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Last year's Nobel prize for literature was won by the Chinese writer and painter Gao Xingjian, whose long novel, Soul Mountain, is now for the first time translated into English. Xingjian survived the Cultural Revolution by burning all his work and undergoing "re- education" in the countryside. The following is a review in the Sunday times of London. click to site, scroll to books, then scroll to Soul Mountain.

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The World According to the US Security Establishment



Challenges to US National Security Remarks by John C. Gannon, Chairman National Intelligence Council ( Asia Times )


China: Labor Rights Violated Despite New Treaty ( Human Rights Watch)



China Responds



China Mood Chillier ( A Financial Times Editorial Comment )


Please, sir, can we have some more? ( Asia Times )


US Human Rights Record in 2000 ( The People's Daily )


Full Text of Premier Zhu's Press Conference ( The People's Daily )


Premier Zhu Meets Former Secretary of State Kissinger. ( The People's Republic )
US ties just fine, says Zhu. ( The South China Morning Post)


One China principle remains pre-condition for settling Taiwan issue says premier. ( China Daily )


China Defense Minister Urges US to Observe Sino-US Joint Communiques ( China Daily )



The View from Tibet



Independence: The right of the Tibetan people. ( Tibetan Bulletin )


The view of Chinese Intellectuals toward the Tibet Question. ( The Government of Tibet in Exile Website )


The Dalai Lama shows no sincerity in talks with government say Chinese. ( China Daily)
Human Rights in Tibet at a glance. ( The Government of Tibet in Exile Website )


Beijimg Employs Religious Strategy in Himalayas. ( Stratfor.comn )



Unhappy Memories



The Opium War: Britain Stole Hong Kong from China ( Serendipity )


The Opium War: Britain's Mastery of the Drug Trade Click on website, scroll down to Ireland, scroll down to Irish History on the Web, click on Irish Famine, and then click on Irish Famine/Genocide Committee and scroll down to title ( ZNet )



Other Views from America


China Needs Protectionism and the Ideas of Friedrich List ( Executive Intelligence Review )


AFP report of arrest of CDP leader after PNTR passage in Senate ( Free China Movement )




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