Liberal-oriented columns, commentary and archived articles on national and international news, politics, and the communication arts--with emphasis on China--by Joseph Bosco, author, journalist, director and actor; Professor of Drama and Communications at Beijing Foreign Studies University. 

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Bosco's 30th Blue Christmas...

A number of you know I have a problem with Christmas. And I'm sure a number of you know it has nothing to do with this "war on Christmas" that's all over the press in the states. Although I left Christianity as a faith in my teens (along with all other organized religions), the magic of Christmas will always be real for me. I have no problem honoring the birth of a two-millenium prophet that taught love and tolerance with the beauty of thought and deliverance as did Jesus.

No, my problem with the "Holiday Season" is that thirty of them ago I lost any chance at being the best of me; I lost my father, Frank A. Bosco, the greatest mind I've ever known, Christmas 1975. He was killed instantly when an L & N Railroad engine struck his automobile late the night of December 26. I was terrified of living in a world without him in it, but even more acutely I loathed and feared the certainty that he had so much more to teach me. That kind of loss I knew could never be replaced.

And when I consider how fast he assimilated new thinking and its place in the order of thinking, I grieve all the more--selfishly, to be sure.

As long as my son Joseph was young, I fought down the Christmas demon fairly well; there were so many memorable Christmas mornings with Linda and Joseph, for more than two decades. But most of the next two could only be called "Blue," my word for what happens to my moods come holiday season year after year.

But, to my ever-increasing annual dread, there was one year--a number, big and bold--that drew closer with a rapidity the young cannot possibly realize. The number hanging so dark and thuggish over me wasn't a date. It was truly just a number.

The number 57.

That's how old my father was when that goddamned Hummingbird Special, highballing it from Mobile to New Orleans in the middle of a Dixie night, exploded my father's magnificent head upon impact.

That's how old I am now. 57. Upon the 30th anniversary of my father's passing.

I just always knew--ever since the night he died--that I could never out-live such a man; a man with still so much to do in his life that was important for him, and he was doing it. Call it as crazy as it may be under any number of schools of psychiatric doctrine, I believed it; but as a thing afar for so long. Even with a flourish for a while I would think it, or say it in the presence of only two or three. I just knew that I too would pass from this world before midnight, December 26, 2005.

Morbid and insane? Yes. But if I greet Tuesday mid-morning here in Beijing, the 27th of December, then all bets are off and I threaten one and all that I will live to be 100! I will need all of those extra years to finish the life's work I laid out for myself many years ago.

So, in this Christmas Day post, I will first honor my father and my past; in the second part, I will celebrate the future.
Frank A. Bosco 1919 - 1975


The four short paragraphs below, written by William Saroyan, were the words my father, Frank A. Bosco, the greatest man I ever knew, chose as a humanistic creed by which to live his life. In time, he passed them along to me, as I later did to my son Joseph. While each of us at times fell short of its ideals, they none the less remained our private benchmark.

In The Time of Your Life

In the time of your life, live--so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live--so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

William Saroyan
And then, in case I really am just crazy, and joyfully greet the morning of December 27:


MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE BOSCOS


Photo by Alexis Hellwig

The picture of Ellen and me was taken only a couple of hours before the riot scene and my bout with toxic smoke poisoning. We are on the beach at Boao, Hainan.

I chose that picture to represent the beginning of the rest of my life, because in so many ways it does. I had to go back into my artistic bag of tricks and find out if I could create a character from scratch, and sustain that growth over 20 episodes, almost 30 years after I had quit acting.

Shooting "China's Peacekeeping Police" pulled me away from the morbidity of unrelenting Katrina woes, and saved whatever sanity I do have. It also opened up my thinking about telling stories. I remembered what I have always been: a story teller. And that I haven't been doing enough of it over the past few years. But I will, come Tuesday. And then I plan on doing it for at least 30 more Christmases, blue though they may remain. I have thousands of stories still in me, perhaps I can shake and polish up maybe a dozen or more of them into books before I take my leave.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
 


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Saturday, December 24, 2005

No Merry Christmas for Zhao Yan...Probably Not for a Very Long Time

At this Holiday Season, the news for supporters of imprisoned Chinese journalist Zhao Yan, and they are legion, is most certainly bad, as you will read in The New York Times article below. Regular readers of these pages know well my concern for the life and liberty of fellow journalist Zhao Yan.

You will also probably remember the special series on the case written by journalism students at Beijing Foreign Language University on their newsblog WOW. In many ways the story of Zhao Yan is central to any realistic look at the future of foreign media in China. By negotiated agreement, one of China's WTO commitments is to an unfettered foreign media with full-fledged door-step or kiosk presence--which basically means foreign ownership of plant, content and distribution--in about two years. Many, many people believe that China will renege. As both a journalist and a teacher of journalism, I have intense interest in all of it.

My interest in Zhao Yan is also personal, though I've never met him. Everything I learn about him tells me he is a man to respect and admire; in other words, a lot of other people I respect and admire do know Mr. Zhao.

The proof of the pudding is the photograph directly below, in which Bill Keller, the new boss of the old gray lady, proudly hangs a picture of Zhao Yan upon Zhao being recently honored by Reporters Without Borders. I have had the priceless photo for some time now, but I did not want to post it and add any fuel to a potential fire. Potential is no longer an operable concern.



China Indicts Times Researcher, Saying He Disclosed State Secrets


By JIM YARDLEY
Published: December 24, 2005

BEIJING, Dec. 23 - A Chinese researcher for The New York Times was indicted Friday on charges of disclosing state secrets to the newspaper and on a lesser charge of fraud, a move that should send the case to trial within six weeks, his lawyer said.

The researcher, Zhao Yan, 43, who worked in the paper's Beijing bureau, has spent 15 months in prison without a hearing. The formal indictment is significant because such a move on charges relating to state secrets is usually tantamount to conviction in China.

Mr. Zhao, who has denied the charges, could face a minimum of 10 years in prison.

"For Zhao Yan's colleagues, family and friends, this is deeply disheartening," said Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times. Mr. Keller lobbied the Foreign Ministry on Mr. Zhao's behalf in October during a visit to Beijing.

"We've seen no evidence whatsoever that he is guilty of anything but honest journalism," Mr. Keller added.

Mr. Zhao's arrest is directly linked to an article in The Times on Sept. 7, 2004, that disclosed that the former president, Jiang Zemin, had unexpectedly offered to resign his last leadership post as chief of the military. The ruling Communist Party is acutely sensitive to any reporting on the secretive inner workings of the leadership.
Please continue reading Mr. Yardley at The New York Times

And more on Zhao Yan at WOW: Journalism and the State Series
 


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Saturday, December 17, 2005

When Will the Chinese Communist Party Learn that Secrecy is No Longer an Option?

Besides being brutally insensitive, it is inexcusably ignorant for the central government, or anyone within it, to help local authorities cover up the recent riots and killings in Dongzhou, a coastal village in south China's Guangdong Province, close by more enlightened Hong Kong. We live in a world that is no longer plausible-deniability friendly. Although many say there is no purely "free press" anywhere in that same world, 'truth,' in all its abstract, idiosyncratic guises, and rumor will disseminate almost instantly, beyond control or regulation of anyone or anything (outside of North Korea, of course).

If lying about public events or issues used to be stupid because it meant you had to be smart enough to remember which lie you told when and where to whom, now it is flat-out unimaginably dumb!

But, obviously, some folks just cannot figure it out. Which is about all of the comment necessary for me to excerpt a bit from, and then link to, an article in today's The New York Times.
Chinese Pressing to Keep Village Silent on Clash

By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: December 17, 2005

SHANGHAI, Dec. 16 - Ten days ago, the sleepy fishing village of Dongzhou was the scene of a deadly face-off, with protesters hurling homemade bombs and the police gunning them down in the streets.

Now, a stilted calm prevails, a cover-up so carefully planned that the small town looks like a relic from the Cultural Revolution, as if the government had decided to re-educate the entire population. Banners hang everywhere, with slogans in big red characters proclaiming things like, "Stability is paramount" and "Don't trust instigators."

Many facts remain unclear about the police crackdown on a Dongzhou demonstration on Dec. 6, which residents say ended in the deaths of 20 or more people, but one thing is certain: The government is doing everything possible to prevent witnesses' accounts of what happened from emerging.

Residents of Dongzhou, a small town now cordoned off by heavy police roadblocks and patrols, said in scores of interviews on the telephone and with visitors that they had endured beatings, bribes and threats at the hands of security forces in the week and a half after their protest against the construction of a power plant was violently put down. Others said that the corpses of the dead had been withheld, apparently because they were so riddled with bullets that they would contradict the government's version of events. And residents have been warned that if they must explain the deaths of loved ones - many of whom were shot dead during a tense standoff with the police in which fireworks, blasting caps and crude gasoline bombs were thrown by the villagers - they should simply say their relatives were blown up by their own explosives.

"Local officials are talking to families that had relatives killed in the incident, telling them that if they tell higher officials and outsiders that they died by accident, by explosives, while confronting the police, they must make it sound convincing," said one resident of the besieged town in an interview. "If the family members speak this way they are being promised 50,000 yuan ($6,193), and if not, they will be beaten and get nothing out of it."
Continue reading at: The New York Times
 


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Friday, December 16, 2005

Sex Scandal in BFSU Journalism Department

In all of my years writing, I never had the opportunity to type S-e-x S-c-a-n-d-a-l into a lead or headline. Now I honestly can and did--with only a touch of tongue-to-cheek clucking--because the story broke into the mainstream Chinese press and, for even this kind of 'sexy story,' received a lot of unexpected and unusual attention. The first article below, which appeared yesterday on the front page of the printed edition of China Daily, involves, in various areas, some of my journalism students.

Below that, you will find an article written for WOW by one of its founders, editors and special contributors, Li Mu, a.k.a. Lianne Li. Between the China Daily piece, and Ms. Li's reporting, which appears here as a guest contribution from WOW and Lianne, I believe you can get the overveiw of an issue that frankly for me is an absurdist time-warping from the American 50's. That, in its larger view, may be worth chewing on if one is inclined towards matters of contemporary anthropology.

Here is the China Daily version of the story so far:
Sex, lies and surveys: Point is, is there a point?

Zhou Liming
2005-12-15 06:04

Media obsession with female students' chastity, or the lack of it, has moved up a notch with a student paper at a top Beijing university refuting a report on the high rate of sexual activity.

The survey was conducted in response to an online claim that only a small minority of female students at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beiwai) were unfamiliar with sex.

"I feel this is unfair. Female students as a group have been the target of a demonization campaign," said He Min, a junior majoring in journalism, who spoke on the condition that her real name not be revealed.

Chinese media, especially the tabloids, seem to be fixated on the private lives of female college students.

There are numerous reports of college girls moonlighting in houses of ill repute, with some putting their number very high.

A posting titled "The night life of a Beiwai girl," which has been making the rounds on the Internet, claims to be a first-person account of a "san pei" (escort) girl in the city's Sanlitun bar district.

Also, an online survey, purportedly conducted by the Beijing Film Academy's "Single Men Society," concluded that, by the time they graduate, only 15.86 per cent of female students at Beiwai are virgins.

The poll was conducted by a dozen people through "social networking and online data gathering" and "does not guarantee its accuracy," said the report.

He Min, the Beiwai student who was riled by it, defended their "good name" with their own poll, which was done on campus.

The result, published in "107 Investigation," a student newspaper, said that only 11.5 per cent of female students engaged in sex during their college years.

"This is a resounding rebuttal of the online figure," said He.

Discussions on Internet forums show that most Chinese are troubled by a sense of sliding morals, which they attribute to a growing materialistic craving. The loss of virginity at a young age is often seen as a manifestation.

Some experts have different views.

"The Beiwai students were trying to protect their values," said Ai Xiaoming, a feminist scholar. "But it played right into the traditional virginity obsession."

As Professor Ai argued, the whole fracas is pointless except that it has highlighted how ironclad thousands-of-years-old concepts of a male-dominated society are and how they still grip public imagination.

"What does it matter whether a student is a virgin or not? As long as it's a voluntary act, I don't see any problem with it," she told China Daily.

"The fixation on a woman's chastity is more important to men than to women."
China Daily

And then there is the article by Li Mu, courtesy of WOW.
Virgin Ratio at BSFU: The Making of a Story

By Li Mu (Lianne Li)

"This is the first investigation on the sexual condition of female students in BFSU. It mainly focuses on the general conditions of campus sex, the level of sex knowledge, and sexual attitudes. We would like to gather data in order to know the genuine sexual condition within the campus." That was the lead of an article titled An investigation on the sexual condition of BFSU female students, published in the third issue of the monthly BFSU campus paper, 107 INVESTIGATION.

The investigation was an effort to better understand female students at Beijing Foreign Studies University, a female-dominated school that has a reputation for pretty girls and being a "dyejigger" corrupting female virtues. A college virgin ratio chart that was spread all over the Internet claimed that the percentage of virgins among BFSU graduates was only 15.86%, despite no scientific or empirical research on female sexual activity in China's colleges.

In November, 6 girls from the Journalism Department at BFSU designed 13 questions for the sex investigation questionnaire under the supervision of a teacher. The questionnaire asked about the recipients' knowledge and source of the ongoing gossip, their attitudes and knowledge of sex and the ways in which they wished to obtain sexual education. Only one of the questions asked whether they had sex during college. Over 600 recipients from different grades returned the questionnaires, and the investigative report was written according to the data, featuring interviews of some of the respondents and medical staff at the campus hospital.

"We wished to receive considerable responses from what we had done, but we never expected such a huge influence," says one of the girls among the investigation group. On December 9th, a reporter from Chinatimes came to interview Luo and Liang, who participated in the investigation. "He kept asking us whether we were trying to rebut what the gossip had imposed on us, but we denied it because that was not on our mind when we were doing this," said Luo. However, the headline on the report published on December 12th came out as BFSU Girls Carried Out a Sex Investigation to Rebut On-line Gossips.

The report emphasized the finding that only 11.5% of the responding students had sex, quoting Luo anonymously, saying that she believed only a small number of students were sexually active and that the bad impression that had been stamped on BFSU girls was unfair. Although Luo never mentioned in the interview that the girls were "6 virgins," the reporter manufactured it by extracting it from a sentence in Luo's personal blog, which actually pleaded for tolerance from readers on campus, saying that the six of them had no experience with sex and the other issues investigated.

Although a later article in the Legal Evening Post (Fazhiwanbao) published most of the investigation's results with no special emphasis on any one part, almost all of the major on-line news media put up the Chinatimes article and played games with it. One secondary report was even headlined as 6 Virgins Carried Out a Sex Investigation in BFSU.

The virgin ratio determined by the investigation became one of the most hotly debated topics of on-line bulletin boards. By December 14th, there had been 1448 comments on the bulletin board of Netease alone, with a whole page specially devoted to the topic. Many expressed disbelief and disapproval of the investigation. According to a vote-in survey on sohu.com, only 18.27% of the 4000 participants considered the result convincing, and over 70% of them disagreed with the argument that only 10% of female students were sexually active.

What's more, half of the visitors considered the investigation to be a joke. Some said the investigation was "trying to mask things by making them obviously contradictory." Some feminists even openly condemned the purpose of the investigation. "The gossipers are mean indeed, but to rebut it, the investigators themselves must have been supporters of masculine pressure that stressed women's virginity and the idea that sexual relationships are filthy," said a commenter on Netease.

"The whole idea of the virgin ratio chart didn't flash into our mind until we were setting about doing a backdrop for reporting on the investigation," complained Luo. "The media has distorted our aim of the investigation, and the public misunderstood it. What we are doing is disclosing the basic sexual behavior of the girls so that people can extend a better understanding towards them all."

What the report really meant to deliver was the ignored corner of the debate: the university had long neglected sex education. The statistics showed that even among female graduate students, there were some who admitted knowing very little necessary sexual knowledge. The major source of the girls' sex knowledge was found to be books, pornographic films and the Internet; over 80% responded that they had no idea of any lectures on sex held on campus or on the distribution of condoms.

Although the focus of public concern still lies on a meaningless ratio, some scholars are starting to support the investigation. When interviewed by Chinatimes, Fang Gang, PhD, a scholar on the Sociology of Sex at Renmin University, believes that it is important for people to know why female college students were considered to have casual sex lives. He said: "These girls are young and attractive, which is why people like to think of them that way and why they become targets of sexual desire. It's a mark of the masculine sexual possessiveness in our male-dominant society. It is not right for society or the media to distort their image."
WOW
 


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Monday, December 12, 2005

I Read This and I Cry...Then I Want to Break Things

The title above--and below--is all the introduction this editorial from The New York Times needs.
Editorial

Death of an American City

We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan to let the city rot until no one is willing to move back or honest paralysis over difficult questions, the moment is upon us when a major American city will die, leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum.

We said this wouldn't happen. President Bush said it wouldn't happen. He stood in Jackson Square and said, "There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans." But it has been over three months since Hurricane Katrina struck and the city is in complete shambles.

There are many unanswered questions that will take years to work out, but one is make-or-break and needs to be dealt with immediately. It all boils down to the levee system. People will clear garbage, live in tents, work their fingers to the bone to reclaim homes and lives, but not if they don't believe they will be protected by more than patches to the same old system that failed during the deadly storm. Homeowners, businesses and insurance companies all need a commitment before they will stake their futures on the city.

At this moment the reconstruction is a rudderless ship. There is no effective leadership that we can identify. How many people could even name the president's liaison for the reconstruction effort, Donald Powell? Lawmakers need to understand that for New Orleans the words "pending in Congress" are a death warrant requiring no signature.

The rumbling from Washington that the proposed cost of better levees is too much has grown louder. Pretending we are going to do the necessary work eventually, while stalling until the next hurricane season is upon us, is dishonest and cowardly. Unless some clear, quick commitments are made, the displaced will have no choice but to sink roots in the alien communities where they landed.

The price tag for protection against a Category 5 hurricane, which would involve not just stronger and higher levees but also new drainage canals and environmental restoration, would very likely run to well over $32 billion. That is a lot of money. But that starting point represents just 1.2 percent of this year's estimated $2.6 trillion in federal spending, which actually overstates the case, since the cost would be spread over many years. And it is barely one-third the cost of the $95 billion in tax cuts passed just last week by the House of Representatives.

Total allocations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror have topped $300 billion. All that money has been appropriated as the cost of protecting the nation from terrorist attacks. But what was the worst possible case we fought to prevent?

Losing a major American city.

"We'll not just rebuild, we'll build higher and better," President Bush said that night in September. Our feeling, strongly, is that he was right and should keep to his word. We in New York remember well what it was like for the country to rally around our city in a desperate hour. New York survived and has flourished. New Orleans can too.

Of course, New Orleans's local and state officials must do their part as well, and demonstrate the political and practical will to rebuild the city efficiently and responsibly. They must, as quickly as possible, produce a comprehensive plan for putting New Orleans back together. Which schools will be rebuilt and which will be absorbed? Which neighborhoods will be shored up? Where will the roads go? What about electricity and water lines? So far, local and state officials have been derelict at producing anything that comes close to a coherent plan. That is unacceptable.

The city must rise to the occasion. But it will not have that opportunity without the levees, and only the office of the president is strong enough to goad Congress to take swift action. Only his voice is loud enough to call people home and convince them that commitments will be met.

Maybe America does not want to rebuild New Orleans. Maybe we have decided that the deficits are too large and the money too scarce, and that it is better just to look the other way until the city withers and disappears. If that is truly the case, then it is incumbent on President Bush and Congress to admit it, and organize a real plan to help the dislocated residents resettle into new homes. The communities that opened their hearts to the Katrina refugees need to know that their short-term act of charity has turned into a permanent commitment.

If the rest of the nation has decided it is too expensive to give the people of New Orleans a chance at renewal, we have to tell them so. We must tell them we spent our rainy-day fund on a costly stalemate in Iraq, that we gave it away in tax cuts for wealthy families and shareholders. We must tell them America is too broke and too weak to rebuild one of its great cities.

Our nation would then look like a feeble giant indeed. But whether we admit it or not, this is our choice to make. We decide whether New Orleans lives or dies.
The New York Times
 


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If Only Zhao Yan Could Read This...

With all of the distractions in my life and work of late, please forgive me for not posting the short article below sooner. It is from The New York Times and regular readers of these pages will understand that it needs no comment from me.
Press Group Hails Jailed Chinese Journalist

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: December 8, 2005

PARIS, Dec. 7 - Zhao Yan, a researcher for the Beijing bureau of The New York Times who has been imprisoned in China for more than a year, was named journalist of the year on Wednesday by the international press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders.

Mr. Zhao, 43, was arrested in Shanghai on Sept. 17, 2004, and accused of leaking state secrets to The Times. He is being held in Beijing and has not yet had a court hearing.

The accusation, which Mr. Zhao and The Times deny, came 10 days after the publication of an article in The Times saying that Jiang Zemin, the former president, had offered to give up his last leadership position. Mr. Jiang retired on Sept. 19. The Times has denied that Mr. Zhao provided that information.

When President Bush visited China in November, Mr. Zhao was included in a list of human rights cases that were considered of particular concern to the United States.

In its citation about the choice of Mr. Zhao for the award, Reporters Without Borders said, "As a journalist engaged in denouncing corruption in rural areas, Zhao Yan was the ideal victim for the secret services."
The New York Times
 


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Saturday, December 03, 2005

Bosco's Acting Goes Down in Cloud of Black, Oily Smoke


Not being able to breathe is scary, folks. At the moment, I am able to do so relatively well due to a mixture of medicines and some pretty good doctoring. So what's the story, you ask?

A week ago, while shooting a TV series on location in a rather remote part of Hainan, we needed some visual effects for a riot scene. Easy enough--soak old tires in gasoline and set 'em ablaze! Looked great. Unfortunately, it also created some very toxic smoke, of which I somehow received the largest dose. That scene happened a week ago Friday.


For the last couple days of shooting, I spent my time in a hospital on oxygen and IV drips until I was needed on set, then I would go back to the hospital. It was not how I wanted to end the series and our week in beautiful Hainan Dao. But, we got it done.

I returned to Beijing early Wednesday morning and have been receiving treatment for toxic smoke poisoning at one of China's best hospitals. I will recover completely within three months, I am told. I have gone back to teaching because I could not miss any more classes with only six weeks to go in the semester.

The 20-episode series, titled, "China's Peacekeeping Police," will begin airing on CCTV 1 sometime in March, 5 nights a week for 4 weeks during "Golden Time," 8:00 p.m. While
the experience ended painfully, I am still thrilled and quite proud of being a part of it. I created a character very unlike myself--which is what an actor most wants to do. And keep breathing, of course.



Photographs by Ellen Sander
 


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