tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post5730274308085456340..comments2024-03-08T23:02:52.735-06:00Comments on Little Blog In The Big Woods: surfacing-Greenpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-18058242166263717652010-05-26T12:54:51.776-05:002010-05-26T12:54:51.776-05:00Greenpa, if you have not yet read _Wild Swans: Thr...Greenpa, if you have not yet read _Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China_ by Jung Chang, I highly recommend it. Amazing story of three generations of Chinese women. IMHO, it should be required reading in every high school. <br /><br />Hope you are feeling better and getting ready to update us on the guinea hens -- I've been waiting and waiting and waiting . . . :-)gaias daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625781455690205927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-37441558427864801192010-05-08T20:21:57.052-05:002010-05-08T20:21:57.052-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-50305524919570339972010-04-27T13:58:40.521-05:002010-04-27T13:58:40.521-05:00I'll have to check that book out. I just want...I'll have to check that book out. I just want to add that 1950 was by no means the end of hell on earth in China. The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution were at least as horrifying as the proceeding events for much of the population. 50 million people starved to death the the GLF, and the cultural revolution gave the entire nation collective PTSD.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067226771601654605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-90276265675304278982010-04-22T09:56:43.939-05:002010-04-22T09:56:43.939-05:00Thank you, sir, and glad you're better.
I'...Thank you, sir, and glad you're better.<br /><br />I'm increasingly aware I will be one of the grannies in that last quote ... pandemic triage rules known to emergency personnel already have been written to exclude first eighty-year-olds and over, then sixty-year-olds and over from certain services. So I am trying to make my contribution now while I can, mostly by planting and encouraging fruit trees.Doyu Shoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148504542232844586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-9125772648439655992010-04-21T14:57:07.898-05:002010-04-21T14:57:07.898-05:00You with a lobotomy still exceeds 97% of the popul...You with a lobotomy still exceeds 97% of the population. <br /><br />Glad to know you're feeling better though!CuriousNomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00470281001601298788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-1490951522976453232010-04-19T20:57:09.629-05:002010-04-19T20:57:09.629-05:00Ack! Katherine Hepburn as a Chinese peasant? Gla...Ack! Katherine Hepburn as a Chinese peasant? Glad I missed the movie ;).<br /><br />Don't worry. I wouldn't think that Ms. Buck had it all down pat. It's just that for fiction, hers are the only books I've read. I did read River Town: Two years on the Yangtze, which was written by an American Peace Corps worker/teacher who lived in China for two years. Interesting. <br /><br />Thanks for the suggestions, and I agree that we could gain some valuable insight ;).Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04642417312794814066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-12517651350769097572010-04-18T10:49:00.426-05:002010-04-18T10:49:00.426-05:00Wendy- sure, Pearl Buck is basic. She does a very...Wendy- sure, Pearl Buck is basic. She does a very good job of translating Chinese emotions and motivations for western minds. But be wary of thinking she's got it all down pat.<br /><br />Nope, haven't read Dragon Seed. Partly because I accidentally watched the movie, with Katherine Hepburn playing the Chinese protagonist. Just too weird! I figure that would be highly distracting, while reading the original.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-45374531747347293622010-04-17T21:36:20.741-05:002010-04-17T21:36:20.741-05:00Have you read anything by Pearl S. Buck? Based on...Have you read anything by Pearl S. Buck? Based on your knowledge of Chinese history how accurate do you think her novels are in describing Chinese culture during that tumultous periods? In particular, I wonder if you've read <i>Dragon Seed</i>?<br /><br />I've found a lot of war-time (particularly WWII) memoirs, histories and novels to be particularly helpful in giving me some insight into what kinds of thing we might end up having to endure. <br /><br />But it's always really hard while I reading to think that this may be our fate.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04642417312794814066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-6467368715888923062010-04-17T07:22:40.459-05:002010-04-17T07:22:40.459-05:00Thanks for this. A valuable insight into what make...Thanks for this. A valuable insight into what makes China tick. With that kind of history one begins to understand in a small way where they are coming from. This is a country where they have had to make very hard choices, and continue to do so with or without "our approval".<br /><br />Hope you are all healthy soon!Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787701515460812026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-18757108932457198532010-04-17T00:14:33.298-05:002010-04-17T00:14:33.298-05:00Hope you start feeling like you're on a diet s...Hope you start feeling like you're on a diet soon :) Gotta shed that weight and lethargy somehow!<br /><br />Had a similar sort of bug go through here last year - very miserable and depressing.<br />I might add - it tended to recur rather more than I felt was strictly necessary, but each bout was less than the last.<br /><br />I think it finally left home around Christmas. Maybe it didn't appreciate our wonderful food :)<br /><br />viv in nzknutty knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00325560883289908412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-79035250036742433102010-04-16T18:59:26.450-05:002010-04-16T18:59:26.450-05:00Sounds like food poisoning or a real nasty virus. ...Sounds like food poisoning or a real nasty virus. I hope you are all better soon.Sparklesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806553694200529082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-74217076694422199752010-04-16T17:35:39.495-05:002010-04-16T17:35:39.495-05:00Have to confess I was not thinking about it at the...Have to confess I was not thinking about it at the time. :-)<br /><br />I just added another quote from the book- a hard one.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703718837080088488.post-366218856475448682010-04-16T17:28:09.541-05:002010-04-16T17:28:09.541-05:00Well, it may just be that you were meant to get si...Well, it may just be that you were meant to get sick enough to reach for your book larder and bring this message to us in these frightening times! Did you think of that while you were giving homage to the porcelain god? Did you? Did you? There are higher minds at work here, and they needed your insight. Thank you, so much, for sharing this wonderful book. Gonna go check for it on Guggenheim...Sharlene T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08520928982756928527noreply@blogger.com