Xu returned to China

 Xu Zhiyong: back to
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your impression of China look like? Chat almost every American, I will ask them this question.
North of the city of New Haven in a small river, A construction worker was fishing, said the Great Wall, Chinese restaurants, human rights, the Chinese people are very clever, but the Government is not very good. a once a year living in China for the girls at Yale University, said many Chinese people, personal space is small ; Chinese people are very curious about foreigners, often behind the scenes, said she Liaocheng in Shandong, a college of Americans teaching English in China is full of warm memories, he said, was in the small cities, very few foreigners, a lot of people know him, for he was very friendly. We eat with him steadfastly refused to AA, but insisted on me to dinner, said his students in Liaocheng often invited him to dinner. A study Chinese in China-year-old had been to the little girl says that her time in Shanghai to call a waiter in a restaurant mean, she was surprised to mouth fell open at once.
a Chinese university students to answer me a little uncomfortable. He was born in the United States, parents are people, there is still much work in Shanghai. We in Chicago Airport to sit at a table to eat, the face of black eyes and yellow skin, I always feel a kind of intimacy, he'd be very enthusiastic about China, said he did not expect for your country, I know very little. He After all, Americans, I think, can not blame him for anything. a Chinese girl born in Switzerland, I was very surprised then, she not only speaks fluent Chinese, and can recite large number of Chinese classical poetry, in her own resume said at the beginning, of course, I am Chinese.
a pick me up from New York to New Haven of the drivers complained that the U.S. is full of products made in China, many Americans lost their jobs. He was young, Connecticut There are many small factories, but, later, they were annexed by large enterprises, and then transferred to other countries, especially China. I told him that there are many poor people, social security and good, if they lose their jobs, their could not imagine life, please understand that they need these jobs.
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7 month I spent in New York.
like Times Square to make a watch. to find a street steps to sit down and look under the neon lights downtown pedestrian rush. Manhattan is a fertile land, from the colored people on this planet can take root here, blocks of tall buildings obscure the sky, in this short two hundred years It has created numerous human legend. narrow streets in this side of the foot of the tower, flowing colors of fresh faces. everything in sight, all is so far away. because I'm just a watcher, I do not belong to this land.
like to visit New York's Chinatown. not necessarily to buy anything, but like to stroll. then I really developed a habit, each time passing through New York, if not urgent I always get off, then a special trip to walk around Chinatown.
the first time to find New York's Chinatown is about three days later I went to the United States. New York subway mess it would bully strangers, I did not point out the subway Qing East and West, are anxious to see the distance between the sudden I feel a kind of symbol mm McDonald's, so would like to first talk about it fed.
McDonald's in Beijing feeling as good. unintentionally I looked up and saw the wall the more able to feel this is Chinatown. full of Chinese signs on the street walking black hair and yellow skin almost entirely Chinese, on both sides spread everywhere, selling fruit, vegetables, small daily necessities. shop window on the Miss Chinese election posters U.S. game posters. hotel Erguotou $ 10 a bottle, a bottle of Wuliangye $ 35 (both 750 ml). vegetables most expensive, most expensive to the number of Chinese celery, $ 4 a pound. There is a Sichuan restaurant business is booming, $ 5 a bowl of noodles taste pretty good, is not spicy.
829 anti-Bush march in New York the day before I suddenly want to spend the night here, but can not find the hotel, listening to people say how many small hotels do not have to find to it? nearly 12 points better when the last one took me Hunan, a small hotel, the basement of a small house, 15 dollars a night. was later learned that these Chinese people tend not to open a small hotel hanging signs because it is illegal.
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9 months, the Yale school, this small city's population up more than once. I used to imagine himself enclosed in an English environment, but later found it impractical . Yale Law School China Law Center has a class every Tuesday afternoon, about China's legal reform. Although the classroom is to communicate in English, but this class are those of us visiting scholars an opportunity to get together, we usually find after-school an excuse to eat together, and then stirring to talk with some Chinese.
China, sharing a house down to his name the last word homonym constitutes the is the Bush's firm opposition; Geyun Song is Associate Professor of Peking University School of Law, Civil Law, Yale Law School's LLM students, scholars, highly intelligent gentle. Here, everyone is racing to cooking, washing dishes, sweeping, labor has become a real needs, four people live a happy life like tt doctrine. core Who does not eat is not to face. Of course, the most obsessed with is Professor Wang Liming, School visits. China Law Center who are busy preparing for the distinguished guests. that he was to deliver a public lecture in law school, but the temporary location has changed and reduced the audience speech range, the scene is said to be afraid of human rights organizations protested .
President Xiao Yang about the ongoing judicial reform in China, about the Supreme Court in the judicial specialization, the field of human rights protection efforts made. He said to expect in the next two years to further reform the criminal justice process, hoping to and prosecutors to cooperate to promote the change. U.S. Supreme Court Justice, presided over the lecture Ao Kena, who President Reagan nominated to serve a profound impact on American society woman judge Xiao Yang and discuss their differences in job duties, everyone with warm applause and laughter.
end of the lecture, Professor few insightful questions raised. Siegel, Professor of question is about the court system, Justice Xiao Yang, internal reforms, judicial reform can not be divorced from the situation in China So, how to deal with judicial reform, while the judiciary and other organs of power relations? Xiao Yang about the problems of local protectionism, but obviously his answer is not satisfactory, as the Chinese people judge can not give a satisfactory answer, the presence of people are aware that the core of this issue is the relationship between the judiciary and the party. Jiang Jonathan problem is that the Supreme Court going to do through the judicial protection of constitutional rights. Xiao Yang said, according to Chinese law is the power of interpreting the Constitution NPC Standing Committee, the Supreme Court has no power to interpret the Constitution, can not make judicial review. but there is a trend that more and more important constitutional rights, the constitutional rights of action would appear more and more.
After the speech was a small reception, we continue to exchange, I propose that we are assisting Xiao Yang Chengde Chen Guoqing case, criticized the High Court of Hebei bureaucracy. Maybe he can not remember these things, but in any case, this from a judge Remove Dayan Mao, wearing robes and other details of these seemingly insignificant judicial reform in China started to promote justice deserves my respect.
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New England Maple Leaf red, autumn is a New Haven increase colorful oil paintings, blue sky sculpture-like groups of old stone building is the Yale University.
this fall, Yale held a number of commemorative activities to mark the 150 years ago the first Asian in the Yale graduate. His name is Hong, a Chinese.'m ashamed that after participating in a series of celebrations, I was never much respected the Chinese people have a little understanding.
1847 year, Yung Wing In a teacher under the leadership of the United States aboard a tea merchant shipped off, after 98 days after the sea journey to the United States, in Monson, Massachusetts preparatory school began learning life .1850, the Yung Wing test Ruye Lu University. Yung Wing was wearing a robe
keep long braids into Yale University. He had in his later years, recalled that Chinese youth should have the opportunity to be the education I have been subjected to, and through the Western education, China may be able to regenerate and become civilized and powerful. This goal has been to the cause of my life ambition lies. > Yung Wing returned to China after graduation, 1872 to 1875, he has organized the four batches of 120 Chinese teenagers studying in the U.S., many of these outstanding students in China, wrote a glorious chapter in modern history. In Yung Wing statue inauguration, Vice President of Yale University, said in his speech Luorui Mo, Yung Wing was a very good student, he won the prize for literature in English from Yale, he created a precedent of 150 years of history of the study, through the Bureau of Children Stanford went abroad, strong, he paid a lifetime of effort, but unfortunately, a century ago how desperate China, 73-year-old Yung Wing as reformers wanted by the Qing government. He said, die, as long as a worthy death. month, Professor Friedman invited me to Wisconsin to do a lecture cold. night he let me stay at his house, we talked a lot a lot of China's rural problems. He has lived in rural China for many years, is well aware of the grassroots in China bureaucracy will continue to manufacture and intensify social contradictions, they do not see the recent signs of reform for China's future, he is full of anxiety. Actually, I too worry about, but I still believe that China is changing, a lot of hope that maybe tomorrow will appear. He advised me to drink liquor, said the villagers Ding County persuaded him to drink is such Laobaigan of Hengshui. That night I drank too much, fortunately, did not show too much to control their grief. The next morning, he drove me to the airport. parting, he said, softly, take care, I hope, the future of China will as optimistic as you want.
professor at the Friedman, where I learned that Mr. Liu Binyan had cancer. high school era, literature was the report of Mr. I know a window of their own country. Now, seventy years old, and two months ago just after painful chemotherapy.
hesitated for a long time, I decided to visit the elderly, I can not because of the sensitive political conscience and completely give up (I've given up a lot). the whole afternoon, sir, I am obsessed with listening to him talk about the changes taking place in China. I told him some stories, all these years, more and more affluent people , more and more farmers to the cities, increased awareness of the rights of people, more open society. President fondly recalled home in Beijing, recall the names of the streets near his home. From the fifties, the President is designated sent to t, from 1988 onwards, he never can return to their homeland.
farewell, sir, sent out the door. He said it was strange, the whole afternoon he did not feel any pain. in the back to New Haven Man on the train, I have been thinking, I can do something for the elderly. Perhaps the only thing we can do is, brought him such a happy afternoon.
in the past more than a century, our there are too many national political exile.
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Professor Siegel asked me if I would be willing to extend the duration of residence, he intended to arrange my trip to California in January, I said, I think back. For The teachers, almost no talk about anything this good friend, I am filled with gratitude. but there is a little thing, I never mentioned to him. This is my experience in the United States one of the deepest impression. could it be so small, certainly not remember Professor Heidegger, it is likely that he never knew such a thing happened.
That September day, Professor Siegel invited me to his home. their home The house is located in the back of a small town in eastern New York, New York, where the famous backyard, a large luxury villa nestled in the woods and green space. evening, I Siegel is professor and his two children to watch to learn Chinese movies, movie name is sufferings. the child's father was beaten to death t send the humiliation, the child also has two step-father died at the injustice, and finally the child's mother was sent to prison. One shot is the stepfather of the child was sick, lying at home dying child's mother burst into tears at her bedside.
Professor Siegel 8-year-old son suddenly asked, Why do not they go to the doctor? Siegel Professor of staring at the screen thoughtfully and gently said, in exactly the same areas in Gansu would rather that people living in the Po Yao hole all the belongings is a stove, a broken table and a Tu Kang, Guizhou, a poor mountain village railway broken edge of the housing wall of new anti-drug slogan brush , Hubei and northwest to the village will soon die of AIDS out of a smile in despair, there are many, many, that I have gone through the village, those distant memories of others in this country is even more clear. I gave birth to in such a poor country, poor me, I belong to those suffering.
I know, only the movie tells a history of China, I know, Professor Siegel has no means look down on China, but that is my country, I'm too sensitive for the Chinese, really sensitive. these poor pains me, as unfair as my pain. The poverty and suffering have led me to reflect on the road traveled often, so I kept the pain asked whether their actions are too radical, if it is too weak.
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in people's busy preparing to celebrate Christmas, I figured the day of return. There will a week to Beijing, I have no rest what to do. I know I will Yale beautiful campus nostalgia, nostalgia swept over New Haven green bell, dream-like nostalgia bustling Times Square, nostalgia for nearly half a year I live a comfortable cabin. But the country is the people's , not me, I know that too much sensitive, but I can not get rid of.
came to this country of elections and constitutional issues, and then return to their homeland. I always remember those lost years, it continues the cries of a hundred years. Li insult in Japan. Ji Hongchang sign hanging in the chest, large, modern history is too long so this change must go through a hundred years of suffering over and over again?
Today, the historical memory of those sorrowful long gone. But as a Chinese I do not really get rid of our ancestors self-esteem and sensitivity. I saw the posters on campus posters on human rights in China, when someone asked me how the election was conducted in China, no matter how good they are, I feel deeply hurt by. < br> back to China, for help do not know how many letters have to face, the face of those who expect the number of wrongfully eyes, face much guilt and anxiety, suspicion and faced many criticisms, and even the pain of losing freedom. China needs to further economic development , but also need social justice. the one hand, improper powerful, the other is the weak are deprived, those who suffered no place to redress injustice, and even no place to complaints. When they came the last straw in a small number of capital pray for the motherland blue sky, they will be caught back, close to a variety of names, can not prop up the brutal suffering of a nation's prosperity and the future, I fear that this country of reckoning.
return to China, it is my home. the suffering endured years turmoil place, that is still not out of poverty , authoritarian place, that people are hard to catch up with civilization and the labor of the place, that place is full of hopes and dreams. where there is a heavy responsibility, must bear the suffering, a lifetime of happiness and pride.
Xu 2004 on December 19 Attached: CV
Xu Xu, born in Henan Province in 1973 civil county .1990 studying at Lanzhou University, Faculty of Law, LLB degree; in 1995, re-entry, Lanzhou University Faculty of Law, received Master of Laws; 1999, was admitted to Peking University Law School, received his JD in 2002.
Xu, Sun Zhigang incident is submitted to the citizens of the NPC Standing Committee proposals to require start of One of the three, Dr., Sun Dawu was involved in the case, the South reported the city, black brick kiln case, the victims of melamine milk and other claims. was named the 2003 China top ten legal person, 30 years of reform and opening up of 120 representatives of social processes Southern People Weekly top ten youth leaders.
2003   7 months, Xu created OCI. for the Beijing University of Posts and teachers, Haidian District, Beijing, thirteenth, fourth session of the NPC.