Sutton Cemetery We remember the Chinese ancestors in our family twice a year. In the Spring (at the beginning of April) it is the ‘Qingming’ (清明)
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China: We Must Absorb the ‘Foreign’ to Create the Future in Lishui! (22.3.2019)
Original Chinese Language Article: 不忘本来吸收外来开创未来 勠力同心加快推进丽水高质量绿色发展 市领导与政协港澳华侨委员及港澳台侨列席代表座谈 (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: This article was forwarded to me by my academic colleague in
Supporting the Dalai Lama is Bad for Business! (2016)
“港独”女星晒与达赖自拍照 被斥勾结“藏独” Research & Translation by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD Although the 14th Dalai Lama is an ordained Buddhist monk who is supposed to be celibate
Vatican Condemns Almighty God Church Cult (18.8.2013)
Eastern lightning has spread into Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (places of intense historical Western domination), and even outside of China, leaving genuine Chinese Christians fighting to retain their correct theological pathway and self-determination. This has led to many genuine Chinese groups to issue statements to their followers about being on the alert against the presence of the Almighty God Church Cult. The Hong Kong press has reported local (genuine) Christians discussing the news that the head of the Almighty Church Cult on the island has received offers of funding from the US (Obama) Government to establish a radio station for broadcasting Eastern Lightning propaganda far and wide. This is a significant event, as the US is contradicting the true Christian Authorities in the world by backing a dangerous religious cult simply because it strives to ‘Destroy the “Red Dragon” (i.e. ‘Communist Party’) and build the Church of Almighty God’ in its place! Although founded in the early 1990’s in Henan, Eastern Lightning believes that Jesus Christ has been re-born in the body of Yang Xiangbai – the wife of cult-founder Zhao Weishan – it has originally (locally) banned in 1991, before being banned nationwide in China in 1995. Its false propaganda has had some limited success amongst the vulnerable and the poorly educated, but has also deceived a small number of educated people.
Northern Hakka Gongfu (Email 29.4.2017)
When I wrote my Hakka martial arts article, I had communicated with a number of Mainland Hakka gongfu masters who all told me the same story – namely that their arts originated in Northern China. This is exactly what Master Chan had told me, and it seems to be a Western myth encouraged by ignorance of the subject matter, that suggests that Hakka martial arts originated in the South.
Post-Modern Hakka (Letter 21.6.2016)
I noticed then that even the traditional Hakka clothing was nolonger worn, and the language spoken was a mixture of Hakka and Cantonese (with the occasional English word). Those who have left this village have spread all-over the world and changed in the new environments they have encountered, and yet there is something distinctly ‘Hakka’ that holds it all together!
