Comments on: Live Blogging: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/comment-page-1/#comment-3878 Anonymous Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:45:23 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=542#comment-3878 Bob Costas should protest the human rights violations done to his face and hair. The botox job has practically left his face frozen and his dye job or toupee is so fake. The program was certainly the most memorable and most watched so far, thanks in part to the publicity generated by the boycott olympics campaign. Bob Costas should protest the human rights violations done to his face and hair. The botox job has practically left his face frozen and his dye job or toupee is so fake.

The program was certainly the most memorable and most watched so far, thanks in part to the publicity generated by the boycott olympics campaign.

]]> By: Jeremiah http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/comment-page-1/#comment-3472 Jeremiah Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22:53 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=542#comment-3472 Yunsheng, Actually quoting <i>another</i> blogger there, but thanks for reading carefully! Yunsheng,

Actually quoting another blogger there, but thanks for reading carefully!

]]> By: yunsheng http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/comment-page-1/#comment-3471 yunsheng Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:18:13 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=542#comment-3471 “Paper unrolling to serve as a stage. Yes, you guys invented paper. Very nice. I guess the next time the US hosts the Olympics we’ll decorate our opening ceremonies with everything invented in the last century.” -- fair enough, you can also show how the outsiders of old Europe had burned the local tribes of the new land to present theextraordinary victory of the western science and technology and teach the Chinese what is the human rights. It's true that the Chinese might have drowned into their over proud of the fictive splendid long histroy, but what else do you expect them to show you in the event? Ruins of Yuanmingyuan as a remark of the achievements of western inventions? “Paper unrolling to serve as a stage. Yes, you guys invented paper. Very nice. I guess the next time the US hosts the Olympics we’ll decorate our opening ceremonies with everything invented in the last century.”
– fair enough, you can also show how the outsiders of old Europe had burned the local tribes of the new land to present theextraordinary victory of the western science and technology and teach the Chinese what is the human rights.
It’s true that the Chinese might have drowned into their over proud of the fictive splendid long histroy, but what else do you expect them to show you in the event? Ruins of Yuanmingyuan as a remark of the achievements of western inventions?

]]> By: Jeremiah http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/comment-page-1/#comment-3468 Jeremiah Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:38:18 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=542#comment-3468 Josh is taking a fair amount of heat around here of late from what people saw as his "fawning" commentary to this ties with Henry Kissinger's consulting firm (which does a lot of business here). Don't know much about him and I didn't find his commentary particularly exceptional one way or the other, but he does seem to have a fired a few people up round these parts. Josh is taking a fair amount of heat around here of late from what people saw as his “fawning” commentary to this ties with Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm (which does a lot of business here).

Don’t know much about him and I didn’t find his commentary particularly exceptional one way or the other, but he does seem to have a fired a few people up round these parts.

]]> By: 舒杰瑞 http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/08/opening-ceremonies-running-diary/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 舒杰瑞 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:59:40 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=542#comment-3453 J, great blogging. I was home in NY for the weekend and caught the end of the (taped ceremony) after some Chinese food in Flushing, Queens. I was thinking the same thing as your re goostepping soldiers, bagpipes(?!), KIRABUTI has a team!? I liked the Li Ning thing, but it certainly paled in comparison to Muhammad Ali lighting the torch in '96. I suppose not much can be done about that though... If you saw the NBC broadcast, you may have noticed their China analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo. We were actually in the same 1st-year Chinese class at Middlebury in 2002. At the time, he was the world editor of Time. The guy was like the Obama of the publishing world. Pretty cool story. That said, can't say much about his analysis as I missed the first 3/4 of the ceremony. HOWEVER, I did make sure to pick up my very own $3 copy of the Opening ceremony on the streets of Flushing yesterday afternoon, and so I'll let you know~ How's the air today? J, great blogging. I was home in NY for the weekend and caught the end of the (taped ceremony) after some Chinese food in Flushing, Queens. I was thinking the same thing as your re goostepping soldiers, bagpipes(?!), KIRABUTI has a team!?

I liked the Li Ning thing, but it certainly paled in comparison to Muhammad Ali lighting the torch in ’96. I suppose not much can be done about that though…

If you saw the NBC broadcast, you may have noticed their China analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo. We were actually in the same 1st-year Chinese class at Middlebury in 2002. At the time, he was the world editor of Time. The guy was like the Obama of the publishing world. Pretty cool story. That said, can’t say much about his analysis as I missed the first 3/4 of the ceremony. HOWEVER, I did make sure to pick up my very own $3 copy of the Opening ceremony on the streets of Flushing yesterday afternoon, and so I’ll let you know~

How’s the air today?

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