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Mao had to admit his peasant movement as "scoundrel movement" in the name of revolution to defuse the rhetoric of "lie down to be a man". In essence, Mao's genre reflects what Lu Xun described "peasant-style cunning". I once remarked that if Lu Xun had lived today he would have been arrested for the dissident-like sarcastic work by communist regime when I was in exile in Los Angeles during 1990's.

With regard to moral courage being responsible for the civilization and history, there has been lack of manliness in China since the takeover by communist regime. To my puzzlement, Comrade Li, Xiao-ling, the daughter of the former prime minister Li, Peng, dare to present the motion to set up citizen's moral archive, which give me the courage to ask some question: 1. how much overseas asset does she own? 2. how much vest-interests have she and her in-law family acquired across Taiwan Strait since the bloody crackdown of "June 4" student movement at Tian-An-Men Square? 3.how much conflicts of interests has she averted? Currently she has become the head sheep of aristocratic-bureaucratic entrepreneur.

The difference in quality of life between metropolitan area and countryside in the west like US and Switzerland has become indistinct. I found "the village in the downtown area" in Hangzhou in that some domestic avian workshop was located among concrete buildings last summer. My grandparents once built independent house there and the original residence was forced to be transformed into apartment ghetto(without elevator) in which my father lives currently, nearby one of my grandparents' friends , Mr.Yu, Da-fu, the famous writer in China , used to live there.

The difference of Internet speed especially that of cellular network between China, Canada, and Japan, South Korea is highly significant. Even recently China's CCTV still boasts there is availability for villagers to use the landline phone in some countryside, let me speak out the fact that there was telephone service inside the house built by my grandparents in 1920's. By the way, the marriage of my grandparents was done through newspaper anouncement during the new culture movement, nevertheless the first case of the likewise began to appear in the 1980's after the communists presided over China.

With regard to endangered virtue in the free society, Prof. William Damon of Stanford University points out lack of honest and integrity can be a lethal threat to any democracy. Who are afraid of the truth? Who are afraid of being responsible for the lagging behind of modern civilization concept?