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I'm Sheng from Taiwan and having my 4th semester Master in Media Art and Design and I had my Bachelor in Language in Taipei. Since 2-3 years I live in Europe, in Germany and in Italy. | |||
Lots of people from my generation got inspired from Sunflower Student Movement in 2014 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement] and began to attend or care different political issues, usually Issues about Taiwan and China. I was still kind of apolitical at that time, and didn't visit the site, although some lecturers from my university also encouraged us to inform ourselves about the whole movement. | Lots of people from my generation got inspired from Sunflower Student Movement in 2014 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement] and began to attend or care different political issues, usually Issues about Taiwan and China. I was still kind of apolitical at that time, and didn't visit the site, although some lecturers from my university also encouraged us to inform ourselves about the whole movement. | ||
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My political enlightenment was a documentary workshop in HongKong, after my exchange year at the age of 21. It was relative late. but it's never too late to get to know about politics. | My political enlightenment was a documentary workshop in HongKong, after my exchange year at the age of 21. It was relative late. but it's never too late to get to know about politics. | ||
Since I | Since I've spent and lived most of my life in Taiwan, I was deeply influenced by Confucianism. After getting into politics, I start reflecting myself and things I have learned or thoughts I used to believe in. Some of the ideas are still pretty right, but some might be just rules for those upper to better control the civilian. | ||
Taiwan (unfortunately, our official Name is still Republic of China, ROC) is now a democratic, free land, whereas People of Republic of China, PRC or just China, is still solely governed by Communist Party of China, but it just had its name...obviously I don't like China or the Chinese government because of the different cognition of country-states. | Taiwan (unfortunately, our official Name is still Republic of China, ROC) is now a democratic, free land, whereas People of Republic of China, PRC or just China, is still solely governed by Communist Party of China, but it just had its name...obviously I don't like China or the Chinese government because of the different cognition of country-states. | ||
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Educational Institutes are best ways brain washing people and changing the history. | Educational Institutes are best ways brain washing people and changing the history. | ||
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'''Quotes from Confucius, Mencius and the Book "The Analects" ''' | |||
“Seek- ing to achieve humanity [仁] leaves no room for evil” (Analects, 4.4) | |||
Literature / Sources so far | '''Literature / Sources so far''' | ||
Rén, Pierre-Héli Monot, Book Title: An Ecotopian Lexicon, University of Minnesota Press | Rén, Pierre-Héli Monot, Book Title: An Ecotopian Lexicon, University of Minnesota Press | ||