Media and Culture in Contemporary China

I watched the movie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress last weekend. Here is the info of it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balzac_and_the_Little_Chinese_Seamstress

It is a light movie on the heavy subject of Cultural Revolution. Yes, there is a love story but not the main point of the movie, personally speaking. It is available on netflix if you are interested.

The movie makes me think about my parents who were sent to country side to be re-educated, who never initated a conversation on the topic. What did they go through during that time? How will their lives be if they weren't sent to the country?

I had a good time watching the movie. I hope you will enjoy it too.

Qin
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The small island of the Maldives is a source of contention between China and India. India sees China's establishment of an embassy Male, the capital of the Maldives, as an intrusion into India's regional sovereignty. India is as determined to protect itself from any perceived or manifested challenge to its regional power. Since the Maldives is several miles off the coast of India, Indian officials have no compunction about informing Chinese officials of India's leadership and willingness to protect its interests in the SARC.
The Maldives is said to have a population of 400,000 (?) and many Chinese tourists visit this island in recent years - before it becomes an underwater paradise.
China, on the other hand, wants to protect its borders and establish relationships with non-neighboring countries in the Far east, Southeast Asia in its bid to be the dominant economic and political force in the region.

Congressional leaders say China is engaged in economic espionage on a scale never seen before.
Hundreds of cyber attacks targeting U.S. companies and government agencies occur at any given moment and the
"...U.S. is hemorrhaging economic espionage to the tune of $250 billion."

One such (unsuccessful) attack targeted the mainframe of the White House and its web site.

Call 2009 "The Year of the Chinese Hack", "...a Chinese spy at Ford Motor Company downloaded thousands of files on hybrid engine design and gave them to the Chinese government, and a cyber attack traced to China allegedly stole design secrets to a U.S. stealth fighter jet."

In late 2009, China-based hackers infiltrated Google's computers and looked at the email accounts of human rights activists.
At the same time, twenty-nine (29) "...other companies were hit, including Dow Chemical, Yahoo and Morgan Stanley", sources say.

China's recent hack into the Chamber of Commerce is part of a continuing pattern of stealing everything they can. Government experts opine that these hacking episodes over the last decade results in the "hemorraging" of classified government or business data, "...and that's worrying," Clarke said.
In addition the recent downing of a high-tech drone by Iran's military, puts America's new military technology secrets at risk.
Continued Chinese hacking could lead to "...the greatest transfer of wealth through theft and priacy in the history of the world and we are on the losing end of it," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island."
"This is a national, long-term strategic threat to the United States of America. This is an issue where a failure is not an option," said Robert Bryant at the National Counterintelligence Executive.
The Chinese, of course, have denied it all.