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Letters and Blogs
Updated: 2007-07-25 07:12
Bright sparks
Comments on "Should Beida recruit more recommended students?" (China
Daily website, July 9)
It is unfair. Maybe the recommended students are more talented than the
exam-takers, but we should remember that the university entrance exam is
an effective way for people to get access to high-quality education. We
spare no effort to prepare for the exam, so we should all be treated
equally.
Zhumaomao
On China Daily website
The door to success is open to all and if you are outstanding you will
succeed no matter what.
The recommended students are always very diligent and have excellent
academic records, so it's quite understandable for PKU to want to enroll
more of them.
As we know, PKU enrolls students through recommendation not only from
itself, but also from other prestigious universities.
On the other hand, PKU and other prestigious universities still provide
opportunities for students through fair competition. No system is
perfect, so just be confident about yourself. If you are talented and
enterprising you will be selected by a top university eventually.
iceflames
On China Daily website
Peking University belongs to our nation. So its doors should be open to
all students.
Even outstanding students should take the entrance exam.
Lxy
On China Daily website
A fresh look
Comments on Li Xing's column "Rethinking the 'Made in China' label"
(China Daily, July 19)
I read Li's article "Made in China" with great interest. I am a South
African living in London who happens to be Chinese. I am also a mum, an
optometrist and company director.
While growing up in South Africa, "Made in China" always stimulated great
pride and excitement among the Chinese folk without regard to quality or
hard labor associations. Anything to do with China was considered an
achievement as the small community of Chinese there did their utmost to
instill a sense of pride in their young and retain the key tenets of
their cultural heritage. According to my parents, Chinese never divorced
and every single one was strictly heterosexual!
Needless to say in a country dominated by non-Chinese, not only did we
youngsters feel like we were the oddest looking lot in the world, we were
desperate to belong and a large majority of us ended up completely
rebelling and a casualty of our inability to speak Chinese fluently. So
we have a group of Afrikaans, English and occasionally Zulu or
Xhosa-speaking Chinese South Africans who know more about rugby and
barbecues than they do about the yuan.
But life goes in circles and now I have seen some of the world I realize
that while I am everything South African, my interest in China has
perhaps finally come home albeit via a rather circuitous route.
Vanessa Ho-Yan (Chan Siu May)
Via e-mail
Authors like Sara Bongiorni will continue to be endorsed, just because of
the Western world's fear that "China will take over".
Little do they understand about China or the Chinese. It is just strange
to them. Nor is the Western world interested to really know about China,
and that is the problem.
The Western businessmen traveling there - myself being one of them - have
mixed feelings.
They are at the discretion of Chinese complexity. Looking through a
"Western" pair of glasses does not help.
Cristian Stefan, Toronto, Canada
Via e-mail
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(China Daily 07/25/2007 page11)
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