Comments on: Teng Biao: To my wife, from jail http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/ An online forum with a focus on China Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Easternity » Blog Archive » An Imagination Carnival through Asia http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-537 Easternity » Blog Archive » An Imagination Carnival through Asia Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:32:51 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-537 [...] over 600 tombs In recognition of the scholar Hu Jia being imprisoned, his friend Teng Biao wrote a poem that has been translated. In all, more than 38 writers and scholars have been imprisoned. (via [...] [...] over 600 tombs In recognition of the scholar Hu Jia being imprisoned, his friend Teng Biao wrote a poem that has been translated. In all, more than 38 writers and scholars have been imprisoned. (via [...]

]]> By: Donald Duck Wakes Up In Beijing « Under the Jacaranda Tree http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-489 Donald Duck Wakes Up In Beijing « Under the Jacaranda Tree Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:35:17 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-489 [...] his friend Teng Biao http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/, the time is ripe to change that [...] [...] his friend Teng Biao http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/, the time is ripe to change that [...]

]]> By: China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today | Opportunities for Life http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-466 China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today | Opportunities for Life Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:35:05 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-466 [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...] [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-465 Global Voices Online » China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:04:19 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-465 [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...] [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...]

]]> By: China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today at Global Voices Advocacy http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-464 China: Hu Jia to be sentenced today at Global Voices Advocacy Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:58:45 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-464 [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...] [...] a poem from Hu-Zeng friend Teng Biao, written in prison after he himself was kidnapped for two days early [...]

]]> By: Adriana http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-463 Adriana Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:32:38 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-463 It is so beautiful that any comments are superfluous. No words suffice. It is so beautiful that any comments are superfluous.

No words suffice.

]]> By: Ned Kelly http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-455 Ned Kelly Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:46:32 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-455 Now as I re-read this poem the next day, I remember that the reason why we curse is because blessings would be cheapened otherwise. The cheap standard in "Alice in Wonderland", to say "all must have prizes", is irrational, untruthful and corrupt in the real world. The truth is, that some men really do deserve prizes, and some men really do deserve prison and death. But as we can see, in today's China, those who deserve prizes are in prison, and those who deserve prison and death are walking about, raking in money and luxuriating in warm baths of prestige, flattery, praise and many other morally corrupting and corroding elements. And not all of them are Chinese; the most condemnable ones are the Western expatriates-in-China who aid and abet the moral imbecility of China's Olympics. Equally as I bow to Teng Biao, in the spirit of Justice, I piss on the Olympic Torch. Now as I re-read this poem the next day, I remember that the reason why we curse is because blessings would be cheapened otherwise.

The cheap standard in “Alice in Wonderland”, to say “all must have prizes”, is irrational, untruthful and corrupt in the real world. The truth is, that some men really do deserve prizes, and some men really do deserve prison and death.

But as we can see, in today’s China, those who deserve prizes are in prison, and those who deserve prison and death are walking about, raking in money and luxuriating in warm baths of prestige, flattery, praise and many other morally corrupting and corroding elements. And not all of them are Chinese; the most condemnable ones are the Western expatriates-in-China who aid and abet the moral imbecility of China’s Olympics.

Equally as I bow to Teng Biao, in the spirit of Justice, I piss on the Olympic Torch.

]]> By: Ned Kelly http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-454 Ned Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:42:21 +0000 http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/teng-biao-to-my-wife-from-jail/#comment-454 As my Lady, my great Love (and my co-blogger) Catherine's first language is not English - as mine is - she asked me to assist in polishing her translation of Teng Biao's poem from Chinese into English. While I was reading Catherine's translation of Teng Biao's poem in English, my jaw dropped in astonishment, and I said to Catherine, "I like this man, very much. This man, Teng Biao, is is a far better poet AND A BETTER MAN than I can ever hope to be." Mr Teng Biao, I bow deeply to you, with all the humility I can muster. As my Lady, my great Love (and my co-blogger) Catherine’s first language is not English – as mine is – she asked me to assist in polishing her translation of Teng Biao’s poem from Chinese into English.

While I was reading Catherine’s translation of Teng Biao’s poem in English, my jaw dropped in astonishment, and I said to Catherine, “I like this man, very much. This man, Teng Biao, is is a far better poet AND A BETTER MAN than I can ever hope to be.”

Mr Teng Biao, I bow deeply to you, with all the humility I can muster.

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