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Nr. 40 Vinter 2008 NR. 40 VINTER 2008 © Ellen Bangsbo KINABLADET NR. 40 VINTER 2009 KINABLADET KINABLADET NR. 40 udgives af Dansk-Kinesisk Forening og udkom- mer fire gange om året (marts, juni, september Tema: Tibet ......................................................................... 4 og december). Foreningens medlemmer får bla- Dondrup Gyal: Tibetansk digt, oversat af Ellen Bangsbo ............ 3 det tilsendt gratis. Et årsabonnement på bladet Kinesisk hvidbog: Kinas syn på Tibets kultur ............................. 5 uden medlemskab koster 200 kr. Flemming Ytzen: Kritik af Kinas Tibet-politik ..............................6 Kinabladet er medlem af Trine Brox: Beijings Tibet-problem ............................................ 7 Foreningen af Danske Kulturtidsskrifter. Xujyn Eberlein: Tibet på internet og i medierne ......................... 8 Flemming Poulsen: Lhasa 14. marts 2008 ................................10 Dansk-Kinesisk Forening er af Københavns Anders Højmark Andersen: Kampen om medierne ..................12 kommune godkendt som en folkeoplysende Amnestyleder i Deadline: Det vi ved er, at ..............................15 forening. Ellen Bangsbo: Tibets kultur mellem tradition og fornyelse .......17 Susan Aagaard Petersen: Mødet med Tibet og tibetanerne ..... ..21 Redaktion: Flemming Poulsen (ansvarshavende) Fresiavej 3, 3450 Allerød. Tlf. 4817 4409 Kinas udvikling og udfordring ........................................... 25 E-mail: [email protected] Hanna Leanderdal om kunstneren Yang Fudongs værker Mads Holst Jensen, Anette Kruse, Hanna Liv Lykken findes i byerne – måske ......................................... 26 Leanderdal, Jette Mechlenburg, Signe Over- Cecilia Milwertz om migrantkvinders og skæbne gaard Ptaszynski, Claus Seiden, Henrik Strube, Flemming Ytzen. Kina forandres ikke på én dag ........................................... 28 Layout: Torsten Valeur Jørgen Delman om eksempler på forvandlinger Kalligrafi: Lan Wang Valeur Et kig ind i det moderne Kina ............................................ 30 Jette Mechlenburg har besøgt en storslået udstilling i London DANSK-KINESISK FORENING blev stiftet 25. januar 1999. Dens formål er at Frivillige hjalp katastrofens ofre ........................................ 32 være samlingssted for alle med interesse for Ma Jisen om ngo’ernes ulovlige, men prisværdige indsats Kina samt at formidle oplysning om Kina. Jordskælvet en lærestreg for Kina ...................................... 34 Vedtægter, indmeldelse og abonnements- Bai Xu og Zhang Chongfang om prisen, der var alt for høj tegning ved henvendelse til sekretæren. Jordskælvet gav pressefrihed ............................................. 35 Hjemmeside: www.dansk-kinesisk.dk Kinesiske journalister trodsede censuren Formand: Jette Mechlenburg Kina og menneskerettighederne ........................................ 36 Kolding Landevej 43, 7000 Fredericia Hatla Thelle gør status efter OL Tlf. 7594 0495 Nye uroligheder i Xinjiang-provinsen ............................... 38 e-mail: [email protected] Henriette Kristensen om baggrunden for konflikten Sekretær og kasserer: Lene Løgstrup Sprog, kultur og Business .................................................. 41 Engelholmvej 15, 2700 Brønshøj Jette Mechlenburg om kinesisk negot.-studium Tlf. 6114 3340. Dansk-Kinesisk sproginstitut i København ......................... 44 E-mail: [email protected] Interview med lederen, professor Verner Worm Danske Bank 1551 1683 0593 Fin håndsrækning, men imponerer ikke ............................ 46 Hanna Leanderdal om ny Beijing-guide Bogsalg og leje af skolekasser: Gudrun Lindhard, Istedgade 27, 1.tv., Hakkaerne og deres runde huse ........................................ 47 1650 København V. Tlf. 3325 6262 Henrik Strube om Kinas nye kulturarv E-mail: [email protected] Fire boganmeldelser ....................................................51-55 Mødegruppen: Månefesten – et symbol på sammenhold .......................... 56 Kjeld A. Larsen og Helle Willum Jensen Kinesernes næstvigtigste festdag fejret i København E-mail: [email protected] Shenghuo richang ............................................................. 58 Medlemskontingent: Claus Seiden om begivenheder i kinesernes hverdag Enkeltmedlemmer .......................... 230 kr Parmedlemmer ............................... 290 kr. Arrangementer ........................................................ Bagsiden Pensionister og studerende ...............140 kr. Forsiden Pensionistpar .................................. 195 kr. En statue i Tibet af en Maitreya, en kommende Buddha. Statuer lavet i bronze eller Kollektivt medlemskab .................... 345 kr. messing, dekoreret med bladguld, ansigtet malet af tibetansk kunstner. Fremstilling ISSN 1600-1273 af statuer er et af de få erhverv, der stadig benytter tibetanske kunstnere. De er nyere dato, de oprindelige blev ødelagt under Kulturrevolutionen. Læs artiklen om Tryk: Birkerød Bogtryk Tibets kultur mellem tradition og fornyelse. (Foto: Ellen Bangsbo). 2 KINABLADET NR. 40 VINTER 2009 BRuSENDE vandfALD Digt af Dondrup Gyal, tibetansk forfatter (1953–1985) Dondrup Gyal var en tibetansk forfatter fra Amdo i Østtibet. Som pioner inden for tibetansk skønlitteratur har hans værker i begyndelsen af 1980’erne spillet en banebrydende rolle for udviklingen af moderne tibetansk litteratur. Hans forfatterskab omfatter både poesi og prosa, forskning, essays og oversættelser. Et af Dondrup Gyals kendteste værker er „Lang tsho’i rbab chu” (The Waterfall of Youth). Brusende vandfald Du er historiens vidne og fremtidens vejleder I hver af dine sølvklare dråber er indskrevet Tibet, sneens lands storhed og fald I hver af dine bitte funklende vanddråber samles ebbe og flod fra de kolde sneklædte regioner (Oversat fra tibetansk til engelsk af Riika J. Virtanen, fra engelsk til dansk af Ellen Bangsbo). Billedet: Sang-chu floden i Amdo (Tibet) med Sangke græsland i baggrunden (Foto: Ellen Bangsbo) 3 KINABLADET NR. 40 VINTER 2009 åRETS TEMA: TIBET Kina var i 2008 skueplads for tre sto- til OL og gav i nogle lande stødet til stadig diskuterede spørgsmål, om re begivenheder af historisk række- en diskussion blandt politikere om den kinesiske hærs indtog i Tibet i vidde: Jordskælvet i Sichuan-provin- betimeligheden af at overvære åbnin- 1950 var en befrielse af et slavesam- sen, der kostede 88.000 mennesker gen af Legene. Tibet-konflikten vil gi- fund eller en besættelse af et uafhæn- livet og kvæstede 375.000, blodige vetvis dukke op igen og igen. Vi har gigt land. Konflikten mellem Kina og uroligheder i Tibet, de værste i næ- forsøgt at samle noget materiale om det landflygtige åndelige overhoved, sten tyve år, og den begivenhed, ki- konflikten ud over det dagsaktuelle, Dalai Lama, og hans eksiltibetanere neserne havde ventet på med læng- og vi har især søgt at lade konfliktens har stået på i snart 60 år, en konflikt sel, De Olympiske Lege i Beijing, der forskellige parter komme til orde. der handler om autonomi, om selv- for alvor skulle vise, at Kina er en Men den er ikke tale om en blot stændighed og statslige tilhørsfor- verdensmagt og har befriet sig for for- nogenlunde dækkende fremstilling af hold, ikke ulig konflikter andre steder tidens mange ydmygelser. konflikten, dertiler den for komplice- i verden. Gentagne forhandlinger Vi har valgt at lade Tibet være em- ret. Den har rødder langt tilbage i hi- mellem Dalai Lama og den kinesiske net for årets tema. Verdens søgelys storien og har at gøre med stormagts- regering har indtil nu været resultat- var rettet mod Kina på grund af de politik, med religiøse, økonomiske, løse, men konflikten er der og kræver forestående Olympiske Lege, men de politiske og kulturelle interesser. Den sin løsning før eller siden. blodige optøjer i Tibet den 14. marts rummer Vestens og Kinas forskellige 2008 overskyggede forberedelserne syn på menneskerettigheder og det Redaktionen Den Olympiske Fakkel nåede Paris den 7. apil 2008 på sin vej rundt om verden som optakt til De Olympiske Lege i Beijing. Men turen blev ikke det triumftog, som de kinesiske arrangører havde håbet på. I Paris forsøgte aktivister fra organisationen „Et Frit Tibet“ at erobre faklen fra pigen i kørestolen, den 27-årige Jin Jing, her fotograferet i nærheden af Eiffeltårnet, mens en aktivist med et tibetansk flag i hænderne forsøger at standse faklens 80 kilometer lange tur gennem Paris. Jin Jing fik en heltemodtagelse, da hun vendte hjem til Bei- jing fra Paris. Kinesiske bloggere kaldte hende „Den smilende engel i kørestol“. Hun deltog i Handicap-OL 2008 i Beijing som medlem af det kinesiske fægterhold. (Foto: Scanpix). 4 KINABLADET NR. 40 VINTER 2009 kinas SYN På TIBETS KuLTuR KINESISK HVIDBOG OM DEN „SKINNENDE PERLE“ Tibetansk kultur har i århund- alle niveauer skulle lægge vægt på Moderniseringer reder været tibetanernes at undervise i og at bruge tibetansk Siden den fredelige befrielse i 1951 sprog og forbedre undervisningen i er ikke blot den fine traditionelle ti- „åndelige søjle“, hedder det i tibetansk. Et tosproget undervisnings- betanske kultur blevet bevaret, be- en hvidbog, som den kinesi- system blev indført over alt i Tibets skyttet og udviklet, sideløbende med undervisningssektor med undervis- en indsats for modernisering, men ske regering udsendte den ning i tibetansk som første prioritet. også moderne videnskabelige, ud- 25. september 2008. Den Ved optagelsesprøver til højere læ- dannelsesmæssige, journalistiske og skal give verdenssamfundet reanstalter og erhvervsskoler er tibe- kulturelle
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