Qiu Liben: After the anti -repair example of the reflection in Hong Kong in June, the Chinese model was once again challenged by the Western model.(Provided by Qiu Liben)
Dai Qingcheng reported to the southeast, northwest, and northwest
New Yue Culture Chinese Lecture:
The latest challenges of global Chinese society in 2019
■ Practical guest: Qiu Liben, editor -in -chief of Asian Weekly
Date/time: October 5, 2019 (Saturday) from 2 pm to 4:30 pm
■ Location: Newspaper Center Auditorium (1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore 318994)
■ Chairman: Deputy editor -in -chief of United Zaobao and editor -in -chief of Lianhe Zaobao (China) Han Yonghong
■ Event language: Chinese (Chinese -English interpretation on the spot)
■ Free admission, please register in advance.
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In the past 10 years, mainland China has rapidly risen to become a world's great power. Chinese society in different regions have different perceptions of this, showing differences, and even tearing.
Nearly, some people in Hong Kong and Taiwan set off a wave of separation; in the distance, there were Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States, and Chinese and the United States highly agreed with China.
Why do Chinese people in different regions have a completely different understanding of the same China?
Qiu Liben, editor -in -chief of Hong Kong Asia Weekly, will be invited by LSQUO; New Yue Culture Chinese Lecture;
Come to give a new speech lecture lsquo; 2019 The latest challenges of Chinese society in the world, sharing his observation of the changes in the global Chinese society in recent years.
As the most populated ethnic group in the world, the Chinese have undertaken their responsibility for the community of human destiny in the new century.Mainland China, which has a huge population, has attracted much attention how to contribute to world civilization while integrating into the world. China has always adhered to its own discussions and proposed a different development model from the West.
Hong Kong Asia Weekly editor -in -chief Qiu Liben pointed out in an exclusive interview with Lianhe Zaobao recently that this development model that does not apply to Western standards has long been questioned for not democracy and freedom, but the Chinese government has performed well in management, planning and administrative in the past years.As an example, not only the development of the high -speed rail is global, but the total mileage of highways ranks first in the world. The number of tunnels and bridges is also the largest in the world, which greatly condenses the recognition of the people.
On the contrary, although some democratic countries such as India and Pakistan have promoted the democratic system, the country has been chaotic for a long time, so that Fukuyama, a Japanese -American scholar with a supreme American democracy in the early 1990s and the supreme Western democracy, has also changed its views slightly in recent years.
Qiu Liben said: Until the beginning of this year, the Chinese model showed a strong power, but after the anti -repair routine storm broke out in June in Hong Kong, the social turmoil and the Chinese model were challenged by the Western model.
Mainland mode encountered Hong Kong obstacles
In Qiu Liben's view, Hong Kong's anti -repair routine storm is actually a conflict between the two governance concepts and models of Chinese and Western governance.As China's national strength is rising, Western forces intend to use Hong Kong as the entry point to shake the governance of mainland China.
It is worth noting that as protests continue, the tear within Hong Kong has extended to overseas Chinese communities.In Australia, Japan, and the United States, there are both Chinese supporting anti -repair examples and some people support the Beijing authorities. The two sides are noisy, split, confrontation, and deepen.
Qiu Liben believes that these phenomena just reflect a great challenge to overseas Chinese, which is the issue of recognition of China.
He pointed out that Taiwan and Hong Kong are facing confusion of separationism.Taiwan has long been in disputes on independence, and many discussions have appeared.Recently, the demonstrations of Hong Kong people are on the surface, and the essence is to be separated or challenged in mainland China.The reason is that in the end, it is because Hong Kong has not done a good job of going to colonization for many years, and even re -colonization appears at some levels, such as school textbooks and folk media generally accepting the Western concept.
In this case, Qiu Liben is not very optimistic about the role of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the future to promote the development of Chinese culture soft power.He believes that cultural development requires the foundation of social stability, but the current state of division in Hong Kong and Taiwan is divided.In the end, whether it is further integrated with mainland China, or keeps distance or even independent, the people have different views, and even fall into long internal consumption.
In contrast, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines in Southern Asia are independent countries in themselves. Local Chinese have not recognized China's question; they and China have only cultural origins.
Southeast Asian Chinese society, especially Singapore and Malaysia, can promote the Chinese culture in the process of promoting the Chinese culture.
Obviously from downward to looking up at
Stepping into the 21st century, China's national strength has risen significantly, and in many areas, such as scientific and technological innovation and infrastructure construction, the world has gradually led the world, making many overseas Chinese feel honored; but at the same time, some Chinese have changed their previous attitudes towards Chinese friendship and moved to extremes.Essence
Qiu Liben pointed out that these situations can be understood.In the past, the Chinese returned to visit relatives in their hometown in the mainland and took the US dollar or Hong Kong dollar to relieve their loved ones. Now they want them to look down from China to looking up China. Many people naturally have a sense of superiority and difficult to accept.
He took Hong Kong Dushi driver as an example: In the 1980s and 1990s, he had a monthly income of 20,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars, the same below, 3511 S $ 3511).Make two milk, life is colorful.Now he also has an income of 20,000 yuan. Going to the mainland to include the second milk, people say that it is better to include you.The reason is that the economy of China and Hong Kong is upside down, and the middle -class group has risen on the mainland.
In addition, most of the mainlanders who moved to Hong Kong were grass -roots people, and they had little influence on Hong Kong's social influence.In the financial industry, living in the Manshan Mansion, the people of local Hong Kong people have a sense of oppression.
He said: Hong Kong elite is not in the eyes, and naturally it is not a taste. He believes that these people are the second generation, the second or second generation of the official, or the negative perception of the mainland.But in fact, some of them are professionals who rely on their own superiority, such as Li Xiaoga, chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Zhang Xiang, president of the University of Hong Kong.
Qiu Liben did not deny that the current general secretary of the Communist Party of China ... After coming to power, he vigorously anti -corruption and corruption. Many corrupt officials were dismissed, and the interests of many forces groups were damaged.There is any disgusting.
Qiu Liben said: More than 10 years ago, Zhang Ailing's seminar held a seminar in mainland universities. As long as the director agreed, he could invite Hong Kong and Taiwan scholars to participate.Now on the same matter, they must report it layer by layer, and 90 % will not be allowed, so many people have complained.
However, Qiu Liben emphasized that objectively speaking, ... after strengthening anti -corruption, Chinese society is more dynamic and vibrant than before, such as the concept of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area launched in recent years.
In the past, Dongguan was the capital of pornographic, now the baseDisappeared.After the transformation, Songshan Lake in Dongguan has become Huawei headquarters, creating a beautiful European castle.
Fate with Singapore
Qiu Liben and Singapore are quite fate.His grandfather Qiu Faxian was born in Kaiping, Guangdong. When he was young (early in the Republic of China), he went to work in Singapore and later died of illness.
Qiu Li's family later wanted to go to Singapore to find Grandpa's cemetery, but she was clueless.In the 1990s, Qiu Liben also asked his friends to help when he visited Singapore. Friends said that the information was too little to find, and the Qiu family dispelled the thoughts.
Qiu Liben said: So I have a special feelings for Singapore.
This fate has caused Qiu Liben to pay close attention to Singapore for a long time since he has been engaged in news work. What impressed Qiu Liben most was that the Singapore government had strong governance capabilities and corrected many Chinese people.
For example, Chinese people lack public morality, often spitting and throwing garbage in daily life, without the quality of citizens.However, Singapore has done a good job in this regard, especially in the British colonial rule to cultivate a sense of rule of law and become one of the world's most successful countries.
Qiu Liben said that China has gone through vicissitudes in the past century and has been repeatedly bullied by the powers. It is like a scattered sand inside the society and can only rely on clan relations to maintain.In contrast, Singapore not only preserves the traditional Chinese culture of Confucianism, but also absorbs the advanced management concept of the West, and combines the two very successfully.It can be said that Singapore is a model of success of Chinese politics and shows the side of good Governance.
Hong Kong should learn Singapore housing policy
For the past few decades, Hong Kong people have always liked Hong Kong and Singapore.Qiu Liben believes that at the time of the current chaos in Hong Kong, the SAR government should learn from Singapore's housing policies.
He lamented that as soon as the graduates of Hong Kong University had worked in social work, it was the pride of heaven, but now it is difficult to have prospects unless senior civil servants such as government government director.Some of the young reporters I have contacted, the monthly salary of only 12,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars) after graduating from university, and the rent deduction of 10,000 yuan. I can only be forced to share with a few friends to share a toilet.It is me, and it is possible to protest on the street.
Singapore's implementation has its own houses, and nearly 80 % of the people live in groups, becoming the power of social stability.
Qiu Liben emphasized that in Hong Kong, only by studying Singapore, emphasizing the right to residential justice, and allowing residents to have their houses, can we form a social stability foundation and solve the contradictions of the deep level of society.
