Via Danwei comes a report that inclusion of the Cultural Revolution film “Though I am Gone” (我虽死去) has resulted in the cancellation of the Yunnan Film Festival. The film, available in 10 parts on YouTube, documents the horrific killing of Bian Zhongyun, the principlal of the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University. Her students, many of them the daughters of high ranking officials, beat Bian to death with wooden clubs spiked with nails. Bian, one of the first casualties of the Cultural Revolution, was killed in August of 1966. The film is not easy to watch but really is a must-see. Let’s hope that the powers-that-be eventually display the courage to allow this story to be told. Andrew Leonard, writer of Salon’s How the World Works blog, discusses the question of how Taiwan became Chinese. Leonard, a former English teacher in Taiwan who admits to a “Taiwan fetish,” looks at a recent book Tonio Andrade in which he argues that it is the Dutch who bear the responsibility for the eventual incorporation of Taiwan into the Qing empire. According to Andrade, Dutch policies encouraged the first major wave of Chinese colonization on the island and it was