chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/29/89)
| +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 29 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ....... .......................................... 10 1) A Letter to ND Editors ........................................ 59 2) Organization Introduction - Preface ........................ 107 3) Organization Introduction - Soc.Culture.China ............... 86 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Politics of Taiwan will sponsor a seminar about the future of democracy movement in China. FDC's secretary in general Wan Rin- nan, the author of 'River Elegy' Su Xiaokang, chairman of 'Chinese Democracy Allience' Hu Peng, and famous journalist Liu Binyan will attend the seminar with some other pro-democracy activists. The seminar will be held in late December. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 11/27/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A Letter to ND Editors -- By X. Hua from minhua@nereid.sal.ists.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Editors, Concerning the report "China 'would support Brain Drain Plan'" in Nov. 28 News Digest, I would like to share my own experience with the readers who are interested in going to Hong Kong. It began about two years ago when I saw a notice in an academic journal put up by one of the HK universities/polytechnics inviting application for the teaching positions available there. I submitted my application and was interviewed later by the representatives of the school while they travelled in North America. At the interview, both sides had no idea whether it was possible for a Ph.D. from China to be employed by a HK institution because it was something that had never happened before. But we decided to go ahead anyway. A few months later, I was told by the people from the school that they had talked with the people of the HK Branch of the Xinhua News Agency and they were quite supportive of the idea. I was given the offer, and was told to apply an employment visa to HK from the local British consulate. The officer in the consulate told me that all the employment visa applications to HK was to be forwarded to HK Immigration Department. The decision would be made by the HK authority, not the consulate. Another two months passed before the consulate sent me a notice informing me the denial of my application by the HK Immigration Department. And this is the end of the story. Later, I made a direct inquiry about the reason to the HK Immigration Department and was told that, according to an agreement between HK and the Chinese government, all mainland Chinese who want to enter HK for whatever reasons must have the one-way or two-way travel document issued by the Chinese Public Security Department. The only exception is that if the mailander has the permanent residency of a third country. From my unfortunate experience, I got several impressions. 1) A citizen from any country of the world (perhaps including Taiwan) can apply an employment visa to HK as long as he has a valid passport and an employment contract with some HK institutions. The only exception is the citizen from the country -- (mailand of) China, who are governed by an agreement between HK and Chinese government, no matter he is a cross-border smuggler or a doctor of philosophy! 2) The Chinese authorities will be glad to see some Chinese students to work in HK for obvious reasons. But they probably will use Public Security Department's travel documents to control these people. This is especially so after June 4. 3) Once you get the permanent residency of a third country (no matter what), you are advanced by one big grade in the hierarchy of Chinese residence ('Hu4 Kou2') system. Even the HK government will no longer put you in the same catalogue as the refugee or smugglers. So try hard to get it! By your excellent performance in the university-entry exams, you probably had got rid of your countryside or small town 'Hu4 Kou2' and obtained a metropolitan 'Hu4 Kou2', like Bejing or Shanghai. Now is the struggle to get rid of your Chinese 'Hu4 Kou2'. 4) As far as Hong Kong 'Hu4 Kou2' is concerned, it used to be much higher than any Chinese one. But it is devaluating rapidly now. Don't you see the HK people are trying every method for the British 'Hu4 Kou2'? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Organization Introduction - Preface --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GXU@KENTVM.BITNET "Xu Gang" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ORGANIZATION INTRODUCTIONS * * series Issue: 1 * * debut Nov. 16, 1989 * * * * --- /------ / | | |---------| | * * /|-----| /---/ | |----|----| | ---|--- | /\ * * \ | | | / / \ | | | | ___|___ | / \ * * -|--+--|- \ / |\ |----|----| | | \ | / \ * * / | | | / \ | | | ---|--- | / \ * * / |--|--| / | | |---------| / \__ * * * * * * China Net ---------- \/ --------- * * China News Digest ----- CCCS ----- * * China Study Forum --- /\ --- * * Social Culture China * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Preface Numerous organizations have been established by overseas Chinese since they came across the Pacific Ocean. Some of them are just discussion groups with a few sores of participants, others are big associations, claiming tens of thousands of members; some are political, others are professional. As a Chinese living overseas now, or for anyone who are interested in China and Chinese, it is quite natural to ask the following questions: 1). What are the motivations that make them associated? 2). How well are they organized? 3). What function are they playing in the overseas Chinese communities? 4). What are the influences of their activities on the situations in China? Trying to answer these questions, we initiated this program of Organization Introduction. We have sent letters to about 30 organizations listed in the Appendix to invite them to introduce themselves to our readers. Now we have received a number of Introductions and some others have promised to send their Introductions later. Here we express our sincere thanks to those who have made their contributions to make this program possible. Also we hope that more organizations will join this program. Now we start posting the Introductions we have got to our readers. we welcome comments and suggestion from our readers about this program. However, we encourage our readers who would like to know more about a specific organization to contact the organization of his interest directly. We would highly appreciate any help from our readers by providing more information about any overseas Chinese Organizations that are not listed in the Appendix. We would like to get as many organizations to participate as possible. Thank you for your interest and we hope that you will enjoy this program. Dong Ping Deng (Social Culture China) Weihe Guan (China-net) Hong Lin (China Study Forum) Gang Xu (China News Digest) Appendix: List of Organizations Invited Invitation letters have been sent to the following organizations: 1) The Chinese Association of Agricultural Students and Scholar (CAASS) 2) American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature (AACCL) 3) Chinese Business Association (CBA) 4) Chinese Young Economists Society (CYES) 5) The Chinese Historians in US (CH) 6) Association of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers in North America and Europe (OCPA) 7) The Chinese Political Scientists Association 8) Sino-eco (Chinese Ecologists Club) 9) China News Digest (ND) (e-mail group) 10) China Net (e-mail group) 11) China Study Forum (CSF) (e-mail group) 12) Social Culture China (SCC) (e-mail group) 13) AI HUA Society (Ai HUA SHE) 14) Visa-net (e-mail group) 15) The National Coordination Committee on Chinese Student Affairs (CCSA) 16) Alliance of Chinese Patriots 17) Chinese Alliance For Democracy (MIN LIAN) 18) Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) 19) Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada (FCSSC) 20) Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in US (IFCSS) 21) Silicon Valley for Democracy in China 22) The Front of Democracy in China (MIN ZHEN) 23) Human Rights in China (ZHONG GUO REN QUAN) 24) Press Freedom Herald (news paper) 25) The voice of June 4th (radio station) 26) The Chinese Intellectual (magazine) 27) The Outcry (magazine) 28) The Overseas Chinese Voice (magazine) PS. We would highly appreciate it if anyone would provide us with the mailing address or the phone number of the following organization so that we can send our invitation letter to it: 29) United Association of Students and Scholars of People's Republic of China (UASSPRC) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Organization Introduction - Soc.Culture.China --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sun@YaleVMS "Sun,Kang" ====== A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO SOC.CULTURE.CHINA NEWSGROUP ====== By Sun, Kang (Sun@YaleVMS) 1. What is S.C.C.? S.C.C. (stands for Soc.Culture.China) is a NEWSGROUP on the world-wide computer network USENET. It was created on November 17, 1987. Since the beginning, there have been many articles of different subjects, cute or not, poured into this newsgroup, which engender many debates as one can imagine. All kinds of discussions, debates, information exchange, news update happen on SCC. It reaches to countries like USA, Canada, England, Australia, West Germany, Japan, France, Norway, etc. Its readership accounts to about 9,000 worldwide, and its traffic is about 100 articles daily in average. 2. Brief history Early in 1987, a project under the the name "ChinaNet" was proposed by a research group at Texas A&M University to connect BITNet to China. This project immediately attracted many Chinese students and scholars. They tried their best to help with the project. Meanwhile, a mailing list, also called ChinaNet, was created to coordinate the efforts. As more and more people signed up to the list, ChinaNet's popularity increased daily. It played an important role in coordinating the 1987 Open Letter Campaign simply because it was then the most convenient way to reach large Chinese population. The mailing list soon became moderated because of too much irrelevant debate through it. It was clear then that a media dedicated to China and Chinese affair was in demand. Most of the ChinaNet readers voted "yes" to the motion of forming a newsgroup. So came S.C.C.. Although the ChinaNet project was aborted for ridiculous reasons, S.C.C. stands active. Note that the "ChinaNet" mailing list in this article has little to do with the "China-net", which is a relative young mailing list based on Stanford. 3. How a newsgroup differs from mailing list. Consider the two ways of getting information: post mail and bulletin board. If you happen to be on a mailing list, (junk mail) comes to your mailbox, which you either have to read or discard. If you don't do anything, your mail will soon pile up in your mailbox; while you go to read bulletin board as you wish. Basically, a newsgroup is a like a column on an electronic bulletin board. In particular, S.C.C. is a column dedicated to China and Chinese affair on the world-wide bulletin board named USENET. But you don't have to live in the same town or nearby to read the same bulletin board. Electronically, living in the same town means having access to or "residing on" the same network. Newsgroup articles are stored in a public area of a nearby computer shared by many computers and users. A program, usually under the name RNews, NetNews, News, etc, is designed to read and to post news articles. You can usually decide if you want to read or to skip articles of particular subjects or columns (newsgroups). 4. For Non-USENET residents For those non-USENet residents, a voluntary rebroadcasting service of S.C.C. has been established in the form of a mailing list. The service first started in Cornell University, then moved to Carnegie Mellon University and now is stationed in Yale University with automatic rebroadcasting mechanism. (The mailing list is still handled in CMU.) If you sign up to the service, you will get archived article packages daily in your E-mailbox. Make sure you don't have direct access to USENET before you sign up to our service, so to avoid unnecessary overflow in your mailbox. To subscribe to S.C.C rebroadcasting service, send E-mail to listserv@cmuccvma.bitnet with Subject line: Sub SCC-L full_name. And to cancel your subscription, send E-mail to the same address with Subject line : Signoff SCC-L. For readers from Canada, send your subscription and unsubscription request to LIST-REQUEST@EAN.UBC.CA. Happy networking :-)) _________________ Disclaimer: Part of this text is taken from an old and longer version of "Introduction to S.C.C.", which was written jointly by many people. This author likes to acknowledge their efforts. _________________ About the author: Mr. Sun, Kang, Vice President of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale (ACSSY) for the 1989-90 term, is currently working for his Ph.D degree in Robotics. In his spare time, he enjoys hacking on computer networks and his Mac+. His well-regarded work on network includes the S.C.C. broadcasting service and a Survey on Chinese Word Processors. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Nov 29 11:32:25 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/29/89)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 29 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Suggestions by CSSA Chairman of University of Manitoba ............ 52 2) Letter from Chairman of FCSSC ..................................... 43 3) A Suggestion from University of Alberta ........................... 28 4) Chinese students having trouble gaining entry to the USA from Australia ......................................... 39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Suggestions by CSSA Chairman of University of Manitoba Editor's Note: This message is originally circulated in the bul- letin board at University of Manitoba. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello! I post a message from our members regarding the recent situation on Vistor's Visa Issuing in Beijing. Cssa will write letters to appeal Canadian Govrernment for help. People who face the same problem please write letters too. Meanwhile I will ask FCSSC if they could do something. To avoid any unexpected trouble or unwanted by-products, I sug- gest you JUST LET THEM KNOW YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ASK FOR HELP in your appeal letter. What I want to remind you is, it hasn't to be the RESPONSIBILITY OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT to deal with the appli- cation of student's spouse in a SPECIAL rather than a NORMAL way. Anyway do not complain but ask for help. In addition to the Minister of External Affairs, you may use Hot Line and write to other officers as well. Following are the tel number and some addresses I collected to be your references. * Hot Line: 9:00am-5:00pm M-F 1-800-267-1299 * Hon.Lloyd Axworthy, PC,MP Constituency Office 922 Grosvenor Avenue Winnipeg Man R3M 0N4 * Bill Blaikie MP Winnipeg-Transcona NDP External Affirs Critic House Of Commons K1A 0A6 * E.E Allen Director Asia and Pacific Programs Division Department of External Affairs Ottawa Ont K1A 0G2 * Dorothy Dobbie MP 2-1080 Waverley St Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 5S4 Good Luck to everyone! CSSA at University of Manitoba -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Letter from Chairman of FCSSC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To all students concerning 'family reunion' issue (Nov.28, 1989) Hello friends: Many of you may have been shocked by a series of rejections of application for visit visa by student's spouse. We share the con- cerns and anxiety with you. The FCSSC executives have been dis- cussing this issue for days to find a way to deal with this prob- lem. We will certainly do our best to help. A special committee will soon be appointed. Our Vice President in External Oliver Yuan and Vice President in Internal Dennis Lu already began to contact Immigration, CCNC, CBIE, etc. and will report you more information and any development. The 'urgent appeal' initiated by a group of Chinese students in my Univ.-- Univ. of Manitoba -- contains some thought of FCSSC executives board. The strategies we suggested are: 1) Don't blame, to ask a favor, to win sympathy. 2) do it STEP BY STEP, first collect cases, FCSSC will write an inquiry to Immigration Minister to get some explanation, then FCSSC, all local CSSA's and individuals call and write to Immigration, MP, etc.. Since our fellow students are so concerned and emotional on the situa- tion, I would like to say frankly that probably we'd better not push too hard, and not disclose all information to public at the very beginning --- it might not win sympathy but only lose our "bargaining cards" (actually we don't have many 'cards' in hand :-) ). Of course the above is only my personal view. We very much understand your feeling when hearing your wives' application being or would be rejected. But Please still be patient. Some problem can be worked out quickly but some not. it is not all in our control. It would probably be better if we could deal the problem quietly and 'diplomatically'. FCSSC volunteers will be always with you and try our best to help. Please join your effort with FCSSC and local CSSA's. Let's work together. Yours truly, Xiaohua Qu at U. of Manitoba -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. A Suggestion from University of Alberta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends: Before taking any actions, it seems that more information on Canadian Immigiration Law should be gethered. According to a friend of mine, there is such regulation (or law maybe) requiring that the spouse of a PR applicant should not visit Canada until the immigration status of this applicant is finalised. In the PR application interview, my friend was informed of this regulation by the immigration officer, after being asked whether her husband wanted to visit her in near future. However, when another person called two months later the local immigration center, the person who answered the phone nei- ther confirmed nor denied the existeness of such regulation. So, it is better to check out its legal stand before taking any furture actions. Good luck, folks. shuang@alberta.UUCP U of Alberta, Edm, AB, T6G 2H1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Chinese students having trouble gaining entry to the USA from Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Friends, I would like to post this article in China News Digest. I have a Chinese student in my department who wants to go to the US to do his PhD in Computer Science. His application has already been accepted by the a University in the US. He was also successful in his application for a scholarship. Last week he went to Syd- ney and obtained a letter of permission form the Chinese consu- late. The letter of permission basically allowed him to go to the US to study. To sum up, he has qualified for every require- ments to gain entry to the US, yet the US consulate in Sydney refuse to give him a Student Visa. This is a very ridiculous situation considering that the US congress has passed a bill to make it easier for Chinese students to gain permanent resident status in the US. Furthermore, I would like ask the Chinese students in the US to lobby the US government for a change in attitude towards Chinese students who want to study in the US from other parts of the world. Finally, there is an even more ridiculous story, one of the stu- dent in my department has submitted a paper to a conference in the US. The paper was accepted but the US consulate again refused to grant a Visa for the student to present the paper. The US consulate staff reasoned that this particular student did not show any evidence that he will leave the US once the confer- ence is finished. This is totally ridiculous since the student already has a scholarship to continue his study in Australia. Thank you for your attention Anthony from munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!anthony@uunet.UU.NET (Anthony Lee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Nov 29 15:24:02 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/30/89)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 29 (III), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Deng Condemns Gorbachev Plans ...................................... 49 2) Three Qinghua Students Committed Suicide in One Month .............. 24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Deng Condemns Gorbachev Plans -- by David Chen From: scc; kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- China's senior leader Deng Xiaoping has strongly criticised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and several socialist bloc countries for the latest developments in Eastern Europe. Mr Deng, who met Mr Gorbachev in an historic summit in May at the height of the student movement, accused the Soviet leader of pur- suing a political path which was "not in conformity with true Marxism-Leninism". He also accused Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia of "deviating from the correct line". Mr Deng instructed members of the Chinese Communist Party to further Marxist ideology as a prerequisite for improving the economy, a better sense of security and the general well-being of the people. The remarks were made at one of the small discussion groups dur- ing the four-day fifth plenary session of the party's Central Committee earlier this month. Present at the discussions were the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee, President Yang Shangkun and the chaireman of the National People's Congress, Mr Wan Li. It was a similar get-together to the one on September 4 when the patriarch talked about retiring and the abolition of the party Central Advisory Committee. But this was the first time that Mr Deng, who has been apprehen- sive about developments in Eastern Europe over the past two years and who is known to be less then enthusiastic with Mr Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost programs, has criticised the Soviet leader's policies. Although the discussions at the plenary session centred largedly on the change in the Central Military Commission and on economic issues, Mr Deng's preoccupation with Eastern Europe show that the leadership is beginning to work out a new strategy in the light of developments there. He told the Standing Committee members that China was caught up in the midst of rapid changes in the world - similar to the situation he described in his June 9 speech to commanders of the martial law troops. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Three Qinghua Students Committed Suicide in One Month >From: scc; tang@SSURF.UCSD.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to Chinese Daily News (World Journal), Nov. 25, three Qinghua (Beijing) students committed suicide in one month. Two graduate students, Tan Zuji, 23, Dept. of Water Resource (Shui3 Zi1 Yuan2) and Guo Wei, 24, Dept. of Business Management (Jing1 Ji4 Guan3 Li3), jumped out of window of their dormitories on Oct. 1 and Nov. 2, respectively. Other students say the two suicide students had been investigated by police and were under heavy political pressure, because of their participation in the pro-democracy movement. A student of Dept. of Electrical Engineering (Dian4 JI1) jumped dowm from third floor on Oct. 31. He died last week in hospital. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Nov 29 16:18:58 EST 1989