18 | Friday, June 12, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY LIFE A time to heal old wounds of racial inequality in the world
The death of George Floyd, a parts of the world. for instance, has been overlooked should now support the movement education on racial equality in skin color. In films from the conti 46yearold black man, in police Black people are of African or for long. for racial equality. schools in different countries. nent, the female lead is often of custody in Minnesota on May 25 aboriginal lineage. Our common The role of society is central in Prince Spells, an American pho In Floyd’s case, a white former light skin. Apps that alter skin tone sparked multiracial protests across ancestor, the first human, appeared fighting racism. tographer in Beijing, told me this police officer has been charged with or facial features in photos to con the United States in Africa, research shows. Egypt, US civil rights leader Martin week he would be submitting imag seconddegree murder, and three form to artificial standards are, sad demanding an end among the earliest civilizations, Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice es for a Black Lives Matter online others at the scene with aiding and ly, popular. to racial inequality. flourished there. King, said in a TV interview last art exhibition to be held on Sunday. abetting, according to US media. Koreanpop band BTS showed Protests, solidari Black is also a color. It is com week that people need not be color The advocacy group by the same This is also a time to have a con initiative by announcing a donation ty marches and vig monly viewed as one, like white, blind, Black people want to be iden name as the campaign was founded versation in Asia on the topic of of $1 million to the Black Lives Mat ils were held in although neither is technically tified by their culture, but racism is in the US in 2013. antiBlackness. ter campaign and got their fans to other countries defined as such in physics due to wrong. Spells said his son, who is in ele Incidents of discrimination raise another $1 million. Satarupa such as Germany, the lack of specific wavelengths. Her father’s work behind immi mentary school, does not have the against Black people have been Bhattacharjya Britain, Canada, Outside of science, the color bina gration laws, passed in the 1960s, experience, growing up here, as he reported earlier. A racist advertise Contact the writer at Second Brazil, Australia ry has taken forms of association — had paved the way for people from would — related to his identity (bira ment for laundry detergent was [email protected] Thoughts and Japan. good and bad — enabled by litera elsewhere to settle in the US, some cial) — in the West. But that he taken down. Some top celebrities While the events ture, language and folklore over young Indian Americans and Chi would still talk to the child about have endorsed skinwhitening Online have led to a moment of reckoning centuries, and popular culture in nese Americans pointed out on how he might be perceived by peo products, seemingly without caring Scan the code in the US, they also pried open old the past decades. The use of stereo social media when educating their ple, as a reality check. about the effects on consumers, one to hear an audio wounds of inequality in other typical terms related to the colors, own communities about why they He said there should be more of which correlates beauty with version. Candid camera: Fun with friends Exfishermen try to clean up Yangtze River
HEFEI — Standing on the bow which will also benefit my of the boat, Xiao Lyuying, an descendants,” said Ma. exfisherman on the Yangtze River, Each month, this voluntary skillfully scooped up a plastic bot team patrols 15 km of waterway tle with a fishing net while another thrice, between early morning and boatman steered the boat. late afternoon, collecting trash “The coming flood season will and patrolling to prevent people see a surge in floating trash and we from fishing on the river. are going to enter the busiest time “There are no other fishing of the year,” said 75yearold Xiao. boats besides the ones that collect Xiao is the vicecaptain of a trash now. Declining with the team of volunteers engaged in number of fishing boats is the vol cleaning floating trash from the ume of garbages,” said Xiao. Yangtze River. The team, formed The trash collected by the team in 2019, comprises of more than 50 is sent to the garbage disposal sta local exfishermen aged over 60, tion on the shore, while the recyc on the average. lable waste such as plastic bottles “We have lived along the Yang is sold. tze River since childhood and In over a year, the team of volun want to do our part in protecting it teers grew from 13 members to while we are still hale,” said Xiao over 50. As of now, they have from Qunxin village in the city of cleaned over 50 tonnes of floating Tongling, East China’s Anhui prov waste. ince. Besides garbages in the river, According to Xiao, many fisher the team was also in charge of men chose to join the voluntary cleaning garbage and patrolling team due to their attachment to the Tiemao isle of the village. The the river after coming ashore. isle, with an area of over 2,000 hec Ma Mingsuo, 60, has been fish tares, was once clustered with ing for more than 40 years. He bid crops that local farmers grow. farewell to his fishing boat and Last year, farmers had to cease gear as the waterway, where he farming in the region to restore Chu Siyang (third from left, front), 6yearold daughter of Zheng Jiawei, a member of a poverty alleviation Online used to fish, outlawed fishing for the area to a wetland, in an effort team from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group, plays with her classmates in Yanhe Primary School, Scan the QR code for the protection of finless porpoises to protect the finless porpoises. Yanghu township, Anhui province, on Wednesday. Chu and her father moved from Mengcheng county of subscription or to get a at the beginning of 2019. Despite paying some prices due Anhui province to work in the village three years ago. LIU JUNXI / XINHUA copy of today’s paper. A year later, the Chinese govern to the fishing ban and restoration ment pushed for a 10year fishing plan of the wetlands, local villag ban in 332 key areas of the Yangtze ers deemed the efforts worthwhile River to protect biodiversity in the for the longterm benefit of the country’s longest river. Yangtze River, according to the Upon ending his fishing career, team. Foreign filmmakers can show real story this old fisherman turned to apply “We will continue to protect the his sailing experience to protect Yangtze River until we are too old ing the mother river. to steer the boat as it’s a career By ZHANG LEI new media mobile phone terminals, relationship between bridges and “I have been staying on the boat deserving our time and energy,” [email protected] covering more than 35 million view urban development,” Pashkova says. for nearly my whole life and it’s said Xiao. ers worldwide. Li Shechao, honorary chairman of good that my skill can still be used Despite her years, Huang Huilin, James Su, president of EDI Media, the Overseas Chinese Federation of to clean the garbage in the river, XINHUA 86, a professor at Beijing Normal said as a media that has served the Southern California, says the micro University and president of the US multicultural market for more films render a true image of current Academy for International Commu than 30 years, they have participat Chinese society. nication of Chinese Culture, keeps ed in many international projects Fullerton City Council Member in bringing new energy and a fresh regarding cultural exchanges, and a California Bruce Whitaker gave a approach to promote her cause. project like “Looking China” that positive review of the project. One of her initiatives, “Looking combines youth culture and media “Looking China builds a bridge of China Youth Film Project”, a pro integration is helping them turn to a vitality and hope for young people gram that aims to record the life, wider range of innovative alterna from all over the world, and presents prosperity, antiquity and fashion of tives. a wonderful Chinese culture to the China through the unique perspec According to EDI Media, after the local audience in the United States,” tives of young foreign filmmakers, project landed in North America in he says. has become the academy’s signature Huang Huilin, president of the January over the past six months, it Mayor John Kennedy of Pasade event in an attempt to strengthen Academy for International has gained a warm feedback and a na, also in California, believes the crosscultural communication Communication of Chinese good reputation, which has become microfilms provide a new perspec between Chinese and young foreign Culture. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY another successful case of Chinese tive on China. “I have seen most of ers. culture “going out”. the film and television works Huang says although we have From the feedback of the audi themed in ancient China, but very A river protection worker in Bijie, Guizhou province, scoops up entered the era of globalization, the were filming in big cities such as Bei ence, they pay more attention to the few, like these microfilms, tell the garbage from Daotian River, part of the upper reaches of the image of China portrayed by foreign jing. By now, their works almost cov theme of environmental protection stories and emotion of the contem Yangtze River, on June 3. LUO DAFU / XINHUA news, books, movies and music is a er the country,” Huang says. and traditional art, such as Big Scis porary Chinese ordinary people.” far cry from the real China. Her The annual theme of the project sors Small Scissors. It is filmed in Huang says that “2020 is critical team wants to change it, so they last year was “Moments, Seasons Inner Mongolia in 2019, in which for China’s poverty alleviation poli came up with the idea of inviting and Times”. In the Zi Han chapter of young South Korean director cy, and our theme this year will international youth to observe Chi the Analects of Confucius, Confuci Seenae Choi delves into the daily life divert to the vast rural region’’. na from their own perspective with us, standing on the river bank, of female papercutters and inter “However, in view of the epidem Ming Dynasty tablet their own lens. lamented: thus things pass like this views two grand artists who are ic, this year’s Looking China series The creative practice has been river, flowing unceasingly, day and inspired to promote this particular no longer invites foreign youths to successfully held for nine years. The night. There is a similar Western traditional culture. film in China. Instead, two themes found at Great Wall young foreign filmmakers are proverb: All that passes is like a riv Israeli director Or Itzhak Ben Zri have been set up. First, 20 foreign helped by Chinese volunteers on a er. In a deeper sense, the theme is to hen traces, in his film Eye In The talents who had won awards in the BEIJING — A stone tablet dat tectors of the Huairou section of oneonone basis. Each person com try to make these foreign youths Wild, the footsteps of Ge Yuxiu, a past years are invited to make films ing back to the reign of Emperor the Great Wall have been recruit pletes a 10minute Chinese cultural understand the Chinese dealing photographer and wildlife preserver remotely about China’s countryside. Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1368 ed. During their patrol, they have short documentary. As of 2019, the with culture and life, ecology and who puts much of his effort at the Foreign youths who are now study 1644) has been discovered beside a found 11 cultural relics scattered project had organized 610 young nature, that is, the relationship lakeside of Qinghai Lake to capture ing or working in China can apply section of the Great Wall in Bei around the Great Wall, including people from 60 countries, including between people, nature and the the best moments of Tibetan ante for another 60 spots, in which 40 jing. ancient stone tablets, flagpole slot, the United States, Canada, the Unit world, according to the professor. lopes. will be assigned to international stu The tablet is 55 cm long, 35 cm and stone foundations. ed Kingdom and France. At the end of 2019, the project Connection is a documentary dents in China, and for the rest 20, wide and 10 cm thick, and weighs They are responsible for picking “Chinese culture is multifaceted. came to an agreement with EDI about the bridges in Chongqing, we have reached an agreement with about 50 kg. It was found by a pro up rubbish and dissuading tour We focus on each aspect every year. Media to land the Looking China directed and filmed by Russian Bilibili the online video streaming tector while patrolling along the ists from climbing dangerous For example, in 2014, our theme was works on the five most influential young director Alisa Pashkova. In site. They will select the best quality Xidalou section of the Great Wall parts of the Great Wall. the city, and its people and culture. local ChineseEnglish bilingual TV Chongqing, the “Bridge and Tunnel films from the website’s foreign in Beijing’s suburban district of In May, the Huairou district In 2015, we fixed our eyes on the Chi networks in the US set up by iCiTi Capital”, bridges connect the devel uploaders.” Huairou. institute of cultural heritage pro nese devotion to their country and TV and the US mainstream news opment of the city, and facilitate In addition to the Looking China Researcher Shang Heng of the vided the 131 fulltime patrollers for a better life. In 2016, it was about station CBS’ franchise multimedia people’s travel, and serve as the project, the academy has also pro Beijing Institute of Cultural Heri with mobile data terminals. These ethnic charms. The green ecological official website (KCFJ570.com). inherited combining force for peo duced a series of widely acclaimed tage believes that the inscriptions terminals are enabled with precise culture in 2018 piqued our interest. Among them, iCiTi TV broadcasts ple’s livelihood. cultural works: the novel Legendary on the tablet record a summary of positioning function to assist their In the first few years, the project Looking China films 24 hours a day “Connection highlights the cultur Family of Red Army; and Nine Days, a the construction of a part of the reporting. could only attract a small number of through satellite channels, wireless al gap between older generation and documentary about Deng Xiaoping’s Huairou section of the Great Wall. foreign talents, and most of them channels, cable channels, IPTV and new generation by focusing on the visit to the US in 1979. Since May 2019, fulltime pro XINHUA