory in my Uni days.
>If my memory has not failed me, one could prove that picking out an odd ball
>among *13* balls in 3 weighings could not be done (picking out the odd one
>among *12* balls using 3 weighings can be done though).  I'd love to see
>someone solve this puzzle!

Subsequently a kind soul posted me the solutions through e-mail.  Yes, I
was wrong.  I have over-looked the puzzle that one does *not* have to
identify if the 'bad ball' is heavier or lighter.

Now, maybe an even more advanced problem.  Can you pick a bad ball among
13 balls *and* identify if it is heavier or lighter in 3 weighings ?
If not, can you *prove* that it can't be done?

Cheers.

Daniel (yuen@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au)
From: echeng@phys.psu.edu (Eddie Cheng)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Another situation puzzle
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:42:36 GMT
Organization: Penn State, Department of Physics

In article <1038@blue.cis.pitt.edu> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>In article <102838@netnews.upenn.edu> hxie@dps91a.cis.upenn.edu (Hong Liang Xie) writes:
>>A man is sitting in bed in a hotel room.  He makes a phone call,
>>saying nothing, and then goes to sleep. 
>
>Too many possibilities here.  He found the phone is dead, or no one is
>answering, or he just changed his mind, or he just suffered a heart
>attack...

	Nah, of course he just found there is no messages being left
on his answering machine at home.

	Time changes.  Many riddles in grade school may have acquired
new answers.  Too bad we can't be kids anymore...



	 Eddie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong