The most impressive line in the movie "About Schmidt."
On the way home, he said to himself, "I know we're all pretty small in the big scheme of things. And I suppose the most you can hope is to make some kind of difference. But what kind of difference have I made?"
What difference has my life made to anyone? None that I can think of. At least so far. But I am not retired and still YOUNG.
高句麗史を中国史に組み込もうとする本当の狙いはどこにあるのか。「東北工程」という国家次元の一大プロジェクトの基底にあるのか何か。
この寄稿によれば、「東北工程」の根本的な目的は、将来の南北統一がもたらしかねない国境・領土紛争に対応する歴史的・地政学的論理を開発することである。そこで問題になるのは朝鮮族の存在である。すなわち、中国当局が恐れているのは、朝鮮半島における政治的異変が朝鮮族のアイデンティティに何らかの混乱を引き起こし、それが満州（東北地方）での少数民族問題につながる可能性である。結局、「東北工程」を通し中華民族主義を再確立かつ強化することで、こうした潜在的「危険」を未然に防ぐのが、本当の狙いに他ならないという。
こうみると、このプロジェクトもまた「中華民族主義の高揚」により体制の維持・安定を図る、近年の一連の政策の一環ということが明らかになる。中国の観点から見れば、この作業はまさに時代の先を読む、「頭の切れる」妙案だといわざるを得ない。しかし少し視野を広げて、それが韓中関係、または東北アジアに及ぼしうる影響を考えると、その「問題性」はいうまでもないだろう。ことに最近やっと語られ始めた「東アジア共同体論」は、こうした国家主義の強化の前に当然立つ場所を失う。
ちなみに、韓国にも「反撃」が始まったようだ。もちろんそれは「下」からのものであって、韓国政府は今のところ公式の対応を控えている様子だ。
In Shenzhen, I luckily got "One flew over the cockoo's net" special edition with Milos Forman's full length audio commentary. I just finished watching it, and this is fantastic!
Just came back from HK. Walking along the Tsimshatsui street on the 24th, shopping in the Pacific Place on the Christmas, from the crowd and their faces, I tried to find something that might have changed since the SARS attack and the big demonstration, only to fail.
But one thing, the People's Liberation Army seems to have finally had its own building on the main street of Central area. The building has kind of bizarre looks by which none can imagine what it is used for, except for barbed wire fence around it.
韓国
1．総綱
1条
1) 大韓民国は民主共和国である。
2) 大韓民国の主権は国民にあり、すべての権力は国民から来る。
日本
第一章 天皇
第一条 (天皇の地位・国民主権)
天皇は、日本国の象徴であり日本国民統合の象徴であって、この地位は、主権の存する日本国民の総意に基く。
北朝鮮
1．政治
1条：朝鮮民主主義人民共和国は全体朝鮮人民の利益を代表する自主的な社会主義国家である。
Today, I finally finished the last presentation of this year. And now, I feel the dire need to have some break..Fortunately, my brother can seem to find some time to hang around with me(and some money for the ticket, too~~). This time, I'm gonna be staying for a week in which I hope to catch what is changing in Hongkong.
ま、とにかく、お疲れ様。
Suddenly, it dawned on me that I've never thought about why I am blogging, since I started it in September. Some bloggers claim, most notably Ito Joi, that blogging is a NOBLE work of bringing something human into the cyber world. Well...I don't know if it really is. Maybe it is simply because blogging is offering one more way of expressing myself. The same could be said to why I'm STILL studying - because I believe it is the best way to express myself, extending myself to the society.
先の全く見えない、暗澹たる院生生活で何を気晴らしにしたらいいのか。他の人は何をしながら余裕を見つけているんだろう。今のところ、毎週一日は必ず勉強と全く関係のない「何か」をやることを原則としているが、発表とかでも重なってしまうとそれも実行に移すのが難しい。
そういう意味で、ここ二週間はそれなりに充実な時間を送った。美術館三箇所、映画二本。これくらいになると、なかなか贅沢な院生生活なのでは。
A Korean movie that I just finished watching. Put in one word, it is a crime movie with a "Korean" feel. The movie is based on the serial murders of 10 women in a small country town in Gyeonggi province in 1986. It is worth noting when it happened; 1986 - one year before massive pro-democracy movements swept the country which eventually brought the military regime to an end.
Still vivid in my memory is the shock of the crime(even though I was then only 10 years old), but I didn't realize the incident happened in a small countrytown could be understood in the context of contemporary Korean history. The ditectives, who are so obssessed with putting their 'dishonor' to end as to force innnocent people into false confession, easily overlaps with the authoritarian government. And it seems to me that their ultimate failure to arrest the criminal -the single most important point of this movie- might mean the wreck of the national plan of military regime.
Well, whatever interpretations, I think this movie fairly deserves the incredibie success at the box office - it attracted more than 5 milion in only five major cities of Korea. The figure simply says something 80's still provokes much thinking to Koreans many of whom know, consciously or unconciously, their present affluence owe much to the darkness of the 80s and lots of people facing against the darkness.
There is another Korean movie in which how the darkness of the 80s had ruined an individual is beautifully depicted by Lee Changdong(a famours director and the incumbent minister of culture and tourism)- "A peppermint candy" which is my favorite.