========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 10:59:27 -0500 Reply-To: NLUO@msvax.mssm.edu Sender: China-Net From: NLUO@msvax.mssm.edu Subject: CCF, September 1, 1993 (#93.01) ==+==+==+== C h i n e s e C o m m u n i t y F o r u m ==+==+==+== Wednesday, September 1, 1993 (Issue No. 93.01) Table of Contents # of Lines =========================================================================== 1. Opening Statement of Chinese Community Forum ................. EBCCF 104 2. Voices from Campuses: a. A Brief report on the current status of the open letter campaign protesting the HIV testing policy of China ........... Bin-Bin Ding 71 b. About the Necessity of Setting up a Presidents' Net among us ........................................... Dongsheng Zhou 75 3. Community and Society: a. CAST Second Annual Convention ............................ Ning Luo 54 4. Windows to China: a. Notes on Some Interesting Points of New Version of CCP History (I) ........................................ Xiaowen Li 90 5. Forecast of the coming issue themes .......................... EBCCF 8 ==========***==========***==========***==========***==========***========== 1. Opening Statement of Chinese Community Forum ................. EBCCF 104 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear China-Net readers: Welcome to Chinese Community Forum (CCF)! CCF is a weekly journal of China-Net dedicated to the exchange of information and ideas related to the affairs in the Chinese student and scholar (CSS) community, Chinese professional (CP) community, and overseas Chinese community at large. Since its foundation in 1989, China-Net has provided the CSS community a network for coordinating organizational activities and for individualized information exchange. Its contributions in promoting the collective self- awareness of the CSS community and in facilitating the development of CSS organizations such as IFCSS are well-recognized. In a sense, China-Net, together with CND, SCC, TPC and CCNL, have formed a major "high-way" system on netland which has become the backbone to link all CSS organizations and individuals together. However, the interest focuses of the community have become much more diversified due to the significant changes in the composition of the community and of the situation in China since 1989. Many students have graduated from school and entered into various professions. It is therefore in demand to form a generic network, playing a similar role of China-Net to CSS organizations in 1989, to facilitate the communication and coordination among CP organizations. Many new students have come from China recently. They have their own unique interests and concerns. Moreover, the division of the Chinese community based upon the point of origins of its members, whether a person is from China mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or other countries, including natively borne, is a historic burden which needs not to be kept any longer. We form a single ethnic group in the country we are living, we share the same cultural heritage, and we are all excited about and want to contribute to the fascinating development of China and the regions where we come from. Our cultural background provides us special advantages in building up the economic, social and cultural bridges across the Pacific Ocean. The task to expand the scope of China-Net, however, cannot be achieved on the traditional unmoderated set-up of net, where the traffic has increased tremendously, and the burden for each user to extract the information specifically useful or interesting to that user has been greatly increased accordingly, even within the boundary of CSS related matters. The usefulness of the net as a whole, therefore, has been diminishing, since it is often how to screen out the irrelevant information rather than how to locate the source of information that determines if a user could utilize the technological advances to acquire useful information expediently in this age of abundant information. Based on above considerations, the China-Net has been reformed by CNMC, its management group (please refer to "Announcement from CNMC" for more details of the overall restructuring of China-Net), and a group of volunteers have formed the Editorial Board of Chinese Community Forum (EBCCF) to serve the reformed China-Net. The goal of CCF is to provide a forum for in-depth discussions on focused themes on all topics related to the Chinese community. The initial format of CCF has been set up as follows: -------------- (1) Theme articles There is a focused theme for each issue. EBCCF will write an Editorial to introduce the background, and the section carries 2-5 articles on the theme. (2) Columns Each issue of CCF will contain some special columns which are permanently or temporarily set up for the frequently discussed topics, such as: . IFCSS communications (discussion on IFCSS issues); . Voices from campuses (by or on students, new or old); . After graduation ("professionals", etc.); . Life in a foreign land (cultural comparison, etc.); . Windows to China (exchange stuff, interesting development in China, revisit the Chinese history, etc.) . Community and society (Chinese community at large and its relation with the mainstream society in a foreign country); (3) Tidbits from netland This is the lump-all collection containing all the contributions selected by EBCCF but not included in the above categories. -------------------- EBCCF will from time to time invite individuals to write on various themes in order to initiate discussions. However, the major portion of CCF is from the net contributions, classified according to their respective contents into the categories in the aforementioned format. The articles published in CCF, except the Editorial, do not necessarily reflect the view of EBCCF. The original author of each article is to be consulted if any questions should arise. The criteria of selections by CCF are the relevance and the informativeness, not the opinion inclination. Contributions to CCF and suggestions on the format, style, and content and theme selection from all members of China-Net are greatly appreciated. Please send them to the working account of China-Net at: net-cord@lab.ultra.nyu.edu Thank you. Sincerely Yours, Editorial Board of Chinese Community Forum [net-cord@lab.ultra.nyu.edu, 9/1/93] ==========***==========***==========***==========***==========***========== 2a. A Brief report on the current status of the open letter campaign protesting the HIV testing policy of China ........... Bin-Bin Ding 71 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The response for this OL has been overwhelming, especially after CND published it (CND-US.93-08-17). We have collected about 834 individuals' signatures from 144 Universities, private companies, government agencies and research institute so far. I want to express my special thanks to people from the the following schools which have more than 40 supporters at each: University of British Columbia, Canada University of Connecticut University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. I am also surprised by the large number of supporters from places other than North America. It's much harder to migrate to those countries. These people put themselves in a much higher risk position than we do if the CG chooses to revenge on those who dare to question on the CG authority. We should call them the brave people. Among the supporters, most people told me that they appreciated our effort and wanted to be one of us. They also offered free help, if it's needed. Many people even wrote a lengthy report of what had happened to them when they were stopped and forced to be tested at the Chinese Airport. They felt ashamed and disgusted. It was extremely hard for those who traveled with foreigners. Their foreign companions waited outside the custom for hours and they could hardly understand this policy. It was also hard for those Chinese nationals to proclaim whether they were proud or shamed of being citizens of this country. Some people told me that they would delay their trip to China until either the policy is canceled or they have obtained foreign passports. Surprising enough, there are opponents to this letter campaign. One reader told me that he would happyly give his blood and smile at those who are doing this on him. He will say "Thank you" after it's done. He didn't quite explain why he would do that. His letter had nothing other than words trying to ignite my anger. One gentleman here at University of New Hampshire told me that he kept neutral on this issue. I could not quite figure out what he meant. Majority of readers keep silent on this issue. I guess this is normal. But I am surprised by the low turn-outs at some highly Chinese populated schools, such as University of Minnesota, Brown University, Boston University, Oregon State, etc, to just name a few. Finally, I urge more people to sign this letter. We will send the OL in Sept.. I am quite sure that we have to fight a few rounds before we reach our goal. Please send you name, address and the University/Company you are with to me through email to me at: binbin@cici.unh.edu or postal mail at: Bin-Bin Ding Global Deforestation Research Group Complex Systems Research Center Morse Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 Phone: (603)862-4961 Fax: (603)862-0188 Sincerely, Bin-Bin Ding PS: You can fetch the Chinese version of the open letter anonymously under pub/ from cici.unh.edu. GB version: aids.uue PostScript version: aids.ps [binbin@cici.unh.edu, 8/30/93] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2b. About the Necessity of Setting up a Presidents' Net among us ........................................... Dongsheng Zhou 75 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the revised version. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear my respectable Chinese Students and Scholars, My name is Dongsheng Zhou, president of CSSA at Oregon State University of 1993-1994 academic year. Here I want to discuss the need in setting up a presidents' net among our Chinese Students and Scholars organizations across the United States. I would like you to either relay this message to your local president or send me his/her e-mail address for me to consult with in joining the net. The net appreciates your help. Above thought was first inspired by the project which Mr. Xushan Fang, president from Texas A&M University, coordinated about 20 days ago. In the project we tried to contact with as many as possible Chinese students and Scholars organizations' presidents and ask them to sign a letter which went to the Chinese Embassy and its various Consulate Generals here in the United States, requesting the government to send some artistic troupes to entertain us during our traditional mid-autumn festival. The purpose in doing this is we observe that our Chinese Students and Scholars love our Chinese traditional arts and are eager in showing to their American friends. If we were able to have any artistic troupe here, our mid-autumn festival should be more colorful and it also would help mutual understanding between our Chinese Students and Scholars and their American communities. Unfortunately, because of lack of contact, we can only gather 13 presidents to join in this wonderful project. I contacted with the Consulate in San Francisco about a week ago, she said that they already read through our proposal but asked us to prepare for the not-coming although they want to do their best. In reviewing the project, we can feel that the connection among our presidents should be set up to gain greater efforts to better serve our local Chinese Students and Scholars communities. What we think about is setting up a presidents' net. Here are some reasons why the net is necessary. 1. We want to monitor actions initiated among Chinese students and scholars. Some groups claim that they are representatives of Chinese students and scholars here in the United States or even around the world. Some groups want to propose projects among the Chinese students and scholars but they do not have contacts with our local students and scholars. The dangerous side for those groups claiming in representing Chinese students and scholars is that sometimes they do not know the real feelings of our local students and scholars. This may lead them to do something irrelevant or even harmful to our local students and scholars' interests. Is it dangerous for them to do anything without knowing our real feelings while claiming as our representatives. Is it necessary for us to set up a net to express our local students and scholars' feelings? 2. As far as I know, most of the Chinese groups here do not like to contact with Chinese government (Embassy, Consulates). But we have to admit that we are from mainland China. We still have many things that need to contact with the government agencies. For example, above Xushan's project, asking the government agencies to send some artistic troupes to entertain us, this the most of the groups are not willing to do. However, if we have good communications among us, we can make a much better effort in pushing the agencies and make them improve their efficiency in serving us, which they claim to be. This also make a net among us necessary. 3. By improving our communication, the net can also help set up activities among organizations on different campus. For example, we can organize campus to campus soccer, basketball or volleyball games. If any student gets a job at a different place after his graduation, the mutual communication between presidents can help him settle down quickly. I would like to ask you to either relay this message to your president or send me an e-mail with your president's e-mail address. I will consult with him/her to join the net. Please e-mail me at zhoud@ece.orst.edu. Any comments welcome. Dongsheng Zhou President Oregon State University 1993-1994 [zhoud@ECE.ORST.EDU, 8/31/93] ==========***==========***==========***==========***==========***========== 3a. CAST Second Annual Convention ............................ Ning Luo 54 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second Annual Convention of Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) was convened on Aug 29, 1993, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. CAST was founded last year. It was mainly initiated by a group Chinese professional around the New York metro area. It now as about 1,000 members from over 20 states and branches in some specialty areas. Nobel Laureate Professor C.N. Yang was among the honored guest speakers at the convention. As many of his lectures, the speech of C.N. Yang was thought-provoking. He recalled the history of scientific and technological development in China since ancient time and its painstaking path to catch the pace of the world in the modern time. He predicted that by next century, China would regain the forefront position in science and technology. Three Chinese officials and some guests from other Chinese organizations were also among the guest speakers and gave congratulations to CAST. There were 31 candidates for the 23 positions in the second term Council. The campaigns were quite serious. It lasted two hours beyond the scheduled time until 2pm. There were some members challenging the openness of the Council's operation and questioning how its work was evaluated. However, there debate was cut short, "due to the time limit", according to the organizers. Four parallel sessions of seminars were offered from 3pm to 5:30pm: Bioscience-pharmaceutical, electrical engineering-communication, chemistry-material sciences, and economic and financial problems in China. I attended the last session, which had the following speakers and topics: 1. Shaoguang Wang (Yale U.): "Socialist Market Economy in China" (The schools of thoughts on the topic and their impacts to the China's economic reform) 2. Qingxin Wang (Princeton U.): "Recent US Trade Policy and Its Implications for Sino-US Trade Relations" (A review) 3. Jia Zhu (Shearman & Sterling): "Public Debt as Social Capital for Chinese Enterprises" (Analysis of the potential of bond market in China) 4. Du Wang (Princeton Scientific Capital Management): "Obstacles between Chinese Entrepreneurs and Private Money" (Misconceptions and pitfalls in seeking of US capital investment by people in China) 5. Nanpeng Shen (Citibank): "Derivatives and Their Potentials in China" (Analysis of potential of derivatives, such as futures, options, swaps, in the financial market of China) 6. Feng Lin (Lehman Brothers): "Property Right and Chinese Economic Reform" The election of the President of CAST for the second term was conducted by the newly elected Council according to revised bylaws. Some CAST members were trying to audit the Council meeting, again based on the revised bylaws. However, they were refused to do so even though they collected some signatures from the members to support their action. The reason cited was that the new version of the bylaws had not been adopted. Dr. Zhang, Qiu, was elected as the new President of CAST. [nluo@msvax.mssm.edu,8/29/93] ==========***==========***==========***==========***==========***========== 4a. Notes on Some Interesting Points of New Version of CCP History (I) ........................................ Xiaowen Li 90 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two years ago, a few young friends started a project to summarize modern Chinese history of the recent 120 years. Since I thought it might be constructive, I accepted their invitation to prepare a chapter. The initiator bought two new books and mailed to me for my reference. The project died later -- everyone was too busy. But the two books are very interesting, and I found a lot of new stuffs in these two books. I hope my findings are interesting and helpful for young friends to understand what really happened, especially what Chairman Mao really did in his struggle to the supreme power in China. The two books are "History of Chinese Communist Party", Vol. 1, edited by the Party History Research Lab of CCP Central Committee, 1991, and "70 Years of CCP", chief editor: Hu Shuen, 1991. In my later text, I'll cite them as "CCP History" and "70 Years" respectively. The translation to English is the best I can do, but only the original in Chinese is authoritative. 1. FuTian Incident (1930) Many young friends may not know anything about FuTian Incident, since usually our history books avoid mentioning it. But in MaoXuan, it was mentioned in a footnote along with AB League, as counter-revolution incident and counter-revolution organization. Even in "70 Years", this incident is only vaguely mentioned in one sentence without mentioning FuTian (p. 116). The "CCP History" has considerable improvement in describing the Incident. From the page 306 to 307, it spent almost two pages on the Incident: "In order to... since early 1930, Party and Red Army in JiangXi started to eliminate counter-revolutionary..... "In the struggle, there were some mistakes of expansion, some comrades were mistakenly killed as AB League members... "In Dec. 1930, Red Army General Frontier Committee (of the 1st Front Army), based on confessions under torture, sent officials into the Red 20th Corps to eliminate ABL. A few leaders of the Red 20th Corps, felt themselves were going to be framed as ABL, ordered the troops to surround the local Soviet government, released all comrades jailed, and proposed wrong slogan which split Red Army. And then the Corps moved to the west side of Gang river. "Xiang Ying, as acting secretary of the CCP Central Bureau, pointed out such action was wrong, but regarded it as in-Party problem, advised the Corps to move back. The 20th Corps obeyed. However, according to CCP Central's instruction in March 1931, the FuTian Incident was defined as ABL counter revolution, almost all officers of the 20th Corps were executed in April and Xang Ying was punished.... "ABL was set up in Autumn 1926, and no longer existed after April 1927... The so-called ABL was a result of severe speculation and torture-for- confession, creating a lot of 'Yuan, Jia, Cuo' cases..." This description basically agrees with other sources, it is an important rehabilitation in official CCP history. However, it is interesting that a careless readers may not note what Mao was doing and where he was during the incident. So a notes is necessary: In 1930, Mao was secretary of the General Frontier Committee, and in charge of the "Elimination Counter-revolution Committee." Xiang Ying rushed to the Soviet region after the incident (Jan 1931) to take charge and was kicked out in March before the massive execution. There was no tiny doubt that Mao was the one responsible for the massive killing of hundreds of comrades, as Zhou Enlai concluded in January 1932. However, at that time, none could exclude the possibility of ABL, so it was only a mistake of "expansion of eliminating ABL", rather than fake-up and murdering. But ABL did not exist at all at that time. ABL was an organization a few high school students set up in fall 1926 and disappeared when the semester was over. CCP tried very hard after 1949 to look for KMT documents of ABL, and of course they could find nothing. So the new edition had to admit the fact that ABL did not exist in 1930. Now, ABL was a totally faked-up, then what was Mao's purpose? The "CCP History" did not mention what was the "wrong slogan which split Red Army". So another notes is needed: It was "Support Zhu (De), Peng (DeHuai), Huang (GongLiu), Against Mao Zedong!" Peng DeHuai was then the commander of the 3rd Group Army which supervised the Red 20th Corps. During the incident, Peng DeHuai's men intercepted Mao's hand-written order to arrest and execute Peng. Peng then questioned Mao, Mao denied he ever wrote that. "It must be ABL faked my hand-writing." Mao said. This is described in Peng's Confession in the CR, published in 1982. The "CCP History" did not mention this, but now there was no ABL - who faked Mao's hand-writing? [lix@crsa.bu.edu, 8/28/93] ==========***==========***==========***==========***==========***========== 5. Forecast of the coming issue themes .......................... EBCCF 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a tentative schedule for the coming issues and their themes: 9/8/93 (# 93.02): Olympic 2000 in Beijing: Pros and cons 9/15/93(# 93.03): IFCSS: Today and tomorrow (I) 9/22/93(# 93.04): ? The EBCCF welcomes contributions to the announced topics in coming issues and invites recommendations for subsequent topics in future issues. 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